Have you ever watched a tall building being built? For the longest time, nothing seems to be happening because that time is spent building the foundation. Once that is finished, all of a sudden, the building seems to appear overnight. Don't assume just because you aren't seeing things happening with a Palin campaign that preparation isn't going on. The foundation is being built.
Correct. Had Palin truly taken the time to prepare to run, she would have been invisible after the last election while she studied everything from manufacturing, to history, to foreign policy.
She didn't. It was all public grandstanding full of empty platitudes. She's courageous, innately intelligent, positive, and moral, but that does not qualify her to be President. She obviously lacks an education.
Consider Reagan. He spent a decade learning about manufacturing and free markets with GE. By the time he delivered "the speech," he was already prepared to be President, before he was even governor of California. Reagan cited Montesquieu, Locke, and other libertarian thinkers underlying our system of government. He had historical perspective. Palin has no such preparation and it shows. Although I was excited about her prospects after her convention speech, SHE turned me off on her prospects.
That she just came in such a strong second at an Iowa straw poll dinner is striking. With Cain there in person speaking, his 55% of the vote was to be expected. But Palin with 38%? Either she’s got a very effective stealth grassroots team at work, she’s got a strength in Iowa nobody has understood, or just the hint of a whisper of her new film to be released—signally her run and her coming to Iowa—is all that it took.
Any one of those reasons is encouraging indeed. (IMO Cain is the like-Trump-not-a-pol flavor of the month who won’t sustain his popularity into the caucuses.)
Good analogy! The foundation is the MOST important part.