Mike Murphy from the McCain campaign is at it again.
Americannodash on July 9, 2009 at 11:55 AM

Mike Murphy is an idiot.

Unfortunately for McCain Palin, the actual swing voters, the independents who do should determine the winner of the election, didn’t buy into this fantasy at all. After a three-week sniff, most couldn’t run away from Palin McCain fast enough.

Mike Murphy from the McCain campaign is at it again.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/07/09/2009-07-09_to_go_forward_gop_must_snap_out_of_its_sarah_palin_spell.html

Americannodash on July 9, 2009 at 11:55 AM

“Murphy is a writer and Republican political consultant who has advised John McCain, Mitt Romney, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jeb Bush.”

Well…

She will be the top money raiser available for any candidate who is smart enough to ask for her help. Looks like Rick Perry will be first in line. This will bring in IOU’s and give her a chance to hammer the opposition. She’s in a good spot. The media can’t ignore her because she’s way too hot and I don’t think that will change. As far as I can see it’s Look Out Left There’s a ‘Cuda Comin Yer Way, I Betcha.

That interview she just did with in the fishing boat with no teleprompter in sight was gold. Everyone who I have spoken to that saw it had to tell me how “real” she was, just like them, etc. Average people can tell the difference between a big phony like the one in the White House reading what he’s been told to on his teleprompter and the one with the waders in the fishing boat talking while she’s working. Dem’s eat yer heart out.

IMO, “Palin for Senate” makes some sense because it could put her on a national stage where the media types would have less ability to define her image.

“Could” is the operative word – for it to work for her, the Senate Republican Leadership would have to be willing to put her in ‘high visibility’ situations. Or, given the jealousies & lack of cohesion in that group, they could try to bury her in obscure / unimportant work.

Whatever is next, if she’s interested in anything bigger than “U.S. Senator from Alaska,” she has to find a way to do more than just hold her base.

IMO, her basic instincts are sound (and that’s a good 80% of the equation).

This move was all about the fierce nowness of urgency. She can help the Rs make the most of the mid-term counter-wave, and by the second week of November 2010, we’ll have a much better sense of the lay of the land. Lots of very good and very bad, totally unanticipated things can happen between now and 2012. It could be an incumbent shoo-in. I doubt it, but it’s within the realm of possibility, especially if we, and especially President Barack Obama, are luckier than we probably deserve to be. Alternatively, it could be a conservative revolutionary election a la 1980, or some combination of 1994 and 1980, or something even more splendiferously interesting or ugly. If so, then who’s more splendiferously interesting and non-ugly than Mrs. Palin? Putting her in the Senate would be like keeping Kobe Bryant in the Developmental League when there’s a champeenship to be won.

Daggett on July 8, 2009 at 7:53 PM

Yes, once unpacked, this kind of study always ends up published in the “book of Duh!” as my kids used to call it.

“Where’d you learn that – in the book of Duh?”

The best we can do is note that the more elite a Republican is, the greater the chance that he never supported the anti-elite “Caribou Barbie” in the first place; and the more conservative a Republican is, the more likely he was to support Palin — before and after the resignation.

Well, I guess we couldn’t get through a Palin Post without throwing around the word “elite,” and noting the 1-1 correlation between the level of conservatism an individual has and their affirmative support of Palin…