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Posted on 06/26/2009 12:44:26 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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I just watched the classic movie "High Noon" (again). Gary Cooper played a brave sheriff who brought law and order to his town. As one woman said, "He made it safe for a decent woman to walk down the street". A recently released outlaw was coming back to town on the noon train to deliver vengeance against the sheriff who put him away. His gang of three arrived early to help their leader take out the sheriff.
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After seeing you live in California I can see how you could post such nonsense. Anyone who still lives in that socialist shitte hole has a skewered view of reality! You don’t understand that what your socialist neighbors there spew is not what those of us in the rest of the country view as normal.
1) I’m not basing it on one thing Sarah said.
I just used that as an example, because it was her latest public statement.
I could use any number of unscripted things she’s said.
I could point to all of her interviews and her debate performance, too.
It’s all just more of the same.
Color me unimpressed with her mental acumen.
2) A deficit of 10 million votes shows that she can’t draw them in. If she was the juggernaut her fans claim she is, the election would have at least been a little bit close.
3) AB0 (Anybody But 0bama) is not a winning strategy. The Democrats learned that in 2004. Our side is going to have to offer the voters something with substance if we want to win. We are going to have to identify the problems, shape the debate, articulate a real path forward, and convince the voters we are right. It’s going to take more than a tightly scripted figurehead politician to succeed. We’re going to need a real leader for that. Maybe even someone like Jack Welch. But not an Alaskan fisherman.
It’s funny, I started this thread yesterday at noon or so, so this theme of counterpunch’s has been going for 30 hours plus, virtually nonstop. I’ve only posted to him 3 times, posts#8,#58,and #230. He responded only to #8. I liked my posts 58 and 230, but sadly counterpunch did not.
Counterpunch has a repetitive theme, Palin is mediocre, inarticulate, unelectable,etc. He always comes back to the theme, it’s his security blanket.
When I first signed aboard here back in 2000, we called people like counterpunch disrupters. Now, I guess the word is troll, but I think disrupter fits counterpunch better.
He practices the Saul Alinsky tactics of ridicule, demeaning, and repetition.Agitprop. He poses as a conservative, but after a while it is easy to see through the smokescreen. His incessant repetition and obsessive need to continue to post on this thread is telling.
Combined with the above, the giveaway becomes obvious, the fact of the matter is liberals cannot handle strong, independent women. In counterpunch’s case, it eats him up.
It’s quite sad, not that he’s a liberal. Who cares. No, what’s so sad is the obsessive/compulsive behavior. It’s worrisome.
Thank you for your valiant effort in detangling what Palin said.
I’m just replying to people’s comments to me. I keep getting them.
And still, as you’ve pointed out, though I try to respond to all of the salient points, I can’t respond to every post.
But you want it both ways.
You want me to respond to all of your posts to me, but for me not to respond to any of the others.
You are in denial, Megan.
No detangling. I got it from that start. But have been puzzled by your inability to understand. It was only when you gave the specific questions that I saw where your problem lay.
Well, CouterPunch isn’t alone in this. He is one of a number of people who fault Palin for objecting to the abysmal behavior directed at her.
The left is an interesting case study. They support women, children, retirees, the infirmed, the poor, Blacks, Mexicans, Hispanics, and other minorities. The only thing they ask in return is that these people wear a blindfold, wear a muzzle, and vote the Democrat party line.
Alter from that mindset, and you’re persona non gratis.
Another words, they don’t support any of these groups on the mertis. They only expect these groups to support them.
On the contrary. My concern is for your wellbeing, nothing more. My posts to you have made that clear. Your politics are irrelevent to me. I’ll not post to you again. Take Care.
Very well said.
He's written thousands of words and said very little. When (and if) he stops posting on this thread he can puff his chest out, walk away and say to himself what a terrific job he's done in saying nothing he didn't say in his first hundred words.
Worrisome? Yes, but nothing a little professional help probably wouldn't cure.
So true. And it has proven to be so harmful to the minority groups you mention, and therefore harmful to the country as a whole.
Not to mention she was by far the most well spoken of all others on the ticket. Dude, she did not run against Obama McCain did. An “Alaskan Fisherman”??? That sounds like something an uppity libby would say. She is a leader of the people, from the people, who does not have a long paper trail behind her.
Oh and is not Newt Gingrich an adulterer? Do we want someone who cannot keep control of his personal life as POTUS? And no Bristol has nothing to do with this, she is an adult. Not Tod and Sarah’s fault.
I certainly agree, with modern science and medicine, so much is possible that wasn't when I was young.
Assuming, of course, private health care isn't nationalized. Hell, then we're all gonna be in trouble! :)
I looked at the two other posts you faulted me for not responding to.
I had not seen either. I think you would agree the later post doesn’t merit a response.
I will respond to this earlier one, though.
I think much of the excitement Palin generates is more anti-0bama (and anti-McCain) than it is pro-Palin, per se. It is as much a defiant finger in the face of the liberal MSM as anything else.
That’s the feeling I get. She is more of a conduit and outlet for the frustration many disenfranchised conservatives feel. Believe me, I understand where they are coming from.
The way she was attacked so personally, treated so unfairly by the left-wing media generated a certain protective reaction from those who empathized with her, all the conservatives who have felt the same backhand from pop media and internalized the insults against Palin and her family.
But none of this makes Palin the right person to lead conservatives back out of the wilderness. While there was a double standard in play by the harsh scrutiny Palin recieved compared to the free pass 0bama got, there was still a kernel of truth behind much of the rub on Palin, disproportionate as it may have been.
We need to see that in hindsight. It’s a long, uphill battle carrying water for Palin, one where we would spend all of our time fighting smears and defending her basic abilities, rather than advancing a conservative agenda and going on the offense against what 0bama and the Democrats have done. For better or for worse, the media has already written their script for Palin (with a lot of help from her) and it isn’t going to magically change 3 years from now.
Regarding her being a principled conservatives, I’m not so sure I agree 100%.
Would a truly principled conservative really agree to be John McCain’s running mate, which entails both propping him up as a candidate and adopting much of his platform and agenda?
My, how time does fly!!!
It’s time for the Pirates game again!
Or as Yogi Berra would say; “It’s deja vu all over again”!
Later, Gator! :o)
LOL!
I catch your Pirates on the play by play on their site today. Later! :-)
We will never have good leadership if we are continually ruled by the politics of personal destruction.
Newt’s past marriages are no more relevant to his political vision than Ronald Reagan’s was, or Sarah Palin’s daughter’s personal life.
We should elect leaders for their vision, not for their family portrait.
The 0bamas have a very nice family portrait but a pretty destructive agenda for America.
What is more important, really?
Our country is in some really serious trouble right now. Much of it was a long time in the making. There are many intellectuals on our side who have been warning of it for a long time. Wouldn’t it make more sense to turn to someone who understands the problems we’re facing and has some solutions, over someone simply because their from a small town and we can identify with them? I wouldn’t vote for my next door neighbor to be president, either.
It must be really, really important to him that Palin not be the 2012 Republican nominee.
Funny, I don't recall getting nearly so involved in the candidacy of, say, John Kerry. Did you?
I don’t fault Palin for objecting to the behavior directed towards her.
I fault her for turning it into a circus for her own publicity instead of handling it with grace, as Dick Cheney did when he received similar attacks on his daughter.
What argument? You aren'/t worth arguing with -- even if you had an argument -- which you don't.
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