Posted on 09/09/2011 5:31:28 AM PDT by RefudiateObama2012
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — Let us begin by confessing that, if Sarah Palin surfaced to say something intelligent and wise and fresh about the present American condition, many of us would fail to hear it.
That is not how we’re primed to see Ms. Palin. A pugnacious Tea Partyer? Sure. A woman of the people? Yup. A Mama Grizzly? You betcha.
But something curious happened when Ms. Palin strode onto the stage last weekend at a Tea Party event in Indianola, Iowa. Along with her familiar and predictable swipes at President Barack Obama and the “far left,” she delivered a devastating indictment of the entire U.S. political establishment — left, right and center — and pointed toward a way of transcending the presently unbridgeable political divide.
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What wow?
The NY Times doesn’t think she’s electable so they’ll start being nice to her.
I think the crony capitalism angle caught the article writers ear.
8 posts for someone to point out the obvious.
All of the Palin folks turning into Sally Field.
‘They like her...They really like her’
No they don’t.
Did you all just discover the NYTimes yesterday?
Yes, Palin is now the ‘Sensible alternative’ Why?
Because they realize pimping Romney will not get him past Perry.
The love they have now, will be gone the day she gets in and leads at the polls.
Then It’s all hands on Deck to protect the Won.
fcol.
“Palin is a Republican.”
Yes but like her, most on FR identify with her. Conservative first, then Republican.
“Oh, come on—if the exact same article were written about Perry, Palin fans would be saying it’s proof he’s a RINO, and you know it.”
Read the article. What she is being praised for in the article is not for being RINOish. RINO’s and rats were what she was attacking—America’s “permanent political class.” Her attack on that class, whether corporate or government, was what she was being praised for. She was utterly spot on. What shocks me is that the NYT had any praise for her as the NYT is competes for “head-water-carrier” for the political class.
I would be very pleased were Perry to make the same attack. I don’t think he is as clear on this issue as Palin—he strikes me as having at least one big foot in the political class. But maybe after that class finishes trying to wipe him and his family off the map and salt the earth in his front and back yards, he will come to understand that. If the political class does not do that to him, it is a pretty sure sign he is one of them.
Agreed.
And like Reagan she understands the libertarian foundation to much of conservatism.
Then Sarah must never hibernate because there’s not an ounce of fat on her!
If her view was that the fundamental problem is that the permanent political class has been captured by all the factions (and not just "crony capitalists") because the state has metastasized far beyond its constitutional bounds, she would be speaking my language. (IIRC she has spoken sympathetically of unions in particular in the past, although only in the abstract.)
Sometimes politicians are only anti-Fortune 500 when they should be anti-factionalism generally.
It is a NYT editorial. Even the NYT needs some add clicks. I would bet this editorial gets more “eyes” than any other article on their web page today.
Looking at Anand Giridharadas’ other articles on the NYT, I don’t see any flaming conservative hate going on at first glance.
But KansasGirl straightened me out on the third party thing. Just wishful thinking on my part, I suppose.
The New York Times doesn’t care one bit about Sarah Palin.
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Of course they don’t. They want her to run because it will take the attention off of the Marxist in Chief.
Ping to the Big ‘H’ finally freezing over.
This seems to be a true statement. He favors abolition of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments and that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme.
I still cannot believe that he didn't run, crying in wetted-pants terror, when asked about that on national television.
I do admire guts in men and women. That would be one gutsy team, no doubt.
Your tagline is also true and is still setting out there as an eminent threat.
Yes, to continue the ‘its not prostitution if you don’t say the money is for sex’ theme.....
Did they give him the money because they knew he supported their position - or did he support their position because they gave him the money?
Do you support your young girlfriend financially because she is giving you sex - or does she give you sex because you are supporting her financially?
Read the book, saw the movie, and it didn’t end well for her, but it ended even worse for the pranksters.
So went/goes after corruption where ever it is. She’s not political.
She recognizes much of what is our current government should NOT be conserved (Social Security, Income tax, MediCare, MediCaid, regulation, etc.).
The truth, simply stated, has a tendency to cross partisan lines. Sarah spoke the truth, and every now and then someone in the lamestream media will step up and recognize it.
I think that Sarah is going to have more of a problem from her “friends” on the gop side than the democrats should she run. While it’s fine and dandy to say that big government and big unions are not your friends, throwing big business in that same group is not going to win you accolades in the establishment gop. That’s sacrilege and heresy.
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