Independents in both states moved towards the GOP in a pretty big way and this movement had everything to with precisely the above issues – the economy, jobs, taxes, a desire for fiscal responsibility, which both McDonnell and Christie stayed focused on – and not cultural issues such as same sex marriage, which is what Hoffman and the Club for Growth focused on.
If Palin wants to be considered a credible presidential candidate for 2012, she needs to not only release her book and go on Oprah, but she needs to weigh in on serious issues (like energy and the size of government and taxing and spending) and support candidates in 2010 who promote those issues.
Palin has lots of opportunities to do that, Brown says, adding: “But if she wants to win, then she has to move away from her ‘rebellious, risk-taking conservative’ image and adopt more of a ’substantive, discerning reformer’ image.”
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Ah Yeah…in about 2011. right now it’s storm the Bastille time.
Rocks on November 8, 2009 at 2:54 PM
Lots and lots of advice for a woman who does badly when she takes advice, but brilliantly when she goes her own way.
Thanks but no thanks, lady I’ve never heard of.
S. Weasel on November 8, 2009 at 2:54 PM
Apparently, they haven’t been reading her facebook posts have they?
deidre on November 8, 2009 at 2:55 PM
Unneeded “advice” since Palin’s already doing it.
KittyLowrey on November 8, 2009 at 2:56 PM
See, the thing is, Sarah has never once mentioned those issues. Thank you for bringing up these important facts, Salena Zito, and not wasting our time with a bunch of incompetence-by-implication character assassination.
Also, can you tell us, please, if Pittsburgh will win the Superbowl in 2008? I’m dying to find out.
fronclynne on November 8, 2009 at 2:57 PM
I have no idea who this person is but what are they talking about?
Was this focused on in that race? I don’t recall Hoffman ever bringing up this stuff.
Has she not been reading her FB posts??? She is absolutely clueless….
davek70 on November 8, 2009 at 2:57 PM
Check her Facebook posts, her op-eds for National Review and Wall Street Journal.
cubachi on November 8, 2009 at 2:59 PM
Stick to your guns, Mrs. Palin!
Shy Guy on November 8, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Yup
nyx on November 8, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Facebook won’t change anything, She needs to go on shows and answer tough questions so she can earn the respect of the folks.
TimeTraveler on November 8, 2009 at 3:04 PM
Who’s said she’s running for President?
Maybe her goal is just to be the biggest pain the ass to liberals as can be humanly imaginable.
Heheh …. they can’t figure her out!!
HondaV65 on November 8, 2009 at 3:08 PM
She needs to expand her audience beyond Facebook, which is what going on Oprah will being to do.
Wethal on November 8, 2009 at 3:10 PM
You obvious have her greatest hits archived. Why not just post links to some of the ex-gov’s most substantive speeches and/or articles?
The Race Card on November 8, 2009 at 3:10 PM
*obviously
The Race Card on November 8, 2009 at 3:10 PM
GET F**KED ZITO!!!
cableguy615 on November 8, 2009 at 3:10 PM
An insanely incompetent observation in a thoroughly incompetent article.
CK MacLeod on November 8, 2009 at 3:11 PM
The Race Card on November 8, 2009 at 3:10 PM
http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=24718773587
CK MacLeod on November 8, 2009 at 3:12 PM
What universe does Salena Zito live in?
Does she have no idea what the Club for Growth is?
Lehosh on November 8, 2009 at 3:12 PM
Salena Zito or Sarah Palin , I am trying to remember which one most of us never heard of.
fourdeucer on November 8, 2009 at 3:12 PM
She’s BARRY ZITO’s SISTER!!!!
OH NO!!! A GIANTS FAN WORST NIGHTMARE!
TimeTraveler on November 8, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Can Zito point to a single quote from Palin on same sex marriage? I can’t. I’m sure she’s against it – because most thinking people are … but I don’t remember her saying …
“Votes for Hoff-man’s cuz he’s again gays marrin’ gays”.
It never happened ZIT.
HondaV65 on November 8, 2009 at 3:14 PM
True , energy and government spending could be some new talking points for Sarah..
the_nile on November 8, 2009 at 3:17 PM
Eh, I can think of other people in the GOP who need “advice” far more than Sarah Palin.
A number one best-seller, frontrunner on InTrade for the 2012 nomination, massive fundraising, close to a 1 million FB followers, GOP candidates begging you for endorsements, etc, etc.
Seems like Sarah is doing pretty well on her own, thank you very much.
Norwegian on November 8, 2009 at 3:18 PM
Does this writer get her information from TMZ?
Ted Torgerson on November 8, 2009 at 3:19 PM
Who is Salena Zito? What has this person done?
I thought Palin did a serious speech out in Hong Kong. And a serious speech for a pro-life group in the midwest recently…. and I assume her calendar is chock-full of serious venues. I mean, come on. Pay attention, no-name op-ed writer.
meep on November 8, 2009 at 3:19 PM
next week Sarah will be all over the media answering tough questions. She is going into the no spin zone for a 3 part interview with Bill.
ousoonerfan15 on November 8, 2009 at 3:21 PM
That is, if Oprah doesn’t sit on her… Being sat on by the O? That’d be a death blow even for a small elephant.
Key West Reader on November 8, 2009 at 3:21 PM
Facebook won’t work for her if she really wants to change her image.
She needs to go on tv shows and debate the issues with adults.
Palin will go on the NO SPIN ZONE! It’s break or make time for cuda.!
ahhahahahha
TimeTraveler on November 8, 2009 at 3:22 PM
I love it when folks try to school Sarah. Jonah Goldberg tried it and I haven’t read a word of his since, and I was once a fan. Sarah will do this on her own terms.
doctormom on November 8, 2009 at 3:24 PM
She’s a lazy lady I don’t think she will prepare for the interview.
TimeTraveler on November 8, 2009 at 3:24 PM
Um… that really sounds like an oxymoron when you say it.
alexwest on November 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM
The Revolution has started.Be afraid Marxists be very afraid.
Our guillotine is the soap box, ballot box and the ammo box.
Sarah is using the first the other two will follow as required.
Farfed on November 8, 2009 at 3:26 PM
Isn’t she already doing these things?
But I like that to be a serious candidate she needs to go visit Oprah.
marmaran on November 8, 2009 at 3:26 PM
Wonderful! I quit reading Townhall because of this idiot. Now she’s over here. Rats.
davo on November 8, 2009 at 3:27 PM
She’s an AP hack.
davo on November 8, 2009 at 3:29 PM
Palin will do just fine being Palin. Let the Dems present an “image”.
alexwest on November 8, 2009 at 3:30 PM
Let the Dems present an “image”.
They have – and it’s hideous!
honsy on November 8, 2009 at 3:36 PM
Focus on energy? You’re telling Sarah’cuda she needs to focus on energy?
Hey, ZitLady. Where you been?
davidk on November 8, 2009 at 3:48 PM
I see the media is still “makin’ things up!” What universe does this hack live in? The one where the only source of information is MSNBC and DailyKos?
NoLeftTurn on November 8, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Is this woman from a parallel universe and through some recent Astrophysics cataclysm unwittingly found herself in our universe, or is she just a dumbsh!t? I think in this case we should apply the “Occam’s Razor” principle.
DeathB4Tyranny on November 8, 2009 at 3:57 PM
it amazes me that none of these idiots have figured out what sarah is doing.
she’s trophy hunting or sniping. it’s what she knows.
wait patiently from a position of cover and fire a single, aimed shot at the lead animal of a herd or pack.
so, she doesn’t do many public speeches, and fires her shots into the kill zone of the liberal’s moose from the cover of a facebook page. it may not always bring down the prey but it will stop and stagger them.
death panels = BANG!
slowed ‘em down but didn’t stop ‘em…put another round into ‘em sarah!
they call moose “swamp donkeys” don’t they? dumb as a stump, hangs out in the marshes and muck, only really dangerous if you run into them with your car or it’s rutting season. but they take a lot of power to bring down.
I think that’s what I’ll start calling libs. swamp donkeys.
warhorse_03826 on November 8, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Wow, that’s about as ignorant a quote I’ve seen in a while. Where has this person been the past year? I was going to go into a whole meticulous explanation of how inept Zito sounds, but sometimes it’s just better to go primal…
Dongemaharu on November 8, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Every one of your postings has been more substantive than the Palin post to which you’ve linked. Here’s an example of an excellent blog post. If Palin’s posts were like yours I’d have no complaints.
Ex-gov Sarah Palin is a player. She is, by some accounts, the main player on the right. Enough of her cheerleading and sqauwking. She must step up her game.
Face that or face defeat.
The Race Card on November 8, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Man, there’s no shortage of people telling Palin what she “needs” to do. I think CK is an excellent contributor here too, along with Doc Zero, but Palin is directly in the line of fire of the entire MSM/Hollywood onslaught. A much different position from which to operate.
She’s making some speeches, posting on facebook(which alone causes more havoc than all of Huckabee’s TV shows combined) and will soon embark on an extensive book tour with plenty of interviews on radio and TV. We’re 3 years out from the next election and she hasn’t even declared.
Dongemaharu on November 8, 2009 at 4:30 PM
ROFL….suuuuure you wouldn’t. You’d be accusing her of plagiarism.
I love the nitpicking of Sarah Palin on her utterances on the issues, while Romney, Huckabee and Pawlenty get pretty much a free pass (if anyone pays any attention to their utterances at all).
ddrintn on November 8, 2009 at 4:45 PM
What a hack! This Zito person obviously hasn’t been paying attention.
JimK on November 8, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Translation: Palin needs to move to the center. Uh, no thanks. Go back to the bushes, Ms. Zito.
Percy_Peabody on November 8, 2009 at 5:08 PM
Ummm… yeah. I think Ms. Zito needs to get an internet connection.
bitsy on November 8, 2009 at 5:10 PM
I think the Zit has been paying attention, she is hoping to get other people to stop paying attention.
Enkidu on November 8, 2009 at 5:15 PM
That’s a good enough reason to support Palin for me. Driving the libs crazier is always a plus.
katiejane on November 8, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Exactly. I’m not sure that Race Card really looked through all of the Palin notes – since several were quite substantive, and I would guess written with significant assistance – but it’s not up to Palin to be America’s #1 pundit-blogger-wonk.
To be effective, regardless of whether she’s running for the big job, and completely apart from the withering fire she receives from her enemies, she needs to communicate with and move millions of people.
As I said on another thread, among GOP potential presidential candidates, she’s the only one who has ever, even if it was just for a few weeks, polled to winning margins among independents and across constituencies nationally. The same fact exaggerates her currently low standings: She’s still at reaction lows, among people whose last major memories of her, tactically reinforced by her political enemies, are of the multi-level smear campaign against her.
CK MacLeod on November 8, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Tho I don’t disagree with RC that she’d need to step up her performance if she’s going to lead the right to victory. But so would a lot of other people. She can’t drag a country of 300 million people across the finish line all by herself. I think she’s doing everything she can. I don’t think she or anyone can know for sure whether she’s the next “one.”
CK MacLeod on November 8, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Why aren’t all these people who keep telling Mrs. Palin what she needs to do out there running for office and doing these things? Put your money where your mouth is, Zito.
jimmy2shoes on November 8, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Sarah don’t need no steenking advice. She’ll do just fine without the beltway pundits, advice.
R D on November 8, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Count to 10 on November 8, 2009 at 7:08 PM
Right. First she has to change her image to match Bobby Jindal. Then she has to put out a platform three years before the election so her opponents in both parties can work out counter attacks
I do not think Palin is that dumb
This article is not up to Peggy Noonan standards, but close.
entagor on November 8, 2009 at 8:39 PM
Adamanski, Bueller. Bueller??
The Race Card on November 9, 2009 at 2:43 PM