Posted on 07/10/2011 1:13:27 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
'I believe that I can win a national election,' Sarah Palin declared one recent evening, sitting in the private dining room of a hotel in rural Iowa. The occasion for her visit to quintessential small-town America was a gathering of the faithful that would have instantaneously erupted into a fervent campaign rally had she but given the word. Instead, it had been another day on the non–campaign trail, this one capped by a sweet victory: she had just attended the premiere of a glowingly positive documentary about her titled The Undefeated.
“The people of America are desperate for positive change, and deserving of positive change, to get us off of this wrong track,” she told me during a conversation that lasted late into the night and, inevitably, kept returning to the subject that has titillated the media and spooked Republican presidential contenders for months: her political intentions. “I’m not so egotistical as to believe that it has to be me, or it can only be me, to turn things around,” she said. “But I do believe that I can win.”
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If Palin doesn’t end up running, the reason will be simple, she said. “Family. If it came down to the family just saying, ‘Please, Mom, don’t do this,’ then that would be the deal-killer for me, because your family’s gotta be in it with you.”
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The mainstream press is becoming less and less relevant,” she said, adding that she would have no hesitation in shunning media outlets she does not trust.
“I would say no to those who have lied about me. There is no need to reward bad behavior. I’ve learned. You know, once bitten, twice shy. I have learned.”
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Sarah just re-tweeted the link to her Sugar Daddy Facebook entry. She is so sly. She is dishing out what will certainly be the first subject discussed on Morning Joe tomorrow, and continue throughout the day on MSNBC. This Newsweek article will give them “she won’t talk to us” fodder, to which I say boo f’ing hoo.
I’m sorry, I just realized what you were saying. And I certainly see your point. My apologies.
Jack Wheeler: Last Saturday (8.18), a once enormously influential man in Washington died. He was eulogized in every important newspaper from the New York Times to the Wall St. Journal to the Washington Times. Let me tell you a completely unknown story about him.
Before his presidency, Ronald Reagan lived for many years in California. On a regular basis, he had his hair cut at his favorite barbershop in Beverly Hills. After his election and before he moved to Washington, a friend of mine was assigned to his transition team. Thus he accompanied Mr. Reagan to his barbershop appointment.
My friend was startled to see an elderly man who just happened to be getting a haircut in the very next chair to which Mr. Reagan was seated. The elderly man immediately began chatting up Mr. Reagan. My friend was startled because the man was a Communist, the son of the founder of the Communist Party USA, one of America's richest and most powerful men who had made his fortune doing business with the Soviet Union since the days of Lenin.
His name was Armand Hammer.
My friend looked upon Armand Hammer with suspicious disgust but held his tongue. He was just a lowly transition guy. A fortnight later, it was time for another Reagan haircut - and sure enough, there in the barbershop chair next to Mr. Reagan's was Armand Hammer.
Now my friend was seriously alarmed. The president-elect's personal schedule and whereabouts was a highly-kept secret. For someone in league with the Soviets to know it meant that someone - Armand Hammer - had a mole within Mr. Reagan's team on his payroll.
For clearly, Hammer had paid his mole handsomely - and the barbershop owner - to secure a haircut chat with the next President of the United States.
My friend spoke quietly to the owner, informing him that obviously he had been bribed by Hammer and warned him he was guilty of a serious and jailable breach of national security.
My friend went on to be a senior advisor to President Reagan throughout both terms of his presidency. He made every effort to prevent Armand Hammer from meeting Mr. Reagan again. Yet ever so often, someone - he could never figure out who - arranged it.
My friend knew that someone in the president's inner circle was in the pay of Armand Hammer. It was only some years after the Reagan Presidency that he finally, through diligent intelligence contacts, learned the identity of Hammer's Mole.
It was the lionized fellow who died last Saturday - Michael Deaver.
The McCain camp did not want McCain to be outshone, and they gave Sarah boilerplate speeches to deliver. That’s the main reason that we have the Failure as President.
Well I wasn’t even alive 30 years ago, so there’s your answer.
” For the record, I do not have a preference for a conservative nominee. As far as I’m concerned, they’re all sub-par for various reasons “
She is inextricably tied to McCain, and is for “registration amnesty”
No sale!
Wait a minute. Just a few weeks ago, someone told me on another site that she was a phony, uninvolved mom who used her kids as props, esp. Trig. NOW we find out that she is incensed b/c Piper wants to cut her hair? Which is it? A micro-manager or an absentee mother? LOL
Well, knowing that she loves long hair on women and girls makes me love her even more! Is that possible? Nah! Bob
Registration amnesty? Huh? There were a lot of silly things that Sarah was scripted to say as VP nominee. I don’t think that she used the goofy term “predatory lenders” since the campaign ended, for example.
No problem. She DOES talk like that and the MSM seems to absolutely love quoting her colloquialisms in a way that’s meant to make her look less than articulate, a rube, not quite on *their* level of Ivy sophistication, They also made enormous fun of “W”s speech, who went to Andover, Yale and Harvard, but was from TX. The media is like Middle School where you’re either “one of us” or you aren’t.
Al Gore she isn’t, that’s for sure! And thank God for it.
I find Gov Palin to be perhaps the most extraordinary speaker in public life today. She may use colloquialisms in one-on-one conversations, and toss them out when speaking on the fly, but when she gives a speech, she is as clear as a bell, both in content and expression. I’ve never once seen her stumble, fall over her words, use ‘ummm’ or ‘ahhhh’ or the usual oratorical mistakes. She’s an infinitely better public speaker than someone known and loved by the MSM as the Orator of the Millennium (if not of all time).
” Registration amnesty? Huh? There were a lot of silly things that Sarah was scripted to say as VP nominee. I don’t think that she used the goofy term “predatory lenders” since the campaign ended, for example.”
As for registration amnesty go to Bill O’Reilly on You Tube.
There you go making sense again SJB. You nailed it.
Carry_Okie, I tend to agree with your comments too. You’ve addressed things I have said myself, with different verbiage but conveying almost the exact same thoughts.
I do have reservations about her former positions, whether they actually qualify her. I do have reservations about her being ready. I do not think she took advantage of a period of time when she could have improved her preparedness for the position. The reasons you stated seemed reasonable to me.
As for the media picking her, I am not as convinced as others that the media would be unhappy with her as president. Although she would definitely set them off at times, she’s not a rabid Conservative by any means.
She backed John McCain for re-election, one of the most Leftist people in the nation. Who are the top three enemies of Conservatism right now? If they’re on that list, John McCain has played patti-cake with them.
My point is, if they can’t have McCain, why not have the next best thing, a person that backed him and his policies to return to Washington, D.C.?
As SJB stated in his post, she is also a big fan of the register and stay put policy, another ‘not an amnesty’ amnesty.
The Leftist press isn’t going to be upset with that, I can assure you. And they won’t be upset by someone being mentored by John McCain either.
That’s my take on it.
This bears repeating. Abraham Lincoln knew virtually nothing about warfare and had little, if any military experience. Yet once he surrounded himself with the right generals (it did take a while), he exhibited the necessary leadership to win the Civil War and preserve the Union.
Ditto for chief executives in the business world. Steve Jobs probably couldn't fix a computer to save his life but his will, tenacity and clarity of vision has brought Apple from being six weeks from bankruptcy in 1997 to the largest technology company in the world, growing annual revenues from about $7b in 1997 to over $65b in 2010. This is because Jobs brought on the best people and incessantly drove them to be the best that they could be.
Intelligence (as measured by IQ) does not make a good leader. Albert Einstein, as intelligent as he was, was famously absent-minded and lacking in common sense. Do we need somebody like that leading our nation? No! Instead, we give him the leadership he needs (and tie his shoes for him) so that he can focus on coming up with the theory of relativity.
Sarah Palin is imbued with the leadership qualities that this nation needs. Once elected, she will gather the necessary people around her and will inspire them to get this nation turned in the right direction. That is exactly what other great leaders have done in the past, such as Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill.
Really? You're whimpering like a little girl, much more than Sarah.
We're going to war. The things that can go wrong will take care of themselves without us obsessing about them. You really should try to follow her example.
What’s the link for this? How did the friend later find out it was Deaver?
I am an old friend of a former close employee late in the life of Hammer. None of what you have related would surprise me. I’d would really like to have the nexus so as to have something solid with which to challenge him.
I think you can see this will be insufficient to register a impact on my friend. Too bad. His reactions are an excellent way to get verification.
So what’s the link to that particular article’s abstract? From the looks of the site, Wheeler publishes several paragraphs of each article.
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