Good game, Governor Palin. Don’t be a stranger. Let’s see you again soon, please ma’am.
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I like Palin too but the things that resonate with us (red state) guys obviously don’t play well with women in general. The fact is, unless she has an epiphany and becomes pro-choice she hasn’t got a chance. I think the Republicans need to find a different standard bearer.
I’m somewhat depressed by the results of the election but at least this won’t get dragged through the courts again.
All we can do now kick back and watch. The game is all Democrat now.
Bob: I’m not so sure.
It’s kind of become the conventional wisdom that Palin was a drag on the ticket, but I suspect the opposite is actually true. It’s easy to forget what a slog the McCain campaign had become until the Palin announcement. Now clearly she caused a bounce that wasn’t entirely sustainable, but in the end, I suspect she had more of a rallying than a dampening effect.
I voted because of her. I think that demographic is significant. (And anecdotal, I realize, but I know several women who were/are absolutely over the moon for her.)
Perhaps “standard bearer” is a bit much. However, there must be some middle ground for her. As the Republicans start trying to put themselves back together, I think it would be a huge mistake to pat her on the head and send her back to Alaska.
She can gain some more foreign policy “experience” back in Alaska for four years.
Boy, did that sound petty and gloating. I really don’t want to be that way. I have not seen much potential for leadership in Gov. Palin, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t any. She seemed like a fish out of water to me in this past election, but that wasn’t really her fault.
Oh, in addition to the lawyers I pointed out as fine examples of the profession, I should have mentioned one of the finest: Abraham Lincoln. Stories of his legal skills and accomplishments still resonate in the legal world; he did fine in his subsequent career as well.
Gerry: I don’t dispute that we need lawyers. In fact, I believe it inarguable they are a necessary component of a civilized society. I’d just like to see their numbers, and the number of laws with which they work, cut by perhaps two orders of magnitude. 🙂
I think the Republicans are doing themselves in with this all or nothing attitude over issues of choice. The federal government shouldn’t be involved with it (pro or con). Rebublicans need to get back to fiscal conservatism and pragmatism.
“I know several women who were/are absolutely over the moon for her.” –Bo
“I can’t believe Nixon won. I don’t know anybody who voted for him.” –Pauline Kael
Bo also sez:
“It’s kind of become the conventional wisdom that Palin was a drag on the ticket, but I suspect the opposite is actually true.”
She was a drag. You can like her all you want, but you’re in the minority. Her negatives were by far the highest of the four candidates.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/24/AR2008102402698_pf.html
59% said she wasn’t ready while only 35% said she was. Her numbers dropped dramatically after the Couric interviews.
The GOP would do best to forget about her and start priming Bobby Jindal for 2012.
mabnyc: My statement was hardly the wide-eyed, golly-gee one that Kael famously made, as evidenced by the fact that you had to omit “anecdotal, I realize” to try to smack me with it. Come on.
I read a bit or two of commentary today on Palin. One compared her to Reagan in 1969, and another said “she hit the ball as far as she could” or something similar. I think both of those are more in the neighborhood than is “forget about her.”
Oh! Big Bobby Jindal fan here. PBJ ’12.
Oh, I know you said it was anecdotal, Bo. But you keep up on things. Surely you know that she isn’t well-regarded by most of the country.
As far as her future prospects, she doesn’t seem all that interested in self-improvement to me. She’s “done”, intellectually speaking. I may be wrong about that. But others of her type haven’t exactly grown over time. (See “Bush, G.W.”) But I guess we’ll have to wait and see. If she comes back in four years with no “New and Improved” sticker on her (along with actual new and improved content), you guys are in for another disappointment. Best not to bank on it.