I think Palin has a lot of potential. She wasn’t ready for the big show last time around and the McCain people never were able to utilize her to her full potential, but there’s certainly something there.
She needs to spend the next few years boning up on foreign policy issues and getting a professional communications team around her to avoid the embarassing gaffes from last time (such as the turkey slaughter episode).
She speaks to a lot of people who are sick of the DC crowd talking down to them (and I say this as a DC resident with some involvement in politics). She does have an uphill battle when it comes to the media- they loathe her almost as much as they hated Bush.
The GOP nomination is her’s to lose at this point. But, if Obama screws up as much as I hope he will, she will be in a decent position in 2012, if she chooses to run.
Why would she ever choose to run in 2012 with so much going on in her personal life - including a son back from Iraq and presumably in college, a daughter in college, another daughter at such an exciting time in her life, making plans, an 8-9 yr. old and a toddler! All this while being obviously happily married to a hot Toddy. I wish she would, but I think it would just be wishful thinking.
Agree. Palin is a real Conservative. But...she has a general perception among the public as not being the brightest bulb in the package and not having command of national defense issues and she made too many gaffes during the last election. So did Biden but Biden gets a break becase he’s a lib and a male. If Palin can master the issues and make less mistakes when being interviewed, she’ll be formidable.
Sarah Palin does not need to “bone up” on anything. She will decide to run or not. Fact is I don’t trust those who “bone up” on foreign policy issues -— it usually means that they have been coached into a position that has nothing to do with what is part of a core value