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Palin shoots caribou, captures hearts
The Estes Park Trail-Gazette's Barroom Politics ^ | December 10, 2010 | Jon Nicholas

Posted on 12/10/2010 10:20:34 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The culture war just won`t die. Sarah Palin is in full publicity mode, and it is driving her critics to distraction. Palin is a political figure who decided there`s more money in the wild west show. Last month "Sarah Palin`s Alaska" debuted on TLC and earned that network`s highest ratings ever. Palin is also pitching a new book, "America by Heart." The book is number 31 on amazon.com. Palin also appears on Fox News as a paid contributor.

Liberals just can`t resist criticizing Palin. Aaron Sorkin hates Sarah Palin. Sorkin is best known as the producer/writer of NBC`s "The West Wing," so Sorkin considers himself an expert on the American Executive Branch. His latest movie is "The Social Network." In promoting the movie this fall, Sorkin spent time dishing Palin. Compared to criticizing Palin, Sorkin`s own movie couldn`t draw his interest during promotional interviews. That shows real passion.

After Palin shot a caribou on TV last Sunday, Sorkin wrote "I don`t watch snuff films and you make them." Sorkin says he cannot distinguish between what Palin did and Michael Vick`s dogfight crime. Sorkin is in the culture war and loving it--while hating Sarah Palin.

Palin`s publicity blitz is a family affair. Her daughter Bristol competed on "Dancing with the Stars." Ordinarily, being an unwed teenage mom doesn`t lead to stardom. On the other hand, former Congressman Tom DeLay competed one year, so the criteria for stardom must be loose.

Bristol`s supporters cast enough votes each week to ensure she reached the final show. The voting became a scandal, with complaints that Bristol outlasted more talented competitors. With Bristol still in the mix, "Dancing with the Stars" posted the biggest Monday finale in three years and it was the highest rated show of the season. Bristol said that winning the final would be "a big middle finger to all the people out there who hate my mom and hate me." Bristol fully understands the culture war.

D List comedienne Kathy Griffin joked at a USO show that Bristol Palin was the only contestant to "gain weight" during the dancing competition. The troops booed. Hollywood might want to leave the troops out of the culture war. They have guns, just like Sarah.

Sarah Palin relishes a good fight. She`s making a pretty living from her critics. The beauty for Sarah Palin of entering into a gunfight is that she will actually bring a gun. Only Sarah Palin knows whether this is the lead-in to a presidential campaign. In the meantime, her potential candidacy led to her $1 million per episode TV show, two books, and numerous $100,000 speaking fees. Sarah Palin is no Hollywood producer, but the wild west show is doing just fine.

It isn`t just liberals mad about Sarah Palin. Former Bush advisor Karl Rove says Sarah Palin lacks the "gravitas" to become president. MSNBC host and former GOP Congressman Joe Scarborough wrote in Politico that "it`s time for the GOP to man up," meaning call out Sarah Palin. Scarborough notes that in the last month, Palin has criticized Barbara Bush and George H. W. Bush as bluebloods, dismissed Ronald Reagan as merely an actor before becoming president, and blamed George W. Bush for the current economy. Like a professional wrestler, Sarah Palin will keep mixing it up with new rivals.

Democrats would love Sarah Palin as the 2012 GOP nominee. America has a love/hate relationship with Sarah Palin. Is it any surprise that establishment criticism of Sarah Palin builds voter support for her? Palin calculates that the worst public reaction to her today would be indifference. Her earnings and ratings suggest that`s right. There are more hunters in America than Hollywood producers. Sarah captured hunter`s hearts last Sunday by simply hunting. That`s the first step to winning votes.


TOPICS: Food; Outdoors; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 2012; co; culturewar; democrats; ep; estespark; freepressforpalin; hollywood; karlrove; palin; sarahpalin; television
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Quite fair & balanced for a newspaper.
1 posted on 12/10/2010 10:20:37 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Compared to criticizing Palin, Sorkin`s own movie couldn`t draw his interest during promotional interviews. That shows real passion.” Or derangement.


2 posted on 12/10/2010 10:25:34 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I like this line: “There are more hunters in America than Hollywood producers. Sarah captured hunter`s hearts last Sunday by simply hunting.”


3 posted on 12/10/2010 10:26:39 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Scarborough notes that in the last month, Palin has criticized Barbara Bush and George H. W. Bush as bluebloods, dismissed Ronald Reagan as merely an actor before becoming president, and blamed George W. Bush for the current economy.

She's never dismissed President Reagan in any manner. That's a flat out lie told by liar Scarborough and the writer should have made that crystal clear.

4 posted on 12/10/2010 10:27:53 PM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Democrats would love Sarah Palin as the 2012 GOP nominee.

The standard Commie'RAT line used to cheer themselves up and make themselves feel better about their 'RAT "leaders". If Palin gets nominated, I'm going to buy stock in Depends and bed sheets. The 'RATS will be going after that stuff like a pig going after a corn cob.

5 posted on 12/10/2010 10:29:24 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Merry Christmas to all of my FReeper FRiends!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The beauty for Sarah Palin of entering into a gunfight is that she will actually bring a gun.


6 posted on 12/10/2010 10:30:43 PM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: Inyo-Mono

BUMP. It’s a great line because it’s true!


7 posted on 12/10/2010 10:35:12 PM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I find Karl’s statement that Palin “lacked gavitas” to become president ironic.


8 posted on 12/10/2010 10:35:57 PM PST by MWestMom (Tread carefully, truth lies here.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

ROFLOLOLOL.


9 posted on 12/10/2010 10:42:56 PM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’d think more of her if she cooked it for me. /s


10 posted on 12/10/2010 10:56:08 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: onyx
She's never dismissed President Reagan in any manner. That's a flat out lie told by liar Scarborough and the writer should have made that crystal clear.

I was getting ready to say the same thing. She was using irony to make her point about Reagan, but Scarborough didn't have the brains to pick up on it.

11 posted on 12/10/2010 11:04:31 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Yes man, that's the rats way...

But that´s also a very effective sentence, acknowledge it. It is going to be hard for you to outcome that, it is part of the Silence Spiral also, tough thing to overcome, but it can be done, as she (The Palin) has been demonstrating.
It must be conservatives, to fight that sentence allways, and denounce it anyway they can.

12 posted on 12/10/2010 11:18:44 PM PST by Mayr Fortuna
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To: MWestMom
I find Karl’s statement that Palin “lacked gavitas” to become president ironic.

Yes, indeed.

Maybe he's suggesting Dick Cheney should be her Vice President.

13 posted on 12/10/2010 11:21:58 PM PST by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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To: Mayr Fortuna
Democrats would love Sarah Palin as the 2012 GOP nominee.

Then again, Democrats are not that bright.

14 posted on 12/10/2010 11:24:15 PM PST by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Caribou; It’s what’s for dinner!


15 posted on 12/10/2010 11:58:18 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Though I don’t support Sarah for POTUS, I have really enjoyed her show. Not sure I can stomach watching Kate Gosselin though...hopefully Sarah shows her for the raving &*%)^ she is.


16 posted on 12/11/2010 12:00:36 AM PST by Kimberly GG ("Path to Citizenship" Amnesty candidates will NOT get my vote! ~ DeMint, 2012)
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To: Vendome

I’d think more of her if she cooked it for me. /s

In an apron that says “kiss the cook”


17 posted on 12/11/2010 3:00:04 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Remember March 23, 1775. Remember March 23, 2010)
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To: onyx

You can post comments at the original site.


18 posted on 12/11/2010 4:40:03 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: onyx; All
The beauty for Sarah Palin of entering into a gunfight is that she will actually bring a gun.

And as in that episode, if your firearm doesn't work get another and get the job done! That to me was the best part. Dang does this women have spunk, mission focused, this is why in their hearts the leftist slime and the likes of Angrea Witchell are $&!+ing their pants, they know once she puts her mind to something she is unstoppable.

19 posted on 12/11/2010 5:01:15 AM PST by taildragger ((Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Governor Palin has a large family to feed, and all those kids and a hard-working, manual laboring husband can eat a lot of mooseburgers. A lot of us have to live a practical, labor intensive life that calls for a lot of good protein and everyone in the family manning up and doing their part to provide it. That’s just reality.


20 posted on 12/11/2010 5:49:25 AM PST by Twinkie (Doing nothing is the most tiring job there is; you can't quit and rest . .)
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