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The GOP's Long Love Affair With Schmucks
Reason ^ | 01.29.15 | Nick Gillepsie

Posted on 01/30/2015 6:11:54 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines

From Sarah Palin to Donald Trump to Ben Carson, Republicans Just Can't Get Enough of obviously unqualified presidential contenders.

(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cain; concerntroll; getpalin; memebuilding; palin; palinhate; pds; teamromney; trump
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Nick is not qualified to write this and he is truly a schmuck. Nick, go find a real job.


21 posted on 01/30/2015 6:42:13 AM PST by mulligan (I)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Gillespie, a frequent guest on the libertarian love-fest Stossel, is a schmuck himself, if you call someone who believes that the U.S. should have no borders and that illegal aliens should get blanket amnesty a schmuck (which I do).
22 posted on 01/30/2015 6:47:45 AM PST by montag813 (ue)
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To: bigdaddy45

Troll.


23 posted on 01/30/2015 6:53:15 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

These people are not scmucks. But I agree with the premise. Being a strong conservative in belief and action does not equate to good leadership at a federal level. In my opinion the most qualified are those governors who have strong beliefs and action. The Republicans are fortunate to have several that fill the bill and proved beyond a shadow of a doubt they are top drawer leaders. And they are the ones, IMO, on whom we should be focused.

Sarah was a good governor but she has passed her political prime. Christie is too glib of tongue. Jeb has a Common Core” and amnesty problem. Romney would be a great president but his Massachusetts health plan and Mormon faith will keep him out of the WH, Kasich is an Obamacare advocate, so what Governors are remaining? Walker and Perry, both of whom have been not just good governors, but outstanding. So much for my considered opinion.


24 posted on 01/30/2015 6:57:41 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: cdcdawg
She ran and won mayor of her town after being a PTA leader. Then she was appointed for the Gas & oil commission (not sure of its exact name) and kicked ass, got a bunch of gas and oil contracts cancelled and rewritten as the oil companies, with blessings from the commission were ripping off the Alaskans. Then she went after all the corruption in the commission and got even a couple of R's kicked out of government.

Then she ran for Governor and won. When she was tapped for VP her favorable's were at 80%. SHE did all of this with support from men in her life but no man paved her way or lit a torch for her.

That is what I like the best about Sarah Palin, successful, accomplished with little help from a man, should be perfect in a woman's lib eyes, but she committed the cardinal sin, she kept her down syndrome baby, they hate her for that. She stood strong while everyone pummeled her and her family with lies and innuendo and half truths. They succeeded in destroying her political career, she will never get elected to be POTUS, I hope she just keeps getting in the control freaks faces and endorsing tea party candidates.

25 posted on 01/30/2015 7:03:11 AM PST by thirst4truth (Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

The GOP’s Long Love Affair With Shmucks

Thought the article was going to be about the RINOs then read

Palin, Trump, Carson

Didn’t read any further.


26 posted on 01/30/2015 7:08:08 AM PST by Personal Responsibility (Changing the name of a thing doesn't change the thing. A liberal or a rose by any other name...)
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To: GeronL

Nick would have no doubt been on the “Reagan is a lightweight actor” bus.

My qualifications for president in the age of corruption...

Courage


27 posted on 01/30/2015 7:14:23 AM PST by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Yeah, a real contrast to the recent donkey-crat presidential field:

Al Gore - moron
John Kerry - moron
Joe Biden - moron
Barack Obama - f’n moron

(I could go on)


28 posted on 01/30/2015 7:34:11 AM PST by Stosh
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To: bigdaddy45

Exactly. Used to be you couldn’t say that here without being run out.


29 posted on 01/30/2015 7:34:26 AM PST by LydiaLong
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To: GeronL
Palin, Trump or Carson or even Dole, McCain and Romney would be w-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-y more qualified than the Schmuck already in the white house by any reasonable measure.

You can take all the flotsam and jetsam from 2008 or 2012 and say the same thing about any of them: Herman Cain, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum or even my least favorite of the group: Huckabee.

All of these have problems ranging from the superficial (Palin doesn't talk to please Ivy Leaguers) to the serious (Rick Santorum lost his last statewide race in Pennsylvania by nearly 20 points to a cardboard cut-out), but any of them would present far more qualifications than the present occupant of the office.

30 posted on 01/30/2015 7:40:17 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: section9

Can’t expect libertarian cultists be conservatives.


31 posted on 01/30/2015 7:43:08 AM PST by rdb3 (Meh! A hole-in-one is just an eagle. Sink an albatross!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Palin worked her way up the ladder on her own, and proved to be one of the incredibly few willing to buck the whole corrupt, crony system, even going after those in her own Party. Her whole career fits the Jeffersonian ideal.

Gillespie? Those doofuses at the “Reason” message-boards were all celebratory at Obama’s victory in 2008, and thrilled with the defeat of McCain-Palin. Gillespie looks like a haggard, burned-out, dopehead moron, always clad in his leather jacket, going for some kind of urban hipster vibe, wallowing in detached irony. Like this pathetic puke is even fit to shine Palin’s shoes.


32 posted on 01/30/2015 7:45:14 AM PST by greene66
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Guys like this remind me of why I don’t call myself libertarian. I am sympathetic with the philosophy but most of the ardent ones are more interested in articulating how smart they are for not being Republicans (for the record I don’t call myself that either).


33 posted on 01/30/2015 7:45:57 AM PST by keyesguy
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To: elpadre
Anyone who says this, "Romney would be a great president," is either a lib or has no idea what they are talking about. His or her opinion means nothing to conservatives. I stopped reading after seeing that.

Romney is a lying Fabian socialist. The son of a Saul Alinsky supporting father and an Abortion Barbie mother. A dangerous combination no conservative should even imagine supporting.

34 posted on 01/30/2015 7:53:02 AM PST by Waryone
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To: Redbob
Palin is clearly an intellectual lightweight - but so is the current occupier of the White House

Really? Well she nailed Obama in her Convention speech when everyone else was hiding. She accurately predicted the invasion of Ukraine, She accurately predicted "Death Panels" she was right about "Drill baby Drill!" And so far has been able to run rings around all the super geniuses out there.

If she is a lightweight, all the rest of the field is no-weights.

35 posted on 01/30/2015 7:58:49 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: bigdaddy45
Prepare for the onslaught of those who will tell you that Mrs. Palin is the greatest political thinker of our generation.

No, that would be Ronald Reagan, but Palin is certainly near the top of the heap as near as I can tell. Gingrinch (despite all his nonsense) is still a pretty good political thinker too, and I would give Cruz and Walker some very deserved props as well.

36 posted on 01/30/2015 8:00:30 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: cdcdawg
A huge part of the knock on Sarah Palin is due to her accent.

I agree; that is one of the things that Perot failed on, as well. Her nasal whine, endless repetition of catch phrases, swallowing of last syllables and confusing mispronunciation of vowels drives me crazy.

Unfortunately, Palin has apparently done nothing about it, whereas Mrs. Thatcher took voice coaching to lower her voice and practice other techniques to make her sound more authoritative and palatable to her audiences.

37 posted on 01/30/2015 8:01:16 AM PST by Albion Wilde (It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
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To: GeronL; Jane Long; DJ MacWoW; gov_bean_ counter; eCSMaster
I would have thought their examples would be named Dole, McCain and Romney.

Silence!

Stop Pointing out the Squishy GOP Dem-Lite!

The Media Liked them, that was a HUGE Advantage, Right?

Am I right?

right?

38 posted on 01/30/2015 8:02:34 AM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: elpadre
Walker and Perry, both of whom have been not just good governors, but outstanding. So much for my considered opinion.

I agree with you about Walker and to a lesser extent about Perry, but do not discount the efforts that Ted Cruz has made on behalf of restoring sanity to the nation. Ted Cruz strikes me as an effective leader because he doesn't constantly look behind himself to see who might be following. He just leads.

39 posted on 01/30/2015 8:04:03 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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To: HMS Surprise
Nick would have no doubt been on the “Reagan is a lightweight actor” bus.

That was what I was thinking. Indeed, I said something similar up above. Reagan was a great thinker whom many portrayed as a lightweight. I recall some conservative columnists (Ann Coulter I think) pointing out that the media has ALWAYS portrayed Republican Presidents as Dumb, or simple.

They did it to Eisenhower, affable, but not a great thinker, Nixon they portrayed as corrupt, Ford was a bumbling fool, Reagan was a senile old man, HW Bush was out of touch, G W Bush was a simpleton, and so on.

That they constantly do it to Palin tells me whom they fear the most. They do not waste their time on Paul or Huckabee.

40 posted on 01/30/2015 8:09:02 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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