if in fact Alaska is the only state that makes it through the next few years, yes that would be a big vindication for Sarah.
But I think we need someone who can connect to urban people, especially hispanics and blacks, and not just white people from very small towns. Someone you don’t have to worry about when he/she gives an interview with Katie Couric.
You do realize that the Couric interview was edited down to soundbites... don’t you?
They had freedom to edit the interview, so basically carte blanche to make the Governor look like an idiot.
Compare the interview of Governor Palin with the interview of Joe Biden telling us about how FDR was Prez in 1929 when the stock market crashed and went on the TELEVISON to calm everyone.
FDR was not Prez in 1929 and TV was not available to the mass market in the US at the time...
Katie didn’t bat an eye at these remarks and they didn’t have any traction - because.. aww. ya know Joe just misspoke.
OBIE talking about the 57 states....
aww.. Obie just misspoke...
Why hit on the woman?... because the guys can’t help it...and the hateful beotches too...only this hit is abuse.
If Alaska taxes remain low, and if wages and prices remain flexible and free, and if private property continues to be respected, there’s no doubt that Alaska will continue to prosper during the next five years. Depressions are governmentally induced from recessions when meddlesome controls are put in place. The vindication will be if Sarah believes enough in her own principles and policies to stick with them as the rest of the country goes down the toilet.
Not sure why Katie Couric should be the deciding factor. She’s a lefty viper, out to make anyone on the right look bad. She’s also still responsible for low ratings of her own news show (to which legitimate charge she cried “that’s sexism!”). I think the next viable conservative candidate should b**ch-slap her by simply avoiding her entirely. Sarah would have been much better off avoiding these sorts of interviews and reaching out to the press and the urban demographic through many small press conferences in which she could control the discourse and also be herself. When she’s herself, urbans respond positively to her (everyone does).
I believe her poor performance with Gibson and Couric were mainly the result of receiving mixed directives from Team McCain, putting her in the position of having to mentally run through the sorts of responses that were “legal” and making her look on camera as if she were slow and indecisive. Her leadership history in Alaska prove otherwise.
I don’t think the New Conservative Movement can dispense with alternative media, nor can it appease the old media. Part of pushing the agenda of freedom is that we must expose the MSM for what it is — an entrenched institution of propaganda for the left.
You wouldn't have to worry about Sarah, if you take McCain's handlers out of the picture.