Is that you?
Posted on 02/17/2009 12:17:34 PM PST by Donald Rumsfeld Fan
Is that you?
Within the next two years, I’d like to see Sarah give a Reaganesque speech about her vision for America. Now that the McPain shackles are off, she can articulate what she sees as the idea future of the Nation. I don’t think she needs to go deep into the weeds with specifics, but some glimpses about how true conservatism would bring restoration; that answers lie not in government, but the strength of Americans themselves.
Perhaps. But anyone with a sense of history knows otherwise.
I'll bet most of Obama's clueless supporters never heard of her.
idea=ideal
We agree on one thing. Neither of us can wait until 2012 so we can see some real change. We’ll just have to decide who’s going to bring it in the primaries.
I remember that great decade the ‘80s — standing as the guardians of freedom: Reagan, Thatcher, Mulrooney, Kohl, Pope JP II. That will always be my “A” team.
Don’t forget the iron-balled Pole Lech Walesa.
I’m thinking before too long, the rapidly declining America is going to need our own courageous Lech Walesa to set things in motion.
I agree, but Lady Thatcher (Baroness Thatcher is her title, “Lady Thatcher” is correct address) was just a Member of Parliament to start with. And nobody really knew what she was capable of until she did it.
Don’t forget Lech Walesa
Her victory in the Falklands and facing down the coal miner unions proved to everyone that she was the "Iron Lady".
In her favor, she isn't mired down with decades in Washington and the shadow of appeasement and corruption that usually brings. No, Sarah Palin hasn't warmed a chair on some droning congressional Foreign Relations Committee or taken 'fact finding' junkets overseas on the taxpayer's dime. That kind of 'foreign relations experience' is a crock, anyway.
As Thomas Sowell stated in a September 4th, 2008 column, no governor is going to have 'foreign policy experience'. Roosevelt didn't, Reagan didn't, and sitting on a Senate committee talking about 'foreign relations' doesn't count as 'experience'. The fact is that the sitting president makes U.S. foreign policy. They receive lots of advice, of course, but ultimately, the president makes the policy. Joe Biden didn't make foreign policy as a senator and won't as Vice President. Barack Obama will, and he hasn't any notable 'experience' in 'foreign policy' so let's drop that canard about Sarah Palin not having sufficient 'foreign policy experience', O.K.?
Sarah Palin is a committed conservative with great mass appeal. You can nitpick her all day long if you want (and some will, of course) but she connected with the country and I strongly suspect many Americans didn't much like the way she was attacked by leftists through the media. The fact that the left still attacks Sarah Palin, three months after she lost the election, tells us they are well aware and frightened of her appeal and are desperately trying to smear and denigrate her in the public consciousness to cripple her for a run at the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, when I expect most Americans will have long since cooled off on Barack Hussein Obama as 'messiah' and will be ready for some sanity in the White House and congress.
In 2012, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who'll be 46, will be familiar to most Americans and very likely have honed her already-impressive communication skills. The leftwing media attacks will be intense and she'll have to respond at some point, but with humor and wit, as Reagan (and JFK, for that matter) often did. Of course, Governor Palin may decide she doesn't want the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, but if she does, she'll have my vote.
And Vaclav Havel.
If history is any guide (I'm thinking of the Carter years) nothing wakes people up to the idiocy of liberalism like getting hit in the face with it for four years.
Capital! Or Palin/Williams if Sowell isn't up to it!
I forget when/where I read it, but in one newspaper or magazine, Margaret Thatcher was referred to as “Attilla the Hen.”
Congratulations on an excellent post.
Sadly, some even here on FR, are applying a real experience double-standard when it comes to the redoubtable Sarah Palin. The Sarah who possessed more executive experience than all three of the older Senatorial princes combined, in the last Presidential election.
Here is another bumper sticker: “Don’t blame me, I voted for Sarah”.
Quite true, but the Argentines and the unions wouldn’t have tried to face her down if they hadn’t thought she’d give in. They were wrong. Whether Sarah Palin has the same character, we don’t yet know, but it’s certainly possible.
I think Gov. Palin does have the strength to face down any one of our enemies. On the domestic side, Gov. Palin has the character a leader needs i.e. taking on the state GOP and winning was no small feat. So the comparisons between Lady Thatcher and Gov. Palin are valid.
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