Posted on 07/02/2009 7:08:13 AM PDT by Al B.
McCain received 58 million votes. 10 or 15 million of those people wouldn't have crossed the street to shake his hand.
The fact the lib/leftdemholemediawhores - and RINOs - are still trying to take her down shows that they're terrified. Otherwise they'd ignore her.
LoL. Need lot's of crocodiles!
Glen Beck sez, “COMMON SENSE” and most Americans see Palin as a bright, clear eyed Patriot who runs her state of Alaska, with COMMON SENSE. She has a beautiful way of stating right and wrong clearly. The breath of fresh air coming from Alaska is not only refreshing, it smacks of the old fashioned American freedom our Founding Fathers wrote about. What is wrong with that if it were coming from the White House......??
PING
Exactly and the same people who wish Sarah would "just go back to Alaska" keep doing stories on her. Now I'm not a smart man but something seems wrong with that line of thinking.
As a sitting governor who (1)gets sued every time she does anything the Alaska moonbats think is not "Alaska-centric", (2)has run up $600,000 in personal debt from having to defend herself against this nonsense, (3)will probably have to seek re-election and defend against the nonsensical idea that she's an opportunist that doesn't care about Alaska anymore, (4)has ZERO support from her national party, (5) has submitted several op ed pieces on important issues that she has trouble getting published because the media hates her (for example, an outstanding piece on drilling in ANWR got published in exactly one newspaper in Minnesota)........how would you suggest she go about "leading the opposition" other than the efforts she's already making?
She's speaking out via press releases on national issues that affect Alaska directly. The press is not picking them up.
She gave a major speech in Auburn NY on government interference in peoples' lives.
She gave perhaps the most powerful pro-life speech ever given by an American politician in Evansville in April.
She's been a leader in educating people about the loss of freedom associated with the stimulus in Alaska.
She's speaking out on energy issues all the time.
She just voiced her strong opposition to the cap & trade bill via a press release that wasn't picked up by the press.
She traveled overseas to visit the troops.
Again I ask, what else specifically would you have her do do?
oh sh!t. “do do” = do. LOL.
Any chance Sarah might consider vocally defending Honduras and becoming the world spokesperson for that beleaguered nation?
The Hondurans’ defense of their constitution is going to break big-time to the conservative side and anybody backing them is going to look good. The opposition will look like a pack of (oh wait, they are!) leftists.
She tiptoed around the Iran bloodshed by taking a strong stand for women (via twitter) in that country without confronting Obama directly on his policy.
Palin is such a threat to the liberal establishment there seems to be at least four to five hit pieces on her a week, I think Palin would be wise to call them on it.
I don’t think there was 1/100 the amount of hit pieces on Dan Quayle in 1993 and he actually was a vice prez for four years previous.
The are afraid of Pain for one reason and that is this:
“When Sarah Joined the Ticket before the RNC and after her speech at the RNC the jump in the polls for McCain whom was handpicked by leftists alarmed them and scared them to death, They were genuinely frightened that the loser they hand picked might actually win against the anointed one.”
If she could cause such a jump in the polls then she could be the one that could usurp the anointed one in 2012, thus the numerous hit pieces.
Either Palin can ride the storm like a Norse Thunder goddess and clean in house in 2012 or she acts as a great decoy taking the fire and hits from the liberal mainstream while we get another true conservative in Office in 2012.
In either role, i am sure Sarah Palin is up for it.
Huh?
-PJ
Amen, brother.
“..EXcuse me? Eight? NOT gonna happen. ..” ~ HighlyOpinionated
Exactly! I meant to excerpt that remark out of the otherwise accurate commentary. Sorry! :)
In the meantime, you may find this interesting. I’ve been monitoring the posts on a certain web site I accidently ran across —(See my original comments on it linked here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2270410/posts?page=124#124 )— that claims to be “left-of center” which is out to attract “conservatives”.
The problem is that when they have successfully attracted “conservatives”, they delete their comments in quick order.
For instance, I checked over there early this morning and found 5 posts by someone named Curt Edwards who was responding to someone with the name, “rblinne” who had written an article entitled, “The Vanity Fair of Sarah Palin” Here: http://bipartreport.com/2009/07/the-vanity-fair-of-sarah-palin/
I copied them to save in my own archives because they had such good links. I checked back again just now to see if their had been any follow up comments to any of his points, and low and behold every single one of his 5 posts had been deleted!!!!!
No it appears as if there had been “no comments” to what this far-left winger wrote.
Wow! Am I ever glad I saved his comments! In case any of you would like to read any of Curt’s links, I’m pasting all 5 of his posts on BipartReport (what a misnomer!) in full below. bttt Please ping any others you think may be interested, too:
Curt Edwards 07.01.09 at 9:28 pm http://bipartreport.com/2009/07/the-vanity-fair-of-sarah-palin/comment-page-1/#comment-1370
Obama won by campaigning as a conservative: “95% of Americans will get a tax cut… “
57 million Americans knew he was lying and voted Republican as they want no part of Obama’s real agenda.
Monday, June 29, 2009: WASHINGTON – The White House left open the possibility Sunday that President Barack Obama might pay for his health care overhaul by taxing employer-provided health insurance even though he had campaigned on not raising taxes on middle-class families. …if Obama compromises on that point, it would reverse his promise not to raise taxes on those earning less than $250,000. “I pledge that under my plan, no one making less than $250,000 a year will see any type of tax increase,” Obama told a crowd in Dover, N.H., last year. “Not income tax, not capital gains taxes, not any kind of tax.” Obama has faced similar criticism before. When he increased taxes on tobacco to pay for a children’s health bill, his critics said he was raising taxes on those making less than $250,000 a year.”
http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/ap/20090628/twl-us-obama-health-care-ef375f8.html
Vote +1Curt Edwards 07.01.09 at 9:30 pm http://bipartreport.com/2009/07/the-vanity-fair-of-sarah-palin/comment-page-1/#comment-1371
WSJ – What The Polls Show -[Opposite of What Some People Think]
By SCOTT RASMUSSEN
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122628429302812557.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
Barack Obama won the White House by campaigning against an unpopular incumbent in a time of economic anxiety and lingering foreign policy concerns. He offered voters an upbeat message, praised the nation as a land of opportunity, promised tax cuts to just about everyone, and overcame doubts about his experience with a strong performance in the presidential debates.
Does this sound familiar? It should. Mr. Obama followed the approach that worked for Ronald Reagan. His victory confirmed that voters still embrace the guiding beliefs of the Reagan era.
During Reagan’s campaign, the nation suffered from high unemployment and high inflation. This time around, data from the Rasmussen Reports Daily Presidential Tracking Poll showed that Mr. Obama took command of the race during the 10 days following the collapse of Lehman Brothers when the Wall Street meltdown hit Main Street. Before that event John McCain was leading nationally by three percentage points. Ten days later Mr. Obama was up by five and never relinquished his lead.
Mr. Obama’s tax-cutting message played a key role in this period of economic anxiety. Tax cuts are well-received at such times: 55% of voters believe they are good for the economy. Only 19% disagree and see them as bad policy.
Down the campaign homestretch, Mr. Obama’s tax-cutting promise became his clearest policy position. Eventually he stole the tax issue from the Republicans. Heading into the election, 31% of voters thought that a President Obama would cut their taxes. Only 11% expected a tax cut from a McCain administration.
The last Democratic candidate to win the tax issue was also the last Democratic president Bill Clinton. In fact, the candidate who most credibly promises the lowest level of taxes has won every presidential election in at least the last 40 years.
But while Mr. Obama was promising to cut taxes, the Bush administration took the lead on a $700 billion, taxpayer-backed bailout bill with very little marketing finesse. Few Americans supported the bailout, and a majority of voters were more concerned that the government would do too much rather than too little. In terms of getting the economy going again, 58% said that more tax cuts would better stimulate the economy than new government spending.
A Rasmussen survey conducted Oct. 2 found that 59% agreed with the sentiment expressed by Reagan in his first inaugural address: “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Just 28% disagreed with this sentiment. That survey also found that 44% of Obama voters agreed with Reagan’s assessment (40% did not). And McCain voters overwhelmingly supported the Gipper.
The real challenge for the new president will be attempting to govern with a message that resonates with most voters but divides his own party. Consider that 43% of voters view it as a positive to describe a candidate as being like Reagan, while just 26% consider it a negative. Being compared to Reagan rates higher among voters than being called “conservative,” “moderate,” “liberal” or “progressive.” Except among Democrats, that is. Fifty-one percent of Democrats view that Reagan comparison as a negative. There’s Mr. Obama’s dilemma in a nutshell.
Mr. Obama won the White House promising tax cuts, but he will be governing with a Democratic Congress bursting with desire for a more activist government.
As he faces this challenge, he might remember the fate of another man who made taxes the central part of his campaign: the first President Bush, whose most memorable campaign line “Read my lips, no new taxes” was as central to his victory as Mr. Obama’s promise to cut taxes for 95% of Americans.
George H.W. Bush famously reneged on that promise. Voters rejected his bid for a second term.
Mr. Obama ran like Reagan. Will he be able to govern that way, too?
Mr. Rasmussen is president of Rasmussen Reports, an independent national polling company.
3 Vote -1 Vote +1Curt Edwards 07.01.09 at 9:39 pm http://bipartreport.com/2009/07/the-vanity-fair-of-sarah-palin/comment-page-1/#comment-1372
Zogby Poll: Almost No Obama Voters Ace Election Test
Released: November 18, 2008
Survey finds most Obama voters remembered negative coverage of McCain/Palin statements but struggled to correctly answer questions about coverage associated with Obama/Biden
UTICA, New York Just 2% of voters who supported Barack Obama on Election Day obtained perfect or near-perfect scores on a post election test which gauged their knowledge of statements and scandals associated with the presidential tickets during the campaign, a new Zogby International telephone poll shows.
Zogby Statement on Ziegler poll
Only 54% of Obama voters were able to answer at least half or more of the questions correctly.
The 12-question, multiple-choice survey found questions regarding statements linked to Republican presidential candidate John McCain and his vice-presidential running-mate Sarah Palin were far more likely to be answered correctly by Obama voters than questions about statements associated with Obama and Vice-President–Elect Joe Biden. …
“We stand by the results our survey work on behalf of John Ziegler, as we stand by all of our work. We reject the notion that this was a push poll because it very simply wasn’t. It was a legitimate effort to test the knowledge of voters who cast ballots for Barack Obama in the Nov. 4 election. Push polls are a malicious effort to sway public opinion one way or the other, while message and knowledge testing is quite another effort of public opinion research that is legitimate inquiry and has value in the public square. In this case, the respondents were given a full range of responses and were not pressured or influenced to respond in one way or another. This poll was not designed to hurt anyone, which is obvious as it was conducted after the election. The client is free to draw his own conclusions about the research, as are bloggers and other members of society. But Zogby International is a neutral party in this matter. We were hired to test public opinion on a particular subject and with no ax to grind, that’s exactly what we did. We don’t have to agree or disagree with the questions, we simply ask them and provide the client with a fair and accurate set of data reflecting public opinion.” – John Zogby
“After I interviewed Obama voters on Election Day for my documentary, I had a pretty low opinion of what most of them had picked up from the media coverage of the campaign, but this poll really proves beyond any doubt the stunning level of malpractice on the part of the media in not educating the Obama portion of the voting populace,” said Ziegler.
Ninety-four percent of Obama voters correctly identified Palin as the candidate with a pregnant teenage daughter, 86% correctly identified Palin as the candidate associated with a $150,000 wardrobe purchased by her political party, and 81% chose McCain as the candidate who was unable to identify the number of houses he owned. When asked which candidate said they could “see Russia from their house,” 87% chose Palin, although the quote actually is attributed to Saturday Night Live’s Tina Fey during her portrayal of Palin during the campaign. An answer of “none” or “Palin” was counted as a correct answer on the test, given that the statement was associated with a characterization of Palin.
Obama voters did not fare nearly as well overall when asked to answer questions about statements or stories associated with Obama or Biden 83% failed to correctly answer that Obama had won his first election by getting all of his opponents removed from the ballot, and 88% did not correctly associate Obama with his statement that his energy policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry. Most (56%) were also not able to correctly answer that Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground.
Nearly three quarters (72%) of Obama voters did not correctly identify Biden as the candidate who had to quit a previous campaign for President because he was found to have plagiarized a speech, and nearly half (47%) did not know that Biden was the one who predicted Obama would be tested by a generated international crisis during his first six months as President.
In addition to questions regarding statements and scandals associated with the campaigns, the 12-question, multiple-choice survey also included a question asking which political party controlled both houses of Congress leading up to the election 57% of Obama voters were unable to correctly answer that Democrats controlled both the House and the Senate.
4 Vote -1 Vote +1Curt Edwards 07.01.09 at 9:41 pm http://bipartreport.com/2009/07/the-vanity-fair-of-sarah-palin/comment-page-1/#comment-1373
How Obama got elected http://boortz.com/nealz_nuze/2008/11/how-obama-got-elected.html
Howard Stern Show’ Quizzes Obama Supporters in Harlem on Candidate Policies http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=89a_1223927086
5 Vote -1 Vote +1Curt Edwards 07.01.09 at 9:42 pm http://bipartreport.com/2009/07/the-vanity-fair-of-sarah-palin/comment-page-1/#comment-1374
Bernard Goldberg: Obama Would Not be President if Media Had Done It’s Job – Video 2/22/09
http://www.freedomslighthouse.com/2009/02/bernard-goldberg-says-obama-would-not.html
Here is video of media analyst Bernard Goldberg taking the Mainstream Media to task for being activists in favor of Barack Obama during the 2008 election. He is talking with Reliable Sources host Howard Kurtz, and says what every thinking American knows is true the media set out to elect Barack Obama as President. Kurtz tries to defend the media with several lame attempts, but Goldberg effectively hammers home the reality that if the media had scrutinized Obama’s relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright early in the campaign, as they should have, Obama would have never been nominated and would not be President today. . . . . (Watch Video)
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
by Bernard Goldberg
http://www.amazon.com/Slobbering-Love-Affair-Pathetic-Mainstream/dp/1596980907
What I like is she hasn’t so far even acknowledged the latest nonsense (VF article and ensuing brouhaha). She’s remaining stoic and focused and allowing her supporters (us) to fight in the trenches——she’s too many other more important things to be concern with than to get into this mud ring.....let me do it for her!!!
Who knows what else she's doing behind the scenes. On her last trip she spent 5 days almost totally out of public view in Giddings, TX of all places. Now, Giddings is 40 miles from Austin but it's out in the country. She spent only one of those days in public view (to local folks) with her family. It would be awfully easy for people to slip in and out of that town without being noticed.
I doubt she was just sitting around...LOL.
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