Posted on 03/05/2011 10:27:03 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner
Levin comments on Palin's Christie comments.
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Thanks.
You said that Sarah Palin is a fascist. You wrote it. Shall I go find your post and copy paste it here? Don’t say things you don’t want challenged. And by calling her a fascist you also call Mark a fascist supporter. And me. So, shut it next time if you don’t mean it.
PALIN / WEST The left will go apoplectic!
“The only one left standing who can honestly be said to share most of our conservative principles is Mitt Romney.”
Abortion - nope
2nd Amendment - nope
Obama/RomneyCare - nope
Queer “marriage” - nope
amnesty - nope
On China - nope
Globalism - Nope
WTF was he talking about? So it looks you use the criteria above to determine who is - or isn't, conservative. When discussing Sarah Palin, one would have to say "YEP" to all of the above.
Yes, yes, I know. You have a strong opinion that she believes in "amnesty." Using the common definition of "amnesty," Sarah Palin does not believe in allowing a blanket pardon of all illegal immigrants currently in this country. She's on record however, as supporting a path to citizenship. BFD.
I agree with Mark Levin about Sarah.
Another PDS lie...
You need to listen to what she says and watch what she does rather than what you want to beleive about her.
Hmm, it looks as if your post calling Sarah a fascist has been removed.
This isn’t DU, honey. It’s put up or shut up.
PALIN: I wasn’t calling for any limit on free speech, and it’s a shame some folks tried to twist my comment in that way. I was simply pointing out the irony of an often selective interpretation of free speech rights.
Trump/Palin 2012
If it was that easy to hog-tie a sitting governor, it would be happening all over the place. But it isn't. Anyway, leaving the cut and run/can't take the heat debate behind, how was it risky? It would have been politically risky for her to stay in office and risk failure, or risk becoming irrelevant on the national stage, or risk them finding or inventing something that might stick.
She left office a celebrity, knowing that she had throngs wanting her to speak and to support any future political aspirations she might have. A golden parachute with platinum backup. And that assumes she's even going to run for something again. If she's not, then abandoning ship had no political (or other) risks at all. Either way, though, lots of people are huge fans anyway, so the "risk" seems to have paid off in spades.
Her resignation stopped the attacks that had frozen the government of Alaska, and freed Palin to take part in the 2010 midterm elections with great success. Making primary endorsements takes political courage because you make enemies. Did you notice that some candidates like Romney usually waited until after a contested primary to make an endorsement?
That doesn't prove courage at all, though. It just demonstrates that she recognized her supporters would love her for doing that. And she's in a particularly good place with little or no risk because, not being an elected official, she doesn't have to worry about what a majority of voters think. All she has to do is keep her supporters happy, and she wins. She's a huge fish in her own pond.
Since being the VP candidate, she has been targeted by the democrat party and their lackeys in the media for derision.
So what? Everything she's done just makes her supporters love her more. The more they attack her, the more her supporters rally around her. It doesn't take courage to do what turns out best for you.
If Romney or Huckabee had been so targeted, they would be sitting in a corner crying and sucking their thumbs.
That just shows she has a different strategy than they do. Can't even say it's a different political strategy because we don't even know if she's running at this point. Rather than "courage", you could just as easily say that she has made a strategic decision to play to her base. Again, that might be admirable for any number of reason, including staying true to principles, but I don't see how playing to your base is courageous. It's about as risk-free as you can get.
She has fended off all of their attacks and has remained the voice of conservatives in opposition to Obama.
No, she's the voice of some conservatives.
She alone of the candidates...
She's isn't a candidate. At least not yet.
....has told Obama that he is ruining our country. In the coming campaign she will successfully make that case. The others wouldn’t even try.
That remains to be seen. I suspect that most of the other candidates will make exactly taht case. But again, it depends on her goal, doesn't it? If her real goal is to be elected President in 2012, then I'd agree that calling out the President aggressively early on might be characterized as courage by some. Maybe it's just smart strategy.
But if her real goal is to just be a voice from the conservative side, rally people, etc., then ticking off Democrats carries no risk at all for her, and all the acts of courage you abscribe to her may be nothing more than pandering to her base, which takes no courage at all.
I suggest you go out on the street corner and yell the “N” word at least 50 times in a black neighborhood and then you come back and tell us we still have freedom of speech. Delusional.
Do you really believe that keeping on going in the face of death threats by the hundreds a lack of courage? If she runs for president, she may not live to take office. Personally, I would have folded long ago. I would not have the courage to stand against that kind of threats. I could not have stood up against the vitriol that she has endured either. Everybody wants to be respected, and being the object of horrible jokes and false stories, ugly rumors, attacks on her family, her baby. I don’t see how she does it. I think she is the most courageous woman I’ve ever seen.
I am sooo sick of hearing people say this. How in the hell do we know how intelligent this guy is, seeing as how his transcripts and assorted other records are and have been sealed tightly?
"Well I guess Sarah Palin doesn't like being lectured to by Chris Christie. He says she needs to get out there a little bit more, you know. So she got out there a little bit more and she...lectured him.I think Mark has her back. :)And you should see the cheap shots on my social sites from the...from the...what shall we call them, the Christie-ites. 'Well maybe she should have finished her term,' they said.
Well, you know if she had stayed up there in Alaska bogged down in ethics complaint after ethics complaint after ethics complaint, she wouldn't have been available to help save this country campaigning at taxpayer rally after taxpayer rally after Tea Party rally.
And while she was doing that, the governor of New Jersey ran quickly to...Delaware to back up his buddy Mike Castle. Then he ran to California to back up his friend Meg Whitman.
Yes, yes. Bring it on, baby! I think this is great! I'm trying to get the issues out there. I'm trying to talk to some of these folks, to...to follow up on some of these issues. They won't come on the program. I said this isn't a vain complaint, I'm not complaining about that but I think we have a right to know.
I can get Sarah Palin on this program. She's more than happy to answer any question I put to her, as frankly is any conservative.
It's the ones who don't want to be questioned about these other subjects and I promise I would do it with absolute respect. I'm heard all over New Jersey. Come on Governor, call in. I don't bite, I promise. You're a big guy. You could actually probably take me.
But that said, this isn't the UFC. I just want to have a chat. Gun control, your judicial appointments, illegal immigration, your position on Obamacare, your green agenda. Just little stuff like that. It's no big deal. You can answer that stuff.
Same with you, Mitch Daniels, in Indiana."
Lots of politicians get them. I'm not saying that she has a lack of courage. I'm just saying she hasn't done anything demonstrating particular courage. And the things that have been pointed out have resulted in her having millions of fans (plus a TV show), so it's hard to see exactly what she has "risked".
Personally, I would have folded long ago. I would not have the courage to stand against that kind of threats.
Wow. Well, I've known lots and lots of people perfectly willing to do things a lot riskier than that. And they didn't become celebrities as a result, either.
I think she is the most courageous woman I’ve ever seen.
Yeah. Tough to be adored by millions and making big bucks, while being surrounded by people who think you're awesome.
Honestly, I understand why people support her politically. It's this adulation that is just jaw-dropping to me.
retard? that’s the best you have?
Could a noobie troll be any more clueless about what was going on up in Alaska?
Matter of opinion I guess. I don’t see it as adulation. I see her as a woman called to service by God. But then, I’m a Christian and believe that God does call people to serve.
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