Palin, the Kingmaker!

Posted 21 Nov 2010 by Walaa Idris

Sarah Palin

With the Midterms out the way, the 2012 presidential campaign is already gaining momentum, Democrats more or less have their man in place, as the likelihood of anyone running but Obama is very slim. So whoever the Republicans field for 2012 has the advantage of fighting a sitting duck president who his own party is not all that convinced he can do the job anymore!

On the other side, the one visible candidate the GOP has for now is Sarah Palin. Palin is a charismatic down to earth conservative who speaks to peoples’ hearts the same way Barack Hussein Obama did when he was selling his Hope & Change message. Like Obama, Palin is a great orator, fundraiser and also green.

By all accounts Palin is the dream candidate for the Republican Party, but two years from the 2008 elections and she still has some serious issues to address if she’s to beat Obama. Americans might love Palin the person, but Palin, the Commander in Chief right now is not that different ‘baggage wise’ from Obama 08 and we all saw how well that turned out.

Palin’s first task is not to divide the Republican Party, she must be seen as the unifier and become the “outsider” with the great clout who can go it alone if needs be, yet is a team player who puts country and party before self interest. That will silence the naysayers inside the GOP and pull the rug from under the Dems and the liberal left.

Secondly, she needs to polish up on policy and learn form candidate Obama’s mistakes, have ready workable polices on every issue no matter how small – if she doesn’t, the left media will not let a week go by without a negative Palin story.

And finally, as a ‘team player’ she must be ready to become the Kingmaker – if her own bid looks like it might be faltering – giving her support ‘early’ to the right candidates is important and ties in with the first point – a unifier is selfless and will pave the way for someone more capable than themselves.

There is no doubt that Sarah Plain is a force to reckon with and she has unquestionably proved that. She is also what America wants and has been yearning for, in some ways she is like Bush 43 the early years, before Iraq, Katrina and the weak economic polices. But she needs to built her credentials and find a way to work with the establishment they made Obama; if she doesn’t find a way to work with them they will break her.

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Edward Green

Edward Green
21 Nov, 18:04

“By all accounts Palin is the dream candidate for the Republican Party”?? What the blinking fliperty flip accounts are those?? Well here’s one account that isn’t included!

Sarah Palin is frequently referred to as a politician with delusions of adequacy. Do you really think she can be a unifier? She is widely regarded in the USA as unbelievably divisive in the Republican Party where the moderate wing of the GOP are horrified by the merest possibility of her winning the Primaries.

On the other hand the Democrats are praying for a Palin victory in the GOP Primaries so moderate Republicans will feel obliged to vote Democrat and rescue Obama. Whether you like it or not, Walaa, Palin is seen as so far right and so utterly dense that moderate Republicans will do everything in their power to distance themselves from the extreme right wing nutjobbery [sic] and diplomatic and policy ignorance that Mrs Palin seems to signify.

You seem to think that Sarah “Drill-Baby-Drill” Palin is green? What planet are you on? Earth calling Miss Idris!

I apologise for being so harsh Walaa. I love your blog and I agree with a lot of what you say on many things. You have kindly shared one or two of my thoughts in the past. However, I just feel that you are so very wrong on this. Do you really think Fox News is “fair and balanced”?

You are correct in saying that Palin is a force to be reckoned with and I am as sure as you are that she has a real chance of winning both the GOP Primaries and the actual Presidential Election. I however find the possibility terrifying. Of course President Obama looks like a weakened president now, but if the US Economy picks up significantly in the next two years, then his chances of re-election also pick up significantly. Even if this doesn’t happen, a GOP Primaries victory for Mrs Palin is seen to strengthen Obama’s prospects considerably.

If the final round of the GOP Primaries boils down to Mrs Palin and, for example, a seasoned campaigner like Newt Gingrich, then the viciousness of that will make the hard nosed nature of the Obama/Mrs Clinton thing seem utterly trivial. Mrs Palin a unifier? I’m sorry, but I simply cannot believe such a thing.

I actually also suspect that this is one of the reasons why the UK Conservative Party Leadership is so frightened of it’s own Party’s Right Wing. There are not only constant calls for a national referendum on the UK’s continued membership of the EU but also the start of a few rumblings about a British so-called “Tea Party”.

This is not just about the UK’s situation with regard to Europe, but also about its situation with regard to the USA. It will be abundantly clear by now that President Obama is no fan of the UK or of us “Brits”. Is this any worse than “Dubya” going on about how Tony Blair was his bestest buddy when effectively meant that Tony Blair made us into the USA’s vassal state? I don’t think so. What if a future President Sarah Palin decides she wants to invade some country and then leave it in a Godaweful mess without any UN support. Will she expect the UK to support her as a vassal should like when Tony Blair took us into Iraq? I hope the Prime Minister of the day will have the decency to put our country’s interests first.

Obviously leaving the EU will do massive diplomatic damage to the relationships between the UK and the various member states of the EU. If leaving the EU is what the population of this country want, perhaps it is a price worth paying. However, sometimes our Country needs the help of other countries when trying to further our national interests. If we burn our bridges with our EU Partners, where will that help come from? The USA? Oooh, I wonder what altitude that pig is at…

Is the USA a good friend? Not under this President, and not under the last president either. The so-called “Special Relationship” is a figment of imagination. There seemed to be one between Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, but what of the way President Eisenhower betrayed us so shamefully over Suez? A special relationship should be between diplomatic equals regardless of any disparity in military muscle. It certainly should not be a relationship between a master Dubya and his lap-dog Tony.

Just a few thoughts…

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