Posted on 06/19/2011 1:04:04 PM PDT by EveningStar
What's with the hatred of Michele Bachmann at Free Republic lately?
I've seen some psychotic paranoid drivel about her secretly working for Mitt Romney, but apparently there's more to it than that.
Please help me out here, folks.
Yikes, I hadn’t seen that post, good question though.
Then you must be disgusted with Bachmann for not smacking down Rollins doing 'dirty work' by trashing Palin.
You won't see an answer, from any PDSer for that matter.
Considering that JR’s pic with SP appears in most every freepathon, one would think the PDS crowd might have a clue that the boss isn’t a PDS kinda dude.
But PDS does imply a lack of coherent, logical thought.
Sad. But true.
Funny, that.
Well said.
The only question about being the most powerful is whether she is the most powerful or the second most powerful Governor in the United States according to experts and historians.
USLaw.com: “Given its source, today’s article in the NYT entitled The Unusual Challenges Palin Faced in Alaska is remarkably balanced and informative. As PrestoPundit Greg Ransom notes, though, in his post linking the article”
Remember when the Democrat press wouldn’t stop telling us about how Texas has a “weak Governor” system, when Bush was running for President? Well, don’t expect them to talk much about the fact that Alaska has the most powerful governor in the country.
New York Times:
That said, by other measures, Alaska is harder to govern than a smaller, more settled realm in the Lower 48. With vast distances, large numbers of indigenous peoples and a narrowly based extraction economy — with a handful of giant multinational oil corporations dominating the game — some economists say a country like Nigeria might be an apter comparison.
“Alaska really is a colonial place,” said Stephen Haycox, a professor of history at the University of Alaska Anchorage. “One third of the economic base is oil; another third is federal spending. The economy is extremely narrow and highly dependent. It’s not to say that Alaska is a beggar state, but it certainly is true that Alaska is dependent on decisions made outside it, and over which Alaskans don’t have great control.”
Overlaid across all of that is a distinctly informal Alaskan style. At the annual governor’s picnic, usually held in July, the governor is expected to turn the brats and burgers on the grill — something Ms. Palin has done with gusto — with cabinet members in aprons rounding out the kitchen staff. Alaska also came of political age recently, which has meant two crucial things to Ms. Palin’s rise and experience as governor.
First, the State Constitution concentrates power in the governor’s office more thoroughly than in almost any other state — a legacy of the late 1950s, historians say, when statehood and a simultaneous trend all over the country toward elevating executive authority coincided.
Alaskan governors can edit legislation and their vetoes are tougher for lawmakers to overcome. In the numerical scale of power devised by Thad Beyle, a political scientist at the University of North Carolina, only Massachusetts’ governor has a mightier tool kit.
Second, inch-deep history has meant that the leading lights of statehood are not mere names in history books but are in many cases still around and even still in power, like Senator Ted Stevens and Representative Don Young, both Republicans with decades under their belts in Washington. That old guard is still revered by some Alaskans, but it is disdained by others who have been on the lookout for fresh Republican faces.
It is in that densely layered Alaskan mix that Ms. Palin rose, governed and must be understood, academics and people in both parties say — not as merely a governor, or a woman, but as an Alaskan.
“The frontier mentality, whether myth or not, is still alive,” said Donald Linky, director of the Program on the Governor, at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University.
Political organizations and the careful grooming of rising stars have long been part of the political culture in creating governors-to-be in many other states, Mr. Linky said. Not so in Alaska, and elsewhere in the West.
Thatcher was not the leader of the largest free nation in the world. On the other hand Thatcher had RR backing her. Thatcher was the last UK Conservative and they are well on their way to third world staus. Thatcher was great for the UK in the times they were in.
The U.S. is not the UK and this is not 1980's. Look around you. Every POTUS since Poppy has had us in a state of ongoing war. We are in a world of hurt. I want someone entering the office of POTUS with EXPERIENCE in the White House on Janurary 2013. I do not want someone who is going to call up the Bush/McCain clan and ask what do we do next. I don't just want a new POTUS I want one far removed from McCain and Da Bushes.
Good post!
Perhaps your perception of both Mr. Robinson and those who favor another candidate or haven’t decided yet needs some tweaking. I’ve been called all sorts of names for not supporting Gov. Palin: PDSer, “hater”, Romney-supporter, Huckabee-supporter, troll, RINO, DUer, liar (yeah, but there a different nuance than a DUer), even homosexual. The thing is, I don’t hate the woman; I just don’t support her as a presidential candidate. There are those FReepers who seem to believe if one does not fully and completely support Gov. Palin for president, that means the person hates her. There *is* an area in between. A rather large one.
I don’t want to speak for the powers that be here, but I like to think they’re smart enough to realise that just because they support a candidate doesn’t mean that everyone else who doesn’t (or doesn’t yet) support that same candidate isn’t a horrible person.
(Btw, please excuse any errors since due to the 503s, I’m not previewing)
I hope you're wearing your asbestos undies, LOL!
Once Jim entered the thread, I was in quicksand. When I find myself sinking in quicksand, I stop moving around. I’m done with this thread.
No hatred from me. I will ask her to not hang her rope to Mitt Romney. I think she has a lot to say and she should do it.
So we were correct in questioning your motives and describing your intention.
This is a Bachmann thread, keep it that way.
I haven't followed her that close to be honest. Palin is the one some are trying to force upon the masses but my same basic objections about Palin apply to her as well. Not the right time. Give it 4-8 year whan the crisis upon us has passed. I want to remind some that this near cult worship of one canidate got us in part where we are today. The GOP did it and Bush got in which paved the way for Obama a bigger disaster.
The appointment POTUS will have to make need to be based on knowledge and not political favors owed. Now John Bolton for Sec of State would be a plus as well as Sec of Def. Bolton over Palin for POTUS? Bolton would get my vote.
There are plenty of reasons, legit ones, to not support SP. The PDS here however is insane.
My perception is just fine thanks. Take a look at the posts here about the “diva’ and ‘her holiness’ etc. Also, what exactly do you expect those of us who support SP for the big chair to do when her competition hires RINO attack dogs? Roll over and show our bellies? Not gonna happen.
When I personally comment that MB hired said known RINO attack dog after he went after SP, how is that in any way incorrect? She hired him knowing what he is, what he does and what his relationship to the GOP and SP is. Is it therefore incorrect that such a person should be called on it? Please explain how.
Now if you have an issue with SP that’s legit, by all means, voice it and I’m sure any number of people will discuss it with you rationally. But devolve into the “diva’ bs, and you will rightly be called a PDSer. What else would you (generally speaking) be?
Bug off, I posted to the writer of this vanity thread which was intended to become a Palin bashing thread and help either Romney or Giuliani while creating more anti-Palin sentiment.
Yes your highness....not.
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