Posted on 11/09/2008 4:32:30 AM PST by COBOL2Java
Finita la commedia. Many things ended on Tuesday evening when Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States, and depending on how you voted you are either celebrating or mourning this weekend. But no matter what our political affiliations, we should all -- Republicans and Democrats alike -- be toasting the return of Governor Sarah Palin to Juneau, Alaska.
The Palin farce is already the stuff of legend. For a generation at least it is sure to keep presidential historians and late-night comedians in gainful employment, which is no small thing. But it would be a pity if laughter drowned out serious reflection about this bizarre episode. As Jane Mayer reported recently in the New Yorker ("The Insiders," Oct. 27, 2008), John McCain's choice was not a fluke, or a senior moment, or an act of desperation. It was the result of a long campaign by influential conservative intellectuals to find a young, populist leader to whom they might hitch their wagons in the future.
And not just any intellectuals. It was the editors of National Review and the Weekly Standard, magazines that present themselves as heirs to the sophisticated conservatism of William F. Buckley and the bookish seriousness of the New York neoconservatives. After the campaign for Sarah Palin, those intellectual traditions may now be pronounced officially dead.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
We'll see how this pans over the long haul. Good grief!
Has anyone else noticed the decline of the WSJ? It seems to be losing it’s seriousness. I’m finding it it more difficult to take it seriously these days. But perhaps that’s just an accurate reflection of our increasingly adolescent society.
I had hoped Murdoch would improve things at the WSJ. Not much evidence so far.
Yes, I stopped reading their editorials shortly after Rupert Murdock bought it. I read the IBD Editorial page daily now.
This article is drivel.
Liberals--Looking for Hate in ALL PLACES!
And, so, the 2012 campaign kicks off in earnest ....
I have- it used to have good, somewhat quixotic and iconoclastic editorials, now, it's pap.
Investor's Business Daily has taken up the slack.
Gov. Palin is the stuff of legend, all right, but not of farce. Liberals fear her because they know a tsunami when they see one. She’ll be back, and they’ll be gone.
especially nooooonan
They don’t like Palin because she doesn’t know a lot about what they know a lot about. Therefore they think she is ignorant.
What Palin does know a lot about is not of interest to them. Therefore they think she is ignorant.
They are wrong on both counts.
(1)--Reports contain facts, not biased opinions
(2)--conservative? intellectual? John McCain? That's all you need to know that this guy's view of the world is distorted. And given a platform to disseminate--dangerous.
John McCain's campaign was the political version of, The Producers.
And for the wrong reason
These stories about Palin are getting so ridiculous; they are funny.
It’s interesting that when mentioning influential conservative thinkers from the 1970’s-1980’s, he “accidentally” forgets to include Ronald Reagan. Remember, the inteligensia
still thinks that Reagan was a rube, despite copious evidence to the contrary. I wonder if this well-polished turd(Professor of Journalism at Columbia, doncha know)has ever read, “Reagan:In His Own Words.”
His contention that the republican “elites” pushed for Palin is laughable.
Palin is the only thing that made this race as close as it was. The elites on both sides of the aisle are doing everything they can to destroy this woman.
Read the comments. Most are a pretty good refutation of this pusillanimous, pedantic wanna-be pundit.
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