Posted on 02/18/2012 2:22:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
One of the more fascinating aspects of writing about Sarah Palin is how other people react so irrationally to her. Julianne Moore, an actress who is purported to play her in an upcoming HBO film "Game Change," does not like her one bit.
Big Hollywood has reported how the actress has trashed the politician she plays, claiming she was "unqualified" to be vice president.
Now a new narrative is arising about the former Alaska governor that is more suggestive of Machiavelli than of a bimbo.
The U.K. Daily Mail suggests, ever so gently, that Palin might be maneuvering to have herself nominated at a brokered Republican convention in August, thus avoiding the messy primary process that has not been edifying for any of the candidates involved.
The Week echoes that view and suggests, by quoting Jim Newell of Wonkette, that a brokered convention has been Palin's plan all along. How else to explain her wish that the primary process continue, by slyly hinting support for Newt Gingrich. The theory is this is less a play to help Gingrich than it is a way to stop Mitt Romney from clinching the nomination.
The scenario works like this: None of the candidates comes to the convention with sufficient delegates to clinch the nomination. The convention becomes deadlocked with ballot after ballot failing to pick a nominee. Then Palin and her activist army goes to work, cutting deals in the great tradition of "The Best Man" and becoming the compromise candidate.
One of the candidates who actually ran -- probably Gingrich -- is given the vice presidential nod....
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You best believe I’m ready.
I was ready to vote for Palin before McCain nominated her. Never in my life have I been so enthusiastic about a political candidate.
Bring it. Change it back.
They can’t make up their minds. One day she’s “caribou Barbie” the next, “Machiavelli”.
I’d rather she get bloodied fighting in the arena of ideas, not just for being a personality. She is hated because she represents Christian values, and so they burn down her church and demonize her. Virtually any individual even midly associated with Christianity is going to get the same treatment.
The point of actively campaigning is to show that your ideas are superior and that you are stronger than the other guy. I’m sure she could, but that’s just going by faith. Not by actual evidence.
Unless she has some good idea she wants to push. Maybe a fair tax, or privatization, or something that she believes in strongly, I have no reason to automatically think that someone deserves a nomination based on personality. Let her fight it out, tell us what her ideas are, and show us how committed she is to them as they are viciously attacked.
Otherwise, if she doesn’t want to lead, she needs to get out of the way of the people who ARE leading.
NO!
NO!
Give me someone to vote
So be it. I'm bigger than that...
8^)
I am enthusiastic about PAlin the way I was aboout Reagan in 1980.
I knew he was the right one, aleader I could believe in.
And he did not disappoint me.
No Republican since has ignited that in me—except her.
God bless her and protect her, and make a way for her to lead the utter defeat of Obama and the Dems in 2012 and beyond.
McNasty is just plain evil....may have been okay 40 years ago, but today John is just a fool...a dangerous fool.
This is the way that conventions worked before primaries became so important.
If SP’s game is a brokered convention I want to be the first one to piss on her shoes.
Do you know how many nominees (and eventual presidents) were picked by the conventions, not the primaries?
I'd be the first in my neighborhood to vote for Palin, mind you.
1. Palin - NO OTHER CHOICE!
2. McCain - Doddering old fool.
3. Hillary - Unqualified for anything but cleaning up dog poop in Chicago in winter snows.
4. Obama - Moronic America hating fool good for nothing except being a "girlie man" for a desert Bedouin.
No, I don’t. I am ignorant on that matter. At the same time, however, I just can’t think happy thoughts at the idea of having faith in someone when I haven’t even heard a specific platform.
In all your time here you haven’t heard us discussing Gov. Sarah Palin on the issues?
Very clever comment.
Are you Beavis or are you Butthead?
Nope. I’ve never heard her say if she supports a fair tax or a flat tax, or how much she would lower taxes and to what level, whether or not she will eliminate the capital gains tax, and so on and so forth. Maybe she has, but I either didn’t see it or forgot about it.
I’m the person who has tried like a MF all his life to do the right thing and is standing next to her in the express line at Walmart in my ragged, but paid for with EARNED income clothes, wishing she would STFU and STOP signing autographs long enough for me to PAY for my shit and go on my way.
Folks said the same thing about Jimmah Cahtah, back in 1976.
She doesn’t earn her money? Really?!
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