“Yep and you are pretty much right. He had jack for experience. Except he IS president NOW. You don’t get any more experience for president than by holding the office of president.”
its actually a big disadvantage for him. He was more comfortable and popular talking “hope n change”. Now the rubber has hit the road, he’s going to have to justify the mess, the press won’t be able to deny/coverup everything. And he can’t wax lyrically about nothing.
He may be more experienced, he is way more vulnerable.
BTW, Palin did a great job taking the fight to Obama. Have you heard much about his nomination acceptance speech other then Palin put down comments in her convention speech? Romney et al have done a woeful job...it’ll continue like that.
“the wake of Sarah Palin’s now well covered announcement last Friday that she will soon step down as Governor of Alaska, more than a few commentators have declared her political career over. While I’m not about to agree that her bizarre resignation represents a “shrewd move” — it wasn’t — I do think proclamations of her political death are a bit premature.”
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“But let’s go back to those Pew Research favorable ratings among Republicans. Her numbers were especially strong, according to the Pew report, among conservative Republicans (80% favorable) and white evangelical Republicans (84%). These ratings also have depth: Twenty-eight percent (28%) of Republicans, 31% of white evangelical Republicans and 32% of conservative Republicans report “very favorable” impression of Palin (thanks to the Pew Research Center for sharing those additional results).
Looking at those numbers, I would argue that — as of last week, at least — Sarah Palin was the Republican best positioned to emulate the tactical model employed by Barack Obama in seeking the Democratic nomination in 2008. Remember that Obama did not begin as the first choice of party insiders or as a “front runner” in horse-race polls. Our trend estimate of vote preference results showed him as the choice of less than 20% of Democrats in late 2006. But Obama started with a real base, a core of true believers that showed up in big numbers whenever Obama gave a speech.”
Another tale on Palins numbers with Republicans, going into more depth, from pollster.com
http://www.pollster.com/blogs/palins_base.php
It seems to me that is exactly what Palin will try to do, a grassroots campaign, based on strongly supportive core block.