Posted on 06/02/2011 4:33:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin's bus tour dominated this week's news, raising to a fever pitch the question of whether she will, or will not, run for president. The better question: Does she have what it takes to become president?
Doing that sort of straight analysis is almost impossible today, given the violent emotion Mrs. Palin inspires from critics and supporters. The former Alaska governor is no longer a mere politician; she is a symbol.
Her fans have come to view her as the living antithesis of everything they find offensive—the mainstream media, cultural elites, out-of-touch Washington. She so embodies this role that it is no longer clear whether her backers support her in her own right or support her because they so dislike what she dislikes.
Mrs. Palin's initial mistreatment, by a press (on the right and the left) that was both jeering and patronizing, has in fact resulted in an unfortunate phenomenon. It has allowed Mrs. Palin to dismiss any criticism of her—no matter how straightforward—as yet more hostility from opponents, or as hoity-toity blather from inside-the-Beltway mopes.
This isn't healthy. Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Tim Pawlenty—all have already been through the wringer, and at the hands of conservatives focused on obtaining a competent nominee. If Mrs. Palin wants the most powerful job on the planet, she shouldn't be averse to the same critical questioning.
Mrs. Palin's strengths remain the very ones she displayed when John McCain first chose her as a running mate. She has practical executive experience as the governor of Alaska. She has a reformer's instincts and a healthy skepticism of business-as-usual politics. She has a background that many Americans can identify with and is aided by her innate, and considerable, political skills....
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LOL, see what Kimberly-of-J-School hath wrought for her theme.
It's, like, logic.
But not.
WHat dimension is this article from??
I remember what wringers were for and why the term “put through the wringer” meant...”your all WET”...another old term meaning your full of crap...
Well..in all do respect...if your not full of crap then why run you through the wringer?
Makes sense to me...
Women (this author) hate more than men.
Nobody has had more personal scrutiny and given less credit for her tenure in office.
The WSJ is lousy. IBD is usually good.
in 3 years, she took more than mitt, tpall, newt took combined in their life time
correction: strongly dislike Palin....
But not.
I just might be borrowing that.
I'll find out out how we get that added to Webster's def of Liberalism.
Another WSJ hatchet job on Palin. If they succeed in nominating another squishy Democrat-Lite, she really ought to run on a third party ticket and mortally wound the Ruling Class elite.
They wouldn’t have the House, or the Senate, or the White House after the election. And BO would have another four years to tax the rich and confiscate industries. Perhaps the WSJ should think about that possibility.
should read “at the hands of rinos and closet liberals focused on obtaining a compliant nominee”
Yeah, she hasn’t had death threats, phone harassment, pernicious lawsuits, personal harassment, visual encroachment on her property, tabloid slander, media slander, and tell-all books by would-be sons-in-law like the others have had to endure.
To be fair, Brooks and Rove and Krauthammer and Frum have all been hateful—and they are all men.
It’s more the East Coast, privileged GOP Establishment, male and female, who are scared to death of her.
Strassel is a secular conservative. She is all for tax cuts and has been critical of pro-lifers.
And since she’s with the WSJ I’m sure she’s pro illegal immigration as well.
Are you sure that Brooks and Frum are men?
Well, in that effeminate, metrosexual kind of way.
Yeah well, maybe she makes some good points. Palin certainly isnt running away with the nomination right now, is she?
Did I miss something? Has she said she’s running and the nominating has begun? Hm?
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