Posted on 10/29/2010 1:14:30 PM PDT by Peter Andrew Conservative
"...Chris Matthews of MicroSoft-NBC has put a different twist our our recent story about Sarah Palin... saying for many Americans the three scariest words in the English language are, "President Sarah Palin."
Scary for him maybe. And what's scary to Matthews is good for America!
Back on September 24th, we explained why Sarah Palin doesn't have to be the "frontrunner" in political polls in order to gain the 2012 republican nomination for President...
"Think about how many Republicans will want to run for President in 2012... You’ll have Newt and Mitt, Huckabee, Daniels, Pence and maybe even JC Watts. You’ll have Pawlenty and maybe Jindal, and wild card possibilities like Jim DeMint, Paul Ryan or even Chris Christie... the GOP primaries will feature numerous candidates getting less than 10% of the vote. Only a few will get more than that and one of them will be Sarah Palin. Even if she gets just 20% of the vote in the first few states, she will emerge as one of the front-runners and others deplete their money and drop out. When that happens, Palin will pick up more support."
...Matthews is now spinning that same perspective into a negative thing, saying the ONLY reason Palin will get support is because "religious fundamentalists" (watch video here) support her!
Palin governed a state with more citizens in it than Howard Dean ever did! ...Palin governed a state with a larger annual budget than some country boy named Billy Bob Clinton did when he was governor! ...
(Excerpt) Read more at wp.me ...
Note to the MSM: We a re a bit busy right now but lets chat after the election..hmmmm?
Chrissy Matthat is an A-hole. Ronald Reagan scary? What a wuss!
For many more Americans the three scariest words in the English language are “Let’s play Hardball.”
Yep.
You are all quite creative and funny! Thanks for the great comments!
Crissy has Palin Envy!......
That is wild! For a moment I thought it was Laura Dern!
We return, let me finish with what many people believe are the three scariest words in the English language: President Sarah Palin. You're watching Hardball, only on MSNBC.Let Me Finish tonight, with the fact that for tens of millions of Americans, and not just Democrats, the scariest three words in the English language are President Sarah Palin. Those words could, if events go a certain way, get a hell of a lot scarier.
I've noticed how Palin has been positioning herself as the "Christian Woman" in national Republican politics. This gives her an incredible leg up in the first-in-the-country Iowa Republican caucuses where the Reverand Pat Robertson once triumphed. The shape of the 2012 Republican field in the Iowa caucuses would be Sarah Palin against a field of Republican men, and with the possible exception of Mike Huckabee, all more secular than she is. The results: the Christian women beats out the four or five men running somewhere to her left; no one gets to her right. And as long as nobody does, this lone woman in the Republican field, the one openly running as a religious fundamentalist, beats the competition, hands down.
Get this number into your head: Sarah Palin's latest Gallup poll favorable rating, among Republican voters nationwide, is 76%, by far, the highest of any contender. So she wins Iowa. Next New Hampshire. In that Mitt Romney outpolls Palin in the Granite State, it will be a fact dismissed by the national political press. Why? Because New Hampshire is the Boston media market, it's right in it, and therefore seen as home base for the former Massachusetts governor. Next, Palin trucks down to South Carolina, where she made Nicki Halley governor, and wins with her fellow religious fundamentalists, another victory in Palin country, an increasingly wide expanse in Republican politics. Now for the knock-out. Palin has said that Michigan, where Romney's father was governor, was overlooked by Republicans last time, she started her book tour there. Republican women who lined up to buy Going Rogue, are her first round of "investors." With two or three men besides Romney still appearing on the ballot, she pulls it out in Michigan.
Now anything's possible at this point. Nominated in Tampa Florida in the Republican National Convention, in an economy that might still be shaky, the political situation in this country becomes frighteningly dicey. All I can say is that I remember how liberals thought Ronald Reagan could never do it. As we learned in 1980, tough times yield surprising... yes, scary... election prospects.
Chris is worried about getting the wrong kind of tingle.
Truthfully, right now the US presidency is messed up, overextended, far beyond the ability of a person to take the job without it destroying them.
It was a very gradual process, with president after president assuming responsibilities and duties beyond their authority. For a time they tried to ease their load by having the VP do many of the endless ceremonial duties, from attending funerals to throwing out baseballs, but this was superficial.
The job needs to be reduced to what it is supposed to be.
A proposed way to do this is for a new president, with a friendly congress, to reorder the presidency. To start with, all presidential actions outside of the operations of the White House building, should be done through senate-approved cabinet officers.
Comparatively speaking, each one of them are like corporate VPs of their department. This would eliminate “czars”, presidential signing statements, executive memos, and most other commands that come directly “from the president”. Instead, these should come “from the (whichever) cabinet secretary”, at the direction of the president.
And the president should make congress a deal. Since cabinet secretaries are appointed to lead bureaucrats who are the long term directors of federal agencies, if the president goes through them, then congress should limit its subpoena’s to them as well. If it wants information, it should get it from them, and leave the professional staff alone.
The deal with this is that they truly are at the beck and call of the congress for this purpose, to ask about anything from their level down, not about their discussions with the president. So if congress wants, they can spend half their time providing them information.
And congress should be reminded that cabinet officers can indeed be impeached (though only one ever was, and not convicted), if they misbehave.
Other things the president can do to take the pressure off:
Go back to the old tradition of providing the State of the Union address to congress *in writing*, not as a speech. Right now, it is a glorious and time consuming waste of time, and poor quality political theater. Instead it should be a rather dry and objective overview of the state of the nation, as seen by the executive branch.
BTW, you know it isn’t in the job description for the president to submit a budget to congress in the first place? Not his job. Nor to propose other legislation, either.
The US has embassies around the world, with ambassadors to conduct our foreign policy. Let them. No reason for the president to travel abroad. If something extra special comes up, send the Secretary of State. That is why we have one.
And the same rule applies to foreign dignitaries visiting the US. If they want to do business, let them do business with a functionary, not with the executive. If they just want a photo op, thanks anyway.
Just end all the Easter egg hunts, banquets, balls, coffees, other photo ops, etc. If you must have that stuff, have staff do it, and leave the president out of it.
The list just goes on and on. But until there is sizable reform of the office, the presidency is as bloated as the rest of the government, and it is showing.
Chrissy is a misogynistic, repressed fag with the political insight of a third generation welfare whore. That’s why he works as a liberal slut for Democrats.
Look at the malaria eating Chris up ... poor bastard. Well, his contract is up and out in 2012, my guess is he’ll grovel for an extension through the election and retire to the sanitarium.
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