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Sarah Palin Slips into Self-Parody
National Review ^ | January 26, 2015 | Charles C. W. Cooke

Posted on 01/26/2015 6:22:08 PM PST by MinnesotaLibertarian

Skipping to the end:

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Consider, if you will, what happens to a person who suggests that Sarah Palin is anything other than saintly. Right off the bat, they are accused of disliking America or Alaska or conservatives or mothers or the working class — or even women in general — and then they are informed that their “hatred” is showing. Next, their motives are questioned and their supposedly secret “agenda” is exposed for the world to see, for no right-thinking person could dislike Palin on the merits, natch. “I hope you enjoy your elite cocktail parties,” the apologists will say, and then they will huffily tell you that they “hope signaling that you are ‘one of them’ was worth it.” And finally — as is the case when one expresses disapproval of other cult figures, such as President Obama, Ron Paul, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and Paul Krugman — it is presumed that all animadversion must be motivated by envy or by snobbery or by secret admiration, and that it can therefore be safely ignored. “What have you done,” they will ask, “that compares to my paragon of virtue?” All told, it’s really quite pathetic.

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Having been mercilessly and unjustly pilloried by the media throughout the 2008 campaign, Sarah Palin had a clear choice in its aftermath: She could sober up and prove the buggers wrong, or she could collapse into ignominious pasquinade. Sadly, she chose the latter. The rest of us should choose to move on.

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I expect to get flamed by the Palin fan club, but this is one of the best summaries I've seen of why she should not be taken seriously as a candidate. It has nothing to do with her policies - it has do with how she conducts herself. I agree entirely that she was not treated fairly by the media in 2008, but she has done nothing but play into the image they've created for her ever since. Furthermore, quitting her term as Governor halfway through is a major red flag, and eliminates the credibility of the "executive experience" argument.
1 posted on 01/26/2015 6:22:08 PM PST by MinnesotaLibertarian
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To: MinnesotaLibertarian

The author succinctly described why she cannot be elected.


2 posted on 01/26/2015 6:24:24 PM PST by Sasparilla (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum)
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To: MinnesotaLibertarian

I completely disagree.

(now I am going to sleep. I just had to disagree with you)

:D


3 posted on 01/26/2015 6:25:26 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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To: MinnesotaLibertarian

Blahblahblah


4 posted on 01/26/2015 6:26:20 PM PST by kanawa
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

What people are failing to realize that at an event where no one particularly stood out, Palin is the one getting the press. At this point in the 2016 election cycle, there is no such thing as bad press.


5 posted on 01/26/2015 6:27:30 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: MinnesotaLibertarian

I really hate it when my favorite politicians collapse into ignominious pasquinade. Damn!


6 posted on 01/26/2015 6:28:33 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: MinnesotaLibertarian

What can you expect from a formerly conservative publication?


7 posted on 01/26/2015 6:28:43 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: MinnesotaLibertarian

She’s living in their heads rent-free 24/7.


8 posted on 01/26/2015 6:29:04 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: MinnesotaLibertarian
Consider, if you will, what happens to a person who suggests that Sarah Palin is anything other than saintly. Right off the bat, they are accused of disliking America or Alaska or conservatives or mothers or the working class — or even women in general — and then they are informed that their “hatred” is showing.

That is something I would never do, not even to an anti-American, West-hating, misogynistic, mother-hating elitist bigot like the author. I'm a bigger person than that.

9 posted on 01/26/2015 6:29:06 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: MinnesotaLibertarian

I would crawl over broken glass in the pouring rain to get to my polling place and vote for Sarah. So would Mrs. Genoa and the extended Genoa family.


10 posted on 01/26/2015 6:30:07 PM PST by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: MinnesotaLibertarian

One could say the same thing about the “National Review”.


11 posted on 01/26/2015 6:30:34 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

No such thing as bad press? Would you call Gerald Ford continuously falling down the stairs of Air Force One good press? Unfortunately, Palin is following in those footsteps.


12 posted on 01/26/2015 6:31:36 PM PST by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Sasparilla

Pound sand.


13 posted on 01/26/2015 6:32:02 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: MinnesotaLibertarian

National Review has been in the pockets of the RINO establishment for a long, long time—basically, ever since Bill Buckley died.


14 posted on 01/26/2015 6:32:23 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Yeah, me too. They become apoplectically hysterical whenever she speaks. Sarah separates the wheat from the chaff, every time.


15 posted on 01/26/2015 6:33:34 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: MinnesotaLibertarian

“National Review?” Which was so rhapsodically enamoured of Mitt Romney?

To hell with them. I regard them as just as much an enemy to my beliefs and values as I do MSNBC these days. I’ll stick with Palin.


16 posted on 01/26/2015 6:33:44 PM PST by greene66
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To: MinnesotaLibertarian

Go Sarah!


17 posted on 01/26/2015 6:34:58 PM PST by Third Person
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To: miss marmelstein

collapse into ignominious pasquinade. Damn! —

Is that anything like a big vat of guacamole?

Or the Tar Pits? (Be assured I am referring to white tar pits only.)


18 posted on 01/26/2015 6:35:15 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (/s /s /s /s /s, my replies are "liberally" sprinkled with them behind every word and letter.!)
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To: miss marmelstein; MinnesotaLibertarian; gov_bean_ counter; Jack Hydrazine; Billthedrill; Genoa; ...
Team Romney Is Concerned.....


19 posted on 01/26/2015 6:36:41 PM 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: onyx

Ping.


20 posted on 01/26/2015 6:37:14 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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