Fresh off of the Great Turkey Massacre of 2008, Sarah Palin will be heading to Georgia on Monday to campaign for Sen. Saxby Chambliss, ahead of the December 2nd runoff election. She’ll be speaking at four different rallies.
This is where watching Palin is going to be interesting. Campaigning as vice-president, your role is to advocate for the presidential candidate’s message and nothing more. They put you on stage, give you a bucket of raw meat, and wish for the best. Now, the fact that she had to advocate for a candidate who never had a coherent message in the first place is neither here nor there. Her role was essentially to say “yeah, what he said.”
But now she’s stepping out on her own, as her own person…and probably as a future national candidate herself. More importantly, from this point forward any success or failure is hers and hers alone. There won’t be McCain aides to blame.
Will the magic still be there on stage? Will the NYTimes editorial board have been right all along? Will 1,001 conservative bloggers all jump on the Bobby Jindal bandwagon at the same time?
Inquiring minds want to know.
