Posted on 12/18/2009 11:44:13 PM PST by GonzoII
Watching the video of Sarah Palin’s appearance with William Shatner on the “Tonight Show” with Conan O’Brien, the one word that came to mind was style. Yet, there was more to it than that.
After all, she entered the arena of late night television, a stage that has excoriated her routinely — the “enemy camp” as Chris Matthews might say. Mrs. Palin's has been scoffed at before by Mr. O’Brien. The show has featured William Shatner mocking Mrs. Palin’s tweets by reading them as dramatic recitations.
Still, Mrs. Palin handled her appearance with the aplomb of Beyonce at the MTV Video Music Awards. She exuded the charm of Sophia Loren; the dignity of a Katharine Hepburn.
The blend of these qualities, with the feistiness and intellect of Margaret Thatcher and the forty-something feminine beauty of a Demi Moore, is what makes Mrs. Palin so dangerous to the political establishments of both parties.
She has a certain manner, an allure about her that has endeared her to a wide swath of the American public in a short period of time. She is upsetting a lot of apple carts and the entrenched politicos resent it. They have directed their fire at her.
Indeed, Mrs. Palin has weathered a torrent of vitriol. While her primary critics are liberal Democrats, the bien-pensants of both parties fear and loathe her.
This was evinced recently by Michael Petrilli’s hortatory article in the Wall Street Journal. Petrilli’s haughty piece titled, “Whole Foods Republicans,” had this to say about Mrs. Palin, “…there's Sarah Palin, whose entire brand is anti-intellectual.”
Mr. Petrilli’s remarks about Mrs. Palin’s supporters echoed what liberals have said about military personnel in Iraq (Senator John Kerry, D-Mass.: “you get stuck in Iraq”) and the audience of the Limbaugh show.
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“You’re a troll, too. I posted the same thing earlier to your comrade. “
You better watch who you call a troll, or any other invectives. Especially when you do little else. You are a disruptor who has refused to engage in a civil argument for hundreds of posts. Knock of the relentless name-calling, and engage in a rational discussion.
“Foreign policy.
Coolidge was a non-interventionist.
Dunno about Reagan, though”
Get out a history book then kid, most of us lived through it. It was called the ColdWar. We were active in Central America...Guatemala, Honduras and some others with Special Ops and CIA...as well as boots on the ground in Grenada...where Cuban Combat Engineers fought Rangers, Marines and Airborne troops...and in Panama.
All while maintaining huge military forces in Europe to thwart possible Soviet intervention...Korea as well, where combat patrols were run near and covertly inside the DMZ. We spend huge sums of money on intelligence and technologh such as Stealth, MIRVs, SDI etc...which we still benefit from
Now we face the jihadists and in the future China is there.
If Ron Paul and the isolationists were in charge we’d still have the Soviet Union around.
So, Reagan was no pansy isolationist, he lived and governed as the world was, not as idealist fruitcakes wanted it to be.
“If a conservative president can wield the executive order to accomplish conservative ends, then a president like Obama can use that same executive order to say, sign the Copenhagen climate change treaty.”
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
“And for the record, Reagan was the best president of the twentieth century”
Finally, something to agree on. Carter left him a destroyed economy, and a trashed military too!
B U M P
You are a disruptor who ...
Or what? You are going to threads with the specific intent to DISRUPT. I respond with a post to gain more support for Sarah. The only thing I'm disrupting is your attack squad. Get lost, trolls...
I just checked again, and Sarah now has more tha1,117,007 supporters on FaceBook. click for link.
Oh come now, we all know that Reagan was a RINO interventionist......../sarcasm
“. I respond with a post to gain more support for Sarah”
Oh no you don’t. You trash every conservative who doesn’t praise Palin. And I do mean Praise. You have called me a troll for the last time. You are spreading misery here.
:-)
Well, it IS A MAJOR STEP. lol!
They are not trolls, they are just 1.7%’rs.
Again, they are out of the equation. They will rationalize a reason not to support Palin and support somebody who is not electable or a Third Party.
This is Palin Country.
I attended the Reagan funeral. Between Pt.Mugu base, and Simi Valley,(30 miles) there must have been well over one million people on both sides of the street. You had to be there to believe it. (The MSM reported 250,000. It was around 1.2 million)
Troll.
Would you prefer attention whore? In this case, it seems fitting. You troll threads to spread your dogma, and then get mad when somebody calls you on it. You are the exemplification of a troll.
I just checked again, and Sarah now has more than 1,117,034 supporters on FaceBook. click for link.
His funeral was very moving.
Well, that's not exactly true. Sarah did say she supported Juan 100%. Well, nobody's perfect. But she is the front runner of those not running right now... and those that are running are quivering in their drawers!
Troll (wiki)
In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response[1] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[2]
I voted first for Nixon(the alternative was George McGovern).
Then Ford.Then twice for the Man.
How long has her book been at or near the top of the Best Sellers List?
Have you read it? Great book and I haven’t even finished her earlier history yet.
Can you let up a little bit? We don’t need to be reminded how many fans Sarah Palin has on Facebook. It’s making this flamewar harder to read.
Troll
In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response[1] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[2] -(wiki)
Sophisticated Sarah: Palin Is Part Hepburn, Part Loren, Part Thatcher, Part Annie Oakley
This thread is a positive note about Sarah Palin, by a left-wing rag. McCain was not mentioned. Your posse started on this current jag yesterday, and I was informed that someone has gotten someone booted for calling spmeone trolls on the "100% thread". I was warned by others that you had complained. It may or may not have been warranted.
I rejected your invectives and proposition then, and continue now. That thread is specific to your point and has been argued with your same diatribe regurgitated ad nauseum, onto this thread. You even pinged to another to enjoin your arguments in a soliloquy completely off point to the thread, but solely intended to bolster your thoughts, and create strife. It is off-point here, and deliberately inflammatory, begging for your opportunity to preach your "gospel". It is trolling.
Well, here is evidence that fits the description of trolling on THIS thread. If you wish to continue, I will gladly continue to post links to Sarah:
5 posted on December 19, 2009 4:27:15 AM EST by mkjessup
27 posted on December 19, 2009 9:31:08 AM EST by rabscuttle385
28 posted on December 19, 2009 9:37:36 AM EST by rabscuttle385
29 posted on December 19, 2009 9:43:16 AM EST by stephenjohnbanker
29 posted on December 19, 2009 9:43:16 AM EST by stephenjohnbanker
On and on ... with dozens of redundant posts, even this one, ad nauseum... I have responded with positive endorsements of Mrs. Palin, and a rejection of your ideals. You've just spouted the same tired argument, just to get attention to those rejected ideas.
If these guys aren't trolling, what is it called?
I'm just fighting smoke with fire!
Then that seals it. I'll send her an email telling her that any potential future run for the presidency will be a waste of time.......She'll listen to you.
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