The longer she is out of the race, the more time she can spend hitting Obama rather than hitting the people seeking to replace Obama. The campaign season is too long. By the time we get to the vote, everybody is sick of politics. And by that time we know every bad thing about the R and nothing about the D. Especially if the R’s have a primary season and the D doesn’t.
I didn’t want there to be a primary season this time at all. Or at least as short a primary season as possible. What we need is for the conservatives to join together to hit Obama and then from among those who are fighting the good fight we choose one who can carry the standard for us all. I dreaded seeing, for instance, Palin and Bachmann get into a cat-fight. That would diminish both of them. Right now they should be fighting Obama, and we should be watching to see who is most effective at doing what is best for the country within the roles they have.
We have to be smart. I think of the Bilbo Baggins thing of getting the two trolls to fight about how to prepare Bilbo for supper, until the sun came up and turned them to stone. I can’t help but think that in a time like this, having this long a primary season does the same thing. These people should be helping to fix the nation’s situation, not bickering with each other. More than anything, we need somebody who puts the good of the country above their own personal ambitions.
Sarah is smart to give herself the option of doing just that. As long as she is hitting Obama/Pelosi/Reid she is serving this country. And I wish they all were doing the same. The other person who seems to understand that is Newt Gingrich, and his attempts to keep the focus on battling Obama rather than battling each other in (vain) personal ambition make me respect him more than I otherwise would. We can’t just win the battle, we also have to win the war.
Angling for Sec'y of State.