Posted on 12/03/2010 6:26:04 AM PST by Lakeshark
Backpedaling..
The money point is, the Downs syndrome cousin is real. The secret to charisma is thoroughgoing, unconflicted authenticity. Reagan had it--he was humble about himself but absolutely bone-deep certain about his beliefs. This renders a person unassailable--hence the "teflon."
Sarah likewise-- doesn't have to pretend. Obama, in contrast, is nothing but pretend--that's why he has wilted like a potted plant deprived of water as soon as he was required to walk the walk. He can't do it. Hell, he can only just barely talk the talk, without TOTUS.
The money point is, the Downs syndrome cousin is real. The secret to charisma is thoroughgoing, unconflicted authenticity. Reagan had it--he was humble about himself but absolutely bone-deep certain about his beliefs. This renders a person unassailable--hence the "teflon."
Sarah likewise-- doesn't have to pretend. Obama, in contrast, is nothing but pretend--that's why he has wilted like a potted plant deprived of water as soon as he was required to walk the walk. He can't do it. Hell, he can only just barely talk the talk, without TOTUS.
O’Bambi is the Peter Principle on steroids.
I hope Sarah can flip the opinion of the independents, but we have to thank Obama for that. They showed how far left they really are to those who think there's no difference between the rats and the GOP.
IIRC, Alaskan state law mandates the distribution of oil and energy royalties. That's different from the redistribution of wealth using income and sales taxes, fees, fines, etc., that went into a general fund.
Also, plenty of your federal taxes were spent in Alaska under Palin - more per capita than any other state.
Remember that "bridge to nowhere." Those funds are due to Alaska's U.S. senators and Representative Don Young.
Finally, I don't really see how the difference is relevant here. RomneyCare was also "a state spending state tax revenues in a way the state thinks might be best", but I don't see anyone excusing Romney on that account - nor should they.
RomneyCare is a misnomer. That law was foisted upon him despite his vetoes by veto-proof House and Senate Democratic majorities.
It’s simple: they ain’t as RIGHT as you think they are.
That's a shame, as the late Seamus Romney would want his story told!
Of course, Willard's problem isn't his dog's biography. It's WillardCare and that funky Form 1099-HC and the fact that y'all in the other 49 are going to be filling out the federal version thereof, barring more significant change we can believe in than that of last month.
When you watch her TV show, place your self in the chair of a north easterner, a suave fashionably correct, politically indoctrinated woman. Perhaps a journalist thrown in to boot.
Five kids, one a mongolid, a native American husband and one obviously native American gene carrying daughter Willow, going out in boats, wearing all that gross wet gear, touching fish, and God forbid, putting Rudolph or maybe Dasher or Blitzer in the telescopic sights of your rifle ....... It doesn’t compute. It can not be comprehended. They don’t go to work, they go fishing. They don’t have a real job to go to. There is no Starbucks!
I’ll never understand how TLC permitted the program to air. It is one by one presenting all the perceived negatives that can be dredged up by the super uptight northeastern city folk
From that old conservative rag, the Boston Globe:
Reality TV follows Mama Grizzly in her natural habitat
Sarah Palin is climbing a glorious mountain in the premiere of TLC’s “Sarah Palin’s Alaska.’’ Terrified of heights, “freaking-out scared,’’ she yells to her guide and her husband, Todd, “This may flippin’ take me all day.’’ But she persists, bravely climbing upward, refusing to succumb to fear. “I didn’t want to quit,’’ she says later. “I didn’t want to quit in front of other people.’’
The long scene is about perseverance, a statement about climbing ev’ry mountain. But is the scene also an indirect response to accusations that Palin is a “quitter’’ for having left her Alaska governor’s post 18 months early? Is it a political reassertion clothed in folksy backwoods activity?
After watching “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,’’ I’m going to say yes, yes indeed. Her series, which premieres Sunday night at 9, is one of the most naked examples of image-crafting I’ve seen in a while. With the conventions of reality TV at her service, the former vice presidential candidate delivers a portrait of herself, her family, and her home state that’s relentless in its messages of wholesomeness and in its justifications of her past. Along with bigwig reality producer Mark Burnett, she has created a nonfiction-styled telling of her own frontier-woman myth, complete with ancient visual splendor and small metaphorical adventures. -read more
New thread, with my new-and-improved, expanded-and-explained-so-even-you-can-clearly-see-my-meaning input:
“What is driving the Left’s hatred of Sarah Palin? Some of the same stuff that often drove some of the same people to similarly hate young George Bush, their perception of an apparently-unearned boost to national prominence and a frequent-enough display of an inner (over?)confident self-assurance that, to many, seems to border quite closely on smugness. And yet, when Barack Obama’s rise is shown to fit nearly the same mold, the Left applauds. Odd.”
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