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What an odd picture.
Sarah is campaigningfor Chambliss in Georgia, that he thinks her support will be helpful speaks well of her prospects in 2012. The fact that she is drawing crowds from 2000-4000 and Romney drew a crowd of 100 per this article is happy news also.
Certainly she is still going to have to work hard to win in 2012, but given were a month out of an election in which the media set out to (and at least partially succeeded in) destroy her, shes in great shape.
UPDATE: K-Lo has a good article about how the dems keep distorting Chambliss’s race against Max Cleland. This narrative has always annoyed me, it basically says anyone who was injured in war is above criticism, if they are a democrat. Come on, do we think Obama ran the a reprehensible campaign for questioning the war injured McCain’s judgement in supporting the Iraq war? I dont think anyone seriously believes that.
Obama’s campaign was certainly dishonest and icky at times, but so far it appears that his lies were primarily directed towards tricking his supporters into thinking he was further left and more divine than he actually is, but that’s another post.
UPDATE 2: Politico has a good articleon Sarah’s future also. I think its fair and concede all the obstacles it sites. However I disagree with the GOP strategists who say she needs to disappear for awhile, that would probably be good advice for a conventional candidate, but she is from Alaska. If she doesn’t stay in the public eye at least to some extent, I think it will be much harder to get back. What I think she needs to do is stay in the limelight, campaign for Republicans (2010 should be a big year for her), govern Alaska well and beef up her policy resume with speeches and trips and the like. Probably starting with energy (which she already knows a tremendous amount about) she needs to start building up her own brand of conservatism to run on in 2012, shes not a #2 now she needs her own platform. And I just don’t think suddenly appearing a few years from now and being all “Hey guys I’ve totally been studying gimme another chance!” is really a winning strategy, it might be difficult to stay in the spotlight and change her image but I think she needs to.
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