the media team. She needs a serious PR team to hone her image.

The fundraisers are important as well. Raising money for the conservative candidates over RINO’s would be a must, so campaigning for those who oppose the stimulus would be key versus just for the RNC.

Great case for Sarah!

She’s a triple threat.

1) Top 10 best Republican leader

2) Top 10 Hottest Female Political figure in American History (probably in the top 10 hottest women over 40 also)

3) Top 10 on the list of people I wouldn’t want to piss off

As an employer I look at many resumes and conduct interviews. For someone in their late 20s or early 30s The Obama resume is impressive. Ivy League Schools , exceptional grades etc while Palins college seems weak . But once the prospective candidate has a working track record of 10 plus years within our field and are in their 40s I pretty much ignore what they did in college 20 years ago and focus on their work history. Based on work history and accomplishments Sarah Palin wins hands down. She has a long list of legislative accomplishments. She has successfully supervised large budgets and thousands of employees. Obama has done very little of honorable mentionn in his years in elected office. Obama was a below average US Senator. Why has he underperformed after such a promising college career while Sarah has overperformed is a mystery. One could claim being elected to US Senate and the Presidency is not underperformance but I disagree. Many people interview well and stay in one job only long enough to jump to another as Obama has done,

You don’t have to agree with her every decision to see that she’s a competent, Conservative leader.

One quibble:

Palin needs to get hold of a good media savvy team and perfect her public image.

This is contrary to the most important point you made:

Palin does something quite naturally that most politicians have to spend years learning. She connects with people.

Again it’s a small quibble but the Couric and Gibson interviews proved what happens when you try to script someone like Palin, You restrict the natural ability she has to connect with people…by scripting her you make her robotic and less approachable and stifle her ability to connect.

As was the mantra after the Couric and Gibson interviews…let Sarah be Sarah…use her to support state and national candidates in 2010 and let her gain strength naturally and leave the consultants and managers out of it…

Reagan did what was natural to him and what Reagan thought was right to the ever lasting chagrin of the political and PR managers around him…Sarah should do the same!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

for thirty years before that ’64 speech, sportscaster, actor, SAG President, GE Spokesperson, etc. By the time he became President, he had all that, two terms as Governor of CA and two national campaigns under his belt. With all that experience, he could make ANYTHING look like it came naturally.

When Palin is allowed to communicate with her audience she connects. When she is forced to communicate through the MSM she looks like a complete idiot. She needs a team that is media savvy to keep her out of the same traps she fell into during the ’08 campain.

One of the biggest failures of the McCain campaign is that they completely mismanaged Palin’s media effort. They threw away a golden opportunity. We have to remember that Palin has a big target on her back because the MSM and the Dems know that she poses a major threat to their agenda. The more she injects herself into national politics the more vicious the attacks will be. Like the GOP, she needs a good media strategy so she can get her message out with as little interference from the MSM as possible.

I agree. Let Sarah be Sarah. She should promote the same principles as Reagan, but she should do it in her own unique, Sarah Palin way.

2 years from now in politics is like an eternity for some of us, hehe. But my point is that perhaps we have to cool down and wait a bit to see where chips may fall 2 years from now.

One never know what is going to happen to Palin in 2 years. 2010 is when we start speculating who will be in race for GOP nomination, which will of course take another 2 years to finish.

For now, we have to concentrate on retaking both chambers of Congress, and knocking Pelosi and Reid out of their leadership positions. I’d like them to be Daschled, if possible!

She does not need to be out there campaigning right now, she needs to be in Alaska Governing as a conservative. Alaska has plenty of items that need to be attended to, just ask Art.

If Gov. Palin was off campaigning for people or doing the speaking circuit rather than governing her state I, for one, would stop supporting her.

received media attention like they did this year at their annual conference? Palin attending brought along the press. She is a conduit to get our conservative message out there. It was rumored several governors were jealous of the attention she was getting. I say bring on all the attention we can get. They certainly have not been getting it with out her.

right now… she is there with her hand out to the government teat for the largese of the porkulus bill with all the rest of the states…. it sickens me no end.

Paliin probably is and probably will be the only viable Republican candidate for 2012.

The key for her comes down can she set forth the right clear conservative, small government, populist vision for the country.

Further, can she gather a good fresh blood outside the beltway team.

She should not touch the old McCain team please no Charlie Blacks, or Ed Rollins so forth..

And still like her, and thought Paglia liked her, and liked Paglia for liking her:

Palin is just one of many people in this country who aren’t and were not steeped in the traditions and assumptions of the big Ivy League universities who should be on the national scene for Republicans and Conservatives. I’ll never forgive Peggy Noonan (who is an otherwise intelligent person) for failing to recognize that. The real reason, I think, that Paglia found her so striking wasn’t just because Palin is a pretty brunette and Paglia is a lesbian: it has much more to do with the fact that Palin was someone genuinely different than the Establishment Clique, the cocktail-party politicians who couldn’t step outside the Clique if they wanted to, so deeply is that behavior ingrained in their subconscious.

I was happy to see Palin chosen because of that, myself. She isn’t someone who was brought up in the clubby asphyxiation of genteel Boswash political life, and she obviously didn’t represent that. Neither did Paglia, if anyone remembers. The media didn’t like her because of that, and so a campaign was launched to make her and her family look sick: Palin is too viviparous, bordering on fecund. Palin is unpolished and unfinished. Then there were the overt “Palin is stupid, she’s a lightweight, she’s unqualified, she’s stupid” people, who came out in droves after the liposucked and careerist power mommies from Washington and New York and Boston started to signal their contempt.

I like Sarah Palin because as a person she is nothing like those people, and because I’ve had my fill of them. They speak in code. Say the wrong thing a little too emphatically and you become labeled as someone who didn’t read the right books last month, or nod in agreement at the most popular guru de jour. Say the right thing a little too emphatically and without the proper references, they think you’re a monomaniac and start to loathe you and find ways to undermine you — mostly out of jealousy. Be authentically different and they start to doubt themselves, but before they show it, they’ll attack your character and try to make you look sick, because they can’t stand their own boiling self-doubt. It can be a sickening (and sick) little world, and I could tell right away that Palin wasn’t from that crowd.

BLAM! POW! There she was. Now for something completely different!

I think she’s a tremendous asset to the Republican party and I hope she doesn’t change, and instead just continues to focus and get the message out. Palin is the kind of politician I can see inviting to a real political dinner — not one that is catered by the most expensive catering firm in town, but the one where she arrives with a casserole and then starts talking, and helps clean up afterward. She’s the Real Deal.

Your other suggestions are fine, also, but nobody who does Public Relations should try to airbrush away the essential Palin: what is there about her right now is the most important thing.

If I were Palin, I’d get elected and serve a term in the Senate first. We could do with one less Murkowski there, and it would greatly enhance her electability among true independents. Somehow, her being governor of Alaska just didn’t satisfy anybody but us conservative Republicans.