heh-heh! (yes, I'm posting this all over!) This is why she needs to get out of Alaska! To shadow and dog the so-called potus on his treasonous adventure!
Posted on 07/05/2009 7:06:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It's not clear why Sarah Palin resigned her position as governor of Alaska, but it must have been for one of the following reasons:
(1) there is a scandal that would have made her position as governor untenable,
(2) she couldn't take the heat that was coming her way,
or
(3) she concluded that it was in her best interests to do something other than fulfill the duties associated with the position the voters of Alaska entrusted to her.
In all three scenarios, Palin is unfit for high office, and certainly unfit to be the vice president or the president of the United States. Moreover, Palin's resignation confirms how disappointingly reckless it was of John McCain to choose the then-untested governor to be his running-mate.
And what are we to make, in retrospect, of the euphoria that greeted McCain's selection of Palin -- a euphoria that made the Republican convention seem so strange to me that, for the first time in my life, I felt I had returned to the real world when I arrived back in Washington, DC? I imagine the euphora was founded on the desperation Republicans felt as we saw the presidency slipping away, having already lost control of Congress.
There's no dishonor in this reaction; the dishonor belongs to those like Peggy Noonan who understood the situation but would only express it when they thought their microphone was off. But when we conservatives say that we need a restoration of conservative values, we should remember that one of those values -- perhaps the most important -- is sobriety.
Ronald Reagan faced the same thing. He definitely proved himself and they still hated him. But that’s okay as long as one is hated by the right people. Sarah can do it as well.
I wish Mike Royko was still around. He’d tear the Palin-bashers a new booty-hole.
Exactly, Ronald Reagan didn’t have that elitist education and he served this country honorably and wonderfully. The left hated Reagan and they hate Palin because they see too much of Reagan in her, she has spunk, and she fights for what is right, and God Bless her she cares about our troops. Watch a lib cringe every time Sarah says “God Bless America”
4) Dealing with all the rabid anti-Palin leftist media was taking away too much of her time. It was unfair to the good people of Alaska to not give them a full-time governor. Now she only has one full-time job: prepare for '12 and trouncing obama.
If the leftist liberals thought she was threatening and dangerous before, wait 'till they see her un-caged and out of Alaska.
heh-heh! (yes, I'm posting this all over!) This is why she needs to get out of Alaska! To shadow and dog the so-called potus on his treasonous adventure!
Having read some of the comments on this thread, I have to say that I think it’s time to stop uncritically defending Sarah Palin.
I don’t say that as an elitist Palin-hater. I was one of Sarah’s earliest fans. I was elated when she was chosen. I found her convention speech to be electric. I thought it was the dawn of a new conservatism - or maybe even the old conservatism, reborn. Then the campaign began in earnest, and I was disappointed that she seemed uninformed and relied too often on bumper-sticker slogans - but still I stuck with her. I rationalized that she’d been thrown into the campaign on terribly short notice and was probably required to tow the McCain line on certain issues. When McCain lost, I told myself she’d study up for four years and emerge as a formidable presidential candidate.
And then this happened. After resigning in the middle of her first term in state-wide elected office, she can’t be considered a serious candidate for president - or certainly not in 2012. Nothing she can do between now and then can overshadow the inexperience and “quitter” status that will define her. I’m not attacking her for it. It’s very possible she’s decided not to run for president, and therefore can do whatever she pleases. But as a presidential candidate, she is toast.
Finally an intelligent post on the matter!!! Thank you!
But ONLY the Ivy League can rule us! They are better than us. They talk all fancy and stuff...
Back during the 08 Presidential campaign, Camille Paglia, writing in Salon, really hit back at the Palin Syntax Derangement Syndrome...and they effete, elite who who are sooo flumoxed by ‘you betcha!’ Paglia wrote that any language evolves over time; and that colloquilisms and ‘local’ speak are part of English (outside of the beltway). Paglia may not have agreed with Palin politically...but she recognized her as a political force (that average Americans could related too).
Bob Dole didn’t resign in the middle of his first term in major elected office.
I think it’s (2), which makes sense having a special needs baby and a daughter with a child of her own. There’s nothing wrong with it and I admire the woman and what she represents but there’s no way she is fit for the presidency. Friends, in the immortal words of Mark Twain, “Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt”.
Who is "we"? What group is this individual the leader of?
... a euphoria that made the Republican convention seem so strange to me that, for the first time in my life, I felt I had returned to the real world when I arrived back in Washington, DC?
Returning to Washington, DC felt like the "real world" to this guy? That's a telling statement for sure.
I imagine the euphoria was founded on the desperation Republicans felt as we saw the presidency slipping away, having already lost control of Congress.
Oh, now I see, he's a leader of Republicans. I wonder how many Republicans he is leading?
There's no dishonor in this reaction; the dishonor belongs to those like Peggy Noonan who understood the situation but would only express it when they thought their microphone was off. But when we conservatives say that we need a restoration of conservative values, we should remember that one of those values -- perhaps the most important -- is sobriety.
Oh wait, now the "we" is Republicans AND Conservatives. And apparently, all those with that "euphoria" thing for Gov. Palin need to get right over to Alcoholics Anonymous, and sober up.
What an important guy. I wonder what his title in the Republican and Conservative leadership structure is?
As a political prognosticator,
YOU are “toast”
Welcome to FR.
No liberal Kool-Aid here. Of course Obama doesn’t have the resume to be president. He does, however, have a complicit media on his side - which Palin will never have.
Obama, on the other hand, got paid by the United States Government to campaign for President -—
Obama never really gave a rip about being a US Senator from Illinois.
Not just the liberals that hated Reagan, many moderate republicans hated him and anyone like him, like Sarah Palin. The elitists of all parties are embarrassed of us “bible reading, gun toting, simple folks”. It’s okay tho, I am not too enamored by them either.
My little brother used that comeback when he was about six.
As for Sarah, it would give me no pleasure to be right about this. But I think we should start looking elsewhere, or any hope of taking back the White House will be, well, toast.
This is SO not about Obama. Or Dole. Look at the facts. Sarah is an inexperienced conservative. The media will never give her a fair shake, and she doesn’t have the credentials to overcome that.
He is an attorney practicing in Minnsota as are all the Powerline guys.
The media will NEVER give ANY conservative a “fair shake” -— you seem willing to quit before the fight even starts.
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