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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Nov 02, 2010 02:47pm |
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| Category | Editorial |
| Author | Kevin D. Williamson |
| News Date | Tuesday, November 2, 2010 06:40:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Today the House of Representatives. Tomorrow . . . what? Turning around the direction of the country and dodging Fiscal Armageddon is going to take more than a working majority in the House. Keeping in mind the usual caveat that politics alone may not be enough to get the job done, it is probably going to require a large conservative majority in the Senate. And it is probably going to require the absence of Barack Obama and his administration. Which brings us to the next election.
When I suggested that Sarah Palin be made chairman of the Republican National Committee, the committed Palin partisans came charging out of the penumbras, detecting in my suggestion a sinister plot to keep her from running for president in 2012. It wasn’t — I was still skeptical that she’d run, and I still am, a little. But it’s getting kind of hard to deny that she looks a whole lot like a candidate, and a frontrunner.
About that: I don’t have particularly strong feelings about Palin. She’s not my first choice for president of the United States, but she’s not my last, either. I’d much prefer a Palin administration to another Obama administration. Here’s the problem: People think she’s intellectually unserious. Before you hit that e-mail send button, re-read that sentence: I don’t think she’s a lightweight — I really don’t — but that’s her reputation. Big swaths of the American electorate believe her to be unqualified to serve as president, and she hasn’t done much in the past year or so to change voters’ minds.
So, here’s an idea for Sarah Palin, if she wants to run for president: She shouldn’t just announce her own individual candidacy. Instead, she should announce an administration: herself, possibly a vice presidential candidate, and at least a half a dozen key cabinet secretaries, especially treasury, state, defense, and commerce. Add to that a chairman of her Council of Economic Advisers. |
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