Posted on 02/26/2011 2:52:56 AM PST by Sarah-bot
Don’t be snarky.
I used to listen to Isotopes fables on the radio. Actively.
Someone must have sprinkled LSD on this thread. The original poster was talking about Sarah Palin. Where did you get Michael Palin from?
I dialed the snark way back before I hit post, believe me.
Nobody hates hates Palin on FR. But, like Ann Coulter said on Hannity last night. I’m sick of watching a presidential debate with knots in my stomach as our candidate butcher easy to answer questions.
Johnny Cash was a big dem for sure.
George Bush was not a true conservative.
LOL...First there were “Bushbots”, then there were “McCainiacs” now there are “Palindrones.”
Thanks for posting. I’ve always loved that song.
Johnny Cash wrote about poor and disaffected people; prisoners, people who were drug addicts and alcoholics. He made phone calls to a brutal killer on death row one at least one occasion, because the man was such a huge fan. He did concerts in prisons and was in favor of prison reform.
He wrote and sang songs about lives he felt were wasted in Vietnam, and about being strung out on dope. He wrote about people who thought God was on their side, which implies that maybe He wasn't.
I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times.
Johnny Cash struggled with alcoholism and drug addiction much of his adult life. He was an adulterer. He tried suicide at least once. He tried to bribe a deputy to keep himself out of jail when he was carrying drugs.
He personally knew every president from Nixon on, but never endorsed anyone. He was good friends with Jimmy Carter.
Johnny Cash was a great man and a phenomenal artist. None of the above is a slam on him in any way. It just is what it is.
So, I don't know what a "Johnny Cash conservative" is, but not a bit of that sounds like Sarah Palin.
Here's a line from a song he made famous, The One On The Right Is On The Left:
Now this should be a lesson if you plan to start a folk group
Don't go mixin' politics with the folk songs of our land
Just work on harmony and diction
Play your banjo well
And if you have political convictions keep them to yourself
I have always liked that song too. Point is, I am a Johnny Cash conservative. If some people don’t like that then they are not the people I know. The people I know have lived lives. They have gotten their hands dirty, and I would trust them with my life. I loath pretentious people. Palin is not pretentious, and that is why she reminds me of Johnny.
Sounds like a Susan Sarandon conservative to me ...
I like sarah and will easily vote and support her if she runs, but her rabid fans do her no favors with how they act. Posting the same pics over and over and over and over. Reading in to every comment, attacking anyone who dares voice an ounce of concern about her candidacy, etc.
As for johnny cash, a legend and giant for the ages.
Mountainbunny, you made some good points, and those good point are my point. Johnny had problems, but his heart and his ideals were in the right place. Also, we all knew what Johnny’s problems were. What is troubling me is that everyone is trying to pretend that everyone needs to be perfect. I respect people who admit that they are not perfect, but they express to me what is their concept of perfect. I want to know what the candidates are striving for, and I know what Palin is striving for. That is why I support her.
I guess in 11/2012 you will vote Bambi instead of Palin?
I’m of the same mind. Sarah is, IMHO, by far the leading Republican contender, and the head of the conservative field at present. However, like Dan Quayle, through no fault of her own, she has been so mercilessly caricatured, and smeared that a lot of otherwise right leaning voters who generally don’t pay attention to politics until the last few months before an election have negative opinions about her. It’s a huge deficit she’s going to need to overcome, and while I feel that she is capable of doing so, it’s going to be a deep hole for her to climb out of.
Fred dropped that ball not Joe-6-Pack. Fred was the man for 2008, or would you have preferred Mac.
I totally put the blame 100 percent in Fred’s hands but that does not excuse the cheerleading that occured when it was not justified. He looked and acted like a dufus. Had he been serious about running than we would not have had to worry about Johnny boy.
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