SARAH PALIN long ago left center stage, with the final death knell her abysmal self-promotion during the aftermath of the Gabby Giffords shooting. Her stature is made smaller by her own efforts, which in an era of competence and women’s prowess rising shows Palin preferring celebrity and sheer flackery over tooling up and gaining knowledge to rehabilitate herself.
So, after being deliberately ignored by the Romney campaign, which is exactly what she deserves, from the Fox News world of Greta Van Susteren comes Sarah’s whisper.
“…Everything I said at the 2008 convention about then-candidate Obama still stands today, and in fact the predictions made about the very unqualified and inexperienced Community Organizer’s plans to “fundamentally transform” our country are unfortunately coming true. This year is a good opportunity for other voices to speak at the convention and I’m excited to hear them. As I’ve repeatedly said, I support Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan in their efforts to replace President Obama at the ballot box, and I intend to focus on grassroots efforts to rally Independents and the GOP base to elect Senate and House members so a wise Congress is ready to work with our new President to get our country back on the right path. This is imperative. As President Clinton said in 2008 while candidate Obama and lapdogs in the media were thrashing his wife’s record and reputation, this is “…the biggest fairy tale.” For the sake of America’s solvency and sovereignty we must close this nonsensical book in November…”- Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin can pick candidates and perform grass roots wonders among the margins, but with a Republican Party moving towards the reimaging of Reagan in the guise of Paul Ryan, there’s no place for her at the power table. If Romney-Ryan loses, though they’re coming out hard to help define Ryan as warm against the Grinch who Stole Your Medicare image, the party will move even farther away from Sarah’s brand of bloviating. She’s also been out classed by any number of Republican women who at least take themselves seriously enough to put specific issue points over sound bite barks.
Sarah has her fans, but she’s lost respect.
When Mitt Romney chose Paul Ryan he delivered the anti-Palin candidate. Yes, Paul Ryan’s budgetary plans are extreme, but they’re detailed, explained and passionately delivered by a man who has religion on them. Strong and wrong beats right and weak, as we saw with George W. Bush, with the Democratic economic message almost non-existent in Pres. Obama’s first term.
With Republican female stars that start with Dr. Condoleezza Rice and include Governors South Carolina Nikki Haley, as well as New Mexico’s Susana Martinez, the first female Hispanic governor in the country, Sarah Palin now looks like a throw back, like one of those souvenirs at a Cracker Barrel outlet you see along the freeway. Remember when?
Paul Ryan may help take Mitt Romney down, though let’s face it, Mitt Romney was doing that on his own before Ryan arrived. Ryan economics is a disastrous road, but that’s the road Romney’s chosen and the one that best represents today’s Republican Party. There’s simply no room for a woman Romney wouldn’t hire if this effort was a business.
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I agree with most everything you said. Palin had a chance and now she’s turned herself into a circus act.
In other words she had her 15 minutes.
Sarah who?
Indeed, sarah who? This never WAS had an inflated 15 minutes…she isn’t even history….she is an aberration that blurped up on the radar screen out of repugnantklan desperation and now is last months chopped liver….without refrigeration.
Shrinking relevancy? Taylor, who are you kidding? You know damn well she isn’t done.
I can’t disagree…….Sarah Palin, as do all socons, loses relevance to a ticket of ficons…..although the exact same thing could be said about liberals under a Obama/Biden ticket.
I am not so sure if she is totally out of the picture quite yet. She did make history with her ticket and she does have a fanbase. But it does seem she is focusing on celebrity instead of politics although she has endorsed candidates and remains a Tea Party Figure. Her husband is on reality tv now so is her daughter. She still for now has that big contract with Fox. But she does seem more happy being in the world of celebrity instead of politics. It pays more and less work to do. Everyone has their day, she has had a good run. Governor Haley and others are going to be able to get their political runs until 2016 thats four years from now. It does give Sarah abit of time to still be a talking head for Fox if Obama wins which its looks like it will.
Whether Sarah Palin is “done” or “out of the picture” is not the point. Read what I wrote and let’s discuss that.
TODAY, in 2012, Palin’s not only irrelevant, but she’s not respected and her choices have landed her outside one of the most exciting moments in conservatism in recent memory, which Ryan represents.
There is also absolutely no evidence that Sarah Palin is interested in being anything other than a celebrity, which has a very short shelf life when you don’t have the gravitas to take you beyond where you began.
I’ll be ready to write about her comeback if and when it happens, but first she has to have one.
This woman had her chance and blew it.
When she decides she wants to be less Kardashian and more (I’m trying to think of a Tea Party woman who has the intellectual goods for Palin to emulate but I can’t think of anyone: maybe someone can help me out here) cerebral, then perhaps she will matter.
Right now she’s beside the point and one can argue she has made it worse for conservative women to break that conservative Titanium ceiling to occupy the Oval office someday.
And, frankly, McCain and Schmidt and Wallace and his failed POTUS campaign have lots to answer to conservative women here as well.
As a woman, I am still of the mind that all women’s boat’s are lifted whenever a woman rises to power in her country. Each of the women in the world who became the leader of her country regardless of political party or philosophy have made it a bit easier for other women regardless of political party or philosophy to break those invisible but well-entrenched ceilings whether made of glass or titanium.
Sarah Palin had the chance to do that even as she lost in 2008 but she by her own free will failed and that responsibility lies with her alone. Unlike Hillary Clinton who never let outside opinions of her trump her inner being and who never aided and abetted her detractors but got up, dusted herself off, moved on and KEPT GOING (as she said in her speech at the 2008 Dem convention) to become one of the most powerful and admired women (human beings) in the world. A lesson that Palin either refuses to emulate or just doesn’t have it in her person to pull off in a real way.