I’m sure she’s up at night wondering what happened to her political glamour.
She’s raked in over 20 million since the last election, wrote two best selling books, a hit tv show, has travelled around the country and the world to huge audiences and crowds and even huger paychecks, has still outdrawn all the other GOP candidates in appearances even though she isn’t running and the media has spent the last 2 years convincing everyone that she won’t run and that she has no chance in any event.
Sounds to me like her post 2008 future was pretty bright.
Her poll #s may be a bit worse vs Obama at the moment, but no worse than those of many others who would eventually go on to win a nomination or a general election. Reagan was down 30 points to Carter in 1980. I bet Gigot was one of those saying “we need John Connally or George Bush, Reagan just can’t win”. Gore was down 20 points to Bush in Sept of 1999 and he ended up winning the popular vote(and if not for Nader and/or Elian Gonzales would have won the electoral vote). Kerry had a 12 pt lead on Bush in Feb of 2004. Polls this far out mean nothing.
Obama was down 20-25 pts to Hillary at this point in 2007. I wonder what he was thinking about his political glamour.
And yet, despite all of this, he’s still writing about her. If she’s so irrelevant why does he even waste time on her? He says she’s an afterthought then goes on to spend a whole column on her. Nice.
In fact, she’s such an afterthought that Gigot’s bosses at the WSJ are likely paying her more to show up on FOX for a few minutes every few weeks or so than they are for him to edit an entire paper for the whole year. Who’s the dumb one?
She’s one of the most famous people in the country. She gets paid more to go somewhere and give a half hour speech than she made in an entire year as Governor.
Public frustration was palpable? I didn’t see any evidence of that. And to back it up he quote someone from some anonymous think tank?
If there was little enthusiasm what does that say about Romney that even in NH she drew triple the crowd he did or bigger?
It’s amazing that all these experts like to tell her what she needs to do, what she doesn’t know. She obviously knows something that none of the others running do. How to get on a ticket. None of them have been on one. She’s been mayor, Governor, agency chairman, President of the state mayors conference, president of the interstate gas compact, etc...
I do find it interesting that so much of this is coming from NewsCorp entities at FOX and the WSJ. You’d think given that she’s on the payroll they’d have a different take.