Posted on 01/26/2013 4:34:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
When the history of US politics in the early 21st century is written, two figures will stand out: Barack Obama and Sarah Palin.
The election of Mr. Obama to the highest elective office – the first African-American to win the presidency – did not necessarily signal a new era of post-racial politics. But coming just a generation after federal troops in the South (and a federal judge in Boston) were necessary to desegregate public schools, it was a huge milestone.
Sarah Palin was not the first woman to win a major political party’s vice presidential nomination; that was US Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, Walter Mondale’s running mate way back in 1984.
But the presence of the former Alaska governor on the GOP ticket headed by Sen. John McCain in 2008 invigorated the party – at the time, at least. And although they lost to Obama and Joe Biden, it wasn’t the blowout that Mondale and Ferraro suffered against Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
Ferraro went on to relative political obscurity, twice losing Democratic Party primaries for the US Senate. Ms. Palin, on the other hand, was just getting started when the returns for the 2008 presidential race were being counted.
Over the next few years, she became a political force of nature – stirring a tea party base that thronged to her appearances, scaring GOP incumbents deemed too willing to find common ground with Democrats, and building a very lucrative business that included (for one season, at least) her own “reality” TV show while launching one of her five children – daughter Bristol – on her own entertainment career.
Meanwhile, as with some other conservative ex-elected officials like Mike Huckabee, Palin was given a sinecure of sorts as a commentator for Fox News...
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Yep, she quit again.
Someone must have filed a "frivolous lawsuit">
Yep. We need to be alert to infiltration by them in our groups and online communities.
Yeah, it’s revealing you are dumb, jealous and ugly. You crave attention here because you can’t get it outside of FR - so you use Sarah threads trying to steal some limelight from a beautiful, successful Patriot.
Go hug your own kind - michelle.
Your response is rational. Thanks.
Yes you HAVE and saying that shows how repulsed you are with HONESTY!
C. Edmund Wright made a comment to which I responded. The rest of my posts followed in that line.
My posts and others are not from C Wright. Do you always respond to other posts with the first comment in mind? Is that how dumb you are that you are unable to shift gears as you respond to other posts when they, too, comment on your liberal agenda here? You are so hell bent whatever the question or comment, you just continue your liberal rant without reading what was sent to you. Your back tracking isn't working and you've been exposed with your own posts and you were unable to respond to their content.
You came into that thread of thought all on your lonesome
This is an open thread, idiot. And no one or C Wright didn't ping you. You wandered in with the name of Conservative SARAH as the draw and posted your liberal cr@p and conservatives responded to it. Your attempt to back track is useless - as much as your twisted logic is 'trying'.
This thread is about a beautiful, successful Patriot who has served her country well/top notch and your focus is on an overpaid liberal talking head who has done zilch for this country and who conservatives don't give a whit about but only liberal you. The media's purpose is to spread their propaganda and you are just one of their parrots/a dime a dozen, nothing more. Juan gets two million from Fox for it and you're just his pathetic lackey.
You are dismissed. Wasting bandwidth on your liberal agenda here is done.
Exactly.
Juan Williams is less of a hack than Bob Beckel.
Beckel has spent his life just mechanically repeating Democrat talking points.
I get the feeling Williams had more independence of mind once, but now that he's getting paid to be a liberal on Fox News, he's going to give the network its money's worth and be the liberal on Fox News.
Good list.
Thank you.
It’s idol worship.
Bunk.
:D
Palin is potentially a very strong candidate for President.
It is recognition of that. No more. No less.
Hmm, and Elvis is still alive.
Haha. Ok maybe
Got a deal for you though: Keep your mind open, at least a tiny bit.
I have been wrong about Palin before, and do not have any special knowledge about her decision making.
Just asking, to keep at least a very small section of your brain reserved just in case.
Deal?
How do I make this clear? Palin said she is a Feminist!
Synonyms: Feminism, Marxism, Communism, Socialism, Fascism, Islamism, Darwinism
Palin is not a conservative with traditional values, she is a Feminist first. She is just another trick against true conservatives.
So are you still in the first job you ever had in your life or are you a “quitter” my FRiend?
Hey, ever put together a list of all the people, fictional characters and things that Mr. Obama has been compared to? Didn’t think so. And what does that tell us about you?
Her work history seems to have a recurrent theme of quitting, or leaving, or stepping down or whatever term you prefer.
We get it! Strong women drive you nuts! I see it all the time here.
Maybe that he finds the Palin adoration funnier than
that directed at Obama... since more is expected from our side.
Only an idiot stays in a job that offers you a 90% pay cut. Would you accept a deal like that? Believe it, or not, she has other options and can walk away from a bad deal, unlike manyh in DC or Hollywood who have to take whatever crumbs fall from the elite’s table. Maybe you didn’t notice when the Indians and others paid her a boatload of cash just to come and give a talk. She does seminars in this country, too. In your world (like the left) she’s a grifter and quitter, but there’s a good portion of America who holds her in high esteem.
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