Posted on 08/05/2010 12:07:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin’s going to run for president.
She is running. Hers is the most long-term dedicated campaign since Ronald Reagan left the governorship of California in 1975 and became a full-time presidential aspirant.
Notably, the very act of running doesn’t cost her resources, but creates resources for her. She’s self-sustaining. Every day her organization builds and her reach expands. The more she runs the more inevitable she is.
In a nutshell, the system, meant to filter out the oddballs, has allowed one in. Never before has someone so outside the mainstream of political conventions had such good national prospects. She’s a classic third-party candidate who, given the organizational benefits of an early and dedicated candidacy, the fundraising advantages of a narrowly targeted base, and the boon of her preternatural access to the media, might easily become a major party candidate. And, given the Republican party’s built-in near-50% share of the voting public, she’s as likely to become the next president as anyone.
Many things could, of course, derail her. Not least of all if the opposition comes up with a way to effectively characterize her distance from political norms. So far this has been a problem, though, because part of her attractiveness is that distance, and, too, she is distant in ways that are themselves not normal and hard to characterize. Her extremism is not so much fanatical as it is kooky—or even comical. The worst thing that can be said about her, so far, is that she is not too smart—wily, but dumb. In a nation that, arguably, has become progressively dumber (or, at least, less interested in what used to be considered smart), this isn’t much of a liability. The real annoyance, even perhaps more than her inchoate conservatism (arguably, no more inchoate than George Bush’s), is her tastelessness. That, too, is hard for the opposition to express—other than in a fumfering way.
The threat for her is that the Republican establishment, which finds her as dumb and tasteless as the Democrats do, will come up with some stolid figure of conservative probity. But saying it that way highlights the problem of competing against an original, vivid, and always engaging outsider. Possibly a Republican congressional sweep will give the Republican mainstream new resolve. But, as likely, Sarah Palin will take credit for that success—and she might deserve it.
It’s happening, which is extraordinary.
“Her voice and manner of speech would drive most people bonkers over time.”
Baloney,,Bullcrap, horsefeathers and balderdash. Obama’s affected accents range randomly between “drunken black wino/philosopher”, to “Boston blue blood”, to “Arabic speaking muslim”, to “black pulpit minister”. Sarah’s is utterly normal Americana when compared to “the one’s”.
Read up on William Jennings Bryan. Read his speeches and you will see that Palin is running a modern populist style campaign. But, she doesn’t have a populist message. By getting people who are not interested in politics excited about “one of them” having a shot, and by putting out actual solutions to the problems through policy positions, she is using the methods of Bryan and combining it with her record of getting things done.
There isn’t a lot of room for error in this day and age, and every vote she can create out of nothing is an extra vote advantage she has over any opponents.
this poor asshole.......but he does have one thing right....Madam President
The moonbats are all aflutter because they can see their attempted neosocialist transformation of America failing.
“Darn that woman; it’s all her fault!”
- JP
I understand what you are saying and I loved her “in your face” speeches as much as anybody but you and I are not everybody in this country. Yup, I’ve read about William Jennings Bryan, a man from a different time but unless I need to keep reading I don’t ever remember a President William Jennings Bryan. And today... we are a so much more urban society (which of course I hate) but it is what it is. ;-)
Yeah, you really love Palin, you only want to defeat her in the primary and work to make sure that she never becomes our candidate, how do you support people that you don’t like?
Boy, that ol' Ruling Class, John-Kerry-as-Thurston-Howell haughtiness just HAS to come out, doesn't it? And GWB as a conservative? No, he's a Ruling Class progressive, tempered by his Texas upbringing.
Obama’s inflection and voice drives me crazy, to be sure. I can’t stand it. He never lasts more than a few seconds on the radio while I am driving.
But, I did not compare SP to him.
She is currently the leading force in electoral politics.
I think she’s the one we have that can win. All the safe alternatives—Mitt or Tim or Huck or Mitch or John or even Newt—per usual, are the sure losers.
But in a sense, you did compare the two. You say her voice irritates. Assuming Obama must play to the same electorate as he, this clearly means that Obama’s passes muster, and that Sarah’s would cost her an election.
The comparison is there,, and it’s ludicrous on it’s face.
PSSSTTTT don’t tell Pissant!
Got any facts to back that up or have you heard other people say that often enough that it has become fact.
John McCain said he thought Sarah got more votes than he did.
“I love Sarah Palin but she’ll lose on the National ticket. The Repubs have to be smarter with who they chose, even though I personally think she’s great.”
Pardon me, but it sounds like you are letting the lamestream media and the lefties define for you who Sarah Palin is instead of looking at her policies and plans and what she could to do fix the problems of this country (lowering taxes, creating jobs, growing the economy and getting us out of this Depression). To me, there are two Sarah Palins — one is the cartoon character spun through Tina Fey and the Democrat-loving media whores and the other is the real person ... the REAL Sarah Palin. The Republicans need to be smart and choose HER. If we don’t we’re going to get another McLame in 2012 (i.e. Romney). Conservatives win elections, RINOs lose them. Just look back at history and it will prove me right. If another RINO is picked, the GOP may lose again.
Liberals do not agree, which is why they are constantly, continuously, repeatedly smearing her and her family.
“...guts, cojones, and charactor.”
That’s Sarah alright. From the choir loft. So, in my lifetime, am I going to see her heroics beyond our choir, her Facebook page, her PAC, and FOX News?
We all look pretty smart on the team bench, among ourselves, but mastering the field requires showing up on an unfriendly field. When is that going to happen? Anybody know? When? Hmm? Really, when? As in how soon? Lots of us are waiting for a rematch between Sarah and the mean media. The Palin platitudes need to be over in November, when she should have her nuts and bolt policy hat on, willing to ratchet up her exposure beyond us in the choir, because by ourselves we can not nominate or elect her. The rest of the gang has to be impressed too.
Agreed. Also keep in mind that many red or red-leaning states could be picking up electoral votes because of the 2010 Census. I believe Texas and SC are picking up a few. Some of the blue states could be losing electoral votes (MI, PA) because of depopulation. The math there alone, could also be a boost for the GOP in the 2012 election.
Very well.
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