Will not the primary season take her out if she is such a flawed candidate?
I’m just asking, folks, and I am deadly serious.
If she can make the case for her vision of America, and she can rack up the victories early on, what does that say about her would be voters? Are they just Palinistas who are idol-struck and non-thinking?
Everyone seems to forget that the primary process isn’t just a couple of weeks of intense ad campaigns and then ZAP, off to the voting booth. There are going to be debates, dozens of them. Interviews with the various local medias will be held by all contenders. There will be local campaign headquarters and precincts all over the fruited plains filled with loyal volunteers doing all that they can to see that their candidate comes out on top in their respective states.
Palin will not be able to win by hiding out on Facebook, Twitter, Fox News, or any of the friendlier talk shows. She is going to have to move beyond her base and tackle those souls who don’t pay attention to politics to the same degree as those of us on Hot Air, Ace of Spades, Red State, and all the rest of the blogs. And if she were to WIN those voters, what speaks louder, the fact that she can capture such votes or that the rest of the GOP voters in that state were not sufficiently motivated enough to vote for anyone else?
The candidate Palin becomes after emerging from the primary process (assuming she enters and wins) won’t be the same Palin that everyone is talking about in this thread. She will be a battle hardened, well versed, b@lls-to-the-wall competitor who won’t be a wallflower in the fall campaign season.
Lest we all forget, it was about this time in 2006 when we all thought that the 2008 Presidential run was going to be a New York affair between Rudy and Hillary. My, that seemed like an ice age ago.
Clinton was tough, but she never got the anal exam that Palin got.
So before we all start dismissing that “Caribou Barbie” as being a) unintelligent, b) unqualified, and c) unelectable, remind yourselves as to what they were saying about Reagan back in 1978.
I should know. I was there to watch it all unfold, and they were far worse on him than even on Bush-43.
For my money, I will entertain no such talk about how Palin can’t win, so she must be stopped before she even decides to run. If we are going to correct the mistakes of the current administration, we don’t need a wimp, but a warrior who has already been baptized by the fire of unrelenting assault by just about everything in the universe.
Chris Christie has already declared that he isn’t running.
That only leaves Sarah Louise Palin. If she throws her hat in the ring and wins it all during the primary season, it will be through the sweat of her efforts, and the hard work of the people who will walk through fire on her behalf.
All (who calls themselves conservatives) that elects to sit at home or vote for Obama in November 2012 rather than pull the lever for Palin are, in my mind, misguided and short-sighted. The nation has already seen what happens when statists are given unchecked power at both ends of the Mall in D.C. To allow it to happen again is tantamount to abandoning the political battlefield so close to victory because you have issues with the person leading the charge.
It is not just a matter of Obama vs Palin, Left vs Right, Statist vs Conservative, but that of the US as fading light going the way of Europe, or the US as the bright beacon of light being the last, best chance of hope of Western Civilization in the new millennium.
If 2010 is considered to be the most crucial mid-term election in history, 2012 is going to be remembered as the most critical election in our lifetimes. For the sake of our progeny, I hope we all get it right, lest the future historians talk about this period of the world in Mandarin Chinese or some other tongue.
Palin is no goddess, nor perfect. But she is a patriot, deserving of the same chance to run for the highest office in the land if that is what she chooses. Let’s see what happens, and let history attend to itself.
Great Post.
Best Post of the Day!!!
Brilliant post.
I was there for Reagan in 1978 as well and don’t think he was in anywhere near the hole that she is now (because of all of the new forces against her and her relative lack of experience versus his at that point). But I like the way you think.
I have a feeling that a lot of this is an attempt at “gotcha” journalism, so that if she expresses the thought that of course she THINKS about running, the MSM and the left-wing forces trying to destroy this country can go into overdrive for the next two years trying to destroy her too.
Well said, thanks for the very good post.
She already gave an in-depth interview to the New York Times magazine, and just spoke to Barbara Walters. Jake Tapper is also someone she corresponds with.
She is already dipping her toe in enemy territory.
Amen
Very well written analysis.
Good post.
As a football coach once told me, “The game isn’t played on paper, it’s played on the field.”
I would vote for Palin all the way, but, I do not think she can carry the vote to win. Not based on the stupid democrats, but on the good-ole boys of the Republican party. Too many of the good-ole boy repubs are afraid of her and imho would work against her as well. Not sure how that would play out, but a very real concern. Maybe in 2016. If the repubs take control in 2012, she should get a high-level post, which could set her up for 2016. It comes down to choosing a likely clear win with the men, or going for broke with Palin.
Quite well stated!
Will not the primary season take her out if she is such a flawed candidate?
Now is the time for image repair and that’s what she’s doing with the new book, the TV series, and the FoxNews gig. She’s also been taking on Obama at every turn and even Bernanke and coming out on top. There will be plenty of time to debate the issues when the campaign starts. Right now she is making liars out of the dems who called her the devil incarnate. She’s even getting a little respect out of the NYT.
For those talking about Hillary being the candidate, remember Hillarycare and all the blown foreign trips by Obama to sign new agreements. It’s the job of the Sect of State to do the groundwork on those agreements. Seems like she hasn’t been doing her job and Obama has been clueless enough to make the trips anyway.
So,let’s wait for the primaries and see who she brings out vs. who Romney can motivate to vote for him. Romney surrogates have been campaigning against Sarah since 2008 and so far she’s winning. Obama’s been trying to counter her tweets and so far is losing. The people will decide.
Palin is no goddess, nor perfect. But she is a patriot, deserving of the same chance to run for the highest office in the land if that is what she chooses. Let’s see what happens, and let history attend to itself.
I would give two to one odds now that Obama will NOT be given a second term, regardless of what happens or who runs. If there is anyone with any brains left in the Democrat party he will not be given a chance to run again plus there will be numerous states insisting that he prove he is a natural born citizen which he cannot possibly do, his only hope would be a supreme court decision not based in constitutional law. I think he is a one termer...IF he manages to finish one term.
Christie will run. Book it.
Hank
Your post #35 was excellent.
thank you for that well-reasoned post.