2012 GOP Update: As the Tea Party/CNN GOP Debate Approaches, Palin Receives Chilly Reception from Fox – Stock Rises on CNN

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The next GOP debate will take place on September 12, this coming Monday night, In Florida. Full schedule here at CNN.com. All candidates who participated in the MSNBC debate held this past week will also appear on stage in Tampa. The criteria of the debate is listed at CNN’s polticalticker.blogs. There is Wolf Blitzer’s take on Palin and her possible entry into the race one has to ask: Does this sound like the Wolf Blitzer we know?

Palin, on CNN, is mentioned in 20 articles and videos in the first two search pages.
Over at Fox, the network to which Palin may be employed as a part-time political analyst, there is a distinct chill in the air, it began two weeks ago – and when one queries the Fox News site, one comes up with articles of a slightly different tone. Highlighted - Ann Coulter’s piece on Palin and her “late entry” into the race. Coulter, if one recalls, championed Duncan Hunter in the 2008 race, and one would believe that she chooses candidates that are close to her ideological viewpoints, yet are not electable, therefore, this keeps her from endorsing a real candidate. That said, there appears, in reading the articles, almost an anti-Palin attitude at Fox, when one compares them to CNN.

This twilight zone phenomena leads one to speculate that perhaps, just perhaps, Palin has already rendered or is about to render her resignation at the Network. While CNN hosting the Tea Party Debate may have a scoop up its sleeve (One would need one Tea Party program from a recent rally in New Hampshire in order to understand that innuendo.)

Therefore, since Palin has noted in the recent past, that she will make a decision as to her entry into the race by the end of September, and as that is plenty of time for Palin, should she decide to run, (and it appears likely given her recent stump speeches and critiques of the GOP candidates), to make the New Hampshire primary and compete with both media frontrunners, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry. She continues to place third in the polls, including that much ballyhooed Fox poll, which implied that 74% of Republican’s would rather she not run, yet failing to mention the huge sample of Democrats included in the poll for that specific question. In fact, Palin did place third in the Fox poll of note: and had not yet announced. The later being the key.

An article standing up for Palin and her right to choose, comes from the less than Palin supportive, Alaska Dispatch, a blog that has an actual “Palin Watch”. However, that blogger has more of a right to criticize Palin than those co-workers (or possibly past co-workers) on Fox, given the fact that it is an Alaskan Blog, and a left of center Alaskan blog at that.

It is quite possible that Palin will bow out of the race, and endorse another candidate in time, or go on to work towards promoting both GOP and Tea Party candidates for Congress, as she did in 2010, or - alternately, it is the hope of many, for a variety of reasons, that she run in 2012 (this blogs being the fact that she is qualified, vetted, perhaps more than any other candidate in history, has a message that is on point, and does not take any ridiculous assertions made regarding her, without sounding off – especially when it involves Karl Rove (she receives points just for that fact). She’s a women of firsts, and as a feminist this blog would like to see one more first (yes, it is selfish), Palin as the first woman to run successfully on the GOP ticket.

For another take on Palin and her supporters, one strongly suggests reading the latest form the blog Hillbuzz.org hillbozz.org/sarah-palin. Keep in mind these are the same activist bloggers who played a huge role in electing Scott Brown to the vacant Senate Seat in Massachusetts’ January 19th 2010 special election.

Palin’s support might run a bit deeper than the “Tea Party “alone, and perhaps, just perhaps, those who prefer to button up the race early (pre-primary) and choose the two candidates (Perry and Romney) for “the rest of us”, might just have to put those plans on hold. Only time will tell, of course, but it is strongly suggested that one watch the CNN Debate on Monday the 12th.