Tim Rutten on Sarah Palin: Cunning, off the charts

The Los Angeles Times' Jacket Copy ^ | December 1, 2010 | Carolyn Kellogg

[tommix2]

They work so hard attacking her LOL. And The more she is attacked, the more her support grows.I'm reading "America By Heart" now.Good book. Idon't believe for a minute that it is ghost written for she has shown on Facebook and other essays that she can write. Of course surely she had friends read it over and comment and revise. We all do that when we write something important like a term paper or a book. But these enemies got to make that accusation. But we know better.

we are fortunate she has showed up just when we need her. She will be a great president.

[muawiyah]

I just think of Aunt Naomi and I can imitate Sarah day and night. Her peculiarities of speech are pret'near what you find in a triangle formed by Mooresville, Paoli and Crothersville Indiana.

AN incredible number of people from that area abandoned the Lower 48 and went to numerous parts of Alaska in the 1920 to 1950 period.

Ted Stevens was an anomaly ~ he was from Brightwood (a large neighborhood in Indianapolis). However, he had relatives from that very same place.

Still, she doesn't do enough "r coloring" for my taste, so she needs to point that up a bit ~ then she'll really be more authentic than she ever imagined.

[runninglips]

During Biblical history, the men had become weak and afraid of offending enemies, or going to war. God raised up several women and shamed the men into growing a pair. History repeats itself, but maybe most men have had electrolysis on that part....they may never grow again.

[unspun]

I’m confident that Bill Ayers did not ghostwrite this one.

[definitelynotaliberal]

I believe he wrote the books himself. I flipped through a couple of pages. They were replete with adjectives, nauseatingly so. They looked like the work of a love-struck non-native speaker describing an American boyfriend. He is a tremendous narcissist, so it fits.

[Huck]

The acronym stands for Rat-Like Cunning -- and it's meant to be a compliment indicating not only a deep instinctual shrewdness but also a willingness to fight ruthlessly when forced.

I haven't observed rats much at all. I observe grey squirrels all the time, and admire them greatly for these same attributes--shrewdness, tenacity, physical prowess, and hell, to me anyway, charm. I guess some politicians share those traits, but I would prefer to view squirrells as being superior to politicians. Rats? Yeah, that's probably about right.

[Candor7]

I do not get a leg tingle ( Look where that got our nation). But I personally think she is up to the task.

[Candor7]

Governor Sarah Palin’s Record:

1) 2010 Record:

http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/master-list-of-governor-palins-2010-accomplishments/

2)2009 Record:

http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/master-list-of-governor-palins-2009-accomplishments/

3)Gubernatorial Accomplishments 2006 – 2008:

http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/gubernatorial-accomplishments-2006-2008/

4)Oil and Gas Conservation Commission 2003 – 2004:

http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/oil-and-gas-conservation-commission-accomplishments-2003-2004/

5)City of Wasilla, Mayor 1996 – 2002

http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/wasilla-mayor-1996-2002-2/

6) Wasilla City Council 1992 – 1996:

http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/wasilla-city-council-1992-1996-2/

7)KTUU Sportscasting 1987 – 1992

http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/ktuu-sportscasting/

8)Commercial Fishing Accomplishments:

http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/commercial-fishing-accomplishments/

9)Athletic Accomplishments:

http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/athletic-accomplishments

10) Hunting and Subsistence Fishing

http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/hunting-and-subsistence-fishing-accomplishments/

11) Marriage and Family

http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/marriage-family-parental-accomplishments/

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[21twelve]

I recall a Bible study on some of the important women. It was also the women that God used to go against the culture at the time. A culture and power structures created and dominated by men.