Posted on 09/12/2011 4:35:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
CNN’s Don Lemon sure thinks so. And whether that’s a compliment or an insult depends on whether “Eliza Doolittle” refers more to the little miss with a Cockney accent or to the final fair lady of refinement. If the first, then it’s a compliment. If the second, not so much. Because in these anti-incumbent days, it appears to actually be preferable to be the street stroller selling flowers than the canary in a gilded cage. And, in fact, that’s precisely Lemon’s point — that Sarah Palin has become the princess of politics precisely through her populism.
Instead of ruing her lot as an outsider, she embraced it. And by doing so, in just a few years Palin has outmaneuvered, even leapfrogged her Professor Higgins, John McCain. So, regardless of her decision about a presidential run, Palin has positioned herself as the kingmaker of conservative politics.
How did she do it? Perhaps by sheer shrewdness or sheer luck, Palin spotted an opportunity early on with a growing chorus of other self-proclaimed outsiders, the tea party, and seized on it. Now, while the Republican straw polls, caucuses and debates play out, Palin simply orbits around it all, eclipsing her show’s extras, the supposed front-runners.
In fact, it can be argued that some of the front-runners ascended to their current positions because Sarah Palin helped them get there.
If she is Eliza Doolittle, then, she is an Eliza Doolittle of her own making — one who managed to make dropped letters and disconnected syllables sound as elegant as any aristocratic English. Does she then represent the exaltation of mediocrity, as some of my friends have argued? Or does she actually represent a new brand of excellence, one in which the historic ordinary is the standard by which to judge? For she does seem so ordinary … and yet she stands alone as one who can inspire even in the intrepid Ann Coulter “a moment of weakness.”
Whatever the reason, Sarah Palin is endlessly debatable, not just in terms of what political moves she might make but in terms of how she came to acquire the persona she has. To say anything definitive about Palin is difficult — and yet Lemon tries. He concludes his post with a decisive, “One thing is for sure”:
Palin loves the drama and the spotlight. And they appear to love her, too. So, the finale of this musical depends on none other than the star, the writer, the producer and the director of the show, Sarah Palin.
I am waiting for Charles Krauthammer to deem Sarah educated enough to be considered to sit in the big-girl chair in the Oval Office. Did he sign off on her bona fides? No? Then we all have to go with Mittens, the guy who has been chosen for us by the State-Run Media and the Democrat Party.
They just cannot get past Palin’s pulchritude.
Finally..........someone almost gets it.
It is her face ....her beautiful, joyful, honest face.
Bed! Bed! I couldn’t go to bed!
My head’s too light to try to set it down!
Sleep! Sleep!
I couldn’t sleep tonight.
Not for all the jewels in the crown!
I could have danced all night!
I could have danced all night!
And still have begged for more.
I could have spread my wings
And done a thousand things I’ve never done before.
I’ll never know what made it so exciting;
Why all at once my heart took flight. I only know when he
Began to dance with me I could have danced,
danced, danced all night!
“Just you wait”.....Obama...”Just you wait.”
Is Todd Palin one of the luckiest people on Earth or what?
Absolutely!
“Instead of ruing her lot as an outsider, she embraced it.”
She has to be on the outside right now since she thinks our “inside” is taking us down the drain.
Cheers!
Cold shower time.
That scene gives me goose-bumps EVERY time I see it: it is absolutely the sexiest, most irresistible film of a woman I've *ever* seen in a movie.
Cheers!
The RINO candidate’s song:
Well after all, Pickering, I’m an ordinary man,
Who desires nothing more than an ordinary chance,
to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants...
An average man am I, of no eccentric whim,
Who likes to live his life, free of strife,
doing whatever he thinks is best, for him,
Well... just an ordinary man...
BUT, Let a woman in your life and your serenity is through,
she’ll redecorate your home, from the cellar to the dome,
and then go on to the enthralling fun of overhauling you...
Let a woman in your life, and you’re up against a wall,
make a plan and you will find,
that she has something else in mind,
and so rather than do either you do something else
that neither likes at all You want to talk of Keats and Milton,
she only wants to talk of love,
You go to see a play or ballet, and spend it searching
for her glove, Let a woman in your life
and you invite eternal strife,
Let them buy their wedding bands for those anxious little hands...
I’d be equally as willing for a dentist to be drilling
than to ever let a woman in my life, I’m a very gentle man,
even tempered and good natured
who you never hear complain,
Who has the milk of human kindness
by the quart in every vein,
A patient man am I, down to my fingertips,
the sort who never could, ever would,
let an insulting remark escape his lips
Very gentle man...
But, Let a woman in your life,
and patience hasn’t got a chance,
she will beg you for advice, your reply will be concise,
and she will listen very nicely, and then go out
and do exactly what she wants!!!
You are a man of grace and polish,
who never spoke above a hush,
all at once you’re using language that would make
a sailor blush, Let a woman in your life,
and you’re plunging in a knife,
Let the others of my sex, tie the knot around their necks,
I prefer a new edition of the Spanish Inquisition
than to ever let a woman in my life I’m a quiet living man,
who prefers to spend the evening in the silence of his room,
who likes an atmosphere as restful as
an undiscovered tomb,
A pensive man am I, of philosophical joys,
who likes to meditate, contemplate,
far for humanities mad inhuman noise,
Quiet living man....
But, let a woman in your life, and your sabbatical is through,
in a line that never ends comes an army of her friends,
come to jabber and to chatter
and to tell her what the matter is with YOU!,
she’ll have a booming boisterous family,
who will descend on you en mass,
she’ll have a large wagnarian mother,
with a voice that shatters glass,
Let a woman in your life,
Let a woman in your life,
Let a woman in your life I shall never let a woman in my life.
Cheers!
Born February 11, 1964 in Sandpoint, ID (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
Charles R Heath, born in ID
Sarah Sheeran, born in WI
Both parents were US Citizens at the time of her birth (Meets the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)
Sarah Palin is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama ISN'T!
Rub salt in the wound, why don't you?
Full Disclosure: the legendary Mrs. Whiskers agrees: that Sarah is the luckiest *woman* on Earth.
Sounds like a match made in heaven!
Cheers!
Let’s see if you remember this one:
Brad Hall: “Iranians’ pains come mainly from Khomeini.”
Edwin Newman: Try it again.
Brad Hall: “Iranians’ pains come mainly from Khomeini.”
Edwin Newman: I think he’s got it!
Tom Snyder: Alright, I’ll buy that.
Brad Hall: “Khomeini’s reign is mainly based on pain.”
Edwin Newman: Let’s try something a bit more difficult. Environmental pollution in the Northeast.
Brad Hall: Northeast.. um.. uh..
“Terrain in Maine is stained with acid rain.”
Edwin Newman: By George, he’s got it.
Tom Snyder: If you say so, sir.
Brad Hall: “Terrain in Maine is stained with acid rain.”
Edwin Newman: And where’s the acid rain?
Brad Hall: “In Maine! In Maine!”
Edwin Newman: And what can they do in Maine?
Brad Hall: “Complain! Complain!”
All: “Iranians’ pains come from mainly from Khomeini!”
Tom Snyder: Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
All: “Terrain in Maine is stained with acid rain!”
This is an ongoing list of historical, popular, and Biblical people, as well as fictional characters and animals that Sarah Palin™ has been compared to on FR:
No, is it SNL? I know that a Brad Hall was on there and Edwin Newman was an NBC newsman.
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