piercehawkeye45 |
11-15-2009 02:26 PM |
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Originally Posted by Redux
(Post 608482)
Yet, many within the Republican social conservative base just love her!
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A few weeks ago I met someone who aspired to be the senator of Alaska and he thinks something big is going to happen with Sarah Palin. She will be able to rally her base whether she is running for office or not and depending how the next few years go, it may have some strong effects. From my opinion, it is one of the best short-term strategies the Republicans can have since she will have two to four years to practice speeches and interviews and show how much she has grown.
On the other hand, I think this is a very foolish long-term strategy. The demographics of the United States are changing quickly and if the Republicans want to have a chance in twenty years, they have to change their stance to socially liberal. Palin may be effective in the next decade but the Republicans need to start looking for young fiscally conservative socially liberal Republicans to build up or they will be in trouble in twenty to thirty years. It will probably happen naturally but the more they push Palin, and others like her, the more trouble they will have in the future.
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
It's not just them, I think that a lot of people are so overwhelmed and disgusted with politics/politicians, they're attracted to her as someone they can identify with. Those people don't see her as being ineffectual in national/international politics, because of their own naivety in those areas.
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Also people that don't like her speaking style and analogies probably would never vote her anyways so she doesn't have to take them into account. It will be interesting to see if she has changed for 2012 at all.
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