Posted on 12/05/2009 9:54:41 AM PST by ikeonic
Sarah's explanation of why she legitimized the birther conspiracy theorists feeds right into her victimhood storyline:
Voters have every right to ask candidates for information if they so choose. I’ve pointed out that it was seemingly fair game during the 2008 election for many on the left to badger my doctor and lawyer for proof that Trig is in fact my child. Conspiracy-minded reporters and voters had a right to ask … which they have repeatedly.Ah yes... Palin was a victim of a massive left wing conspiracy that forced her to courageously step down as Alaska's governor. So it's only fair (to her mind) that Obama be hounded by an equally loony right wing conspiracy -- the birthers. Well, you just can't argue with logic like that!
Rick Moran at Pajamas Media takes Palin to task and then some. Here's a sample:
I note that some Palin fans are trying to spin the fact that she never called on the president to produce his birth certificate or questioned his citizenship. They are missing the point. Sarah Palin has said that these questions are legitimate, that voters have a right to know, and that “a lot” of citizens are concerned about it.Moran continues:She didn’t say what any rational person on the right or left believes: that questions about the president’s birth have been settled by the state of Hawaii, that only a very small group of citizens are even concerned about the issue, and that an equally small number of people were even aware of the ridiculous controversy over Trig’s origins.
Those who are tempted to say that Sarah Palin’s attempt to legitimize the birther movement will destroy her campaign should forget it. It will never happen. She is immunized against such career-ending gaffes by her loyal followers who don’t want to listen to anyone when they criticize, laugh, or beat their heads against a wall over the latest evidence that as presidential material Palin would make a good candidate for the mayor of Wasilla.
The problem is, unless the GOP — and that includes Rush Limbaugh and the other cotton candy conservatives who wield a lot of influence — stand up and denounce her in no uncertain terms, birtherism will have gone completely mainstream in the Republican Party. If that happens, you might want to forget about any significant gains at the polls for the GOP in 2010.
By her stupidity, she is now going to force every GOP candidate for the House and Senate to come out and declare whether they are birther nuts or not.Indeed. Read the whole story here.
The only reason I bother these days to post anything about Palin is merely to declare that I rue the day McCain ever picked her as his running mate (stupidest decision of his adult life) and pray that someday soon she will return to Alaska and disappear. Palin is the poison pill that threatens to sink the entire GOP and I refuse to take that pill and go down with her.
I'm not going to hold my nose and vote for Palin. I can not go to my grave with that vote on my conscience. It was bad enough holding my nose and voting for her to be one heartbeat away from the Presidency. If she is our nominee in 2012 or 2016 or 20xx, I will vote for a third party or none of the above. If she's all we got, then we deserve to lose. It's that simple.
Now some might call me hypocritical for supporting Palin while she was the nominee. True enough... but I'll leave it to Chuckles Johnson to offer up an explanation for anything I wrote in support of Palin last year:
Says Chuckles: "I was skeptical of her, but I was ready to defend her, because it was hyper-partisan time."
On that much, I'll agree with Chuckles -- and I agree with little Chuckles has to say these days. In hyper-partisan mode, I too said a lot of things to defend Palin. I swallowed hard and praised her just as I know it pained others to praise McCain during the campaign.
But once the election was over, I pulled few punches with Palin. Just as every RINO hating social conservative wasted no time in spouting their hatred for McCain once the election was over. I was always a McCain supporter (and wish he'd beat Bush in 2000), but never liked Palin for anything other than her ability to regurgitate sound bites (more like bait) to appeal to the base.
I always preferred Pawlenty and think McCain would have been far better served to lose with honor with Pawlenty at his side than to throw a Hail Mary with Palin and unknowingly launch the career of the all but certain destructor of the modern day GOP. In the end, the shadow of Sarah Palin may well drawf all the good McCain accomplished in the US Senate.
I am a patriotic conservative with strong libertarian tendencies.
I can't call myself a libertarian because then the "True Libertarians" swoop down and criticize my belief in god support of reasonable laws... Plus, the true end of pure theoretical libertarianism is anarchy.
Anyway, Palin has shown some libertarian tendencies herself. Absolute purity is pretty rare.
Ummmmmmm... don't have a blog, actually. (The fact that you're patently delusional -- having already established your sad online bona fides as a yipping, frothing paranoiac -- doesn't really come as any great shock, however.)
As for the rest: sorry, but I'm afraid I'm simply not fluent in frontier gibberish.
Independent thinker?
ikeonic was just being a obnoxious troll. I don’t mind civil criticism of Sarah’s record or actions, the key word being ‘civil’, but ikeonic didn’t strike me as being anything of the sort.
I am a patriotic conservative with strong libertarian tendencies.
What about this?:
My Nolan Chart results say I am a definite libertarian.
the true end of pure theoretical libertarianism is anarchy.
That we agree on.
Great picture!
IMO, the reason why ikeonic was zotted was because he was being obnoxious. Sure, one should be free to criticize Sarah’s policies or record civily, but ikeonic didn’t strike me as being civil.
She had plenty of time, had she not quit. It was a mistake on her part, the desire of people to not look at her record objectively is astonishing.
Great. Follow that to its logical end and the only thing left on Free Republic will be prayer threads.
Yes but the trick is to know the difference, posts on this thread indicated that many can't and choose to behave like petulant children. Looks like foutsc thinks I am a primary member of the thread mob, guess I've got cyber warriors coming at me from both directions.
Thank you. Occasionally, dealing with the online equivalent of those ragged, stubble-chinned street wino-types who mutter ominously about how Stan Lee and Tanya Tucker really organized the 9/11 attacks on behalf of their dark elven masters at the Kraft Foods conglomerate and suchlike does inspire one. ;)
Can't speak for the others on here..but personally, I'm looking for the person that can get the job done and Gov Palin is clearly on that list. And as she put it in her book, (paraphrasing here)the problem with not being the lead dog in a mush team is that view is always the same. This person has the 'moxie' and the fortitude to get the job done and clean up the cesspool known as Washington D.C. and she will do it with a smile. We don't even know if she is going to run so it is absolutely hysterical to watch people, such as yourself, shitting their pants at the thought; finding everything possible to discount her as a serious candidate. Which also means twisting and turning her words completely out of context. (and I don't care what your profile "says", it's your true responses in the forum that matters)
Actually, I suspect that ikeonic had been particularly obnoxious.
If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-Lewis Grizzard.
Maybe, or maybe she felt that someone else may have been able to bring it about more effectively. If Sarah had tried to change the ethics laws, I fear the Left would have said that she had something to hide. Also, how do we know how much time she had?
Great. That will eliminate all but the prayer threads and the Freeper Canteen.
Ummm, stole your pic...is that ok? :)
“Great. Follow that to its logical end and the only thing left on Free Republic will be prayer threads.”
Besides that, anyone who bothers to read the thread would see equal behavior, early and often.... mobs are such ugly things.
With my blessings, ma’am. ;)
thank you. lol was too engrossed to go in the other room to get the book.
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