I would like to see her take Murk down, just unconvinced for now she can do it. The few Alaskans I run into don’t think Palin has anywhere near the popularity she once had there. She now has a huge PR problems with her kids. Something she didn’t have when they were minors and their role was to be cute. You can give good reasons for their past behavior but if you have to give out reasons no matter how good, you have already lost half the PR battle. And yes that type of PR issue doesn’t apply to Rats!
Also Murk represents a huge cash cow to the Alaskan “gimmedats”. I don’t know if Palin can sell herself as not threatening that or not. And yes I am shocked that Alaska has enough “gimmeidats” to be frozen version of Anacostia. I have said this before, Alaskans & former Alaskans have told me about the fact that a significant percentage of the population are “gimmedats” so I now believe it. (Murk’s write-in win demonstrated that!)
My point is Palin is not a slam dunk on this !
Agreed on all points, actually. I think Palin needs to rebuild her popularity in some creative way — possibly by finding an avenue to re-establish her “mojo” as a corruption fighter. Then go from there.