Sarah Palin clearly believes that she has been wronged and that she is under concerted attack. She has decided not to relent, or curry favor, or soften her image, or resort to any defensive public relations tactics. She's on the offensive.
Her alternative would have been obvious. Go back to Alaska, put her head down, and try to accommodate her political enemies. Perhaps write a lessons-learned book about her unlikely star turn.
Curiously, and alarmingly, she turns out to be much more seize-the-day than that. She certainly likes the attention. But it's hard not to miss her instinctual combativeness.
Arrayed against an establishment, both Democratic and Republican, which says she is a hopeless lightweight and obviously illegitimate, she keeps coming, keeps giving offense.
This isn't as dumb as it looks.
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She never learns...
This woman's first mistake was to think that she could be vice president of the United States, a heart beat away from the presidency. She was never qualified and she will never be qualified to be president. She was only picked by McCain to appease the base and she still doesn't understand this.
Other than that, I am 100% in favor of her running and winning the nomination in 2012 for the Republican Party. That would surely be the final blow for them as a serious party.
You have got to leave your bubble for a moment and see what she looks like to swing voters. Even people who may not agree with Obama on many things will be repelled by her lack of competence. Besides, who wants to vote for a President who couldn't even finish out one term as Governor of the most sparsely populated state in the nation?
So, I say GO PALIN in 2012.
If by "she's on the offensive" you mean "she's offensive to women and everyone else who has to finish a job they're not really that interested in or excited about" then you're spot on.
Outside of this bizarro-world that seems to have gripped Palin, her admirers and the rest of the dwindling GOP base, this really is as dumb as it looks.
"So, when things get tough, why should we expect you to not quit like you did last time?"
In her rambling, chaotic speech, she complained about ethics complaints, she complained about people picking on her, she complained about her personal life being "the story". Compare that with the tenacity of Norm Coleman, or Ted Stevens, or even Bill Clinton-- she's a featherweight who would rather threaten to sue than face actual criticism.
Not serving her term is shirking her responsibility to the state of Alaska. She took an oath, and broke and ran, not because of a hue and cry to oust her, not because of impending indictments (that we know of), or criminal investigation, or even ethics complaints-- but because she was being picked on.
Her political career is finished, although she might get the seat next to Hannity or Beck.
Yes. We wage war on the Taliban for their treatment of women (not true reason, but that was a strong public arousing argument)
She's not an Ivy, Ivy elite. That doesn't make her the idiot they have made her out to be. The corruption of the industrial complex makes any thing Palin did or didn't do pale. How about the number of Goldman Sacks people in the current government. Amazing that Lehman brothers, their major competitor was not saved. I'm too old too really care, but I'm old enough to remember the lynchings, and when women's place was in the home as a servent to the blue eyed men. Oh the blue eyes, and now the brown eyes are mad. How dare a woman, even Ivey, Ivey compete with them. Not Ivey, Ivey is oviously totally outrages. I remeber Truman, who in his day was reffered to, by the elite, as "that haberdasher", Interesting as he turned out to be one of our best presidents.
Palin bashing is wrong. And all involved should be ashaned of themselves. But, they have families to support, so they are running an Obama initiative. Nationalized press. Mao did well with that concept.
However, the issue here is a blog about Palin, so try sticking to the subject. If she had any intellectual heft, like Hillary Clinton, for example, she would be taken seriously. As it is, she doesn't have a shred of credibility except to the far right wing of her own party and that is unlikely to change.
My 2 cents.
So, what, pray tell, would a "soft ball" question be? A la Cheech & Chong?
"What is your name, Sarah? Starts with an 'S'. Ends with an 'H'. You can do it Sarah!"