Right now, I’d equate Palin with RC: Loyal following, but with lots of detractors about how “quaint,” “backwoods” and “unrefined” it is.

Exactly who Coca-Cola is I don’t know, but Pepsi is obviously Mr. Obama–”young,” “sexy” and “hip.”

Palin’s main problem is one of brand image: She’s seen by a good number as a backward, uneducated redneck. That is a problem for her. The fact that Tina Fey kinda’ looks like her, and people actually believe Sarah said things like, “I can see Russia from my house!” is also a problem.

What is the truth? Like most politicians, I doubt we (the general public) will know until after her retirement, unless she just embarrasses herself and proves her detractors correct.

Palin needs to re-define her brand. That’s going to take public exposure and careful marketing. Barack Obama used this to such effect that he was elected President. I’m not saying lie. The Obama brand is suffering today because of the broken promises and lies of his campaign. Just re-define. Meeting with some world leaders (say, the Prime Minister of Japan, since they buy so much Alaskan oil) and showing herself to be a refined, eloquent woman would help.

Mainstream Media bias won’t be easy. She’ll be seen as a has-been by traditional outlets. Fox News, sites like RedState, YouTube and others would help, too. International media, which seems to be losing its haloed perception of Obama due to his many cultural gaffes, could be helpful. Many her in the States read The Economist (UK-based), and an in-depth there could be helpful.

Every politician builds an aura, an outgoing perception for us to believe. How genuine is that perception usually doesn’t matter to the voting masses.

At the same time the constant attacks reinforce Palin’s standing with conservatives perhaps beyond where it should be because of feelings of solidarity. Thus Republicans wont look at any other potential candidate, their minds already made up that she is the best.

The result, A candidate that can’t not get nominated, no matter who else is running, and cannot get elected, no matter how bad Obama screws up.

Arianna will say good things about Palin when Himmler converts to Judaism.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/douglas-mackinnon/palin-vanity-fair-envy-an_b_224632.html

Palin has the ability, and the DNA to totally upset the establishment in Washington.

This goes back to her earliest days as a city councilwoman in Wasilla. One of her fellow councilmen owned a waste management company. So he decides to float an ordinance that would have given his company a monopoly in and around the city for garbage collection.

Now this is the guy who talked her into running for the city council in the first place. A friend. But she showed she knows the difference between right and wrong, and friend or not, some things can’t be overlooked.

Once she was term limited as mayor, she decided to run for Lt Governor, but lost. At this point the Governor, Frank Murkowski appointed her as Chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. Big job, big salary. A big deal for a young woman from a small town.

Well, she went to work and took on big oil, but she also found there was a lot of corruption going on in her agency as well. Some big, some little. When her boss, the Governor wasn’t up for clearing out the “good old boy” network, Sarah did something that would normally be considered career suicide. She quit. Then she took on the whole bunch!

In the end, the entire leadership of the Republican party got theirs and she took down the sitting Governor in a landslide election.

The RINOs in our party are just as afraid of Palin as Obama’s communist party is! They know that she doesn’t really care about party when it comes to outing crooks.

She has the ability to bring the whole DC “good old boy network” down. Hence, she must be destroyed!