Sounds as if Swain has his politicians confused:
"She's not really creative," said Swain Shepperd, a retiree from Rock Hill. "She just repeats what's already been said by others."
“She’s not really creative,” said Swain Shepperd, a retiree from Rock Hill. “She just repeats what’s already been said by others.”
Sounds as if Swain has his politicians confused:
Silly sod (in the article). Executives aren’t supposed to be creative, they’re supposed to be hardnosed and decisive.
I don’t get that at all. I mean, if there’s one thing she is, it’s creative. She invented the death panels phrase. The Mama Grizzly theme. The notes on the palm. The pit bull with lipstick joke. The infamous targets map. The PAC videos. Even words like refudiate. Say she’s stupid or doesn’t know the intracies of policy, fine. But don’t say she’s not creative. The fact is everyone repeats what she says.
As for Bachmann, she helped create 10,000+ people to see her in MN that Bachmann would have come nowhere near drawing on her own.
So, they go to SC to an event with Bachmann and find people speaking down on Palin? Wow, what a surprise. Out of 150 they find 5. What about the other 145? Of course at an event for Bachmann they’re going to be a bit down on Palin. Why are they even asking people about her at that event? She has nothing to do with it. I’d be upset if I was there and they asked me about her.
If there’s a criticism I have of her it’s that she hasn’t really done anything in early states like IA, NH and SC. You have to go out and show them, you cant’t just expect to show up and be crowned. People like Pawlenty, Barbour, etc... are getting out there.
She’ll need to do that. She won’t win this on the cheap. She can’t think she’s like Fred Thompson and just think all she has to do is show up. If she’d gone t oa few events in each of these states already I think she’d be doing much better. Fortunately it’s early and things haven’t really started so it hasn’t hurt her that much but if others start showing up and she just hangs back and thinks some facebook posts and tweets will make up for it, she’s sorely mistaken.
Many people out there are just ill-informed. She has no idea about govt? She’s been on the city council, been mayor, been elected President of the State Conference of Mayors, was appointed chairman of the largest regulatory agency in the state overseeing the key oil and gas sector, was Vice Chair of the NGA energy committee and would have been chair in 2010 if she stayed in office, ran for Lt Gov, was almost appointed to Senate, has been Governor, been nominated for VP. She has experience in Govt at the local, state, and federal level. She has experience in govt from both the legislative and the executive side. She has govt exp and private sector exp. I think she knows how govt works.
She’s actually delivered and signed a balanced budget, something Obama will never do. She’s cut spending.
But unless she gets out there and tells this to people most will remain in the dark and just believe what the media tells them.
One number there should tell you a lot. 150. In rock-red SC, 150 people turn out to see Bachmann. 150? And Bachmann has plenty of charisma. If Palin showed up there they’d have 4 digits minimum. Probably much more. Obama drew 20,000 in SC to see him.
You don’t think TV and the media will love showing Obama at a rally with 25,000+ people and then going to Tim Pawlenty or Romney speaking before a few dozen at some Best Western or Elks Club in Davenport or Manchester Playing up the contrast?
The media desperately wants her to run. You think they relish the thought of covering a 3 way battle between Romney, Pawlenty and Daniels? Talk about excitement. Imagine the huge crowds, the rock star receptions, etc... Imagine the tv ratings, magazine sales, etc...
And if she does run they will do all they can to make sure she gets the nomination for 2 reasons. One, a solid 9 months or so of Obama-Palin will make the media more money than they’ve ever seen before and they know it. And two, they think she’ll be easy to beat. Just like they thought Reagan would be easy to beat. Just like Bush41 and co thought Clinton would be easy to beat.
Candidates who win tend to have something extra about them. Some “it” factor. Obama had it.(McCain didn’t). W had it.(neither Gore or Kerry did). Clinton had it(neither Dole or Bush41 did). Reagan did(neither Carter or Mondale did). Sometimes neither guy has it like in 76 with Ford/Carter or 88 with Bush/Dukakis.
On the GOP side, many don’t have it. Romney doesn’t. Pawlenty doesn’t. Daniels doesn’t. Barbour doesn’t. Gingrich sort of does. Bachmann does. Huckabee has something. But nothing close to her.
Of course Huckabee and Romney and others do better than her vs Obama. They haven’t been attacked non-stop for 3 years. Lets see where they are after the media and the dems unload on them with even 10% of what they’ve unloaded on her. She’s still ahead of where Reagan was vs Carter at this point. Ahead of where Clinton was vs Bush41 at this point.