Posted on 11/16/2010 4:31:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
There is little doubt that Sarah Palin is running for president. But while Mitt Romney is archaically gallivanting across the country to raise money for his run, Palin has molded her platform into a 21st Century media sensation.
Topping off her unofficial campaign for the White House, Sarah Palin’s reality show premiered Sunday night with a viewership of over 5 million — TCL’s largest premiere to date. And it is with this show, that Palin will reintroduce herself to the county.
As embarrassing as it may be, I did watch her new show. Even though I find Palin damning to our national debate, she comes off pretty nicely. The show is scripted, let that be known, but to the average viewer who will tune in and rediscover Palin, they will see an average-seeming, relatable American.
As much as I doubt Palin’s intelligence, she has cleverly crafted herself into a position with all of the benefits of a presidential candidate with none of the shortfalls. No debates, no press interviews, nothing. The eight-episode series will serve as an effective run up to Palin announcing her candidacy sometime next year.
In addition to her series, she has worked her way onto a popular primetime show on a major network. As her daughter shakes her hips on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ Palin’s cameo comes across unassuming as a supportive mother, but the devil is in the details. A recent study outlined in The Hollywood Reporter shows that ‘Dancing with the Stars’ is one of the top ten shows watched by self described conservatives — Palin’s go-to crowd.
Palin isn’t just taking TV by storm. While Obama my have built his campaign on Facebook, Palin has come to dominate Twitter. Out of all the possible GOP contenders, Palin’s has the number of followers presidential hopefuls dream about. And when she tweets, she stirs a media storm. As Howard Fineman so eloquently put, “Sarah Palin, of course, is the Gore Vidal of attack tweets.”
If you doubt Pain’s prowess as a presidential hopeful, just look what she has done in the past year: become a correspondent on Fox News, published a book, helped build the small tea party movement into a national force, launched a TV show, and built a monumental following on Twitter and Facebook.
I know what you may be saying: sure she has selling power but it doesn’t mean she’ll win the nomination. But look at the key victories Palin’s endorsements brought. She helped elect six governors, two I should add are in the key primary states of Iowa and South Carolina — these favors will be called in. Second she successfully endorsed 18 winning House candidates and 6 winning senate candidates – among these newly elected senators are Rand Paul and Marco Rubio who will comprise her steering committee.
Lastly — from the moment she declares her candidacy, Palin will dominate the election. Other candidates may be able to outspend her, but her star power will be unmatched. She will win the Iowa caucus, because Iowa doesn’t usually have a history of picking party darlings. Just look how Mike Huckabee overtook Mitt Romney in the caucuses. When she wins here, it will be just as big of a moment as it was for President Obama.
Palin is a force to be reckoned with inside the Republican party. The problem she’ll need to overcome after she wins the Republican nomination will be positioning herself as a realistic alternative to President Obama—something that may prove tricky with voters who voted against candidates with similar values, like Christine O’Donnell and Sharon Angle.
Some of the problems with demanding federal experience are the following:
1. You limit yourself to about 600-700 people. That was not the intent of the Founding Fathers. Anyone can run.
2. Governors tend to be successful Presidents, retreads from the House of Representatives and Senators much less so. One of my worries in the last election was that we had two Senators running. Senators are theoriticians, Reps less so but both groups are isolated from their electorate by distance. Repubs now have a large numbe of governors to choose from and it gives the warm and fuzzies to see them line up for the Prez candidacy.
Congressionals theorize in DC, Governors are the guys in the aluminum boats helping to pull people out of the flood. Give me a Governor everytime.
One of many reasons that I like Sarah for Prez is that if she does become the CiC, I don’t think that there is anyone out there who is crazy enough to mess with her.
As opposed to Obama. Everyone messes with him. He’s an easy roll over.
You know, Sarah did more in two years as Gov. than a lot do in eight. She only resigned to save Alaska from mounting bills for complying with frivolous ethics complaints, brought on by the ankle biters, not to mention the time, and staff man hours taken away from actually running the state, and of course, saved her family from financial ruin because state law requires that she pay her legal costs associated from such complaints herself.
So it was a tactical retreat to regroup and as she says: reload. It also freed to her up to take the fight directly to the dems bent on destroying our country.
And she has done so magnificently!
Why supposedly good, critical thing conservatives in general, and FReepers in particular, can’t grasp that very simple logic, is beyond me.
“Why supposedly good, critical thing conservatives in general, and FReepers in particular, can’t grasp that very simple logic, is beyond me.”
Because we need to beat Obama in 2012 and having only 2 years experience as governor of a state with one of the smallest populations in the country is a pretty tough sell to people.
Very nice post! You ARE intelligent!
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