miércoles, 25 de mayo de 2011

Una película le servirá a Palin para explorar una posible candidatura

RealClearPolitics:
Shortly after Republicans swept last November to a historic victory in which Sarah Palin was credited with playing a central role, the former Alaska governor pulled aside her close aide, Rebecca Mansour, to discuss a hush-hush assignment: Reach out to conservative filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon with a request. Ask him if he would make a series of videos extolling Palin's governorship and laying to rest lingering questions about her controversial decision to resign from office with a year-and-a-half left in her first term. It was this abdication, Palin knew, that had made her damaged goods in the eyes of some Republicans who once were eager to get behind her potential 2012 presidential campaign.

The response was more positive than Palin could have hoped for. He'd make a feature-length movie, Bannon told Mansour, and he insisted upon taking complete control and financing it himself -- to the tune of $1 million.

The fruits of that initial conversation are now complete. The result is a two-hour-long, sweeping epic, a rough cut of which Bannon screened privately for Sarah and Todd Palin last Wednesday in Arizona, where Alaska's most famous couple has been rumored to have purchased a new home. When it premieres in Iowa next month, the film is poised to serve as a galvanizing prelude to Palin's prospective presidential campaign -- an unconventional reintroduction to the nation that she and her political team have spent months eagerly anticipating, even as Beltway Republicans have largely concluded that she won't run.

Bannon, a former naval officer and ex-Goldman Sachs banker, sees his documentary as the first step in Palin's effort to rebuild her image in the eyes of voters who may have soured on her, yet might reconsider if old caricatures begin to fade. The film will also appeal to staunch Palin supporters who have long celebrated her biting rhetoric and conservative populism yet know little about her record in Alaska and have perhaps written her off as presidential material. (...)

1 comentario:

Anónimo dijo...

Nos guste mas o menos Palin, esta es una buena idea para redefinirse o exponer aspectos de ella menos conocidos. A ninguno de los otros candidatos se le ha ocurrido hacer algo así (no es un simple anuncio o conjunto de anuncios, es un largometraje).

No se, a pesar de los errores que ha cometido y del odio que despierta en los medios, Palin, en ocasiones, tiene una especie de instinto, algo innato, que es brillante. Aun recuerdo que, cuando estalló la crisis financiera en septiembre-octubre de 2008, su primera reacción, instintiva, fue anti bailout que, como luego se ha demostrado, era el sentimiento mayoritario en la sociedad americana.

Rockford