Posted on 01/30/2015 4:54:59 AM PST by LeoMcNeil
Sarah Palin made headlines last weekend when she said she was interested in running for President. Palin has been an important part of the Tea Party and conservative movements in this country since she came onto the scene in 2008. Nobody on the right throws red meat to a crowd quite like Palin. Her ability to sarcastically tear down liberal sacred cows is second only to Rush Limbaugh. Best of all she drives liberals up a wall. They hate her more than any other conservative in this country, including George W. Bush and Limbaugh. Watching liberals fall to pieces over Palin is always amusing. Palin has also been an important player in the Tea Party political scene. The candidates she campaigned for, particularly in 2014, generally won. She has an excellent track record in that regard.
The question is whether Palin should run for President and perhaps as importantly whether conservatives should support her candidacy. The answer is clear, she should not run and if she does conservatives should not support her. There are any number of reasons why Palin shouldn’t be the Republican nominee beginning with the fact that her experience is limited and at this point remote. Palin was Governor of Alaska for all of two and a half years. She resigned ostensibly to make money in personal appearances. If Palin was serious about running for President, she should have stayed in office and run for re-election. In the alternative, she should have run for a winnable Alaska Senate seat in 2014. Instead, Palin has shown a lack of interest in actual governing. We need to nominate someone with experience and if we look at the slate of candidates out there we can clearly see there are other conservatives who have a lot more experience than Palin. Surely the GOP can find someone with more experience than Obama had in 2008, we can’t set the bar down to his level.
Palin’s ability to attract people other than conservatives is near zero. Fair or not, Palin is a polarizing figure in American politics. On one hand she’s brought it on herself by tearing down liberal sacred cows. On the other hand, the left-wing media has relentlessly attacked her for no other reason than she’s a heretic to the feminist cause. Let’s be honest, Palin has egged the left-wing media on and it’s been amusing to watch her set them up and tear them down. Doing that makes for great giggles for Tea Partiers but it does nothing for Palin’s likability. Because of the media, people actually think Palin said she can see Russia from her house. The media has pushed that narrative, knowing full well that Tina Fey said that on a Saturday Night Live sketch. People other than conservatives think Palin is a crass moron. That is a hurdle she won’t be able to overcome if she runs for President.
Sarah Palin has a place in conservative movement of the Republican Party. She’s an important part of the Tea Party. There’s a difference between being the flame thrower for conservatives and running for President. Palin is great at what she’s doing right now. She’s made a good living for herself and her family by giving speeches and making media appearances. She’s done a terrific job campaigning for conservatives in House and Senate elections. She’s found her calling in politics, it makes no sense for her to give it up to run for President. Conservatives shouldn’t want her to give it up either. Her record was magnificent in 2014. We’re much better off having her back conservative candidates for Congress than we are watching her flame out in a GOP Presidential primary that’s likely to be crowded with too many conservative candidates. If she wants to get involved in the primary, she should act as kingmaker and endorse someone. For her to run though will result in her ultimate defeat, which will likely limit her opportunities to influence politics in the future.
We conservatives need to find someone who has more than the right views. We need to find someone who has experience and can translate that experience to the White House. That person isn’t Sarah Palin. Two and a half years as Governor of a small state isn’t good enough. Eight years as Mayor of a town of less than 8,000 is not good enough experience. Palin is great at what she’s doing now, conservatives should be happy that she’s found something she’s both successful and influential at. The Democrats set the bar low for experience when they nominated Obama. The Republicans need to raise that bar. Scott Walker is just as conservative as Palin and he has a lot more experience. He’s balanced budgets and taken on unions in a blue state no less. Ted Cruz has more experience than Palin between his time as solicitor general in Texas and the US Senate. We need someone who is more skilled than Obama is. We have candidates like that on the right in the GOP. Sarah Palin just isn’t one of them.
If the DNC can run and win (TWICE) with the moron Obama ... tell me again why Palin can’t/shouldn’t be considered!!
Is there a bunch of you on some GOPE clone of the journolist?
I think this may be the 1,000th article this week bashing Gov Palin.
To what purpose are you doing this, are you ingratiating yourselves with the leftist media? Angling for a job at the Huffpo?
It's incomprehensible that so called conservatives carry the water of the totalitarian left by attacking her. The woman has an amazing story, she fights the good fight for conservatism and America, yet you carry the water for the leftists with this nonsense.
Breitbart said so called conservatives that neither defended her, or alternatively helped carry the water of the left in savaging her were either eunuchs or animals with no souls. I heartily agree.
Stick a fork in Sarah. Done as a national candidate. She seems to prefer having influence as as a personality.
There are no Governors I would vote for right now. I’m on Team Cruz.
She’s “interested in running”.
She’s not a candidate.
She’s teasing the base again.
If you think they won't get the Palin treatment just wait and see. Cruz is my second choice though.
Scott Walker has already had his mini Palin treatment. Expect it to come to the foreground if he becomes a viable candidate.
The MSM will demonize whoever becomes our candidate. Their bias is transparent these days.
I’m concerned. Deeply.
When I read crap like this I think of Bobby Bare’s novelty song, “Singin’ In The Kitchen”. Here’s the lyrics:
here we go, singin’ in the kitchen,
Singin’ in the kitchen’,
Singin’ in the kitchen;
Here we go, singin’ in the kitchen,
banging on the pots and pans.
The article makes the same amount of sense,
That's the real reason the establishment doesn't want her around. They know she's popular, articulate, and not afraid to speak the obvious; all things that the elite typically runs away from. They are afraid that Palin will force the conversation into places where they would rather not go.
It has nothing to do with her supposed lack of qualifications, and everything to do with fear from the G0Pe of losing control of the dialog and the process.
-PJ
Team Romney continues its attacks
FOR ObamaCARE, FOR RomneyCARE
against conservatives.
I agree there are better candidates - but your reasons and premise are wrong and flawed nonetheless.
I’m on Cruz Control. Doesn’t change the history and wisdom of Palin’s gubernatorial decision and how it’s been proven beneficial to everybody...and whether or not you watch Fox and Rove, your piece involves a lot of Fox/Rove type thinking. I never said you got it from them....(sheesh...READING COMP from a writer should be better) - I said it was THE SAME mindset.....
My hunch is that team grinds to a halt today at 11 AM EST.
lol
Ignore sakie.....he/she’s just a phony conservative who somehow thinks holding elected office is the only way ‘to serve’ your country.
Only true liberals hold the public sector above the private sector in regard....
I was there and now its Gone!
Why does that happen?
Now my Comment doesn't make any sense :P
Mitt to make announcement today at 11 - I think the answer will be he’s NOT running. I mean, I’m like 51-49% on that, not sure at all....but....
He’s been getting some push back from donors/supporters lately...they’re saying “Mitt we love you, we wish you were President now, but we do NOT want you to run again.”
He misinterpreted and over-estimated out of the box.....reality is crashing in.
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