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.
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.
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.)
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]”.
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 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):
The dimwittery and asshattery of this woman never stops. But all signs are pointing to her imminent irrelevancy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
