{"id":4258,"date":"2009-07-05T15:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T22:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=4258"},"modified":"2009-07-05T15:00:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T22:00:52","slug":"palin-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/07\/05\/palin-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Palin redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first thing I note in The Weekly Standard insta – piece from William Kristol on Sarah Palin’s resignation<\/a>…<\/p>\n

… Hey!\u00c2\u00a0 Finally The Weekly Standard is looking to someone besides Reagan as a historical model to connect.\u00c2\u00a0 Margaret Thatcher!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Which is good, because otherwise I’m stuck with Kristol’s clever “unconventional thinking”.\u00c2\u00a0 Sarah Palin is off and running for president.<\/p>\n

I suppose she’ll take a hit for leaving the governorship early – but how much of one? She’s probably accomplished most of what she was going to get done as governor.<\/em><\/p>\n

I will now farm out to an Alaskan the question of what it is Palin has accomplished.
\nI will give Kristol this: We do live in a system which rewards electoral mediocrity.\u00c2\u00a0 A presidential candidate has to step aside any political controversy that may undo him\/her.\u00c2\u00a0 And avoid leaving a record to pick apart.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0It looks like the future lies with single-term Senators and governors who can step away before the effects of an economic down-turn force harsh decisions.
\nPalin\u00c2\u00a0may also be truncating the Nixon approach, I suppose.\u00c2\u00a0 Out of office, you shore up a “machine” and obstensibly campaign for the party in the mid-term.\u00c2\u00a0 It strikes me as a debased version of that, but then again the “Experience versus New face” campaign of Clinton versus Obama bama versus Clinton as a reprise of Johnson versus Kennedy seemed kind of shaky — Clinton’s tenure of Senatorial experience matching the “new face” Kennedy.<\/p>\n

All in all, it’s going to be a high-wire act. The odds are against her pulling it off. But I wouldn’t bet against it.<\/em><\/p>\n

I would.
\nIn other news, Palin is threatening to sue for libel irresponsible rumor mongerers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The type of rumor which\u00c2\u00a0stems from trying to make sense of puzzling mid-term resignations.<\/p>\n

Wait.\u00c2\u00a0 This is another clever Nixonian ploy!<\/p>\n

Palin… will… be president.\u00c2\u00a0 Just you watch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first thing I note in The Weekly Standard insta – piece from William Kristol on Sarah Palin’s resignation… … Hey!\u00c2\u00a0 Finally The Weekly Standard is looking to someone besides Reagan as a historical model to connect.\u00c2\u00a0 Margaret Thatcher!\u00c2\u00a0 Which is good, because otherwise I’m stuck with Kristol’s clever “unconventional thinking”.\u00c2\u00a0 Sarah Palin is off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4259,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4258\/revisions\/4259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}