Posted on 12/27/2008 12:45:28 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The media and Democrats might hate Sarah Palin, but her 2009 calendar is currently the number one best selling office product at Amazon.com.
Just imagine how this must be galling liberal press members who can't understand her popularity.
Of course, the cynic -- or the realist depending on your point of view -- might believe that media very much understand why she's so popular, and that's why they hate her so much.
Regardless, some more pictures from her calendar are below the fold:
I’ve yet to see you post “truth” about her.
The bulk of your message seems to be that she isn’t conservative, without much substance to the position, and that we should be wise to move on...to what or whom exactly?
Last I checked she’s very much a favorite of the conservative movement and the base of the party. So that would make you and your “conservative” friends an extreme minority would it not? Which is fine. But if you are so far apart from where the majority of the movement is, why would I follow your lead to the promise land where “real” conservatives reside? We evidently differ on the definition and those who serve it.
BTW, don’t be so ludricrous as to suggest disregard of your position as being rooted in that of a cult following. She’s a politician and as such no infalliable immortal. Certainly she doesn’t warrant her own alter at church. If you want to seek example of a cult, exit stage left to the Obama alter down the road.
I’m merely tired of hearing from people like yourself who would run off a conservative for whatever fleeting passion you serve. I don’t care if you vote for her or support her for higher office. But I’ll be damned if I stand by and see conservatives run off or urged to be abandoned by anyone. There are precious few in the party these days and none with her current high profile stature. The way I see it until you or your kind produce someone of equal or better value in position to be heard and effect change, your calls to throw her overboard will go unanswered.
Photos from Palin visiting Fort Wainwright (click pictures for more)
Anyway, Here is a calendar of Palin and guess what the liberals are aghast about now; that it's selling well! Actually its a best seller Amazon.com. :)
I know this is from awhile ago but just in case you didn't hear Palin was delcared Conservative of the year by HUMAN EVENTS (like anyone else was conservative on the main stage of the news this year. ) Yay to her, and there is an intersting article, talking about the campaign, and also strutting her values.
The ever entertaining (but most moronic acting) PETA placed a game where you can throw snowballs at a Palin wearing a fur coat. This coming from the people who asked Ben and Jerry to use milk from lactating humans...
Moving on, to people who matter (or don't depending on your opnion of the MSM)Couric's interview with Palin has helped boost her ratings higher than last year (from Neilson, you know with all it's empolyees donating to dems) says that this may come from Couric reasserting herself during the Palin interview. This just sounds a little to far fetched but that's just me
OK, OK, Im sorry I haven't posted I kind a got caughtup with Christmas (candy, food, books, computer tablet)... And breaking my foot... without realizing it (which I found out is possible, for the second time). This long of a break will hopefully not happen again.
Thank you. I’m tired of seeing the same little group in here trying to talk people out of supporting her.
Thanks! My 82-year-old mother has a crush on First Dude, too, so I hope he’s in some of the pics.
hello! Please add my name to the Palin ping list
thanks
People that don't know the difference will call anyone a “Populist”. Thatcher was no “Populist”. If you like a "Populist" that's your problem. I'm just pointing out what Sarah Palin is.
“But perhaps you don't understand these things. People are so terribly dumbed down. They know nothing of history. “
Why is it the people like yourself are so unoriginal? You quote me about people like yourself - “dumbed down” and proud of it. This house hold knows unrewritten history.
Am I quoting you about people like myself? Well, I shall atone for this offense by quoting someone who had something to say about people like you.
Margaret Thatcher once told Sir Anthony Parsons that she was proud she didn't belong to his class of "upper middle class British intellectuals who see everybody else's point of view and have none of their own."
Just yesterday I was reading the diary entry of one such upper class Tory intellectual, who recorded in 1977 a conversation he had with a fellow Tory who commiserated with him about Margaret Thatcher, who was the Tory leader of the Opposition at the time. They complained that she was making the Tories "an extreme right wing party." They impotently plotted how they could get rid of her, but were forced to admit that a change of leadership was impossible. His companion contemptuously asked, "Well, what are we going to do after she gets in [as Prime Minister] if she gets in?!" He replied, with equal condescension, "all we can do is to see she is surrounded by adequate advisors." He went on to write, "We both agreed that Margaret [is] an extremely nice person, but I said that I had never had much confidence in her judgement and my fears had been realised....Margaret is extremely good at walkabout and meeting the public, but [is] politically unaware."
Basically, that Tory toff just gave the same sort of contemptuous assessment of Margaret Thatcher that you gave of Palin. According to him, Thatcher was too "right wing" and not bright enough for the job. She was good at campaigning and working the rope lines and talking to ordinary people, but she was "politically unaware" and had questionable judgement.
You claim to be historically literate, so I hope that I do not offend your intelligence by pointing out that Margaret Thatcher eventually led her party to a record breaking three general election victories (hadn't been done since 1832), the first in 1979 was after she gave a successful motion of No Confidence (a rare occurrence that has happened only three times in the 20th century). She revolutionized Great Britain and is regarded as the greatest Prime Minister of the post-war era. She saved the UK from its descent into a socialist third world country. She was so successful as the leader of the Conservative Party that the old socialist Labour Party she so vehemently opposed is dead forever, and the new Labour Party of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown is regarded as Thaterchism-lite. Even her enemies co-opted her beliefs.
Not bad for "an extreme right wing" lady who was "politically unaware."
She won by promoting what was commonly referred to as "populist Thatcherite policies." She did, after all, coin the phrase "Popular Capitalism." She spoke of "my people" -- meaning the middle class, or "middle England" as they came to be known. At her core, she was always the grocer's daughter who grew up "over the shop" and earned a scholarship to study at university. She was a self-made woman and proud of it. On the day she became Prime Minister, she was asked to comment on her father who was her "political mentor." She said:
Well, of course, I just owe almost everything to my own father. I really do. He brought me up to believe all the things that I do believe and they're just the values on which I've fought the Election. And it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the Election.
Now, please feel free to tell me how "stupid" and "extreme" and "populist" Governor Palin is. You amuse me.
Well I’ll be damned...
GG, you gotta cut the RomneyBOTS some slack...LOL. They sometimes get all twisted up in their Palin attacks.
Thanks, Al. The O'Sullivan article inspired me to go back and relisten to the Iron Lady's old speeches, debates, and interviews. The similarities are striking. I'm going to try an assemble a video of comparison clips.
BTW, this is a photo of Thatcher when she was about the same age as Palin is now: 
Perhaps it's my imagination, but they both have similar eyes. Not the eye color, but the shape -- and a look of clarity.
But, if you were reacting to a suggestion that Gov. Palin was not a conservative, and/or that conservatism and a populist movement are somehow conceptually incompatible- you really shouldn't have spent the time. You should have done what the Gipper would have done- chuckled and shook your head. -:)
I thought we buried these fools weeks ago, guys !! Evidently not. But I see the battle is in good hands with you two. But it is getting a tad wearisome with this crap about SP not being conservative enough..or was it too populist or not ?
For any reasonable right winger the case is closed. But these fools keep on coming......Who are these people ??
Best thing to do is remember old Ted Williams crack when he was asked if it bothered him when he went to opposing fields and the fans booed him.....said Ted... "Nah, they never boo a bum !"
So it is with Sarah The Good. We loyal foot soldiers had better get used to it.
BTW That calender looks fantastic!
Just went to your new web site. Great job !
I will be visiting often.
Mick
As for GG's comparison of Sarah's eyes to Thatcher, it reminds me of my brother's phone call to me right after SP's convention speech. He occasionally plays serious poker and one of his first comments was about "those eyes" and the fact that he didn't ever want to play poker with "that woman". :-)
Hear, hear!
I think Palin will continue to look better and better as time goes by -- especially as the nation hears more from Caroline Kennedy.
It’s creepy to want a calendar of ANY politician to hang on your wall.
I will be visiting often.
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Ut-oh... pressure. Now, I’ll have to think of something smart to write on the web site- and in my case, that’s problematic because I’ve always tried to live by the Splendid Splinter’s advice: “If you don’t think too good, don’t think too much.”
I checked your home page- you have much to commend you. Congrats.
Vin
I wouldn't want to play poker with either of these women:
I've been known to deal a friendly hand or two among friends and I noticed the same thing in the look she gave that creep Baldwin on SNL. You never can tell if the Lady's bluffing, but the safe bet is to always assume she has the Ace.
About the trip to AK to met SP. I've been thinking of talking it up here at FR and if there is enough interest among Freepers we might think about a charter flight up leaving from, say, LAX.....I know GG is in LA and you are in TX.....I could get out there easily on a straight shot from Philly.......anyway, I'm just throwing it out as an idea...sort of a Freeper mini convention in AK that could invite the Gov to say a few words........well, the idea is now on the flag pole...lets see if anybody salutes!
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