| "They're ultimately looking for solutions beyond the rhetoric," says [supposedly Republican consultant Linda] Sanchez. "There is no doubt Palin engages the base, she amplifies their message. But in the long run, it's going to be who has the best solutions...
That said, I find it hard to believe that Mister Massachusetts Health Care Reform will long remain at the top of these polls. Right now he's the anti-Obama in the sense that he is a competent human being with actual leadership and management experience... people will indeed be looking for that in 2012. But he isn't going to be the only one out there with a resume. It's too early to say which other candidates might prove more acceptable in terms of "getting it" about Stop Growing the Damned Government! Quit trying to find "solutions" to our "problems." It's not the government's job to fix our problems! It's our job. What we need the government to do is get out of the way. And as much as I enjoy Sarah Palin, I don't think the country will want to replace the guy who didn't finish his first term in the Senate with the woman who didn't finish her first term in the statehouse. The country's going to be looking for somebody who's been around the block a few times, and who's been out after dark. I'm sorry, but Sarah's not there yet. |
Here's an idea: let's stop looking to government for solutions! My guess is, most Tea Partiers have already taken that step. It's the "Republican consultants" (especially ones found in a CNN reporter's Rolodex) who need to forget all about "solutions to the nation's problems" and instead remember "slowing down, shutting up, and getting out of the way."