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Charles Krauthammer Tells Bill O’Reilly Sarah Palin Must Expand Policy Knowledge
Mediaite ^ | 12/14/10 | Glen Davis

Posted on 12/14/2010 7:28:22 PM PST by pissant

Bill O’Reilly recently talked with frequent Fox News guest Charles Krauthammer to handicap potential GOP candidates’ chances in the 2012 presidential election. Krauthammer called Mitt Romney the front-runner” and said Mike Huckabee has established himself as a “major player”…but his most dissected comments will probably be his remarks on one Sarah Palin.

Krauthammer compared Palin’s problem to Hillary Clinton’s in the late 1990s – strong support from her core base, virulent opposition from most others. O’Reilly asked if the level of opposition to Palin is the media’s fault, and while Krauthammer said they’ve “contributed enormously” and that “the animus to her is unprecedented,” he also allowed that “she is not practiced in policy” and that the infamous Katie Couric interview was “not a ‘gotcha’ interview.” According to Krauthammer, Palin’s growth in mastering policy issues will shape her fate:

“I think if you want to expand your base, you have to get into policy even though it sounds dull.”

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To: pissant

I like Palin and will gladly vote for her. I do NOT like Romney, not one bit.

That said, it’s a mistake to dismiss Krauthammer’s remarks, or any other criticism of Palin.

It’s important to hear what is being said, whether you agree with it or not.

Were she to take Krauthammer’s suggestions as constructive criticism and follow his advice, it can do her no harm.

If we’re going to get the right folks in the White House in 2012, it’s imperative to learn to listen.


41 posted on 12/14/2010 7:49:21 PM PST by Jedidah
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To: exit82

Just damn.


42 posted on 12/14/2010 7:49:23 PM PST by Little Pharma
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To: Venturer

And we all know that every American voter is on FR!


43 posted on 12/14/2010 7:49:25 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: pissant

Charles Krauthammer Tells Bill O’Reilly Sarah Palin Must Expand Policy Knowledge

That would be true of anybody running for POTUS... our sitting POTUS didn't bother.

44 posted on 12/14/2010 7:49:25 PM PST by lonestar
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To: mountainbunny

why are you not a Palin supporter ?


45 posted on 12/14/2010 7:49:55 PM PST by se_ohio_young_conservative (Palin or 3rd party... no exceptions !)
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To: stevem

Krauthammer is a beltway boy. He likes the status quo. In my opinion he is a RINO!


46 posted on 12/14/2010 7:49:57 PM PST by orinoco
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To: pissant

I don’t think that I’ve ever heard her deliver a policy speech.


47 posted on 12/14/2010 7:50:14 PM PST by Little Pharma
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To: pissant
Anyone who can put two carefully aimed killing shots into a charging bear target has a much better grasp on Policy than some Ivy League grad. I will vote for Sarah in a heart beat. She can stand her ground with the best of them.

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

48 posted on 12/14/2010 7:50:31 PM PST by Varmint Al
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To: exit82

What poll? The money poll.

Sadly, it matters.


49 posted on 12/14/2010 7:50:39 PM PST by Jedidah
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To: Little Pharma

have you read her facebook posts and editorials ?


50 posted on 12/14/2010 7:52:01 PM PST by se_ohio_young_conservative (Palin or 3rd party... no exceptions !)
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To: Bullish

John Bolton is unelectable because of his mustache. He looks like a clown. I’m serious.


51 posted on 12/14/2010 7:52:42 PM PST by teg_76
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To: KJC1

O’Donnell was an embarrassment.
He was right.


52 posted on 12/14/2010 7:52:57 PM PST by Sarah
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To: pissant

I, for one, don’t want a “policy wonk” as POTUS. Algore was/is a policy wonk.

I want a leader that can fire people up, delegate duties, and have a simple, conservative agenda to get the country back off the socialist path.


53 posted on 12/14/2010 7:54:11 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Krauthammer is a snob. Most of the stuff he wrote on El Salvador was decent, at least it was anti-FMLN, but he was way too condescending regarding the Salvadoran Army and he gave them little credit for turning back communist momentum in 1980 when Carter was still president and US aid was even smaller than it was under Reagan.

This is the same thing with Palin. He is condescending but I trust Sarah’s policy instincts more than Krauthammer’s and certainly more than the other “frontrunners”. Plus Sarah has a record of producing a budget that balances.


54 posted on 12/14/2010 7:54:55 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Fossil to Krauthammer—

It is TIME to DownSize DC!!!!!!!!


55 posted on 12/14/2010 7:55:02 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: radpolis
On foreign policy, she is weak.

Prove it!
56 posted on 12/14/2010 7:57:00 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: LibLieSlayer; teg_76

I was talking about foreign policy. That’s all I mentioned.


57 posted on 12/14/2010 7:57:00 PM PST by Bullish
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

Facebook is for teenagers to swap you tube links and dirty jokes, not a platform for a serious candidate to hold the most powerful position on earth! Geez!

Sarah Palin has never made a policy speech or outlined a proposal ever on the national level.


58 posted on 12/14/2010 7:57:23 PM PST by Little Pharma
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To: Jedidah

The money poll?

Tell you what, you cut off illegal contributions from overseas to Zero and then watch Sarah Palin raise more money than anyone in history—legally—in 2012.

All of Mitt’s money has never bought him any principles or moral authority.

Sarah does not need to buy either.


59 posted on 12/14/2010 7:57:33 PM PST by exit82 (Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
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To: pissant

Charles Krauthammer?

Bill Clinton’s favorite FOX pundit...small wonder

same one who only gets conservative about Israel and taxes...a NeoCon like Barnes and the other FOXes

we’ve been there with the Neos so thanks anyhow...they are just same old shite social moderate GOP

pro-abortion and pro-gun control

another former New Republic writer

tell Marty Peretz hi for me Charlie as the door smacks yer noggin on the way out

Krauthammer is another sorta Conservative who gets raves here at times from folks who need to read up a bit more...put him in the same dustbin with Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Karl Rove, Mike Steele, David Brooks etc


60 posted on 12/14/2010 7:57:58 PM PST by wardaddy ("Out Here" by Josh Thompson pretty much says it all to those who will never understand anyhow)
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