She should come out clearly now as a candidate, and say no to any fed funding. And, she maybe ought to offer the VP to Obama.
Too early. The field hasn’t even started to gel yet.
In 3 years we might know more. The ones in the primary last year may not even try again and their are no rumblings from within the Party.
I though I read about Romney and something in Utah or Nevada. Sanford, I think has really been dealt himself a crippling blow from which he has a slim-to-none chance of recovery.
Sarah Plain hasn’t even let her ‘cat(s)’ out of the bag yet ... although the Dems/MSM are scared already. A run from now till the 2011 Primaries is not very sustainable anyway.
One glaringly bad piece of advice in that article - “She also needs to get more involved in D.C.-based think tanks, as a way to get conservative media intellectuals back on her side.”
What Sarah Palin needs to do is make speeches at the chamber of commerce dinners and events all around the country. She needs to stay out of Washington and away from the “intellectuals.”
When the hordes of conservative voters are making her the runaway favorite for the GOP nomination, the “Washington Intellectuals” will leave Washington to see what the appeal is. Let them come to her.
The consequences of Obama-ism have to bite.
If he’s saved from the worst aspects of himself, he’ll still be president in 2016. And maybe longer.
One angle I’ve not yet seen on this, though I’m probably not the first to think of it:
Remember that when on the campaign trail, Palin drew ENORMOUS crowds of rabid supporters. She will now be ideally suited to help other candidates at rallies and raising money. In the process, she would become the spokesperson of the Conservative movement, and in great position to run in 2012 for POTUS.
This is a repost of one I gave under my old moniker (Obushma)on another thread:
This is how Obumulus did it. He organized for 3 straight years over the internet and focused his laser beams on the caucuses (especially Iowa). He figured he could pull off enough primaries with a flood of new black voters (those who voted in the general election but never bothered in the primary system). He jumped ahead of Hillary and she played catch-up til mathematically eliminated by the press who by that time were firmly on his side. All the while collecting a paycheck, never earned a dime of it in the Senate. The rest is history.
Flash forward to SP. She MUST build an online army first. She is beginning to do that now. She has already got good GOP poll numbers, now for the purpose of boxing Romney and Huckabee into a corner-—she’s got to solidify the Evangelical base-—then draw a decent amount of moderate women (feminist???) into a GOP caucus/primary, they wouldn’t normally participate in and finish both of them off with disaffected PUMAS, Former Hillary Dems, Reagan Dems, and a Blue Collar Midwesterners/Westerners.
Mittens will probably win MA, MI, Utah and a number of the east coast primaries (except NH). But Sarah will win NH, PA, OH, CA, TX, SC, the Southeast, South (except AR), the Midwest & West. Huckabee will be competitive in several of the Southern states and will win his home state but he’ll bow out after Super Tuesday and reading the tea leaves will endorse Sarah in an attempt to secure the VP slot.
It’s a good chance we’ll see either a Palin-Romney ticket or A Palin-Huckabee ticket in 2012. The only other ticket that would make sense would be John Kasich from Ohio if he wins the Governorship (and depending on how close Palin and Obama poll in Ohio) or some unknown from Florida or PA (depending on how close she and Obama poll in those 2 states).
Maybe she doesn’t want the job.
She can make a ton of money, influence policy, and avoid the meat grinder by giving speeches, campaigning for others, writing articles, etc.
We shall see...
“......to do this she needs to get out of Alaska.”
-—Absolutely correct. Alaska is further from Washington DC than the continent of Africa. Campaigning has to start very early, and Sarah has to raise a billion dollars, and simple logistics dictate that you can do neither while a sitting governor of a state as remote as Alaska:
http://www.stumpedagain.wordpress.com
Romney will the GOP the aura of gay marriage,
socialized medicine, flip-flopping, polygamy,
and whining backstabbing.
Eska - See post #1
I would like to see the first feather Palin adorns her cap with be campaigning for Republicans in 2010. If she can be instrumental in shrinking/eliminating the Dem majority, it would demonstrate her effectiveness in winning a national debate.
The Dems need pounded mercilessly on unemployment, wasteful spending and the destruction of the free market.
At the rate the mushy middle is already abandoning Obama, the task is eminently doable.
Good assummption, as in any event she would be term-limited to 2014