We know Sarah. We love Sarah. We support Sarah.
You parasites can go enjoy your paradise in Kalifornia.
A verbis ad verbera
Posted on 07/09/2009 1:04:08 PM PDT by steve-b
In today's Washington Post, Bill Kristol asks tauntingly "[T]he mainstream media and the Republican establishment. … tend not only to dislike and disdain Palin, they also want to bury her chances now as a presidential possibility. What are they afraid of?"
That's easy to answer: They -- we! -- are afraid that Palin's distinctive combination of sex appeal, self-pity, and cultural resentment has a following in today's GOP. We are afraid that it is not utterly inconceivable that she could win the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, and we are afraid that if she did so she would lead the party to a 1964-style debacle, accompanied by unnecessary losses down the ballot.
We are afraid that even if Palin does not win the nomination, that she will still help to brand the Republican party in a very damaging way. No national candidacy has ever collapsed so rapidly and totally as Sarah Palin's in 2008. The evidence is strong that she is the only vice presidential nominee in history to have had a significant impact on voting preferences -- and negatively so. Since voting day, she has only continued to lose ground...
(Excerpt) Read more at network.nationalpost.com ...
“He knows whether he agrees with the elitist POS that wrote the article or not.”
Everyone else knows too!
Dear David, Have you ever heard of Michael Dukakis? He was 17 points up when nominated in July and lost the election by a landslide.
Ever heard of someone called John McCain? He had all the qualities you wanted in a candidate and was 3 points up when he decided to "suspend" his campaign to return to Washington to help the Democrats take over the US economy? The result was exactly what you pretend would be caused by a Palin nomination.
Palin was the only bright spot in a terrible year for the GOP. Why can't the "experts" at NR see this?
As usual, Frum is lying. What he’s really afraid of, is that Palin will energize the Republican base, and strip power from the business as usual crowd.
Sarah Palin didn't graduate from one of the Washington elitist's approved triumvirate of 'Ivy League' universities; Harvard, Yale or Princeton, where all the 'really smart' people go, dontchaknow. Washington elitists also sneer at Palin for living - and governing - in a 'backwater' state (Alaska) and because she doesn't dress in designer fashions and hold tea parties for self-anointed Washington intellectuals.
The lady is actually happy and proud to be a mom (and grandmother), wife and Christian. She isn't politically 'connected' by birth, marriage or career and she speaks a bit too plainly. She doesn't think abortion is O.K. and doesn't endorse same-sex 'marriage'. She's a political conservative....and the Washington elitists hate her.
The left hates Sarah Palin for obvious reasons well known to all. The 'moderate' right, exemplified by David Frum, hate her because she's the antithesis of 'moderate Republicans'. She doesn't think the Democrats are right about much of anything and doesn't care much whether some 'moderate' wimp like the intellectually specious David Frum doesn't like her.
The near-hysterical trashing of Sarah Palin by elitist dopes like Frum (barely) on the right is supposed to turn the GOP constituency away from her - but they're mad as heck to find out that, (a) they have little real influence and are mostly ranting to each other, and (b) that Sarah Palin - who doesn't fit any of the Washington elitist's expectations for a good 'Republican' (loser) can do just fine without their approval. Maybe even win an election.
Along with being RINO's (at best) and pining for a Romney or Huckabee to uphold their losing banner of 'Me Too conservationism' (Democrat policies enacted incrementally - with different names) these useless scribblers and talking heads are realizing that they have a very real chance of losing their grip on the GOP and that the much-derided lady from Wasilla, Alaska could blow right by them some day soon and actually recapture the presidency - as a conservative.
This gives tham nightmares as well as angina - and foments in humans such as David Frum - masquerading as a 'conservative' - a deep-seated hatred of the pleasant, smart and attractive woman we know and love: Sarah Palin.
I’m a huge Sarah Palin fan, but I can understand part of Frum’s fears (though I doubt his motives are very pure). Sarah needs to work real hard to defeat the media nonsense and come off as the smart, eminently sane, very responsible,super-electable person she is. That’s what was so brilliant about her move. She’s set herself to do something Herculean. It’s an amazing gamble. By separating herself from the machinery and intrigue and earning real hard points, it just won’t be natural - no matter how hard the liberals try - to palm her off as too partisan, too conservative, too ideological, too Goldwater or what have you.
She has HUGE populist appeal that transcends leftwing / rightwing. And anyhow, these days it’s dichotomy is more about sane / insane. Sarah is very sane, very wholesome... and those qualities will shine as Obama’s policies send the economy further down the tubes.
Goldwater was a fine man, but even I as a kid back then knew that he didn’t stand a chance in that particular America. As things stand now Sarah has a huge chance to be the Republican candidate by popular demand and a medium / fair chance of being elected. That can be improved. She’ll pull it off.
Frum is an idiot. If Sarah is “too right wing”, what the hell did he think of Obama when he was running?
Any party that nominates McCain hasn’t got a clue. How can anyone forget McCain-Feingold, the law that had us all writing in blood that we would never, ever vote for McCain?
Palin saved McCain’s candidacy.
Scr*w the GOP unless it falls down at her feet.
I think Frum makes a lot of good sense. I thought it was smart that Palin regisned as Governor, it seemed an honest move. She was getting too much negative attention from her opponents and she stated that she could be more helpful to the cause outside of Aklaska politics. I admired that move because it was an honest move to make, it made sense. One thing that concerns me is that not a few days latter her statement that the “office of law inside of the White House” would dismiss any ethics charges that might happen. I don’t understand how her supporters, time, after time, after time can continue to excuse that kind of lack of basic knowlege. Didn’t we just live through the Clinton years where the Justice Department was literally in the news every night? You don’t even have to be a high school grad to know that one!
He must be a “mark foley” republican...
She looks so friggen arrogant in that picture, it reinforces all the negative sterotypes that media tries to paint her with. Please stop, I am trying to learn to like the lady being that she might very well be the GOP nominee, and I won’t under any circumstances vote for Obama! So please stop!
You would.
Frum is an idiot. He would have his lips permanently sewn to Romney’s butt if only he could find the right surgeon.
it reinforces all the negative sterotypes that media tries to paint her with.
This is the same kind of nonsense that Republicans in 1976 and 1980 tried to taint RWR with.
Unlike our current gutless policy that "would lead the party to a[n even greater] 1964-style debacle"
You know, this is like deja vu all over again. When Reagan ran in 1976, especially, less so in 1980, the press and the Dems were so disdainful of him that a huge cadre of the same Repulican elitists were singing the same song.
Reagan appealed to the ordinary man and woman, D or R, and Sarah has the same kind of appeal. Her accent is like the accent many of us have. She speaks directly. She speaks honestly and she uses the kind of language we use. Without a teleprompter.
Compare that to the supremely arrogant, speak-down-to-you Doofus we have now.
To compare Palin to Reagan is to discount Reagan. He knew his stuff, he was no one’s fool. Palin is a different person, it might be doing her more harm then good to compare her to him. Maybe times are different and what needed to work then won’t work now. Maybe that’s why Palin might have a shot despite some of her apparent lack of abilities. She does have street smarts that could very well over come some of her other deficiencies. I don’t think she is like Ronald Reagan that much at all.
OK that picture definitely rules her out for 2012 (No way she’ll be 35 by then)
That “Big Tent” they keep talking about has now room for conservatives.
About damaging the brand, yeah ask Chambliss in Georgia how much she damaged him.
Frum, pffft. Come out of the closet David, join the democrats.
Do you need to post articles by this guy. He has nothing new to add to anything.
Whio is the “we” david?
We want names.
Or is the royal “we”, you pathetic little wee wee.
I know of around 25 if not more that he got that he would have not got if it had not been for Sarah.
The irrational Palin-bashers focused on her mentioning a federal "Department of Law". Looking at it more sensibly, I dismiss that as a meaningless brain fart, like "potatoe" or "57 states". However, the notion that the feds should "automatically dismiss" complaints against the President is much more troubling -- that's how corrupt Rats run things, not (one hopes) our side.
Bullshit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We know Sarah. We love Sarah. We support Sarah.
You parasites can go enjoy your paradise in Kalifornia.
That's what I was trying to say.
“Another piece of elitist chaff. The article and the author”.
...and the poser/poster.
Everyone knows that McCain the RINO was what lost 2008, and had it not been for Palin, McCain would have been another Mondale, when Reagan swept every state in the union except the daffy laughable Minn-e-sotah...which recently appointed a horribly failed clown to the senate.
You don’t like Sarah. OK.
You got Pawlenty. You got Romney. You got Jeb Bush. You ain’t got much else. Good luck.
Sarah is not like RR in many ways. But in many ways, she is.
It’s not that I don’t like her, I think I could learn to like her, just some of the tactics of her supporters don’t help. These people don’t even really know who she is. There are a lot of red flags about her that really concern me, but then again, maybe the red flags will amount to not much. Only time will tell. I will vote for whoever the nominee is, though, like them or not. I already know that I will because I held my nose to vote for McCain, and I will do it again. There is no excuse for not voting when traitors like Obama are destroying the country.
Red flags? Like the ones you fabricate and then justify with ‘I know in my gut’ statement? Tell me, did you ever find proof that Sarah Palin, as you accused, plagiarized in college? Or are you going to tell everyone you know this in your gut?
No I don’t have any proof, just an idea based on how she talks. I know you don’t like that. It was wrong for me to say that since I don’t have proof. It was very wrong. The way she talks is one of the red flags though. I could be very wrong about her. Only time will tell.
You’ll enjoy the video...Actually took the afternoon to download, but it was wellworth it.....Say when is the O going to get the rural areas the internet connection he promised...
You’ll enjoy the video...Actually took the afternoon to download, but it was wellworth it.....Say when is the O going to get the rural areas the internet connection he promised...
David Frum is a media invention. He spent a small amount of time on GWB’s staff (and played a very small part too). David Frum wanted the famous phrase to be “axis of hate” and GWB changed hate to evil. So, even that one line isn’t attributable to David Frum. David Frum is pumped up by the MSM to be a decoy “conservative” who, strangely, opposes all conservative ideas.
Besides, wouldn’t a total wipe ala Goldwater in 1964 bring a smile to the likes of David Frum who thinks Republicans should be semi-liberals who only want govt to grow slowly?
Some of what really irks me about the National Review is that—though I absolutely love Steyn, Kudlow, McCarthy, Nordlinger, etc.—they a) they had that whole school-girl crush on and backing of their big donor, Mitt Romney, in ‘08 and b) they’ve given a platform to this guy.
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