Posted by
Allen Caeden on Friday, July 03, 2009 5:13:37 PM
Marcus Buckingham wrote an influencial book about successful leaders it is called, "First Break All The Rules". As a person who is constantly reading biographies on Sarah Palin, I can say that they all agree on at least two points. Sarah runs as the underdog, and second Sarah Palin does not play by the political rules. Obviously it is fair to say that her way of doing things has served her well in politics thus far. Sarah Palin is known for doing the politically unexpected and here we have a prime example of her doing such. Even I confess that I did not see this coming, but Sarah Palin has natural political skills that he served her well for sometime now. Will it work in the long run, I am inclined to think that it will. I think Sarah knows that Obama is going to be politically dead by 2012 and she now has to overcome her greatest hurdle which is the GOP elite establishment. Within the last few days Sarah Palin has been attacked by GOP elites from various sources such as Steve Schmidt, Charles Krauthammer, and today Jonah Goldberg; none of whom are Reagan Conservatives. Sarah has now freed herself up to play a major role in both helping rebuild the GOP and second to build political alliences that she will need by 2012. Now she can go after Dumbo and GOP "moderates" in the media as much as she wants, without having to focus on two jobs at the same time.