Richard Viguerie: Why Palin Should Run

Richard Viguerie, writing at Conservative HQ, responds to Slow Joe Scarborough and other RINOs and blue bloods who think they're entitled to decide who can run in the primaries:?Morning Joe? Scarborough?s scathing piece on Sarah Palin in Politico, rather than discouraging a run by Palin for President in 2012, may have convinced more conservatives she should run.Joe Scarborough?s stated concerns include how Palin drew a comparison between the disparagement of her and Ronald Reagan, which is a fair assessment by Palin, and her polite but firm retort to former First Lady Barbara Bush?s comment that Palin should stay in Alaska.Sarah Palin is the Republican ?it? girl right now because she yields no ground to establishment types, bluebloods, political consultants, media elites and all those who contributed to the political and moral deterioration of the Republican Party.Palin was ahead of the curve in taking on the GOP establishment, which is why she is a Tea Party favorite. She is now what Ronald Reagan said in 1976 we needed in our leaders: those who are unfettered by old ties and old relationships.If Palin were to run, even if she didn?t win she would unquestionably transform the GOP primary for the better. Her mere force of presence would require Republican contestants to address issues they otherwise wouldn?t -- in ways they otherwise wouldn?t.In a time when the GOP teeters between returning to its constitutional small-government roots and remaining the party of Democrat-lite, Palin has a confluence of several appeals that most other prospective GOP candidates lack. Add to that her Tea Party credentials, and she?s hands-down a bigger big-tent prospective candidate than Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich and others frequently named.Most importantly, Palin is a boat rocker who isn?t afraid to say the Republican Party needs to move in a direction it hasn?t even debated in over a decade, and actually shrink the size of the federal government.More here.(h/t Sinistar)Update: (h/t Dave C) The Coalition of the Swilling takes on Scarborough here.

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