[DoughtyOne]

I’m not discounting the ‘rock and a hard place’ reality here. I agree with that description. Some of the other issues you touched on, were accurate too. There still has to be a balance, and I’m not convinced she got that right.

I’ll give you an example. I would have advised her not to participate in the Alaska series. You want folks to feel like they know you, without seeing you in the every day grind. My personal thought on that, is that it makes you look far more ‘common’ than you want people to see you as, if you’re planning to run for the presidency. There needs to be aura of respect, that commonality tends to break down.

I know a lot of people who support her probably gobbled that up, and I’m not saying she did a bad job at all. I respect that people enjoyed it. I’m just saying that for some folks, it may have been the wrong tactic. Palin may have won new converts. She may also have alienated people.

That’s just my take on it.

I do believe than over-exposure is a real concern.

Thanks for the response.

[RobbyS]

Well, I agree with your last statement. Especially when you are facing a press that is looking for you to fall on your face. I was just watching a documentary about FDR. The press with with him, and covered for his paralysis. Even the men who disliked him, covered for him. I can understand why. FDR had more guts in little pinky than most men have in their whole body. He HAD to show strength. This popinjay who sits in the White House today has been compared with FDR. He is not fit to carry FDR’s cane. But going back to Palin. She is trying to run as a populist, more like Huey Long than FDR. Nothing “presidential” about the Kingfish, but he was as smart as a whip, and if the good doctor had not plugged him, he would have given FDR fits in 1936. FDR feared him, and the elites today fear Palin. Despise her, too, but they also despised Huey Long.