Sarah Palin has recently stated that she believes that she could beat Obama in 2012.
I would have said that was ridiculous until I saw that her daughter Bristol is now heading to the finals in this coming Monday's Dancing With The Stars.
As Brandy hung her head and cried during her elimination on Tuesday night, I began to believe for certain in the power of the Tea Party. Brandy and her partner Max have enjoyed perfect scores on more than one occasion. Brandy is an excellent dancer who deserved to make it to the finals.
Bristol Palin is a young woman who has a sweet and earnest disposition, who has worked very hard to become a "better" dancer in her DWTS journey, but what she is not, and will never be is a great dancer.
Week after week, dancers with more natural talent, grace, and most importantly, ability have found themselves eliminated after perfect and near perfect scores while Bristol continues to be saved from elimination after continuous weeks of landing at the bottom of the judges leader board.
Week after week we see the real star, Sarah Palin, in the audience cheering and supporting her daughter Bristol, while consciously consolidating her base with each appearance.
What all of this means regarding how the votes are counted on DWTS is far less important about what this might be telling us about the future of our country and the power of Sarah Palin.
Yes, this is only a television show but I hope the Democratic Party is taking notice.
The Karl Rove School of Politics has much to teach us. Stay on point, hammer home the message, (truth or fiction) and get your people to the polls.
Whether one is voting for a television candidate or a political one, those of us not glued to Fox News need to Wake up and Show up if we care about our candidates and our party.
Elections can be stolen when enough people deliver the same message; much the same as choosing finalists on television.
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Though I'm not sure that repeating all things will make them more believed by the American public. A million Democrats can give the same message, but if it doesn't fit people's preconceptions, it will be ignored. The Republicans/Tea Party use the fable of American self-reliance to explain to us why the richest shouldn't pay more taxes on the monies they "earned." That's right, they deserve more, they work hard for it, they make all our lives better. When really, most are people that are born on third base and go through life as if they hit a triple.
So hammer home the message, Democrats, but dress it up as a catch phrase of American values. Even if it's true.
the judges votes dont mean too much because they dont go too low too often. So someone who gets all 7s is not that far behind someone who gets all 10s-like 4% behind. and thus the voting public matters a lot more than the judges because thats where you would have a real swing in popularity .
Audrina Patridge was a good dancer. But nobody cared about her. Barely anyone knew her.
The Karl Rove School of Politics has much to teach us. Stay on point, hammer home the message, (truth or fiction) and get your people to the polls.
Whether one is voting for a television candidate or a political one, those of us not glued to Fox News need to Wake up and Show up if we care about our candidates and our party.
Elections can be stolen when enough people deliver the same message; much the same as choosing finalists on television.
Yup it's the RWNM/conspiracy at work-they are out to win at all costs even DWTS, never back down never be off or off message, the Dems could learn from this.
It really means nothing and is only dangerous when people give her advancement, due to the vote tally, more weight than it deserves. Sarah and Bristol are completely unqualified for much of anything and are only propelled to these heights by lazy superficial fans and media. They are balloons filled with air and will soon pop-nothing really there, talent wise, to keep them aloft for long.
I think the majority of actual voters in an election would require a bit more substance than Palin has ever been able to show. If all others who would require talent in a dancer, that were watching or doing something else-would have voted, Bristol would have been long gone.
Voters were awake in Alaska-Tea Party lost the Senate race where they know Sarah best.
The Tea Party will need a better hammer and the left will need a better message to hammer home.
It would be tragic if neither needed a talented candidate of substance.