Posted on 10/15/2008 11:05:44 AM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
Fight on the Right: Laura v. Heather MacDonald! - Oct 15, 2008
Heather MacDonald on Sarah Palin and Obama.
It's the first link on the page linked above.
Heather's reasoning amounts to this, imho, "I hate Palin so much I don't care what happens under Obama. Plus, I think he's wicked smart"
Who is Heather McDonald?
Sarah Palin is THE ONLY REASON that John McCain will not be a 50-state loser this election.
Its not too late to dump McCain and run Sarah as the President. She would win, and we get a potential great President....while liberals and globalist GOPers just dump pantloads next 4 years.
Sad that she has to be tied to this McCain shipwreck...
Ingrahm is no back on in the Chicago area.
I think it’s 1220 am in the northern suburbs, maybe 4-7 pm.
“She would win”
I don’t think so.
What is this woman’s problem.
Writes on Illegals alot.
Any woman that “hates Palin” has had an abortion and naturally feels guilty about it. Palin is a living indictment of abortion and those who choose it.
Let me make this point. That is that the so-called conservative intelligentsia such as David Brooks, Heather MacDonald, and the like don’t hate Sarah Palin or think she was a bad pick because she lacks any particular qualifications. But rather they are fearful of her because she personifies average American’s. And it’s average American’s who they have not trust in.
Think about it. What do all these pointy headed conservative commentators have in common. They do not know any average American’s. So where do they learn about the “average American?” In the pages of the liberal newspapers. And what do these liberal newspapers think about average American’s? They have utter and complete contempt for them and constantly paint a distorted caricature of them as radical Christian hicks with a southern draw without any formal education who wants to ban everything the bible doesn’t allow. Which brings me to my main point.
These conservatives are deftly afraid of Sarah Palin because they are deftly afraid of average American’s and think they lack intellectual curiosity. This to them disqualifies them from tackling the issues that confront us, such as terrorism, the financial crisis, etc...
The average elite conservative thinks average American’s are too ill-informed and that they lack the capacity to grasp the complex issues facing America today. Meaning they’ve lost faith in conservatism.
Because the average American without any identifiable ideology is most likely conservative. Whence, carried to it’s logical conclusion means they are plenty informed to confront the issues we are facing today.
The problem with these elite conservatives is they think the problems we are facing today requires a highly educated, intellectual and academically converse mind. But what is really needed is a back to the basics, rock ribbed, Ronald Reagan common sense conservative. The less ties to academia the better.
Never in human history has so many people, of so much intelligence, in so many ways, been so wrong, so often, and still had so much influence as does the intellectual elite. It’s time for average American’s to have a chance at governing. And Sarah Palin personifies average America.
Heather McDonald is a pro-abort. Sarah Palin makes pro-aborts feel as if their heads are about to explode.
Who is Heather McDonald?
Heather McDonald needs to get over herself. Like many highly educated people she doesn't understand the limited utility of academic ability. Nor does she have any idea how misleading academic credentials frequently are.
ping for later
That was the most disappointing interview I think I’ve ever heard. I’ve read Heather Macdonald’s work for years and always thought she was a clear-eyed conservative with a razor sharp mind. She was so totally out to lunch on this I couldn’t believe it. That she 1. thinks Obama smart and 2. would condemn the country to marxism over some peeve about Palin’s “inferior” intellect tells me MacDonald is an over-educated fool.
Obama is an empty suit with academic credentials, propped up by leftists.
I recently met somebody who just came to the US, from a country with a long tradition of difficult relations with Islamic neighbors. He does not yet know or care much about American politics, but when told that Barack Hussein Obama is a Presidential candidate, he just could not believe it and kept shaking his head. Finally I convinced him that it was not a joke, and his expression was somewhere between “You guys are stupid or what?” and “Am I in the right country?”.
“Obama is an empty suit with academic credentials, propped up by leftists.”
Obama is an empty suit with Affirmative Action academic credentials, propped up by leftists.
There, fixed it.
Been wondering that myself on occasion;
waiting until November 4 to know for sure...
She graduated from Berkley and Yale...what does that tell you? She lives in New York City and is an obvious snob.
Laura exposed her, oh so sophisticated thinking, as pure trash. For Ms. MacDonald to even entertain the idea that she trusts Obama’s ability to think thru issues and articulate his positions and Sarah only an illiterate mom reveals the complete stupidity of this woman. I’ll Take a community college graduate who has common sense conservative approaches over a Harvard PhD who can speak fluently on the “advantages” of Marxist theology as my President anyday of the week. This woman, Ms. MacDonald, totally exposed the utter idiocy of her own intellectual thinking.
Go Laura!
Who is this RINO drip? Sheesh.
SP’s choice to not have an abortion is an indictment of those who have chosen abortion. They KNOW it’s wrong, and they don’t want to be reminded of it.
You are exactly right. Obama has been groomed from childhood by leftist mentors to be their Mr. Inside. The process started with Frank Marshall Davis, a long-time member of the CPUSA and Obama’s special friend in Hawaii.
Harvard Law School was a willing participant in the construction of Barrack Obama. Obama couldn't have qualified for admission to HLS on his own. He had help from radicals who were playing a long game. He never would have been chosen for the Law Review or elected its president but for the guiding hand of radicals who had a plan for him all along.
There's no hint of talent, academic or otherwise in Obama’s background. His academic credentials were given to him the way an intelligence service might provide an agent with a cover identity. They tell us nothing about the man who may soon be POTUS. In any case, nothing about the man matters much. He is just a false front.
God help us all.
OK. That explains it.
PajamaTruth,
Thanks for posting this, Perhaps you could save all the comments to this post, copy it, and send it to MS. MacDonald!
If anyone knows how to obtain her e-mail, i’ll be happy to send our regards to her. I looked at the Manhatten Institute site but could not find her personal e-mail. Perhaps these people don’t want to personally hear from “people like us”.
Ok—that says it all. I found it hard to believe she was a republican. No wonder!!
Thanks!
A second rate Conservative who is hedging that if Obama wins she will be out of work when the Socialist Cabal of Pelosi, Dirt Harry and Obongo institute the Fairness doctrine. She and other so called “conservatives” are boot licking the Fascists for future employment.
MacDonald: "Well, uh... I feel that Obama has the capacity to think through issues that, that makes me have confidence that he's going to take on the hard issues of the economy and possibly foreign policy."
Huh? How is this nebulous, convoluted non-answer any better than the comments by Palin that such pseudo-intellectuals criticize? I got lost in a blizzard of words, to quote Charlie Gibson... Was Heather McDonald a Miss Teen South Carolina, by any chance?
“Was Heather McDonald a Miss Teen South Carolina, by any chance?”
Now that’s a money line!
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 names in the Boston phone book than by the 2000 members of the faculty of Harvard University.
—William F. Buckley
I’m very dissapointed with Heather MacDonald, I was impressed with her research/writings. She sounded very unsure, almost like she was drugged in that Laura Ing intv...the girl is having some problems???
Is there something damning in her past she got a phone call about late at night?
I think we are all foolish to assume Obama is just an empty suit.
He has been schooled carefully in Marxist tactics, rhetoric, and debate style, not to metnion his exposure to/family involvement in sub-Saharan politics of racial and religious violence. We would be foolish to underestimate the lengths to which He and his handlers would go to win this election.
http://www.johnmccain.com/PhoneBank/OutsideWindow.aspx
They have the name, telephone number, and city and state of the voters, plus a script you can follow, but I most often just tell them to remember to vote and vote for McCain-Palin. You can pick any state to call and I picked Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvannia, but you can pick others as well. Some people just hang up, but quite a few are willing to listen, including some undecideds. I'll do some more calling tonight.
http://www.johnmccain.com/PhoneBank/OutsideWindow.aspx
They have the name, telephone number, and city and state of the voters, plus a script you can follow, but I most often just tell them to remember to vote and vote for McCain-Palin. You can pick any state to call and I picked Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvannia, but you can pick others as well. Some people just hang up, but quite a few are willing to listen, including some undecideds. I'll do some more calling tonight.
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