There is nothing Presidential in our White House right now, IMO.
Oran Smith is probably a Huck booster.
Compared to Zero, Sarah can be way more “presidential”.
(Hell, my dog acts more presidential than that con man we have in office now!)
“South Carolina wants a ‘more presidential’ Palin”
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Yeah, well South Carolina, I want a more heterosexual Senator, than Foppsey.
What is “more presidential”? It’s as ambiguous as “not qualified” or “not experienced”. Is Huckabee, playing his guitar on his show on Fox “presidential”? Why should Palin act “more presidential” when she hasn’t even declared her candidacy? This is all such nonsense...
I’d like a more presidential rest of the field. Funny, that.
Why don't they ask so-called “opinion leaders” like Oran Smith, head of the Palmetto Family Council, how they feel about Mitt Romney not offering his opinion on any controversial issues.
If they found out who was “coaching” her on domestic and foreign affairs, she’d be called a “fundamentalist Christian” who wants to take us back to the 19th Century and take away women’s “reproductive rights” and a “Neo-Con” who wants to go to war with the whole Middle East or the like. Watch and see.
I’m hoping that Palin has a detailed plan for the evolution of her public image. I’ve been a big fan of Palin since about six months after she became Governor, hoping that she would move to a national political role.
We all saw the gap between her experience (not values, not ability, but raw experience dealing with evil) and the level necessary to deal with our anti-American media. In her first few national interviews, she looked to me like someone caught completely off guard, like she expected a friendly conversation that would be edited in a professional manner to tell the true story of who she was and what she believed instead of what she encountered (an ambush designed to elicit answers that could be edited for the specific purpose of making her look bad). Considering the unexpected nature of those first few sets of questions, I didn’t think she did a terrible job - certainly not great, but not terrible. When she and her children were attacked with an insane level of venom, she dealt with it remarkably well and stood up to the hateful liberals. I liked that, but it gave them a chance to call her “divisive”.
In round 2, members of McCain’s staff and other RINOs went after her too. She’s handled that well and been a major force in reshaping the GOP under the Tea Party banner. We’re not done, but there is far more hope than I would have guessed just two years ago.
Today, she has her Internet and Twitter connections to her supporters. She has Sarah Palin’s Alaska to portray herself as a real person and get around the most remarkable level of media bias in our country’s history. She has her books, which are selling very well. I’m hoping that she also has a plan. Part of that is to project “presidential”, and I’m hoping her planned foreign travel is part of a conscious agenda to build that image (and the understanding through personal travel experience to match that image). What else should be on that agenda? Good question, and I hope Sarah has the answer and that some on FR have inside access and will provide those suggestions to her.
Christine O’Donnell is a more presidential SP! She’s cute and sassy! She is also unemployed and maybe we can get her cheap.
All she has to do is look less bad than Obama. So how much gravitas does BO have, foriegn policy wise; anyway?
I think when she points out that we have more important problems than closing GITMO, repeal of DADT and fake green jobs; she’ll get support.
Elect Sarah Palin for President 2012
Re-Elect President Sarah Palin 2016
The woman is a natural fierce competitor, of very much underestimated intellect, whose policy statements on subjects she has familiarity with are at least as detail oriented and far more coherent than anything you'll hear from any of the other candidates being talked about.
She's lights out on energy policy and seems to be a very quick study. I expect she will still have the wink and twinkle in the eye, but when the time comes to show "gravitas" in a debate her performance will "shock" the casual observers who now only have the press invented "dumb" and aggressive but too country "Alaska Mama Bear" personas to tag her with.
It’s a cosmetic point only, but some voice coaching lessons to take the edge off her speaking voice will do a lot for her.
I remind FReepers (not for the first time) that Thatcher’s original Grantham accent was harsh enough to erode the Schiarapelli canals on Mars. She took lessons and went on to save Britain.
Palin has much less of a problem with her voice, but I believe that some vocal coaching would be an excellent investment for her.
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