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 ...
Favre? Another reductio absurdum argument?
Come on, you’ll be moaning about Romney the RINO and Romney the aborter if he wins the nomination.
I bet she would produce Her COLB
“Leaving the office in the run up to an election is also not quitting. If I am a Governor who is running for President, then it is ok for them to leave office, within reason. If I leave the Governorship 4 years before a general election so I can run for President, then that is stretching the bounds of reason.”
That’s incorrect. The unofficial campaigns have already started...see Mitt’s organization, reference Palin’s multitude of speeches regarding national issues.
“She only had a year or two left on her term. Why not just ride it out and say she is not running for reelection? It would not have effected her run for the Presidency at all.”
You’re showing your lack of political knowledge here. It’s really an ignorant comment.
Look, we’ll never know so all we can do is speculate. I like a lot of what Bush did, but I also think he missed some opportunities, like better protection of our borders.
“Romney IS a RINO, which is why I wont vote for him, and if either he or Palin win the nom, then you can say hello to 4 more years of Obama.”
So you rule Palin out with Romney. So you obviously have another person you thnk that is both a conservative and has the credibility to beat Obama.
Who is it?
he whistles because he has a pea brain that rolls around in his mt head when he reads aloud
OMG post of the day
You didn’t answer the question...who is it?
If you think Sarah Palin is not qualified to be President, than that also leaves out, Romney, Huckabee, Pawlenty, Pence, Thune, and all the other second and third tier wannabies.
Wasn’t much in Lincoln’s background that made him qualified to be President especially with no real Military background.
Yet, he was the only one who could and did see us through the Civil War and saved the Union.
Oh Johnny your so funny
We’ll live to see her deplane from AF1 as our Madame President!
“But I would like to see more of what she could do in a capacity such as a senator.”
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Being a senator is possibly the WORST background for president! Traditionally it has been nearly impossible to go from sitting senator to president. Of course this last time both major candidates were sitting senators so the rule didn’t apply. I don’t know offhand of a single person who went from the senate to the presidency and became a great president.
Listen Paul Ryan reminds me of Kasich back when he balanced the budget, a great budget wonk, one of the smartest guys on the GOP bench.
But he’s taken himself out of the race. If you’re a purist, there are plenty of 1-3% vote getters out there but you won’t be relevant to the election.
There’s hope and then there is reality.
Pretty much the CORE issue with all Liberals who attack her.
AMEN!
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