Posted on 10/20/2008 5:24:02 AM PDT by Invisigoth
It’s erupted. Sensing losses of historic proportions, conservatives seem not to be waiting for the official results to start dividing into camps. And while Sarah Palin is the nominal reason for the schism, you can see by digging a little deeper that she’s only a symbol.
A certain faction of the conservative punditry has now gone pedal-to-the-metal in its disdain for Palin. The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan – who was the first of the right’s chattering classes to turn full-bore against President Bush – last week joined the likes of Kathleen Parker, Heather MacDonald, David Brooks and a host of others in excoriating Palin for little more than the manner in which she expresses herself.
An interesting complaint, this. If a vice president’s (or president’s) job is to express oneself eloquently, by all means vote for Barack Obama. Palin’s substantive appeal arises from the manner in which she has governed Alaska.
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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.
Or z-z-z-z-z-Susan Collins-z-z-z-z...
Peggy Noonan’s new boss at the WSJ is Rupert Murdoch? Who is a big investor in Fox/NEws Corp? Saudis maybe?
Who bought Colin Powell recently and most of Wahsington?
Who can afford to donate $700 million to Obama’s campaign?
Who benefits the most from American NOT developing our FOUR times the Saudis oil reserves? Our shale oil, coal diesel and ND oil plus the 20 billion barrels Cuba is about to steal from Florida?
Saudis maybe?
Everybody - Volunteer & Donate.
Make sure we are all at local McCain HQ helping out with GOTV the weekend before the election. If you are retired - volunteer now. Ignore the polls.
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.
Yep — All that drivel about how Kathleen Parker and David Brooks are “conservative” is a bit amusing. Peggy Noonan, though, she’s the disappointment as far as I’m concerned. Peggy has to come to grips with the fact that President Reagan is no longer with us, but in spirit.
One nice thing about this race is that it is revealing who we can trust and who is a closet Democrat.
Good riddance, I say.
“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.
Wouldn't you expect Peggy Noonan to be looking at Sarah Palin as the next great collaborator for her gifted speechwriting given the way that Sarah is a natural in Uncle Ronnie's mold? I guess that shows how badly Noonan is infested with elitism.
You are spot on with your comments about Sarah.
These RINOS can’t recognize natural leadership if it fell on their pointy little heads.
If the GOP can’t win against a Communist thug from Chicago and a brain dead liberal from Delaware they deserve to go the fate of the Whigs.
We’ll form a new conservative third party, and put Sarah into the White House in the future while the RINOS kvetch about her and their new found irrelevance.
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.
There is no quantifiable meaning. It is a word which is used by the snooty set to decide you are not as perfect as they are. Commonly the purview of jealous bitches who wish for a day they could enjoy the popularity the targeted individual has.
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.
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