Differences between these two women: Palin has half a governors' term executive political experience, while Michele has executive business experience. Michele is the better speaker, Sarah has the greater star power among conservatives. Both have good name recognition, with Sarah holding an edge in this area amidst positives and negatives. Sarah is a lightning rod - people love her and follow her like a cult, or absolutely loathe and detest her. She's positive. She's also perceived, whether fairly or not, as somewhat light and absent-minded. I know in my heart that this is only perception and that Sarah is in fact an intelligent, patriotic, and capable leader... but could she convince the masses of this?
Michele has a certain Thatcher-like quality about her persona that I like. I could envision her giving a State of the Union address. Michele also has some things I don't like: a lawyer's background. But in presidential politics, that's pretty hard to avoid.
Asked to choose between them... I honestly could not give an answer at this moment. It's the candidates' jobs to court their base in the primary cycle.
The most substantial difference that I can see is that Sarah Palin is not officially running. The biggest concern I have is splitting of the conservative vote and landing us another Romney.
I meant as far as policy and beliefs.
The likelihood that 2 tea party conservatives will stay in the race, neck and neck, each getting votes, in primary after primary, is slim.
Either Palin or Bachmann will be ahead of the other, and the other will drop out.
They have to make sure they’re nice to each other, so that when one drops out, the other will get their support. The same is true, pretty much, with any tea party candidate.
Do tell, doing what exactly?
Aside from what ever she did at her husband's "clinic", she's been getting Government checks since her first job with the IRS and then from her public office salaries. And don't list the family dairy farm.