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John / Billybob
The dinomedia will have a decision to make: Based on nothing more than their visceral hatred of what Sarah Palin stands for and the danger she represents, will they continue their unbridled attacks on her giving her large amounts of "face time" or do they slink away and bite their tongues? My guess is they will be unable to contain themselves as their need to trash the lady will override all other considerations, but we should know more about that within the next few months.
I find it very funny that she took the news media to task in her July 4th speech and that the media immediately started attacking her again, once again proving she was correct.
I know I would love it if she came as a keynote speaker at the Mall. I am going to be there come hell or highwater.
My fear is that the MSM has made clear it will resort to ANYTHING to ruin a viable Republican and protect Hussein. And it will bury any story or evidence of dirty and/or illegal actions by Dems to ruin her. Look at Joe the Plumber. They could have thrown firebombs at his house and it wouldn’t have been reported.
They absolutely despise this woman. Nothing is off the table as a means of ruining her.
I think you are dead on in your understanding of the calculations.
I also speculate that she is going to be speaking out against Obama’s stupid foreign policy and national security gaffes like missile defense, nuclear weapons drawdown and mirandizing captured battlefield combatants. That at least is how I interpret the “hell, yeah” vote of one of her children which I assume was the vote of the oldest boy currently serving our country.
Our country is in trouble, NOW and we need her to be the voice of fly-over country.
H/T to editor-surveyor
Best explanation I have read...truly makes practical sense!
Interesting look at how Sarah’s decision affects her practical campaign opportunities.
Ann Coulter intimated that the best way to decipher Sarah's speech was to take her at her word.
I never thought to do otherwise.
I agree with your assessment and have had similar conversations with others in real life, echoing your points.
Would love to see her in Washington Sept. 12. It would be an incredible addition to an already great event.
I think you’re right.
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John:
Our movement needs a leader that transcends ordinary politics. This is a young woman with marvelous energy. She has tried to play the game and the media and GOP establishment treat her with the same contempt handed out to Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and Dan Quayle. Only one of those targets spoke over their heads and transcended them. That is what Sarah has the opportunity to do, regardless of whether she enters the arena again.
Best to you as always.
Spot on the travel. I found that even so-called day trips from NYC to Boston or NYC to Charlotte were taxing. Twelve hour day of preparation was usual preceding the trip. Ground transportation to airport, first flight out, ground travel to construction site, meeting, ground travel to airport, last flight home, ground travel home resulted in an 18 hour day. And this was before Sept 11, 2001.
The importance of the grassroots drive cannot be overstated. The 2010 elections IMO are critical if the republic is to survive by peaceful means. She needs to find the real conservative candidates in key districts and throw her support to them.
For this reason I strongly suspect that her book, planned for release in spring of 2010, will be put on after burners for release in the last quarter of 2009. A very strong publicity effort pre-release date and follow on book tour will give her a high profile and I suspect record turnouts at book signings. Mass has a quality of its own. Any other contenders will be hard pressed to come close to her numbers.
From then it’s a question of seeing how long her coat-tails might be at a national level for the 2010 elections and the follow up to the 2012. It’s going to be a long campaign but she will be in control for the first time and I think huge surprises are in store all around.
Thank you BillyBob, this lady is no lightweight. I see her as a very smart, aggressive stategist with a beautiful smile, feminine ways and fighting spirit we haven’t witnesses in a long time now. I see a Maggie Thatcher type. If she stays on point, which I think she will, the support she will garner should shake the foundations of our government—and about time too.
I think you are amazing.
I wrote a post making exactly the major point of this piece to another poster the other day. Let’s just say some people will get it and others won’t.
I think it’s a good piece.
Oh, and one other thing you might want to point out that flows naturally from what you said here: “I think she recognized that it was impossible for her to be a Governor, a mother and a wife, and an active speaker in the lower 48, all at once. So, she left the least important of those three tasks in the hands of her selected Lt. Governor.” The logistics choice she had was obvious because gone from Alaska a lot would do nothing but lower her approval in her own state, which is self-defeating. Leaving on a high note is much better.
The only way she can fight these bastards is by getting out and taking them straight on, bull by the horns, in their faces, so to speak.