Posted on 12/26/2010 11:48:41 AM PST by American Dream 246
Edited on 12/26/2010 12:34:30 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
From Fox News Sunday
Williams: "There's nobody out there except for Sarah Palin who could absolutely dominate the stage and she can't stand on the intellectual stage with Obama"
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0dumbo can’t share the intellectual stage with Bubbles the chimp without being the least qualified on that stage.
She sure does scare the pants off them doesn’t she?
Actually, Sarah can prove she has a degree and produce classmates to prove she was in class. Something the “o” can’t or won ‘t do. So the response is, “Prove it”.
Now, Allan Keyes is a true intellectual. God, what I wouldn’t give to see him up there reducing Barack Obama to silly putty.
Hey Juan, your people threw you under the bus. You don't need to lick Obama's boots anymore.
Then why the heck is he not President. If he had a tie than he should of had more than 1 percent of the vote.
That judgement will be up to the people in the 57 states (plus the one Obama still has to visit). And maybe even some CORPSEMEN and the lines of fallen heroes he sees attending his speeches.
It is virtually an article of the Democrat canon that the Democrats are smart and Republicans are stupid, a conceit derived from their universal obsession to play God. Every presidential candidate on the Republican side has been described as virtual morons by the Democrats. As a lad, I remember being told that the man who organized the greatest amphibious assault in history and conducted successfully the Crusade in Europe against the Nazis was intellectually deficient. Every other Republican since Eisenhower, except Nixon who was evil, was stupid. The problem for the Democrats is they come down with a virus every four years which confuses intellect with character, forensics with statesmanship.
They misunderstand the nature and dynamics of presidential debates because the people do not seek a schoolmaster, they seek a president. That means they are judging the debaters on whether or not they can lead the country.
Further, the judgment is made not on the basis of the forensic performance of the two participants, therefore, each candidate is not so much judged against the other-although that certainly occurs-but he is judged against the context in which he or she enters the debate. That is one of the main reasons why Barack Obama actually defeated John McCain in the debates even though in at least one debate McCain might have won on points. The electorate was looking to see whether Obama had the stuff of presidential material within him. He did not have to win debates, all he had to do was look presidential. That is a rather low threshold and he crossed it easily. McCain could have bested him on every issue and still have lost the debate. The test for Obama will be different this time.
If Palin were to debate Obama, very little will turn on the substance of the debate and much less on the intellectual domination of one over the other because each candidate is already a known quantity and few voters will have their minds changed by the exchange on stage. But to the degree that minds are changed they will be changed by the same test that was so easy for Obama in 2008, is Sarah Palin presidential? If she is, she has a very good chance of winning the election because the electorate is likely to be as fed up with Obama as they were with George Bush and the debates merely serve as a final check that the country would be safe in the Republican candidate's hands. If Sarah Palin and can pass that test she can win.
All that being said, it is also true that she has done very little to improve her forensic performance which is always dynamic and compelling but not necessarily presidential. She needs training to project gravitas. She has not done a thing to change that image.
I do miss Brit Hume's bitchslaps, but Bill Kristol’s quiet laughter at Juan's risible remarks is almost as good.
Juan Williams dumbs down every room he enters.
The only conservatives are Palin and Hannity and Sean is dumber than a brick.
I've stopped watching FNC all together.
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Thank you.
Agreed. I don’t even watch cable news anymore.
Juan an idiot. Why is he given any credibility is beyond me?
Fixed it for you.
Well, let’s ponder on that for a moment.
On the one hand we have a down-to-earth, speaks-from-the-heart, conservative woman who represents all that is American.
On the other hand we have a mysterious, no-background, avowed redistributionist progressive who hasn’t uttered a complete and intelligent sentence in over four years without the assistance of a teleprompter.
Gee whiz! That’s a tough one... but, I think I’ll go with the conservative.
I cringe and turn off the TV when I see Hannity and BOR sucking up to this Liberal.
The debate with Obama was for his senate seat. Keyes was framed as a “carpet bagger” which was more or less true.
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