Can Sarah Play?

By fitsnews • on January 28, 2009

Yesterday’s announcement that Alaska Governor and former GOP veep pick Sarah Palin had formed a political action committee was clearly one of the most talked about stories of the day.

Along with former Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt “Two Face” Romney and Mike “Bible Thumper” Huckabee, Sarah “the Barracuda” has now become the third major player to take this first critical organizing step in running for President in 2012.

Wait … we’re talking about 2012 already?

You betcha … in fact, we began addressing the possibility of a Palin presidential campaign the day after the election in November.

Of course as much as Palin is near and dear to our hearts, we’ve been substantially less than impressed with her performance following the 2008 election.

Her recent whine fest with a far right blogger, in particular, positioned Palin not as the anti-media darling some had hoped for, but rather as a bitter, sniveling … what’s the word … oh yeah, bitch.

It’s one thing to call the press out for misreporting or refusing to report on a substantive issue – and then provide any one of the kabillions of examples you can cite for that – but Palin’s complaining was predominantly focused on her.

Which, let’s be honest, is petty. And far from Presidential, unless of course Nixon is your guide (no offense to one of our favorite presidents).

Running for President of the United States – and in particular competing in a South Carolina GOP presidential primary – means that people are going to say things about you (and your family) that you don’t like.

You have to deal with it, laugh it off or at the very least pick your battles.

Palin has yet to show she can do that, which means that the slime-spewing Romney machine and Holier-than-thou Huckabee armies will be able to use those tactics to knock her off her game.

More worrisome, however, are reports that Palin – despite her reputation as a reformer – may have already been co-opted by some of the status quo Republican powerbrokers responsible for the previous two GOP election defeats.

If true, that puts a major crimp in her ability to conceptualize, articulate and advance a true common sense conservative agenda.

Which let’s be honest – the horrifically off-message Republicans better come up with, and fast.

Comments

By CL on January 28th, 2009 at 2:51 pm

I’d be willing to bet that Bobby Jindal will be the nominee if he wants to run in 2012. Although I could understand if did not want to take on Obama and his PR department (also known as the mainstream media).

By Let's Be Honest with Ourselves on January 28th, 2009 at 2:57 pm

Offering Palin and Huckabee for the presidecny marks the end of the party that Goldwater and Reagan built. (That is, what little of that party is left after W.)

McCain LOST among college graduates. He LOST among people making more than 200,000. Yes, you read that right.

Palin and Huckabee seems like decent folks…but let’s be honest, offering up a beauty queen who makes GWB look like a Harvard researcher when it coems to intellectual curisotiy, or a guy who thinks the Old Testament is a science text book (not even the jews think that, and they WROTE the darn thing)…is nothign mroe than an admission that the party is philosophically bankrupt.

Until the GOP figures out that it stands for more than big-government morality and “conservative” judges, it will remain a minority — and an ineffective one at that.

By Upstate_GOP on January 28th, 2009 at 3:14 pm

If I’m Sarah Palin, Bobby Jindal or another rising GOP star, and it looks like after 2010 that Obama is still very popular and is on his way to a likely re-election like Reagan in ‘84, I’d have to ask myself do I want to raise millions of dollars to be a sacrificial lamb for the chance that the GOP might re-nominate me in 2016? I suspect some of these folks would just assume to stay out of the 2012 race the same way that Hillary stayed out of the 2004 race, hope that Obama wins re-election and then run in the open 2016 election.