being a rich celebrity, or is she getting ready to run for president? something john heilemann had a cover saying palin 2012. where are we? i continue to be a simple man. if you took if i gave you sarah palin s schedule over the last year, talked about the money she s raised, the travel she s done, endorsements, everything she s done. you don t know who this person is, take her name off of it. if you looked at that, you would say that person is running for president. there s no question that she s setting herself up to be in a position to run for president. whether she duds or not, who knows? that requires a lot of claire voiians. where does jay come down on the subject oovps. the end of this article goes like this, jay was talking to sarah palin and she says, what does palin make of the obama presidency so far? palin quips with two words,
family s rising level of affluence has done to her or for her? one of the things it s enabled her to do is spend time put together a staff. she s been able to spend time finding iner circles, outer circles who can help her. she s been spending time working on issues. she s putting together something that looks like a team. it s an odd team. not the sort of team we re used to in terms of the network of political consults, the network of field offices that people typically as sechlable at some point. this is very different. i think one of the interesting things about sarah palin is how quick she has been to social media. twitter has been a huge thing for her, sfas book has been a huge thing for her. just as obama two years ago used the internet in extraordinary way to raise money, now it seems the next generation of using new media and who new, it s palin