Posted on 12/01/2010 12:06:59 PM PST by pissant
Editor's note: Ed Rollins, a senior political contributor for CNN, is senior presidential fellow at the Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency at Hofstra University. He is a principal with the Dilenschneider Group, a global public relations firm. He was White House political director for President Ronald Reagan and chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.
(CNN) -- The first date is over. Not much happened. President Obama and his new governing partners, the House and Senate Republicans, met at the White House along with the Democratic leaders and discussed the unsolvable issues between them.
Even though they made no decisions and both sides went their separate ways, they agreed to start negotiations on extending the tax cuts. That in itself is the beginning of a positive process. They actually talked to each other and talked of a plan for action.
As with real dating, both sides have to get along or nothing will happen. So maybe this situation has more in common with an arranged marriage.
The American voters are the substitute parents, and they want this marriage to work or at least to be civil. And we, the voters, hold the shotgun.
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‘Thats getting old REAL fast.’
I was tired of it four years ago.
Then I can assure you that you don't want to see her reality show.
Alaska looks to be a quiet and peaceful place to take a hike.... unless You-Know-Who is walking beside you and can't stop talking about herself.
Ok, I'm going with "provocative post" here. Yes, it evidently provoked me enough to end a (rather delightful) 3 month hiatus from posting on Palin threads.
Was that a triple negative toe loop you added? Twas quite a beauteous thing to behold......
I give it a "10".
What scares me, Mr Lakeshark, is that I almost (but not quite) understood what you might have meant with that sentence.
If you are delayed or absent, have a great one!
That was very nice of you, Mr Lakeshark. I hope your day is going well, (or has gone well) also.
Alright, I'm finished with the pleasantries, now.
I just want to say that, in an uncreasingly unstable world, there is a huge difference between saying that you are hoping that you will "always be happy and your enemies know it" (Palin) and "the bombing starts in 5 minutes."(Reagan)
I'm sorry, Mr Lakeshark, but the former (half-term) governor's sentiment sounds rather idiotic. What difference is there if my enemies think I'm happy or not?
I'd rather my enemies think I'm strong. And, my hope would be they never have occasion to find the limits of that strength.
(Resuming pleasant courtesies) I also hope that you will have a good evening and a great weekend, Mr Lakeshark.
Bonsoir!
You risk losing all credibility with flip comments like this.
Just sayin.
pissant, I do hate to be quibbling with both you and Mr Lakeshark, but Bachmann is no Margaret Thatcher.
:^)
So, I'll stop. Have a good afternoon, gentlemen!
I agree. Hence the term “as close as we’ve got”
Sarah Palin is making herself a tabloid candidate for president, and I am risking credibility?
Then by all means, continue with the silly sarcasm.
Ok. Then, we aren't quibbling at all.
:)
Snark is all they got.....water-boys for the MSM, with a little hero worship of Stewart and Olberman (while stealing their nightly material).
So why the vitriol? I thought thats what this site is supposed to be about.
IMO wouldn't it be healthier for them if they'd just come out & tell everyone their true motive for stalking Palin threads?
Perhaps. However, like the Palin today, Reagan wasn't ready to be president in 1957.
When she starts comparing favorably to the Reagan of 1980, let me know. Right now, there's absolutely no comparison.
That's the thing: she's not. A conservative doesn't support a Treaty that cedes US sovereignty to the UN. A conservative doesn't support Amnesty for illegals. A conservative doesn't support bailing out the banks at taxpayer expense. A conservative doesn't impose "windfall profits" taxes. I could go on and on...
Well said. I'd also point out that Sarah's got the same problem as the Bush's. She's really good at appealing to a certain element of the GOP base, so much so that she enjoys a cult following like no one presidential condender, but she turns of everyone else. In this respect, she's the exact opposite of Reagan, and its why she'll never be president.
Actually, you've got it backwards. She's unelectable precisely because of what she lacks.
However, the cult following she enjoys is precisely due to who she is and has nothing to do with her policy ideas or qualifications for the job of president.
I've run down a few of these claims and found them lacking in validity - the pro-amnesty claim, for example.
As I've said, I will NEVER fall in love with a politician again. But at this point Palin gets closer to what I'd like to see elected than most.
I'll need proof she's not what she appears to be.
This Palin chick should just lay back and be a nice girl and enjoy the vile, baseless, incessant insults, lies and smears by the left/media/Rinos establishment and not fight it.
It'll go easier for her (and us) in the long run.
She should just get up , straighten her dress and not worry her pretty little head.
She asked for it by acting and dressing so provocatively and uppity and deserves to be mothballed in perpetuity as the ‘female Dan Quayle ‘ for having the temerity fight back against the wonks and weasels.
That’ll show her.
“Perhaps. However, like the Palin today, Reagan wasn’t ready to be president in 1957.”
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By what historically proven, objective metrics?
This whole “ready to be president” bullshit is a wholly NEW construct fabricated ever since Sarah Palin exploded on the scene, with the very REAL potential to upset the plans of so many who depend on the status quo in DC.
curiosity: Perhaps. However, like the Palin today, Reagan wasn't ready to be president in 1957.
When she starts comparing favorably to the Reagan of 1980, let me know. Right now, there's absolutely no comparison.
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!!!
Their values change with the candidate.
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