President 2012: Is Sarah Palin Becoming Al Sharpton, Alaska Edition?
Probably not, but Sarah has been playing the victim card way too much. And, where is the beef of her populism? Where are the ideas?
This year, the conservative intelligentsia doesn’t just tend to dislike Palin — many fear that her rise would represent the triumph of an intellectually empty brand of populism and the death of ideas as an engine of the right.
“This is a problem for the movement,” said Will about what Palin represents. “For conservatism, because it is a creedal movement, this is a disease to which it is susceptible.”
The line of modern conservatism that can be traced back to National Review founder William F. Buckley would be broken by Palin, Will said.
“There’s no Reagan without Goldwater, no Goldwater without National Review and no National Review without Buckley — and the contrast between he and Ms. Palin is obvious.”
Asked if the GOP would remain the party of ideas if Palin captures the nomination, Will said: “The answer is emphatically no.”
I like Sarah Palin. She is a nice person, has a great family and a compelling story but she has NOT matured as a Presidential candidate or as a POL. Sarah has taken the fast track whereas a slower, methodical track based on ideas and experience is better for a Presidential contender.
Her polling against other GOP Presidential candidates has been extremely poor and downright atrocious against President Obama.
Sarah is not ready to run for the Presidency in 2012 and if she does will be soundly beaten.
3 Comments
nathan hale
That is a statement of remarkable stupidity, Sharpton is an utterly malign presence in American politics, a con man, slanderer, inciter of violence, hater of cops, yet he is welcomed into practically every forum, center, right, and left.
Sarah by contrast, has spent her whole life fighting corrupt establishments in her party, fighting for the soldier, small businessman and woman, she has conviction and she has the truth. Too many of these other respectable candidates
have neither, and wouldn’t know where to find it.
Anonymous
She’s not perfect, and neither is anyone else. She is a borderline force of nature, though, and like her or not one must admit she creates a stir. Now, after the past two years of being force-fed pap and crap about Obama from the media I disbelieve everything they say about her as well. Furthermore, where there’s smoke there’s fire – and anyone who garners this many people saying she’s not electable draws my attention. If she’s so terrible, she wouldn’t need bad publicity.
Thanks, MSM, you just created another Palin supporter.
freerunescapebots
he is welcomed into practically every forum, center, right, and left.
Sarah by contrast, has spent her whole life fighting corrupt establishments in her party, fighting for the soldier, small businessman and woman, she has conviction and she has the truth. Too many of these other respectable candidates