[skimbell]

Geez! The Left just will not quit on Palin.

[Texas Fossil]

If you look at his source of information you will not be surprised with his writing.

from:

http://www.slate.com/id/2131911

“Rich harvests morsels from the Huffington Post, Daily Kos, the New Republic, Slate, newspapers, and cable-news channels (always with generous citations).”

[nhwingut]

She broke the GOP. Yep. The GOP that is ahead of the Dems on 8 of 10 polled issues. The broken GOP that is now ahead of Dems on the generic congressional ballot.

Yeah, she really screwed them up.

[bray]

Hey Frank, hows that Balance Sheet looking? While she’s running you’ll be looking for another DNC mouthpiece to write for.

Pray for America and Gov Palin

[Woebama]

“That overwhelming majority isn’t just the “base” of the Republican Party that liberals and conservatives alike tend to ghettoize as a rump backwater minority. It is the party, or pretty much what remains of it in the Barack Obama era.”

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Poll numbers are showing growing numbers of conservatives and shrinking numbers of liberals. Liberal hacks and apologists are going to miss the big story because they are looking at party but the people are looking for real and POSITIVE change.

[andy58-in-nh]

My, my, Frank: aren't we the obsessed little drama queen today.

What? Were you afraid that you'd missed out on the festivities during the just-concluded "Pile On Sarah Palin Week"?

I think we've now heard from just about Everyone Who's Everyone in the New York/D.C. hack glitterati community, and face it, Richie Rich: you were the last one to weigh in.

Even Pruneface Peggy Noonan beat you to it. Of course, she was just waiting to see what Kathleen Parker would write, so as to avoid any conflicting use of dismissive verbs and diminutive nouns. And she, of course was just following on the opening salvo led by Maureen Dowd, Doyenne of the Dirt Dishers, New York's premier purveyor of the kind of bon mots that get less bon with every mot.

But, face it: you missed out on the party Frankie Boy, and you desperate attempt to catch up to the festivities sounds like the guy who arrives at the party when all the good booze is gone and all but the most attention-starved guests have gone home.

[Travis McGee]

I take Frank Rich so seriously when he offers free advice to the GOP.

[LibLieSlayer]

rich has never written or uttered a word that his father satan did not compel him to do.

LLS

[adorno]

The Left just will not quit on Palin.

The left has a deep fear of Sarah. Sarah is their worst nightmare. And, ever since she took the political spotlight, the democrats and the leftist media elites want to convince the republicans and conservatives that Sarah is also our worst nightmare and should turn away from her. But, the more they try to convince us to dump her, the more they convince us that she represents the best hope we have in regaining control of our country. The liberal and MSM tactics don't stand a chance with conservatives. We are not as ignorant as their constituencies.

[Brilliant]

Just when I thought Frank Rich couldn’t get any nuttier, he proves me wrong.

[Riflema]

Yep, nothing new to read here. Or is there?. Slightly off point, I know, but note the remark about a "bottomless war in Afghanistan"... and yet, not a single mention of the word "Iraq". Wonder why?

Aside from that, Rich lazily falls back on the trope that all on the Right are inherently racist, that somehow the "values of Alaska" are "white" values. Poor shmuck just doesn't get it: ask some of the Cambodians, Nigerians, Indians who have started successful businesses here about their "white" values Frankie

This whole "American experiment" - these "Alaska Values" - are not a "European" thing, a "White" thing, Frankie, they're a Freedom Thing, doofus.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Sarah Palin has got the 1960s Marxist-Alinsky hippie street rabble-cum-Rat Party (formerly the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party) unhinged.

(That ain't name calling. The Sixties Marxist-Alinsky hippie street rabble and their ideological issue (children) really have taken over the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party. Under the hail of "Neo-con" taunts many fled the Party.)

The Nytimese aging hippies are tense.

Bring out the tried and true Marxist-Alinsky hippie street rabble tactics used against Goldwater (by the elites of both Parties.)

Goldwater is a racist purveyor of hate!

Palin is a crafty racist purveyor of the "deftly coded putdown" of blacks and of "ugly emotions".

She should stop complaining about this kind of criticism.

Hey! Late-night comics made jokes about the Clintons. The Clintons suffered. It's all even.

Hippie "logic."

[Arkinsaw]

Geez! The Left just will not quit on Palin.

And that will be their downfall. The American people have always liked underdogs. The American people do not like someone being ganged up on. The American people side with who they see as victims.

We witnessed this ourselves. Our efforts against Bill Clinton turned at some point and went over the top and the American people decided to give him a pass.

The media went after Ronald Reagan as an "evil moron". They portrayed him as just a stupid actor...dangerous...warmonger. It backfired on them because they overdid it.

They are overdoing their attacks on Palin....bigger than ever.....and will be perceived as the hateful piranha.

[BilLies]

I'd call Rich a A..hole but I know he would take it as a compliment.

[don-o]

Ankle biter alert ping

Its voice can be found in the postings at a Web site maintained by the fans of Mark Levin, the Obama hater who is, at this writing, the No.2 best-selling hardcover nonfiction writer in America. (Glenn Beck is No.1 in paperback nonfiction.) Politico surveyed them last week. “Bottomline, do you know of any way we can remove these idiots before this country goes down the crapper?” wrote one Levin fan. “I WILL HELP!!! Should I buy a gun?” Another called for a new American revolution, promising “there will be blood.”

[RichInOC]

Frank...

1. Sarah Palin may own the GOP, but
2. She didn’t break it. It may be broken, but not by her.
3. Just because I posted the Colin Powell quote on one of your recent columns doesn’t mean it was a good idea to crib it for this column. Especially not if you’re going to use it badly.
4. This column is just another exhibit in evidence that the Times should have left you as the theater critic, where you at least had a clue what you were doing.

[sloane]

The only thing i like about Palin is that she's good fodder for Tina Fey. But this Op-Ed is typical of why I rarely find Op-Eds worth reading--vague criticisms and ranting and ravings instead of analysis or insight. I like how the title has hardly anything to do with the roving content of the article. And the Republican party had plenty of pre-existing problems. I hardly think that Palin can be considered to have broken it. And while it may be clever to title an article with a nod to the saying "you broke it you buy it," buying has nothing to do with anything here. The title is a mess and indicative of what follows. John Tantillo is a branding expert and does a weekly brand winner/loser post on his blog. In last week's post, he named political pundits the 'brand loser' for being out of touch, predicting their decline as they listen "to their own little echo chamber"--and named Palin the brand winner, explaining that it is entirely consistent with her personal brand, and thus actually positions her for a future in politics if she should want one. In resigning, she stood behind her own family values (as her family was being dragged through the mud by the media) and her stance against waste (as she was watching millions of AK $s be spent on frivolous investigations). Full post.

[dead]

That resentment is in part about race, of course. When Palin referred to Alaska as “a microcosm of America” during the 2008 campaign, it was in defiance of the statistical reality that her state’s tiny black and Hispanic populations are unrepresentative of her nation. She stood for the “real America,” she insisted, and the identity of the unreal America didn’t have to be stated explicitly for audiences to catch her drift. Her convention speech’s signature line was a deftly coded putdown of her presumably shiftless big-city opponent: “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.”

Perhaps, the "microcosm of America" comment rang true to Palin and those listening because they do not share the left's pathetic obsession with race. It's irrelevant to the statement, unless race is the sole attribute by which you categorize "Americans" and, by extension, humanity as a whole. Most "normal Americans" don't share that peculiar leftist fixation.

If you have no history of racism - no racist writings, speeches, or even anecdotes from strangers about racist tendencies - leftist slimeballs like this theater critic will discover "coded speech" wherein his ears can hear the magic racist words unsaid.

A disgraceful article, now officially declaring Palin and her supporters "racist" with ABSOLUTELY no evidence to back up the claim.

Frank Rich is unrepentant serial rapist, by the way. It's obvious from the coded language in this poorly written screed.