The staff at political website Race4 2012 recently posted their predictions for the coming new year. We've excerpted those portions of their conjecture which pertain to Sarah Palin:
Adam Brickley - "Sarah Palin continues her recovery and cements herself as de-facto leader of the GOP after vigorously campaigning through 2010, after which she begins work on a second and more issue-oriented book."Read all of the 2010 tea leaves at Race 4 2012.
Adam Graham - "Sarah Palin will continue to demur [on a presidential run] until early-to-mid 2011."
Alex Knepper - "Sarah Palin refuses to endorse Mark Kirk in the primary, but endorses him in the general." Knepper says that Sarah Palin will be more selective than Romney, Huckabee and Pawlenty on which candidates she will campaign for in 2010, and she will wait until the spring or summer of 2011 to announce her candidacy for the White House. He predicts that Mitt Romney's book will sell only moderately well, and pundits will make the expected comparisons between Romney and Sarah Palin. Finally from Knepper, "Sarah Palin endorses an anti-establishment candidate in hopes of using her power to sway an election. This will be a test of her influence. Marco Rubio will also gain her endorsement in the spring of 2010. Don’t rule out an endorsement of Peter Schiff in Connecticut, either."
Aron Goldman predicts that Rick Perry will defeat Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Texas GOP primary. Perry has Sarah Palin's endorsement, and she has pledged to campaign with him in the Lone Star State.
Bob Hovic - "Five serious candidates... will be ranked as follows by most observers at year-end: Romney, Huckabee, Palin, Pawlenty, Daniels – though there will still not be enough separation among the top three to declare a true front-runner."
DaveG - "Tea Partiers will divide between dueling revolutionary candidates in Sarah Palin and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson. The latter will appeal to many of the same groups that Ron Paul did, only on a broader scale, including social libertines and America First types." Also, "Sarah Palin will continue her ascent among Republican primary voters due to her status as a symbol of rebellion against President Obama and the present political establishment and economic and cultural elites. Pundits will begin to wonder whether anti-Palin Republicans will be able to coalesce around a single alternative to the Alaskan, or whether the rest of the party will fracture a dozen different ways, leaving Palin with a small but determined plurality in 2012."
Dustin Siggins - "Sarah Palin drops out of the running for the Republican nomination."
Kristofer Lorelli - "Aron Goldman will not warm up to the idea of President Sarah Palin."
Tommy Boy - "Sarah Palin will win the 'most admired woman' Gallup poll in 2010." Also, "Race42012 will score an interview with Sarah Palin." And, "A scientific poll will show Sarah Palin tied or leading Barack Obama in a hypothetical 2012 contest."
- JP
From http://www.garyjohnson2012.com
ReplyDelete-He didn't raise taxes as Governor once.
-He vetoed over 1,000 spending items.
-He cut taxes 14 times.
-In a state dominated 2 to 1 by Democrats he served two terms.
-He left New Mexico with a balanced budget.
-He competed in the Bataan Death March, a 25 mile desert run in combat boots wearing a 35-pound backpack.
-He climbed to the top of Mount Everest, despite a broken leg.