The Palin Standard

The Virginian ^ | 7/2/2009 | Moneyrunner

[moneyrunner]

I like the Fox News Special Report. It’s now hosted by Brett Baer who has done an excellent job replacing the retiring Brit Hume. The last 20 minutes or so are a panel discussion with three panelists. Sometimes there are substitutions, but usually they are Charles Krauthammer, Fred Barnes and Mara Liasson.

The subject of Republican candidates for 2012 was part of the discussion on July 1. When the discussion turned to Sarah Palin everyone agreed that Palin should be busy studying foreign relations to prepare if she decided to run. One of the panelists recommended that she send for policy experts to visit her in Alaska to provide a tutorial.

And everyone nodded.

This is the conventional wisdom and it’s wrong. Why should Palin be held to a different standard than the people who won the election in 2008?

Quick, when did Obama get quizzed on foreign policy?

Obama’s foreign policy consisted of pulling out of Iraq before we were successful and closing Guantanamo before he knew what could be done with the terrorists there. Oh yes, the other leg of his foreign policy was to hold talks with Ahmadinejad of Iran without pre-conditions.

Can anyone remember Obama getting a “test” on foreign policy during the campaign? Can anyone remember anything about the Obama campaign other than “hope and change,” “yes we can,” and “we are the ones we have been waiting for.

What is the matter with the people inside the Beltway when it comes to Sarah Palin? Is it because she’s a woman? Is it because she too good looking? Is the too middle class? Is it her accent? Is it her religion? Is it because she’s from Alaska? Is it because she did not attend an Ivy League University?

[FlashBack]

Because she’s a conservative woman...

[buccaneer81]

What is the matter with the people inside the Beltway when it comes to Sarah Palin? Is it because she’s a woman? Is it because she too good looking? Is the too middle class? Is it her accent? Is it her religion? Is it because she’s from Alaska? Is it because she did not attend an Ivy League University?

Yes. She's one of US, and that terrifies them.

[CriticalJ]

Pro-life?

[ETL]

"When the discussion turned to Sarah Palin everyone agreed that Palin should be busy studying foreign relations to prepare if she decided to run."

When she does, I'm sure it won't be in Reverend Wright's "Black Liberation" church or Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn's living room.

"God D*** America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11"
--Rev Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor for twenty years

"America’s chickens... are coming home... to ROOST!"
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For all you'll ever need or want to know about
Wright's "Black Liberation Theology",
see my FR Home page:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/

Hint...

"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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From the New York Times, August 24, 2003

"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."

Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
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Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright and Dr. William Ayers
are greeted by Rebekah Levin with the Committee
for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.
(Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune / May 17, 2009)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ayers_wrightmay18,0,6689521.story

[BornToBeAmerican]

You know what is sad. Sarah is just “One” person and they are terrified of her. The repubs should be ashamed!!!!

Let's all get out and makes lot's of noise this weekend. The buck stops here, and if we want “our” America back, we are just going to have to take it.

Not with lies and deceit, but with people just like Sarah. US!!!!!

[buffyt]

SDS
When I first went to college in 1969 in Oklahoma I heard about the SDS. I have been thankful over the years that they didn’t get THEIR way...
Their protest chants
Down With The Establisment
well THEY ARE THE ESTABLISHMENT NOW

Be afraid, very afraid.

[nathanbedford]

[here is a reply from a different thread but about the same subject, posted this morning German time]

You ask, why do they call Sarah Phelan stupid and why do they treat her so unfairly. Here is my answer from a post from many months ago:

You know I have spent considerable time in Alaska and much of it in Wasilla. I can well understand how somebody with Sarah Palin's personality and energy could rise to become governor of that state by virtue of her merit. In Alaska, at least in the Wasilla area, everybody knows everybody else and you better be a standup guy. You can be as eccentric as an out- house rat, but you better be a straight shooter and you better not put on no airs.

These down-home virtues are what is needed but not what is prized in Washington. I believe Sarah Palin is up against two psychological forces which she must overcome.

The first is a phenomenon applied to all Republican candidates that I can remember since Eisenhower. I can remember being told quite earnestly that the man who commanded the biggest, most complicated, and most successful amphibious operation in history was really quite stupid. Every succeeding Republican president since Eisenhower (excepting Nixon who was evil) was stupid. This calumny is tried on against every Republican candidate who comes along. We saw what happened to Dan Quayle. Can you recall how stupid Ronald Reagan was? Bedtime for Bozo? George Bush Sr. was out of touch and stupid, although his wife was conceded to be house smart in a grandmotherly sort of way. We all know her son is a moron. Sarah Palin, like Dan Quayle, was left out there exposed, unprepared and unsupported and no one should be surprised that the result was the same. So when Palin drops her gs and says "aw shucks," that is all the Eastern establishment needed to hear to match up the person with the holes in the template.

Of course, President Kennedy was in near genius who sped read at an amazing clip. We found out later that this was a lie and that his Pulitzer prize-winning book was ghostwritten. We now know that he must have been in a thick drug-induced cloud for much of his tenure in the Oval Office. Do you remember being told how intuitive Bill Clinton was and how he could summarize an expert's presentation better than the expert? Al Gore was a genius who was too good for the schools he flunked out of. And Barak Obama, well one can only express astonishment that his coming was not announced by John the Baptist.

And this messianic allusion brings me to the main problem which Sarah Palin confronts in structuring her image. It is the Billy Budd effect. If you recall your Melville, you will know that Billy Budd was a figure of good whose very presence antagonized the first mate who persecuted Billy Budd unmercifully. The mate was driven to do this unconsciously because the mate was a figure of evil. The mate had his demons. So it is with the left in America today, they are driven to a visceral hatred of Sarah Palin because she is the 21st century figure of Billy Budd. Sarah Palin committed an unforgivable affront, she knowingly carried a Mongoloid to term. This cannot be forgiven. This is the ultimate reproach to the entire belief system of the left. Sarah Palin need not even open her mouth and she is hated with a cold and unremitting fury.

This is why I said that the left hates Sarah Palin not for what she says or how she appears on television but for who she is. The left must react as evil always reacts in the presence of good. Like the second mate, they must persecute Sarah Palin and they do not even know why.

But Sarah Palin ought to know why if she is going to be able to cope with a brickbats that will come her way. She must know that she can never charm these people. The more she tries the more they will hate her. She must focus on her target, the conservative base which she will keep so long as she is faithful and the independent middle which is persuadable if she can appear to be a normal and a wholesome person.

[investigateworld]

Worthy post. She has had an effect - very positive - on my grand daughter, now entering college.

[parksstp]

Sarah Palin will never meet their standards because the bar will keep being raised to infinity.

That aside though, she should get more familiar on all the aspects of national and foreign policy to prepare for battle if she’s seriously considering running.

In all honesty, though, I don’t think she wants the 2012 job. I bet she knew beforehand how the media was going to attempt to destroy her at all costs, but I don’t think she thought it would ever get THIS bad.

Personally, I think she detests Washington, sees it as a disease and wants no part of it since it appears to corrupt every conservative who dares enter the beltway. She might be better off staging a grassroots revolt from the outside and sparking changes a movement for conservative candidates en mass to the House and Senate.

The way 2012 is coming, I see 2 outcomes. Either Obama enjoys high approval rates (50-60%), and the nomination goes to Romney by default, because Jindal will back down to 2016, or Obama is vulnerable, Jindal runs and could probably be considered the front-runner for the nomination. Palin would probably sit out to minimize the splitting of the conservative vote that might happen again if Huckabee enters, this time benifitting Romney (like McCain in 2008).

Still a looong loong time to 2012 and anything can happen.

[purpleporter]

“Sarah Palin committed an unforgivable affront, she knowingly carried a Mongoloid to term. This cannot be forgiven. This is the ultimate reproach to the entire belief system of the left.”

I can’t agree more!!

I made a youtube video indicating as such.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5bUbl9Dgj0

[ducks1944]

I say they are afraid of all the above named in article. I've heard some say Palin has to much baggage...but I said to those it will happen to anyone on GOP side. And they have done all they can to Palin by 2012 and she will have my vote. And those in McCain are just covering there !ss for him doing so bad. We went through this before with Dole. And if not for Palin McCain would have got beaten much worse. Its shameful and a disgrace McCain sets by and let them run her down like a dog. I had Little respdect for him before Palin and whole lot less NOW! He is down right no dishonorable and disgrace to let this go on and not stand up and say this is wrong to do this to Palin he is not a MAN in my book at all.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Mara Liasson is a liberal NPR-indoctrinated dolt. You can always count on her to mouth the Democrat talking-points.

But I would have expected more, much more from Dr. Krauthammer.

[lonestar67]

I think it would be interesting to ask any of the pundits to rank order the 50 states in terms of their interactions with the global community. I think a reasonable potential starting point would look like this:

1. California
2. Texas
3. Florida
4. New York
5. Alaska
6. Georgia
7. Massachussetts
8. Maryland
9. Arizona
10. Michigan

However one makes the list, I don’t think it is possible to place Alaska outside the top ten. The following are hard facts about Alaska:

1. It is not a landlocked state and accesses the pacific for international trade.
2. It shares a land border with a major international ally— Canada
3. It actually is less than a mile from major international rival— Russia
4. It has consulates for more than a dozen foreign countries as part of its state governance.
5. Its guard forces are uniquely integrated to American defense commands to deal with international threats including Russia and North Korea.
6. Governor Palin has travelled extensively to visit our military fighting over seas and her son fights as part of this same military.
7. Palin’s role in Alaska governance exceeds foreign policy experience as exercised by states such as Arkansas and the majority of US state governors.

[vpintheak]

Pro-life, conservative, moral, and not afraid to say it. This is what sends the pee stream down the leg of republicans and democraps alike.

[neocon1984]

Krauthammer is a serious conservative intellectual who was not impressed by Sarah’s intellectual sophistication. I agree that she is somewhat lacking in that department.

However, we disagree as to how important that quality is. None of the panelists thought she wasn’t bright (”quick study” was a term that Mara used). They cannot deny she shows great leadership potential and she displays an unusually high degree of integrity. She’s also incredibly likable. In my mind, that makes her a very desirable POTUS candidate. But, my mind is a bit different from the DC mind - liberal or conservative.

That said, she needs to polish up her DC cred and change some misperceptions from the 2008 campaign. She will be held to the highest standards that any POTUS candidate has ever been held to. If she persists as a candidate, she will show an incredible degree of courage.

I would not take all that crap for any job in the world.

[3niner]

It's because she's a conservative, and many people like her. The woman part just gives them an excuse to be dismissive.

Here's the MSM IQ scale: liberal, IQ 90 = smart; liberal, IQ 100 = genius; conservative, IQ 120 = stupid; black (or female) conservative, IQ 150 = stupid, shallow, unqualified, inexperienced, etc.

[3niner]

I've heard some say Palin has to much baggage...but I said to those it will happen to anyone on GOP side.

Right! The only "baggage" she has is that libs trash her constantly, because she has great potential. Anyone who is any good will be trashed similarly. If we avoid anyone trashed by the libs, we will avoid nominating anyone who is any good.

[FlashBack]

She’s got my support regardless of the has-been-media!

[neocon1984]

Would you please stay on topic? You are acting like a troll in trying to hijack the thread.

The fact that you are new here creates some suspicion. You need to address that suspicion by treating the threads with more respect.