History waits for nobody, and gives no second chances. Palin could have turned this nation around, she could have ran for the highest office and atleast attempted to return this nation to what it once was. She could have been greater than Reagan or Thatcher. Instead she resigned from her governorship (why? A disastrous political move), backed out of what was obviously a Presidential run (taking forever to do it, thus weakening other conservatives in the race), and decided to become a pundit and TV personality (the lowest form of life on earth).
Now instead of leading the free world and trying to save western Christian civilization she is a recurrent joke for liberals. She was offered the reigns of history and she walked away, I challenge anyone else here to name a bigger waste of potential in modern American politics.
Maybe if the GOP hadn’t worked hand-in-hand with the Democrats dating all the way back to the deliberate strategy of bankrupting her family and tarnishing her name with the provocative headlines those phony lawsuits engendered, she’d have had a half a chance of being the candidate you seem to think she should have been.
And until Tucson, I think she was going to run…and win.
I think Tucson changed everything. She no longer trusted most of those that she had once assumed she could trust after they clearly showed the eagerness to “finish her off” politically. Fox News became far more of a wishy-washy platform for moderates than a soapbox for conservatives, probably sensing that there would be consequences if they didn’t betray conservatives.
And so we got stuck with Mitt. If it makes you feel good to blame Sarah Palin for that knock yourself out. But for my money, no one running in 2012 had what it took to win against Obama. And I have yet to see anyone aside from Ted Cruz who can do it this year. And the GOP would rather lose to Hillary than allow Cruz to win.
Trollbait.
Agree. It’s hard to forgive her. I saw her speak close up, with Breitbart, and she was the real deal. Our loss. At least Breitbart has a good excuse.