You've been posting here long enough to know the rules.
Writing your responses in italics only confuses the thread lurkers and posters.
Disagree, she will draw the base not the independents, the best she could hope for is they set out the election.
She will draw the independents because she is not part of the Republican Party machine and she will draw the sane liberal Democrats who are balking at the hard leftward tilt of the Obama administration and Congress. She is doing exactly what Reagan did in 1980 by drawing a line and being on message.
They do? If she can't take the heat while in the governor's office she sure can't take it in the WH and that will be one of the threads that will stop her.
"Not taking the heat" has nothing to do with it.
By all means, she tried to go back to doing her job but Obama/Soros operatives used Alaska's tough ethics law against her, and wasted her time and taxpayer dollars.
She simply put the interests of her state and residents ahead of politics and did the right thing by resigning.
Her resigning has had zero impact on any possible political future as she continues to be included in 2012 polling and continues to maintain huge grassroots support and ongoing media scrutiny. No losing vice-presidential candidate who resigned from his/her elected position has pulled this off.
Excerpts don't cut it. She has yet to come out in front of a large group and make any statements, only behind closed doors...that is not speaking to the American people.
Been there, done that. During the campaign, she hit her nomination speech & debate with Biden out of the park, and she gave several post-election speeches including a significant pro-life speech in Indiana. She has nothing to prove right now by giving a closed speech to the media as it's not germane to a political race she's in.
Wow, why didn't I think of that...a stealth candidate, yup that works every time.
She's not a candidate though. She's nothing but a private citizen giving her thoughts and opinions on the issues of the day. What do you want her to do, hold press conferences?
Oh yeah, the voting public just hangs onto Facebook and twitter, oh yeah beats talking to the public every time.
Read: Every candidate and elected official has a website now. They are using social networking sites to reach potential voters. Also, she is augmenting her use of Facebook with op-eds in newspapers. But more and more people are using social networking to interact. The days of taking out full-page ads or running 30 second ads on the evening news are pretty much over.
If she is such hot property she would be pursued by the media but she isn't and for her that is a good thing.
Are you kidding me? The MSM have been hounding Palin. Look, Andrea Mitchell goes up to Alaska to report why Palin resigned and a bunch of reporters covered her handoff to Parnell in Fairbanks. Again, for someone who is supposed to be irrelevant and a quitter.
Oh she has changed the game alright. Guess giving stealth speeches and issuing the occasional article for a editorial page is really stepping out there.
If it wasn't for her "death panels" comment, Obamacare may have passed. She gave Obamacare a setback with just two words.
Since we keep going around the same tree looks like we are at a stalemate and only time will tell who is right. But I will once again say that when you are being laughed at you are losing. Case in point, Kerry. Bush was very unpopular but what made saved him was Kerry was the butt of jokes and couldn't over come that. Palin is in the same position and will be unable to overcome the SNL, late night and the other popular shows. Sad but true.
In other news....
on this day in history...
Dukakis leads Bush by 17 % ...2 months prior to the election.
This poll is meaningless and Palin will win the nomination hands down...and then she will go on to win the Presidency.