This will eliminate her from any serious presidential consideration. Perhaps she doesn’t want to run. I couldn’t blame her if that is the case.
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Why?
Huckabee, Romney and Guiliani weren't in any political office when they ran last year.
That would be my guess, that she's had more than enough of the treatment dished out by the press and her own party. Who needs the despicable personal attacks?
What??? What is your reasoning behind this claim? Reagan was CA Gov from 1967-1975 and was elected president in 1980. How did he manage that?
If she steps down, then either moves or semi-relocates in the lower 48, whe may actually enhance her position, IMO.
This isn’t the full story in any event, to be sure.
Don’t kid yourself.
Yes, I still like Sarah Palin!
By Camille Paglia
Nov. 12, 2008 | [excerpts]
“...Liberal Democrats are going to wake up from their sadomasochistic, anti-Palin orgy with a very big hangover.
The evil genie released during this sorry episode will not so easily go back into its bottle. A shocking level of irrational emotionalism and at times infantile rage was exposed at the heart of current Democratic ideology contradicting Democratic core principles of compassion, tolerance and independent thought. One would have to look back to the Eisenhower 1950s for parallels to this grotesque lock-step parade of bourgeois provincialism, shallow groupthink and blind prejudice.
I like Sarah Palin, and I’ve heartily enjoyed her arrival on the national stage. As a career classroom teacher, I can see how smart she is and quite frankly, I think the people who don’t see it are the stupid ones, wrapped in the fuzzy mummy-gauze of their own worn-out partisan dogma.
So she doesn’t speak the King’s English big whoop! There is a powerful clarity of consciousness in her eyes.
She uses language with the jumps, breaks and rippling momentum of a be-bop saxophonist. I stand on what I said (as a staunch pro-choice advocate) in my last two columns that Palin as a pro-life wife, mother and ambitious professional represents the next big shift in feminism. Pro-life women will save feminism by expanding it, particularly into the more traditional Third World.
As for the Democrats who sneered and howled that Palin was unprepared to be a vice-presidential nominee what navel-gazing hypocrisy!
What protests were raised in the party or mainstream media when John Edwards, with vastly less political experience than Palin, got John Kerry’s nod for veep four years ago?
And Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, for whom I lobbied to be Obama’s pick and who was on everyone’s short list for months, has a record indistinguishable from Palin’s. ..
..The U.S. Senate as a career option? What a claustrophobic, nitpicking comedown for an energetic Alaskan nothing but droning committees and incestuous back-scratching.
No, Sarah Palin should stick to her governorship and just hit the rubber-chicken circuit,.. Step by step, the mainstream media will come around, wipe its own mud out of its eyes, and see Palin for the populist phenomenon that she is. ...” By Camille Paglia
http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/11/12/palin/print.html
I so disagree.
If being a community organizer (read agitator) doesn’t eliminate you, I wouldn’t worry about this.
Not being governor won’t damage her any more than it damaged Reagan...as long as she does the right things with the next two and a half years.