Posted on 11/30/2010 7:22:35 AM PST by earlJam
Is there anywhere I can go to be safe from the Palins?
Can't go to the bookstore.
The stores are all plastered with promotional posters for Sarah Palin's latest memoir; her memoir from last year is no doubt lurking on the remainder table.
Can't watch television. There's a chance I might flip past their reality show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska," on TLC. Though at least I can be grateful for small favors - like the fact that I won't have to watch the foulmouthed and fouler-footed Bristol Palin on "Dancing With the Stars" anymore.
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Famous equals shameless. This has been the rule for most celebrities since the turn of the century, but American politicians were slow to embrace it. As late as 2008, politicians still seemed to be concerned about being associated with vulgarity or shallowness - remember Hillary Rodham Clinton's refusal to appear in Vogue magazine during the primaries? It sounds quaint now, doesn't it?
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This open secret is what irritates even Republicans about the Palins' endless media circuit. They don't begrudge the Palins the right to enrich themselves. But by constantly hogging the national stage, they're making it difficult for a real 2012 contender to emerge. And without a real contender, how will other Republicans get even richer than the Palins?
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If the reason to support Palin is to stop Romney, that is a bad strategy.
Either candidate will automatically create a strong 3rd Party challenge.
One is no better than the other.
Bingo.
LOL, Oh my.
This is your argument against Gov. Palin?
She's "hogging the national stage, making it difficult for a real 2012 contender to emerge?"
Sort of like a kid complaining to a teacher that another kid is "hogging all the 'A's, when he got an 'F'.
It sounds like you really, really need to take a break and think through what you're doing.
If you're really a Conservative, quoting leftist tripe like this as a valid "don't vote for Gov. Palin" argument, is making you look like you are on your way to becoming a HUMAN Fulgurite.
If you're not really a Conservative, well, FR always responds properly to non-Conservatives who inevitably out themselves.
Frankly, I don't believe a truly viable, electable, candidate for 2012 has arrived on the scene just yet.
I agree.
I can't support Palin simply because she is a conservative and is treated unfairly by the media, which hates her.
Palin gives us a fighting chance against the establishment and Mitt Romney, keep it up Governor Palin.
Do you understand that there are 2 entirely different meanings to your statement? OTOH, I can support Sarah because she is conservative and is treated unfairly by the media....
Lol, that idiocy was not worth posting. By the way since Palin has about 82% approval among Republicans, just who is going to mount that "third party" effort against her, the Romney crowd?
Palin is making it difficult for the real MSM target to emerge. The left is wasting their ammo on Palin in hilarious emotional bursts of rage and fear. She's attracting all their fire which leaves the other contenders undamaged. I want Palin to run, and win if she can, but just running interference is enough.
Do you think 10 people would sit still for “Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco?” Or “Mitt Romney’s Utah?” How about Tom “The Hammer” Delay on Dancing with the Stars?” Or Scott Brown’s daughter on “American Idol?” Oh, wait, those last two really happened. Palin brings in the eyeballs like no one before her has ever done, not in entertainment, and certainly not in politics. Everybody twitters, but only Palin’s twitters become front page news.
What is really amazing is the way the media is blasting a private citizen for their beliefs.
In spite of all of McCains deficiencies, he probably did more for conservatism by nominating Palin over a multitude of objections.
She could be the king(queen)maker.
I can't support Palin *FOR PRESIDENT* simply because she is a conservative and is treated unfairly by the media, which hates her.
I support Palin personally like I support Glen Beck. Great guy, glad he's on our team. Hope he does well.... but not my cup of tea. And I am damn sure I wouldn't want him to be the Republican nominee for president.
Liking Palin and endorsing her for President are two different things.
The frontrunners are more or less tied, Romney, Palin, and Huckabee, you are dedicated to taking out Palin, we conservatives support her.
If Huck and Romney were doing the reality show thing as prep work for a White House run, I would be talking about them too.
“If Huck and Romney were doing the reality show thing as prep work for a White House run, I would be talking about them too.”
How’s Huck’s god-forsaken Fox show any different from what Palin is doing? At least Palin is authentic in her reality show. This is exactly how people live in Alaska. On his show, Huck spends his time kissing assess of asses, playing in a rock band (no true/committed Baptist minister would do that), and generally being insincere. He’s enough to gag a maggot.
You really seem clueless on politics, Governor Palin just helped lead us to one of our greatest victories ever, to a degree that we have never seen from any other politician, and especially not from Romney and Huckabee.
Palin has to fight the media and lead by keeping her own voice and image in front of the nation, it is the only thing that has kept the left wing media, and the party establishment from destroying her completely.
I am not criticizing her for what she did in the last election. Although she as a private citizen made a few mistakes, her endorsement carried more weight than the President of the United States.
I just don’t want her to screw the pooch for us all in 2012. I simply don’t want what happened in Colorado, Nevada, Delaware and Alaska to happen to the nation in 2012.
I know there are many conservatives who seem to enjoy losing, as long as they lose on principle. I am not one of them.
Palin has an extraordinary political record over the last 18 years, there isn’t much to criticize her for.
As far as Colorado, Alaska, Delaware, Nevada, what is your problem there, and what does it have to do with Palin?
I am not blaming Palin for losses in those states.
But we picked candidates that were strong enough to win the primary but too weak to win a general election.
Palin only endorsed in 2 of those primaries, and the candidate won both, in Alaska, the sitting incumbent Republican won the general which means that nothing changed, and in Delaware experts agree that Castle would not have won.
In the face of 2010 Palin being the best endorsement in American history as far as we know, then why would a Republican Senatorial candidate losing in hard-core blue state, Delaware, take on so much importance to you, doesn’t focusing on that single loss strike you as a little out of balance to what really happened this month?
This election was a stunning victory of historical proportions, largely due to one of the greatest political forces that this nation has ever seen, Governor Palin, you cannot rewrite it into something it into something that it was not.
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