A Conservative's Case For Sarah Palin's Genius

The Virginian ^ | 5/16/2010 | Moneyrunner/The Atlantic

[moneyrunner]

From the Atlantic,

I hadn't seen Sarah Palin speak in person since the 2008 elections. If one just watched or read mainstream media accounts of her paid speeches and appearances since then, including some accounts that have been featured on this site, one may have come to the conclusion that Palin was just a money-hungry ex-politician devoid of conviction, half-heartedly speaking to various interest groups and causes to line her pockets and/or raise her national profile to peddle books that she didn't even write herself.

Curious about how such memes can develop among supposedly intelligent commentators (most of whom are on the left, but the right has its fair share too), I went to Palin's speech in Washington, D.C. on Friday, where she spoke at a breakfast hosted by The Susan B. Anthony List, an extremely influential pro-life organization.

Nowhere did I see a caricature of a bumbling dolt just going through the motions. What I did hear was substance. Warmth. Humor. Unapologetic feistiness. And an optimistic belief in conservative values and principles. And what I saw was the makings of a potentially transcendent and transformational figure not only for the conservative movement but for American politics.

[NavyCanDo]

Palin is the real deal. If people with an ounce of conservatism in them would take off their blinders, they would see it too.

[Migraine]

Her chief expression of genius is in her breathing. Never in history has anybody else been able to cause thousands of libtards to soil themselves in unison merely by her simple act of respiration.

They so wish she would stop doing that. They go, “OMG, she’s breathing again; when will this end? She is so stupid.”

It seems strange to me that people, who can so reflexively become deranged over a lovely, decent lady, think THEY are the good guys.

[kitkat]

BUMP

[SueRae]

YES! A frontier feminist. Totally different animal, not the “Ms.” generation AT ALL. THat’s what I’m talking about. And she is spot on about mothers worried about their children’s future and rising up. Count me among them. Go Sarah.

I’ve found my leader.

[Bob J]

Already slobbered on here....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2514758/posts

[MrEdd]

A Conservative's Case For Sarah Palin's Utter Lack Of Genius:

[Guyin4Os]

If she would just stop quitting the offices she gets elected to, she’d be electable for President.

[hosepipe]

[ If she would just stop quitting the offices she gets elected to, she’d be electable for President.]

It must be the WHY?.. that you don't git...

[EveningStar]

You can never have too many Saint Sarah threads on Free Republic.

[factmart]

You can never have too many Saint Sarah threads on Free Republic.

According to the Bible all Christians are Saints! Saint Sarah Palin or the future "President Sarah Palin".

[rabidralph]

So, she should still be on the city council?

[Guyin4Os]

It must be the WHY?.. that you don't git

Oh I get it. She has an iron-clad case to justify quitting. Do I think she is a quitter? No. Am I afraid that when she is up against opposition as President that she will be tempted to quit? Yes. I like Sarah Palin. I will vote for her if she is the nominee. But I will vote to nominate someone else. I don't know who yet.

[Guyin4Os]

So, she should still be on the city council?

She should still be governor. She should have at least finished the term to which she was elected.

[hosepipe]

I love Palin as President except for one thing..
The people she would pick to pick the people she would pick to pick the people to run the government(Exec branch)....

John McLaim has her totally out foxed.. befuddled.. eye rolling and drooling..
Meaning she is a bad judge of character..

i.e. Alice in a Wonderland.. PollyAnna in Utopia.. or Dorothy in Oz.. She would need to be the Queen of Hearts whacking off democrat and republican HEADS..

[SoConPubbie]

I'm wondering, if you were an employer, and your employee was only 20% efficient, what would you do?

Furthemore, if you really believed in your heart that by being limited by something outside of your control, (that would be unending junk lawsuits that were limiting you to spending only 20% your time doing legitimate work) you were not being fair to your boss, would you quit or would you say, "Hey, it's not my fault, so my boss isn't getting what he should out of me, who cares?

Sarah and her team were spending 80% of their time dealing with continuous lawsuits. That left 20% of their time to do the state's business. On top of that, she was already $500,000 in the whole defending against this crap and there were still more lawsuits being filed almost up to the day she resigned.

Me thinks you protest too much.

Furthermore, I think she was totally justified in resigning, she is doing much more damage to the left, the progressives, the statists by what she is doing now, then she could have ever done riding it out and accomplishing nothing.

This idea that she did the wrong thing by resigning and that it some how reflects on her future is just another empty opinion not really supported by reason or facts, but mostly used by the Left to try and damage her reputation.

Too bad you agree with them.

[SoConPubbie]

I love Palin as President except for one thing.. The people she would pick to pick the people she would pick to pick the people to run the government(Exec branch)....

John McLaim has her totally out foxed.. befuddled.. eye rolling and drooling..

Meaning she is a bad judge of character..

Yea, these endorsements really make your case for you, don't they?!

1. Nikki Haley
2. Michelle Bachmann
3. Scott Brown
4. Doug Hoffman
5. Rand Paul
6. Marco Rubio
7. Chris Christie
8. Bob McDonnell
9. Sean Duffy
10, Susana Martinez
11. Tom Emmer – MN Governor
12. Tim Burns - PA 12th Congressional District
13. Lt Colonel Allen West – FL Congressional District 22
14. Major Vaughn Ward - Idaho’s 1st Congressional District
15. Captain Adam Kinzinge - Illinois’ 11th Congressional District 16. Clint Didier – WA U.S. Senate

[hosepipe]

Actually...... I like most of those endorsements..
Its the progressive John McLaim that gives me my druthers..
also the progressive George Bush gives me the heeebie jeebies..

She may be a PollyAnna-ish when it comes to national politics..
The Harpy K.couric saw her comming and played with her..
as did several other malefactors.. shes just NOT MEAN ENOUGH..

She boasts of having mean potential(momma bear) but I don't see it..
She's just too "pardon the term".. NICE.... to be President..
The RNC or mcLaim campaign staff made her into a STEPFORD WIFE...

[Guyin4Os]

I think she was totally justified in resigning, she is doing much more damage to the left, the progressives, the statists by what she is doing now, then she could have ever done riding it out and accomplishing nothing.

I know exactly why she quit. She quit because of all the frivolous "ethics" lawsuits. But do you think the lawsuits will stop if she becomes President? I don't. When they do continue, do you think she will continue to be President? Maybe, maybe not.

In quitting, she gave the leftists exactly what they wanted... her out of office. They succeeded in Alaska, like terrorists who were empowered when we pulled out of Lebanon after our troops were killed, the leftists are empowered when their tactics work.

She buckled to their strategy once. Will she do so again? I hope not. But I do not wish to take that chance. I'll vote for her if she is the nominee, but I will not vote to nominate her.