National Review Blogger: Make Sarah Palin GOP Chair To Keep Her Away From Policy
Is this a sign that conservatives want to keep Sarah Palin as far away from the 2012 nomination as possible? At the National Review‘s “The Corner” blog, Kevin Williamson sees in the momentum against GOP Chair Michael Steele the possibility of making sure Palin doesn’t run for office again, suggesting that a job based on fundraising would be great for Palin because it would keep her away from policy, “which has not been her forte.”
Williamson seems to believe Palin and Steele have been placed into the wrong jobs, Palin being a natural at fundraising and Steele having a knack for punditry. As such, both are working under capacity, to say the least. It’s a short post, but what Williamson makes clear is that he doesn’t think much of Palin when she is forced to come up with actual political strategy– or, as a wise man once said, she “can wave the pom-poms.”
“A Chairman Palin would help set the right tone for the Republican party without having to get herself entangled in the minutiae of policy-development, which has not been her forte. Sure, she’d be polarizing, but so is Barack Obama, and these are polarized times. And it’s one thing to have a polarizing party chairman, another to have a polarizing candidate.”
Obama is not a party chairman, and there is a good argument to be made that he would be bad at this job (because he is, as Williamson says, polarizing). But Williamson seems to prefer Palin’s polarizing effect to be in a diminished role where she isn’t running for office. At least one of Williamson’s colleagues, Kathryn Jean Lopez, seems to agree: “Crazier things have happened. And it’s not all that crazy.”
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