Posted on 04/19/2010 5:52:15 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Sarah Palin, 55 percent unfavorable poll ratings notwithstanding, is a political phenomenon the likes of which American public life rarely has seen. There's something distinctive, something deeply personal, about the way her legions of strong supporters rush not just to defend her but to counter-attack any and all of her critics. Palin has a way of establishing a sense of connectedness with her backers -- such a strong, attitudinal sense that she is not just like them but one of them -- that she has created what amounts to a one-woman, conservative "identity politics" writ very, very large.
Yet if conservatives are to continue a political love affair with this admirable and galvanizing woman, we need to insist on more than mere identity. And more than mere attitude.
We know that Sarah Palin shares our conservative values. But is she the leader conservatives need?
IN HER RECENTLY RELEASED memoir, Going Rogue, Palin tells a story about how she approached the first state budget she handled as governor. It sounds like something right out of the 1993 Kevin Kline movie, Dave, except that Palin's tale is fact instead of fiction.
We worked late into the night with the warm midnight sun still pouring through my office windows....Pens in hand, we combed through the budget, line by line, page by page -- my inner nerd coming out again, just like Wasilla City Council days....I had to know what was in there, or I wasn't doing my job. We spent days trying to decipher who put in what and why. Late one night, I looked up from the table and asked our veteran staffers, "What did past governors do? How did they get through these budgets with so little detail?" "They didn't," was the response.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
You are right. Conservatives can be their own worst enemies.
Complete and utter BS and you know it.
Get back to me when these guys actually draw the crowds that Sarah Palin drew Friday night in Louisville, and is expected to draw in Wilkesboro.
we all know that anything or anyone can be cast in a derogatory light no matter who, what, when, where ...
IE Jesus Christ.
The Liberal/progressives have demeaning, ugly things to say in regard to anyone not in agreement with them.
They can and do smear, lie, twist, and imagine every sort of slanderous response to imagined possibilities as if they were truth.
very condescendingly.
Such is the medias today.
PAY NO ATTENTION TO THIS ARTICLE
The Problem With Palin
By Quin Hillyer
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THIS WRITER'S MENTALITY,OR HIS HISTORY, OR HIS POLITICAL SLANT? WE KNOW HE IS A PERSON WITHOUT INTEGRITY ...
God help us in our day, in the precious name of Jesus, amen.
EPA, Interior, or DOE.
And THAT is why the Rats have been running circles around the GOP in recent elections and we now have Obama in the White House.
So your dumbass would have stayed working as governor for $125k per year while incurring millions of dollars in legal debts until irretrievably bankrupt, instead of what she did in looking out for her family by going out into the marketplace, earning $12 million and turning a full frontal assault on the enemies that tried to destroy her and her family? Palin made the perfect decision.
If the electorate can ignore the past of a man who transparently hates American, well, that doesn’t seem too daunting...
I read the whole thing and thought it not so unreasonable. The author seems to think that Sarah will be adequately experienced and seasoned by 2024 or 2016
The last lines:
The problem with Palin is that she's not ready for the presidency. The promise of Palin is that she has plenty of time to prepare
The problem is, the country can't wait that long; if indeed we can wait until 2012.
Seriously? The vice presidential candidate from 2008 that ignited crowds across the country just needed about 16 more years of seasoning before she’ll be ready for another run? By 2024, she should be good to go?
Reagan had three decades of experience on her. But you are correct as far as it goes.
Trash like this article is an embarrassment here.
Palin does not have 55% disapproval, as TV ratings on all the programs on which she appears demonstrate quite well.
America has already chosen her as our next president, and that is what has the Status Quo harpies shedding feathers.
The only ‘problem’ with Palin is that she is not yet in the oval office. (but she will be in 2013)
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“Odd how every one of these Palin hit pieces involves the author telling us what they personally feel about Palin, not any reasoned argument against her.”
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Not really odd at all when you consider that feelings are all they have to work with; the facts are all on Palin’s side.
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GOOD POST! I second your opinion!
I will admit that Palin’s followers worship her. And, that is a powerful benefit in any election. No one will get more out of her supporters than she. However, despite her zealous support, her supporters are clearly outnumbered by those who do not support her.
All I can say is good thing Ronald Reagan didn’t run for office in this media age. He never would have gotten elected as he would have been “Quayled” or “Palined” right out of the gate. That’s because people are too willing to be spoon-fed what the media tells them rather than do any independent thinking on their own.
“Oprah, Jennifer Anniston, Lady GaGa, Beyonce, Tom Cruise and several other “celebrities” can draw crowds. None has any chance of being President.”
Thanks for the great example of reductio aburdum fallacy.
I’m not talking about Congressional elections. In the last 30 years there have been 8 Presidential elections. We won 5 and the Dems won 3. I don’t see that as running rings around us. Anyway, my point was and is that two and a half years in advance is way to early to rule any candidate in or out. If there ever was a case of peaking too early, I am afraid Sarah Palin may be a prime example. Of course she may not even have any intention of running in 2012. No way for you or me to know.
I appreciate that her presence on the public stage has made EVERYONE’S true colors come out—not just the “liberals’.”
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