I’m with you, Vet. I am dying to work on her campaign.
I agree.
Are you saying she now knows what Bush Doctrine is?
Just kidding! I would have no hesitation voting for her
and if she were to get elected in spite of the MSM, that
would be an exciting election night.
It is jealousy somewhat, but mostly fear I think, because they absolutely can’t stand someone being capable and making sense and getting things done and drawing crowds, who doesn’t have the “background”. And what that really means, is that their “background” isn’t really ‘all that’. It throws their whole order and scale right out the window. They are snobs. They are elites just like the left, just with a different manner. CINO’s many of them.
Was William F. Buckley a member of Skull and Bones? Isn’t their secret ritual perverted?
I’m past the point of even debating people over whether or not Sarah Palin will or will not run, is or is not qualified to be Prez, is or is not sufficiently conservative, ad infinitum.
It’s obvious to me that among our stable of likely candidates for president in 2012, that Palin stands head, shoulders, and torso above the rest. Period. End of discussion.
She is, by far, the most capable prospective candidate we have, and has personal attributes that mirror those of our Founding generation of patriots. She’s also got more guts and courage than the rest of the contenders, combined.
In times such as this, a people need to elevate the best of their warriors to the position of Chief. To do otherwise, is to flirt with catastrophe.
We’ve got one last opportunity in 2012 to get this right. If we fail to put Sarah Palin in the White House, I fear for the survival of the republic.
Call that dramatic if you like, but are these not dramatic times we’re living in? I don’t think I’ve overstated the case for Palin.
She will only run if we demand it of her.
If that happens, you can be assured she'll put her heart and soul into it.
Do not be ashamed if she is hated. That's a good sign. The best of us are hated by the left and the leftist media.
If she runs we must stand shoulder to shoulder.
Re: “It’s sort of like the whole business of shibboleth. If you’re an intellectual, you should know what a shibboleth is. It’s from the Bible. It’s a Hebrew word that very few Hebrews could pronounce correctly. If you could pronounce it correctly, you were an intellectual. It was a test to see if you were an actual member of the tribe.”
If you could pronounce it correctly, you were an intellectual? That’s not how I remember the Book of Judges. The Gileadites could pronounce it. The Ephraimites couldn’t, and it cost 42,000 of them their lives. A tad harsh, perhaps, but those of us who value proper diction can understand ;-)
Some of you weren't old enough in the mid-seventies to remember. But Ronald Reagan was just as hated by the intellectual class then as Palin is now.
Now, I'm not saying that Palin is Reagan. I'm just telling you that Reagan didn't have the pedigree. "
My problem is not with the elitists who hate Sarah. Those people are @$$holes and we should expect no less from them.
I admire her but do not agree that she would be a winning candidate for president. I refuse to be swept up into this emotional personality worship.
I now expect the Sarah Bots to begin to shower me with vitriol and ad hominem attacks, just as the Bush Bots did when I criticized W for failing to defend his policies. But I was right, wasn’t I?
And Mods, I am not here to start a flame war. I am posting this in the hope that maybe perhaps ONE Freeper will look him/herself in the mirror and recognize the emotional nature of his/her urge to flame me. As proof of my good will, I will not ridicule the flamers like I did on a previous post.
I am particularly interested in his understanding of Bill Buckley's role in bridging the gap: whereas the Country Club Set largely disdained Ronald Reagan ("he went where? Eureka College? How ... pedestrian...), Buckley embraced him because he saw in Reagan a great force for good, and a kindred spirit of a kind he rarely encountered during his years at Yale, or for that matter, during his long tenure at National Review.
What Buckley saw was a man who knew who he was, who loved his country, and who believed in her greatness. I have some questions about Sarah Palin but they have nothing to do with her fundamental decency, her love of country, and her... normality. After two interminable years of Obama, I think that matters more than ever. She is a normal person: not a radical, not a power-seeker, not a phony. Those are her strengths. Oh, she has weaknesses, too, but those may be overcome because unlike our current "leader", she clearly does not think herself better than most Americans, of whom, at least she feels a part.
In spite of my reservations, I think it is clear that we as a nation could, and in fact have, done a great deal worse entrusting our fate. I myself come from a working-class background, but made it into one of "those" schools on the strength, I like to believe, of effort. I never for a minute thought it made me a superior person, and I regret that some on our side of the aisle seem to dismiss others who have "lesser" educational pedigrees, but better ideas for America. If Sarah really wants to run, she'll need to learn how to express them more clearly, appropriately, and consistently... but, in time, that's what Reagan learned to do as well, and better than anyone else of his great generation.
The hatred of Sarah Palin has gotten so extreme that it’s easy to pass off as overreach through overkill.
Maybe Palin is actually using Muhammed Ali’s “rope-a-dope” strategy. Let them pummel and pummel and pummel til they look silly with the continued pummeling.
And everyone can discount everything they’ve said because they so obviously are emotionally vested in hating her that their viewpoint can be discounted.
It truly is Palin Derangement Syndrome.
It’s very simple. GWB’s unjustified military attack on a country that posed no threat to us, and his subsequent spectacular incompetence in dealing with the American economy, brought about the popular revulsion that resulted in the most far left administration in American history, led by Barry Obama.
Sarah Palin is at least as much of a pinhead as George W. Bush, if not much worse. Should the country very sensibly reject Barry next time around, having had a gander at his disastrous policies for four years, and then should the country make the gargantuan error of putting Palin in his place, the president who then follows her four years later will most likely be to the left of Stalin.
Sarah Palin has no business in presidential politics. She is a self-centered lightweight whose political instincts are unfailingly wrong. A Palin presidency would destroy the Republican Party, and could — if the stars are aligned against us — destroy the country as well.
It’s ridiculous. Palin’s no populist. An anti-elitist, maybe — and that’s a good thing.
John Edwards was a populist. Divisive, carping about class injustice, fostering resentment. Palin’s nothing like that.
Totally absurd. Odd thing but two other presidents who was disdained by the pointy-heads: Harry Truman and Ike. The two men hated one another, but what they had in common was the same—where they came from Independence, M0 and Abilene, KS, were and are much alike. Families were different, but ordinary in their own ways. On the even of D-Day, Ike could speak to the paratroops in their own language without affectation, without condescension. Harry was always approachable—and plain-spoken but MUCH more courtly and soft-spoken (so I was told, by someone who met him in 1948; she still has the glove she wore when she shook his hand) than the bantam-cock image. Ike got a college education on the public dime; Harry had to forego college because his Dad went broke. We all know Reagan’s story.
Anyway, Palin is of their ilk. Not intellectual: nor were they. With the common touch: so had they. Strong-minded; intelligent; perceptive; courageous. Very different people, but put them all in the same room, and they would have got along very well. Palin, of course, would have deferred to them. She is THAT kind, too.
I hope she runs, just to spite them.
Rush nails it again, right there.
“She will be the next president ....”
In God’s name we pray.
Amen
The RINO elite’s flatulent filled attacks make me want to vote for her even more. My second choice at this point is Allen West. Combine the two into one hell of a ticket.
I don’t care if I ever see Kraut, Will or the others ever again. I used to defend Kraut to my family and friends when they commented about him being stiff. I let them all know about his paralysis, but now, I don’t want to watch or listen to him long enough to explain to others about his condition or his credentials.
They are making me sick. They have jumped the shark on Sarah and it is disgusting.