After drifting away from the spotlight for the past few months, the former small town-bred Alaska Governor who ran for VP is making her way back into the headlines. Love her or hate her – where she goes from here is a matter of relevance. From taking time off following her resignation to writing her memoir and attacking Newsweek’s supposedly sexist portrayal of her on the front cover, its increasingly hard to predict where she will go from here. If she plays her cards right she will maintain her sphere of influence in the political arena for years to come and still possess the option of returning to elected office. While she discussed many of her past issues with McCain staffers and Katie Couric in her interview with Oprah, the future of her career was left open-ended and she sounded like she could see herself as anywhere between a pundit and a future presidential candidate.
For a while people were asking themselves “does she want to continue?” As soon as she got a piece of the national spotlight, both her and her family were viciously torn apart by the elitists and the attack dogs in the mainstream media. The Katie Couric interview was particularly devastating for her image. The sudden change in her life would have made a lot of folks decide that they had had enough. Her resignation as Governor of Alaska after the campaign might have been perceived as a retreat from the national arena, but she supposedly talks about that in her upcoming book. But if she did end up giving up, a lot of her fans out there would be disappointed. Read the rest of this entry »
