I watched Sarah Palin's Tea Party Convention keynote this morning on YouTube. Awesome speech, and chock full of points I agree with. Some nice comedic moments, too, like her one-liner aimed squarely at Obama: “How's that hopey-changey thing workin' out?” There was relatively little that I flat out disagreed with, or that grated. In particular, the overt religious ideology that permeated her book was absent.
The woman can sure give a speech. I'll take her folksy, common-sense style over Obama's supposed oratory magnificence any day of the week.
Could I support her in a run for President? Possibly, though I don't think it's likely. It's impossible to predict now what's going to happen in 2012, though one scenario being frequently batted around is an Obama vs. Palin matchup. What would I do then? Most likely I'd be torn between sitting out the election (for lack of a candidate I believed in) or voting for Palin as a way of saying “No more Obama!”
Watching her give this speech gave me another thought, though: it seems at least possible that Sarah Palin will emerge as the leader (or figurehead) of a political movement whose aggregate capability was attractive to me. It would be, then, more like a team of people running rather than just Sarah Palin. If that turned out to be the case, I'd find a vote for Palin much less troubling.
One prediction I think is a safe one: Sarah Palin will somehow be involved in the 2012 presidential race (even if not as a candidate), and her presence will make the race much more interesting – and probably more about the issues that I care about than otherwise...
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