I’d rather she get bloodied fighting in the arena of ideas, not just for being a personality. She is hated because she represents Christian values, and so they burn down her church and demonize her. Virtually any individual even midly associated with Christianity is going to get the same treatment.
The point of actively campaigning is to show that your ideas are superior and that you are stronger than the other guy. I’m sure she could, but that’s just going by faith. Not by actual evidence.
Unless she has some good idea she wants to push. Maybe a fair tax, or privatization, or something that she believes in strongly, I have no reason to automatically think that someone deserves a nomination based on personality. Let her fight it out, tell us what her ideas are, and show us how committed she is to them as they are viciously attacked.
Otherwise, if she doesn’t want to lead, she needs to get out of the way of the people who ARE leading.
You don’t know anything about Governor Palin’s 20 year political career?
Her reputation for being a giant killer and a reformer that took on both parties in Alaska and while creating many political enemies she beat the entrenched corrupt machines.
While doing that Palin became the most popular governor in America, perhaps in history, consistently in the low to high 80%, and even 93%, approval.
Palin was not known for being a religious figure, she was known for being a political master and reformer.
Palin has proposed eliminating all corporate tax breaks, credits and loopholes, including energy related ones, and reducing the corporate tax rate to zero. That would be a huge boon to the economy while also removing many of the carrots and sticks by which Congress enables massive crony capitalism.
She has said that Ryan’s entitlement reform plans are a good place to start, but that we need to go further.
Her major point, however, by both her own record and her proposals at the national level, is to reduce spending and to absolutely cut the federal budget. She is in that way much closer to Rep. Paul than the other candidates running.
Gingrich would probably be closest to her overall perspective of any of the candidates running, which is part of why you’ve heard her speak more positively of him than of the others.