Posted on 07/06/2011 6:08:47 PM PDT by Brices Crossroads
Ping!
Nice distillation.
I’ve really been enjoying your Palin posts—nice work.
Quitting was more honest than most politicians (obama/hilary) who keep their seats while campaigning.
Thanks..and cheers.
Why should she give up her strategic advantage?
To make it "fair" for the RINOs and 'Rats?
If they were any smarter than dirt, they would have never done anything that would get Sarah Palin to notice 'em.
The name Sherman is spat to this day in the south. Maybe you could find a figure less freighted with historic animosity with whom to compare. Tin-eared and poor judgment, imho.
Very insightful. Thanks
Excellent sir. Your deconstruction of Palin’s motives leave little to debate. She no doubt knew that her decision was unconventional, ergo easily lampooned. I too have watched her moves closely since the ‘08 election, and I would classify her as a political genius without equal in American history. How do you win? It is exactly as you intimate above... YOU FIGHT!
Thin-skinned and poorly understood... IMHO.
Similar note: We’re talking about Sun Tzu and Palin’s tactics over at
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/gop/2744750/posts?page=82
Let me add, if I may... Palin is a quitter in the same sense that Sherman quit the North... in order to lay waste to the South. The Dems are no doubt hoping that she does a little less “quitting” in the future.
Blunder into an historically offensive comparison out of regional naiveté, don’t be surprised to get hooted out of the room.
There is no excuse for making an unnecessary and inflammatory comparison. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that William Tecumseh Sherman is regarded more as a nut and a war criminal than anything else, among native southerners.
Why don’t you compare Sarah Palin glowingly to Henry Tudor in an attempt to woo Catholics next? Same thing.
I like the way you put that. A few more “quits” like that and there won’t be any Dems left.
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