Sarah Palin has shown that she has a much better understanding of people than many of her counterparts. Regardless of what you think of her as a person or politician, you have to admit that she has made two particularly influential moves:Gupta points out that for someone who doesn't currently hold office, getting the President of the United States to respond to your statement is next to impossible, yet Sarah Palin pulled it off:
a) Using technology, in this case specifically Facebook, to communicate directly with her fans was a good move. This way she did not have to depend on potentially unsympathetic media to communicate her message, and,
b) From the Republican side, since Bush/Rove and team left office, she is the only politician who has come out with ideas (and terms) that everybody, and by that I mean common citizens, Republicans, media and politicians in general soak in, and react to - both positively and negatively.
All of which makes me think that Palin will be around for a while, and that its too way early to write her off.Related: In another op-ed, Gupta praises Sarah Palin for "making good use of Web 2.0 tools."
- JP
The 0bama War Room made one big mistake having their operatives bombard Sarah Palin with all those frivilous 'ethics' complaints. Now she's free to hunt much larger game down here in the lower 48.
ReplyDeleteOver at the HuffPo, they're sweating bullets. According to them, poor dumb Sarah Palin, is getting ready to take down the entire 0bama administration.
IMO, they have every right to be afraid. With a few Facebook posts, she's accomplished more than the rest of the gop combined, yet the dumb bunnies in the gop won't give her any credit, and in fact seem totally prepared to sit and do nothing to try and stop 0bama's headlong rush to radically shift the country far to the left of where the majority of people want it to be.