You know something, we keep saying how we are going to do everything we can to make sure the MSM, DNC, and RNC don’t do to Sarah Palin what they did to Hillary Clinton…and that we’re going to do everything we can to help Palin. That remains 100% true and will not change.
But, honestly, every day we see clearly this woman might not need our help.
She is doing a REMARKABLE job all her own of beating the MSM, DNC, RNC, and White House at their own games.
Word is Palin is negotiating to get a Reality Adventure Series about Alaska, which would feature her family, traveling around the state, teaching America about our Last Frontier and the Palins themselves.
Palin would control the content, the editing, the production, and the broadcast.
In essense, these would be hourlong campaign commercials where Palin would get to present her brand: Alaska, Family, Nature, Independence, Going Rogue, Loving America.
It is an absolute stroke of pure unadulterated genius that only Sarah Palin could pull off.
A travelogue that’s not really a travelogue, but a free campaign commercial for a candidate who will have an hour a week to show America the sides of herself and her family she wants shown, while captivating the country with the gorgeous scenery of a state most find pure magic.
Genius.
She’s going to define how America sees her.
The show will air in 2011 sometime. Maybe Fall of 2010, so Palin can still be on track to declare her candidacy on February 6th, 2011 as we think she will — which is Ronald Reagan’s birthday.
In other news, there is no interest at all in a Reality Series starring Tim Pawlenty and Mitt Romney, traveling in Minnesota, Utah, Michigan, and Massachusetts, eating cucumber and mayonnaise sandwiches dipped in paste, dunked in skim milk. Pawlenty apparently pitched the idea, or started to, but everyone in the room fell asleep before he could get past his opening joke, which was, of course, about the OJ Simpson trial (since Pawlenty’s humor is always so dated, unfunny, and not relevant to anything that’s currently in the news).
If this deal goes through, wow, it’s incredible.
It blows away anything the MSM did for Dr. Utopia in the leadup to his run. Palin will well-known and well-loved by hundreds of millions once this show hits the air.
Oh, wait, she’s already loved by hundreds of millions now, and she doesn’t even have a show yet.
Go, Sarah, Go!
*****
UPDATE: Check out a fuller explanation of the Five Reasons this strategy is genius for Palin
UPDATE #2: Tim Pawlenty and Mitt Romney get their own show, too, “Wandering the Mall of America”
March 3, 2010 at 11:37 pm
Sarah Palin, the Female Ronald Reagan?
(He was a TV star too you know!)
March 3, 2010 at 11:41 pm
Reagan TV
http://www.tvparty.com/movreagan.html
March 3, 2010 at 11:41 pm
Wow, that would be great! Sarah, and her advisors ar some smart people. It is the Demobrats, with their elitist noses up in the air, who will be eating crow after “stupid” (hardly) Sarah gets done with them. I am actually laughing about the thought of it. Maybe Sarah will use the show to make the announcement that she is running! I hope it works out for her. I’d like to learn about Alaska, and see her, too.
March 3, 2010 at 11:47 pm
See the November Smithsonian magazine for a fine article. Great story and many marvelous pictures. I’ve told it before–but it is neat. Alaska is our most westerly state AND our most easterly state. — The Aleutians cross the International Dateline.
March 3, 2010 at 11:55 pm
Don’t forget the obvious one: most northerly, and only Arctic state.
I’m so excited to read this! I absolutely love this woman. You are right, guyz, a stroke of genius. What a SWEEP it will be!
March 4, 2010 at 12:21 am
It’s also our most southerly-to-be state when AGW ends up flipping the globe.
March 3, 2010 at 11:50 pm
Not Your Sweetie had an excellent analysis of what Obama really is – an effete, elitist snob.
“4. Hardly
Obama and Duncan DESPISE public education, being both privileged kids who attended private schools.
Supporting public education is a DEMOCRATIC stance; hell, it is an AMERICAN stance.
Neoliberalism has NO place in public education.”
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/obama-on-accountability-fire-the-teachers/#comments
March 3, 2010 at 11:56 pm
Isn’t Burnett married to Roma Downey? I used to love watching that show with my grandparents (Touched By An Angel)..she always seemed nice off the show too..IDK..
March 3, 2010 at 11:57 pm
At first I was going to be an Eeyore and say, “how could Sarah juggle this AND a Presidential Campaign. But then you guys put me at ease with an insight into Sarah’s genius: she’s using the networks to help define herself.
She wants the nets to help widen her appeal beyond FNC.
You have put my fears at ease.
Fantastic insight, gentlemen.
March 4, 2010 at 12:37 am
section9,
Me too. Every day I pray that someone smart, a real conservative, is reading HillBuzz. This is for two reasons:
1) The HillBuzz boys have a truly unique perspective — they’re funny as hell yet they do it without sacrificing substance; they were born to create campaign ads, not necessarily directly for the campaign (as they definitely have the potential to push the envelope a little too far — I love their stuff, but just sayin’), but for a highly plugged-in independent organization pushing a given candidate or candidates.
2) The GOP needs to realize real small-government conservatism has the potential to be popular with all kinds of people who never would imagine themselves voting for a Republican, but would, if the party took a serious, committed states-rights line on issues like gay marriage and abortion.
The people Utah and New York will never agree about abortion rights or gay marriage, but they will agree about cutting spending and taxes, school choice, and keeping our military the best in the world.
So wake up, GOP! Read HillBuzz!
March 4, 2010 at 12:38 am
Whoops. I meant “someone smart *in or around the GOP leadership*”
March 4, 2010 at 12:00 am
She said she wanted to do a series where she traveled around Alaska and some of the lower 48 and spotlighted ordinary Americans doing remarkable things. She wrote “lift American spirits” on her hand and talked about how that would fit in, too. She’s also talked about how she would now be able to broadcast from her living room and backyard in Alaska without having to leave home.
So if you put that all together with Hillbuzz’s info, it all fits together. It sounds like something she’s been working on for a while now.
It’s simply brilliant. Not only will she be helping herself for a future campaign, but she really will be lifting American spirits by helping people to feel proud of themselves and their beautiful country.
March 4, 2010 at 12:07 am
“In other news, there is no interest at all in a Reality Series starring Tim Pawlenty and Mitt Romney, traveling in Minnesota, Utah, Michigan, and Massachusetts, eating cucumber and mayonnaise sandwiches dipped in paste, dunked in skim milk.”
Thanks, I’ve got pizza cheese on my screen from that one. Too funny.
March 4, 2010 at 12:07 am
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March 4, 2010 at 12:11 am
I. LOVE. THIS. WOMAN.
i’m reading 3 different books about/by Reagan at the moment, and i keep thinking we SOOO need a Reaganesque patriot right now. Sarah is IT!
quote of the day:
“A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.”
Ronald Reagan, 1980.
modify quote as applicable. . .
March 4, 2010 at 12:12 am
OMG your comments about Pawlenty, my Governor, had me howling.
He’s a great Governor, keeping the spending spending spending nutcake Lefties in check, but he will NEVER BE THE PRESIDENT.
He should have stuck with being Governor.
Mr. Milkbone.
Anyway, I would LOVE to see a reality show with Sarah. Burnett is such a coward in his Survivor shows, as he never picks a cold place.
Pussy.
Hey Burnett, go to Alaska and film a show with a REAL survivor: Sarah Palin!
He’d make a bajillion.
March 4, 2010 at 12:22 am
Somebody remind me again about how Obama is really, really smart and how Palin is a backwoods rube . . .
Not only would Obama never have even thought of this (although what would he do . . . tour his childhood hangouts in Indonesia?) but even if he had thought of it, he quite obviously lacks the wit or the charisma to pull it off . . .
March 4, 2010 at 12:39 am
What?
Don’t you know that Obama is the most intelligent President Evah?
LOL.
March 4, 2010 at 12:25 am
Here’s something else Palin is apparently involved in:
Palin Writing Book on “American Virtues”
HarperCollins Announces Follow-Up To Former Alaska Governor’s Bestseller “Going Rogue”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/03/politics/main6263813.shtml?tag=strip
LOL, I love it! She can do some serious multitasking. Think about it, she’ll have this TV special going on highlighting Americans and what a beautiful country this is while also writing a book on American virtues.
March 4, 2010 at 12:42 am
You guys are SOOOOOOOO right on this! I had to come over here to get a like-minded Hillbuzz on before heading back over to C4P. I’d say its currently running 80/20 against, with 19% undecided.
Anyhoo, WELL DONE!
March 4, 2010 at 12:54 am
When Sarah signed with Fox News she said she would be doing specials for them and traveling to the lower 48 meeting just ordinary people and doing stories on them.
HB do you think what you are talking about is part of the Fox specials?
March 4, 2010 at 1:18 am
It appears Palin and Burnett are shopping her show to the networks. So no, HillBuzz is discussing another project, not FoxNews specials.
http://www.thrfeed.com/2010/03/sarah-palin-shopping-alaska-reality-show.html
March 4, 2010 at 1:22 am
More snark in this version which was linked at the bottom of the other page.
http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2010/03/03/exclusive-sarah-palin-shopping-alaska-docudrama-with-mark-burnett/
March 4, 2010 at 1:08 am
I got a kick out of this–A guy from Ark. wrote on a blog–If there are any of you Texans who don’t like Perry, I’ve got two Senators, a Governor, and a first run draft pick I’ll trade for him. I laughed. We need a hoot once in awhile.
March 4, 2010 at 1:18 am
You HillBuzz guys are so funny.
March 4, 2010 at 1:25 am
At least you don’t have a guy running for governor who tried his damnedest to ruin your state during his last stint 27 friggin’ years ago!
March 4, 2010 at 11:34 am
Oh please!! Tell me there aren’t enough people in Ca. to vote in Gov. Moonbeam (?).
March 4, 2010 at 2:49 am
Hey, I’d be interested in that Pawlenty/Romney reality show…my insomnia will never bother me again!!
March 4, 2010 at 2:51 am
I always enjoy coming by Hillbuzz to catch up on their perspective and humor.
As an aside, I have a far left sister and when she found out I came to the Hillbuzz Site. She was aghast that it was possible for any gay who would dare support Sarah Palin.
March 4, 2010 at 9:38 am
I’d watch it :) Heck, after reading her book, I want to move to Alaska !
March 4, 2010 at 11:16 am
I got you beat. I lived there and hated it, since SP came on the scene I told my husband (who loved it) that if I knew she was going to become Gov., I might have stayed.
Let me explain how much I hated it, my DH went to NYC on business and by the time he got back, I was packed with an airline ticket in hand and told him I was leaving.
March 4, 2010 at 9:57 am
Hillbuzz guys…let me say this again…YOU ARE THE BEST!!!
I was a devoted and politically active Democrat for twenty years, but after Hillary got treated like dirt in 2008, I completely turned my back on the Democratic Party. Now, I am a confirmed Palin supporter (love her, love her, LOVE HER) and it is is IMPOSSIBLE for me (especially after what I suffered through with Hillary) NOT to see the similarities of how these two women have been treated by the Good Ol’ Boys Club in both parties.
I stand on my chair and applaud your OUTSTANDING DEFENSE of both women.
Bravo!!! Bravo!!! BRAVO!!!!
March 4, 2010 at 10:11 am
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March 4, 2010 at 12:00 pm
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March 4, 2010 at 1:05 pm
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March 4, 2010 at 1:22 pm
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March 4, 2010 at 3:02 pm
I can’t wait to see Sarah crushing Romney in Iowa, NH and South Carolina and bringing thousabds to her rallies while Romney only manages to bring a few hundreds to hear his moderate views.
March 4, 2010 at 3:05 pm
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March 4, 2010 at 5:10 pm
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March 4, 2010 at 8:13 pm
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