Posted on 11/05/2008 8:30:19 AM PST by RobinMasters
A few readers have asked whether I think Sarah Palin will run for the Senate in the future. I think that would be a mistake, for several reasons, not the least of which is that, if successful, the decision would take an unique and popular outside-the-beltway executive and put her inside the Beltway as one of 100 legislators voting on every bill that comes down the pike.
For now, I hope Sarah Palin gets to take a vacation and spend some much-deserved time with that beautiful family. Her experience these past four months must have been simultaneously exhilarating, supremely frustrating, and thoroughly exhausting.
I hope Palin runs for a second term as governor and is reelected. This seems like a likely scenario.
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I agree. For here career and family's sake.
"...and then she’ll run for President in 2012. America needs her in the White House!"
I disagree. She should stay in Alaska. Losers never make good candidates in the "run again" thing. Example: George Allen, Rick Santorum, Michael Steele, Pat Toomey, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney... all would be losers. There would need to be new blood and dynamic Conservativism. I would add that as the women's vote turned out, that it would also need to be a man...both candidates. Sarah Palin was a star, but more of celebrity stardom than serious contender as was evidenced by 'conservative' men and women's view of her.
We on the other hand, must take control of the GOP primary and tell the MSM to "Phak off" when they try to choose our candidate like they did this year.
We really have no one to blame but ourselves.
I agree that she will carry more weight as a governor than as a minority Senator.
Unless the Obama administration implodes before 2012 the Republican challenger will fight a losing battle to unseat him.
It will probably be better for her to plan on 2016.
FOX just reported they will be having an Interveiw with Sarah coming up within a few minutes. It’s 11:48 est now.
Governor Palin deserved much better than she got and deserves better than being exiled (politically) back to Alaska. She was without a doubt a true gift from the north, an Aurora Borealis that glimmered in the night sky. She excited the base, invigorated newcomers and taunted the stuffed shirts of the Beltway.
It’s awfully hard for her to be on Meet the Press, Face The Nation and This Week if she is in Alaska. London would even work better. She needs to work on some things. Her vocabulary is suspect, for one thing (She kept saying that Obama would “bankruptcy” (sic) the coal industry for example.
She should work out her term in Alaska, and set up trade missions to Europe and South America and Russia.
She needs to visit her troops in Afghanistan and Iraq
Based on this election cycle, she will have to start campaigning full-time.
She needs to write a book about her experiences balancing being a woman, a wife, and a public servant and another book called “Uncle Trig” written from the perspective of Bristol’s baby. (a real tear jerker)
Then she goes on a national book tour.
Republicans could sure use a well spoken person, with the ability to have instant recall of facts and figures to prove his point. Someone like, Newt I guess.
Thank you Governor Palin for fighting the good fight! You’re are the best thing to happen to this party in a long time.
Sarah Palin should go to Alaska and stay there. This country doesn’t deserve people of her caliber.
bump
We've probably seen the last of Sarah Palin on the national scene. When you're part of a national ticket that gets slaughtered this badly, there's really no where to go. Look at some of the illustrious landslide-losing VPs from the past, William Miller, Sargent Shriver, Dan Quayle, Geraldine Ferraro. Not exactly a Hall of Fame of political winners.
I agree, snippy! Sarah Palin for President in 2012. Looking forward to hearing a lot more about Gov. Bobby Jindal as well.
she already has national experience. you can’t say nobody has heard of her
She should run for reelection, continue to be a spokesman for American energy independence and stay out of presidential politics. She has been Qualyed. We need to start over with new candidates, Jindal and Sanford comes to mind, but there are probably others in the wings. As good as Sarah was for the McCain campaign she was not ready for the national stage and was handled horribly. She was rushed to market and is now damaged goods as far as President is concerned. However as a spokesperson for conservative values and as get out the vote person for candidates I think she has a great future.
“she already has national experience. you can’t say nobody has heard of her”
I agree with you, but that’s the excuse her opposition used and it worked, didn’t it?
I know she’ll be getting a letter from me thanking her for the beautiful display of Grace and my request for her to run in 2012.
Ronald Reagan started running in . . . 1968? Then 1972, right? Something like that. He didn't win the nomination until 1976.
But I'm open to the argument that things are different now, maybe because media saturation makes us sick of the non-winning candidate before his time. What do you think?
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