Posted on 07/03/2009 10:26:06 AM PDT by tricky_k_1972
Bravo
Even Fox News was building up Willard this week. The guy is a “bleeping” Rockefeller Republican. All of those people over the summer didn’t show up in droves to see Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich.
I spent the better part of my life watching people promote the idea that women should be able to do whatever they want. If their desire was family, fine (well not really for the left). If their desire was business related, fine. If their desire was politics, fine, we needed them in politics.
Now we have a woman who has a sound family. She has a good relationship with her kids. She doesn’t just give them kisses in public and send them off to stand in a corner. She hugs them, keeps them close and genuinely loves them.
I’m sure you’ve seen the politicians who give their wives kisses (Gore), and then others like the Bush’s. You can just tell where the real love exists.
Palin is the real deal. She has family and political experience. She is well liked in her own state. She is respected as a women by people on the left. Whether folks can grasp it or not, she’s a contender to be President of the United States.
Frankly, I think she’s pleasant to look at, but she’s a mother and that is how I see her. I’m married so I just don’t look at her like she’s in my sights, if you catch my drift. So the looks thing just doesn’t go farther than that. It couldn’t get my vote on a dare if she wasn’t a conservative. It wouldn’t get my vote even though she is. She will get my vote based on the merits.
If she were to turn into John McCain on the issues, she would never get a vote from me. So much for looks.
Of course she wouldn’t be a Conservative then either.
So what about a Palin/Romney (or vice versa) ticket?
He wants to be popular. I once went along with a bunch of guys who were making a racist joke about a black fellow employee, I respected The black man saw me join in the laughter. and of course he cut me thereafter. I’ve never forgotten that, and it was 56 years ago, East Texas, of course, but my shame was that during my whole life I was never a racist and thought segregation unjustified.
Hell No!
As for looks, she has the kind of looks that make me,anyway. think of as someone who could sit in my living room, along with her husband, and that I would end up talking more with her husband than her, while my wife and she talked about what women like to talk about. At the same time, if the discussion got around to politics. I would be all ears, since she obviously knows how to play that game.
I agree with that. Good call.
Sarah is the best role model I can see. I really believe she is walking with God, and he’ll take her where she is supposed to go, president or not.
Im sure of that, wholeheartedly agree.
I agree with that.
The Culture of Death hates a strong proponent of the Culture of Life and fears the prospect of her in the White House. Nothing too surprising here.
I don't want a policy wonk as President, I want someone guided by basic principles.
Sarah is like Rush - any piece about her gets more readers or higher ratings. With falling readership and a cadre of insecure media types wanting to be noticed, Sarah is just to big a draw not to exploit. Yet like criticizing Rush they don’t defame their target of derision rather they are galvanizing Palin as as a bonafide contender for the visionary leader of the GOP for the next couple of decades.
Wow, I don't know if there really is a limit. Bad attitudes, even ones that obviously harm us and the causes we love, seem to be the default setting for human behavior. It isn't so much agreement with the democrat line as plain intellectual laziness. This Belmont Club post by Fernandez that I encountered yesterday is a fascinating treatment of this topic. Not the Palin rap specifically, but left propaganda as as a tactic that we must deal with if we are to get anything done at all.
If Sarah was really the huge negative they claim, they’d be her biggest champion. They’d practically be demanding she run in ‘12.
Mitt must be the huge negative then because the media is pushing him-beware.
She’s better prepared to be President than Obama was (or ever will be).
And based on their behavior, she’s better prepared and more qualified than most other ‘Pubbie “front runners.”
Yes we can, the disaster was John McCain.
Many voters, myself included, voted for Sarah Palin, NOT John McCain. Without Sarah, it would have been a true rout.
The Palin train is coming down the tracks and quickly picking up speed, the Republicans can get behind the train or stand on the tracks yelling stop as they're run over, but the train is still heading to Washington D.C.
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