The Dangers of Sarah Palin: "To dismiss her would be a terrible blunder."

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The Dangers of Sarah Palin
By Matthew Rothschild
February 8, 2010

I’m not writing her off. No matter how many gaffes she makes, no matter what she writes on her palm, she is not going away.

In fact, she may very well be the Republican nominee in 2012, and if the economy hasn’t recovered by then, there’s an outside chance she could win the White House.

She is already the favorite among Republicans. A Newsmax-Zogby poll of January 28 had her garnering 22.2 percent of Republican voters, compared to Romney’s 19.4 percent, Gingrich’s 12 percent, Huckabee’s 11 percent, and David Petraeus’s 5.4 percent.

She was greeted as royalty at the Tea Party Convention in Tennessee on February 5.

And she articulates and echoes the anger that millions of people across the country are feeling at the giveaways to Wall Street.

“Too often when big government and big business get together and cronyism sets in, well, it benefits insiders, not everyday Americans,” she told the Tea Partiers in a line that resonated.

Barack Obama and many Democrats have been way too timid in going after big business. In fact, the coziness of Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke and Larry Summers with the Wall Street bankers has left Obama wide open for this kind of criticism.

The bank bailout is killing Obama. All Obama could muster in his State of the Union was the comment, “If there's one thing that has unified Democrats and Republicans, it's that we all hated the bank bailout. I hated it. You hated it.”

But Obama voted for the bailout when he was a Senator, and then expanded it when he was President.

It is a cement block tied around his ankles.

People are looking for answers. And Sarah Palin is providing them. They are simplistic answers. They are foolish answers. They are the wrong answers.

But they have an appeal.

And so does she.

To dismiss her would be a terrible blunder.

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