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Originally Posted by FlipperPA Peregrine  In 2016, Palin will be as much of an afterthought as Ferraro is today... possibly less, since she's not the first female veep candidate. | It depends on if Palin become bitter and has all the legal issues that Ferraro did at the time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_Ferraro Quote:
Ferraro had relinquished her House seat to run for the vice-presidency. Her fame led to her appearing in a Diet Pepsi commercial in 1985.[4][55] She published Ferraro: My Story, an account of the campaign with some of her life leading up to it, in November 1985. It was a best seller and earned her $1 million.[56] She also joined a law firm.[55] Despite the one-sided national loss, Ferraro was still viewed as someone with a bright political future. Many expected her to run in the 1986 United States Senate election in New York against first-term Republican incumbent Al D'Amato.[56] Indeed, this had been her original plan for her career, before she was named to Mondale's ticket. But in December 1985, she said she would not run, due to the overhanging cloud from an ongoing U.S. Justice Department probe on her and her husband's finances stemming from the 1984 campaign revelations.[56]
Members of Ferraro's family were indeed facing legal issues. In January 1985, her husband John Zaccaro had pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtain bank financing in a real estate transaction and had been sentenced to 150 hours of community service.[57] Then in October 1986, he was indicted on unrelated felony charges regarding an alleged 1981 bribery of Queens Borough President Donald Manes concerning a cable television contract.[58] A full year later, he was acquitted at trial.[59] Meanwhile, in February 1986, the couple's son John had been arrested for possession and sale of cocaine.[60] He was convicted, and in June 1988 sentenced to four months imprisonment, as Ferraro broke down in tears in court relating the stress the episode had placed on her family.[60]
By October 1991, Ferraro was ready to enter politics again, as she was running for the Democratic nomination in the 1992 United States Senate election in New York.[61] Her opponents were State Attorney General Robert Abrams, Rev. Al Sharpton, Congressman Robert J. Mrazek, and New York City Comptroller and former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman. Abrams was considered the early front-runner.[61] The D'Amato campaign feared facing Ferraro the most among these, as her Italian ancestry, effective debating and stump speech skills, and her staunch pro-choice views would eat into several of D'Amato's usual bases of support.[62] Ferraro drew renewed attacks during the primary campaign from the media and her opponents over her husband's finances and business relationships.[63] She rebuffed the charges strongly, objecting that a male candidate would not receive nearly as much attention regarding his wife's activities.[63] Ferraro became the front-runner, capitalizing on her star power from 1984 and her use of the campaign attacks against her as an explicitly feminist rallying point for women voters.[63] As the primary date neared, her lead began to dwindle under the charges, and she released additional tax returns from the 1980s to try to defray the attacks;[64] the final debates were nasty, and Holtzman in particular was constantly attacking Ferraro's integrity and finances.[65][66] On the September 15, 1992 primary, Abrams edged out Ferraro by less than percentage point, winning 37 percent of the vote to 36 percent.[66] Abrams spent much of the remainder of the campaign trying to get Ferraro's endorsement. Ferraro, bitter after the nature of the primary, was eventually coerced by state party leaders into giving it with just three days to go before the general election, which D'Amato won by a very narrow margin.[65] | If Palin can keep her job as Governor, continue to do well, and possibly be elected again for Governor or US Senate, she can keep her spot light by continuing to strike while the iron is hot. Palin, is not Ferraro, just because Ferraro didn't continue to move forward in politics doesn't mean that Palin won't.
Also, geez way to kick Ferraro in the teeth, she is still a relevant figure she continued to have a decent career even if it wasn't what other people thought she would have. |