[supremedoctrine]

Steele sees a few possible future scenarios, and one likely one involves the new GOP majority getting behind Sarah Palin to pretty much the exclusion of all other candidates.
In an effort to revive himself as “relevant” , Steele wants to be in on this development, create the perception that he has seen her importance from the beginning, and make a new job for himself, since his “title” has seemed to amount to nothing for him politically. It is ONLY popular support at the voting booth that “decides” who has the power to re-orientate the Party. I believe Sarah Palin has that right now......she just has to hold onto it/

[DavidFarrar]

Who cares what Steele thinks or why? As you say, and as many, many of us instinctively know, there is a battle going on over the political orientation of the party between fiscal conservatism and fiscal progressivism. The left would also like to paint Sarah Palin in with a broad social conservatism brush as well, so they will not waste any opportunity to do so. But the real political battle is over the nation's economic future.

If Sarah Palin can win this intra-party battle by 2010, she can resign her chairmanship position at that point and quickly move to center stage as the Republican Party's presidential nominee standard bearer, with the whole party behind her as her just reward.

His earlier comment about 2016 or 2020 not withstanding, I think this may be what Steele is now offering Palin at this time.

ex animo

davidfarrar