Posted on 11/09/2010 12:19:01 PM PST by LaybackLenny
I was surprised too, but he a right to his opinion. Just sick and tired of this “Polarizing” crap..who do they want, some moderate..if that is what people want then McCain should have won in 2008 because he is NO Conservative. I don’t let anyone tell me who to vote for, not Michael Reagan, not anyone..if she runs and wins the nomination, wonderful, if she doesn’t, then she doesn’t..that simple. I don’t let some pundit on TV tell me who to vote for
I’d like to see her as the Chairman of the RNC.
DeMint (whom I really like, too) is also too “extreme” and “polarizing.” Or haven’t you heard?
Basically, the LSM will preach that anyone who isn’t a Dem Lite is “too polarizing,” “out of the mainstream,” “radical,” “extreme,” etc., and apparently even some Freepers (see above) will swallow their bilge.
I for one am sick of it.
Actually, I agree with you to a point. I think we are both right. We are just looking at two different facets of the same thing. You are also correct about the polarization. Unfortunately, once we hit that point, we are probably out of political solutions to our problems. In my last statement is a hint at why I watched this election more as entertainment than actually having meaningful value.
I said last summer that this election was like voting in a new crew on the Titanic AFTER we hit the iceberg. It may change the way the lifeboats are manned, but the ship is still going down. Meanwhile, I’m building my own lifeboat out of deck chairs and spoons.
*snicker*
Oh, that's a credible and sane source. I think you forgot to add that Sarah Palin is an anti-Semite.
Thought you might want to pipe in, onyx.
To goldstaterino: Try motivating the base, keeping the left off-balance, and utterly dominating the political narrative for the last year plus?
Agreed.
She’s just so much more effective as a non elected (by the citizens) voice.
They say the same thing about Michele Bachmann and Sharron Angle too, “too extreme” or “Too polarizing” hmmm, didn’t prevent Obama from becoming President now did it, the most left wing, progressive whack job in the history of this country becomes President, I don’t hear the media saying “Wow this guy is just too left wing, too progressive, too polarizing” nope, they did everything in their power to get him elected
“I have heard Michael talk about Palin many times and this does not sound like him.”
It doesn’t sound like him, but he said it.
Explain, Michael. I thought you were a conservative. As such you’d know right polarizes from left, and last time I checked it was not bad to be anti-left.
Palin separates wheat from chaff, far as I’m concerned. You want to be in the chaff column of true conservatives, that’s your call.
“I said last summer that this election was like voting in a new crew on the Titanic AFTER we hit the iceberg. It may change the way the lifeboats are manned, but the ship is still going down. Meanwhile, I?m building my own lifeboat out of deck chairs and spoons.”
Frankly, I agree with you there, but hold out some hope that the right captain and crew can salvage the ship. A milquetoast captain and crew certainly can’t, so we’d better run an “extreme” “polarizing” candidate (in LSM newspeak), or else it won’t matter who wins.
Didn't he also say the Sarah Palin was his father in a skirt?
>>A milquetoast captain and crew certainly can’t, so we’d better run an “extreme” “polarizing” candidate (in LSM newspeak), or else it won’t matter who wins.<<\
Yeah, I agree with that as well. Frankly, that is why I was excited to see so many TEA party candidates win, and all the talk (even from Republicans) that the republicans blew it last time they had the majority and everybody is watching this time.
He may have a point.
I love Sarah, and have given to her PAC...she can be just as effective as an opinion leader and backer of candidates even if she never holds office again.
Maybe she could be a Senator from Alaska someday. :)
Shhhhhhh. I’m listening to cultists’ heads exploding.
True conservatism is now supporting feminism and alternative lifestyles and someone who endorses the right to privacy and Title IX and quit as governor half way through her first term.
Again, her supporters can’t name one accomplishment she has apart from being a mediocre version of Gloria Steinem. That’s why I don’t want her anywhere near the White House. Palin makes Obama look good.
Here’s a list, you can add the passing of the gas pipeline to the lower 48 that she started before she resigned to the list. Like the man says, find a gov that has done as much in two terms as she did in 21/2 years: http://www.conservadigg.com/toolbar/425
She is polarizing but not because of her conservative views. She is polarizing because she gives the impression that she is anti-intellectual.
Homeschoolers are learning Latin and understand the classical importance of rhetoric. They represent the future of the conservative movement. She needs to learn from them instead of imitating Dolly Parton.
Michael Reagan has every right to his opinion but this “polarizing” thing is ridiculous. Obama has more unfavorables then Sarah Palin has, is Obama “too polarizing” to the left..nope, to them he is not polarizing enough, he is not progressive enough. Then Shepard Smith brings on some ass clown who says that Sarah cost the GOP the Senate LOL I bust a gut laughing..really, she cost them the senate, did Sarah cost them the senate in 2006, where has this clown been living. She busts her ass for 2 years now and the majority of the candidates she endorsed won and that fool has the nerve to say she cost them the senate! He said that the GOP Establishment candidates could have won, well yippy to that, more establishment leftist candidates who will bow down and kiss Obama’s ring, yeah that is all we need
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