IMHO, I believe we can bank this— that Paul Begala intends to hang Sarah Palin around the neck of one Ted Cruz, since Cruz is too shrewd and talented to ignore. Any Tea Party influence will also be branded with Palin.
The Dems have to try to influence and capture the broader GOP Republican and Independent voter field who are unimpressed with Palin conservatives. They must define Cruz before he can define himself, before he can begin to expand out of the conservative field and into attracting the general election voters.
This is why the Left have kept Palin alive all this time, covering her worst moments, in their irregular but steady media reports, purposely to use her at election time to blow off all the conservative Republican candidates, by linking them up to her. It certainly is very early for hand to hand combat, but when Begala pops up, you know the games have begun.
It really wasn’t because, “she lives in their heads”, but for her usefulness as a political tool for the Lefty and GOP opposition to conservatives.
Begala in this interview seems to signal democrats to go to work for those Independent and GOP voters by marginalizing Cruz and ALL other conservative primary contenders, branding them with the name of “Sarah Palin” and “her” Tea Party.
Begala will push this theme to keep Cruz from breaking out in our primary, or any other conservative breaking out. Divide and conquer has worked before.
Someday I have to hear someone who can articulate what is wrong with Sarah Palin other than fairy tales made up by the national media.
She ran a successful profitable crab business; raised her family; ran a local government; was elected governor of a relatively complex political state.
She was a successful governor working out significant business accommodations with the very large industry that made up most of her tax base and provided many of the significant jobs in state. In the words of a Liberal Democrat San Francisco lawyer who represented the state in litigation, Governor Palin was one of the most prepared and effective clients with who he had been involved in over 30 years practicing law.
She resigned as governor? Sure. Her political adversaries were well capitalized Liberal Democrat elite who were concerned that she would remain a national political force after the 2008 election (which she did). Unlike her adversaries, she did not have a base of inherited money and establishment money from which to defend herself so she couldn't' continue to do an effective job as governor and provide for the successful defense of the legal claims which were asserted against her which successful defense she actually accomplished.
In her spare time, she created a successful business and professional activity that has supported her own future activities and her family.
She didn't go to Harvard? Is that really a requirement?
Exactly what is the real rap on Sarah Palin?