AT first sight it was no contest. On one channel Sarah Palin, the poster-girl of the American right, was wowing audiences with her first routine as a stand-up comedian. On a rival chat show Mitt Romney, the early frontrunner for the Republican nomination in 2012, was delivering such dull fare that his host yawned.
Writing a book and promoting it on late-night television have become an integral part of a presidential campaign launch. It certainly worked for Barack Obama.
For Romney, the tactic seems to have backfired. He may be ahead of Palin in the opinion polls. But 5.8m people tuned in to watch her on the Tonight Show last week, compared with 3.7m for his appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman.
Aides say Romney is positioning himself as the anti-Palin candidate, an experienced leader with a firm grasp of world affairs and economic policy, rather than a maverick who shoots moose and alienates as many voters as she excites.
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Well here she comes. And Calgary fell in love with her. Small wonder.
Point: The National Post is not the “be all — end all” and the comments do not reflect on her. Just “lefties” going “bananas” as usual.
I’ll say this now. The US is looking at their next president in 2012 and they would have to go a long way to beat her. So far I have seen nothing that competes and Sarah “is in” if she wants the job. I’m far from certain she does because she is “sane” — unlike the remainder of the “Nancy Pelosis’s” of this world.
I will follow Sarah anywhere she wants to go because she is “chalk full” of complete common sense (unlike Obama) and knows where to take the US. The current president does not.
Sarah — big problems for China, a huge country that stole all US jobs — and the politicians that sold their country out.
Unlike Richard Nixon, Sarah knows how to correct the problem. I’m certain of that and she has my unwavering support because I believe she is correct.
China is not important.
The US “is” as far as the western world is concerned and I’m certain that the first words Sarah will utter as a US president are “We did it the hard way, so must you”.
‘Take it to the bank.”
“And welcome to the new US”.