She did Reagan-like commercials when she ran for governor too and her campaign was so successful that the WSJ did an article on her campaign after she won on how Reagan-like it was and very brilliant in a bad year in for Republicans in 2006
Many Freepers don’t really realize that Sarah does know what she is doing, it’s unconventional for sure but she is smart as far as campaigning; she wasn’t in control during the McCain campaign and when she tried to shake up the doldrum campaign, his staff attacked her- this time around she is in control of her own campaign
“when she tried to shake up the doldrum campaign, his staff attacked her”
So true. As long as she rises above the “real talk express” stuff and does her thing with her own Sarah spin, and doesn’t get roped into RNC machine politics.
I also hope she regains the confidence to pace her speaking patterns, and slow down, for more effective messaging. The sing songy, breathy chipmunk thing started during McCain’s campaign. Reagan told stories. She has that ability too.
"It was handed down from Washington, to Lincoln, to Reagan..."
And though she doesn't finish the sentence (in my opinion) the conclusion is pretty obvious if you think about it:
"It was handed down from Washington, to Lincoln, to Reagan, to Palin."
And then to you. She is so brilliant, almost all of her messages contain subtle, even subliminal, imagery and messaging. That's a huge though nearly impossible-to-put-your-finger-on part of what makes her such a dynamite powerhouse, such a viscerally evocative speaker. It is also why dullards consistently underestimate her, and why some actually believe that she's dumb. They just don't have a broad enough imagination or frame of reference to appreciate what it is that they are watching and hearing.
It's impossible to know when she is paraphrasing Keats or Aristotle if you've never read either.
She is such a gem, such a National Treasure. At least as president, the rest of America will come to know what we, her supporters, already do. Sarah Palin is truly one in a million; one in several lifetimes. We are blessed to live in what History will eventually refer to as "The Palin Era," or perhaps "The Palin Rennaissance."
Thank you, Lord.
Amen!
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http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/851orcjq.asp?pg=1
EXCERPT:
The Most Popular Governor
Alaska’s Sarah Palin is the GOP’s newest star.
Fred Barnes
July 16, 2007, Vol. 12, No. 41
Juneau
The wipeout in the 2006 election left Republicans in such a state of dejection that they’ve overlooked the one shining victory in which a Republican star was born. The triumph came in Alaska where Sarah Palin, a politician of eye-popping integrity, was elected governor. She is now the most popular governor in America, with an approval rating in the 90s, and probably the most popular public official in any state.
Her rise is a great (and rare) story of how adherence to principle—especially to transparency and accountability in government—can produce political success. And by the way, Palin is a conservative who only last month vetoed 13 percent of the state’s proposed budget for capital projects. The cuts, the Anchorage Daily News said, “may be the biggest single-year line-item veto total in state history.”
As recently as last year, Palin (pronounced pale-in) was a political outcast. She resigned in January 2004 as head of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission after complaining to the office of Governor Frank Murkowski and to state Attorney General Gregg Renkes about ethical violations by another commissioner, Randy Ruedrich, who was also Republican state chairman.
State law barred Palin from speaking out publicly about ethical violations and corruption. But she was vindicated later in 2004 when Ruedrich, who’d been reconfirmed as state chairman, agreed to pay a $12,000 fine for breaking state ethics laws. She became a hero in the eyes of the public and the press, and the bane of Republican leaders.
In 2005, she continued to take on the Republican establishment by joining Eric Croft, a Democrat, in lodging an ethics complaint against Renkes, who was not only attorney general but also a long-time adviser and campaign manager for Murkowski. The governor reprimanded Renkes and said the case was closed. It wasn’t. Renkes resigned a few weeks later, and Palin was again hailed as a hero.
Palin, 43, the mother of four, passed up a chance to challenge Republican senator Lisa Murkowski, the then-governor’s daughter, in 2004. She endorsed another candidate in the primary, but Murkowski won and was reelected. Palin said then that her 14-year-old son talked her out of running, though it’s doubtful that was the sole reason.
In 2006, she didn’t hesitate. She ran against Gov. Murkowski, who was seeking a second term despite sagging poll ratings, in the Republican primary. In a three-way race, Palin captured 51 percent and won in a landslide. She defeated former Democratic governor Tony Knowles in the general election, 49 percent to 41 percent. She was one of the few Republicans anywhere in the country to perform above expectations in 2006, an overwhelmingly Democratic year. Palin is unabashedly pro life.
With her emphasis on ethics and openness in government, “it turned out Palin caught the temper of the times perfectly,” wrote Tom Kizzia of the Anchorage Daily News. She was also lucky. News broke of an FBI investigation of corruption by legislators between the primary and general elections. So far, three legislators have been indicted.
In the roughly three years since she quit as the state’s chief regulator of the oil industry, Palin has crushed the Republican hierarchy (virtually all male) and nearly every other foe or critic. Political analysts in Alaska refer to the “body count” of Palin’s rivals. “The landscape is littered with the bodies of those who crossed Sarah,” says pollster Dave Dittman, who worked for her gubernatorial campaign. It includes Ruedrich, Renkes, Murkowski, gubernatorial contenders John Binkley and Andrew Halcro, the three big oil companies in Alaska, and a section of the Daily News called “Voice of the Times,” which was highly critical of Palin and is now defunct.
Maybe they have been watching too many Tina Fey reruns...