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.
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Amen.
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.
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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.
And you can't resist whining about people being nasty to you about the ad naseum drivel you post. Cry me a river.
Steve Forbes would have done a WAY better job than GWB, but, unfortunately, people don’t vote for a “homely” guy. Our loss.
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.
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.
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.
Especially if the armchair is bought and paid for by the 'Big R' Republicans.
And you guys just can't resist ignoring the well-documented facts surrounding her last months in office and her resignation, can you?
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?
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.
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.
You’re breaking my heart AIT. I love your other stuff.
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.
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 Palins 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.
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.
You’d prefer a RINO like Romney.
Embrace your beliefs.
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