I think you are wrong that without mccain she would be nowhere. Sarah was ooming onto the radar before mccain picked her. I was paying attention to her LONG before mccain even knew who she was...and some other people of note were as well. Sarah Palin is a HAPPENING. Nothing would have changed that.
‘Sarah Palin is a happening.’
I was visiting my daughter in the Denver area during the Dems convention there in ‘08.
On the last day of that convention, I walked the streets of the 16th St. Mall, wearing my McCain buttons.
For hours I walked around, shopped, ate, displaying all those buttons and no one said anything to me. . .
Then, as I walked to my Light Rail stop to return to my daughter’s, a man, about 65, ‘admired’ my buttons, so we chatted for a bit.
As we were about to part, he asked me who I thought would be McCain’s V.P. pick. I tossed off a few names, saying ‘but not him,’ because of this or that, etc.
Then I said, ‘but then there’s Sarah Palin - - ‘
That stranger shook my hand and said, ‘She’s my pick, too!!!’
We parted, I got back to daughter’s, went to bed, woke up next morning, turned on the guest room T.V., and there it was: MCCAIN HAD ANNOUNCED SARAH PALIN FOR HIS V.P.!!!
I could only imagine what the man in Denver who stopped me, was thinking!
We both picked Sarah!
Folks, I’m not remembering now how I first heard about Sarah-with-an-h back then, but there it is.
I simply thought she had a shot at the ticket.
I can't find the post, but the night she won the Governor's election someone here posted about it. About 20 something of us responded, including me and my response was lets keep an eye on her, she is a cutie, we need to look for new talent for our bench she might be VP material. Yes she is a happening, Matthews, and Krutheee, and Kristol can't stop this force, and in their gut they know it....
I don’t think she would have necessarily been nowhere, she still may have emerged, but for many, myself included, she was pretty much unknown till McCain picked her. There was a very slight buzz of “possible candidates” a couple days before the pick and I found myself thinking, “haven’t heard of her”.
same here