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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

Plenty of Sunday morning airtime was devoted yesterday to Sarah Palin. George Will says it's common knowledge she shouldn't be trusted with nuclear weapons.

Andrew Sullivan says he's afraid she will run because there's a possibility she could beat Obama.

David Brooks essentially thinks she's a joke.

"Yeah. But, you know, being president is waking up, somebody hands you the crisis and said, "There's a crisis in Venezuela. What are you going to do about it?" Does any, does anybody think Sarah Palin's ready for that? I don't think so. So she can manage her brand.

But running for president is not "American Idol." And I, I think people may agree with her, they may like her, but that doesn't mean they're going to vote for her. And so I--you know, the other thing is she's just not a team player. This is a team sport. Just take one little thing she did this week. She's taking her bus up to New Hampshire.

She doesn't call the Republican Party in New Hampshire, tell, tell them where she's going to appear, what she's going to do. So you got to play as part of the party, you got to play as part of the team.

She's not a team player. I don't think people are going to think she's qualified."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: davidbrooks; palin; pds; potus; rinopurge; sarahpalin; smellthefear; waronsarah; whitehouse
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To: stormer

Godwins law isn’t really a “law” of logic,,, you DO know that don’t you?


81 posted on 05/30/2011 9:37:02 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: Jim Noble
Without reading any following replies, I hereby nominate you for best response here and maybe for the day.

Sarah Palin clearly has not decided whether the GOP is part of the solution or part of the problem.

82 posted on 05/30/2011 9:37:32 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: SUSSA
Sarah has the national socialists more than worried. She scares the hell out of them.

Isn't it great??

83 posted on 05/30/2011 9:37:59 AM PDT by Tammy8 (~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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To: Chandalier

No way she would be worse than the dufus we have in there now.


84 posted on 05/30/2011 9:39:56 AM PDT by Let's Roll (Save the world's best healthcare - REPEAL, DEFUND Obamacare!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Seeing that her campaign strategy thus far (I’m assuming she will run) would impress Sun Tzu, I don’t thing the country has anything to worry about should President Palin be faced with a crisis.

She also plainly knows how to delegate (as proved by her resignation as Governor of Alaska: she trusted her Lieutenant Governor would carry on the program without her being there to oversee it).

Sullivan’s concern she could win is based on the fact he seems to be the only person on the left who has actually looked at the real Sarah Palin, rather than the media-left echo-chamber’s caricature.


85 posted on 05/30/2011 9:41:13 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: SeekAndFind

Not only would President Sarah be able to handle a crisis, she will have to deal with dozens of crisis, all of the present Marxist regime’s making - fomenting havoc in the middle east governments so that muslim brotherhood parties can rule, creating the crisis of putting Israel in jeopardy, energy crisis (little to no drilling, coal, etc), crisis in the dollar, crisis of the 1.6 trillion deficit, crisis of the 14+ trillion debt, and so on. With all the dozens of big crisis, hundreds of mini-crisis, and perhaps thousands of implanted metastasis crisis that will show up years down the road, the last thing we need is another 4 year zer0 regime to continue their wrecking ball destruction of Our society.


86 posted on 05/30/2011 9:41:58 AM PDT by C210N (0bama, Making the US safe for Global Marxism)
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To: Yaelle

You are right- seriously Obama is THE American Idol President, that is what is so humerous about this.


87 posted on 05/30/2011 9:41:58 AM PDT by Tammy8 (~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, for one thing, I don’t think she’d take care of it by heading to Ireland for a beer.


88 posted on 05/30/2011 9:42:32 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Grut

Think of every time she has left Alaska since resigning,,,including the current tour. Can you imagine the screeching that Alaska was being left without a leader?

And they were filig a new lawsuit every few weeks,,which she had to pay for OUT OF POCKET, including a lawsuit to prevent her from having a legal defense fund. It was an untenable position finacially, and it worked against her being able to challenge the Obamunist.

And it caught them utterly off-guard.


89 posted on 05/30/2011 9:42:58 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: Pollster1
NH Republican Party establishment types stuck us with David Souter, the deciding vote in perhaps the worst Supreme Court decision in history.

Sarah is welcome to travel to any State without asking anybody, just like any other U.S. citizen.

90 posted on 05/30/2011 9:44:12 AM PDT by hellbender
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To: RightWingConspirator

David Brooks and Chris “a tingle up and down my leg” Matthews share the same sexual persuasion. Obama really “turns them on”.

they say gays can instantly recognize each other,,,,


91 posted on 05/30/2011 9:44:51 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: SeekAndFind

but he thinks Obama was well qualified and is doing a great job?
...even George Will, said he prefers Obama to Palin.

with conservatives like these advising us, who needs libs?


92 posted on 05/30/2011 9:47:14 AM PDT by Elendur (the hope and change i need: Sarah / Colonel West in 2012)
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To: The_Reader_David

“Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent s fate.”
— Sun Tzu

Hmmmm sounds like Sarah just THIS weekend. lol


93 posted on 05/30/2011 9:50:04 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: KoRn

Don’t forget his perfectly creased pants!! I had no idea that was an indication of quality leadership...obviously it is not.


94 posted on 05/30/2011 9:51:23 AM PDT by Tammy8 (~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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To: stormer

Godwin is an idiot. The problem with Godwin’s law is that, somewhere, the national socialists actually will rise to power again. That means sooner or later, it fails. You’ve done your part for the cause, storm trooper.


95 posted on 05/30/2011 9:51:23 AM PDT by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, Paradise Lost)
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To: Chandalier

If George Will and David Brooks are against Sarah, I want her to be president all the more.


96 posted on 05/30/2011 9:51:32 AM PDT by y6162
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To: Wiser now
The woman has five children and she isn’t capable of handling a crisis? It seems to me she has already handled at least two, a disabled child and an unplanned grandchild. The woman has five children but she cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons?

And chief of the Alaska National Guard.

First line of defense against attack from over the North Pole.

and I believe the only guard on active duty 24/7.

97 posted on 05/30/2011 9:53:48 AM PDT by spokeshave (Obamas approval ratings are so low, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the USA.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Does anyone think a man-child community rabble-rousing, UN-American Socialist POS with a sharp crease in their trousers would make a great president?

Yes.

Blithering IDIOT and f'ing RINO MORON - David Brooks.

98 posted on 05/30/2011 9:56:24 AM PDT by DocH (Official Right-Wing Extremist Veteran Seal Of Approval)
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To: varon

The GOP establishment is included in the national socialists group.


99 posted on 05/30/2011 9:56:32 AM PDT by SUSSA
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To: SeekAndFind

We once had a president who had phone sex with an intern over an unsecured line, leaving this country wide open to blackmail. He went over a year without holding a full cabinet meeting due to his little distractions. I wonder if David thought that president could be trusted to handle a crisis.


100 posted on 05/30/2011 9:59:26 AM PDT by FlyVet
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