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Conservative Think Tank scholar:Palin "not qualified to participate in discussion" of economy
Financial Times ^ | 10/8/2009 | FT

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.

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.

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:

“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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aei; ornstein; palin; rino
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To: Maverick68

Right you are


41 posted on 10/08/2009 8:17:24 AM PDT by Outlaw Woman (In Defense of Liberty.........Radicalism may be necessary.)
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To: Jack Black
The economy is in the toilet. A recession with no end in sight, Banking, Auto and manufacturing industries shaky, no energy independence... the "qualified" people are doing a fabulous job, right?

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?

42 posted on 10/08/2009 8:18:03 AM PDT by Moorings
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To: Jack Black

Ornstein is a beltway blowhard, with no ideology.


43 posted on 10/08/2009 8:18:21 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: Jack Black
“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.”

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.

44 posted on 10/08/2009 8:18:45 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: La Lydia

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.


45 posted on 10/08/2009 8:18:52 AM PDT by Jack Black
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To: SueRae

Being a “good ‘ol boy” from the mountains of East Tennessee, I take exception to your classifying this POS as a “good ‘ol boy”....


46 posted on 10/08/2009 8:19:10 AM PDT by Boonie
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To: Vanders9

IAC, see #29 above. The guy is a liberal and (probably) the kind of Jew who voted for Obama.


47 posted on 10/08/2009 8:19:22 AM PDT by RobbyS (ECCE HOMO!)
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To: Jack Black

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.


48 posted on 10/08/2009 8:19:38 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: Vanders9
And what qualifications, pray tell, are required? Anyone can have an opinion.

I think the deal now is that if you agree with me, you are, in fact, qualified. If you disagree with me, you're an unqualified dunderhead.

If you use really big words and quote lots of statistics, you are, in fact, qualfied.

If you are plain-spoken and present things in a simple, clear way that people can understand....you're a moron and certainly not qualified.

If you use lots of theoretical models and lots of charts and graphs to demonstrate your point, you might be qualfied.

If you utter the words "common sense" at any point, you're a "ditz".
49 posted on 10/08/2009 8:20:39 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: KarlInOhio

Bingo.


50 posted on 10/08/2009 8:20:57 AM PDT by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: Jack Black
Sarah is a political savant. That's what scares them. Go Sarah!!
51 posted on 10/08/2009 8:21:03 AM PDT by Art in Idaho
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To: Boonie

The kind of guy that Phil Silvers used to play: fast-talking and shifty-eyed.


52 posted on 10/08/2009 8:21:08 AM PDT by RobbyS (ECCE HOMO!)
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To: org.whodat

That should be a “formerly” conservative organization.


53 posted on 10/08/2009 8:23:34 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Jack Black
So Norman, why do you think Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Rangle and Reid have any better understanding of the dollar?

Perhaps because they spend so many of them for us?

54 posted on 10/08/2009 8:25:44 AM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Mad Dawg; Jack Black
He answered, and did so PROMPTLY and well:
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

55 posted on 10/08/2009 8:27:03 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin: pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Jack Black

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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.


56 posted on 10/08/2009 8:28:00 AM PDT by carjic (Laid off since Dec 08...HELP!)
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To: Mad Dawg

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?


57 posted on 10/08/2009 8:29:05 AM PDT by Art in Idaho
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To: Jack Black

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.


58 posted on 10/08/2009 8:29:42 AM PDT by pallis
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To: Jack Black
Conservative Think Tank scholar: Palin "not qualified to participate in discussion" of economy.

More qualified than John McCain or Barack Obama (with or without his teleprompter). Talk about three proven economic illiterates!

59 posted on 10/08/2009 8:30:35 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Jack Black
Norman Ornstein?? If that dweeb doesn't like Sarah Palin, she must be doing something right. His disapproval is a conservative compliment.
60 posted on 10/08/2009 8:36:08 AM PDT by GBA
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