"Palin is by all odds a threat to the more uptight
Republican aspirants like Mitt Romney ...."
Posted on 02/10/2010 6:28:46 PM PST by Al B.
Washington » The snows that obliterated Washington last week interfered with many scheduled meetings, but they did not prevent the delivery of one important political message: Take Sarah Palin seriously.
Her lengthy Saturday night keynote address to the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville and her debut on the Sunday morning talk show circuit with Fox News' Chris Wallace showed off a public figure at the top of her game -- a politician who knows who she is and how to sell herself.
This was not the first time that Palin has impressed me. I gave her high marks for her vice presidential acceptance speech in St. Paul. But then, and always throughout that campaign, she was laboring to do more than establish her own place. She was selling a ticket headed by John McCain against formidable Democratic opposition and burdened by the legacy of the Bush administration.
Blessed with an enthusiastic audience of conservative activists, Palin used the Tea Party gathering and coverage on the cable networks to display the full repertoire she possesses, touching on national security, economics, fiscal and social policy and every other area where she could draw a contrast with Barack Obama and point up what Republicans see as vulnerabilities in Washington.
Her invocation of "conservative principles and common-sense solutions" was perfectly conventional. What stood out in the eyes of TV-watching pols of both parties was the skill with which she drew a self-portrait that fit not just the wishes of the immediate audience, but the mood of a significant slice of the broader electorate.
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Those who want to stop her will need more ammunition than deriding her habit of writing on her hand. The lady is good.
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Blind sow finds acorn...
The libs must really be worried about her. She is dominating their brains.
Republicans taking advice from Broder is like taking dating tips from Charlie Manson.
I was stunned when I saw it. Hell (DC) done froze over. :)
This wasn’t directed at Republicans. It was intended for that dolt Gibbs and those like him who attempt to minimize Gov. Palin.
She is the most natural politician I’ve seen since Ronald Reagan. What’s scary (at least to liberals) is that she continues to get better.
:-)
"Palin is by all odds a threat to the more uptight
Republican aspirants like Mitt Romney ...."
Particularly interesting because of the newspaper in which it was written - not exactly Palin country. Only one comment and it was negative, as I suspected it would be.
Agreed. I’ve racked my brain trying to figure out why libs have such unmitigated contempt for Sarah. I think a great deal of that hatred is based on simple envy. Most Democratic women are ugly slobs and simply can’t abide a lithe, beautiful, and accomplished woman in a position of power. The Democratic men only wish they could secure the hand of such a woman. In short, Democrats hate most the people and things they envy most. They hate what they envy.
Actually, if you read it, all he says is that she is pretending to be a populist, and then he gives a long list of pretend populists, such as Huckabee and Jimmy Carter. No, she’s a REAL populist.
Also, he suggests that the best politicians have something more: “There are times when the American people are looking for something more: for an Eisenhower, who liberated Europe; an FDR or a Kennedy or a Bush, all unashamed aristocrats; or an Obama, with eloquence and brains.”
In other words, Obama is the most qualified of them all, better than Eisenhower or FDR or Kennedy or Bush.
Eloquence and brains. Funny, I haven’t noticed either one. Or experience. Or anything else that would qualify him to run a lemonade stand.
I hope she keeps studying politics, economics, history and world affairs. But one serious mistake in a big forum (Presidential debate?) would end the entire opportunity.
EXACTLY!!!!
Not a difficult feat. Spine stumps don't generate much power.
Whoops - thanks!
Arrogance and an air of pseudointellectualism seems to be a more apt description.
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