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Greg Sargent writes:

Is the Rush Limbaugh strategy giving way to the Sarah Palin strategy?

Multiple Democratic strategists say the party plans to increasingly elevate Palin in the same manner it has employed Rush for weeks, using her high-visibility, her social conservatism, and memories of her harsh attacks on Obama during the campaign to tar the GOP as partisan, obstructionist, and backward-looking.

James Carville, a key architect of the Limbaugh strategy, says Dems will be seeking to elevate Palin more and more, because she’s “an identifiable person who has a hook,” unlike GOP leaders like Eric Cantor and Mitch McConnell.

“Her name conjures up all kinds of reactions in people’s minds,” Carville told me, adding that her association with the campaign will be used to portray the GOP as hidebound and to alienate moderates. “She’s an uncomfortable figure for a lot of Republicans,” Carville says. “They want to move beyond her. We like her.”

“Luckily, she seems to present us with an opportunity every few days,” added a senior Dem strategist.

The RedState STrike Force begs to differ. Wolverines!

This strategy could turn out to be self-defeating for several reasons:

1. Immediately after the recent White House attacks on Rush, his ratings went up significantly, even doubling in some markets and among certain demographic groups. “Elevating” Gov. Palin in the same manner will only serve to help establish her as the front runner for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, saving her the work of having to beat out other Republican contenders such as Mitt Romney, Bobby Jindal and Mark Sanford. If the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats cannot solve the country’s problems, voters will be more inclined to give the GOP another chance to fix things, so this strategy by the Dems may help create the “monster” that could defeat them.

Oh, please. So that these shall not have  been in vain…

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