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DAVID BROOKS: Does Anyone Think Sarah Palin Can Handle A Crisis? White House Isn't American Idol
Business Insider ^
| 05/30/2011
| Glynnis MacNicol
Posted on 05/30/2011 8:39:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
She's not a team player. I don't think people are going to think she's qualified." Team player?
Most people with a brain know that "team players" have created the economic and political box canyon the country is facing.
Uh huh. More team players is what we need. More "go along to get along" careerist RINOS and criminal budget looters.
Most great presidents in times of crisis had greatness thrust upon them, and were up to the challenge. Truman and Reagan come to mind.
There are "political" teams and crisis teams.
"team Players" does NOT imply lack of firm leadership and judgement. No president knows it ALL. The advisers a president picks defines success or disaster. "Team Players" are not the same as cabals of looters and Social manipulators.
The best team players in the world today are the OPEC and drug cartels.
Enough said.
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posted on
05/30/2011 11:38:25 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(you don't need a president-for-life if you've got a bureaucracy-for-life.)
To: stormer
"Anyone who thinks the current political climate in the United States bear any resemblance to Nazi Germany is an idiot who understands neither and spits in the faces of the hundreds of millions of people affected by that regime." CURRENT political climate, no. Destination if continued in the same direction as current with the same or similar leadership....YES!
To: SeekAndFind
George Will says it's common knowledge she shouldn't be trusted with nuclear weapons. Ahhh.
The burdens of senility and age-induced muddled thinking.
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posted on
05/30/2011 11:41:02 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(you don't need a president-for-life if you've got a bureaucracy-for-life.)
To: DesertRhino
Shes not a team player.
Actually she was very successful as a team player. Looks to me like she's even more successful as a team leader.
Tight, focused teams that get things done. If anybody is an anti-team loner with sycophants, that would be Obama.
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posted on
05/30/2011 11:45:40 AM PDT
by
Finny
("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
To: nuconvert
I guess being a governor "Community Organizer" qualifies you to run for Pres. and be able to handle a crisis unless your last name is Palin.There.
Fixed it for you.
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posted on
05/30/2011 11:45:53 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(you don't need a president-for-life if you've got a bureaucracy-for-life.)
To: kabar
The premise is nonsense to begin with. Yes, Presidents have to make choices in a crisis, but they have advisors, political appointees and career government employees, who will lay out the options and provide the intelligence on what is happening. Does anyone think that Obama handles a crisis on his own? His problem is that he is indecisive, which can be deadly depending upon the circumstance.
Indeed. But I think the nation will be surprised at President Palin's advisors, and will be alarmed at how decisive she turns out to be.
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posted on
05/30/2011 11:49:06 AM PDT
by
gitmo
(Hatred of those who think differently is the left's unifying principle.-Ralph Peters NY Post)
To: stormer
Wow. Third post and weve already encountered Godwins Law. Palinistas will have to do better than that if theyre to be taken seriously...They introduce Godwin's Law in Senility Therapy now?
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posted on
05/30/2011 11:54:24 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(you don't need a president-for-life if you've got a bureaucracy-for-life.)
To: SeekAndFind
“This is a team sport.”
LOL. Just...LOL.
We are seeing the mass realization that things have changed. People have woken up. The “bitter clingers” sound-bite was thick, thick irony.
To: Scotsman will be Free
The GOP establishment hates Sarah Palin because they are afraid that they cannot control her.
To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
In life you pay your money and you take your chances. Do I *know* Sarah Palin will be a great president in a crisis? Of course not. Am I willing to take the chance to find out? In a heartbeat. Same here. I would trust Sarah Palin to make the best decision she can for America. I can not say that about the rest of the Republican field except LTC West.
To: SeekAndFind
More thinly veiled sexism from the country club. Why would anyone think Palin is NOT capable of such things? At least no one has come right out and said “how can she hold office and change diapers at the same time?” as they pretty much did in 2008.
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posted on
05/30/2011 12:08:05 PM PDT
by
COgamer
To: Publius6961; SeekAndFind; Chandalier; SUSSA; SkyDancer; Jim Noble; RINOs suck; Old Sarge; ...
From Sarah Palin's Facebook page. Caption reads: "On the left of the photo is Little Diomede. Behind it is Big Diomeded. To the right of them YOU CAN SEE THE RUSSIAN MAINLAND." (Photo by Lynn Nelson)
So you CAN... YOU C A N... Y O U R E A L L Y , R E A L L Y C A N... see Russia from Alaska. SARAH IS RIGHT ... ALL THE TIME! PALIN / WEST 2012
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posted on
05/30/2011 12:13:30 PM PDT
by
Jo Nuvark
(Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
To: Publius6961
Most of the political and press weenies weren’t the point guard leading their team to a state basketball championship in high school.
Not a team player? Jeesh!
To: Jo Nuvark
Truth is irrelevant. Ask any lib who said “I can see Alaska from my house!” and they’ll tell you it was Palin. You could show them both videos, one of Palin saying you can see Russia from Alaska, and the Tina Fey video, and they’d shut it out of their minds. Palin said it, and that’s that.
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posted on
05/30/2011 12:26:38 PM PDT
by
FlyVet
To: Aroostook25
Exactly so. Same reason they despise my senator DeMint.
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posted on
05/30/2011 12:30:18 PM PDT
by
Scotsman will be Free
(11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
To: Jo Nuvark
Sarah is playing them like a fiddle and little weenie David Brooks will have his hat handed to him as will Mr. elitist bigshot George Will.
Her strategy of ignoring and not even talking to them will drive them crazy.
I love this approach and it seems to be working.
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posted on
05/30/2011 12:36:00 PM PDT
by
Utah Binger
(Inman FReepers Meet July 23 At the Maynard Dixon Home and Studio JR Too!)
To: GlockThe Vote
Brooks should at least admit that he’s not a conservative.
To: SeekAndFind
I think we can dismiss Brooks and the rest of the Faux Conservative writers.
Everything he said was a load of Bilge.
These idiots prefer “Stooges” like Romney, Gingrich, et.al., rather than any type of real individualists.
The more these guys and gals pile on Palin the more I like her and will support her.
Just to see her take the nomination and shake up the Old Boys RINO network in D.C. would be enough for me.
To: Texas Eagle
It bugs me to see Sugarland on stage looking gaga over the Won.
As long as they stay quiet, I won’t Dixie Chick them.
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posted on
05/30/2011 12:38:42 PM PDT
by
hattend
(Let's all meet Sarah at her last bus stop -- 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Jan 2013)
To: SeekAndFind
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