Most people who strongly support her will continue to do so.
The question is how to overcome the 65% of the population who think she is too inexperienced to be President.
Governing for a full four-year term was the most obvious way to gain experience, as was the suggestion by some to run for the Senate (although I don’t personally think the Senate is a good launch point).
But she could gain experience through other means. It would have been easier if she could have gotten an appointment in a republican administration like a cabinet secretary; she could have taken over leadership in a foundation, and maybe she will.
It may be unfair, but Palin was defined by the media, and reality is what it is at this point. She has a difficult task ahead to convince a majority of America that she is ready to be President.
Sure, Obama wasn’t ready. But it is absurd to use him as an example, and the more he screws up the more people will be looking to NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE, which means that experience in many different arenas will be more critical in 2012 if we want to beat Obama.
I wouldn’t write her off, but she’s got some hard work to do, and since she’s hardly the only conservative in America today, I don’t see the point in unreasonable comparisons to Reagan, or hitching onto her wagon as the only hope for conservatism.
“I wouldn’t write her off, but she’s got some hard work to do”
I agree with you on that one.
Let’s see if she puts the hard work in...I think she does, by speaking engagements and fine tuning her policies on a national level.
After that I see huge campagin appearances for 2010 midterms.
If she doesn’t do these things then she has no intention to run...Ill bet she does, we shall see.