The charismatic (!) Alaskan has endorsed more than 100 conservative candidates. If a majority win on Tuesday, her path to the 2012 GOP presidential nomination will be paved.
It may be 2010, but former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is running like it's 2012.
Palin's political action committee, Sarah PAC, has taken in almost $5 million. The 2008 vice presidential candidate used her PAC as well as Facebook, Twitter and her Organize4Palin Web site to give her stamp of approval to more than 100 conservative Republicans in federal and state races.
Her use of social media and her popularity with tea party devotees has shone a brighter light on Palin's activities in the midterms than those of her potential 2012 opponents. Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Haley Barbour and others often gave more midterm money directly to candidates and, more importantly, hosted fundraisers on their behalf. But Palin's star power draws the focus away from other efforts.
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I don't think Palin has much of a chance to hold political office again. I don't think she even wants to. She's too big for Alaska and she's too weird for the entire country. It's more about money and fame and the Hollywood lifestyle she says she's against. In my opinion, raising millions of dollars for politics can be grouped together with her getting paid extra to live in her own house as governer and her daughter going on Dancing With the Stars-namely, milking her fame and influence for all its worth.
ReplyDeleteThe whole Tea Party Movement has pretty much been co-opted by the establishment and is now just theater. It originally did stand for something-a radical departure from power of the Federal government. Now that it has developed some traction, they are a mainstream Republican movement. Case in point: Remember how much notice Ron Paul's position on Israel got here last election? Well his son was just elected to Congress from kentucky and here's his position on Israel and Palestine:
As a United States Senator, I would never vote to condemn Israel for defending herself.
Whether it is fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon, combating Hamas-linked terrorists in Gaza or dealing with potential nuclear threats in the Persian Gulf, Israeli military actions are completely up to the leaders and military of Israel, and Israel alone.
It sounds like the same old crap to me.