She has a column into today’s WaPo: A ‘Cap and Tax’ Road to Economic Disaster.
This strikes me as an attempt to a) stay in the public eye (not that that has been a problem), b) try and assert expertise over an actual policy issue (one that is considered to a political strength for her), and c) to be relevant to a current political controversy.
All of which might make sense for her if she wasn’t sending bizarrely (and unnecessarily) confused signals in the midst of her strange resignation.
Still, I continue to think that she is running for 2012.
I find the tagline somewhat amusing, since we all know that it will soon be much shorter:
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July 14th, 2009 at 10:39 am
b) try and assert expertise over an actual policy issue (one that is considered to a political strength for her)
I’m not sure if the op-ed is going to do anything for her in this regard. Like her resignation speech, the op-ed was illogical, incoherent and feeds into the perception that she’s a policy lightweight who can’t really move beyond sloganeering.
Even Bush had moved beyond this simplistic understanding of energy policy by the end of his term!
July 14th, 2009 at 11:41 am
My first thought, upon reading that, was that she used a ghostwriter. Nothing in there sounds like Sarah Palin.
July 14th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
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