Posted on 11/16/2010 4:31:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
There is little doubt that Sarah Palin is running for president. But while Mitt Romney is archaically gallivanting across the country to raise money for his run, Palin has molded her platform into a 21st Century media sensation.
Topping off her unofficial campaign for the White House, Sarah Palin’s reality show premiered Sunday night with a viewership of over 5 million — TCL’s largest premiere to date. And it is with this show, that Palin will reintroduce herself to the county.
As embarrassing as it may be, I did watch her new show. Even though I find Palin damning to our national debate, she comes off pretty nicely. The show is scripted, let that be known, but to the average viewer who will tune in and rediscover Palin, they will see an average-seeming, relatable American.
As much as I doubt Palin’s intelligence, she has cleverly crafted herself into a position with all of the benefits of a presidential candidate with none of the shortfalls. No debates, no press interviews, nothing. The eight-episode series will serve as an effective run up to Palin announcing her candidacy sometime next year.
In addition to her series, she has worked her way onto a popular primetime show on a major network. As her daughter shakes her hips on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ Palin’s cameo comes across unassuming as a supportive mother, but the devil is in the details. A recent study outlined in The Hollywood Reporter shows that ‘Dancing with the Stars’ is one of the top ten shows watched by self described conservatives — Palin’s go-to crowd.
Palin isn’t just taking TV by storm. While Obama my have built his campaign on Facebook, Palin has come to dominate Twitter. Out of all the possible GOP contenders, Palin’s has the number of followers presidential hopefuls dream about. And when she tweets, she stirs a media storm. As Howard Fineman so eloquently put, “Sarah Palin, of course, is the Gore Vidal of attack tweets.”
If you doubt Pain’s prowess as a presidential hopeful, just look what she has done in the past year: become a correspondent on Fox News, published a book, helped build the small tea party movement into a national force, launched a TV show, and built a monumental following on Twitter and Facebook.
I know what you may be saying: sure she has selling power but it doesn’t mean she’ll win the nomination. But look at the key victories Palin’s endorsements brought. She helped elect six governors, two I should add are in the key primary states of Iowa and South Carolina — these favors will be called in. Second she successfully endorsed 18 winning House candidates and 6 winning senate candidates – among these newly elected senators are Rand Paul and Marco Rubio who will comprise her steering committee.
Lastly — from the moment she declares her candidacy, Palin will dominate the election. Other candidates may be able to outspend her, but her star power will be unmatched. She will win the Iowa caucus, because Iowa doesn’t usually have a history of picking party darlings. Just look how Mike Huckabee overtook Mitt Romney in the caucuses. When she wins here, it will be just as big of a moment as it was for President Obama.
Palin is a force to be reckoned with inside the Republican party. The problem she’ll need to overcome after she wins the Republican nomination will be positioning herself as a realistic alternative to President Obama—something that may prove tricky with voters who voted against candidates with similar values, like Christine O’Donnell and Sharon Angle.
sorry, no FEDERAL executive experence. sorry, she should have never quit her elected postion. it makes her appear flighty and not serious. i say again, there must be somebody else.
i do like her. i just don’t think she’s electable as president yet and i’ll puke for four years if bammy is reelected. there must be someone else.
The same was said of the Tea Party movement.
Why? Is it based on her record?
Excellent post! Thank you!
Reagan didn’t have Federal experience either.
This twit summarizes all the things Sarah has done right, and then says he "doubts her intelligence"???
Methinks it ain't Sarah who lacks intelligence here. From everything I see, she either is personally one of the most masterful and innovative politicians I have ever seen, or she has a VERY good "behind-the-scenes" equivalent of Karl Rove.
Sarah Palin is dumb, like a fox. Like Ronald Reagan before her, she has been viciously maligned by the Leftists; the media; and other Republicans. So, she's doing (and a very good job of it) what Reagan did: taking herself and message straight to the people.
She's NOT going to peak early.
Excellent check out #38
I think (honestly I do) that a great deal of opposition to her is based on envy. If she looked like a typical ugly Democrat most could abide her. Don’t ever underestimate the role of envy in anything. Just think, Sarah has had five kids and still looks like a million bucks. Many will not forgive her on these grounds alone. And there’s no way that Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland is any smarter than Sarah.
“Whatcha wanna bet Palin would’ve gotten that deal done? “
She did get that Alaska pipeline deal through.
You are correct IMHO. Why else are all of the other hopefulls be trying to get ‘face time’ by stepping in front of every TV camera?
I am looking forward to President Palin’s inauguration.
No experience?? She has spent plenty of time in elected and appointive office, and her demonstrated track record in the time she was governor surpasses most full-term and even two-term governors I know of. And quitting her position under duress is turning out to be a master-stroke, as she gains FAR more public and media exposure than she ever would have as governor.
Sorry, Dudley, but Palin looks better all the time. The ONLY potential candidate I see out there that can remotely compare is Christie. None of the others is even in the same ball park.
I watched three Lib-tard mouthpieces (Ed Schultz, Chris Matthews, Joy Behar) all ask on national TV some version of "Can she even read?" "or "Have you ever seen her read anything?" She graduated college with a degree in Journalism, won a Mayorship and then a Governorship, but it's logical to now ask 'can she even read?'
These mindless, leg-tingled O'Bunghole-bots are a very accurate measure of the threat the rest of the field may do well to consider Palin to be. When the best the "cream of the Lib Blatters" can come up with is to try to sell something so obviously pulled from thin air, the truth they expose is that they have nothing that can stop her.
And they are clearly terrified.
It wouldn't be any more apparent if Chris Matthews was standing on camera and Palin walked up to him, and you saw a large wet stain appear on his pants as he peed himself in terror.
That's basically what we're seeing anyway.
As much fun as the 2010 Midterms were, they were a small hint at the fun to come for America's Commonsense Conservatives in 2012. Mama Grizzly is going to leave a trail of bloody stumps, and the Lib-tards are only going to become more hysterically incoherent with every passing month.
Ahhhh.
8^D
I love Sarah but had just about decided that the media attacks had destroyed her credibility and thus her chance to be an effective president......she is proving me wrong. Palin - Christie 2012! (yeah I know he’s no conservative, but with Sarah in charge that’s not an issue).
This is amazing. These libs have more understanding and are more savvy than all the RINOs and elites in Washington, DC and their mouthpieces here on this site. They see this new program of Sarah’s is a stroke of genius. They understand what is developing and why the Beltway is so afraid. If Sarah runs, she wins the nomination. The RINOs can do nothing to stop her but change the rules.
That would be twelve years of executive experience for Palin. None for Obama.we got bammy with no experence [and with malign intent] doing a horrendous job and we want to elect palin who has no experence either?
She gained both a legal and political advantage over her adversaries by quitting the governorship. She also saved the state and her family a lot of money.not to mention quit her elected postion. how stupid.
surely there must be someone else to run for president. i think she’s great, but just not as a president. not yet at least.3 posted on 11/16/2010 4:42:41 PM PST by lonster
You know, it's a funny thing. There are hundreds of thousands of adults in every Congressional District. You would think, if we elected the smartest person in our district to be our congressman, that Congress would qualify as a chapter of Mensa. And yet anyone who talks to any of these people gets the impression that nine out of ten of them aren't any smarter than your average shopowner. If that."Liberals" vaunt the intelligence of Obama, but all I see is hubris. He says he doesn't pretend to be an engineer, but he presumes to override engineering decisions as if he were technically qualified. And I don't even exclude Republican congressmen from that critique. I just think that who gets to be considered presidential timber has a lot more to do with fortune than with intelligence.So we have a situation where Sarah Palin, who made smart enough decisions to be a well-regarded governor, has been elevated to a presidential ticket and has the experience of campaigning nationwide. I agree with Thomas Gray's ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD:
Full many a gem of purest ray sereneAny number of people, given Palin's life experience, might be more capable as president. But where are they? We don't know them, and we know Sarah. We can judge her intentions, and we can judge her level of self-awareness, her ability to stay grounded and to seek and to evaluate expert advice. We can be pretty sure that if elected president she'll make some good decisions and some bad ones. As did Reagan, or any other president you could name. That would be true as well of Gray's "gem[s] of purest ray serene" as well. None would be perfect. Of all the ones we know, I say Sarah is good enough to serve if elected, and able enough to be likely to get elected if nominated. Over the objections of Associated Press Journalism, which is a given for any Republican - even a RINO like McCain.
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.I advocate uniting behind Palin before they foist another McCain on us. We simply can't afford that.
“I think (honestly I do) that a great deal of opposition to her is based on envy. If she looked like a typical ugly Democrat most could abide her. Don’t ever underestimate the role of envy in anything. Just think, Sarah has had five kids and still looks like a million bucks. Many will not forgive her on these grounds alone. And there’s no way that Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland is any smarter than Sarah.”
Believe me, there are many hot pretty liberals. But they are ALL dim bulbs. The Mikulskis and Pelosis are the only ones smart enough to get elected.
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