Posted on 10/06/2010 11:48:46 AM PDT by GonzoII
Sarah Palin commands a political ability unrivaled since President Ronald Reagan, says an international expert who believes that the dream Republican presidential candidate for 2012 would be a combination of Palin and Newt Gingrich.
“Of course, that’s impossible, but one can only wish,” Angelo Codevilla tells Newsmax.TV.
“Sarah Palin is a political talent we haven’t seen since Ronald Reagan,” says Codevilla, who has been on the staff of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and is a professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University.
Meanwhile, Gingrich’s strength is that the former House speaker is a brilliant and good man, says Codevilla, author of the new book “The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It.”
Americans are divided into the “ruling class” and the “country class” — old English terms meaning the haves and the have-nots, the professor says. Palin belongs firmly to the country class, he says.
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The ruling class dominates the government. Codevilla says. “It believes that we who are attached to the government are priests of science and have a right to dominate the unscientific mass of Americans who don’t understand,” he says. “Attitude is key.”
The government simply doesn’t respect its citizenry, he says.
Regular citizens feel increasingly divided from those who govern them, Codevilla says. “The American people realized at the time of the bailouts that there was no division among party elites over measures that three-quarters of the American people opposed,” he says.
“Not only could you find no support for the American people’s positions among bipartisan elites, but these elites refused to give reasons why they were doing the things they did. They assumed people didn’t have the right to ask.”
The government has been disenfranchising its citizens since the 1930s,
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The Reagan-Palin comparison is enough to gag a maggot.
Speaking of maggots, they are a step up from a pissant, they only roll around in decaying food.
You saw the word Palin, and out from under the outhouse you crawled.
One thing’s for sure, there’d be heads exploding all over liberal la-la-land.
Clearly, Ants and Maggots compete for the some of the same food sources.
Which tells me all I need to know about this guy's "expertise." That, and the fact that it's being reported by NewsWax.
Please drink a big cup of STFU.
This is Anthony Codevilla talking. When he writes something, you should listen.
Best,
Chris
Okay, this Palin baloney has officially gone too far.
Perhaps, maybe just enough to gag a pissant.
We humans do understand the comparisons though.
Only the White House will be far enough. ;0)
I’ve seen a good many maggots, but I’ve never seen one gag.
The day Palin wins, and she will, I suspect that we are all going to see a pisant gag. I’m excited about that.
More trivialization of Reagan from the cult
Oh, pooh. People tuned in to hear a celebrity. She gave a good speech that night. But lots of people can give a good speech -- Barack Obama, for example, or Bill Clinton.
The question is: if you compare Reagan and Palin, who wins?
1. Experience: Reagan, hands down
2. Speaking ability: Reagan, hands down
3. Writing ability: Reagan, hands down
4. Demonstrated grasp of conservative philosophy: Reagan, hands down
5. Command of economic and foreign policy issues: Reagan, hands down
There are more, but you get the point. Palin doesn't come close to Reagan on the points that matter. She's still just a celebrity.
Why should we listen to a guy who touts a kamikaze ticket of Palin/Gingrich for 2012?
Newt alone would be enough to poison that well. Combine him with Palin, and you're headed into Mondale territory.
The Reagan-Palin comparison is enough to gag a maggot.
Angelo Codevilla has been a U.S. Naval officer, an Assistant Professor at Grove City College and North Dakota State College, a U.S. Foreign Services Officer, and a member of President-Elect Reagan’s Transition Teams within the U.S. Department of State, in which position he dealt with Western Europe and with matters affecting the U.S. intelligence community. He served as a U.S. Senate staff member dealing with oversight of the U.S. intelligence services, and has held a professorial lecturer at Georgetown University and a Senior Research Fellow for the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. His books include No Victory, No Peace (2004), Between the Alps and a Hard Place (2000), The Character of Nations (1997), Informing Statecraft: Intelligence for a New Century (1992), While Others Build (1988), and Modern France (1974). He has also translated and edited The Prince by Machiavelli (1997). He taught at Boston University from 1995 until his retirement in 2008. (His most recent book is The Ruling Class with introduction by Rush Limbaugh.)
Palin is probably better. Reagan never did retail level representation like Palin did as mayor of a small town.
Ah, they're just another group in a long line of them, who invoke "Reagan" as if it were a magic word.
I never tire of linking to Reagan's Eureka College Commencement Address from 1957.
It's difficult to imagine Palin giving an address like that -- much less writing it, as Reagan did.
You see from reading that address, a mindset that foreshadows how he would respond in later years to serious crises. There was no mystery: his philosophy was there for all to see.
Now imagine the proverbial 0300 phone call about China or Iran.... would you really trust Sarah Palin to take that call, and respond correctly?
That's the meat-and-potatoes question for any president, and it demands a serioys answer, not just slavish devotion, and a hope that she'll do well. What has she ever written or said or done, that would give confidence that she understands and can properly respond under stress?
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