# Will Sarah Palin try to get nominated from the floor of the RNC? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 11, 2011, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598 "2011-07-11T06:40:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/21 "2011-07-15T10:36:47Z")
There’s only one way I can see something like that happening (although not with Palin). I can imagine a scenario where the frontrunner is very popular, and the also-rans finished distant second and thirds and perhaps with some damage to their credibility during the tough campaigning. Then the frontrunner drops dead at the convention, or is arrested with hookers and blow the night before, or otherwise invalidated for office. Now imagine another person who never ran, but who polled higher than all the other candidates except the now-disqualified leader. That’s about the only scenario I can imagine in today’s political environment in which there could be a successful convention challenge from a non-candidate. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/22 "2011-07-15T12:48:16Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > That’s about the only scenario I can imagine in today’s political environment in which there could be a successful convention challenge from a non-candidate. Or, the front runner is Michelle Bachmann, and in a coincidence of epic proportiions, all the Republican delegates remember take their medication on the same day. In a moment of unfamiliar sanity, they realize with horror what is about to happen, repudiate the front runner and vote for a less crazed also-ran, like Herman Cain. But you are right, that is pretty unlikely too. About the medication, I mean. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/23 "2011-07-15T13:24:54Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > I’m not saying it IS, I’m saying she’d see it that way. Like being declared emperor by popular acclaim. Perhaps she imagines herself being carried through the convention hall on the shields of her Praetorian Teabaggers. With the heads of Romney & Bachmann on their pikes. Then she’ll name her horse as her running mate. (Or maybe she’ll pick Rick Perry.) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/24 "2011-07-15T14:16:01Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > (Or maybe she’ll pick Rick Perry.) Ah, the other end of the horse. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/25 "2011-07-15T14:56:23Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Or, the front runner is Michelle Bachmann, and in a coincidence of epic proportiions, all the Republican delegates remember take their medication on the same day. In a moment of unfamiliar sanity, they realize with horror what is about to happen, repudiate the front runner and vote for a less crazed also-ran, **like Herman Cain**. bolding mine; you misspelled “alas there isn’t one to be found”. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/26 "2011-07-25T00:00:39Z")
> [@Recovering\_Republican](#): > > Usually, a nomination is sewn up long before the convention starts, and all they’ve really become are three day commercials for your candidate. Well, plus it’s a big party for the delegates, who I understand view it as a reward for their months working for the party. And then there’s the chance for each delegate to blather on about their home state: “Mister Chairman, the great state of Alabama, proud home of the Corn and Chitlins Festival, inventor of the Elective Sisterfuck System, bold resister of gay rights, home of the birthplace of Kendal W. Klansman, casts its eight votes for the next President of the United States… [Mitt Romney, probably]”. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/27 "2011-07-25T05:08:46Z")
You left out “proudly.” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/28 "2011-08-18T22:25:34Z")
Rather than start a new thread about the stupid that is Sarah Palin, I thought I’d just revive this one. In her most recent staged publicity event, she and her team sank to the level of 12-year old girls, [calling over a reporter](http://spectator.org/blog/2011/08/15/palin-cheap-shots-a-good-repor#) to “accidently” listen in on dear Sarah cold-calling a reporter and taking him to task for a headline about her. Unfortunately for $arah, neither her nor her team bothered to find out the facts first (shocking, I know): > [@](#): > > Specifically inviting over reporter Kasie Hunt from Politico so she could hear the exchange, Palin called Pappas’ cell phone and began berating him in a very scolding manner for writing a headline suggesting she supports Romney. Pappas didn’t even know what she was talking about. When he tried to say that neither he nor his editors had written such a headline, she said she didn’t have time for this, that she needed to go back to the “real people” at the State Fair, and hung up on him. The dimwittery and asshattery of this woman never stops. But all signs are pointing to her imminent irrelevancy. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/29 "2011-08-19T15:42:27Z")
> [@beartato](#): > > The other threads about Palin are hijacked to hell and back so I thought I’d start a new one to ask a simple question: what’s the likelihood that Sarah Palin tries to get nominated from the floor of the Republican National Convention? I doubt that’s gonna happen. Sarah is doing her job very well. She’s being a stalking horse and drawing the wrath of the libs who are scared shitless of her. I don’t think she plans to run for POTUS. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/30 "2011-08-19T16:08:28Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I doubt that’s gonna happen. Sarah is doing her job very well. She’s being a stalking horse and drawing the wrath of the libs who are scared shitless of her. I don’t think she plans to run for POTUS. I won’t ask you to provide cites that “the libs. . .are scared shitless of her”, because it’s bullshit and you can’t. She draws criticism and mockery because she’s a dimwit who can’t seem to just keep her mouth shut and just bank her winnings. It’s like listening to Donald Trump in drag. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/31 "2011-08-19T22:48:07Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > She’s being a stalking horse and drawing the wrath of the libs who are scared shitless of her. I don’t think she plans to run for POTUS. That is just so… so… Dog-gone CUTE, I could just pinch your little cheeks! ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/32 "2011-08-19T22:50:50Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I doubt that’s gonna happen. Sarah is doing her job very well. She’s being a stalking horse and drawing the wrath of the libs who are scared shitless of her. Because we have such a limited amount of wrath, we couldn’t possibly have enough to pummel all the candidates at once. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/33 "2011-08-19T23:25:46Z")
I think she’s hoping that the early candidates will destroy each other and the GOP leadership will be looking for somebody to step in and unite the party. I don’t think that’s going to happen; Palin is not a party elder, whatever she might think. And people like Bachmann and Cain are already filling the need for a right wing radical, so if they collapse, the party leaders are going to be looking for somebody different not another shot of the same. More likely, she’ll end up selling her support and influence to one of the current candidates for some kind of deal - maybe a cabinet post promise. That and wait for 2016 when the Democrats won’t be running an incumbent. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/34 "2011-08-20T02:05:33Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > She’s being a stalking horse and drawing the wrath of the libs who are scared shitless of her. “Scared shitless.” This conservative meme really is really hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/35 "2011-08-20T04:42:20Z")
Palin is a bad joke. She is a spoiled pretty girl who thinks the world owes her a living. So far, she has been proven right. But that will stop . She is showing a bit of desperation. She is patrolling Iowa during the vote. Not a coincidence. But the fact that she did not enter, shows she knew she could not win. But at the rate the Repubs are crashing and burning ,she may be the last woman standing. Nobody is afraid of her. She would get stomped by the Repubs long before she ever faced off with Obama. That is a scenario that the Dems are praying for. There have to be about 48 idiots in America who might vote for her. ---
**Author:** ![tracy1963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@tracy1963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracy1963)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/36 "2011-08-20T17:39:40Z")
I think her time,however small it was,is past. The main party doesn’t seem to have ever been behind her and now she’s being shoved aside like a weird relative that no one really understands. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/37 "2011-08-20T18:44:47Z")
She’s notified Iowa that she’ll be back in September. I’m sure her supporters are hoping she’ll announce for POTUS at that point, but she won’t. She doesn’t have the money or the voter base, and people will make frowny faces at her if she runs. Also, there’s no money in it. She’ll probably endorse Rick Perry, thus dooming both of them to obscurity. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/38 "2011-08-20T23:48:27Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > She’s notified Iowa that she’ll be back in September. Oh, good. That’s enough time to get her picture sent around to all the local police departments. Can’t imagine what she was thinking of. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/39 "2011-09-03T02:19:08Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > Oh, good. That’s enough time to get her picture sent around to all the local police departments. Can’t imagine what she was thinking of. Latest poll shows 71 percent of Repubs don’t want Palin in the race. How much worse could it be? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/40 "2011-09-03T02:20:20Z")
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