Oh, please. Not this again.
Posted on 11/21/2012 2:11:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Caught “Game Change” on cable the other night.
Read Charlotte Allen’s Op-Ed article, “Hey, GOP, take the Palin cure,” in The Times on Sunday.
And what did I learn? Well, something doesn’t add up. Or, to paraphrase “I Love Lucy”: “Charlotte, you got some ’splainin’ to do.”
In her Op-Ed, Allen serves up equal parts lemonade and venomade in making her case that Sarah Palin should be the Republican presidential candidate in 2016. In Allen’s view, Palin has it all: She has blue-collar appeal, she’s “tough as nails,” and best of all, she’s a woman, which, in Allen’s world, gives her this advantage: “Men love Sarah Palin, and she loves men.”
Yep, just what the GOP needs: a Marilyn Monroe who hunts moose too.
Now, Allen also likes men, but there are some women she’s not too keen about. Take Hillary Rodham Clinton, whom she describes as looking “like Brunnhilde in a small-town Wagner production.” Or even fellow Republican Peggy Noonan, whom Allen lumps in with those “snooty East Coast Republican intellectual types … who look down their noses at a woman who doesn't shop at Neiman Marcus and didn't attend an Ivy League university.”
Anyway, you get the picture. But for good measure, Allen takes this plunge into mythology at the end:
Some Republicans will say Palin has too much baggage from 2008, and we need to look for a new Sarah Palin. But I don't see what's wrong with the one we've got. Ever since the 1990s, Republicans have been looking for the next Ronald Reagan. Reagan is now revered in bipartisan circles, but during his presidency he was, like Palin, ridiculed by liberals. They cited "Bedtime for Bonzo" and sneered at his no-name college degree...
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Sadly,just like we let the dems get away with the comment it was all George Bush's fault for four years we have done the same to Palin. We have never countered all their lies about this brilliant, charismatic woman. That alone would be a full time job.
Rinos are a different breed. I don’t see them as leaders but more as followers.I see our ability as true conservatives to lead as far superior to theirs.
If you don’t think we have influence,just look at how Linda and McQueeg have changed their on air personnas. They are really conservative all the time now in the light of day.
IN private caucuses with the left we know they will fold like the cheap suits they are and they still must be targeted. But not to think that we lack influence is selling our efforts short.
Nah, I quit therapy halfway through. Too many frivolous questions.
Shame on me for forgetting...Yes you are absolutely right!!!
My bad!
GOD bless you and yours and I hope that you all have had a fantastic Thanksgiving. Keep the faith!
LLS
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