I'm Thinking Sarah Palin May Find She's Hitched Her Wagon To The Wrong Tractor

[WeDidIt]

Think about it.

HEre we have an incredibly ambitious person who is called on the phone and asked if she'd like to be McCain's running mate, and she immediately says yes without having any conversation with her family first. That's pretty ambitious!

Now, a financial crisis takes center stage, and the guy who is at the top of the ticket blows it with a huge gaffe that the opposition has capitalized upon and that has become symbolic of what the financial crisis is about. Then, as it turns out, economists blame deregulation for the crisis while Sarah has hitched her wagon to the guy who is the king of deregulators!

Coupled with her own inexperience and this could spell the doom for all of Sarah's ambitions. Should McCain lose, Sarah Palin may be shuffled off the national stage forever.

Yep, I'm thinking she's pretty miffed about how things are going right about now...

[beyurslf]

1. When McCain loses, I think Republicans will feel it was despite her best efforts and the help

she gave the campaign. We should expect to see her again in 2012 I believe.

[WeDidIt]

2. She could never make it through a primary

She has appeal to the most radical base, but beyond that she has almost no appeal.

[nxylas]

19. And the media

The media loves her. Or was that what you meant by "the most radical base?"

[TornadoTN]

3. IF they lose, this won't be the last we see of her

They will get to work molding and grooming her into a "super-candidate" - the one that they pretend she is today. The GOP has hitched their entire wagon to her - win or lose. They have no rising stars and the people they do have on board don't give anyone any inspiration or reason to vote GOP. Palin does, for better or worse.

This won't be the end of corporatist Palin. She's the very reason the GOP is even alive today.

[VaYallaDawg]

17. Totally agree with you Tornado.

GOP has finally found a young(ish) woman whom they can groom and educate as a modern-day Boedicia to terrorize the nation. We'll be seeing Sarah for a long, long time I fear.

[Bluenorthwest]

18. Boedicia? In what way?

Boedicia was a rather brilliant military leader, loved by her people for routing imperialist occupation forces.
I don't see the connection.

[VaYallaDawg]

26. I'm saying that's the way the GOP will (attempt to) portray her. n/t

[terrya]

5. I completely agree with you. She'll be back in 2012.

She won't be blamed for this election. She'll go back to Alaska, run for re-election, get some foreign policy experience (ie: visit a few countries) and run for President in 2012.

[Boz]

7. Nope she will die the same death as Geraldine Ferraro except she is not connected, so into Oblivion

She doesnt have a career future to hope for, she shot her whole shebang on 8-12 weeks of failure.

Its back to alaska grind, where shell try to parlay local celebrity into real estate and fail miserably there too.

[okieinpain]

16. senator of alaska, even if she gets slapped down about

trooper gate.

[tomg]

4. While I entirely agree ( I'm

surprised she made it this long), I do think that she is a major advance in public acceptability for the lunatic fringe. I am working on the assumption that Obama is going to win ( excepting out and out theft), and that McCain and Palin are sacrificial slugs ( no offense to slugs). This makes some serious right-wing fundies potential future candidates. She is Dobson et al. trial balloon. I am not worried about Palin, per se, so much as I am worried about Palin II.

[AZSlacker]

6. Like a monster in a horror movie... she'll be back, I'm just sure of it

She won't have the McCain albatross hanging around her neck next time. That is what makes me


:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:

[WinkyDink]

8. Palin is a one-off novelty. The 2012 nomination belongs to Jeb.

[Boz]

12. Palin was Jeb Bush's only chance, McCain gone, Palin would have chosen Jeb as VP

Because there was no ay in teh next 8 years, this generation at least, he could have hoped to be voted in.

But PLACED in as VP absolutely, and it would even "make sense" in some messed up world

And since we have seen what the VP can do to control the power, as Cheney has, you begin to understand the machinations that made her the choice.

She was a bush shield not a McCain strength.

[monmouth]

9. Nah, she's been over really since the Gibson interview. Her

favorables are dropping like flies. She's just another shiny object the repugs fawned over, they'll find someone else in '12. Intelligent repugs just have to know how uninformed she really is. All of the tutoring in the world isn't going to help. Put a fork in her.

[liberal N proud]

10. I think she wears the pants in her family figuratively speaking

And I think that she is also become the wearer of the pants in the campaign.

[Boz]

13. Just the opposite she is a skirt the men put on to hide behind. Both Todd and McCain just use her

as a shield, shes a cowtowing cheerleader hidden in a visage of a pantsuit/skirt.

Her classification is Sarah OfTodd

[secondwind]

11. it would be a very happy day for me if this should happen..........

getting rid of Republicans in the White House, AND the end of Sarah Palin.

[ladywnch]

14. she was chosen largely because she is/was expendable.

no one with a truly bright future in the GOP would take McCain's offer. no one of any prominence wanted to be on this ticket. everyone knows he is doomed and don't want to have their career doomed by close association. This woman is not particularly bright or politically savy in a national forum. She will go the way of Dan Qyale...back to the oblivion she so richly deserves. As far as the GOP was concerned.....she is expendable.....use her and lose her.

[Curtland1015]

15. WHEN the Repigs lose this November...

Palin will probably move on to being a Senator. Have one more failed bid at the white house, then become a Fox News talking head.

[JBoy]

20. Hitched her sled to the wrong snowmachine.

[mtnsnake]

21. I disagree. She thinks McCain is her quickest and best bet to the WH for her

but you nailed it on the head about her being incredibly ambitious.

[LiberalFighter]

24. Her ambition will only get her the Governor's office.

[LiberalFighter]

22. She made her own bed. The only person she should blame is herself.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

23. i don't think she has the intellectual capacity to even grasp that at this point. nt

[Overseas]

25. She's perfectly positioned. Golly gee, I did what I could to help the Old Guy.

She's built her brand and raised her profile. She's laid out hundreds of repetitions of her fake but key attributes -- reformer, pitbull with lipstick, stands up to the big guys, Christian.