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In response to my column on Friday, Sarah Palin supporter Ian Lazaran does a good job of taking the column as it was meant to be taken, as what he calls a “mock exercise” (I wouldn’t call it a MOCK exercise, but close: a training exercise in hypotheticals, or something like that) to identify each candidates’ most obvious weaknesses and to urge all candidates to catalogue ALL their weaknesses and be ready to answer for them or ameliorate the problems. He takes up the challenge by providing a list of reasons why the criticisms I offered about Palin should not be considered important. If I analyzed his answers, I might quibble with some of them, but that’s not the point: The point is to get the candidates’ teams to do the requisite work; and for activists, too, to look really hard before they leap to any one candidate’s support. This is a crucial choice before the Republican Party and the conservative movement, and the party and the movement must get it right.
Lazaran’s blog post is a highly constructive contribution to the conversation.
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Ken (Old Texican)| 1.31.11 @ 12:57PM
Quin,
MY blogpost was better than his.
You keep dragging marginal "no-name" candidates into the fray. Why?
They aren't going anywhere.
Other than Jim DeMint, no other nationally known, (possible), candidate holds a candle to Sarah's grit and courage.
Yeah, I will vote for any opponent to Obama.
I would rather vote for Sarah and team.
Quin| 1.31.11 @ 1:29PM
Why? Because I am not satisfied with the field. And there is more to being president than "grit and courage." I bring in names of people whose records and political abilities seem to offer potential.
Oldefarte| 1.31.11 @ 1:45PM
The essential elements of her accompolishments are [IMO] her recognition [and promotion] of energy development, and her governmental cost/expense reductions while governor. Additionally, her present courageous confrontations with her Democratic political enemies tells volumns about her personal courage [when most ever politician seeks MODERATION, COMPROMISE and ACCOMODATION as a RINO, she demonstrates the pugnecious attitude that is required to effectively fight these domestic terrorists and political goons in today's arena]. If and until someone else demonstrates a larger capability to turn this country around from its present heading toward the economic and social cleff to destruction, I will gladly support her [and politicians like Bachmann] any time, any day, anywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Interested Conservative| 1.31.11 @ 4:07PM
Quin - she's not my ideal candidate, but of all those listed and many others I could suggest, she's far, far, far from the bottom of the list.
Of all the flaws, the most substantive seems to be the bad press she generates, which, of course, is almost the definition of non-substantial inasmuch as it's largely a reflection of a perception. Certainly, some of the media can and will continue to criticize her very existence, in trying to build a self-fulfilling prophecy, but her star-power may be such to overcome that.
As for the more substantive issues, I suspect her problem may turn out to be time simply passing her by. She'll need to do something other than simply remain a media figure. I don't doubt she can, but as yet what that is remains unknown. There is little time left to do something before the 2012 race, but at her age she has more time and opportunity than almost all others noted, except perhaps Rubio, and she matches or distances him in experience.