...and then come on this board to trash her as mercilessly as you have.
I'm starting to think that you're either a lib troll or a deranged nut.
Posted on 06/26/2009 12:44:26 PM PDT by smoothsailing
The poll numbers spike when he picked Palin, just as they spiked for 0bama when he picked Biden of all people.
That’s what always happens.
But the more people got to know Palin, the less impressed they were with her.
She is not someone out there as a leading light of the conservative movement.
She has done nothing to earn her admires except for 1) being hand-picked by Juan McCain 2) being a woman 3) being a target for the leftwing media.
She’s not a leading thinker in the fight on any conservative issues.
She’s barely even a follower. She bungled all of her memorized answers, and just stared blankly on the questions she hadn’t crammed for.
I want the GOP standard-bearer to be someone who can speak lucidly and with authority on any issue thrown at them.
We have leaders, both past and present who can.
Sarah Palin is not among them.
The best comeback the PalinChoir has to offer is that she can be trained.
You want a candidate who, two days after being named as VP candidate, can articulate: "We don't want bigger government. We want government that does a few big things and it does them right." - oh, snap!
Goog job and post. obama appreicates the job you did.
...and then come on this board to trash her as mercilessly as you have.
I'm starting to think that you're either a lib troll or a deranged nut.
Prolly another Matt Braynard.
Huh?
Sarah Palin has excited the electorate. She’ll be ready to run for President in 2012. No, she didn’t graduate from an Ivy League College and she doesn’t have “Esq” behind her name. But that’s okay. In fact, many of us prefer it that way. I doubt that she’d put up with a 1200 page bill that the Congress did not have time to read. And the “hurry up” and vote attitude would not be in her agenda.
I for one am tired of the majority of Congress who have an elitist attitude and think they know what’s best for us WITHOUT asking us first. Gov Palin is not elitist. She’s “normal” and “one of us.”
Being negative about the set-up from McCain (who didn’t PLAN to win and when he chose Palin and she brought his numbers up, he had to sabotage her with TV interviews and change his tactics) is unfair. She’s intelligent and personable. Neither of which McCain can claim.
Once Gov Palin is running at the head of the GOP ticket . . . .
I’m not being a “mouthpiece for the left.”
I’m contributing my voice to what I believe conservatives need to be doing to avoid more embarrassment and defeat.
There is a time to put our best face forward, and a time to be honest with ourselves and each other.
If Palin somehow captures the 2012 GOP nomination, then I will have no choice but to swallow hard and put my best defense for her forward. But it will be an uphill battle, and I guarantee you, we will spend the entire election cycle doing just that: defending her. We will never be on offence with a candidate like Palin, only defence. And you cannot win that way. The best defence does is minimize your loss of ground. You never advance with it, though. And you cannot win by minimizing your loss.
Voters want solutions. If we put forward a thinker who can make a good case for conservative approach to fixing the mess we’re in, and the mess 0bama is making, then we can win. But putting Palin up instead would be simply holding her up and saying “vote for her because she’s a woman, because she’s not 0bama, because she’s a conservative, because she’s a Republican.” It would be trolling for votes based on identity, not ideas. It would be hoping she could get enough votes because enough people are excited about what she represents, the way so many were excited by what 0bama represents. It would be hoping that America says “OK, now that we’ve had a black president, how about we break some more barriers and elect a woman president!” But she really has nothing going for her outside of identity politics, and we all know that, deep down.
You are clueless — pure and simple, you sound like David Frum and Peggy Noonan; elitist.
Counterpunch hates flyoverland folks
I had a fight with a lib last nite who made the same sort of arguments
they are so erudite, we are all so dumb and beneatht them and all
and to claim Palin is inarticulate...good lord...she gives speeches as good as Fearless Leader does and without teleprompters when need be
and btw....articulate does not make a leader
else all our Presidents would have been Billy Mays clones
hey...I can be snotty too...slapping my back
You are clearly basing your WHOLE assessment on the Katie Couric interiew.
You CLEARLY haven’t followed ANY of her career.
And your tag line is about government being the problem. If you had followed her for even one minute other than the Couric interview, you would have heard her say your exact tag line.
Because she says it every other day.
And she doesn’t only just say it. She embodies it as Governor of Alaska.
Incidentally, do you work for the media? ‘Cause you do your research just about as well as they do.
I really shouldn’t do this ‘cause you should find your own sources, but here ya’ go:
www.gov.state.ak.us
www.twitter.com/akgovsarahpalin
www.conservatives4palin.com
Spend a couple of hours at any of those sites and then get back to us.
Oh and look elsewhere at this very site for videos of the Governor meeting the troops and citizens of Kosovo and speaking to them of their peacekeeping mission and peace through strength, etc.
Just curious, are you a Brit? Do you have anything to do with Counter Punch Newsletter?
I’m not basing my assessment solely on the Katie Couric interview, as shameful as Palin’s performance was.
She proved then she is a know-nothing.
Do you think Dick Cheney or Newt Gingrich or even Mike Huckabee would have come up blank on those questions?
Do you think Mike Pence or Jim DeMint would have talked in incoherent circles?
Get real!
If poor widdle Sarah was “just having a bad day” when she got outsmarted by the mental midget Katie Couric, then how do you explain her latest grammatical gem she dropped on America’s airwaves:
“No wonder young girls especially have such low self-esteem in America when we think it’s funny for a so-called comedian to get away with being able to make such a remark as he did and to think that that’s acceptable.”
Sure, she grabbed a lot of attention, but she lowered herself to the level of a late-night comedian in the process. Could you imagine Dick Cheney behaving this way when his daughter was attacked? Remember, it did happen in 2994. And from Kerry and Edwards, no less, not some late night hack. Dick was asked about it, and he declined to comment. He never stopped being the graceful statesman.
No and no.
‘2994’ should have said ‘2004’.
I guess it’s easier for you to attack a strawman than to counter my actual words.
There is no myth, besides, you can’t take anyone seriously who can’t spell “invent.”
Personally, I like to think of Palin in 2012 as the High Plains Drifter, with Congress as the town of Lago...
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