Posted on 03/05/2010 10:38:11 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Of course the left sees this, too. This accounts for the non-stop Palin-bashing in the media (as well as the frequent mocking of Palin in some 'entertainment' venues) and the unfortunate but predictable infiltration of leftist trolls onto conservative websites like FR, always whining about Sarah Palin (but never Obama) and using the left's talking points left over from the Bush era ('she's dumb') or pretending to be oh-so 'concerned' uber-conservatives that endlessly call her 'a quitter' and accuse her of conservative heresy for endorsing the man who put her on the national stage, Johm McCain, in his run for re-election as senator from Arizona, as if this should instantly disqualify Palin from consideration for anything beyond being a political sideshow.
How convenient for the left if conservatives actually paid any attention to their lame attempts to persuade us to abandon the only conservative politician with a dedicated following and the chance to rid us of Obama and the rancid socialist crew now infesting the corridors of power in Washington, D.C.
Palin will be attacked remorselessly by the left and their minions as long as she remains a viable threat to the leftists. Her supporters will be called 'Kool-Aid drinkers' and 'sycophants' simply for supporting a bona fide conservative politician that could actually win the presidency in 2012. Imagine that.
BUT
she lacks gravitas. courting reality shows isn’t gonna get any either. if she can show a shrewd grasp ov worl dvents and their effects, then maybe....
I call bullshit.
either the first sentence is a lie or here is your gravitas.
BTW, try slowing down and try spell-checker.
No she shouldn't. She should be selling books, appearing on teevee, and staying out of the presidential race.
They hate her because she isn’t some man hating, God disdaining, hoytitoyti, we are the world, internationalist, piece of troglodyke evolutionary dead end piece of liberal trash.
Don’t feed the trolls.
Do believe you might want to get a little more info on the upcoming program or just be patient and wait - the truth always comes out. But it would appear that she is doing a documentary on Alaska - something you might expect on National Geographic but suspect it will have a Palin touch on it and be a whole lot more interesting and personal. She truly believes in Alaska and what it can contribute to the lower 48 if allowed to do so. I would also think it will allow her to show to the nation the vastness of the area and the wonderful citizens over which she presided and what she was able to accomplish using the natural assets provided by the area.
Yes, well stated Jim. And just because I realize the madness will continue and only get worse, does not mean I think Palin’s supporters should back off or give up or settle for someone “less controversial.”
Should the Gov decide to run, I think it will be worth the fight. I honestly would rather lose with Palin as the candidate than win with any of the other GOP candidates thought to be in the running.
I have several reasons for this, but some are quite practical. I honestly cannot envision anyone debating as well against Obama as she’d be able to. There’s a certain style and way with words she has that is perfectly suited up against him. Palin’s quite skilled at exposing his true intentions and the nature of his agenda for the hopey changey fraud it is, while remaining gracious. Obama does not deserve the credibility a mere debate over policy differencs would garner him. He needs to be held accountable for the deplorable ethics his administration has displayed among other things, not to mention all his broken promises.
He did not win the American people over the intricate details of any socialist policy. He won them over with promises of hope and change. I think Palin would know how to capitalize on this, while the other candidates would get distracted and try to win the American people over with irrelevant details about policy. I like that her focus is on reminding the American people of the bare-bones principles we need to return to - principles so basic, that a child could understand but that have become foreign even to the GOP. Some people say Palin is too repetitive and her tagline statements like “hard work, freedom, limited government” lack depth. I think it’s historically vital that those “simple” concepts get ingrained in our heads.
I mean: the hopey changey death-paneled fraud it is.
TIME magazine: Can Palin Be Elected?
For several decades, it has been an article of faith among politicians and political analysts that no candidate can win a U.S. presidential election unless he can dominate the broad center of the spectrum, that all candidates on the edges of the left or right are doomed. Barry Goldwater's "extremism . . . is no vice" campaign of 1964 provides the classic evidence, reinforced by George McGovern's 1972 defeat in 49 out of 50 states. And since G.O.P. Front Runner Sarah Palin relies upon a base of support that is on the far right wing of the Republican Party, some experts have long declared that if she wins the nomination, the G.O.P. would simply be repeating the suicidal Goldwater campaign.
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National opinion polls continue to show Obama leading Palin by an apparently comfortable margin of about 25%. They also show that more moderate Republicans like Romney would run better against the President. This suggests that Palin is not the strongest G.O.P. choice for the 2012 election and that she clearly faces an uphill battle.
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If popular unhappiness with domestic and world problems finally comes to rest at Obama's doorstep, voters may begin to see all sorts of previously invisible virtues in Sarah Palin.
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Palin cannot hope to win, however, unless she moves beyond the hard-line conservative base that has sustained her since she first appeared on the national political scene as a spokesman for McCain himself. She has no experience in Washington politics or foreign affairs. Both Congress and the federal bureaucracy are as unfathomable to her as they were to Obama. Indeed one of Palin's major supporters in the Senate notes that the Alaskan is uncomfortable even visiting Washington.
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Worse perhaps than the verbal gaffe is Palin's relentlessly simple-minded discussion of complex problems.
Full disclosure:
I may have changed a few names here and there. It's not actually Gov. Palin this Time Magazine article's talking about here, but Ronald Reagan. Yes, the Gipper was really running 25 points behind Carter as late as March 1980 - a mere eight months before the election. Simple statements, no experience in DC politics or foreign affairs, supported only by the rightwing fringe - completely unelectable, that Reagan fellow, wasn't he?
I think the fact that she is so attractive, like most conservative women are, is the one thing that scares liberals the most. In their twisted minds attractive women are stupid idiots who got everything the liberals did not get in school. They hate good looking women.
* Her sensibilities and demeanor contrast well up against that of *Professor* Obama.
* The fact that she's so unabashed about her conservatism will only highlight just how far to the extreme left Obama is really is.
Considering who we're up against, I don't believe this election calls for a moderate.
They hate good looking, moral, principled, CHRISTIAN women.
Are you freaken kidding me?
Can you name one other VP candidate who's convention speech who drew a larger audience than both the Presidential candidates?
I can understand why the Left hates Palin, but when I seen negative comments about here on FR I’m suspicious right away. These anti-Palin comments I believe are coming from 6 main sources:
1) Ron Paul supporters.
The Paulista’s hate the idea of a rejuvenated GOP for it spells trouble for Ron Paul of ever getting more than 2 or 3 % of any Primary vote. Paul will fair better by having the GOP drag out the old horses from 2008, McCain, Romney, the Huckster, etc - so look for them to drag down any new faces, especially if they are Reagan conservatives.
2) Lyndon Larouche supporters.
Granted they are Lefties, but they love trolling. You’ve seen their information tables outside of post offices equally bashing Republicans and Democrats. You’ve seen them infiltrate Tea Parties and Town Halls with their provocative signs that draw news cameras like flies on you know what. If they’re not holding a sign they are still easy to spot by the black sharpie in their pocket, used to draw Hitler mustaches on any politician that’s not Larouche Remember the Obama Hitler mustache signs? That will be them.
3) Berthers.
I’m talking about the hard-core tinfoil hat Berthers. The ones who see Palin, Scott Brown, or any Republican as an enemy if they don’t latch on to their conspiracy theory and endorse their Berther candidates. Look folks, birth certificate or not, Obama is with us until 2012 like it or not. The war must be fought on a front where we can win, his socialist background and the path he wants to take us on that is where the fight is and must be if we want to win in 2012.
4) Scorched Earth Libertarians.
They see a RINO around every three. I don’t know how they grade conservatives, but ask one to name a Republican that is conservative enough to vote for, and they can’t give you a name. Tea party spokesman, Dale Robertson is one of these. Much like the Ron Paul people they see Palin and Scott Brown as a catalyst for the rebirth of the GOP, and a reborn GOP scares the hell out of them. I really believe they are angry at the resurgence of the GOP, because it means no chance of their Party from ever becoming any thing more than an annoyance. The scary thing is they are also trying to hijack the Tea Party and use it for their own purpose. They truly want to see 3 main parties on the Nov 2012 ballot, Republican Party, Democrat Party, & Tea Party. They need to learn a lesson about what Ross Perot did for us when he ran.
5) Hard-core Romney, or Huckabee supporters
Not everyone who supported Romney or Huckabee, or any of the other GOP candidates fall into this category, but there are a large number of them that are very jealous of this young Caribou Barbee upstart from Eskimo country who knocked their candidate off the radar screen. They fall prey to the news media stories about Palin being dumb as a box of rocks, and they are eager to assist the media by forwarding to forums and their e-mail address books any story critical of Palin. These are the most annoying of all because they really should know better than to assist liberals in dragging down conservatives.
6) IVY League Republicans .
Intellectuals who look down their noses at people from Alaska, or Fly-over Country.
I think most of them are fooled about who she is by their political affiliation and by the media smear that has been 24/7 since she was nominated in 2008. She's fighting back in that regard, and appears to be making fairly good headway.
Intellectuals who look down their noses at people from Alaska, or Fly-over Country.
PSEUDO-intellectuals who feel entitled to power and who are foreign to the kind of depth a God-fearing citizen of beautiful, open Alaska would bring because their own minds have been fried with all the indoctrination found in manmade theories and books within the walled confines of aging universities.
And the fight will only get tougher, but she has my support and prayers (and that of many others) every step of the way! I really hope it's in GOD'S will that she makes it to the Presidency.
She's isn’t? Coulda fooled me.
"Courting reality shows"? -- Said by somebody who doesn't have "a shrewd grasp" of liberal media propaganda.
No offense.
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