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 ...
Onyx,
The guy is inestimable in spite of his lengthy Wikipedia article. So much bandwidth for so little done.
Sara Palin can’t be quantitatively compared to this guy. The gap is too great. Yet he sniffs and tut tuts about her. LOL. Born on third. Thinks he hit a triple.
Didn’t do well with reading comprehension at Newman School in spite of rich daddy plunking down the tuition (which is now 19k per year for a day school)
SP is not perfect, but she is the best by far we have now and she like anyone else needs supporters given the MSM abuse she takes.
the combination of Sarah/Newt/Mitt/Huck does not exist.
DeMint maybe
She has excellent character, integrity, spine of steel, and conservative values, good public speaker, common sense, personable. She is filling in the policy details as time goes on. We can’t wait for 2016. Get deMint to run
but I am not sure he has but 3 or 4 of above traits.
She knows in the middle of a deep recession with high energy prices you dont stall on drilling. The Wise and Anointed One John McCain what a doofus even he didnt know that. Ivy League idiots.
Thanks. But I was just following up on your excellent post 16, providing a little local color on the “author”.
Okay, having finally at least skimmed the entire article, I suggest that the biggest problem with Sarah Palin is that she inspires Quin Hillyer to write.
Dont want a quitter as President huh?
So you’d rather have a Marxist? Will you vote for SP if nominated?
Those “FReepers” and R’s who wont vote for SP are QUITTERS, saddling us with a Marxist for four more years.
Good grief — see if you can nominate Mitt. Yes I will vote for him, but he can’t beat SP so I am not worried about it
LOL. For laughs, I included his full name in my posting to you because I think it suits him...lol. His column was a combination of snoot and snark. I wish just one good columnist would write honestly about her, so that we could all say, “yes, she certainly could improve here and there,” etc., but all of them write to please one another and Sarah is too Western, honest, genuine and wholesome for them.
“Name me one junior senator, non-white who half-assed served his state for 140 days, getting and winning the nomination, then winning the general election, all the while being having an invisible resume, of uncertain national origin as well as a imbecilic policy positions...
WTC—the “it’s never been done before” argument is retarded. If she wins the R nomination, she will beat Obozo.
She will work to get the nomination and she will debate Mitt and whoever else wants to be there. Dont worry she will win it fair and square and then she will beat Obozo.
Nothing you or any other nervous nellies say will stop her if she wants to run.
My gut opinion is the R’s know this race is winnable and they want a Mitt type to win, but they know he can only beat Sarah if sarah doesnt run, hence your job stalking Palin posts.
Reagan rebated taxes to the people of California. These "increased revenues" were from a tax, er, "fee" that has since chased many oil and gas producers out of a state with very high unemployment.
When this happens, it is important to not only put money in the bank and save it for a rainy day, which she did to the tune of $5 billion, but there is nothing wrong with increasing spending.
The hell there isn't. It induces an infrastructure of tax consumption, one that is difficult to reverse. Further, to sock that money away is to admit that there is an expectation of a need to spend it later because of higher structural levels of spending.
The increased revenue needs to make it back into the hands of the people via services or a check. Governor Palin did both. The people of Alaska received an extra $1200 in addition to their Permanent fund checks, plus she increased spending on education and infrastructure projects. This is a good use of the extra revenue.
A conservative gives anything left after retiring debt back to the people to expend as they see fit. Moreover, there is no longer any justification for public schools up to at least the bachelor's if not the master's degree level. The State could put the entire pedagogy on the equivalent of YouTube with the testing contracted out and sell the service at a profit (an example is the Iowa State Test that became something of a national standard in private schools for a number of years). An online curriculum could then be both broader and more adapted to individual needs and capabilities than it is now. If the students need tutoring, they can hire one on Skype.
Done.
Moderates lack the creativity, initiative, and courage to think outside the Statist box by which to reduce structural spending permanently.
16 State Governors have become President of the United States. 15 US Senators have become President of the United States.
". . . all the real American Christian patriots recognized her unique suitability to the presidency."Wow! If I don't believe in Sarah, I can't be a "real Christian," a "real patriot," or a "real American."
I got to admit, this is a new and unique tactic for palinites. Dishonest and childish, but new.
Good catch. I should read my posts before I hit the post button. I was trying to beat the traffic and didn’t take care.
“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.”
- Patrick Henry, 1775
“I told reporters what I still believe today: government experience doesn’t necessarily count for much.”
-Sarah Palin, Going Rogue, p. 84
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Palin’s interpretation of Patrick Henry: “Give me liberty or give me death.”
Quin Hillyer’s interpretation of Patrick Henry: “Give me government experience or give me death.”
“On 1 June 1952, Carter was promoted to Lieutenant. Selected by Rickover, Carter was detached on 16 October 1952 from K-1 for duty with the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Division of Reactor Development in Schenectady, New York. From 3 November 1952 to 1 March 1953, he served on temporary duty with the Naval Reactors Branch, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, DC to assist “in the design and development of nuclear propulsion plants for naval vessels.”
He left the Navy in July 1953. So, in four months with Naval Reactors followed by four months of new construction he became a Nuclear Engineer!
history.navy.mil
C'mon wtc, don't be disingenuous.
She only quit 2 jobs, you make it sound as if she quit a string of them.
Her first resignation, she saw corruption and couldn't speak out against it while on the job. So she had to fight it from the outside.
The 2nd one has been explained to you numerous times but you purposefully turn a deaf ear.
Your opinion is not fact.
That’s GOOD!
You’re so right about Hillyer. LOL.
WTC see if you can understand this,lol, you have outed yourself. And as I said, get Mitt nominated, just try, I will vote for him or any other RINO over Obozo. But Mitt will not get any money from me, the country clubbers own him
Name me one junior senator, non-white who half-assed served his state for 140 days, getting and winning the nomination, then winning the general election, all the while being having an invisible resume, of uncertain national origin as well as a imbecilic policy positions...
WTC—the “it’s never been done before” argument against Sarah Palin is retarded. If she wins the R nomination, she will beat Obozo.
She will work to get the nomination and she will debate Mitt and whoever else wants to be there. Dont worry she will win it fair and square and then she will beat Obozo.
Nothing you or any other nervous nellies say will stop her if she wants to run.
My gut opinion is the R’s know this race is winnable and they want a Mitt type to win, but they know he can only beat Sarah if Sarah doesnt run, hence your job stalking Palin posts.
You state that politicians who stay in one office while running for another are not noble. When it is pointed out that this is exactly what Palin did you add qualifiers.
Life is filled with legitimate qualifiers. Instead of addressing the qualifier that I gave you, you ignored it and the overall point.
Palin didn't prepare a run for VP. She was on short notice, drafted to run for VP, a task that involved a little over two months of her time while she was also a sitting governor. Palin didn't have the option of properly transitioning the job over to the lieutenant governor.
Instead, she had two options. She could have let the lieutenant governor temporarily muddle through for two months while she was running for VP or she could have turned down the VP nomination and stayed on the job. She obviously chose the first option.
Criticize her all you want based on those unique circumstance, my point still stands.
There is nothing noble about one who stays in a full-time office, while they run for president, especially when one needs about three years of full-time preparation for a serious presidential run.
B. Palin has not announced that she's running for anything so what are you talking about?
I used the word "if", in post #266. Please see above.
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