Sarah is better off as a Governor. Governors actually do stuff.
Over time they will come to love her like we do!
yup! then she can come back and run in 2012:)
Agree. As I’ve said all along, her experience as Governor is far more significant than the other 3 as Senators. I’d hate to see her “diluted” be being “demoted” to Senator.
I may even consider moving to Alaska!
She has to take the timing into consideration. You have to start running for President 2 years before the election, so if she wants to run she’d have to start in 2010, which is when she would be up for re-election in Alaska. I don’t see how she could run, get elected, and immediately start running for President. Of course during a 2010 election, she’d be asked in debates, etc., “are you running for President?”. She can’t very well say YES and expect to get re-elected. So, then her choices would seem to be to not run again in 2010 and start on a Presidential campaign OR take Stephens seat in the US Senate. That would give her a couple of years in the Senate. What would be better to run for President as - a sitting US Senator? Or an ex-1-term governor?
I'm torn between that and her placating her foes with Washington experience. Of course, it's all a crock anyway. Any stick will do to beat a horse.
Godspeed Sarah! We conservatives are behind you 100%.
Being a US Senator is a different but very important role, especially with Democrat majorities in both houses. True conservatives are rare in the Senate. It seems as if most politicians sell their souls before reaching the US Senate. We are going to need as many strong conservatives as we can get to fight Obama's judicial appointments, and to prevent the Senate from approving bad treaties that the Obama administration seeks to have us enter into.
She's a wonderful asset no matter where she ends up.
I agree. Senators have no clue about the people. Sarah needs to stay on as the Governor. But what do you bet they go after her to neutralize her for the next four years.
This would keep in in the national eye.
Put her on the Senate Foreign Relations committe.
I say “yes.”
I agree. She’d be wasting her time in Congress. Stick with the governorship until 2012.
I agree. The only reason why a senator won this time is that the other guy was a senator. Historically, governors have better chances of winning. Besides, Patomac water is particularly rancid in Capitol Hill.
That’s true. She will get a lot more done.
Eactly. And as others have said here, Sara needs to stay away from DC and what will be an extremely toxic environment for her, since it will give the opposition a chance to further smear her when she votes in a cogent, moral manner in a virulently irrational and immoral democratic controlled Congress. In Alaska, she is protected by an adoring (mostly) populace and she gets to breathe pure and untainted air. Both chemically and politically. I envy her.