I think Palin could do the same thing Scott Brown did on a national level and win as a conservative.
but she doesn’t seem to want to fight for it.
I don't think so--poll after poll shows she can't. Yes, I know, we don't trust polls...unless they tell us what we want to know.
Brown threaded the needle--he saw that perception was what would kill him. His campaign was trailing thirty points until it was within ten points--at that point, people believed he MIGHT win, so they started supporting him, for his economic message and in retaliation for Coakley's negative, awful campaign.
Mostly, though, Brown won because most voters only got their first impression of him in the last month. I have followed Mass. politics for decades and I didn't hear about the guy (beyond his name) until December.
People looked at him, saw how he behaved, heard only what he wanted them to hear--economy, jobs, healthcare--and he won.
Were the election a month longer, he might have lost because the Dems would have poured more money in and possibly won the race to "define" Brown.
It's not that Palin doesn't want to fight, it's that she sees reality a lot more clearly than most of her fans, and she knows she's lost the race to define herself to the nation.
I think Palin could do the same thing Scott Brown did on a national level and win as a conservative.
Yeah, this thread is from a while back, but I just stumbled in here somehow (don't know how) and saw this... :-)
What Palin is doing is positioning herself and getting a national infrastructure going and testing out the waters. This takes time. I don't think that blasting on the national political scene about 1-1/2 year ago enough time to build up a national political infrastructure for herself.