Posted on 07/05/2009 3:15:12 AM PDT by Scanian
Opponents -- and even some former allies -- were quick to criticize Sarah Palin's announcement Friday that she will step down as governor of Alaska. The suddenness of the decision have some thinking that she's tired of political life; that she'll hit the lecture circuit to rebuild her financial fortunes; even that she'll become a "conservative Oprah"
Palin, though, posted to her Facebook page yesterday that she has a "higher calling": "I am now looking ahead and how we can advance this country together with our values . . . how sad that Washington and the media never understand; it's about the country. And though it's honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason, a different standard applies for the decisions I make."
She's right. And despite what her detractors say, stepping away from office isn't necessarily a bad decision. Here's what Palin could, and should, do:
1. Start putting her national team together now. Recruit from the best and the brightest of real conservatism. The GOP is currently top-heavy with the remnants of a defeated old guard that has lost its way, its conservative and libertarian vision, its base, and most of its legitimacy. Palin needs to begin building a conservative "shadow GOP leadership" able to supplant these sclerotic factions when the time is ripe.
2. Ignore the mainstream media and the Democratic party. Define herself on her own terms. No more chat-fests with the likes of Katie Couric. No more efforts to make herself likeable to enemies whose only wish is to see her career -- and conservatism itself -- destroyed.
3. Set out to remake the GOP in her image. This means identifying strong conservative candidates
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I would add -— IGNORE THE GOP PARTY as well.
Let’s hope Sarah reads The NYPost.
At this point recapturing the GOP and tilting independents is the only right way.
She will pull it off.
It’s very considerate of Bill Quick to give her advice, but don’t forget the best roadmap comes from Palin herself. That’s what got her where she is.
Ignore the mainstream media and the Democratic party. - Agreed!
A nice wrinkle, especially as it appears that O and H are at odds. No matter who runs for the GOP, I would love to see a knock down, drag out, Democratic primary. And, as someone wrote elsewhere, she has one of the smartest campaigner's (Big Bill) on her side. Plus, they both would like to slip the knife into O and the part of the party that put paid to H's rise.
We could then call election 2012...Beauty and the beast.
Excellent! That will be a slogan!
If you look back at history the climb to the top takes a long time and eating lots of “chicken dinners”. Look at Regan and Nixon. Hated by the media and the elite, but, over time they built the base, organization and momentum to take them over the top.
While I think Sarah could run in 2012 I would not be surprised if she shoots for second banana which gives her 4/8 years to let the people see that she is seasoned and ready to lead.
But, as I wrote elsewhere, the last cycle the folks went for a half term senator so why not a half term governor in 2012!
Palin has more then a decade of executive experience (mayor, entrepeneur, governor) in her time as governor she has achieved far more than many two term governors.
Obama has NOTHING on her.
If Sarah Palin is as stupid and incompetent as you portray her, isn't Alaska better off if she leaves? So, what's your problem, eh?
Folks, there has been a great deal of speculation regarding Palin’s political future. I, for one, do not believe she will run in 2012. And I, for one, don’t think she should.
If Palin runs in 2012, she will be fighting the Democrat establishment, the Republican establishment, the MSM, the liberal and “conservative” punditocracy, as well as a fair number of Romney supporters, and all that will hold true BEFORE she begins her campaign against Obama. Even Reagan didn’t fight against those kinds of odds.
No, the best thing for her is to take a strategic view. Her best bet, and the best bet for our Republic, is for her to run SarahPAC full-time: raise funds for conservative candidates, build a grass-roots movement within the Republican Party, sweep out the Ford/Rockefeller/McCain Republicans out of the key positions within the party structure, gain a solid mass of elected officials behind her as proof of her organizational and fund-raising abilities (thereby neutering the pathetic worms at the RNC). A series of Republican/conservative victories in 2012 and 2014 ought to do nicely.
The next best thing for her is to NOT run in 2012: let the Republican Party commit hara-kiri in the presidential contest (as they invariably will) by selecting some mushy RINO as the standard-bearer. Whoever the candidate will be in 2012, Obama will most likely clobber him – let’s face it, there is nobody on the horizon that can beat Obama. Palin is the only one, and she can’t fight the Obama, the Democrats and those on “our” side at the same time.
However, 2016 is an entirely different matter. By then, I believe several things will have happened that will assure a Palin victory. First, by 2016, the full effects of Obama’s policies will be felt. It will take time for policies such as the Global Warming Act, the out-of-control spending, and our “kinder” foreign relations with terrorists and dictators to play out to their logical end. Until that happens, it will be difficult to convince enough voters that these policies will bring the country to ruin. Voters must SEE the effects of these policies – they must learn, in their own skin, where liberalism/socialism leads. I am sorry to say that we must live through the pain before the American people can learn what other peoples (my own included) have learned through hard, bitter experience: Socialism is a dead-end that brings only misery, death, and destruction in its wake. Second, by 2016, the credibility and influence of the MSM will have been completely destroyed by the way in which they whored themselves to Obama. Very likely, there will be no Boston Globe, no New York Times, and the Washington Post will be a shadow of its former self. Third, the country will be exhausted with the Obama circus; the corruption scandals that will begin to see the light of day during a second Obama term will weigh down the Democrat candidate in 2016. By 2016, nobody will remember Bush – so the Democrats will have no one to blame for the state of the country. They will be ripe for defeat.
In 2016, Palin can run, and win, with a single question as her platform: “Are you better off now than you were eight years ago?” By 2016, there will be no way to hide the misery and ruin that Obama will have brought to the country.
To the end! I hope we get to help her see it to the end... all the way to the White House and start something good for our children’s future and our children’s children’s future to come!
You MAY be right. But then again, you may not. It depends on where Obama and America are in 3 years. If he has wrecked enough and is unpopular (which I believe) 2012 may be the time. However, given the unlikely scenario that he is in good standing in 2012... you are right that we should keep the powder dry.
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