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The Problem With Palin
American Spectator ^ | April 19, 2010 | Quin Hillyer

Posted on 04/19/2010 5:52:15 AM PDT by reaganaut1

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To: editor-surveyor
America has A few FReepers have already chosen her as our next president...

Fixed

201 posted on 04/19/2010 9:15:03 AM PDT by EveningStar (Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
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To: editor-surveyor
The only ‘problem’ with Palin is that she is not yet in the oval office. (but she will be in 2013)

Amen.

MM (in TX)

202 posted on 04/19/2010 9:15:33 AM PDT by MississippiMan (http://gogmagogblog.wordpress.com/)
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To: editor-surveyor; All

In the end, it will be a choice of Sarah Palin, the Great Restorer, or Barack Obama, The Great Destroyer. Not clear as to how reaganaut and Steve b and rabscuttle figure on a majority choosing our obvious destruction.


203 posted on 04/19/2010 9:15:58 AM PDT by johncocktoasten (Practicing asymetrical thread warfare against anti-Palin Trolls)
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To: rbmillerjr
Proving you know nothing about politics...

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Educate me then oh wise one...start by naming all those successful presidential candidates who had a history of quitting their elected positions mid-term because things got too tough. I'll wait.

204 posted on 04/19/2010 9:16:28 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: wtc911
You guys just can't resist being snide, can you?

And you can't resist whining about people being nasty to you about the ad naseum drivel you post. Cry me a river.

205 posted on 04/19/2010 9:17:24 AM PDT by Al B.
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To: xzins

Steve Forbes would have done a WAY better job than GWB, but, unfortunately, people don’t vote for a “homely” guy. Our loss.


206 posted on 04/19/2010 9:17:39 AM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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To: EveningStar
Try actually reading the article. If you look, rather then react based on your personal feelings about Palin, you will see how carefully crafted this hit piece is.

And it is a total hit piece. The heart of this article is not the fluff you quoted from the very end, the crap the author threw in to give himself a false gloss of intellectual credibility, it is the fraudulent accusations made at the very beginning.

Slander, lie, mislead distort, say something nice about the target at the end to "prove your objectivity" is the standard template for these sort of Media political hit pieces.

From the Article

The first two general-fund budgets for which she was responsible showed spending hikes of 16.4 percent (from fiscal year 2007 to '08) and a mind-boggling 21.8 percent the next year. Total government expenditures (a slightly different measure) grew 38.6 percent in those two years combined.

However when you bother to do some research rather then merely accept the intellectual honesty of the author because he is telling you what you want to hear, you learn something interesting.

The "source" for those numbers is a Huff Po Leftist who admits in his original article he simply made a guess since the state of Alaska has a number of different budgets.

So once again the Palin haters simply made up the data to validate their feelings.

207 posted on 04/19/2010 9:18:53 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other peoples money. Lady Thatcher)
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To: wtc911

Your question’s premise is of course a fallacy, since the answer wouldn’t exclude a person from winning.

Get a brain. You’re just a hater, you aren’t fooling anybody.


208 posted on 04/19/2010 9:19:27 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (Let hot tar wash their throats and may it flow freely.)
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To: rbmillerjr
She opened up her own business.

Get over it lol.

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There's a winning argument...She quit an elected position to open her own business.

Get over it? Tell that to the 12-15 million independent voters that she'll need to come close to winning.

Nope, not gonna happen.

209 posted on 04/19/2010 9:20:04 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: sarah fan UK
Matyrrdom looks great from the comfort of someone else’s armchair.

Especially if the armchair is bought and paid for by the 'Big R' Republicans.

210 posted on 04/19/2010 9:20:22 AM PDT by Al B.
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To: wtc911
You guys just can't resist being snide, can you?

And you guys just can't resist ignoring the well-documented facts surrounding her last months in office and her resignation, can you?

211 posted on 04/19/2010 9:20:32 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: EveningStar

You are STILL fooled by the tactic of “praising” the person inside your hit piece? Try using your own method and put together all the NEGATIVE comments. See if that sounds like a hit piece? Which one is larger eh?


212 posted on 04/19/2010 9:21:22 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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To: wtc911

You’re too stupid to understand politics.

Anybody who thinks that is a good argument, is highly principled, yet doesn’t understand the reality of politics.


213 posted on 04/19/2010 9:23:18 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (Let hot tar wash their throats and may it flow freely.)
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To: reaganaut1

I hope Palin runs, but she won’t get the nomination. The primary process is the same and the GOP will make sure she doesn’t get the nod.

All the rest is just a waste of time.


214 posted on 04/19/2010 9:26:02 AM PDT by dforest
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To: wtc911
I agree with you. Once she quit as Governor it was over for me.

I dont want a quitter as a President.

JM
215 posted on 04/19/2010 9:26:10 AM PDT by JohnnyM
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To: AmericanInTokyo

You’re breaking my heart AIT. I love your other stuff.


216 posted on 04/19/2010 9:26:57 AM PDT by rae4palin (RESIST--REPEAL--IMPEACH)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Sarah Palin does not know with any certainty at all what she will be doing two and a half years from now any more than I know what I’ll be doing then. Wishful thinking won’t make it so, but it can cloud the wisher’s thinking.


217 posted on 04/19/2010 9:28:39 AM PDT by csmusaret (If it sounds like Marx and acts like Stalin, it must be Obama!)
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To: MBB1984
Actually try making a rational case for your views on Palin then instead of engaging in the logical fallacy of stating your opinion as fact. For example:

Oprah, Jennifer Anniston, Lady GaGa, Beyonce, Tom Cruise and several other “celebrities” can draw crowds. None has any chance of being President.

I will admit that Palin’s followers worship her.

However, despite her zealous support, her supporters are clearly outnumbered by those who do not support her.

These statements above from your post are in the style common to Leftist attack style politics. Conservative are naturally contemptuous of those who engage in such emotion drive debate tactics

So far all you Palin haters do is tell us how you feel about her. The statements above are not based on any facts, they merely are statements of how you feel about her.

Feelings are not facts, you Palin haters really should learn the difference.

218 posted on 04/19/2010 9:28:43 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other peoples money. Lady Thatcher)
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To: JohnnyM

I’d rather vote for a quitter who had the best interests of her constituents and budget in mind than someone who stays in office, wastes the taxpayers money on frivolous lawsuits and is so tied down with them, can’t do the job she was elected to do.


219 posted on 04/19/2010 9:28:51 AM PDT by rintense
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To: JohnnyM

You’d prefer a RINO like Romney.

Embrace your beliefs.


220 posted on 04/19/2010 9:30:13 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (Let hot tar wash their throats and may it flow freely.)
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