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.”