Posted on 01/26/2013 4:34:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
When the history of US politics in the early 21st century is written, two figures will stand out: Barack Obama and Sarah Palin.
The election of Mr. Obama to the highest elective office the first African-American to win the presidency did not necessarily signal a new era of post-racial politics. But coming just a generation after federal troops in the South (and a federal judge in Boston) were necessary to desegregate public schools, it was a huge milestone.
Sarah Palin was not the first woman to win a major political partys vice presidential nomination; that was US Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, Walter Mondales running mate way back in 1984.
But the presence of the former Alaska governor on the GOP ticket headed by Sen. John McCain in 2008 invigorated the party at the time, at least. And although they lost to Obama and Joe Biden, it wasnt the blowout that Mondale and Ferraro suffered against Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
Ferraro went on to relative political obscurity, twice losing Democratic Party primaries for the US Senate. Ms. Palin, on the other hand, was just getting started when the returns for the 2008 presidential race were being counted.
Over the next few years, she became a political force of nature stirring a tea party base that thronged to her appearances, scaring GOP incumbents deemed too willing to find common ground with Democrats, and building a very lucrative business that included (for one season, at least) her own reality TV show while launching one of her five children daughter Bristol on her own entertainment career.
Meanwhile, as with some other conservative ex-elected officials like Mike Huckabee, Palin was given a sinecure of sorts as a commentator for Fox News...
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
I fully understand. :)
Sarah will indeed be just fine....and BTW, I didn’t write TO Fox, I wrote ABOUT them, here, on Juan W:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/10/foxs_rash_juan_williams_overre.html
Palin will not have a political career unless she holds elected office. Quitting the governorship was one of the biggest political blunders of all time.
Her political influence in recent years is the half life of the 2008 buzz. Her influence as a pundit will continue to fade asymptotically toward zero. As a commentator she does not stand out in a crowd.
I’d vote for her for anything, but her public life is over unless she changes course dramatically.
YOU DON'T know that!
i think that she's been wanting out of her contract for a long time now,
SO do I - so it would not matter what they offered her - high low or in between. SARAH never was able to be bought. So if her intent was to leave - they could offer her the world and she would turn it down. She takes her lead from a higher Source, not Fox.
Well, for all intents and purposes, it WAS her job,
And SHE DID IT! And brought ratings to Fox and Greta! And now her contract is up and she left!
I suppose that you think that Ailes doesn't have his good buddies Howie Kurtz and Mike Allen on speed dial?
it’s a case of the left needing a lie to repeat over & over & over, until the low information voters can absorb it, and repeat it, too
Great article! Thanks. I found out more about that nasally bias lump than I did before. Two million? LOL! Boycott the advertisers - for being idiots.
I wonder why any who ‘thinks they are a conservative’ watches the media - do they think they will learn something? Hand feed propaganda is all they are getting and no true conservative is that hungry.
Traditionalists and Social Conservatives are part of the Conservative movement whether you like them or not. Without their support Republicans lose everything, and that's not something the GOP-e can say!
juan stepped up to a bigger audience. he commanded more money.
...thanks for comments, and you’re right, that nasal thing is hard to get over, and so befitting for such a weenie....
I don’t care about Ailes or anyone else. Why can’t you understand that? You actually think they have control over her? Get to know God - then we can discuss this - until then continue your rant and ‘what you think’. You are ‘too worldly’ and Sarah isn’t. So you are clueless to comment on her and how/why she does things.
what do you mean by that?
Sure can tell who the left/media is afraid of. Put an article about Sarah on here and they come out of the woodwork with their false accusations.
I read ‘nasal’ in your article and I laughed and thought - spot on/well said! Since I don’t watch him/Fox any longer, my memory of him is BIAS completely. Nothing fair and balanced about him. So when I read ‘nasal’ it brought back more about him and when I posted my reply, it was too much in my mind that it ended up in my post. It’s your fault. ;)
Are you ever right!!
FOX is a huge cable network operation. folks like to think the people they are listening to are making a decent wage ~ fur shur i never listen to people who make less than i ever did, and who are trying to survive in new york!
LOL!! Affirmative action is more like it. Not so strange you don't see it that way.
Really? REALLY?
Really? Where did you get that nonsense? I don't give one iota what one makes and never think of it. It's either they are doing a good job or not - not what they get to put in their pocketbook. You sound more and more liberal with each post.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.