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Sarah Palin displays her pitch-perfect populism
WAPO ^ | Thursday, February 11, 2010 | David Broder

Posted on 02/11/2010 7:39:54 AM PST by pillut48

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To: Paradox
Obama is undoubtedly smart, but he is not nearly as smart as his followers believe him to be.

Nobody is as smart as his followers believe him to be.
41 posted on 02/11/2010 8:54:46 AM PST by heysean
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To: Michael Barnes
re: get rid of the Electoral College

You can bet your bottom dollar we're going to hear a steady drumbeat for that action. I expect it will rise to fever pitch as the 2012 contest approaches. Very few voters understand it or appreciate its beauty even in the best of times. As Obama and the Dems begin to suck hind teat it's the uproar is going to be deafening. Get ready, I don't think there's any way to avoid it.

42 posted on 02/11/2010 8:55:33 AM PST by jwparkerjr
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To: newfreep
re: See my tagline

Ollie North for Sec. of Def.!

43 posted on 02/11/2010 8:56:42 AM PST by jwparkerjr
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To: pillut48
"Eloquent" is Broder's description.

On another thread today, a poster describes it as "hollow rhetoric"--a more apt description?

44 posted on 02/11/2010 8:58:32 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: dfwgator

I just cannot see Palin getting nearly enough of the black and latino vote to win. And I question whether she could have won an election as Governor in any state but Alaska, given their demographics.


I have an idea for the GOP that addresses this: Let’s have PRIMARIES!


45 posted on 02/11/2010 9:03:44 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed ("Personal freedom begins when you tell Old Mrs. Grundy to go to Hell." -Lazarus Long)
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To: pillut48

TODAY is Sarah’s Birthday!! Wish her a happy one here:~

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2448697/posts


46 posted on 02/11/2010 9:04:20 AM PST by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 -Happy B'day Daddy 2/20/23)
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To: Paradox

I do not find him the least bit smar; he’s smug, an egomaniac, a racist, a liar, a fraud..and more, but smart, not at all.


47 posted on 02/11/2010 9:07:21 AM PST by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 -Happy B'day Daddy 2/20/23)
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To: tina07

‘the least bit SMART’..that is


48 posted on 02/11/2010 9:08:36 AM PST by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 -Happy B'day Daddy 2/20/23)
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To: pillut48

Is Broder smitten?


49 posted on 02/11/2010 9:20:08 AM PST by sportutegrl (VETO PROOF MAJORITY IN 2010)
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To: newfreep

Not altogether comfortable yet with DeMint. Paul Ryan’s at least as bright and twice as earnest.


50 posted on 02/11/2010 9:36:54 AM PST by Mach9 (.)
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To: CincyRichieRich
Wait until Col Allen West gets out there. He is a fabulous dynamic speaker!

Hey and I never thought a bunch of gay Hilliary supporters from Chicago would love Sarah, but they do!!! see www.hillbuzz.org

51 posted on 02/11/2010 9:38:16 AM PST by MadelineZapeezda (Promoted by God to be a mother!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...................Thanks, Susan!)
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To: rlmorel

She’s populist without being classist.


52 posted on 02/11/2010 9:39:02 AM PST by Mach9 (.)
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To: Mach9

Well, she has the bones to accurately maintain she wasn’t born with a silver spoon in her mouth like the Kennedys...

So at least she has some experience as a common person.


53 posted on 02/11/2010 9:51:36 AM PST by rlmorel (We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
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To: bray
He’s as elegant and brainy as the Press Corpse.

And apparently Obama mispronounced that word something like 10 months ago and still no one around him knew enough to correct him...or they did and he's the world's slowest learner.

54 posted on 02/11/2010 11:48:19 AM PST by highlander_UW (Obama has lost or not saved over 4 million jobs!)
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To: highlander_UW

Oh, but the man is BRILLIANT. To say otherwise, of course, is “racist”.

When talking to liberals, make sure to do the “tennis head” move every few words in order to emphasize what they think is “brilliant”.


55 posted on 02/11/2010 11:52:24 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: dfwgator

The way I am looking at things right now, I think the nomination will likely come down to a battle royale between Palin and Romney. While I can see where you’re coming from on some of this, if you’re correct and Palin can’t reach out to blacks, latinos, etc., Romney sure as hell isn’t going to either.

(By the way, I’m not implying that you have any predilection towards Romney and I don’t think you do anyway).

Also, you have to remember that Reagan last ran for Governor of CA in 1970. CA in ‘70 was quite different then than it is now. For one thing, CA tended to vote Republican much more frequently then as opposed to now. So I’m not entirely sure that’s a valid comparison.

But other than that...how’s life?


56 posted on 02/11/2010 1:22:29 PM PST by GOP_Raider (<----Click over there for a special message from GOP_Raider)
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To: dfwgator

If you are looking for Sarah’s appeal to minorities,
her husband is one. An Inuit native.

Sarah is drawing large energized crowds from New York to Calif.
More than any of the WanaBies could do.

Thousands were out overnight in freezing weather for Sarah’s book signing.
You wouldn’t see the for Mitt, Huck or the other back benchers.


57 posted on 02/11/2010 3:30:41 PM PST by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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To: highlander_UW

Funny part is I’ve been using WH Press Corpse for years and Rush has been using it for about 6 mos.

Pray for America’s Freedom


58 posted on 02/11/2010 3:46:17 PM PST by bray (Throw All the Bums Out, starting with McCain)
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To: Loyal Buckeye

LOL!


59 posted on 02/11/2010 3:52:31 PM PST by comps4spice (Obama = Going a long way in making Jimmy Carter look competent.)
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To: pillut48
perfect pitch populism

They make it sound like schtick. maybe it's because it's what Americans want in a representative.

60 posted on 02/11/2010 4:36:33 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (governance is not sovereignty [paraphrasing Bishop Fulton Sheen].)
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