Posted on 01/12/2011 2:04:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin didn't retreat. She reloaded. And she proved, again, that she is a ruinously incompetent politician.
Over the weekend, liberal pundits overeagerly speculated that she may have inspired the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). After learning more about alleged shooter Jared Loughner, many of those same commentators restrained their criticism of the former Alaska governor, and polls showed that Americans are skeptical of any connection. People recognized Palin had been unfairly implicated in the Arizona massacre. She didn't even have to mention it in her response to the tragedy and the resulting debate. Everyone would have been thinking it. Even her critics would have had some sympathy.
This was political T-ball. All she needed to do was acknowledge the tragedy, condemn violence and praise unity in times of national crisis. If she really had to, she could gently warn Americans not to let partisanship color their reactions to public tragedy. She would be praised for her restraint, and with reason; for once, she would have been the more adult party in the debate.
Instead, she decided to appear partisan and opportunistic. As Greg Sargent notes, she accused her enemies of acting in bad faith. Not only that, she, somehow, raised the rhetorical stakes by charging her opponents with manufacturing a "blood libel," language associated with centuries of anti-Semitic murder. I bet she didn't know the historical genesis of the phrase. Which merely makes her recklessly careless in a time of national mourning. And she rejected any notion that her overheated rhetoric was ever overheated -- by using yet more overheated rhetoric about her opponents, who "mock" America by "muzzling" her First Amendment rights. Most of America is willing to let you say what you want, Ms. Palin, but we don't have to like it....
(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...
I hate the cowardly "we".
To the Washington Post author : Quit hiding behind "we". Don't you have enough guts to speak for yourself. BTW - who put you in charge of speaking for "most of America"? A pathetic combination of cowardice and arrogance all wrapped upped 1 sentence.
That's right, because she IS partisan and I'm glad of it. I'm like Jim DeMint; I'd rather have 30 solid conservatives than 60 wishy-washy, "bi-partisan", reach across the isle Juan McCain types.
Idiots......
And another thing, I don’t hear these liberal morons whining about bi-partisanship when oblowme says crap like ‘they’re going to have to ride on the back of the bus’, ‘I won’, ‘put a boot in their neck’, ‘kick some ass’, etc!
Here, Stephen Stromberg uses blood libel to attack an American Patriot
The SOB KNOWS that he and the MSM invented this.
If the question is any way related to dealing with the leftist secular media, that's probably the right answer.
Here this intellectual giant is hanging out with his brohimes at the Harvard gazette. Class of '05. This dude has lots of world experience.
He is in front.
He was speaking for himself and his gerbil.
I wonder what, of any import, this little turd has ever accomplished? My guess is, nada!
LOL - these people are losing their minds. They are going to be so disappointed if she runs, but only as a diversion to steer all the vitriol and hate from the left and media toward her and away from our real candidate and the next president.
She is one tough cookie and they are royally PO’d that she stepped all over Obamas limelight today. Herman Cain announced his intention today too ... And Pawlenty. Not a great day to be Obama. He’s trying to be the “comeback kid” and Republicans are announcing their candidacy as if he’s irrelevant.
Meaning that she is not a mealy-mouthed, morally bankrupt, opportunist?
A badge of honor in my opinion!
No doubt about it, she is the more adult party. My first reaction to reading this article was, "How much more childish can they (the left) get?" An adult admonishes while a child argues.
It seems for one to become truly puerile one must attend the Ivy League.
She made a beautiful, moving speech in reaction to the Tucson tragedy. Anyone who can’t see her humanity and kind heart is either a cold, cold fish or a hate-filled partisan.
You go, girl! The more I see of you, the more I respect you!
You can smell their fear... They are sweating...
They took the hammer in opportunity to kill her and it did not do...
Have you seen that peace on Fox?
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/01/12/sarah-palin-americas-enduring-strength/
Excerpt:
- President Reagan said, We must reject the idea that every time a laws broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them...
- No one should be deterred from speaking up and speaking out in peaceful dissent, and we certainly must not be deterred by those who embrace evil and call it good. And we will not be stopped from celebrating the greatness of our country and our foundational freedoms by those who mock its greatness by being intolerant of differing opinion and seeking to muzzle dissent with shrill cries of imagined insults. ...
Ohhh... Yes my friend...
That woman is so incompetent, such a bad politician that she nailed them to the ground!
I can smell their fear friend!
Thank you for the photo. That so explains my childish remark - see post #32
I posted a nice little retort to this lib boob. Realize I’m no Palinbot, but she certainly hit a home run with this column, and you can tell by how rapidly the libs’ heads are spinning on their torsos!
In her studio upstairs. And I didn't see a teleprompter in there on her Alaska series.
“Shes so on target”
GAH! Don’t use that word!!!
She is our “real” candidate, FRiend. I will raise a minimum of $2 million dollars for her if she runs. I won’t so much as make a phone call on behalf of Gomer Huckleberry, Willard or Tiny Tim.
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