Is anyone else seeing a pattern here?
Yep!
Don’t think any of the above were ever particularly supportive in the first place...
Honestly if the coservative/republican ruling class honestly believes that the path to victory in November 2012 isw to trash Sarah Palin and by extension her supporters then you can pretty much say “Obama Re-Elected”. This would be like a dem trying to win a national election by distancing himself from blacks.
People are getting tired?
I guess that is a “pattern”. I’m not tired.
Who cares what the establishment bitches postulate.
Our betters in the media have spoken. /s
It’s interesting that Paul Gigot, and EVERYONE KNOWS he is the voice of the GOP, has decided that Palin isn’t a contender...but that, somehow, her endorsement is valuable.
Ten months ago, Gigot and his WSJ editorial staff were waxing eloquent about Palin's sophisticated understanding of monetary policy and the negative effects of QE2:
"The former Alaskan Governor showed sound political and economic instincts by inveighing forcefully against the Federal Reserve's latest round of quantitative easing. According to the prepared text of remarks that she released to National Review online, Mrs. Palin also exhibited a more sophisticated knowledge of monetary policy than any major Republican this side of Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan."Now that the hour of her decision approaches, Mr. Gigot says if Palin had spent more time boning up on economics and how the world works, she may have had a shot.
Yeah, I see a pattern...panic.
Governor Palin needs QUALITY in her supporters, not necessarily QUANTITY...
...so it's just as well that she gets rid of all the "squishy" ones now.There is, of course, the Biblical precedent of Gideon
2 The LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many men.I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, ‘My own strength has saved me.’
3 Now announce to the army, ‘Anyone who trembles with fear [i.e., any of you squishy establishment RINOs] may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’”
So twenty-two thousand men left, while ten thousand remained...
For someone who so “finished”, they can’t shut up about her!
I’m just getting warmed up.
Run, Sarah, Run!
I see pure palin panic!
Pattern?
More like a drumbeat from so called conservatives!
I think the republicans are restless and are stewing for a bloody nose!
Yes, the GOP establishment elite feel threatened by Palin and the tea party.
To expand on what Rush always says, to know who they fear, look at who they attack. Well, look who the GOP elitists find acceptable as alternatives to Palin and you'll see that she is the one the GOP truly fears. Not because she would lose but because when she wins, they lose. Palin + Tea Party takeover of congress and those guys are SOL. The GOP elites have no love of country, they love themselves and their power.
You betcha!
I’m sure she’s up at night wondering what happened to her political glamour.
She’s raked in over 20 million since the last election, wrote two best selling books, a hit tv show, has travelled around the country and the world to huge audiences and crowds and even huger paychecks, has still outdrawn all the other GOP candidates in appearances even though she isn’t running and the media has spent the last 2 years convincing everyone that she won’t run and that she has no chance in any event.
Sounds to me like her post 2008 future was pretty bright.
Her poll #s may be a bit worse vs Obama at the moment, but no worse than those of many others who would eventually go on to win a nomination or a general election. Reagan was down 30 points to Carter in 1980. I bet Gigot was one of those saying “we need John Connally or George Bush, Reagan just can’t win”. Gore was down 20 points to Bush in Sept of 1999 and he ended up winning the popular vote(and if not for Nader and/or Elian Gonzales would have won the electoral vote). Kerry had a 12 pt lead on Bush in Feb of 2004. Polls this far out mean nothing.
Obama was down 20-25 pts to Hillary at this point in 2007. I wonder what he was thinking about his political glamour.
And yet, despite all of this, he’s still writing about her. If she’s so irrelevant why does he even waste time on her? He says she’s an afterthought then goes on to spend a whole column on her. Nice.
In fact, she’s such an afterthought that Gigot’s bosses at the WSJ are likely paying her more to show up on FOX for a few minutes every few weeks or so than they are for him to edit an entire paper for the whole year. Who’s the dumb one?
She’s one of the most famous people in the country. She gets paid more to go somewhere and give a half hour speech than she made in an entire year as Governor.
Public frustration was palpable? I didn’t see any evidence of that. And to back it up he quote someone from some anonymous think tank?
If there was little enthusiasm what does that say about Romney that even in NH she drew triple the crowd he did or bigger?
It’s amazing that all these experts like to tell her what she needs to do, what she doesn’t know. She obviously knows something that none of the others running do. How to get on a ticket. None of them have been on one. She’s been mayor, Governor, agency chairman, President of the state mayors conference, president of the interstate gas compact, etc...
I do find it interesting that so much of this is coming from NewsCorp entities at FOX and the WSJ. You’d think given that she’s on the payroll they’d have a different take.
I’m sure she’s up at night wondering what happened to her political glamour.
She’s raked in over 20 million since the last election, wrote two best selling books, a hit tv show, has travelled around the country and the world to huge audiences and crowds and even huger paychecks, has still outdrawn all the other GOP candidates in appearances even though she isn’t running and the media has spent the last 2 years convincing everyone that she won’t run and that she has no chance in any event.
Sounds to me like her post 2008 future was pretty bright.
Her poll #s may be a bit worse vs Obama at the moment, but no worse than those of many others who would eventually go on to win a nomination or a general election. Reagan was down 30 points to Carter in 1980. I bet Gigot was one of those saying “we need John Connally or George Bush, Reagan just can’t win”. Gore was down 20 points to Bush in Sept of 1999 and he ended up winning the popular vote(and if not for Nader and/or Elian Gonzales would have won the electoral vote). Kerry had a 12 pt lead on Bush in Feb of 2004. Polls this far out mean nothing.
Obama was down 20-25 pts to Hillary at this point in 2007. I wonder what he was thinking about his political glamour.
And yet, despite all of this, he’s still writing about her. If she’s so irrelevant why does he even waste time on her? He says she’s an afterthought then goes on to spend a whole column on her. Nice.
In fact, she’s such an afterthought that Gigot’s bosses at the WSJ are likely paying her more to show up on FOX for a few minutes every few weeks or so than they are for him to edit an entire paper for the whole year. Who’s the dumb one?
She’s one of the most famous people in the country. She gets paid more to go somewhere and give a half hour speech than she made in an entire year as Governor.
Public frustration was palpable? I didn’t see any evidence of that. And to back it up he quote someone from some anonymous think tank?
If there was little enthusiasm what does that say about Romney that even in NH she drew triple the crowd he did or bigger?
It’s amazing that all these experts like to tell her what she needs to do, what she doesn’t know. She obviously knows something that none of the others running do. How to get on a ticket. None of them have been on one. She’s been mayor, Governor, agency chairman, President of the state mayors conference, president of the interstate gas compact, etc...
I do find it interesting that so much of this is coming from NewsCorp entities at FOX and the WSJ. You’d think given that she’s on the payroll they’d have a different take.
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