Re: “I do not question his intelligence; I’ve met with him and spoken with him at some length on medical/nutritional issues; but articulate is exactly what he is not when he is speaking on the air.” — editor-surveyor
Now that is level discourse, what FR needs more of lately. Even without examples your comment stands is a low-key and not unreasonable summary of your opinion. I constantly pick at Savage’s oddities, and I’m not alone among the semi-regulars to this thread, so I doubt many need you to provide examples. (Some might out of orneriness).
When I see people using “hater” and “bashing” at every opportunity, I tend to see the negative influence of Statist disruptors. It’s extremist tactics without doubt, and it’s been juvenile in how it’s been practiced on this thread.
As early as Sept 4 2008 I noted the hyperactivity of the Left towards Sarah. It was accompanied by back biting from (the “Right”) McCain’s own people, McCain doing nothing to stop it but everything to stop his people from attacking Obama (in less harsh tones no less). It reeked of a desire to lose along with a desire to disrupt the conservative Right for whom McCain a great big chip on his shoulder. Nothing about McCain suggests he’s anything but another GOP Statist who will happily make hay while Obama bumbles.
The Left from the start has made Sarah an Alinsky rule number 12 object that also serves the Statists hiding out on and manipulating the Right. It serves neither her or the Right for her alleged fans to be using Leftist buzz words and tactics to shut down legitimate concerns.
There are other features in Sarah’s history that are hardly solid right. Since nobody is perfect, that is not her biggest problem from a principled stance. Sarah has yet to dissociate from McCain, and you can’t deny that will remain problematic until she strongly breaks from him.
For Sarah to advance not only on the Right, but with the independents, her fan base will need to curtail the behavior of the disruptor types (moles and/or useful idiots) and she can become better trained so that the likes of Couric and Gibson can’t blind-side her again.
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I want to add that I am concerned about the level of "Palin mania" on FR. I have been flamed ad nauseum for not acknowledging that she is the second coming of Reagan.
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