Posted on 02/11/2010 7:39:54 AM PST by pillut48
"I want to speak up for the American people and say: No, we really do have some good common-sense solutions. I can be a messenger for that. Don't have to have a title to do it."
This is a pitch-perfect recital of the populist message that has worked in campaigns past. 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.
But in the present mood of the country, Palin is by all odds a threat to the more uptight Republican aspirants such as Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty -- and potentially, to Obama as well.
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ZERO definitely has a brain shortage.
Begining countdown for the antiplain crowd to chime in....
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Or the anti-palin crowd afterwards...
(fatfinger)
Yeah...I'm looking for an Obama with eloquence and brains too...haven't found one yet though...just the clown we have in office.
0 is eloquent to the extent that he reads reasonably well from a teleprompter. Other than that, he’s a sock puppet.
This is simply a warning by leftard media fossil Broder for all of his compatriots in the left/media hive to go after Palin even more relentlessly to remove her as a threat to their love object in the White House
Eloquence and “brains” -as defined by the Washington Post have sold this country down the road...ya notice Broder could’nt even bring himself to mention Reagan...
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.
Reagan was elected Governor of California twice, a very diverse state, so obviously that showed he could connect with enough people who didn’t fit the tradition Republican supporter. I just can’t see Sarah appealing outside of that demographic at all. Fair or unfair that’s just how I see it.
Even President Bush appealed to enough people outside of the traditional Republican base to get elected, especially amongst socially conservative latinos and blacks. But I’ve heard many of those very same latinos express their intense dislike of Palin.
And I don’t see Palin as being particularly good at reaching out to those people. She does fine within her own element, but it’s going to take a lot more than that for her to even come close to winning the nomination, much less POTUS.
And David Broder displays his pitch-perfect, tin-earred, Beltway elitism.
or an Obama, with eloquence and brains.
And he's still drinking gallons and gallon of that over-sweetened Kool Aid on a daily basis.
She "connects" when placed in a question and answer format because, unlike Obama and other liberals, she actually can answer a question in a definitive way. No cryptic wording, no meandering rhetorically to a non-answer, no obscuring her ideology, no pretzel logic-she answers concisely, succinctly and completely any question put to her.
This seperates her from the (liberal) pack, and comes across as real and genuine-because it is. This quality makes her perfect at a time when Americans are feeling a bit duped by "slick" politicians who have to constantly obscure who they really are.
I think she's the next President.
We need to put a little pressure on the news outlets to refer to Sarah as a "common-sense Conservative" which, I believe, is how she refers to herself.
The media needs to learn that CONSERVATIVE is not a four-letter word. Marx, on the other hand, is definitely a four-letter word. (So is Karl.)
Gee, for an hour there, listening to her on Saturday night at the Tea Party COnvention, I forgot she was Alaskan. /s
She’s President No. 45, and she is 46 years old today.
She will be celebrating her 49th birthday in the White House.
Can’t wait.
Yep, so much so you almost forget he's black. According to Chrissy anyways...lol!
MC at the Apollo Theater in the Buddy Holly movie.
In contrast, a RINO (Romney-Huskster-Pawlenty) loses the middle independents.
Blacks will continue to vote 90% for the socialist slave party.
See my tagline.
I have been engaging a freeper in another thread who is of the opinion that Sarah Palin is a populist who has “done damage to her intellectual reputation” by being populist.
In particular, the user was concerned with the way she came across to independents on the “interview programs”
I don’t see why using populist rhetoric is inherently bad. By all accounts, she backs up her rhetoric by taking concrete stands on most subjects and not falling into rhetoric that must be parsed out.
I have watched most interviews she has done (including Couric, Gibson and Walters, though why she would even agree to those of her own free will, I don’t know) and I think she comes across fine.
If anyone wants to see how Sarah Palin comes across when the dumbass interviewer isn’t openly hostile, see a part of her 45 minute interview here at http://www.howobamagotelected.com/sarah-palin-unplugged-on-the-media.asp
There is a difference between being non-hostile and throwing softballs.
I think and pray that you are right.
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