[EQAndyBuzz]

What will drive the left off the cliff is if Palin hires Karl Rove to run her campaign.

Hate him all you want, call him anything you want, Rove has one thing that not too many campaign managers have, a winning record.

All Palin has to do is tell him what she wants and how she wants to campaign, and Rove will make it happen. She doesn’t need him in her cabinet, she doesn’t need him to form policy.

Just win baby!

[SamAdams76]

Palin hiring Karl Rove is sure to make a few heads explode here on Free Republic as well. But she will benefit from Rove's experience so long as she is ultimately the one calling the shots. She has great instincts but could definitely make use of the services of people who have experience building a national campaign from the ground up.

Of course, this will be a campaign like we have never seen before - provided she throws her hat in the ring.

[kevkrom]

I head what you’re saying, regarding Rove, but it’s more than a matter of who’s in charge, it’s a matter of trust. Can Rove be trusted to put his professionalism ahead of his loyalty to the people running the part of the party that doesn’t like “upstarts” like Palin?