"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
I like Sarah Palin. I chipped in for her legal fund. She was one of only two reasons I voted for McCain. (1. McCain was not Obama, and 2. Sarah) I don’t think she is an idiot or incompetent.
Neither do I think she is the bright and shining saviorette of the conservative wing of the GOP or the conservative movement at large. I was pleased when she got the Fox News gig, but so far, her commentary has been platitudinous, sounding more like her stump speeches than thoughtful, reactive opinion.
Would I vote for her? In the primaries it would depend on her opponents. In the general election I’d vote for her against just about any Democrat I can think of. If she winds up with the nomination in 2012, ubetcha.
I see her beauty but I am not blinded by it as I think many of her adoring fans are. I see her genuine ability to relate to and inspire the ‘folks’. But I don’t see her as President. At least not now.
Ron Paul is a moron.
I reserve judgement on Rand Paul. If he starts chanelling dad, then we’ll have a problem.
And Sarah is free to an opinion just as am I. I’m not perfect, and neither is she. I like her a lot but will hold off on any adoration until she has more of a track record.
Sarah Palin Endorses Ashley GrahAMNESTY; Gives $1K to Israel-Hater (Debbie Schlussel Alert)
So, which GOP hack are you working for?????
What a catty, shrewish harpy! Are you sure she’s not a Democrat? Her jealously is SO obvious! Everyone wants to sign Sara’s dance card and this pathetic little shriveling violet has been kicked to the curb.
Cindie
“D: Rand Paul said these things. Unless you can provide proof he didn’t say them, it matters little where someone learned that he said these things. Anyone who doesn’t care that he holds these extreme positions is not “a good guy.” DS”
This was a reply from Debbie who was debating the source of Knish. “UNLESS YOU CAN PROVIDE PROOF HE DIDN’T SAY THEM???”
How do you prove a negative?
So let me see if I have this straight:
Nutty Debbie Schlussel links to some unknown blogspot blogger no one has ever heard of, and in turn that guy uses a source from a Grayson-supporter-paid-for smear site that mostly just attacks Ron Paul and says everything Ron has ever said or done in his entire life is automatically the same as what Rand likes.
If that is the case, does that mean that Rand Paul’s opponent (Trey Grayson) is guilty of all his father’s donations to democrats and the fact that Grayson’s dad’s bank took bailout money?
The idiocy on display here is rather breathtaking.
You support RINOs anyway, goldstate. What do you care.
PMS alert
Are you going to bash Steve Forbes the same way, he endorsed Rand as well.
I 100% agree with Debbie Schlussel on her assessment of Rand Paul. I though do not agree with her overall criticism of Sarah Palin. I see that there are a lot of posters here who want to defend Rand Paul but her criticism of him is correct. He may have softened some of his nutty positions recently during his campaign but he has expressed way to many positions the same as his father and I will not support him. The Paulites are a double-edged sword. They do have some good positions that they take that I could surely support but they are over the edge and out of their mind when it comes to Foreign policy. I am disappointed that Sarah is supporting Paul and will fight tooth and nail against any candidate that takes the foreign policy stances of Ron Paul. If I am wrong about Rand then I will admit it but I doubt it very much.
There will plenty of pro-Palin vs. anti-Palin (and some that haven’t decided yet) debates between now and 2012. But I would venture to say that all said come 2012 if the choice is between Obama vs. Palin, the FR vote will go 99.99999999 % Palin.
Agree. Thanks for posting!
I think you are the idiot for posting anything associated with the paranoid, failed politician, and barren Debbie.
Well. I'm quite skeptical of Dr. Paul but after reading Sarah Palin's endorsement for him I noted that she acknowledges that there are "issues we disagree on" and that she is looking to help "shake up Washington", as she often said during her vice-presidential campaign. Sounds like a reasonable explanation to me. Politics is compromise and I think Sarah Palin realizes that.
Belligerent comments aimed at Palin by those who think she isn't 'conservative enough' or that buy into the the 'stupid' label the left keeps trying to paste on Palin are useless in a rational discussion. Oh, I forgot, it's the internet. Sorry.
I find the hatred directed at Sarah Palin by the left to be repulsive and the only slightly-less vitriolic sneers directed at Sarah Palin by some conservatives (or those pretending to be conservatives on the anonymous internet) to be both troubling and repulsive. One wonders why the anti-Palin intensity seems to be almost equal on the political right as well on the left. No doubt, some of those now dissing Sarah Palin on FR will end up promoting some no-chance, ultra-conservative candidate in the 2012 GOP presidential primaries and that candidate will barely be noticed by the voters as either Sarah Palin or someone else emerges as the Republican candidate to replace Obama in 2012, when the American public will have had a bellyful of 'hope and change', socialist style.
Sarah Palin is clearly a political and social conservative and that is part of the reason the left despises her. Well, that, and her immense popularity. Palin is obviously intelligent and has leadership qualities, as she's proved throughout her life. She is never going to play the political games some expect her to play and she likes the 'maverick' role. I doubt she spends her time obsessing over whether she can be president or what people think of her intelligence. She's self assured and doesn't need the public approval of painfully jealous allegedly 'conservative' shrews like Debbie Schlussel or anonymous posters on conservative websites, such as FR.
While I have no way to know what the political future for Sarah Palin may be, I know that the nonsense recently discussed here regarding 'intellectuals' is pointless. Ronald Reagan was hardly an 'intellectual' yet remains a great president that is revered by conservatives. He was vilified by the left in his day as "too old and out of touch, a "washed-up actor" and, always "dangerous". He was none of these - and proved it.
Today, 30 years later, Sarah Palin is sneered at as "not sufficiently experienced" as if warming a seat in congress transforms one into some sort of national policy wizard. Ronald Reagan had no 'foreign policy experience' and did just fine, thanks. Like Reagan, Palin lacks an Ivy League education and for that, the left (and some on the right) sneer at her. Her 'grass roots' approach to government scares the left and seems to unsettle some on the right. That's too bad. I won't rule out Sarah Palin as a viable candidate for president in 2012 but she'll likely be hard-put, just as Reagan was, to secure the RNC endorsement. She'll have to win primaries and buck both liberals assailing her while they vote for some RINO in 'open' primaries (which should be illegal) and some 'conservatives' crying that she's not conservative enough and mocking her candidacy while boosting some no-chance loser who says the right things and graduated from Yale. In that scenario, I'll vote for Palin.
For now, I'll just observe and marvel at the level of antagonism some 'conservatives' seem to have for a woman who has lived a life based on conservative values and is wildly popular with millions.
The ad hominem is beneath you, and worse, aligns you and Schlussel with the worst of the left that attacks Palin simply as a proxy for attacking anyone to the right of, say, Evan Bayh. Palin’s no idiot, and her endorsement of the candidate does not require or imply that she agree with him on everything; only that she views this particular candidate, in this particular race, as the best available to move the agenda forward.
I know this much: Palin is indispensable to the conservative movement. Schlussel is not. And snarky attacks on Palin’s family, intelligence, motives or sophistication help the opposition, and hurt the good guys. But maybe that’s your goal?
Debbie, Sarah doesn’t do cat fights.