I agree that that’s the challenge she’s had to overcome.
But the Tina Fey caricature wouldn’t have stuck without her family issues and image.
And I would say that all of the Palin family reality TV cashing in has taken her image further in that direction, rather than countering the damage from Fey.
Had Palin instead simply held on to finish her one term as guv and then taken some sort of adjunct think-tank position on international energy policy, or something similar, she’d be a viable presidential candidate today.
Sadly, that wasn’t her direction, nor now likely her future.
“Had Palin instead simply held on to finish her one term as guv and then taken some sort of adjunct think-tank position on international energy policy, or something similar, she’d be a viable presidential candidate today.
Sadly, that wasn’t her direction, nor now likely her future.”
Prepare yourself for hrh40 to accuse you of having a shallow discernment factor. LOL!
“And I would say that all of the Palin family reality TV cashing in has taken her image further in that direction, rather than countering the damage from Fey.
Had Palin instead simply held on to finish her one term as guv and then taken some sort of adjunct think-tank position on international energy policy, or something similar, she’d be a viable presidential candidate today.”
I agree, yet feel the exact opposite about the value.
Palin earns her money working to provide product. It’s honest work.
On the other hand, most “respectable” politicians get rich in manners that are legal, but not necessarily honorable.
Palin could have become a well paid lobbyist or partaken in another form of political whoring to make money, as every other politician does.
That is exactly what you stated would make her presidential timber.
Sadly you are more right than wrong, and working for a living is seen as somehow lower than playing the Washington money game.
It is her individualism and independence from this DC system that causes her to be vilified and ostracized, not anything having to do with lack of sophistication or other things they use to demean her.