Drafting the best candidate really has happened in the past. Sometimes it’s just been staged, but sometimes it has been real enough.
Dwight Eisenhower had to have his arm twisted before he agreed to run. I’m not sure if he was really better than Taft, but he was a good President on the whole, and I’m not sure that Taft could have won.
Ronald Reagan had to be drafted, too, as I recall. And Maggie Thatcher.
The best candidates have often hesitated, but finally come in when they found that they were wanted and believed it to be their duty to serve.
I’m not saying that it’s going to happen in this case. And I’m inclined to keep back at the moment and leave the drafting to others.
No, it wouldn’t be as easy as where she is now. But I think Sarah would agree to do it if it really seemed the only way to fix this mess.
I read several different kinds of attitude here. Some of the usual Palin haters, who just want her to go away. A few former fans, who are disappointed and have written her off. Those like yourself who simply want to let her make her own choice and enjoy life and family. But I think in the end that doing the right thing, even if painful, gives the greatest joy, even joy in suffering.
I’m not sure if anything like that will happen, but it’s certainly worth considering. And those who would try to draft her certainly have my best wishes. Like Palin, I also think that God and country come first—as do many who serve and defend our country in war—and that it would be wrong to decline those priorities, if need calls.
You’re implying that she would need to be drafted INITIALLY to be drawn in, like Eisenhower. She never needed to be drafted. She quit the governorship, remember?
She deliberated about it, considered it, prayed about it, watched what happened to her family, lived through the vetting process, spent every day in the mindset of “Should I run?”
Then, after prayer to God... which was first on her list. She AND her HUSBAND, found the answer to be no.
In that decision process, they considered their family, because that’s what parents of a family of five children, one a special needs child... as well as grandparents to two young grandchildren... would consider the impact on the family. There are four very young children in the entire Palin family to consider.
And then, last, NOT first, but last, came country. Still the answer was no. That’s after everything, and much prayer.
So, you want her to “second guess” herself and equivocate?
I don’t think that she is that type of person. You don’t say no to the presidential campaign and the entire country, and then say, “Aw, shucks! I’ve changed my mind! Silly me!”
People would mock her endlessly if she did that. She would have no credibility as a woman who is known as a Christian and a woman of faith, if she went against prayer to God... when she claimed that God was her first consideration.