But most telling, when Mitt Romney went South to support Nikki Haley in South Carolina’s governor’s primary this past spring, it barely made a bump. When Palin went, Haley jumped double digits and this week Haley’s picture is on Newsweek.
Posted on 07/14/2010 3:28:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Some hated her because she is beautiful. One prominent Washington Post columnist and TV commentator scorned her because she had a Garfield calendar on her desk. Others hated her because she is a hunter. A few on the margins even hated her because she is white. But it is too late now. Sarah Palin has arrived. But beneath it all — beneath almost two years of slander and disgrace on the part of the mainstream press — was a real fear. And for good reason, because Sarah Palin is a political genius.
While her detractors were in college reading Derrida and Michel Foucault, she was playing basketball. It made her a relentless competitor. It made her a great strategist. While the others were modifying the existing establishment to fit their own needs, she was building her own house with her own hands. And now she is building her own political establishment.
Supporters, like Dick Morris, say questions will arise about her quitting her job as governor of Alaska. But it was a bold, brilliant and necessary strategy. She wouldn’t have had a chance against such a hostile press and political establishment otherwise. Since then she has led the way at NY-23 — Rick Perry and Tim Pawlenty followed. Since then she faced off against mainstream party people George H.W. Bush, Karl Rove, Karen Hughes on behalf of “W,” Dick Cheney and others who supported Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) in a Texas primary.
She supported Rick Perry, and Perry won in a landslide. It was a definitive moment. Since then she has assumed all of the creative qualities of the Tea Party movement and left the rest behind. Without her it would have been a wandering horde of disgruntled rednecks and peckerwoods. But most telling, when Mitt Romney went South to support Nikki Haley in South Carolina’s governor’s primary this past spring, it barely made a bump. When Palin went, Haley jumped double digits and this week Haley’s picture is on Newsweek.
Now Levi Johnston, innocent and naïve but at heart a very good young man from Alaska who unknowingly became front man for the venomous horde of creepy things in the night which control the world, has apologized. And The Washington Post’s Kathleen Parker, newly minted Pulitzer winner who on Sept. 26, 2008, just days after Palin arrived in the lower 48, called her, “an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who is clearly out of her league,” today writes:
“For what it's worth, I get a kick out of Sarah. May I call her Sarah?”
Jut alors! The Palin phenomenon is “a new feminine mystique,” she says now. Who knew?
I would think less of Sarah if she turned her back on John McCain. This woman believes in loyalty and friendship.
You forget what an incredibly bold move it was for McCain to choose Sarah as a running mate.
She doesn't owe McCain everything but she certainly owes him a lot and she knows it.
True.
"They" actually made an ethics complaint about a jacket she was wearing when speaking to reporters at the start of the 2009 Iron Dog race.
As Governor, her office had to answer all these charges, which kept them from doing the people's business. She saw that this wasn't fair to the citizens of Alaska, so she removed the target. (Her)
I really like this lady.
Oh barf. Johnston knew exactly what he was doing and saying, and how much he was getting paid for it. "Innocent, naive young man" my ass.
Bump to your post #5!
So if the Democrats keep throwing charges at her and launching investigations when she's president will she feel obligated to remove that target, too?
But most telling, when Mitt Romney went South to support Nikki Haley in South Carolina’s governor’s primary this past spring, it barely made a bump. When Palin went, Haley jumped double digits and this week Haley’s picture is on Newsweek.
She is a lot like Reagan.
We met her, because McCain put her on the national stage; she knows that. She won't diss him, and she shouldn't.
LOL, no. At that point she will have countless numbers of useless civil servants to handle the inquiries.
;-)
They’re playing checkers...she’s playing chess.
Okay. Now answer my question on post 35.
You are the third person I am to ask, answer my question on post 35 please. So far no one wants to tackle it.
She owes him for giving her an opportunity to gain widespread attention. Being an honorable person, she is showing her gratitude to the man—not his wishy washy politics.
Would you really feel better about her if she were dumping on him?
She had that in Alaska.
Gov. Sarah Palin NYC - Sept. '08
Sarah sees O as her target and has never taken her eyes off of the target.”
I believe she is using one of the Obama machine tactics: Isolate and attack. In the beginning I really thought he would ignore her but he responds which makes him even more vulnerable to her attacks.
Is it possible for a citizen to file an ethics complaint against the President?
And if so, how are the procedures dealing with such a complaint identical to or different from those in Alaska?
“While other Repubs are jockeying for position among their fellow Repubs looking to see who will emerge as the front runner, Sarah sees O as her target and has never taken her eyes off of the target. She just keeps pounding away.”
...and that tells me all I need to know about the rest of the sorry field. Palin is head and shoulders above all of them.
Here, I'll answer it: Her support for McCain stinks, I disagree with it, and I firmly support JD for Senate.
However, she has made her decision, so I don't see the need to keep harping about it.
“Where does loyalty end? Let me ask you a few questions. If McCain decided to run again and ask Sarah to also run again as VP, would she do it and not run on her own because she “owes” him?”
Very easy to answer hypothetical, which has no possibility of reality.
Let’s assume McCain decides to run. Palin crushes him in the primary. Easy to answer.
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