Palin's future
Dave Tahija
location: Butte, Montana, en route from San Francisco to Juneau
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registered: 1999.12.27
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No doubt Palin would like to be a national figure, even the Republican nominee in 2012, but I don't see how that's going to happen.The blue-collar wing of the party likes her for the moment but the moneyed/intellectual Republicans have nothing but scorn for her. They won't give her the time of day, let alone the serious money and attention she'd need to move ahead. There's no way she can represent a unified Republican party.On top of that, she is really, really unqualified, which is going to be impossible to hide once she's not making campaign speeches. To name a couple of obvious examples, she knows nothing about foreign affairs and could not score a passing grade on a junior high civics exam. If she wants to stay in the spotlight, she'll have to give genuine interviews and participate in news panels. After a couple of embarrassing showings, I suspect that the major news producers and program schedulers will quickly lose her cell phone number.Once the dust has settled, she'll probably just go back to Alaska with a few forays to the lower 48 to give some motivational speeches and do the stray Fox News appearance. She won't be able to break into even a Pat Buchanan type role; she's just not that smart.After all, where is Dan Quayle these days?
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No doubt Palin would like to be a national figure, even the Republican nominee in 2012, but I don't see how that's going to happen.The blue-collar wing of the party likes her for the moment but the moneyed/intellectual Republicans have nothing but scorn for her. They won't give her the time of day, let alone the serious money and attention she'd need to move ahead. There's no way she can represent a unified Republican party.On top of that, she is really, really unqualified, which is going to be impossible to hide once she's not making campaign speeches. To name a couple of obvious examples, she knows nothing about foreign affairs and could not score a passing grade on a junior high civics exam. If she wants to stay in the spotlight, she'll have to give genuine interviews and participate in news panels. After a couple of embarrassing showings, I suspect that the major news producers and program schedulers will quickly lose her cell phone number.Once the dust has settled, she'll probably just go back to Alaska with a few forays to the lower 48 to give some motivational speeches and do the stray Fox News appearance. She won't be able to break into even a Pat Buchanan type role; she's just not that smart.After all, where is Dan Quayle these days?
