Posted on 10/08/2009 7:55:15 AM PDT by Jack Black
In a full page article about the falling value of the Dollar in Financial Times the article notes that Sarah Palin posted a comment on her Facebook page on the issue.
The opening paragraphs of the article contained her quote:
The falling US dollar is giving ammunition to the critics of the Obama administration and fuelling broader concerns about the potential erosion of America’s reserve currency status.So far so good, but then we move to the expert analysis and Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, a supposedly conservative think-tank drops this nicely executed character assassination of Palin:Republican politicians have highlighted the dollar’s slide as evidence of waning US power.
Sarah Palin, the former vice-presidential Republican candidate, on Wednesday sought to link the dollar decline to rising US indebtedness and dependence on foreign oil. “We can see the effect of this in the price of gold, which hit a record high today in response to fears about the weakened dollar,” she wrote on her Facebook page.
“The dollar has always been a testosterone issue among America’s political classes,” said Norm Ornstein, a veteran analyst at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.“This time there may be a legitimate debate to be had over the dollar’s reserve status, but Sarah Palin is not qualified to participate in it.”
While the article on the dollar in interesting I find Ornstein's comments far more interesting. Palin is really threatening, not just to Obama, Democrats and liberals, but to the entire East Coast establishment.
So here we have a nominal conservative institute 'scholar' going out of his way to tear down one of the leading Conservative figures in America. Why? Perhaps Norman and his fellow travelers understand how truely useless they are to Palin.
Her baptism by fire in the 2008 election seems to have produced a much needed scepticism on her part of the inside-the-beltway experts, right and left.
Right you are
I think I will listen to the "unqualified" person, for fresh ideas and some action. The qualified folks are too busy lining their own pockets. Who's looking out for Main street, U.S.A?
Ornstein is a beltway blowhard, with no ideology.
I do not have a problem with his opinion as long as he also believes that neither 0bama, Biden, McCain, nor Bush are qualified to participate in the debate.
Yes. I actually was going for the “activism” side! Putting a little wake call into these people that Sarah is one of us and can’t be batted about seems fun.
Being a “good ‘ol boy” from the mountains of East Tennessee, I take exception to your classifying this POS as a “good ‘ol boy”....
IAC, see #29 above. The guy is a liberal and (probably) the kind of Jew who voted for Obama.
Looking at this from a realpolitikal view, I think this is an internal power struggle in the GOP. Palin is not part of the party insider structure, and also is a good chance to be the 2012 candidate. All the marginalizations printed will be of course supported by PravdaUS, which wants to remove her from the equation for its own reasons.
Bingo.
The kind of guy that Phil Silvers used to play: fast-talking and shifty-eyed.
That should be a “formerly” conservative organization.
Perhaps because they spend so many of them for us?
Mr. [Dawg], it was a snide remark and I regret making it. I could say it was taken out of context, but it was still unnecessary. Thanks for writing, Norman Ornstein
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Norman Ornstein.Norman J. Ornstein is a political scientist and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative-leaning Washington D.C. thinktank (though Ornstein is generally considered to be a liberal). Ornstein was born in 1948 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.[1] Ornstein is married to Judith L. Harris, a prominent regulation litigation lawyer. He studies American politics and is a frequent contributor to The Washington Post and many magazines. He has written a weekly column in Roll Call since 1993. His greatest political influence may have come in writing substantial portions of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, also known as the “McCain-Feingold” campaign finance bill passed in 2002. [1]. He is currently co-director, along with Thomas Mann, of the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project.
Ornstein received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1974.
Great letter Mad Dawg! It’s the elitist we know better than thou that’s got us into the socialist mess we’re in.
Even the Health Care thing, Has anyone asked What’s Government got to do with it? Really, what would the Founders say?
Sarah has the right principles, and she is smart enough to surround herself with wise counsel. Weenies like Norman Ornstein don’t have the scruples to participate in principled leadership. Any geek can crunch numbers and quote economic theory. The trick is finding one who is right. Sarah will do that.
More qualified than John McCain or Barack Obama (with or without his teleprompter). Talk about three proven economic illiterates!
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