They stood shaking in their boots, afraid and immobilized while the entire family was brutalized for 9 months straight.
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Posted on 07/06/2009 7:22:07 PM PDT by Plutarch
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Professional politicians and political journalists don't waste energy on political corpses. They reserve their energy -- positive or negative -- for viable politicians.
Thus, an intriguing part of the Sarah Palin phenomenon is the intensity of response to her every word and move -- from both Republican and Democratic Party professionals and from the conventional media. The negative but sustained passion being expressed by the professional Washington political class against her tends to belie its almost unanimous assertion that she is washed up.
I happened to be on CNN on Friday just as the story was breaking of Mrs. Palin's resignation as governor of Alaska, and for the next hour, I was the only on-air guest -- Republican, Democrat, journalist, politician -- who was not overtly contemptuous and dismissive of Mrs. Palin and her political future. On Sunday, as a panelist on ABC's "This Week," I was similarly situated.
What is it about Mrs. Palin that elicits such furious bipartisan Washington dismissiveness? After all, the polls show her to be tied with Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee for the very early lead in the Republican primary. As an outspoken conservative with about 80 percent favorable rating amongst Republicans and a high-40s percentage favorable plurality among independents, objectively she should be seen as quite competitive nationally (compared to other Republicans, particularly given that Republicans generically are weak, and she has been so viciously targeted by the media).
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There are too many dolts who “think they know” (not Tony)...A lot on FR, too. Mostly, know-it-all inside the beltline folks...she will be a force. I will vote for her and her running mate or vica versa. Mark your calendars. Find another uniter for the Tea Partiers...find one. Your alternative is another Dole or McCain that the inside the beltline folks will put forth as the next candidate. Dolts.
I think her support is underestimated and she is now very underrated
Maybe I’m over simplifying this, but...
It seems to me everyone who is conservative in nature (political labels aside) believes Sarah will be a galvanizing influence. All the other people hate her guts and are afraid of her.
Is that too simple?
Go Sarah!
Probably the most famous post-Miltonic use of Agonistes is by T. S. Eliot, who titled one of his dramas Sweeney Agonistes, where Sweeney, who appeared in several of Eliot's poems, represents the materialistic and shallow modern man. Another well-known example is Garry Wills' 1969 political book Nixon Agonistes, discussing embattled president Richard Nixon. Today, the word occasionally appears in headlines in a similar fashion, e.g., Rumsfeld Agonistes, George W. Agonistes.
Agonistes is also the name of an action figure in the series Tortured Souls, produced by Spawn and made by Clive Barker.
Some related words include "agonist" (the usual English form; agonistes preserves the Greek ending), agony (originally referring to mental struggle), and agonize. Also, "protagonist" and "antagonist."
I’d just like to see Sarah announce her own radio show following Rush’s. Or to see her co-host with Rush.
Talk about a way to build your base with a ready-made audience. Money, control over her own “voice” and a platform-building exercise in listening to the base. Rush doesn’t want to be an elected political entity, why lose the money and influence?
Maybe Sarah can use his groundbreaking for her own call to leadership. Talk Radio seems to be the last bastion for conservatives. They would do well to use it to its fullest capacity for growth.
They stood shaking in their boots, afraid and immobilized while the entire family was brutalized for 9 months straight.
Hunter/DeMint 2012.
Amen.
It became my grim duty to remind my interlocutors -- in case they had not noticed -- that all the cable news shows were dropping their programming to switch to wall-to-wall coverage of the Palin announcement and that we were, at that moment, telling a national audience that the story we were discussing was being buried.
LOL -- great point.
Woe to the establishment elites, for the ground is shifting beneath their feet! When Sarah Palin is on the scene, their conventional wisdom is worth bupkis. Maybe that's what scares them: she brings with her a whole new physics that they can't understand.
check out post 8
Interesting....
They stood shaking in their boots, afraid and immobilized while the entire family was brutalized for 9 months straight.
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Oh yeah?! You can see the RNC, and our man of Steele, rising up to Palin's defense right here .
(Maybe if you scroll through enough pages you can find something).
Sarah reading the TEAleaves!
Tied with Huckabee? If that’s true, the GOP is in more trouble than it knows. Huckabee - talk about weak.
Yep, they may as well run Bob Dole again in 2012. We’re going to get the same result anyway.
That is the crux of it. We may be witnessing for the first time a compact between a potential candidate and the people based on truth. A refreshing event indeed.
Well, I'm not so sure being an incumbent is an advantage if the world seems to be going to hell and government is seen to be at least part of the cause for that journey.
Another good point.
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