Posted by
Bill Crawford on Thursday, June 09, 2011 10:32:11 AM
Well, her bus trip is over, and we are all safe again. Or are we?
The question still remains, will she run or won't she? This is why, even though she refused to allow room for the press in her motorcade, they followed her around in rented cars, taxis and rickshaws, panting after her to not get scooped on the big announcement. I could have saved them the effort.
She continues to provoke such a reaction in people. Based on what? If all the derisive things said about here were true, why waste your time even thinking about her? If she is that stupid, what could she possibly do to us? (The logical extension of that is that there are enough stupid people like me out there to put her into power, but the people who maintain that premise don't seem to realize it).
Which forcibly leads me to the conclusion that this reaction is more one of fear. This is more amply demonstrated by the Republican reaction, mostly from people fighting for candidadtes at or near announcement, who fear her sucking the oxygen out of the room. Like she did to Romney when he went to New Hampshire to kick his campaign off officially.
It would be the best of the culture war of Sarah did run. Imagine that, a plain-spoken ignoramus from the University of Idaho vs. a much more eloquent Ivy League Law grad. You have yet to see such a tide of people looking down their noses at the other half of the country, and probably getting a middle finger in the face right back. While I think this would be less than constructive, it would be entertaining as hell, and it would only formalize what is happening in the country right now. To my friends in NY and California, I don't do the finger thing, but the view of your nose is always enlightening.
But Sarah, at this point, is not running, and her speeches in the Northeast last week do nothing to counter that.
Here it is for you, in case you asked: the Republican nomination is hers for the asking. That is to say, she knows what the Tea Party base is looking for. And folks, because the Tea Party base includes so many independents scared witless of the increasing public debt, that is the winning coalition. The other candidates are feeling around in the dark for this light. She is trying to hand it out to them, so somebody picks it up and runs with it. She thinks it is what is needed to win in 2012- oh, and incidentally, what is best for the country.
But the others are not taking the hint yet. It remains to be seen whether they ever will. And if they don't, then Sarah will pick it up, and soon afterward, all hell will break loose.
It;s not often that you will find such a strange combination of power and reticence. This is at the center of what she speaks of, when she talks about a public figure having to have "a servant's heart".
I still can't fathom all the people out there that dismiss her and worry about her, simultaneously. This is so interesting.