On a separate note, Tina Fey plans to step down as Palin impersonator for SNL so she can work on her own show, 30 Rock.
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http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/11/tina-fey-says-s.html?iid=top25-20081105-Tina+Fey+says+she%27s+retiring+Sarah+Palin+impersonation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/04/AR2008110404065.html?hpid=topnews
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/05/questions-swirl-palins-political-future/
4 comments:
When %60 of the country feels your Vice Presidential choice is incompetent, your in trouble. The kind of trouble that makes an Electoral College landslide. And now that it's happened, McCain aids are free to voice how they feel about their good friend Gov. Palin. Between the firing of a top McCain aide for becoming too close to Palin and other allegations, it is clear that not all was happy in the short-lived the McCain-Palin family. Palin will need to find a way to quickly and quietely extricate herself from the Presidential aftermath and distance herself from the election of 2008 if she wants to have a national political future.
Although Palin plans to be a part of the GOP in the future I don't know if the GOP will want her. Palin was obviously an unpopular choice and the Democrats are building an ever larger majority. If the GOP wants to survive and have a chance at winning the presidency and regaining a majority in the legislature they need to go in the direction that made Reagan so popular. I don't think that big government conservatism will have a popular spot in national politics in the near future. If the GOP wants to distance themselves from the Bush legacy and big government conservatism then they need to prevent Palin from becoming the poster child of the party.
I disagree. IF Palin can rack up some good moves between now and 2012 she can become the front runner for the GOP. However, this is a big if and I highly doubt she can contain the "Rogue" within her for too long.
In my mind, Palin has definitely done herself out of a future national ticket. The real future of the Republican party is Bobby Jindal, the young Indian governor of Louisiana. While 2012 is still a ways away, assuming Jindal becomes the front runner of the GOP, the next election would feature the first African American president running for reelection against the first Asian American president, a definite mark of the nation's progress.
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