I don’t think Sarah Palin is out to compete with anyone. Nor does she want to be anyone’s pop idol. She has a book out. It’s traditional for authors to make the rounds. She’s a pretty down to earth person and doesn’t see herself as “above” anyone, including those who watch the Tonite Show. I bet Reagan would not have had any problems sitting down with Johnny Carson as he was a man of the people as well. Perhaps part of our problem is that we’ve created this image of politicians. This is okay to do, that is not. This show is okay, that one is too folksy and lowbrow. Look where those elitist expectations have gotten us: lawyers in congress and a Marxist professor who knows nothing of the real world in the White House. Sarah goes where the people are. As Michael Reagan said, she’s his dad in a skirt. Never thought I’d see another Reagan in my lifetime, but whether she runs or not, she’ll be a force for conservative values and an advocate for the silent majority in flyover country.
Cindie
“Never thought I’d see another Reagan in my lifetime, but whether she runs or not, she’ll be a force for conservative values and an advocate for the silent majority in flyover country.”
BINGO! You nailed my views on Palin 100%. She’s out there discrediting the “trailer trash” image the leftists and media created. She knows she drives the left mentally insane. She knows she draws huge crowds and motivates people. She uses that star power and delivers a fantastic message. If she knows she has no chance to win in 2012, she will support someone who will win that shares her political views.
Unlike our Narcissist in Chief, she is humbled by this star power, not fueled by it. The left invested a lot of hate in her this past year. The more she appears on these “cesspool” shows, the more it discredits the left’s stupid lies about her. Sure, it may make her seem less presidential, but I do not the Presidency is her goal for 2012.
I think her goal for 2012 is to use her talents to get America back on the right track (pun intended) and help put an end to the liberal lunacy running rampant in Washington. Again, the Democrats made her public enemy #1. Obama campaigned against HER ... not McCain ... for the most part. They burned up a lot of their “hate capital” on her. Should the Republicans come to their senses and run someone conservative in 2012, their sick tactics aren’t going to be nearly as effective. The right can point to the attacks on Sarah Palin and simply claim “Look, they did the same thing to her ... don’t you think they may be lying as usual?”
It’s almost as if Palin knew she was instantly the victim of the Saul Alinsky playbook ... she took the initial abuse, accepted it, gladly became isolated, then fought back effectively when the left made her one of the faces of Conservatism. If she simply remains a strong, powerful voice for Conservatism, we win, and the left loses a ton of credibility with the Independents. Moreover, she’s very young. She’ll have plenty of opportunities to run for President. It’s not like her political career hinges on 2012 unlike the Marxist’s in the White House.
Just my (rambling) thoughts :-)!