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.
Great Post!
You are exactly right.
She deserves our utmost gratitude for rescuing the Republican party from obscurity (and for helping to move it clearly back towards it’s principles)
Without her, McCain would have lost by 20 points and conservatives would still be painted with the brush of a failed Bush presidency.
Palin and the Tea Party gave us a clean break from Bush, that’s why Obama’s continued blame game has no resonance. We’ve gone back to being real conservatives. (This is a conservative nation)
Now I think Palin is working a brilliant strategy designed to reintroduce her to middle America and let them see the real Sarah and her family.
She is way out front confronting Obama and his socialist agenda. She alone has the ability to shape the public debate with a single facebook posting.
She will win the nomination in a cakewalk and the White House in a landslide.
It’s going to be fun to watch.