Matt hates what Goldman and Sachs are doing to this country, and so do many others
Here is where one of our Overlords lives when on vacation in Hawaii- Have you seeeen the estates of the other billionaires???
Posted on 01/07/2011 1:22:33 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
“She is a gifted politician, just in terms of getting people to connect with her on an emotional level in person,” says Taibbi. “It’s something that if you’re an experienced campaign journalist you can just see.”
Question: Will Sarah Palin run for President in 2012?
Matt Taibbi: Absolutely she is going to run for president in 2012 and... I don’t think she is going to win, but I think she is a very good bet to win the nomination. I think what we saw in the last election was the Tea Party is now in this kingmaking role and the Republican Party. I don’t think they can nominate anybody who isn’t acceptable to the Tea Party. That person is just not going to win enough primaries to get through. And Sarah Palin is a candidate who is acceptable to the Tea Party.
She is also—I've seen this personally, I've covered her in person—she is a gifted politician just in terms of getting people to connect with her on an emotional level in person. It’s something that if you’re an experienced campaign journalist you can just see these… You know it’s like watching Michael Jordon in person. You can just see that they have it and she has got it and I think she is going to win the nomination.
Question: What have you seen at Tea Party rallies?
Matt Taibbi: It was really funny. I was in a rally that Sarah Palin was holding in Kentucky and she was doing the whole Ronald Reagan business, you know: "Government is never the answer, government is always the problem, it’s never the solution." And it was a crowd of 10,000 people at a gospel-singing convention, but it was first of all, an entirely white crowd. There wasn’t a single black face there and mostly elderly.
And while she was doing this speech I suddenly looked around and I noticed that like one out of every four people in the crowd was either on an oxygen tank or in one of those scooters, those motorized wheelchairs and I asked the person, one of the reporters next to me what is the deal with the scooters and they’re like there is commercials on TV here, you get... you don’t even have to pay for them because if you have Medicare it’s for free. And so I started interviewing these people afterwards and all these people on scooters they’re all on Medicare and yet they’re railing against government spending and socialism.
And here is the thing with the Tea Party: a lot of these people have this idea of "good welfare" and "bad welfare." Like "bad welfare" is for immigrants and minorities and it’s for people who are lazy and don’t really need it. "Good welfare" is for people who are just temporarily in a jam or who have worked their whole lives and now they’re retired and now they just need a little lift. They just genuinely don’t see the problem with this kind of thinking.
Recorded on November 22, 2010 Interviewed by Andrew Dermont Directed by Jonathan Fowler Produced by Elizabeth Rodd
It’s not so much the lisp, he just comes off as a bigoted sexist.
This is the guy who called into Imus and said that shrieking sound you hear in the background is not a 10 year old girl who I have restrained under my bed, but my new dog. Weirdo.
Like it or not, it’s going to be Chris Christie.
He is also the author of a long number of articles about the American Bubble Machine - a superb expose of Goldman Sachs and how GS is behind almost all the financial machinations of this recession and of prior recessions.
Matt Taibi will have his hands full this campaign season if Rep. Michele Bachmann also runs for president.
Few people will be able to successfully besmirch an articulate, well educated tax attorney who is mother to five and foster mom to twenty-three children .... MATT TAIBBI is defiitely behind the curve with this article, utterly clueless about the upcoming presidential race which apparently will feature more Minnesotans than just boring Pawlenty.
Simply stated I do not believe that Sarah Palin will win the Republican nomination in 2012 because I do not believe she will run for President in 2012.
Just my opinion.
I’m kinda believing the same thing in that 2012 isn’t the year for her. I also think her plus-up states aren’t that many. She would have a rough time in the New England states, and around the rustbelt. As for winning the primary in Iowa? This would be a curious thing. I suspect that Huck would still win that and get some initial points in the beginning.
My mom has Medicare and is always afraid some doc won’t take it. More and more don’t. It is NOT a wonderful thing.
and the problem is.....?
How do you see a pro-abortion, Northeastern, gun-grabbing portly New Jersey politico taking the GOP nomination?
If not for his father, I think this guy would be bartending or telemarketing.
Well yeah, like they say at the lottery “You can’t win if you don’t play.” But if she does run she’s the 800lb bear in the room.
“I don’t think she is going to win, but I think she is a very good bet to win the nomination”
The Left is scared to death she will be nominated.
A few blog comments:
Only the most dedicated kool-aid drinkers, and willfully ignorant, can deny that we’re at the end-game of a global plan to forcefully separate humanity into Ruling Elite “Haves,” and a “Have Not” labor force. [snip]
I’ve spent my entire adult life with a “go along to get along” attitude toward liberals. For my sake, your sake, and the sake of America, such a laissez faire attitude is no longer a sane or responsible position to have. The liberals have become a de facto front for the Marxist/Fascist Globalists. Whether the bulk of liberals are aware of this is a moot point.
It is now glaringly obvious that our government “representatives” are no such thing, or at least they no longer represent “we the people.” They largely represent themselves, and special interests. The corruption and collusion between big government, big money, big banking, big labor, and big business has reached critical mass.
(I recommend “Rolling Stone” reporter Matt Tabbi’s book “Griftopia”—just let the liberal futz talking-points go in one eye and out the other).
“We the people” are under the thumb of an ever increasingly distant and arrogant “Political Class” (who are themselves a subset of America’s (and the world’s) “Ruling Class”).
Which brings me to the proposed 28th Amendment—the one which says in effect that no law shall be foisted on “we the people,” unless it applies equally to those doing the foisting—i.e. Congress. In short, the 28th Amendment says that if a law applies to us, then it applies to the members of Congress as well. A scant few decades ago, such an amendment would have seemed laughably unneeded—such is no longer the case, unfortunately.
When Republicans spend their own money, they are demonized as Evil Rich people who must be stopped.
When Republicans get money from manufacturers, food processors, or contractors, they are demonized for being funded by Special Interests.
When Democrats get money from unions, the Sierra Club, George Soros, or Goldman Sachs, are these the Evil Rich? Are they “special interests”? Heck no! They are just “concerned citizens”.
My opinion is that she is going to run and that not only is she is going to win, it is going to be a landslide of epic proportions.
Sarah is the antidote to Obama much like Reagan was the antidote to Carter. We need strong medicine to clean up this mess and she’s the only one who has it.
I don’t like this guy and I don’t agree with most of what he says, but he is right about the way Sarah connects with the average American. It’s basic, fundamental and emotional.
“Like it or not, it’s going to be Chris Christie.’
A couple of questions.....
A. Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
B. Why.
I would also point out he has said over and over and over he’s not running for President. Now it shouls also be noted he is a politician, a group who have a tendency to...(how shall I put this?) waffle when it comes to what they really think.
Ain’t nobody giving up a gig on Reality TV to get bashed and raped by the modern leftist media. If she does, she really is the moron they try and paint her as.
With her accent, does Sarah qualify as an expat Minnesotan? That valley she's from up in Alaska is full of Minnesotans who moved up there in the 1920's. (Of course, with global warming, they must be horribly disappointed with the tropical climate by now, lol.)
With Pawlenty thrown in, we could wind up with a Minnesota Dynasty in the White House.
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