Is She The One?

If you ask me that question? Is Sarah Palin the one? The one to turn it all around? The one to take back the people's house and to re-establish common sense and decency?

I'd have to say no.

As noted this morning in the British papers.

Party activists rally around champion of the Right

Many openly declare that they didn't vote for Republican Sen. John McCain in the 2008 presidential election - they voted instead for his running mate 'Sarah'.

'She is the one,' says Loren Nelson of Seattle. 'And she's gonna do it.'

There certainly seems to be a bit of observational optimism, but nothing that convinces me that the woman has more than a meager following once the chips are down come 2012. For Palin to do better than that? She would literally have to strip off that suit coat and glasses and reveal a true Wonder Woman costume complete with magic lasso.

In my opinion, there is nothing like optimism to inspire people and to propel supposed champions to the forefront of public attention. Optimism can be contagious, but is Sarah Palin really the David that is destined to fell the Goliath Obama in a little over two years? Once again I don't think so.

I am one of those people who doesn't fit the forced perspectives of modern day media hypes and gun slinging pollsters. I no longer consider myself a party man above all else. Not that I ever did. The two parties that have represented politics in this country for the past one hundred and fifty years, aren't exactly what I would call inspiring political movements. Unless of course you are talking about bowel movements. In that context, they both do a respectable job of getting the people moving.

Sarah Palin is a good woman I have no doubt. And she is an attractive woman no doubt, but politics isn't a beauty contest. It's a bare knuckles battle between competing political ideologies, literally financed by truck loads of money. And as our last party champion (McCain) found out, you can't compete by hamstinging and limiting your finances during a national campaign.

There are certainly a lot of Americans ready to embrace Sarah Palin as the new leader of the republican party. Of course, there are many of these same people who would embrace Daffy Duck for president, if they felt that he could win back the White house.

The problem is, wishful thinking and the desire to win don't amount to victory in the end. In the end, you have to have a candidate that can congeal the masses into a unified thought and represent a catalyst for change. We saw that in 2008 with the election of Obama.

Obama didn't win simply because he had the best platform or message. He won because the people had been conditioned to be tired of their prosperity and the war and they were lured by the allure of his prophetic presence and his promises of milk and honey.

Americans were led gladly to their political fate by the Judas goats of media and sundry national personalities. They voted more for fuzzy visions and idealistic ideas than they did for any measurable substance. And something tells me? That not enough time will have passed by 2012, for the same influences to be present for Sarah Palin to become victorious in her run for the presidency.

The woman needs more polish and direction, than a pirate's chest of sunken doubloons and a treasure map. And she isn't going to get those by traveling around the country attending Tea Party meetings, or by selling books or making consultant appearances on Fox news.

Surely....there are those that find Sarah Palin attractive and interesting, but to date her best political performance on a national level, was her RNC speech in 2008.

Americans may like her folksy demeanor, but they are going to be looking for some substance this time around. They are going to be looking for someone with a track record of accomplishments and a clearly laid out plan. And Sarah Palin is woefully short in that department.

Personally, I am of the opinion that the Tea Party movement will sputter along until 2012. After which it will suffice to split conservative votes in America and result in the continued occupancy of the White House by a democrat. Not that the democrat will be Barack Obama. He may very well be usurped and replaced after his first term. Hillary may even succeed at it, but to do so, she needs to bail now and begin creating distance between herself and the debacles of Obama.

Sadly, Sarah Palin doesn't have anything near what Hillary has to draw on as it concerns experience or political and financial backing. Surely there will literally be a march of dimes style campaign to support Palin for 2012 and even draft her if for some reason she doesn't announce. But make no mistake, Sarah Palin is running for the presidency right now as we speak. And whether that transforms into a nomination remains to be seen.

The question is, how many folks will be swayed and committed to a woman who has no track record or the ability to articulate a reasoned campaign argument beyond her pit bull and lip stick mystique.

I would much rather see someone like a Dana Perino or Liz Cheney being positioned to run in 2012. Let's face it, to beat out America's first black president will take one of two things. Either the man will have had to have so thoroughly alienated the majority of Americans against him? Or it will take a new novelty to swing the masses away from him and in a new direction. A novelty like the thoughts of the first woman president might just be the ticket.

Personally, I am of the opinion that Obama is doing a damn fine job of killing his own popularity with his socialist idiocy and health care reform, The people are awake to what he has and hasn't done over the past year. And during that time, millions of them have suffered the loss of homes and jobs as a result of his complacency and refusal to tackle jobs and the economy.

So make no mistake, putting a woman up against him in 2012? Is probably the best approach if we ever hope to stop this run away train of socialism that Obama is in the process of entrenching.

I just don't believe that Sarah Palin is that woman. Of course the democrats may be looking at the tea leaves too and preparing to launch their own female super hero in order to keep the office.

I guess we shall see.