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.
Well said, sir.
To Pro-Palin people:
I have not made up my mind about Palin. The #1 thing she has done to make me skeptical is her support for Perry over Medina. Perry is a wonderful example of what is wrong with Texas politics.
Some of you appear to be Palin loons. I don’t think Palin is a loon, but I think some of you have lost your minds. I haven’t made up my mind and all I see are attacks without any real argument on why I should support her.
A, “Hey, she supported Perry because she thinks . . . .” would do. As it stands, she is supporting 1 of 2 elitists for governor.