Posted on 01/21/2016 6:51:19 AM PST by detective
As a political journalist, you never forget the first time you stop just covering a politician and start identifying with her. The first time you wed your high-minded vision of what politics should be to a real candidate's perishable breath.
My first time arrived in 2008. It lasted only a short while. Her name was Sarah Palin.
Let me explain. That spring, in between the Republican primary and the fall campaign, my friend Reihan Salam and I had published a book called "Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream."
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
They seem to be less certain and more delusional.
This is a weird almost incoherent article from the NYT. It shows the MSM types have gone from being simply wrong to being confused.
They seem to be less certain and more delusional.
Except that it isn’t what we called for, because we wanted a populism with substance — one that actually offered policy solutions to stagnant wages and rising health care costs, one that could help Republicans reach out to upwardly mobile blacks and Hispanics as well as whites, and so on down an optimistic wish list.
Whereas Trump-era populism, while it plays very effectively on economic anxiety, mostly offers braggadocio rather than solutions, and white identity politics rather than any kind of one-nation conservatism.
As a long time admirer and defender I was totally shocked by how totally irritating her voice was. Heard it for the first time for that 15 seconds I listened to her. Yeah I never knew she was more populist than conservative, makes perfect sense now that she is for the low info bully.
I am for the inorganic rock of conservatism. I know realize trumpees are populists, some who thought they were conservative but are not, which is fine.
I am for conservative values, not personality.
Like Douthat, my husband and I voted for the McCain-Palin ticket mainly because we wished we could reverse the order of the names.
She was more qualified than Obama, by far; but that´s because Obama was utterly, completely, 100% UN-qualified and she could beat his best simply by being a half-term governor ("It´s kind of like being a community organizer, except it has actual responsibilities." -- best sentence ever spoken in a political campaign).
But she was in over her head. If she had (as in our dreams) been elected and then called in by some McCain mishap to be President-fo-sho, she would have been, like Obama, an intern-President, a trainee-President, except of course without the malevolence.
She makes a horrible reality star, a Caribou Kardashian. She´d make great Governor --- or Senator--- for Alaska. I wish she´d go back to that and pick up some cred.
I do wish her well. Her and all her kin.
“Except that” LEAD in the water to the extent being talked about in Flint “sounds” a whole lot like “ORIGINAL” global warming or “climate change” arguments!
Sarah Palin = Sellout. She went from Anti-Crony Capitalist Crusader to Crony Capitalist Enabler in less time than it takes Donald Trump to line a corrupt politicians pocket.
I said what I believe and I stand by it. Note that I was not addressing you personally or directly and I will not do that now.
I support Sarah Palins decision to endorse Trump for President. I support Trump for President.
I am saddened by all the lies told about Trump.
Here's a good video analyzing the dynamic of those lies:
your misunderstanding is total
the solutions will be hashed out with the Congress. the structural outlines are adequate for the present
conservative puritanism is being shown to be a losing proposition not welcomed by the mass of voters that will prevail
Would you be posting that if Sarah had instead endorsed Cruz and given her "shrill" stump speech on his behalf instead?
I applaud Sarah for having the courage to publicly choose a side. She was bound to come under fire no matter how she chose. Then again, she could have sat on her hands on the sideline.
From the article:
“Palin gave interviews - terrible, terrible interviews. She was in over her head. Her own paranoia took center stage. She became her critics' caricature, embracing a mix of willful ignorance and proud ressentiment.”
First, “ressentiment” isn't a word. But beyond that the author says he was originally attracted to Sarah Palin but then wised up after watching her “terrible interviews”, her “paranoia” and her “willful ignorance”.
He is saying he sees how people would be attracted to Palin but those who do just aren't smart enough to see through her act and realize how bad she is.
He then attacks Trump. He says he understands the appeal of populism but that Trump is not a real populist like the author. He then throws in some weird and incoherent rambling about Putinism and other topics.
Many have noted here over the years of the shameful way Sarah was treated by not only the media, but also by McCain and his people.
It was clear to me from the get-go back in 08 that she was struggling with a lot of things that were out of her wheelhouse. Yet, I trusted her core, and I still do.
My worry is in her allying with a man who has pragmatism at his core. I'll go ahead and repeat this
Pragmatism has roots in Darwinism and secular humanism. It is inherently relativistic, rejecting the notion of absolute right and wrong, good and evil, truth and error. Pragmatism ultimately defines truth as that which is useful, meaningful, helpful. Ideas that don't seem workable or relevant are rejected as false.
Your description of what she did is a typical one from Cruz worshipers the last two days.
Shame on you, your poster name should switch to GogGunsGuts until you change that darkness you've allowed to invade you.
In short, Pragmatism = Ends Justifying Means. The old Marxist/Socialist canard.
a psychological state arising from suppressed feelings of envy and hatred that cannot be acted upon, frequently resulting in some form of self-abasement.
No doubt. Is there anyone who really doesn't believe that he bought her? He's bought politicians all of his life. It's what he does.
I still maintain Trump should not have saught Palins endorsement. Palin is bad news for any GOP candidate. She isnloathed by much of the nation and the antics of her family on help embed in peoples minds she is trouble....she was out news, which was good for the GOP race. No we cant stop hearing about her.
People just do not like her. The more she is out of the news, the better for the GOP
That is a blatant personal attack which violates the posting rule AND Jim's request of yesterday.
Pleas stop.
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