Posted on 01/05/2015 1:43:21 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Defining a politician’s personality, whether positively to build them up, or negatively to tear them down, is a basic rule of politics. Themes can define an image e.g. "Roosevelt's categorization of Al Smith as "The Happy Warrior" or Democrat folklore depicting William Jennings Bryan as "the Great Commoner" are two classic positive examples. On the negative side, Mitt Romney never recovered from being defined as "Mr. 1 percent", nor did John Kerry from being "Mr. Flip Flop."
Once a politician is defined (fairly or unfairly doesn't enter into the picture) as say, Rick Perry was as a forgetful ditherer, it becomes extremely difficult to shake off the perception -- even though in his case it was based on a single, admittedly important, debate moment. Such is the power of media defining that an entire career as a successful governor of a major state can have that whole positive history shrouded in the fog of a slip of the tongue or a moments’ forgetfulness.
This eternal and unshakable truism seems to have one, and perhaps the only one exception to the rule, and that is Governor Palin. Once the media got over their initial shock at her 2008 convention address, the entire subsequent campaign was involved in a liberal media/blog attempt to stick a permanent, negative label on her. That a flow of constant new Palin memes continues to this day shows that for all their efforts nothing has stuck irrevocably and fatally detrimentally.
Before Palin's convention address there was some flailing about by a confused media and a number of memes were tried out. "Palin's a bad parent neglecting her children, especially the special needs one, for a campaign". That such nonsense has never been used against a man, and the anger of many women at such a ridiculous concept....
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How could the author forget to include “The Teflon President”?
Palin is the medias worst enemy and when they fear their enemy the MUST do everything, will do anything to degrade them. They fear Palin with a passion and it definitely shows.
Palin is the medias worst enemy and when they fear their enemy the MUST do everything, will do anything to degrade them. They fear Palin with a passion and it definitely shows.
Or the ever-popular ‘Plugs’...
The media opposition to Palin is apparent, as now is about the time, she will consider whether to run in 2016.
I did a search on Sarah Palin just now. Just to see what the media is saying about her.
There were pages and pages of articles, all very recent.
The fact is, it seems to help Palin get back into the forefront of our national public discussion.
I hope you consider actually running in 2016, Ms. Palin.
A lot of people do.
Her campaign, if there is one, should be: “The MSM hates me, look it up. It shouldn’t take much more than that to get your vote.”
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I love it how she gives it right back to them by highlighting their own hypocrisy.
We will look back and laugh at all this when Gov Palin is sworn in as POTUS on Jan 20, 2017
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