Palin Uprising?
From the Official Sarah Palin Fan Club – By Peter Andrew ConservativeAmerican.org
Reihan Salam, Forbes
There’s an interesting article on Forbes magazine’s site by Reihan Salam wondering if Sarah Palin is the republican party’s “Howard Dean.”
Salam talks about the heightened interest in the race for RNC Chairman (we recommend Saul Anuzis) and says what the party really needs is someone who can do well on the talk shows like Dean. He wonders if that can be Palin:
“Sarah Palin is, like Howard Dean, a polarizing figure. She’s even a polarizing figure among Republicans. Highbrow Republicans and suburban moderates wince at the merest mention of her name. Despite her obvious political skills, conservative thinkers like David Frum and David Brooks consider Palin obviously unqualified for the presidency. Grassroots conservatives, in contrast, idolize Palin as a symbol of everything that is right with America, not least because of the way she lives in accordance with her Christian values–leaving aside all of the money spent on elaborate pantsuits.”
Those highbrow republicans and suburban moderate republicans he speaks of can all go take a hike. They had their candidate in 2008, the centrist populist John McCain. Winning in the middle excites no one and this losing strategy was, well, losing. Who cares what David Frum, Fred Barnes, David Brooks, and Bill Kristol think. These are all so-called “new” conservatives who want to drop the whole “social conservative” agenda in favor of just holding on to the fiscal conservative items. Nonsense! Salam has a rather bleak forecast for us however:
“Somehow, Barack Obama will tick off a large and important conservative constituency–it could be blunders in Afghanistan, it could be a sweeping environmental proposal that seems to punish energy-producing regions–and boom, you have a recipe for a Palin uprising. In keeping with the Dean precedent, Palin will then raise a staggering sum of money, she will energize tens of thousands of conservatives, and, after a series of high-profile gaffes, she will be crushed at the last minute by slow but steady Mitt Romney, who will win the nomination and lose the general election.”
We’ll have to see how Obama does in four years. Palin might be perfect in 2012. Perhaps she will be better off waiting until 2016.
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