Posted on 03/22/2011 5:08:01 AM PDT by FreeManDC
These so-called polls and articles have one objective: to discourage Gov. Palin from running for President.
I pray for her strength to ignore the media and follow her own path.
Hey, it’s just my opinion, doesn’t make it right or wrong, just what I think.
what a sexist pig you are
In the old days, the TV show that Palin did, would be referred to as a “travelogue.” The term “reality show” is new and inaccurate.
That said, this is an important paragraph to read. It will teach you why the left’s two years of bashing SP will end up boomeranging on them. It is they, and not the right, that have set the stage for her.
“But what happens when 100 Million people tune into a debate between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin? What happens when she speaks freely and convincingly in that debate, as she did in a great interview with the Long Island Association? And then what happens when people realize that she isn’t the moron “they” have attempted to portray her as? That she can speak without uhhh’s and ummm’s like someone else cannot? And when Palin releases, yes I will say it, Reaganesque commercials that are inspiring and uplifting, you know about America being that shining city on a something or another? How quickly will opinion change when people realize that Sarah Palin is not what the media have portrayed her as?”
The entire piece:
Those dumbasses on the left (and on the right) have set the bar so low, that when people actually hear what she has to say....look out.
You can sign up with the PDS platoon, they recently lost a leader.
After two years of getting trashed by the media and Republican elites, what should we expect.
Remember, most of these “unfavorables” are from the Romney/Daniels/Huckabee Repubs. Who see her as the clear leader, and if they can depress her base, mission accomplished.
Once the campaign starts, things will change. The caricature of Gov Palin will be exploded to smithereens.
I’m going to be skinned for that. But I speak from the heart.
It was either that or “The Susan Lucci of American politics.”
Actually, I love Sarah’s policy positions. What conservative doesn’t? It’s her un-electable persona that I find off-puting.
She is the next President of the United States,
that’s who she is.
We’ve seen these media manipulations before,
time and again they have pulled these same
tricks, as the song goes,
DON’T BE FOOLED AGAIN!
Paragraphs are your friends, sweetie-pie.
She’s living in their heads...rent free...
It was made obvious to anyone who watched her Alaska show or read her book that Sarah's personality is typically "warrior-athlete". She's extremely competitive and doesn't take even the smallest amount of crap from anyone.
Wish I could be more like her!
Which is why the push to get her not to even run. The minute she takes the stage in the GOP primary debates is the minute the seven dwarfs are seen for the dwarfs they are.
Sarah Palin’s standing with the American public has undergone a stunning reversal of fortune, according to two recently released polls.
Just two and a half years ago, Sarah Palin’s star was ascending to the political heavens. A solid 53% of Americans held a favorable opinion of Mrs. Palin, while only 28% had a negative view.
But according to a March 3 Bloomberg News poll, only 28% of Americans now hold a positive view of the former Alaska governor, while a stunning 60% see her in an unfavorable light. And a March 16 Washington Post-ABC poll found Palin’s negative ratings fell to a nadir of 37% among Republicans and right-leaning independents.
How do we explain this stunning reversal for the immensely ambitious political wunderkind? Following John McCain’s surprise selection of Palin on August 29, 2008, and her well-received acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, she notched an impressive favorability rating of 53% as a virtual political unknown (all figures I cite are from the Gallup poll, unless otherwise noted).
But as the campaign jolted toward the November election, stories began to circulate about a simmering discord between the McCain and Palin campaign staffs.
“She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” complained a top McCain adviser just days before the election. “Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party.”
Following the GOP’s sweeping losses on November 4, Palin’s favorability ratings still registered 48% — a respectable number, considering the predictable miscues of the grueling campaign.
Soon shaking off the post-election blues, Palin’s first move was to establish SarahPAC, which would eventually raise $1 million for conservative candidates around the country.
Throughout 2009, Palin’s favorability ratings cruised along in the acceptable low to mid 40s range. Palin’s heralded book Going Rogue came out on November 17. Even though the autobiography would eventually sell over 2 million copies, it also raised questions about the former candidate’s conservative credentials — even her character.
Going Rogue highlights Palin’s endorsement of the controversial Title IX quota program. It reveals her predilection for gender-baiting clichés like “I’ve been living in a man’s world all my life.” The autobiography even suggests a mean streak. When then-boyfriend Todd told his friends that Sarah didn’t know how to kiss, Palin’s judgment was as harsh as it was swift: she “learned a lesson about guys that day: even the good ones can act like jerks.” As if women never gossip about their mates’ sexual prowess!
Throughout the year Palin appeared at endless Tea Party rallies around the country. On February 6, 2010, Palin keynoted the inaugural Tea Party convention in Nashville, TN, cementing her position as the charismatic leader for the burgeoning movement.
But in mid-2010, the apparently unstoppable train suddenly took a pro-feminist turn. During a May 15 speech at a Susan B. Anthony conference, Palin unveiled the term “Mama Grizzly,” and invoked the words “feminism” and “feminist” no less than a dozen times. This provoked predictable attacks from the NOW blowhards — and raised conservative eyebrows as well.
Palin’s response was to accuse her critics, including her female detractors, of chauvinism — a stance that began to wear thin in the eyes of many. The cracks in Mrs. Palin’s formidable reputation began to show themselves in the Gallup poll taken after the November 2 elections. While she garnered a steady 40% favorability rating, for the first time ever her unfavorable numbers spiked to 52%.
Perhaps the decisive turning point, though, was the day that Palin decided to take on Barbara Bush. First ladies occupy a revered spot in the American iconography, but apparently Palin was too tone-deaf to understand this. When the former first lady remarked that Palin might prefer to stay in Alaska rather than throw herself in the hurly-burly of national politics, Palin rebuked Mrs. Bush — and her family — as a group of elite “blue bloods.” Wrong move, Mrs. Palin.
Then came her “blood libel” gaffe on January 12. And just last month, Palin insinuated former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum was “Neanderthal.”
Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald has ridiculed the “feminist strain” of the Mama Grizzlies and notes that Palin “is living up to the most skeptical assessment of her.” But the real reason for her plummeting support is that many Americans are confused about who Sarah Palin is and what she really stands for.
Is Mrs. Palin the tireless spokesperson for a recrudescent silent majority? Is she a have-it-all, do-it-all Super Mom? A dazzling, but ephemeral Media Maven? Or is she an old-school, quota-embracing, male-bashing feminist who also happens to be pro-life? Is she a shake-and-bake liberal whose political resumé includes support for the ill-fated bridge to nowhere and a record-breaking $6.6 billion state operating budget in 2007?
Until Mrs. Palin takes steps to reconcile these apparent contradictions, these questions will continue to be grist for the political mill.
You like Palin’s support of Title IX? I thought conservatives were against quotas and government meddling.
that was a hard read!!!!
The Marxists attack the people they fear. They are terrified of Sarah.
Haven’t we learned anything from the past? If we support someone the MSM gives a pass, we lose. We can’t win playing their game.
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