“Commenting” and “writing books” don’t qualify as leadership in my opinion. Thousands do it with varying degrees of success, but it’s not leadership. Making headlines with comments is not leadership, or Obama would qualify. Obviously we define the word differently.
“The right has had no more powerful voice or accomplished candidate in the public arena for a very long time.”
She was “accomplished” as a candidate for governor, which every state has whenever they have a gubernatorial election (so in that sense every governor is accomplished). Since then she hasn’t been a candidate for anything.
She does have a powerful voice to her followers; how many that would have been had she run, we’ll never know. I’d have voted for her against Obama but I don’t know that she’d have been my first choice during the primaries (I’d wanted to have heard her specific policy proposals and how she fared in the debates).
Could she be effective as the RNC chairman? Quite possibly, but only to the extent she could get enough people to follow her (IMO, the only real definition of “leadership”).
“Commenting” and “writing books” don’t qualify as leadership in my opinion.”
Huh. Bill Buckley, Dennis Prager, Thomas Sowell...they would be dismayed to hear that...especially coming from an obviously deep thinker such as yourself.