What Sarah Palin can do
Bill Quick:
I like most of these ideas. She is in a position to let her actions tell her story and does not need to do a sit down with people who hate her anyway. The insult artist like Maureen Dowd and others on the left are never going to understand her and what she stands for and to the extent they do, they just do not like anyone that conservative.
She needs to talk about what is wrong with the Obama policies in a way that redefines the current debate. This will become easier to do as Obama runs out of excuses for the failure of those policies. He can't blame those failures on Bush forever.
Palin is a very good presenter of scripted speeches. Her convention speech was probably the best speech of the 2008 campaign by anyone. When she is speaking without a script conservatives understand what she is saying and love her. Liberals tend to see the unscripted speeches as incoherent. She needs to pick her audiences for this type of speech. It will annoy the liberals in the media even more.
...There is more.1. Start putting her national team together now. Recruit from the best and the brightest of real conservatism. The GOP is currently top-heavy with the remnants of a defeated old guard that has lost its way, its conservative and libertarian vision, its base, and most of its legitimacy. Palin needs to begin building a conservative "shadow GOP leadership" able to supplant these sclerotic factions when the time is ripe.
2. Ignore the mainstream media and the Democratic party. Define herself on her own terms. No more chat-fests with the likes of Katie Couric. No more efforts to make herself likeable to enemies whose only wish is to see her career -- and conservatism itself -- destroyed.
3. Set out to remake the GOP in her image. This means identifying strong conservative candidates for both the House and the Senate, then supporting them with fundraisers and public appearances....
4. In this process, she should define herself by attacking Obama's policies and offering real conservative solutions and alternatives....
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I like most of these ideas. She is in a position to let her actions tell her story and does not need to do a sit down with people who hate her anyway. The insult artist like Maureen Dowd and others on the left are never going to understand her and what she stands for and to the extent they do, they just do not like anyone that conservative.
She needs to talk about what is wrong with the Obama policies in a way that redefines the current debate. This will become easier to do as Obama runs out of excuses for the failure of those policies. He can't blame those failures on Bush forever.
Palin is a very good presenter of scripted speeches. Her convention speech was probably the best speech of the 2008 campaign by anyone. When she is speaking without a script conservatives understand what she is saying and love her. Liberals tend to see the unscripted speeches as incoherent. She needs to pick her audiences for this type of speech. It will annoy the liberals in the media even more.
Sarah Palin's strategy of going off into the political wilderness after a period in elected office follows three other famous examples I can quickly recall. I'm sure others can add more:
ReplyDeleteWinston Churchill
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Charles DeGaulle is another. He didn't like how the French Constitution was drafted so he 'quit' as President in the late 40's. Then when France had the Algerian crisis of the late 50's they practically begged him to come back. I think Palin resigning is similar to what he did.
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