Posted on 07/04/2009 10:03:14 AM PDT by Yardstick
Conventional wisdom suggests that short-term the Palin decision was unwise — e.g., "quitter," unpredictable, sulking, etc. But what else are her critics really going to say? It's not like a Letterman can trump laughing at her on late-night television as he puns that a Yankees star had sex in a dugout with her 14-year old daughter. Can Andrew Sullivan at the Atlantic website go beyond his slurs that she did not deliver her own child? How much more cleverly can N.Y. feminist pundits tsk-tsk her that she's a Wasilla trailer-park retread?
In other words, it doesn't matter that much what critics say, but — should she pursue politics — only what she does with her newfound time, especially if she travels widely, studies foreign policy, and helps galvanize the party base.
In the long run, she can lecture, earn a good income through speaking, develop a coterie of advisers and supporters, take care of her family, not have the constant political warring on all flanks, and invest time in reflecting and studying issues, visit the country, meet leaders, etc. She's not looking at 2012; but in eight years by 2016 she will be far more savvy, still young, and far more experienced. It matters not all that the Left writes her off as daffy, since they were going to do that whatever she did; the key is whether she convinces conservatives in eight year of travel and reflection that she's a charismatic Margaret Thatcher type heavyweight.
All things are possible...
I disagree. I don’t think she’s waiting until 2016. We need her now!!!
The stench from DC will be intense by 2012. The country will be looking for something..anything to restore prosperity. We are in for a few hard years. Unemployment is still going up..fast. CA needs to lay off thousands of Govt employees. There just is no good news out there.
So we will see what happens.
America needs her NOW - cannot wait for 2016 as the republic will be destroyed by then. Sarah understands that and is moving NOW to stop the fall of America beginning with help in 2010 elections.
Some wrote Reagan off too, back in the 70s:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTY0NjAzODcwMzgzYmI4OTk4ZmJhM2NkZThlODQxODY=
She should identify races where the GOP has a chance to unseat a Dem incumbent and campaign like hell for those canditates in next year’s election.
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
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If anyone doesn’t know who Camile Paglia is, find out here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Paglia
CA needs to lay off millions of illegal aliens.
Sarah needs to be at home for her kids. She has chosen a career that is not beneficial for a Mother with children. Am I the only one who recognizes the “Family Values” that we all preach to the rest of the world.
Who would be surprised that the teen of a single mother is pregnant. Now put that same teen in the Palin household and we are shocked. Neither Sarah or her husband are available for their children like they should be. Conservatives hop all over the Hollywood left for these exact same choices, yet when Sarah does it she is a brave and strong conservative. I call Bravo Sierra.
Sarah will be a strong leader but I believe she needs to let her kids grow up. SHE OWES IT TO THEM.
Gov. Palin's exit will overshadow anything she did post-office for the vast majority of the electorate. She signed up for a 48 month job, and she only served 31 months of it. That she did it to save her family from being destroyed - personally, financially, perhaps even physically - unfortunately won't be remembered by enough of the electorate.
I think she did the right thing for her family - they've been attacked in an unprecedented - and speaking as an American, incredibly embarrassing - manner. However, now the left sees that they have a tool - slander and ankle-biting lawsuits - that works, and works in a proven way against Palin specifically. She's no longer unstoppable. They were able to take our best player out, and that's horrifying.
She could be a huge help in turning the tide and ending the tyranny of Obama by helping us take back the House and Senate in 2010. Obama’s crazy socialist policies must be stopped and we can’t wait until 2012.
Seeing her demeanor yesterday, she seemed really rattled and in pain. I just hope the Democrats haven't destroyed her financially for good, but I wouldn't blame her if she went home, immersed herself in Piper (the most precious child of all time), Todd and that baby and never came back.
And although, Victor Davis Hansen (my future husband) is a true genius, Sarah Palin is not Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher never went anywhere without her "handbag". And she used it as a weapon.
Like I said ALL things are possible...
Yup...
That didn’t work out too good for his naysayers either...
Sarah Palin will be the next fall woman. And the wicked will blame the Christians for the crash to come. Mark my words.
Excellent thinking.
“It matters not all that the Left writes her off as daffy, since they were going to do that whatever she did”
VDH ping!
Remember Jarbidge! It’s Independence Day!
Gov Palin drew a large crowd in Auburn, NY in June.
Kirsten Gillibrand has to stand for election in 2010.
Give em hell Sarah.
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