Sarah Palin: VP candidate, governor, advisor, finished?
That’s certainly the impression when you look at a lot of news papers and websites this morning. Many wonder if Palin even has enough left in the tank to actually survive what she’s effectively brought on herself. And a few have even gone so far as to argue there’s no way. She’s more than likely damaged her political career with an early departure from her position as Alaska’s governor, neverminding the fact that her reasons for doing so–criticism by media and others, ethics complaints, etc–would likely only get worse were she to actually run for president in 2012, to the point now that nomination for president would more than likely secure another democrat victory.
Palin has been rather endlessly criticised, by republican loyalists and not-so-loyalists alike for both the way she carried herself in the 2008 election, as well as her early and, some would say cowardly, resignation from her Alaska post. The fact that she came off as not really understanding a whole lot of anything didn’t exactly help her situation either. But what’s making many scratch their heads is the post-announcement Sarah.
In this case, the post-announcement-Sarah is almost giving the appearance of looking for attention, as after her resignation announcement, she became very active on both Twitter and Facebook, as well as courting the media even more so than before–I believe there was a vague mention of a fishing trip over the weekend? When you look at all of that, it’s not hard to see why it is many journalists are now thinking Sarah Palin for president would probably result in political suicide. And they’re not alone. Even the voters, now, are thinking maybe she’s not exactly choice numero uno for running one of the most powerful countries in the world. With feedback like that, it’s hard to see Palin making a run at the whitehouse. Granted, she still has some support, and I’m sure if she decides that’s something she wants to pursue her supporters will certainly see that it happens–I just can’t sit here and say it’d be the best idea she’s ever had. It most asuredly won’t be the best idea the republican party’s ever had. And that may not go well in 2012.
Update: If Sarah thought an announcement of resignation would quiet those calling for her head, she was so sadly mistaken I wanna cry. Seems she still has to defend herself from a half ton of those complaints. Guess she didn’t run fast enough.
