The Palin strategy
Let's first talk about the Democrats' Palin strategy. It was to tie her down and bankrupt her family with frivolous ethics complaints while using its culture warriors to ridicule her and her family. They did this out of fear of her formidable political appeal. They could keep her tied down in Alaska and try to marginalize her they way they did Dan Quayle and others.
Her decision upends the Democrat strategy. While it offers other avenues of attack that her critics within the GOP were quick to seize on, it also frees her up from the investment in time and money the bogus ethics complaints were taking. It gives her the opportunity to make a lot of money on the speaking circuit and with her book deal.
She can also collect chits from other politicians she raises money for and speaks for in the lower 48. This is something she would not have been able to do while acting as governor and fighting off bad faith attacks by Democrats.
It may not lead to the White House, but it frees her to pursue that ambition and become a bigger player on the national scene. Those who discount her do so at their own peril. I think she would be a dynamite speaker at Tea Party events around the country. She connects with the people in those crowds of voters like few other politicians.
Her decision upends the Democrat strategy. While it offers other avenues of attack that her critics within the GOP were quick to seize on, it also frees her up from the investment in time and money the bogus ethics complaints were taking. It gives her the opportunity to make a lot of money on the speaking circuit and with her book deal.
She can also collect chits from other politicians she raises money for and speaks for in the lower 48. This is something she would not have been able to do while acting as governor and fighting off bad faith attacks by Democrats.
It may not lead to the White House, but it frees her to pursue that ambition and become a bigger player on the national scene. Those who discount her do so at their own peril. I think she would be a dynamite speaker at Tea Party events around the country. She connects with the people in those crowds of voters like few other politicians.
Palin's move was totally unexpected and showed she is totally capable of unorthodox "out-of-the-box" thinking (one of the key differences between leaders and managers) - and it provides her with two critical strategic assets, options and time.
ReplyDeleteIf, as I believe, she is able to positively leverage these new assets, this decision will come to be seen as a brilliant counterstroke to the death by a thousand cuts the democrats are attacking her with. And of course, she can now make enough money to insulate herself from this kind of distraction.