This news is older than water as Palin has said time-and-time again that her political aspirations may be on hold at this moment, but what about her “community” work? Is this not an actual attempt at a presidential nomination? Another question is: if she is going to run, will it be with an R next to her name, or perhaps a third party potential?
The questions that come from asking so many questions about Sarah Palin is that she is becoming a populous individual. She is a powerful figure in the eyes of many, and an absolute joke in the eyes of many more. I may have personally found her intriguing as a vice presidential nominee, but that was also because it was something I’d expect of a man like John McCain. See, John McCain was a person of not only experience in political wrangling, but a man with life experience to match. The man was of integrity, respect, and held true to man of my personal views. That being said, it was a unique position to pick a down-home Conservative (so it seemed at the time) to run with him.
I was hoping for a McCain election victory, not so much as a blowhard conservative being, but rather as a man who respects the history of Senator McCain’s work in Congress. The man has had a fiscal political career with ups and downs, this last election perhaps being his furthest down on the political scale. Despite all that has been said and done in his defense, the man had a snowball’s chance in hell at the on-going campaign of the Obama juggernaut.
Now in 2012, we may be pitted with another round of the same old debates between ex governor of Alaska Sarah Palin, whose book Going Rogue has been a number 1 bestseller even before it hit shelves, and Obama, who also holds the same title with titles like The Audacity of Hope, and Dreams of My Father. Both compelling novels to say the least, they still string a bit of controversy which is never a negative in political gain.
Despite the fact that this is a replay of our 2008 elections to some extent, I find it is in a different realm in late 2009. By the 2010 elections, we will see some sort of revolt to the current incumbents, and very well send them off before the next presidential election. This in-turn may stir up a mix blessing on the two-party system. Now many believe that two parties is all we have in this nation that count, and this has been seen on the massive scale of Federal government to an extent. Locally, you’ll find all ideologies in play, from socialists, libertarians, and even pseudo capital anarchists to name but a few. We do know that by region, opinions are changed by personal reflection.
To be fair, I do not hold to either party’s viewpoints wholly, as I believe many Americans are moderate in their everyday lives. I’ve also seen much aggravation on the side of Republican pundits, as well as Democrat pundits that are pushing for this election to happen in some form. Fox News is practically writing the ticket for Palin, who has never actually shown to want any more to do with politics than the Americans who simply vote. They put words into her mouth, as if they are campaigning her now, when we have three more years until the next presidential elections.
Other stations like MSNBC have in ways also done this for the Obama presidency, in a non-stop campaign that will not even be needed until 2012! Perhaps we put too much into the president’s title, perhaps they give the executive branch more credit than it deserves. Why give the president, or better yet, why does the current president nominees of the past say, twenty years feel it is an obligation to do the jobs the legislative branch should be doing promptly? Why act like a running back on issues like Health Care Reform and redistribution, when you’re simply a cheerleader?
Truthfully, this administration, as well as the Bush administration has shown that change is quite needed in this country. We are arguing the same viewpoints that Woodrow Wilson and FDR argued, and have not seen one bit of change, but suggestion on how this country should be run. Perhaps the voter is to blame? Or perhaps the very people who run for election are as much to blame as we are in this debacle.
Now, to the point I’d like to make about Sarah Palin, and her possible run against Barrack Obama in 2012: does she believe that her policies are a fit for the common American? Does she feel that she has enough experience at being president than the inexperienced Obama? And also, her quitting her governing job in Alaska show a sign of weakness when you’re put on the spot?
I do not believe personally it is career suicide to step down from a position in government, but in the shameful manner to only excel at a higher position shows me that Sarah Palin may have found her job not as “important” to say running as a GOP candidate for something that is three years off. It would be hypocritical to stage a mock campaign in 2009 that runs all the way to 2012 simply to be noticed in politics. If Sarah Palin was to truly run for election by the end of Obama’s term limit, would it not be smarter to campaign locally for say, a Senator’s position and move forward from there?
I believe this move would benefit both her career, and the American people. If she was put on a grand scale for that much time, we the American people could see if she would falter under pressure, or be a champion for her party, and deserving of potential nomination. I’ve yet to personally read her book, but I know enough to understand that when you put yourself in the line of fire, you either duck, or start shooting back. If Palin wants respect from the country as a strong candidate for running this country, she had better show it soon.
If I could, I’d personally ask Sarah Palin the most straightforward questions that I believe we need to hear. Naturally I’d ask the same of President Obama and hope both be answered for the sake of liberty. A question of thought first about this potential election which makes me curious: If Palin does run independently, say as just a Conservative, how many potential Republicans we’ve seen before, and who we will see after come in and take up against her as GOP candidates? If someone like Mitt Romney, or even Mike Huckabee throws their hats into the fray, would they stand a better chance against her?
Sarah Palin has answered some of the question I pose to her, but never as clearly as I’d expect, as she’s learning to softly step around the questions and make it seem like an attack. Does she believe she’s a fair candidate for the presidency? Does she feel the media through syndicates like Fox News are pushing her more than other candidates because of favoritism? Does she have the right knowledge to fix any blundering the current and last administrations had on the economic crisis? Will she create jobs, or at least speak with Congress to put forth legislation to help people create jobs? Will she rally for small business, or will she trend towards lobbyists?
Sure, these questions are either too misleading for her to answer, as she may not even know how her political games will be played, or they may seem to alienate her as someone that is untrustworthy. I still ask for the fate of Americans that these questions are ones we need to ask a person that claims to be outside of the “D.C. state of mind” and for the common person. If she were for the populous, she’d have no problems never getting involved with the lobbyists of both corporations and special interests groups on either side of the debate.
Another question we should ask Sarah Palin is if she is a fair and just representative? Will she be wholly conservative, or partially liberal? Will she hold herself accountable to her beliefs and never stray from them, or “flip flop”? That being asked, will she just go along party lines through muscling, or will she do like she claims to have done in Alaska and fight both parties, even a third party she may very well run in? Most importantly: will she be able to handle the pressures that come with the job?
She already has controversy surrounding her, which is fine; it makes our politicians human and not celebrity status of what seems to ironically spell “perfection”. I think the allegations of her daughter Bristol will come up many times in an election, as it should, but will it make her seem weak?
If I were to hope someone run for the presidency, it would be someone like Wayne Allyn Root, who was a candidate with Bob Barr in 2008. They ran on the Libertarian ticket, and most people if they heard of them, only saw small cuts from the news, or if they were in tuned looked them up on the internet. The only candidate outside of the ones we had run that gained any focus were the likes of Ron Paul, and Mike Gravel, both of which are well-known politicians.
Let’s hypothesize though, and say Sarah Palin by some chance becomes the GOPs candidate for 2012, despite how much of a long shot that seems. If she is chosen as a candidate, will that assure a Barrack Obama reelection? Many will argue this point time and time over, but what matters most is if this sort of situation will favor the incumbent. I cannot predict the future of the present administration term in office, but facts and figures will speak out larger than soothing words. If the jobs decrease in the upcoming years, and the Congress changes exponentially, it may very well be that Sarah Palin is the next, and first female president in United States history. This of course, will be under very extreme terms, and will have much to do with how the current administration handles the situations we as Americans deal with at home and overseas.
The wars we are fighting will be influencing factors, the health care debates, along with other special interests in social politics will become affluent in the outcomes in the upcoming years. Will the press for even more local issues such as gay marriage, and legalization of Marijuana not also be debated as they have been for the last ten to fifteen years string about political change? These are indeed factors both parties will have to look upon, and by then, many Americans that are beginning to talk will surely have their eyes wide open on all aspects of these debates.
So this may not have been a truly “political strategy” for Sarah Palin to follow, but that was never the intention. As a Libertarian, I hold no water in either party’s win, but as an American, I believe whole-heartedly that the future of my country will always depend on the vote, and it should depend on the vote. President Obama could very well be a one-term president, unless he decides to run again if by-chance he loses in 2012, but this does not mean it will be an easy win either if he does not show he is candidate that is far better than his 2012 opponent.
With his approval ratings just etching back up to 50% this week of December 7th, 2009, it could show that it will effect the outcome in the years to come. Despite popularity, the push towards Health Care Reform is at a significantly low approval rate of 35%, but this also shows that it can have room for far greater improvement.
With opinion becoming the way of the rabble rousers that piss and moan over one party or the next, we need to just simply turn to the facts given to us on what is happening in the country today, and what would greater improve the standard of living. We need to show that if the free market should still exist, it has to be done right, and that if the free market is to fail; we have to find a better solution than the ones we are receiving.
I believe in one thing when it comes to the politics of America, that it was founded by men that may not have always followed, but indicated that a man or woman has a natural right to do as they please within reason, that their privacy is sacred, and that they should choose for themselves the level of involvement if any they have in the way government works.
The people have a full-pledge right to say what they want without the fear of offending idle ears that may have overheard. They have the right to disagree with their leaders, both local and federal, while also being able to change that with either impeachment or through the voting process. The ballot box is stronger than fancy words strewn at them by politicians.
I believe personally that the government that governs less does truly govern best; I follow a somewhat Jeffersonian philosophy, and a laziez fare approach to the lives of others. I don’t like to stick my nose in everyone’s business, and I avoid the gossip of others, as it doesn’t affect me on a personal level. When I look at a potential candidate, and I hear they want to lay off on taxing, eliminate spending on pointless special interests groups, and that they will leave me to my property, my rights that are supposedly unalienable, and to decrease the size of useless government programs, I’m a happy guy.
Would Sarah Palin do this? Maybe, she claims to be a small government person, but saying you are small government in this modern day is saying you will only increase the deficit a few hundred million instead of several trillion, which is despicable. I liked Sarah Palin earlier on because she spoke with some eloquence, but not the jargon of political battering that I’m so used to hearing, rather she spoke in a manner I hear from people who find that the steady argot these politicians use every year sounds more like horse shit shoveled into the ears.
I’d like to close by saying that I do not back any candidate, and I try my damndest not to sound bias, but if by any means I was harsh on either the president or Sarah Palin during this post. I assure you, I’m equally questioning of both of them, and find both to need careful watching over the next few years. Both parties I talk about here are but a fraction of what really needs to be said about the current state of our government. I do believe highly that both Sarah Palin and Barrack Obama have both good and bad, and even horrific qualities to them, neither any better nor worst than the other. That is today though, and in three years this may very well change. For now, I’d just like to say is this: neither of these individuals are any better or any worst given the current circumstances, the only people who can truly fix the situation we are in, are the people who vote with their heads, and change the future by placing a choice in the ballot box. That is the freedom we have, and if we fail to use it, then our children may never have the right to do so when their time comes.
Sarah Palin has no doubt made a serious impact on a grassroots movement, but with a movement that has grown through Barrack Obama, has it been set in stone that the Republicans have no chance at winning in 2010, not even counting the next presidential election? Only the American people will decide this on a local and federal level. We as Americans will have to stay put for now, and hope for whatever honest change will come.
I question Palin and her views with a skeptical tone, as she has neglected to mention much of her political aspects in the future. Despite what will happen, we will know that Fox News is clearly behind her, and I question their loyalty to the supposed “fair and balanced” views they supposedly claim to have. What irritates me most is that it seems if things are not going their way, they are not happy, but despite it all, Sarah Palin is nothing more than a “Ra Ra” team that simply will not stop on the solely conservative level. She will either fail miserably on the federal level, or be a surprise comeback candidate for a dying right wing. Either way, we’ll be hearing more from her in the future.
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