She is the hottest candidate we have right now. Hard to tell what Palin will do. We all hope she runs but time will tell.
I’m inclined to give Michele her due and grant that she should be in a leadership position in the House.
But I think she’d be a total disaster as a presidential candidate beyond serving her Rovian duty of making life easier for Mitt by splitting Palin’s vote. Her bargain in this race IMO is much more Faustian than simply hiring Rollins. The Establishment GOP, Dems and/or the MSM could rip her to shreds the minute they wanted to. You see a few fringe media types nibbling on her now, but mostly they’re still pushing her. (Chris Matthews’s newest best friend?)
Palin has a genuine leadership record as well as an economy and core issues first record that makes her much more viable for independents, moderates and libertarian types. Though Palin is principled and unbending in her social conservatism, she doesn’t come off as disrespectful or hatefully intolerant of those she disagrees with. Michele and Marcus are both big, fat, novice-level targets in that regard, however.
I’m coming to believe that Perry is the Establishment’s next best hope, however. He clearly plays the globalist game and can be bought, and everyone is fearful that Mitt is still to stiff and awkward a campaigner to pull off the nomination. With Perry I think they hope to offer someone with more of a conservative patina to him, who like some thought TPaw might successfully be positioned to do, could pull votes from both sides of the GOP.
But Perry would be at least as bad in the general as Romney, and Obama could hardly be happier to face a less smooth, more fundamentalist caricature of W in 2012.
More and more, I am convinced that if Palin isn’t our candidate, we’ve got four more years of Obama. And truthfully, that may not be worse for us than four years of a compromised and compromising RINO president whom the Dems could roll to a record degree, just as the Democrats in the MA legislature when they had the good fortune of Romney as their governor.
I’m very afraid about Michele. The left is salivating to unleash some very disturbing stuff on her. It’s probably not true, but do they care?