Posted on 02/11/2010 5:36:59 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
(CNN) -- Sarah Palin's most ardent supporters in "real America" love to suggest that those of us who don't buy into her shtick fail to grasp why they love her, citing her realness, plain-spokenness and whatever else they can conjure up.
Folks, nice try, but as a native Texan, I've seen many politicians and wannabes over the years who had charm, wit, charisma and a twinkle in their eye.
Anyone who has listened to the best football coaches the Lone Star State has to offer will tell you that they can persuade a mother and father to send their boy to hell to fetch a glass of ice water and bring him home a better man. They could teach a politician or two how to connect with average Americans.
You want a media darling politician with substance? Try the late Gov. Ann Richards, a woman who could cut you deep and beam ear-to-ear with her motherly smile. But unlike Palin, she had a host of strong ideas in her head that actually made sense and appealed to a cross-section of folks.
Former Rep. Charlie Wilson, who died this week, was a smooth-talking Texan who loved to party hard. But when it came to politics, he knew how to get things done. The media loved him because he could sit with you and enjoy a beer over barbecue, give them a hilarious quote or two, and explain foreign policy better than Henry Kissinger.
Why haven't I cottoned to Palin? Because she portrays herself as a straight-talking politician who wants to lead a movement in the "Lower 48th" -- but is nothing more than a political celebrity willing to cash every check she can grab.
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...from the party that EPITOMIZES ‘hypocracy’...
CNN pays this putz?
What does that make you, Roland?
Has she actually said this?
Or is this part of Roland Martin's laugh-in?
I think she is a wonderful conservative but far to light weight for prime time.
Who the hell is Roland Martin? What a crock this article is! The Libs keep saying Sarah is a loser and yet they continue to obsess about her.
I have no idea why you posted this....
Sorry Roland, no matter how much you cry, Sarah’s cojones will always be bigger than yours.
I love how he put real America in quotations. Maybe Sarah should go “gangsta”, Roland.
This is the same sort of straw man Obama utilizes when he says..."some folks say"...except that NO folks say what he then goes on to claim.
Whatever attraction Palin has is related to her adherence to the Constitution. That, of course, is a document that progressives are unfamiliar with...but it's what the nation is supposedly based upon.
Former Rep. Charlie Wilson, who died this week, was a smooth-talking Texan who loved to party hard. But when it came to politics, he knew how to get things done. The media loved him because he could sit with you and enjoy a beer over barbecue, give them a hilarious quote or two, and explain foreign policy better than Henry Kissinger.
Please someone tell me what did Charlie Wilson do?
Where are all the anti-Palin freepers?
CNN is their buddies!
lolololololol : http://www.rolandsmartin.com/
Little Rollie sounds like he’s suffering from a bad case of PDS. This is two nights in a row of Palin bashing from this little CNN girlyman. He’s probably just working on his ratings.
Ann Richards and strong ideas???Yeah, name one.
Geez, for a moment I thought Molly Ivans had come back to life.
What is Palin’s position on employer sanctions and criminal penalties in regards to employers that hire hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens?
Holy Geez! He looks like bug! I’m so sick of all this Obama worship, it’s obscence.
That hack witch can't possibly be "late" enough.
I don’t think of them as freepers but as trolls.
Anti-Sarah is Anti-Conservatism.
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