Sarah Palin’s Pretend Presidential Campaign Releases Iowa Video

By: Guest ContributorAug. 19th, 2011more from Guest Contributor

Sarah Palin escalated her pretend presidential campaign today by releasing a video that claimed contrary to all the evidence presented via videos and polls that Iowa loves Sarah Palin.

Here is the video:

Of course the reaction of Sean Hannity’s instantaneous Iowa State Fair poll question, do you want Sarah Palin to get into this race tells the real story:

Another key indicator of how much distaste there is for a Palin presidential run in Iowa was the We Ask America poll that asked Iowa Republicans who they least wanted to see win the GOP nomination. The person who Iowa Republicans least wanted to see win the 2012 nomination was Sarah Palin at 25%. Newt Gingrich was second with 16%. John Huntsman was third at 14%, and Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann were tied for fourth at 12%.

The same poll also asked Iowa Republicans who they wanted to see win the nomination. Rick Perry was first at 29%. He was followed by Michele Bachmann at 17% and Mitt Romney at 15%. Sarah Palin finished third from the bottom with 7%. Only Rick Santorum (4%) and Jon Huntsman (1%) had less support.

Despite what Sarah Palin’s propaganda video is trying to sell you, the crowd reaction and polling data suggest that Iowa Republicans want no part of a Palin 2012 campaign. Republicans may like Sarah Palin, but they don’t want to see her run for president or win the nomination. Palin’s Iowa video really wasn’t about running for president anyway. The video was made to keep the tease going. Sarah Palin is trying to milk every last dime out of her fans, because she knows that her cash cow will flee to greener pastures as soon as she doesn’t run for president.

Sarah Palin can release all the videos she wants. It doesn’t change the fact that she still has no money, no campaign organization, and no campaign staff. Palin is still taking speaking engagements into October. Sarah Palin’s September 3rd tea party event did have to be moved to a bigger venue in Iowa, but don’t confuse people who will go see her for free with actual supporters who would vote for her.

Sarah Palin stopped being taken seriously as a politician when she quit on Alaska, but in our celebrity obsessed culture people will often turn out to get a free eyeful of someone famous. The scam is over, Sarah. She can preen and posture all she wants, but without running a serious political campaign, Sarah Palin is nothing more than a relic of failed elections past.

Sarah Palin’s Pretend Presidential Campaign Releases Iowa Video was written by Guest Contributor for PoliticusUSA.

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17 Responses to Sarah Palin’s Pretend Presidential Campaign Releases Iowa Video

craigtamy

Aug. 19th, 2011 at 6:43 pm

How sad is it that she can’t read the writing on the wall. This last week I have read numerous articles about how obvious her antics have become. She is a laughing stock and keeps giving more ammunition. Pitiful really. Sarah, the reason people don’t like you is that you don’t like people. She is reaping what she has sown.
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- amyloo
  
  Aug. 19th, 2011 at 7:51 pm
  
  But she does read the writing on her Facebook wall and I think must delude herself into thinking it’s only the tip of iceberg.
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wiscogal

Aug. 19th, 2011 at 7:00 pm

Geez she is looking so skanky…& that goofy eye!!! Can’t she afford to get it fixed?
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Emily

Aug. 19th, 2011 at 7:13 pm

That commercial looks like it cost a lot to produce. I hope her palinbots don’t mind that their hard earned money has gone to a person that is toying with them like a cat plays with a mouse.

She won’t run. She can’t run. The many ugly truths about her would come out and that scares the bejeebus out of her. She’s mentally and physically wasted. She wouldn’t survive a serious campaign.

She’s not a contender. She’s one of the few who doesn’t realize that. I enjoy her though. Along with her disfunctional family, they are entertaining, to say the least.

Hey Sarah… where’s Trig? And where is his birth certificate?
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- Ingarose
  
  Aug. 19th, 2011 at 8:15 pm
  
  I am sorry I have to disagree with you that the Palins are entertaining. I find them rude,hateful, liars and scavengers who milk everyone for money.I am really sick of them. There are many people suffering here in the USA and then there is Bristol Palin who buys a house with cash from speaking fees, dancing with stars, reality shows etc.
  
  Actually, what is wrong with people who still fall for that outfit? OK, maybe it is entertainment but at a cost.
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Shiva (Moderator)

Aug. 19th, 2011 at 7:13 pm

Im sorry, that woman is an idiot. She forgot to mention the GOP doesnt want you to have money to spend your own way

I find it hilarious that the media is still calling it a bus tour. It’s an attention grabbing tour that makes her look like a five-year-old. Willow has more sense than she does and can tell the truth
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laingirl

Aug. 19th, 2011 at 7:15 pm

She looks like she left her blow-up bra at home. Too bad she didn’t leave her voice at home also. I cannot stand to listen to her for more than a couple of seconds.
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Anne

Aug. 19th, 2011 at 8:40 pm

Palin is a dim bulb who seems oblivious to the fact that in spite of all her efforts to remain “relevant,” most of America tired of her antics a long time ago. However, the fact that anyone anywhere embraces these GOP bozos, especially Perry and Bachmann, shows that they failed to learn anything from America’s eventual rejection of Palin.
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- Cathy
  
  Aug. 19th, 2011 at 10:25 pm
  
  I couldn’t agree more–but heck, by golly, if she does run, it will divide the tea party even further, which is not a bad thing. Besides the more these wing-nuts talk, their total lack of intelligence shows.
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e

Aug. 19th, 2011 at 9:06 pm

Republican tea partiers are such sheeple. It took them this long to figure out that the they don’t want Palin for president? Translate it took this long for the Republican establishment to tell them they didn’t want Sarah Palin for President via Faux Noise. These people are so easily led it’s pathetic.
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A Walkaway

Aug. 19th, 2011 at 10:59 pm

I won’t write her off so fast. She’s thought to almost walk on water with a lot of people around here, and you cannot speak anything critical about her without getting a rage-filled response.

It’s not likely she would win, or even get close, but I won’t forget how a unknown from Alaska became the VP candidate…
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- moles
  
  Aug. 20th, 2011 at 12:13 am
  
  The unknown from Alaska became the VP candidate because McCain and his GOP cronies were too bloody lazy to do their homework and vet her properly. A short personal Google search on Palin turned up more information than McCain’s entire vetting process. I can’t think of anything bad enough to visit on him for inflicting this ghastly piece of work on the long suffering public.
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  - A Walkaway
    
    Aug. 20th, 2011 at 11:51 am
    
    It’s far more than lazy backgrounding. McCain himself has some not-so-good connections to dominionism: remember, he had to reject an endorsement from one of the dominionist bigwigs once the guy’s real views were outed (If I remember right, by people connected to Talk2Action). He would HAVE to have known what the guy actually stood for.
    
    The dominionists are a political power, and they can bring a lot of votes to the table. They’re organized and motivated. That and ideological similarities are why McCain brought Palin on board, although I would grant that probably his handlers thought having a woman politician as VP would help, and I’ve also heard that she was forced on him by the Religious Right.
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newmeximan

Aug. 19th, 2011 at 11:22 pm

Frequently minor accidents will happen near a serious accident, as people stop paying attention to their own driving while trying to see how badly mangled a body might be.

$arah is the major wreck, and she is causing chain reaction accidents throughout the GOP as the rest of the party is still paying attention to her. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of skanks.
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Ingarose

Aug. 20th, 2011 at 12:09 am

Karl Rove seems to see through her. Yet, every time he tries to point out the obvious he gets put on the carpet by Hannity and the tea party people and Palin herself.

Actually, it would be interesting what some of the GOP bigwigs have to say behind her back. They know that she is disruptive, a spoiler and a mean girl but they are stuck with her.
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Marie

Aug. 20th, 2011 at 10:04 pm

The GOP is stuck with Sarah just like they are stuck with the Tea Party and they don’t know what to do with either of them. I think the powers to be of the GOP know that she can’t win and any candidate that moves to the far right fringe can’t win. What’s a good Republican to do???
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