# 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:** 3
**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, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/41 "2011-09-03T02:55:34Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > There’s still 29% of Republicans left to alienate. At least there is time. ---
**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, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/42 "2011-09-03T03:09:30Z")
Yeah, but those are the hard core. The only way she could alienate them would be to fuck Hugo Chavez on TV and convert to socialism. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/43 "2011-09-03T03:46:31Z")
In addition to that 71% who don’t want her to run, there are presumably others who want her to run (perhaps to shake up the other candidates a bit, or just for entertainment value) who still wouldn’t want to actually vote for her. ---
**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, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/44 "2011-09-03T15:11:06Z")
She is not a serious candidate. But until it is made clear she will not run, she gets the power of being a potential presidential candidate attached to her. It helps her speaking prices . The longer she can drag it on, the better off her brand will be. She is not announcing in the Iowa tea baggers convention. She will speak however. She is just keeping her name in public. ---
**Author:** ![monkeylucifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@monkeylucifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monkeylucifer)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/45 "2011-09-03T18:28:51Z")
I’m watching her rally on CNN right now. It’s fucking hilarious. ---
**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, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/46 "2011-09-03T19:40:06Z")
The only ones scared of her are the Repubs running for the nomination. They have a tea bagger threat hanging over4 their heads. The Dems have little interest in her. Cheney said he does not know how she could justify quitting as Governor. She can not even rally her own party. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/47 "2011-09-03T21:00:26Z")
I’d just like to take this opportunity to announce that I’m a potential Presidential candidate, too. \ ---
**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, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/48 "2011-09-03T22:32:42Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I’d just like to take this opportunity to announce that I’m a potential Presidential candidate, too. > > \ She will not likely do that. The longer she sits on the outside ,sniping, the more her name is mentioned. If she said she will not run ,who would listen to her, except some old tea baggers using up their last fantasy boners. She would not appear on TV ,except TV Lite, Fox. But her shelf life would quickly decline. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2011, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/49 "2011-09-03T22:52:05Z")
I think she is waiting until a main-stream Republican front runner has a commanding lead, then acquiesce to a draft movement by the Tea Party as a third party candidate. ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/50 "2011-09-04T13:54:20Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I think she is waiting until a main-stream Republican front runner has a commanding lead, then acquiesce to a draft movement by the Tea Party as a third party candidate. To what end? I don’t see how running and losing would help her any. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/51 "2011-09-04T15:11:57Z")
It would keep her in the headlines. Which, of course, is all she’s getting from this election cycle no matter _how_ she goes about it. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/52 "2011-09-04T16:09:29Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Yeah, but those are the hard core. The only way she could alienate them would be to fuck Hugo Chavez on TV and convert to socialism. Nah, even then most of them would immeadiatly start to rationalize why this is actually a\* good thing\* that will create a Gazillion jobs and make Obama a one-term president. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/53 "2011-09-04T16:53:46Z")
> [@cckerberos](#): > > To what end? I don’t see how running and losing would help her any. It didn’t hurt her last time, did it? ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/54 "2011-09-04T17:35:30Z")
You know, that would make a really great modern version of the “Beverly Hillbillies” - the Palin Clan living in the White House. Toooddddd! That boy Levi is out talking with Bristol again, out by the see-ment pond! And she’s in her skivvies! !! ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/55 "2011-09-05T01:51:10Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > It didn’t hurt her last time, did it? Last time she was an unknown. Now she is a known. She was better off being an unknown ,known. Now as a known unknown, she can’t pretend any more. Channeling Rumsfield. She also quit as governor. That is a huge problem for the voters who can think and those who care about the process. She can not be trusted. She will walk off if she smells money. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2011, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/56 "2011-09-05T02:04:04Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Last time she was an unknown. Now she is a known. She was better off being an unknown ,known. Now as a known unknown, she can’t pretend any more. Channeling Rumsfield. > She also quit as governor. That is a huge problem for the voters who can think and those who care about the process. She can not be trusted. She will walk off if she smells money. She has no intention of winning. It is good for her brand to run. I think maybe she is waiting until it is certain she can’t be nominated, but another nine moths of campaigning will keep her in front of the cameras. ---
**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 5, 2011, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/57 "2011-09-05T03:27:23Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > She has no intention of winning. It is good for her brand to run. I think maybe she is waiting until it is certain she can’t be nominated, but another nine moths of campaigning will keep her in front of the cameras. I buy this. The only way it doesn’t work is if all the other candidates start making jokes and laughing at her expense. I doubt they would do that, an in the meantime she can use her “candidate appearances” to sell more books, make a new movie, or create the ultimate reality show - “Sarah Runs For President”. ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/58 "2011-09-05T15:18:36Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > It didn’t hurt her last time, did it? Last time she was running as VP; the blame fell at McCain’s feet. If she ran and lost this time, she’d be the one to take the hit. Additionally, running as a third party candidate would burn her bridges with the GOP establishment. No, I expect her to play the cocktease until the last possible moment then throw her support behind the GOP nominee. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/59 "2011-09-05T18:15:47Z")
> [@](#): > > Last time she was running as VP; the blame fell at McCain’s feet. I dunno; a lot of folks _do_ blame her for the loss. McCain was polling neck-and-neck with Obama, then took a nose-dive right around the time she was nominated. Now, that’s _also_ right around when he made his infamous “the fundamentals of the economy are strong” quote, which also cost him, and it’s hard to disentangle the two to say just how much each one cost him. But Palin was certainly one of the factors. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598/60 "2011-09-05T19:43:11Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I dunno; a lot of folks _do_ blame her for the loss. McCain was polling neck-and-neck with Obama, then took a nose-dive right around the time she was nominated. Now, that’s _also_ right around when he made his infamous “the fundamentals of the economy are strong” quote, which also cost him, and it’s hard to disentangle the two to say just how much each one cost him. But Palin was certainly one of the factors. Actually McCain surged ahead when she was nominated, then crashed down when people got to know her. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sarah-palin-try-to-get-nominated-from-the-floor-of-the-rnc/588598.md?page=4)