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We lost single women, young women badly. Goes to show women are catty. I knew tons of chicks that wouldn’t vote for her not because of issues— but because they didn’t like her accent or thought she was too bubbly. Catty.
OUTSTANDING article by Thomas Sowell! Thanks for posting.
I know a woman who, ostensibly conservative, voted for Obama because she was convinced that:
A. Both McCain and Obama were likely to not survive their term in office, and hence she wanted a VP with “experience”.
B. Palin should not have been running around campaigning because her kids needed her at home.
She told me recently that she was afraid our country was slipping into socialism, and my simple response was, “You contributed to it by voting for Obama.”
I don't know what's in Sarah Palin's political future but while she clearly disturbs 'intellectuals', she relates nicely with the rest of us, and in a politician, that is almost unstoppable. Most Americans can identify with Sarah Palin. They see themselves reflected in her in many ways and don't like effectively being sneered at and mocked by pointed-headed, over-educated elitists. Sowell has it right.
I don’t know one person the went to see Sarah that didn’t become a huge Palin fan. She inspires people and that’s why the Dems hate her. She scares the hell out of them. She is their worst nightmare.
I prefer Ron Paul.
Any true conservative that buys ANY of Zero’s BS isn’t bending over backwards, they are bending over forwards, grabbing their ankles and waiting. And they are going to get what they are waiting for....
Sorry.
This man is too brilliant to run for elective office. And it is our loss that politics has become such a cesspool that brilliant minds want to avoid it.
“He’s not one of us.” So true and Palin is one of us. She is American through and through. We need her and we want her.
Every Sowell column is a must read. Same for Mark Steyn and Victor Davis Hanson.
Deciding someone's guilt or innocence based purely on appearances, before any evidence has been supplied. Yeah, that's the American way of Truth and Justice. [/sarc]
Too bad it seems more are concerned with that appearance rather than what's beneath the surface, rather than the truth, rather than Justice. How the founding fathers must be sickened.
To all the posters who think Palin doesn’t have a chance in 2012 you’d better do your homework. You might be surprised. In politics, three and a half years is an eternity. It’s true, she’s been marginalized somewhat and smeared by the mid-stream media but it’s the same liberal media who said Ronald Reagan was a simpleton and never had a shot or the intelligence for the presidency. Even a week or two before the 1980 Election the media still thought Carter would win, then you watch Cronkite and his network cronies on election night scratch their heads and wonder “how the hell did THIS happen?” It’s easy to count Palin out. But it takes courage to stand behind this brilliant but battered woman and make her re-emergence to the national stage a movement — a conservative movement — like we haven’t seen since the 1980s.
Sowell nails it.
I am so tired of the “elites” in Washington telling me who I should support. THEY are part of the problem.
The election only got interesting when Palin entered the fray. I would have reluctantly pulled the trigger for McCain, but he was wrong on so many issues.
We need someone who understands energy policy and who is not afriad to CUT spending in Washington. Also, someone willing to call this global warming what it is - a hoax and a scheme to raise taxes. On all of these points Palin was way ahead of the other three idiots running. And she was the ONLY one with proven executive experience.
I laugh at the commentators and know-it-alls that keep trying to tell me how bad she would be. They haven’t got a clue about the frustration and anger ordinary Americans have with the runaway Federal government.
Palin 2012
“intellectual” - a dealer in second hand ideas.
Academentia - those committed to the persistant belief that collectivism can be made to work by said intellectuals working with “proper” academic ‘credentials’.
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