I never lost an election when I held public office. One of my three unbreakable campaign stump rules was "go where your votes are and blow off the rest".
Leni
That’s the right approach. Whenever you’re promoting or marketing a person or a product, you always want to speak to your supporters and potential supporters, and don’t waste your resources trying to convert your committed opponents. If you try to convert people who are strongly opposed to a person or product, you’ll waste a lot of energy as you only convert a few of them into supporters. In politics, you also drain off your energy in useless disputes with committed opponents when you try to speak to them and convert them. Instead, as you did, the right strategy is to speak only to your supporters and swing voters, and rally them for the highest possible turnout. Ignore committed opponents and only use them as material for jokes.
I don’t know if Sarah will run for president. It’s a toss-up if you ask me and while she probably wants to run, her decision will depend on how she thinks the campaign and presidency will affect her family.
I never lost an election when I held public office. One of my three unbreakable campaign stump rules was "go where your votes are and blow off the rest".
Leni
You are right, Leni. Sarah is making the rules, not following them.
Sarah is setting her own agenda and following her own schedule. She is not following someone else's.
The elites hate her because:
1.) She is not following their agenda and lead.
2.) Sarah can set her own agenda and schedule without them and she is doing it.
Leni, I am going one step further.
Sarah is already wearing the mantle of President and playing the role regardless of who acknowledges it or not.
The role of President has been dropped and cast aside. Sarah is picking it up because America needs it to be done. Like Washington before her she does this out of duty, a love of country and a profound sense of honor and respect for the opportunity God has granted us. Some try to see what Sarah does through the lens of advantage or electioneering tactics. They fail to see as she sees.
It is truly astounding to see someone not holding the office wearing the role of President and the actual office holder not wearing it.
Sarah is the only one to go up against Obama fearlessly again and again. She is a lion. Paul Johnson noted her courage as did Rush today: "Courage is the central value of American politics." By her courage and fearlessness in the defense of our country Sarah has earned wearing this mantle.
Sarah's upcoming reception in India is telling us that other countries are also acknowledging this. As another poster recently noted about Sarah's upcoming trip, India sees who is going to be the next president and they want to lay the ground work for a relationship with her now.
Sarah too is laying groundwork, but for America by starting to build an alliance with a strong ally against China's growing might.
Mr. Sol.