Smearing Sarah--Is it really all Palin's fault?

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | November 13, 2008 | Jacob Laksin

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

So what is the History in the election of a man with darkened skin?

[curiosity]

Mediocre compared to who?

Mediocre compared to what I expect out of a presidential candidate.

[oyez]

Don't confuse rocket surgery with brain science. Its a series blunder.

[Piers-the-Ploughman]

Was Ronald Reagan a lightweight? I don’t think he went to an Ivy League college, and even broadcast Cubs game, faking the play the play back in the day. Did he drop out of college to football to pay his bills?

And i am old enough to remember being told by the MSM that Reagan was the sure loser against Carter if he was nominated. The he beats the crap out of Carter and Mondale.

She has some obvious skills but is still partly a diamond in the rough. i do not understand some FReepers blatant disrespect for a good woman. Freepers shouldnt let the MSM nominate their POTUS candidate. And even the Country clubbers may warm up to SP if in 2012 or 2106 whenever if it looks like she can win it. I never thought such a naiive do-nothing Marxist like Obama could win. Give us a few terrorist attacks and maybe any GOP candidate can beat him. Or maybe Jindal will be the man, that’s fine too.

[an amused spectator]

Mediocre compared to what I expect out of a presidential candidate.

So how does Barfsack Okenyan stack up next to Palin as a presidential candidate, in your opinion?

I wouldn't let him take out my garbage, personally.

[an amused spectator]

i do not understand some FReepers blatant disrespect for a good woman.

Obama's New Government Media Machine (ABCCBSNBCCNNFOXNYTimesWASHPOST) poured millions and millions of dollars worth of negative advertising (disguised as "reporting") into an effort to destroy Palin.

Advertising works, that's why companies buy it. Many of those talking smack about Palin have got the media's hook sticking through their gills, and they don't even know it.

I ditched my cable TeeVee a couple of years ago, so I was relatively unscathed.

[an amused spectator]

Amnesty will destroy the GOP and conservative ideals by adding millions of Democrats to the rolls, and it hurts our nation as a whole by saying our borders don't matter.

Shhhhhh! The New Democrat government might hear you, and put it on top of their agenda.

I'm expecting amnesty before 2009 rings out. The Democrats don't intend on being out of power ever again.

Basically, the fact of Bush in office drove them to insanity and treason. After watching how Obama's media suicidally trashed Palin, I realized what was going on during Bush's entire term.

The overt treason started after 9/11. The Democrat Party suppressed airing any video of 9/11 through the use of its media arm. This was to deprive the Republicans of a potent weapon in elections.

The fact that this decision also put us in jeopardy as a nation makes it treason, but hey - it's all about power for them.

Next, the shadow government media relentlessly attacked the decision to go into Iraq, and continued the attack after we went in, causing the deaths of many Americans and Iraqis.

More treason.

Finally, the media threw the election to OKenyan, and will continue to prop him up no matter how bad he screws it up.

Mark my words - when it becomes necessary, we're going to see footage of 9/11 up on the TeeVee screens so fast it will make your head spin. When the Democrats need it to stoke the sentiments of the mob, all those "considerations" that they whined about all through Bush's presidency will go out the window.

[curiosity]

I agree with you. Obama is extraordinarily unqualified and mediocre person as well as candidate. I did not vote for him, nor would I ever vote for him in a million years.

[curiosity]

Was Ronald Reagan a lightweight? I don’t think he went to an Ivy League college,

It's not where you go to school; it's what's in your head.

Reagan displayed at a great deal of intellectual curiosity in depth with regard to public policy questions long before he ran for president. Have you read transcripts of his radio shows? They are on par with the best of W.F. Buckley's writings.

[Piers-the-Ploughman]

Well I am not a Reagan scholar, but the MSM line on RR was very similar to SP. Reagan had been a governor longer and the MSM was not nearly as partisan, but things like

“Killer trees!!!” by Jim Brady mocking some RR statement

“in RR’s deepest thought, you couldn’t get your ankles wet”

and so on

My recollection is very much opposed to yours. RR was in many ways similar but he was 65 when he ran the first time.
Honestly, it is incredulous anyone would say he was an intellectual

[cherry]

"Hardly had Barack Obama swept to a resounding victory "

resounding victory?....he got a little more than Bush and Bush never got a "resounding victory"....if you listened to the msm Bush squeaked by and had no mandate and just how was Bush going to appease all those other Americans who voted against him.....

for the 6/1 money advantage and the absolute msm in his pocket, b.o. should have been able to do a 90% sweep of the electoral votes..

infact, if it wasn't for those 200,000 illegal votes in Ohio, Bob Barr in a couple of states, and suspicious votes in other states,McCain being McCain, McCain might have won....

[mccainvoterinobamaville]

What galls me is all the liberals telling us to shut up and support the President when what they said in 2000 was 234813810983190832109382109381089183013 times worse about Bush than anything said about Obama.

[af_vet_rr]

So what is the History in the election of a man with darkened skin?

History says if people perceive your party as being associated with an economic downturn in the country, you will lose, regardless of how sleazy your opponent is. Just ask George H.W. Bush.

[af_vet_rr]

Shhhhhh! The New Democrat government might hear you, and put it on top of their agenda.

I'm expecting amnesty before 2009 rings out. The Democrats don't intend on being out of power ever again.

I agree with you on amnesty. Given that the Democrats gained more seats in Congress and that both Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin were pro-amnesty and quite proud of it, there was no doubt in my mind that whoever won in 2008 would push amnesty through.

I've never heard anybody satisfactorily explain why McCain and Palin were such big supporters of amnesty, when anybody with half a brain knows that what few Hispanics it might add to the GOP will be more than canceled out by the millions of new Democrats.

Believe me, I've asked plenty of "Palin in 2012" supporters, and not a single one of them has been able to come up with a legitimate excuse about why Palin would support something that would destroy the GOP.

A few have tried, they say "Palin has to win in 2012" and I ask them "what kind of victory is it, when it insures that your party will ultimately be destroyed in the long run" and they seem to shut down. They don't want to look past 2012 or 2016. It's already bad enough that Texas and a few other states are going back to the Democrats within a decade or two. Adding millions of more Democrats during that time will result in the Republicans winning a few House seats here and there, and that's it. No more Republican White House, no more Republican Senate. Those will be small entries in a history book 20-30 years from now.

[Terry Mross]

Not being ready for prime time, a democrat mantra by the way, didn’t stop Obama from getting elected. In fact, I think Sarah was much more qualified than O.

[curiosity]

Well I am not a Reagan scholar, but the MSM line on RR was very similar to SP.

Perhaps, but in the case of RR, there is ample evidence of his intellectual depth, despite the MSM ignoring it.

http://www.amazon.com/Reagans-Path-Victory-Selected-Writings/dp/0743227069

With SP, there's nothing there.

Honestly, it is incredulous anyone would say he was an intellectual

Having read his collective writings in the book linked to above, I think it is incredulous that anyone would deny it.

[curiosity]

I agree with you on amnesty. Given that the Democrats gained more seats in Congress and that both Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin were pro-amnesty and quite proud of it, there was no doubt in my mind that whoever won in 2008 would push amnesty through.

I'm more optimistic on this. Many of the new seats the Democrats picked up, both this year and in 2004, were picked up by blue dogs, whose views on immigration tend to be more conservative.

We have the blue dogs to thank for amnesty failing the last time Bush, Pelosi and Reed attempted to ram it down the American people's throat.

[joesbucks]

Didn't say he did or was.

How many times have you seen a fool elevated, while someone else is left behind.

Perception is often fickle.

[hiredhand]

What galls me is all the liberals telling us to shut up...

Would that be liberals like us in the other thread you bailed on when it got too hot for you? You pulled what we call a "sea gull". You flew in, crapped all over the place, squawked a lot, and then suddenly left.

We're still waiting for your explanation of some of your own revealing words.

Maybe FR has become big to permit leftists to move about undetected....maybe.

[djsherin]

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