I think I know what Palin is doing: I’ll never know for sure until proven wrong or the post-game reports starting in mid-November 2012.
[pullquote]she is going to draw the media out, to give the conservative candidates a series of shots to take[/pullquote]
I think that she is going to draw the media out, to make them keep going over the top in their hatred and bias, to give the conservative candidates a series of shots to take at the media. Along the way, she will be more than happy to sideswipe RINOs, and I like it.
Her mere existence is one of the things holding the door open for more candidates to join the field; another is Obama’s sheer awfulness. The right will be very careful to vet their candidate for weakness in the face of a tyrannical king.
If Republicans take a leap of faith that Palin is not committed to run, a strategy opens up. It relies upon Palin as a decoy, and unity among the Republicans.
Palin stays in the media focus. She does this by maintaining an uncertain status and a nominal level of activity: the MSM can’t help themselves. When interest wanes, she takes a step closer to the line, and the MSM’s resolve to ignore her crumbles again. This also has the effect of motivating the GOP to not abandon the Tea Party. The RNC doesn’t really want Palin in, and the best way to keep her out, by her own admission, is to nominate somebody she can support.
Republicans defend Palin. This is not so much because she needs defending, or because the RNC/GOP are taken with her ideas, but because it helps unify the GOP in the face of the seamless unity of MSM, White House, Hollywood, and academia. It allows the GOP to call the media out on their own distortions and refusal to follow up on stories the MSM wishes to kill.
Conservative media weeds out 3rd party spoilers. Push the issue: “Will you support the GOP nominee?” Our own media should not entertain vain fools who threaten with 3rd party runs “if not nominated”. Fish or cut bait, and make your mind up now. Not one penny of GOP resources should go to somebody who will wind up as a third-party spoiler, and we’ll have to get people on tape swearing that they won’t go 3rd party to help keep them to that promise. No promise, no debates, no coverage.
If these three things are done, it creates an opportunity for Republicans to campaign to the right in the primary while simultaneously gaining a generic republican bump by exposing the MSM for what they are. Conservative media should be unabashed in their support for the right, as this will force the leftist media to abandon their pretensions of objectivity. It forces Ron Paul out to the independent jungle, which is where he’s going anyway, and I would rather start fighting him now.
We have a rare advantage in this race, and that is a widely reviled communist with delusions of royalty in the White House. Americans hate him, but are exceedingly polite, for a number of reasons. The hatred for Obama will only grow as the next election approaches, but the MSM will be beside themselves shoveling scorn and ridicule on decent people who oppose this takeover. They can defend Obama unless we force them to defend themselves for a change.
[pullquote]If I am reading this right, the Palin gambit is a shot at winning by neutralizing a corrupt press.[/pullquote]
If I am reading this right, the Palin gambit is a shot at winning by neutralizing a corrupt press. They are the big guns on the hill that we always have to simply endure while slogging toward the objective. The problem is that now they are coordinating fire without regard for who notices. The advantage is that now we have air support; if we will only use it.
Look at her current bus tour, and the dust being kicked up all over the media. Republicans should be taking potshots at the low dogs of the media while they disgrace themselves, instead of figuring that it’s Sarah’s problem. If it weren’t for Palin, that would be you. Ideally, I’d like to see the race end with her endorsing a strong conservative. I’ll accept her as VP. In the end, Palin may run for the top of the ticket. That’s a risk among many worse risks. I do believe that if she gets to A) influence the race, B) provide a service through charisma and deviousness, and C) bring the temple walls down on the MSM, that will be enough for her. And she, of all people, could sell that to her ardent supporters.
This window of opportunity closes soon.
