Palin, Walker and a Missed Opportunity

shibumi's brain | 6/6/2012 | shibumi

[shibumi]

I personally like Sarah Palin quite a bit. Obviously she's an attractive woman. That never hurts for a start. Added to that, there is depth of character, exemplified by her choosing life for her most recent child and her successful marriage. These are qualities that drive the rabble on the left wild. Someone out there actually walks the walk that they talk.

That said, I find myself frustrated over that cat and mouse game she has played with her non-candidacy on the heels of her abdication of the Alaskan Governorship.

I suppose this came to mind today in the light of Scott walker showing just how a Governor can do the right thing in an extremely hostile environment and survive the challenges that ensue. (Did I just say "survive?" Heck, Walker just curb stomped his opposition in masterful fashion.)

Sarah Palin has been attacked from the left for a supposed lack of historical acumen and intellectual depth. While giving a pass to amorphous figures running on a Liberal agenda the consensus seems to be that anyone aspiring to office from the Right must have a blend of Jeffersonian practicality along with Platonic sophistication and the historical perspective of Gibbon and Voltaire.

Palin, her handlers and her faithful have all danced around trying to rationalize and/or disprove her intellectual credentials, not realizing that the lack thereof is not a liability. It is, in fact what makes her likeable and trustworthy.

The presentation does not even have to be Reaganesque. It can be as simple as this:

"I'm not an economic expert, but I'll put people in the Cabinet who understand Capitalism, the negative impact of taxes and the dynamics of a free market.

I'm not a soldier. But I'll give the Generals a long leash and a simple mission. And playing politics won't be part of their job description.

I love my family. You're free to love who you will and have whatever happiness you can eke out in this life. But you'll not mock and trash the Christian traditions of this nation while doing it.

You are welcome to emigrate here. Go wait in line or sign up for the military. Serve in the nation's defense and earn your citizenship.

Drill, Baby, Drill!

I sure as heck don't know it all. But I'll find good people."

Simple statements like these could have been readily understood by the voters and grasped by her less-than-Phi-Beta-Kappa mind. She would not have to worry about flubbing in public because she could say these things in her own inimitably folksy sort of way.

But instead, we have the faithful trying to make out that her judgement, strategy and acumen are above reproach. They've ruined a perfectly good candidate with over adulation.

The current usurpatious resident of the White House should be ample proof that great sophistication is no prerequisite for a successful candidacy. And the Walker Win in Wisconsin shows that making the hard choices and sticking by them is a winning strategy.

[svcw]

I am going with you agreed with what I said, I sure agree with you.
When I made that list and then added: Are you sure you liker her?
I meant it.
A person can not start a conversation “like her BUT and go on for paragraphs of why they don’t or what she did wrong, just does pass the smell test.

[Diogenesis]

My post #91 had URLS which you refuse to refute.

Because you cannot.

Instead you resort to ad hominems.
Just like Romney-the-Backstabber.

Just like you.

[acapesket]

Of course it does, being a dad is most important! Just that we estrogen/progesterone driven Moms operate on a whole ‘nother level!