What Hillary Should Say Now (Patti Davis doesn't like Palin)

newsweek.com ^ | September 5, 2008 | Patti Davis

[God Dem American]

I know that she posed for Playboy Magazine once. I saw it in Google Images.

She probably paid them off.

[navyguy]

“We do not see rudeness and snarkiness and sarcasm as admirable...”

And yet Liberals have set the Gold Standard for exactly these things.

[Yomin Postelnik]

Patti,
We need your father back. Stop writing so much and get out of Lalaland California, or at least speak with your far more intelligent brother Michael once in a while.

[freeangel]

“you might be taking a well deserved vacation”

Or you may be waitin’ for godbama to help pay off you campagn debt.....

[latina4dubya]

“..who are angry at the assumption that, just because Sarah Palin is female, we will fall in line behind her..”

i am so confused... the media need to get it straight... and they can only pick one: did McCain choose Palin to shore up the base? or did her choose her to get the Hillary votes? personally, i think he chose her because she's a top-notch reformer...

[blueknight99]

I love these “feminists” who refer to “us” or “we women” as if every female on the planet shares their liberal elitist views. My wife would STRONGLY argue that Hillary is not exactly the STANDARD to which all red-blooded American women measure themselves.

I read a column on the NOW website and AGAIN I saw that blanket referral to WOMEN and WE. It railed against those who would “legislate our bodies” and “strip a woman’s right to choose”. Do they REALLY think that an entire HALF of the world’s population (what, 3 or 4 billion?) subscribes to their ideals (re: pro-abortion)?

I personally believe that they truly think that every woman, including my wife and Governor Palin should step in line. And, if they don’t follow the rules, then they can’t be members of the “club”. These women are every bit as narrow-minded as they accuse us on the Right of being.

[FlyVet]

Nice web page, by the way. I am Scots (on my dad's side)-Irish (on my mother's side), and my mother's father could speak some Gaelic. He was my hero, a WW I vet who fought in the trenches east of Paris. Dead now for about 15 years, he died at age 99. He was The Quiet Man.

His only failure is that he didn't write memoirs. He saw a lot, between horse and buggy and the Space Shuttle. He was too humble to think that was important.

[bigbob]

Spoken as a true expert on rudeness and snarkiness and sarcasm

[Free ThinkerNY]

The great Ronald Reagan was a man of accomplishment who was a famous actor, a governor, and a POTUS who helped liberate millions of people from communist oppression. He brought true hope and change. Sarah Palin is a woman of accomplishment who has attained political success by her own efforts. Patti Davis is exactly what?

[YdontUleaveLibs]

Dear Patti Davis,

First off Hillary doesn’t need you to tell her what to say. Other than her pathological attachment to BJ Clinton, she seems to be her own woman. As much as I loathe her, I wouldn’t presume to tell her what she has to do. Hillary was betrayed by her own party in a very public fashion, I never thought I would feel sorry for her as she smells of corruption, but there it is I do feel sorry for her, she was betrayed. Some might see it as poetic justice, I don’t she doesn’t deserve to be brought to justice by people who are as bad or worse than she is. If someone can tie her to campaign fraud or Whitewater or stealing from the White House and make it stick, that is great she deserves that, but she doesn’t deserve to be dismissed when she has done everything in her power for the DNC and has been trying to rid the DNC of the influence of Soros et al. So get off your high horse, leave Hillary alone and let her do battle with the opposing party instead of dealing with the back stabbing DNC. Personally I wouldn’t shed a tear if Hillary was the one to take the DNC down.

I am sick and tired of your ilk saying that you are for choice when the reality is the only choice you want women to have is whether they have children or not. You sure aren’t for choice when it comes to schools, gun ownership, having a different opinion, or running for office, it is you and your ideological buddies that are setting the women’s movement back decades not the Republican Party.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Ironic, isn’t it, that the only normal Reagan child is the one who was adopted, namely, Michael Reagan?

[Portrait of a Lady]

Welcome Back Dad
By Michael Reagan September 4, 2008

I’ve been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan to emerge and lead our party and our nation. I insisted that we’d never see his like again because he was one of a kind.

I was wrong!

Wednesday night I watched the Republican National Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my Dad reborn; only this time he’s a she.

And what a she!

In one blockbuster of a speech, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin resurrected my Dad’s indomitable spirit and sent it soaring above the convention center, shooting shock waves through the cynical media’s assigned spaces and electrifying the huge audience with the kind of inspiring rhetoric we haven’t heard since my Dad left the scene.

This was Ronald Reagan at his best — the same Ronald Reagan who made the address known now solely as “The Speech,” which during the Goldwater campaign set the tone and the agenda for the rebirth of the traditional conservative movement that later sent him to the White House for eight years and revived the moribund GOP.

Last night was an extraordinary event. Widely seen beforehand as a make-or-break effort — either an opportunity for Sarah Palin to show that she was the happy warrior that John McCain assured us she was, or a disaster that would dash McCain’s presidential hopes and send her back to Alaska, sadder but wiser.

Obviously un-intimidated by either the savage onslaught to which the left-leaning media had subjected her, or the incredible challenge she faced — and oozing with confidence — she strode defiantly to the podium and proved she was everything and even more than John McCain told us.

Much has been made of the fact that she is a woman. What we saw last night, however, was something much more than a just a woman accomplishing something no Republican woman has ever achieved. What we saw was a red-blooded American with that rare, God-given ability to rally her dispirited fellow Republicans and take up the daunting task of leading them — and all her fellow Americans — on a pilgrimage to that shining city on the hill my father envisioned as our nation’s real destination.

In a few words she managed to rip the mask from the faces of her Democratic rivals and reveal them for what they are — a pair of old-fashioned liberals making promises that cannot be kept without bankrupting the nation and reducing most Americans to the status of mendicants begging for their daily bread at the feet of an all-powerful government.

Most important, by comparing her own stunning record of achievement with his, she showed Barack Obama for the sham that he is, a man without any solid accomplishments beyond conspicuous self-aggrandizement.

Like Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin is one of us. She knows how most of us live because that’s the way she lives. She shares our homespun values and our beliefs, and she glories in her status as a small-town woman who put her shoulder to the wheel and made life better for her neighbors.

Her astonishing rise up from the grass-roots, her total lack of self-importance, and her ordinary American values and modest lifestyle reveal her to be the kind of hard-working, optimistic, ordinary American who made this country the greatest, most powerful nation on the face of the earth.

As hard as you might try, you won’t find that kind of plain-spoken, down-to-earth, self-reliant American in the upper ranks of the liberal-infested, elitist Democratic Party, or in the Obama campaign.

Sarah Palin didn’t go to Harvard, or fiddle around in urban neighborhood leftist activism while engaging in opportunism within the ranks of one of the nation’s most corrupt political machines, never challenging it and going along to get along, like Barack Obama.

Instead she took on the corrupt establishment in Alaska and beat it, rising to the governorship while bringing reforms to every level of government she served in on her way up the ladder.

Welcome back, Dad, even if you’re wearing a dress and bearing children this time around.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Well, we’ve had “Twinkle-Toes” Ron earlier in the day, and now we have Patti chiming in. Isn’t that special?

How these two came from the loins of Ronaldus Magnus is a mystery to me.

[Yomin Postelnik]

Here’s my audition for Newsweak (sic). I’m sure this will be their cover story.

Dear Bill,

We haven’t heard from you since your great convention speech in which you felt forced to back Obama. But Bill, we need you. You should be running for a third term (after getting the 22nd Amendment repealed by the NJ Supreme Court and somehow getting SCOTUS to stay out).

You see Bill, things were so much better under you.

Bill, my 1995 Grand Marquis was so much newer. Then Bush came into office and 8 years later it’s near clunker status.

Bill, my loved ones, my dear not so old mommy has more gray hair. She was younger looking in 1992 when you were elected.

Bill, my neighbor has a wart on his big left toe. This happened under the Bush Administration, or the Bush/Rove/Blair/Musharref/Queen Elizabeth el Segundo (the second) axis. Bill, his feet were fine under you.

My other neighbor’s dog has a urinary tract infection. He was a healthy little puppy when you were president.

Simply put, those around me, my neighbor’s toe and my other neighbor’s dog were so much better off under you. And they are joined by warted feet and troubled old pups across the nation.

I thought only John Kerry had the answers, when he all but promised that the dead would rise again if only he were elected. But now I no the truth. It’s you Bill, it’s you.

PS If you announce tomorrow, I can get Obama’s Greek Temple on back order. Soon to be VP Sarah Palin put that on ebay too.

[Portrait of a Lady]

Here is the link:

http://www.reagan.com/column.cfm?id=84

[mort56]

Patty doesn’t like her mother. Patty didn’t like her father. Now Patty doesn’t like Palin. Who give a rat’s rump what this California fruit likes or dislikes? I know I don’t.

[AZ .44 MAG]

“I just love the way people miss the point that just because Sarah is female we should or should not fall behind her.
We are behind her because she is a leader, dummies.”

Well said, from a man. BTW I like your tagline.

My wife (a VERY strong and reasonable woman) and I voted for Fred Thompson and voted early in AZ (but he dropped out before our vote was counted!). But after seeing Sarah Palin I’ve decided on someone I’d follow to throw 0bama through the gates of hell.

My wife is fired up too. And my 8 year old named Sara wants to be called Sarracuda!

Sarah Palin rocks!

[arkady_renko]

We need your voice to speak for all the women (and there are many of us) who are angry at the assumption that, just because Sarah Palin is female, we will fall in line behind her.

Dear Patty,

We don't want you to fall into line. You aren't worthy.

Snarkily,

A_R

[kcvl]

She dumped the Reagan name, using her mother's maiden name instead, to symbolize her disgust with her father's politics

She was romantically involved with Bernie Leadon of the Eagles for a time in the 1970s . They co-wrote the song "I Wish You Peace," which appeared on the Eagles' One of These Nights album despite the objections of the rest of the Eagles, especially Don Henley

She was politically liberal, she smoked marijuana

she has a pro-choice viewpoint on abortion, she supports gay rights, and opposes nuclear weapons.

She wrote accounts of her life that did not portray her family in a positive light, and an autobiography, The Way I See It, which contained the revelations that her father was cold, distant, and aloof to everyone except his wife.

It also contained accusations of child abuse by her mother. Davis revealed that she had undergone sterilization so that she could not bear children, reasoning that this would stop the cycle of abuse.

Her first novel, Homefront, was published in 1986. It was considered controversial because she included fictionalized events from her own life.

Davis posed for Playboy magazine in 1994, although the family was against the act, believing Playboy to be nothing more than exploitative pornography.

She married her yoga instructor Paul Grilley in 1984, but they divorced in 1990.

She was active in the nuclear freeze movement

She also starred in her own direct-to-video "Playboy Celebrity Centerfold", which showed her cavorting in outdoorsey lesbian settings, along with a tender solo masturbation passage.

[ari-freedom]

that’s not really fair...many republicans voted for her following Operation Chaos...