Posted on 11/11/2010 2:19:38 PM PST by Brices Crossroads
Ping!
Excellent views. We have those with PDS right here on FR, with the “no experience”, etc. lame excuses because their favorite is somewhere far in the rear-view mirror of the Palin Express.
Interesting points RE Kurt Grove.
What IS his political history from 1978-1980, I wonder?
I liked your post so much that I saved a copy.... thanks.
Oh joy, another Palin is the Gipper vanity.
Feel free to compare her to Reagan AFTER she does something on the level that he did. The man turned a country around that had suffered under LBJ, Nixon and Carter, broke the Soviets and contributed to the liberty of several hundred million people.
I think it’s time we stop obsessing over comparisons to Reagan. Surely, he’s the president who came closest to governing like an actual conservative. But there’s an entire generation of adults that never knew him as anything other than a guy from history. The litmus test (is he/she Reagan enough?) doesn’t mean very much to them.
I think that cast of clowns is now regretting the day they ever employed that strategy.
“serpentine Rove”
Karl is built more like a toad. ;_)
Dear Lord....did you write this? You label it as a vanity but it’s the best piece of writing, and truest, that I’ve read all year.
Tell me true, you wrote this?
Well I gotta comment.
First, every word of this missive is true, astute, insightful. I just finished Palin’s book and as I shut the book cover I looked to the heavens and thought....this woman is genuine. There really are people who love their country, are decent, are, as you so accurately state, charismatic.
Charisma is an almost human, even sexual, characteristic. For when all is said and done and the dust settles, human beings are animals that are meant to live in “flocks”-societies if you will. And like the flocks in the animal kingdom, we need leaders. Charisma is that certain something that we instinctively recognize in those who would lead us.
Which is not to say that there isn’t a false charisma, perhaps in one who would preach “hope and change” but then, I’d argue, only the truly foolish and wishful thinkers fell for that.
The Blue Blood Ruling Class GOP has not one ounce of charisma. But they have a function, given the right time and place. Take Karl Rove, dag, now there’s a charismatic fellow that will hypnotize you before you know what happened. He is a leader, of sorts, a leader of the mundane, the boring, those that run the nuts and bolts when not much is going on in the world. Problem here is over time they too became comfortable in their power. Bigger problem is that they are of no use when a threat is upon.
The rest of the world, the Arab poohbahs, the George Soros’, those that want to beat their wives at night and make them wear a burqua during the day, have the money to purchase false leaders, pretend that there’s a charisma that will bring hope and change.
The Blue Blood Ruling Class GOP cannot effectively dispel this danger to our existance as we know it. they are too boring, staid, lacking courage, comfortable with the perks of power. Their time was upon, danger came, time for them to go.
Of course they fight to keep their spots, they like the better offices, the chairmanships a majority brings. So they recruit those who will vote with the other side, tell them to smile, pat them on the back and send them out to a wary electorate, telling that same electorate that this is good for you, haven’t we been running things all these years while you watched reality TV? For a while we buy into it.
We know this, instinctively. It’s like herding cats, getting the great unwashed out here in the fruited plains, to rise up and roar against the boring and comfortable. But we know it when we fill it, we know what we need comes the right time and it’s time to tell Karl Rove to step aside.
It’s time to have a Sarah Palin step up as is needed.
Well argued and well written!
Not to diminish or oversimplify the three characteristics that Reagan and Palin have in common, but I think it can also be said that they are both of the “Common Class”, not the ruling class. Common folks, whether in small town Illinois or on the North Slope of Alaska, live their beliefs and don’t need a teleprompter to remind them of how to speak them. Their foundation - faith, family, and American values - is what gives them their charisma, courage, and ability to articulate conservative principles. It all comes from “who they are”.
And this is why they scare the Left so badly. People like Reagan and Palin are what they appear to be, and the usual kryptonite-like attacks cannot deter or break them.
“Reagan and JFK could light up a room, in effect fill it, just by entering. Palin has exactly the same effect.” I have hesard, from someone who knew kennedy—well enough to be on easy speaking terms —that one of Jack Kennedy’s charms was that he DIDN”T try to dominate a room, but was surprisingly shy.
I didn’t read it after the first sentence. Why all the vanities to convince people of what they already should know?
Well done, BC.
WOW! THis is a keeper!
That’s what cultists do, I reckon.
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