Sarah Palin For Prez?

At least one commentator is making a case for Sarah Palin in 2016.  It’s worth a read. Here’s a taste.

By focusing his campaign mostly on serious economic and political
issues such as the national debt and tax incentives, Romney failed to
take into account the fact that large segments of the electorate neither
know nor care much about serious economic and political issues. What
they — a group sometimes euphemistically called “uninformed voters” — do
know and care about are the tugs on their emotions, fears, revulsions
and heart strings provided by hours and hours of uninterrupted
television watching .

The Democrats
understood how to reach that constituency. When a barrage of Obama
campaign TV ads told them that the GOP wanted to take away their contraceptives or that Bain Capital
killed someone’s wife, they took notice. When Obama strolled the
hurricane-stricken beaches of New Jersey in his bomber jacket, they were
snowed. As Malor put it, Obama won on “binders, Big Bird, birth control
and blame Bush.”

Palin can more than keep up with the Democrats in appealing to
voters’ emotions. Hardly anyone could be more blue collar than Palin,
out on the fishing boat with her hunky blue-collar husband, Todd. Palin
is “View”-ready, she’s “Ellen”-ready, she’s Kelly-and-Michael-ready. [LA Times]