Posted on 06/28/2010 7:12:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When Sarah Palin first entered the national consciousness, she seemed more like a candidate for the Jerry Springer Show than for vice president. Her interview with Katie Couric showed she was woefully unprepared to be John McCain's running mate. And when her grandson's father appeared in Playgirl magazine, Palin seemed destined to go down in history as a cocktail party joke.
Yet almost two years later, she has bucked the naysayers and is more beloved than before. Yet despite landing a TV show on Fox, a deal with Discovery Channel, and a bestselling book, too many political elites still underestimate Palin's presence and ability to connect with a large number of Americans.
True, Sarah Palin will never develop a great foreign policy like George Kennan, and she will never win over the liberal elite like Tom Friedman. And like most of the rest of the world outside of America, I hope she stays in the entertainment business and leaves politics altogether.
But that is not the point. Palin has the ability to connect with a growing portion of Americans in a way other politicians like Mitt Romney will never be able. This makes her powerful, no matter whether she runs for office again or not.
It would be foolish for both Republicans and Democrats to continue to disparage and underestimate Palin, and ignore the anguish that has given rise to the Tea Party movement and the phenomena that is Glenn Beck and Fox News. The more the self-defined elites belittle Palin, the more they empower and bring together disenfranchised, scared and angry Americans. And with the_unemployment and ballooning debt situation not looking to improve anytime_soon, there are a lot of those. Why does Palin appeal to so many Americans?
Even now, I can't discern any real policy Palin stands for.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
great, another mixture of feint praise, and the usual ‘she doesnt have what it takes to win’ b.s.
good grief...
What’s scary is that this ignorant kid is advising companies, that is, if he has any real clients.
- JP
They are writing such fluff because they are scared of her. She has the ability to rally the people... does the name Patrick Henry ring a bell?
I like Palin for a number of reasons.
First, she is not afraid to speak her mind.
Second, she is the epitome of grace under fire.
Third, she does not apologize for her brand of conservatism.
Fourth, she does not backslide or pack pedal from her core beliefs and values.
McLame was the misfit of that team, IMHO!
This author probably would have written the same or worse about Ronaldus Magnus.
“True, Sarah Palin will never develop a great foreign policy like George Kennan,...”
Give her four years as President and see what kind of
foreign policy she developes!
I would prefer that to the disaster we now have...
a dismal foreign policy that we will be paying for,
for decades.
Actually most of Obama’s most ardent supporters strike one as Jerry Springer geusts.
This narrative is so old. Why isn’t Obama, Biden or anyone on the left not disqualified for their ridiculously bad interviews. Palin has one mediocre interview that is edited to make her look even worse, and she is somehow permanently disqualified. Jeez
As Obamas numbers fall, the left is getting even more afraid of Palin.
The left sees that she is succeeding, and joining forces with Arizona Governnor Jan Brewer.They are shaking and pishing in their Obama boots! They know she is popular enough to overwhelm and election fixing they can possibly do with Acorn and SEIU.
Sarah is quite exoerienced at foreign policy when she formed pott and fishing policy with Russia, China, Korea ,Japan, and Canada as well as working with Democrat allies. She did extremely well at working with Dems when she disassembled the corrupt Republican network in Alaska.Why do they ignore all that, I wonder?
A Romney/Palin ticket would have won easily.
Just goes to show that if you are a conservative you cannot trust any liberal newscaster or journalist. EVER!
I believe this is the same guy who a couple of weeks ago wrote an article saying how we (USA) should emulate the Canada economy.
He's never heard the dozens and dozens of times she's said "drill, baby, drill"?
What a complete and utter moron.
If he can’t identify any policy she stands for he clearly hasn’t been paying attention. I mean, all he’d need to do to start would be to take every policy Obama stands for and identify the opposite policy.
If he means he can’t identify any policy innovation she’s pioneered or invented, maybe so. But you could say the same for Obama, Bush, Clinton, Reagan, etc... Reagan didn’t invent tax cuts or supply side economics. He didn’t invent a military build-up or a tough foreign policy. He didn’t invent appointing conservative judges or being pro-life. Obama had no policy innovation is his campaign. Neither did W. Tax cuts and NCLB were well known ideas. Provatizing Social Security was well known. Just as Govt Health Care was.
What does this guy want her to do? Invent a whole new platform all by her lonesome?
If he can’t identify any policy she stands for he clearly hasn’t been paying attention. I mean, all he’d need to do to start would be to take every policy Obama stands for and identify the opposite policy.
If he means he can’t identify any policy innovation she’s pioneered or invented, maybe so. But you could say the same for Obama, Bush, Clinton, Reagan, etc... Reagan didn’t invent tax cuts or supply side economics. He didn’t invent a military build-up or a tough foreign policy. He didn’t invent appointing conservative judges or being pro-life. Obama had no policy innovation is his campaign. Neither did W. Tax cuts and NCLB were well known ideas. Provatizing Social Security was well known. Just as Govt Health Care was.
What does this guy want her to do? Invent a whole new platform all by her lonesome?
Love her or hate her... hmmmmm. I think I’ll pick LOVE!!!
They saw Sarah’s score card in the primaries. That’s what set off the new round of warnings of don’t underestimate Palin.
The political elites underestimate how much they are despised by the rest of us.
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