Posted on 11/19/2009 12:13:57 PM PST by steve-b
The 19th century American writer Henry Adams said the descent of American presidents from George Washington to Ulysses S. Grant was enough to discredit the theory of evolution. The same could be said of the pantheon of conservative political heroes, which in the last half-century has gone from Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan to Sarah Palin. That refutation may be agreeable to Palin, who doesn't put much stock in Darwin anyway.
You can confirm all this by looking at what the three wrote. Goldwater, the 1964 Republican presidential nominee, made his reputation four years earlier with an eloquent and intellectually coherent volume, "The Conscience of a Conservative," which laid out a blueprint for the policies he favored.
Reagan likewise made the thinking person's case for conservatism. Between 1975 and 1979, after he had finished two terms as governor of California, he did some 1,000 radio commentaries, most of which he wrote himself. They were later collected in "Reagan, In His Own Hand," which provides the texts of his handwritten manuscripts and proves that, far from being the "amiable dunce" of liberal mythology, he thought hard and clearly about the issues of his time.
Palin? Her new memoir, "Going Rogue," fills up 413 pages, but it has less policy heft than a student council speech. Where Reagan dived into the murk of arms control and Goldwater fathomed federal farm programs, Palin skims over the surface of a puddle....
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
But please, keep up the diversion. Its what you do best.
BREAKING NEWS: Chicago-based newspaper doesn’t like Sarah Palin.
Is he talking about Palin or Obama?
It's not intended to - this is Hillary starting her next presidential run.
Kinda sounds like Obama's two books doesn't it?
I know you didn’t forget to tag this crap with a barf alert.
Blah, blah, blah....
If Palin runs, she WILL be the next REAL President of the United States.
Oh.... and Huckafraud doesn’t have a snowballs chance in hell.
Best,
Chris
Quick name me one other politician on the national scene that you would invite to Thanksgiving Dinner.
None that I know of.
Quick name me one other politician on the national scene that has been in politics for 20 years and has to write a book to pay his/her books.
None that I know of. Hell most are millionaires.
That makes her honest and trustworthy in my book.
Having not received my copy of Palin’s book yet, I still believe that I’d prefer anything in it to anything ghost-written by Bill Ayers, or ANYONE from Chicago. I swear that I’m getting to where I hate the very word ‘Chicago.’
What RINOS don’t see is that we are not in ‘business as usual’ times. We are in extraordinary times and placating democrats and meeting them halfway is like walking the plank halfway... It makes no sense except to those who refuse to recognize the danger of our situation.
Do not let Mark Levin read this, he would say that “conservatism is rising!”
“Reagan likewise made the thinking person’s case for conservatism”
That aint what the press was saying at the time though...
LOL! Goldwater and Reagan were demonized by the Left when they were active, exactly as Palin is now.
That's their big scoop?
Really?
Whenever many on the left bash Palin they always compare her unfavorably to Reagan so their criticisms won’t be dismissed as a partisan attack. But I don’t remember any of the Steve Chapman’s of Reagan’s day ever saying his policy writings had great intellectual depth. They attacked him the same way they attack Sarah today.
Truthfully, why should Palin talk farm policy when our country in on the brink of a socialist takeover? She is using her megaphone to save what matters most.
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