Sarah Palin: Going Rogue? Or Vogue?

By fitsnews • on November 16, 2009

Sarah Palin appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s show Monday to promote her new book, Going Rogue, in which she attempts to place some additional distance between her ascending political trajectory and the stench of failure associated with U.S. Sen. John McCain’s atrociously-managed 2008 presidential bid.

Palin’s book also seeks to settle several old scores with former McCain staffers – people like campaign manager Steve Schmidt and communications adviser Nicole Wallace – who are said to have leaked stories critical of Palin following the conclusion of the GOP’s disastrous 2008 campaign.

Oh well … divas gotta do what divas gotta do, right?

Palin, who has come off as whiny and high maintenance (i.e. prima donna-ish) ever since the end of the 2008 race, did score some points with us earlier this month when she bucked the GOP establishment by supporting a fiscal conservative candidate in a special Congressional election up in New York.

Of course, Palin also scores some points with us every time she wears a skirt above the knees, people – or wears those smokin’ hot stripper boots. Or naughty monkey pumps.

Anyway, if Palin decides to stop whining about the past and start using her popularity to take similarly principled positions on political races in the future, then there might be some hope yet for the Republican Party …

The GOP can use all the Palins and all the Jeri Thompsons it can get its hands on (editor’s note: pun intended).

Asked about the prospect of running for president herself, Palin said in the interview that a 2012 campaign “wasn’t on (her) radar.”

“I am dealing with so many issues that are important, and what I am finding, clearer and clearer every day, what I am seeing is that you don’t need a title to make a difference,” Palin said.

True that, although the publicity blitz and nationwide book tour both suggest that Palin is indeed very interested in building her national profile … and making some bank in the process.

Palin also told Winfrey that she prays for her grandchild’s father, Levi Johnson – who has leveled all sorts of allegations against her in recent weeks – but she did say that it was “a bit heartbreaking” to see the road that he has taken, a road Palin says is “not a healthy place to be.”

All in all, Palin seems to be getting it together a bit … which is good to see.

“My dad’s quote sums it up better than I sum it up,” Palin told Oprah. ” ‘She’s not retreating; she’s reloading.’ ”

Comments

By Skidmarks on November 16th, 2009 at 6:52 pm

Dirty hair. Dead eyes. Frozen mouth. She’s handled too many dead fish…and, no, I won’t say it.

(BTW, I thought it was those McCain handlers who forced her to dress high-fashion.)

By Liberty For Me on November 16th, 2009 at 8:11 pm

I don’t get where all her substance is supposed to come from….I think they are pushing her so they will have a puppet.I hope in these hard times that this is not the best most “republicans” can come up with….
How about Judge Napolitano??? What, we don’t want to follow the Constitution?? We dont want someone we could really trust??

By scooter on November 16th, 2009 at 9:00 pm

This woman is the most weird person in the world. People on TV are way to nice when talking about her. She has absolutely NO clue about anything. I am glad that most of the GOP realizes what a nut job she is. it is one thing to be evil and smart, but another to be creepy stupid.

By ethel krabitz on November 17th, 2009 at 5:24 am

This is one Republican who wishes to see LESS of Sarah Palin.

By Ynot on November 17th, 2009 at 6:24 am

Palin is a distraction from everything else going on… like the destruction of our country.
Check out her church links… the group is loosely connected to Mark Sanford’s C Street group.

By Admiral_Komack on November 17th, 2009 at 8:22 am

Big whoop.

She’s a quitter…also.

By Toyota Kawaski on November 17th, 2009 at 8:30 am

Send her back to the land locked capital of the last frontier

By She's My Favorite... on November 17th, 2009 at 9:14 am

…Politician to look at. She’s pretty. She’s also pretty delusional when it comes to any real understanding of politics. She’ll sink the GOP.

By henry on November 17th, 2009 at 9:15 am

Palin has Dems terrified.

They are running scared.

By OnNoNotAgain on November 17th, 2009 at 11:05 am

“Palin, who has come off as whiny and high maintenance (i.e. prima donna-ish) ever since the end of the 2008 race, did score some points with us earlier this month when she bucked the GOP establishment by supporting a fiscal conservative candidate in a special Congressional election up in New York.”

How’d that work out for her, Jeri and the GOP?

By Rapine on November 17th, 2009 at 2:07 pm

“Palin also told Winfrey that she prays for her former son-in-law Levi Johnson . . . ”

You’ve got another fact error here, pal.

Levi never married Palin’s daughter. Oh, they promised the nation that the blessed nuptials were to happen soon, but life somehow got in the way.

Hey, I’ve got an idea, Fits:

Let’s not get you to check for fact errors in her light-weight, ghost-written book thingy.

By scooter on November 17th, 2009 at 6:50 pm

Note to the person that thinks Palin has the Dems. scared. Are you kidding me? You can not be afraid of a brainless, clueless, stupid person. She has no cred. She did not even write that book. Not sure she ever read a book.

By hit on November 17th, 2009 at 10:21 pm

scootie,
Dems ain’t skeered of her, huh? Then why have they emptied the Soros/Media Matters war chest to marginalize her? The bead has been on her since day one…to little avail.

Keep repeating your talking points. It makes you look desperate. “Brainless, clueless and stupid” seem to define Obama more and more.
To whom will Obama bow next?

By follydude on November 17th, 2009 at 10:53 pm

nice redirect, HIT.

i’ll see your Obama bow and raise you a Bush kiss on the lips with a Saudi Prince.

what’s that?

you’ll fold?

By AmericanMuser on November 18th, 2009 at 1:23 am

America’s elite and Palin-haters worldwide should not be so quick to dismiss or disregard the future of Sarah Palin. No other national political figure so completely fills Middle America’s vacuum of frustration and hate for the Left and Right as Sarah Palin.

Middle America has been abandoned by the Left and Right, who have saddled it with a $700 billion taxpayer bailout, an unnecessary and costly war, a soaring deficit, and an overall neglect of the pocketbook issues that impact Middle America every day. Where are job creation, quality public education, affordable healthcare, and fiscal responsibility, to name a few?

Middle America is mad as hell at the Left and Right and they just might be willing to roll the dice on someone like Palin, who lacks an Ivy League education, is a working class hockey-mom with a disabled child, and who has blue-collar roots like many of the folks in Middle America. The status quo on the Left and Right have produced nothing material for Middle America, which may toss conventional wisdom into the toilet and throw the lever for Palin, figuring it has nothing to lose, and it may be right.

The Ivy League educated on the Left and Right have delivered little to nothing for Middle America, perhaps precisely because they are out of touch with the issues that someone like Palin understands personally.

However, to say that Palin is a salmon swimming upstream is an understatement. The results of a CBS News survey released Monday indicate that 66 percent of respondents do not want her to run for the White House in 2012. Seventy percent of respondents to a CNN/Opinion Research poll said she is not qualified to be president.

More difficult for Palin is the fact that the trend is not her friend—public opinion is moving in the wrong direction right now.

In the CBS survey, 43 percent of GOP respondents said Palin would have the ability to be an effective president. Only 11 percent of Democrats and 29 percent of independents agreed.

However, there is an opportunity for Palin among independents, where Palin’s rating is 41 percent favorable, and 48 percent unfavorable, according to Gallup.

These numbers are not great, but there is plenty of time if she can move the needle by appealing to Middle America and independents, which is where elections are won or lost.

Clearly, Palin has put the monkey on her back, especially with her resignation from Alaska’s governorship in July, a self-inflicted wound that will be difficult to explain away. However, don’t put it past Palin to put lipstick on this pig and paint herself as a victim of politically motivated and baseless ethics charges that prevented her from successfully serving the people of Alaska, forcing her to do the noble thing and take the bullet by resigning.

We can say what we want about Palin, but no Republican in recent history has created such frenzied excitement across the country as she has. Just take a look at the fervor she stirs as she wheels across Middle America on her book tour.

Perhaps this is a misreading of the tea leaves, but one could argue that she creates a wee bit more excitement than Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee, the two Republican front-runners for president in 2012. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed woman just may be queen.

A. Muser
http://americanmuser.wordpress.com/