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Why Sarah Palin Needs A Branding Makeover (Unless Her PBI, Personal Branding Idea, Is Kook)
Forbes ^ | August 2, 2014 | Marian Salzman

Posted on 08/02/2014 9:06:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

When Sarah Palin stormed onto the scene in 2008, there was no denying the power of her brand. Whether you loved her or hated her, whether you thought she was the future or rolled your eyes at her moose hunting and seeing Russia from her house, you knew what she stood for, and you had some begrudging respect for her positioning as a hockey mom who didn’t believe in wasting a civic nickel. (You gotta remember the stuff on pigs and pork?)

The previously unknown Alaska governor quickly became a new breed of working mother. A strong conservative woman. An unlikely but believable candidate to shatter the glass ceiling. A rallying force for the Tea Party and other right-wingers. A maverick, a rebel, a politician unafraid of speaking her mind—and who cared if it was uninformed or inappropriate?

With John McCain (who is so not a kook that I can’t understand how his brand ever got commingled with Her Kookiness, because brands are judged by the company they keep), she tried her best to give Obama a run for his money and earn that erstwhile place a heartbeat away from the famous 3 a.m. phone call. When that didn’t work out, she traded politics for much-more-lucrative punditry and remained a force that shaped the American conversation, for better or worse....

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: hillary; mccain; palin; women
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I can’t believe Forbes has a ditzy moron writing for them that has confused Sarah Palin with Tina Fey. I guess finding good employees is tough these days. Marian, Sarah Palin is not Tina Fey. They are two different people. I guarantee it.


21 posted on 08/02/2014 10:30:42 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a refugee camp! It is my home!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why don’t these elites just say it out loud? They all think that Governor Palin and the rest of us are all “white trash”. We stupid redneck, gun-toting Tea Party idiots who believe our nation is spiraling out of control because it has failed to adhere to the constitution that has enabled us to survive for well over 200 years.


22 posted on 08/02/2014 10:41:46 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: GeronL
I like what she says, but can't stand the sound of her voice most of the time.

She sounds like a kook a lot of the time when she speaks.

So I just read what she says, no problem.

23 posted on 08/02/2014 11:01:26 PM PDT by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
With John McCain (who is so not a kook...

Where has he been the last two decades?

24 posted on 08/02/2014 11:35:30 PM PDT by marron
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To: upchuck
Any author that perpetuates the 'Russia from her house' BS should be ignored.

That's where I stopped. Can't these lying SOB's ever stop?

Nope.

Nothing of any substance is this pile of slop.
25 posted on 08/02/2014 11:36:21 PM PDT by 98ZJ USMC
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To: dowcaet
“white trash”

The self proclaimed elites cannot say this for it would mark them clearly as the bigots they make us out to be here in fly over Palin patronizing country.

These fools do not see that white on black bigotry and elitist on non-elites bigotry and liberal on conservative bigotry is all the same. It is bigotry!

Bigotry is healthy. It heals the spirit and lift the soul higher and higher.

26 posted on 08/02/2014 11:39:29 PM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Do the new Asian owners of Forbes Magazine have anything to do with promoting this nonsense?

Skadden Reps Asian Investors In Forbes Majority-Stake Buy

27 posted on 08/03/2014 1:01:08 AM PDT by TChad (The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
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To: upchuck

The other day , I was listening to a couple of baseball announcers filling the dead spaces between pitches with BS, and sure enough, they took a swipe at Palin by bringing up the “I can see Russia” lie.

What that has to do with baseball, I haven’t a clue.


28 posted on 08/03/2014 1:17:32 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: upchuck

Marian Salzman writes for Forbes magazine and gets her “news” from SNL skits.

Such is the state of “journalism”.


29 posted on 08/03/2014 6:52:53 AM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: rockinqsranch

This author drips stinky stuff from her ears having her head recently emerge from her....I say no more, you get the picture.


Do you mean `so far up she has to open her mouth to break wind’?


30 posted on 08/03/2014 7:15:28 AM PDT by Peet (Liberals are the feces that are created when shame eats too much stupid. -Dale Gribble)
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To: Peet

A worthless target attracts no fire.


31 posted on 08/03/2014 11:57:37 AM PDT by bicyclerepair (The zombies here elected alcee hastings. TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: Rembrandt

Well, I guess you should pack up and mail some silverware and a pair of your shorts to Ms. Salzman.


32 posted on 08/03/2014 12:06:30 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: CharlesOConnell
"I can’t sanction such a view"

What, waterboarding terrorists? Oh, I can sanction that all day and all night long.

33 posted on 08/03/2014 2:05:31 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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