Someone let Governor Palin know- quietly, if at all possible- the election is over. She hasn't seemed to notice. If this NYT article is any indication, she isn't so much jockeying for position in 2012 as starting a very poorly timed bid for president in 2008.
Almost beyond belief, she doesn't seem to have noticed that the tone she continues to adopt was instrumental in the Republican failure in the recently ended campaign. Worse, without RNC money she doesn't seem to be able to afford the barely effective staff saving her from the worst of herself over the last couple of months.
There is a certain touch to losing gracefully, denoting character and maturity. McCain has hardly been seen since the concession speech that so pointedly, and sadly, marked the high point of his campaign. Palin doesn't seem to have spent so much as 15 minutes worrying about her image, preparation for office, or any ways she could improve herself as a candidate or her image with the American people. One has to wonder if the Republican party has had the sense to see this as an evolutionary dead end, or if they are planning to spend another campaign cycle on this foolishness.
Either way, someone with the temperament of a saint should be found to act as her chief of staff. At the very least, to liven up those pedestrian sound bites.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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That's an interesting point in terms of this seeming a bit like flailing. There's very much an element of I'm-doing-this-because-I-can, without any kind of a meta-conception of how to rehabilitate her image.
It says a lot about the current state of the Republican Party that one could argue as to whether she's moving toward the fringe or wadding right in the center of it.
Let's not forget, as well, that this is a woman who wanted to deliver her own concession speech:
'Aides to her running mate, Senator John McCain, told her it was not customary for the No. 2 to speak, she said. "But, you know, I thought, even if it was unprecedented, so what, you know?" Palin told Lauer. "Geez, let's do something a little bit out of the box there."'
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