Run, Sarah, Run!

Former vice-presidential candidate and former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin attended a Tea Party in Nashville, Tennessee the other day. It was a wonderful affair full of cheering and shouting conventioneers who were excited about her participation. She did not disappoint them. She gave them barbs and jabs directed toward President Obama and Democrats in general. The rabble loved it! She praised the Tea Party movement as the “future of politics in America.”

Palin asked the gathering: "How's that hope-y, change-y stuff workin' out for ya?" The former Alaska governor, who resigned from office last summer before completing her first term, offered a smile when a moderator asking her questions used the phrase "President Palin." The audience stood up and chanted "Run, Sarah, Run!" fueling more speculation that she might run for the top spot in 2012. But is she a future Republican Party presidential candidate or an independent candidate looking for a movement to lead? If the latter, I could not select a better leader, a better representative of this misguided, hot-headed group of ultra conservatives. If the former then God help those moderate Republicans hanging on to their party by their fingernails.

Yes indeed, Run Sarah, Run! And while you are at it, write some more books and do a few more interviews. But, just a word of advice, if I may. Use note cards or even better use one of those new-fangled teleprompter thing-ys. I know, I know! You ripped the President for using them, but that way you won’t have to keep looking down at your palm. You can just keep smiling and waving to the crowd and talking…folksy. Lipstick!

Food for THOUGHT…