Unfortunately for the legions of Palin supporters, Sarah’s shelf life is decreasing by the day. It is a long way to the Iowa caucuses in 2012, let alone the GOP primary season and that is an eternity in politics. Anything can happen, and most likely will.
If Sarah can keep herself front and center between now and then, she will have as good a shot at capturing the GOP nomination as any candidate(s) considered to be her rival.
But just as Sarah came out of nowhere when McCain picked her to be his VP on the 2008 ticket, we may witness just such a phenomenon again because lightning CAN strike twice.
As for the ‘general’ analogy, it doesn’t hold water because whether it was Omar Bradley, Mark Clark, or George Patton, the Nazis got their asses kicked in the end regardless of who they wanted or didn’t want to see commanding the allied forces.
“As for the ‘general’ analogy, it doesn’t hold water because whether it was Omar Bradley, Mark Clark, or George Patton, the Nazis got their asses kicked in the end regardless of who they wanted or didn’t want to see commanding the allied forces.”
Agreed.
“As for the ‘general’ analogy, it doesn’t hold water because whether it was Omar Bradley, Mark Clark, or George Patton, the Nazis got their asses kicked in the end regardless of who they wanted or didn’t want to see commanding the allied forces.”
You seem to be saying that a) it doesn’t matter who commands an army and b) that the outcome of World War II was a foregone conclusion. As far as the identity of the Commanders, maybe you could poll the surviving soldiers of the First Army, under Clark, who slogged up the Italian boot for nearly two years and sustained horrific casualites at Anzio, Cassino and a half dozen other places. Then ask the Soldiers of the Third Army who rolled from the hedgerow country of Normandy to the Saar in six weeks from August-September, 1944 and would have made it to Berlin by the end of September but for Eisenhower’s “political” decision to let Brit General Bernard Montgomery try to win some battles, which resulted in the costly and futile Operation Market Garden in Holland. Yea. The Nzis lost, but there are a lot of dead Americans who would be alive today had some major military blunders (like relieving Patton) been avoided. And the outcome of WWII was no foregone conclusion. The Nazis were working on the bomb and jet fighters and were trying to buy time. Patton realized this and was trying to crush them. (If the Nazis had seized Antwerp which they very nearly did in 12/44, the war in Europe would have lasted at least another year) I guess you must have missed that chapter. Who knows whether they might have developed the A Bomb before we did.
“Sarah’s shelf life is decreasing by the day.”
No. Her stock is rising. The rapidly expiring shelf life is just the odor of your post which is chock full of the stalest Palin bashing and wishful thinking I have seen in many a moon.
False. Palin did not come out of nowhere, she was a strong possibility because of the reputation that she had already earned.
The media was only just starting to wake up to the effective Governor in Alaska that was also the most popular Governor in America and was holding back because she was a conservative Republican, but conservatives definitely knew who she was.
Palin has solidified her position as a conservative leader, she is not in danger of simply disappearing, just as she revived the conservative movement in the last 18 months, she would continue to lead it and energize it during a Romney/Romney like administration or another Obama administration.
False. Palin did not come out of nowhere, she was a strong possibility because of the reputation that she had already earned.
The media was only just starting to wake up to the effective Governor in Alaska that was also the most popular Governor in America and was holding back because she was a conservative Republican, but conservatives definitely knew who she was.
Palin has solidified her position as a conservative leader, she is not in danger of simply disappearing, just as she revived the conservative movement in the last 18 months, she would continue to lead it and energize it during a Romney/Romney like administration or another Obama administration.