Remarkable is the contempt shown by the GOP toward Sarah Palin. More remarkable is the fact that so many of her GOP detractors are willing, even eager, to express it publicly -- even with Palin an early front-runner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-palin-gop13-2009jul13,0,2642211.story
Some admit their preference that she stay in Alaska and forget about any national ambitions."I am of the strong opinion that, at present day, she is not ready to be the leading voice of the GOP," said Todd Harris, a party strategist who likened Palin to the hopelessly dated "Miami Vice" -- something once cool that people regard years later with puzzlement and laughter.
"It's not even that she hasn't paid her dues. I personally don't think she's ready to be commander in chief."....."I can't tell you one thing she brought to the ticket," said Stuart K. Spencer, who has been advising GOP candidates for more than 40 years.
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Commentary...
Yep, that's your problem -- you can't tell one thing she brought to the ticket. But I can, and so does the GOP base.
She's brought ideas and policies, Period. Palin may or may not "be ready to be commander in chief," she may or may not have what it takes to be president. But, until Republican leaders understand her appeal of her ideas* , and field whomever they want that also espouses those ideas, they will, perpetually, never get it -- and the party will continue to be marginalized.
But what I suspect, however, is that it is precisely her ideas, and not her preparedness, that so dismays her GOP detractors - and it is precisely her ideas and the audience they receive from voters that makes then fearful, for if these ideas catch on then the GOP and "politics as usual" will be anything but usual.
*That the role of government is to take a minimalist approach and stay out of the lives of the people.
~Cato
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