Most recently, the former governor, has written a best selling book, joined Fox News as a news analyst, and served as the keynote speaker at the Tea Party Convention. Many speculate that these moves have been designed to keep her in the public eye as she positions herself as a GOP favorite to oppose President Obama in 2012.
Washington Post political reporter David Broder recently wrote that Palin is someone who needs to be taken seriously:
Blessed with an enthusiastic audience of conservative activists, Palin used the Tea Party gathering and coverage on the cable networks to display the full repertoire she possesses, touching on national security, economics, fiscal and social policy, and every other area where she could draw a contrast with Barack Obama and point up what Republicans see as vulnerabilities in Washington.
Time magazine's Joe Klein takes a somewhat different view:
The speech was inspired drivel, a series of distortions and oversimplifications, totally bereft of nourishing policy proposals — the sort of thing calculated, carefully calculated, to drive lamestream media types like me frothing to their keyboards. Palin is a big fat target, eminently available for derision. But I will not deride. Because brilliance must be respected, especially when it involves marketing in an era when image almost always passes for substance.
Recent polling data still suggests a bit of skepticism about what Sarah Palin has to offer:
VIEWS OF SARAH PALIN
Now 11/2009 7/2009
Favorable 26% 23% 23%
Not favorable 41 38 37
Undecided/
Haven't heard 32 37 39
Though among conservatives she is a very popular figure:
VIEWS OF SARAH PALIN
All Liberals Moderates Conservatives
Favorable 26% 16% 15% 46%
Not favorable 41 58 47 26
Undecided/
Haven't heard 32 25 37 27
How do you view Sarah Palin? Is she someone we should take seriously? Does she offer what is needed in Washington?
Absolutely we should take her serious. She did an excellent job in Alaska. She is not afraid to admit was she stands for, reagrdless if it is the popular things to say or not. That is a respectful quality. I like to think that someone with a position of president of the US has a solid spine. I also appreciate the fact that you always know where you stand with her. You don't wonder if you are getting one story to you and another for your neighbor based on what she needs or what they want to hear. I went to see her when she came to Salem and I was very impressed! She is a classy lady as well. I dont believe she would tolerate her administration to act like two year olds responding on serious matters with the picking back and forth with the opposite party. While at the same time the home party is preaching how they want to all get along and work things out. I believe she will practice what she preaches and will lead by example. I also think she will not waiver on the secuirty of the USA allowing terroist to be tried in our court system and etc.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Sarah Palin should be taken seriously. This is because I feel she doesn't take her civic duty seriously. She quit her position as Governor to go on a national book tour and eventually join Fox. I don't think her political career will go much further in the future. I can see her continuing her analyst position to be a commentator on political affairs, however I believe her actual career as a politician is over.
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ReplyDeleteI don't think she can be taken seriously either. I don't really care about the political matters that she tends to try and deal with, I just really don't like her. Most of the people, particularly men, only wanted her in office because she would look best on a postage stamp. Her looks have gotten her this far and, in my opinion, that's all she's good for...looks.
ReplyDeleteNO NO NO AND SOME MORE NO!!! Take her seriously??? You mean before or after you just up and quit as the governor of Alaska????
ReplyDeleteYes let's elect her president, and in the time of a crisis, she can just up and quit. Hello people?? Do you not remember what she did?? And your honestly talking about her being our next president.... HAHAHAHAHA
ReplyDeleteI don't believe Sarah Palin should be taken serious at all. I watch Fox News and when they added her on the cast I switched over to CNN. Russia is in my back yard?? She needs to learn the globe before being our president. Brian made a great point that she quit governer of Alaska. How could she handle the whole country if she couldn't hold her responsibilty of running Alaska.
ReplyDeleteI feel that anyone that knows more about politics than me should be taken seriously. I do have to admit, that i did not like the fact that she quit politics for Fox. Or that she did nothing about her daughter having sex before she was married. And this, i do feel this is more upsetting then her going to Fox. And knowing that she is not that great of parent makes me feel that she may not be a good president. But I do think she knows a lot about what this country needs and how we can achieve what we need to for the future. And you have to admit she is better than "Hilary".
ReplyDeleteI cannot personally take Sarah Palin seriously and dont think anyone should. Of all the interviews and speeches i have heard and seen her make I lose more respect each time. She is ill informed and definitly not qualified to run for president. For these reasons I cannot see any reason to take her seriously.
ReplyDeleteI agree with michelle on this one, she is not afraid to stand up and say what she means, she definitely has a back bone, a hard one at that. I have personally never heard any of her speeches. I do find it odd that one who wants to run for president would quit her political duties, but I also see why she would do it as well. She is getting much needed media attention, I mean do we know of anyone else who is planning on running, other than Obama which is a given?? She has done a great job of staying in the media spotlight. And as far as the parenting thing goes, how is she supposed to stop her daughter from doing what she wants?? My mother is an amazing woman and a great mother and I have 4 children and I'm only engaged so I do not think that you can base someones parenting ability on the fact that their daughter had sex before they were married, I mean seriously how many people wait on marriage anymore?? I don't know of one single person who has waited.
ReplyDeleteI do not think she should be taken seriously. First, she quit as governor of Alaska. Also, Alaska has a population of about 500,000 which is the size of some towns in New York. She represented a huge state but a very small population. In addition, many of the problems facing Alaska are not the same as those in the continental US. Because she is from Alaska, I feel she may be out of touch with issues in the continental US.
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