The fact that these RINOS hate Sarah Palin so much, makes me love her that much more.
Does any of these country-clubbers think the vote would be anywhere near as close as it is if McCain had selected the acceptable-to-them Olympia Snowe?
Get real! McCain would be 20 points down by now.
They decided early on that McCain was going to lose this thing. Not a Republican year, and all that rot. But John McCain did not get into this race to lose, and he will not go down quietly. The country-clubbers will never forgive him for that.
F*** all elitist RINOs
There needs to be a big purge after the election.
Pundits. The political equivalent of movie critics.
I’ve said this before — something I’m really really sick of, that keeps appearing here on Free Republic in comments on Gov. Palin: the notion that she has to “grow.” It’s a word that means nothing, & is a sop to the Noonan’s & libs in this world. If we want Palin to grow, don’t we wish even more fervently that Obama would “grow”? What about Biden? For that matter, what about poor crazed Peggy Noonan? Do we want Palin quoting Niebuhr, to give a tingle up Brooks’ trousers? Who is she growing for? Why? To get more nuanced about life issues? Iraq and foreign policy? Gay marriage? Do we think she’s too direct in the way she expresses herself, and needs a little more around-Robin-Hood’s-barn articulation, more like (say) Biden?
My view is that not only are Palin’s “instincts” right, her whole conceptual world-view is right. If she’s right, then what growth does she need?
Sorry about the rant. I’m not flaming you. Just tired of us giving way to these people when they give nothing back to us. Especially on something like “grow,” which has no quantifiable meaning, except what our opponents give it.
“The Conservative Snoot Brigade Turns on Palin . . . and the Base”
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The point being that this appropriately named “snoot brigade”, is in no shape or form, conservative. They are media elites first and foremost, much more concerned about getting the appropriate invites to fellow self-important punditry TV programs which no one watches, or all the right cocktail parties. What matters in DC and Manhattan is all that counts.
They have little understanding of or regard for the conservative rank and file, nor increasingly, we of them.
A few months back, all of these people would be saying that McCain is the perfect centrist candidate. If these people are afraid of a loss coming, I can’t see why they are blaming McCain and his campaign. Maybe they are looking for a convenient scapegoat.
And they are the reason this improbable, almost ‘virtual’ candidate even had a chance.
Ole Dan has a keen intelect and an eloquent writing style. The term “Snoot Brigade” should win a Laying Pullets award.
The sweet irony is, of course, that these same liberal republican pundits, by and large, re-made McCain’s image and thrust him onto the campaign trail as the GOP’s Prince Galahad. Now they trash Palin, who by proxy, represents conservatives. No big surprise, really.
Sarah Palin is everything they are not. She is the "libertarian" conservative of the west, she is the "religious" conservative of the south and midwest and the bare-knuckle, get it done conservative who lives under the yoke of blue-state political tyranny of the northeast. That is why they fear her, she is the real deal. Conservatism in all it's forms personified.
Governor Palin may be as great a transformational force in American Politics as Elizabeth I was to England.
I love Sarah because she is NOT like these RINOs.
What the hell is the North Star Writers Group? Sounds like it is composed of a herd of Birkenstock-wearing, bean sprout-eating, tofu-slurping, limp-wristed fantasizers, wholly enamored with themselves.
Peggy Noonan
Colin Powell
Davis Brooks
Just a start, feel free to add your own.
There is a growing number of “conservative” pundits who’ve made themselves personae non gratis inside the conservative movement. They’ll be on the outside looking in. My list of writers who I’ll never read again (or start reading) includes Noonan, C. Buckley, Kathleen Parker, Brooks, and MacDonald. We’ll see if the list grows longer.