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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This year, the conservative intelligentsia doesn’t just tend to dislike Palin — many fear that her rise would represent the triumph of an intellectually empty brand of populism and the death of ideas as an engine of the right.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51218.html#ixzz1Gb3xSnZ3


28 posted on 03/14/2011 10:49:06 AM PDT by FreeManDC
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To: FreeManDC

Hahahaha! Those guys are journ-o-listers. The “conservatives” they cite are Democrats, RINOs, CINOs, token conservatives and throwbacks. If they wanted to goad Governor Sarah Palin into running for president, I don’t know how they could’ve done a better job!


32 posted on 03/14/2011 11:00:49 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet ("You cannot invade the US There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." Yamamoto)
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To: FreeManDC
Here's the money quote from that piece:

Wehner, now a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, cited the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s famous 1980 declaration that the GOP had become “a party of ideas.”

“Conservatives are very proud of that,” Wehner said. “But she seems at best disinterested in ideas or least lacks the ability to articulate any philosophical justification for them. She relies instead on shallow talking points.”

I'm no member of the Church of Palin, but the assertion that she has no interest in substantial policy ideas is complete garbage.

You're pretty gullible, dude.

53 posted on 03/14/2011 7:49:41 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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