Posted on 10/09/2010 2:18:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
At a reception and dinner attended by fifty conservative movers and shakers, Sarah Palin implicitly compared herself to President Ronald Reagan. At the same time she suggested that she is mulling a Presidential run in 2012.
According to Politico:
"Speaking to a group of well-connected Republicans at a private dinner in Florida this week, Sarah Palin implicitly addressed questions about her own electability by noting that critics also said Ronald Reagan couldn't win in 1980, three attendees told POLITICO.
"Palin, at an event organized by the conservative magazine Newsmax, told the right-wing crowd that those who don't have the same convictions will always say a true conservative can't win.
"Pointing out that the knock on Reagan was that he was also too far to the right, the former Alaska governor repeatedly invoked the 40th president and conservative icon, at one point citing the quotation he was most fond of: that America is a "shining city on a hill."
"'I think she sees herself as heir to Reagan,' said one attendee."
While just about every Republican politician invokes Ronald Reagan, just as Democrats like to invoke John Kennedy or Franklin Roosevelt, Sarah Palin's implicit suggestion that she is the heir or even the second coming of Ronald Reagan would seem somewhat presumptuous, at least at first glance.
There are some parallels. Like Reagan, Palin was a state governor. Like Reagan, a large percentage of the liberal intelligentsia has labeled her, mistakenly, as somewhat dim. Like Reagan, she is beloved by many, hated by many more. Like Reagan, Palin is something of a media star.
There are differences, of course...
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LOL, but your other comments indicate that they are attacking her to stop her from running. So you are claiming they are attacking her viciously because they want her to run? Because they know she is ‘The One’ ??
So we want the liberals to pick our nominee??
He also de-regulated the trucking industry which caused us and hundreds of others to lose the family business. De-regulation may sound like a good thing but the devil was in the details.
Actually, you brought up the subject of CP. I made a remark in defense of you and you attacked me. BTW, onyx was farther down the table and did not hear our exchange.
However, I did make a journal entry of it right after it happened in July 2006:
“Syncro was sitting near me on the other side of the table. He was quite charming. He was cutting it up with a female FReeper.
He then mentioned to her that CP had launched a vicious attack against him. I made a remark in support of Syncro. All of a sudden, he launched into a personal attack against me. He said that CP called me a fence sitter and he agreed with them. He criticized me for being a member of CP. He then said that he didn’t want to discuss it, even though he brought it up. This tactic is known as hit and run.
I protested that I no longer posted at CP. I quit last year. I started to tell him why I left CP. He interrupted and told me that I had left because they humiliated me. This was an outright lie. He then ripped into me for continuing to exchange private email with a couple CP members. He said I was supporting people who were trying to take down FR. In other words, he equated private emailing with active CP participation. In fact, my private emails had nothing to do with CP. He then repeated that he did not wish to discuss it.”
You are making me laugh (out loud) again.
I said "recent". That was five years ago.
And then you and her and several other banned anti-freepers (cyncooper, Fairbanks, daughtrOfWhatever etc) went to "lets shut down Free Republic" sites and continued the lies there to the point that people there threatened my life.
Neither I nor the others you mentioned were among the ones trying to shut this site down. In fact, I and they, left CP, because of this and other things. I was not aware that your life had been threatened.
I remember the seating arrangement and I’m not going to bring anyone else into this by mentioning their names but I was seated directly across from “the boss and his wife” which was near the end of the table, away from you two’s conversation.
As for the rest of it, ES, you come onto Sarah Palin threads with the intent to disrupt and play flame war games so you can easily avoid Syncro and me by staying away from Sarah Palin threads and Ann Coulter and other TEA PARTY EXPRESS threads. The majority of us are trying to actually advance conservative candidates, and really have no time for locker room antics by grown men who should have outgrown that crap decades ago.
Cutting up with a female freeper? You jealous? Such a strange description of me talking to someone.
Sorry, I called you on your support of HLL which was most of your input that evening. It wasn't vicious, it was passionate.
What you did at cp and other sites was vicious, backstabbing---making nice with anti-freepers so they would like you.
I didn't bring it up to you, and wanted to defend your buddy HHL
That's what most of the convo was about, shutting you up about that. I think most of the people at the table heard me do that.
Hit and run?
I think that is what you did calling me a stalker of HLL, and then getting mad because I called you on that lie. You still can't admit it. Or apologize. So you still support her lie that I stalked her.
I was watching cp, and I saw how they treated you when they saw how weak you are.
They were batting you around like a cat with a mouse.
Private emails with people that want to shut down FR, it had more to do with you at numerous anti-fr sites schmoozing with the enemy. But keeping in contact with anti-freepers, that says a lot
And even going to their new sites showing them pictures of your family, etc. Cyncooper loved you being her friend, cause you were still here and she could manipulate you.
Yea, I didn't want to discuss your love and support of HLL and other FR haters
Nice how you avoided the important issues.
Check the context. I meant it in positive way. The term itself is quite innocuous.
I'd like to think you were engaging in tongue-in-cheek irony, but I'm afraid you meant it. Try to remember that coati mundi get very aggressive during the rut, best not to leave any Austropotamobius pallipes outside the tent once you're done with your evening saturnalia.
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Neither I nor the others you mentioned were among the ones trying to shut this site down.
And I didn't say that, stop spinning.
I said you all went to the sites.
Which were dedicated to bringing down FR.
I tried to explain that to you years ago, but you didn't listen, and went on your merry way at the anti fr sites.
I don't expect you to be smart enough to know that if you were sitting around with a bunch of terrorists that are cleaning and loading their guns to know that would be called SUPPORT.
Same thing, but heck they LIKED you...for a while.
Some of them were at cp long before they were banned from here, badmouthing FR and working for it's demise.
You are either playing dump or are actually dumb.
You made it clear the other day you don't give a hoot about my life, and want me run over by a train.
LOL, then you say you don't wish harm to anyone. Hypocrite.
As far as your link, give me a break.
HLL's tagline for a long time accused Jim Robinson of using mob tactics against her and her buddies.
Yea, she told you it was directed to me, but it had Jim's town in it, not mine.
She sure manipulated you girl.
You know what mob tactics are don't you?
And you innocently ask what did the sweet little old lady do that was dissing FR?
I hope your retard (that is what you call them) buddies go to the link and see who you really are.
Just add the other n to Bachmann.
One L in Michele, two n's in Bachmann.
Palin is your Golden Calf. Repent idolater! Satan has taken your mind.
You really sure you want to go there? Tell me now. I’ll take no reply as a “Yes.”
” I also happen to think she’s “better than Reagan” in that she’s smarter (yes I really think so), more charismatic, and more committed to true conservative principles!”
Exhibit #17, your honor, demonstrating that these folks, who call themselves conservatives, are in fact, a cult.
I hope you are keeping track of these gems ;-)
OK,
Anything I can do to keep you posting more comments, Repent idolater!
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