Posted on 04/29/2020 5:58:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
In 2008, the American political landscape was electrified by the emergence of Sarah Palin. As a governor of Alaska, Palin's selection to be John McCain's vice presidential running mate added energy to McCain's relatively lethargic campaign against Senator Barack Obama. Palin's hockey mom speech was well received at the Republican National Convention that summer. Her populism continues to embody a sizable component of American politics. Her skyrocketing fame was brought back to Earth in the fall of 2008 by the revelation of an important statement she made during the campaign: "She could see Russia from her house." That turned out to not be the case — rather, Tina Fey, who made a fortune managing a parody of Sarah Palin that fall, had created a fictional character that had supplanted reality.
A similar political absurdity is being attempted this week. After a Thursday-afternoon press conference where President Trump extolled new scientific research on the power of disinfectants and UV rays from sunlight to breakdown and destroy the coronavirus, journalists at the White House meeting, and now, in a fantasy theme chain, elaborate how President Trump encouraged Americans to inject themselves with or drink Lysol, bleach, and any number of other toxic substances to beat the viral threat. Our intellectual culture continues to attempt the character assassination of President Trump. While 50,000 Americans and more die from this virus, the intellectual culture led by the Washington Press corps seeks to make a partisan advantage and finally drive the president out of the public sphere and out of the office of the presidency.
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And now it seems that the guy who “took Trump’s advice by drinking cleaning fluid” was probably murdered by his wife who was making the claim.
Meh.
I was never “electrified” by Sarah Palin, because she wasn’t running for the actual presidency.
Unless the actual candidate is on their last legs the VP figures so far down on my list of presidential attributes that I would need binoculars to see them.
Sarah was foolish not to see that nasty old globalist hardliner for what he was. Had she stayed in Alaska she might be president now, or looking good in 24.
Palin is why Trump is President.
Her endorsement for Iowa was critical.
Had she endorsed Cruz or someone else, Trump would not have won.
Polls are also clear that Palin helped McCain. McCain was pathetic. Palin gave him a chance against Obama.
Palin only gave McCain a chance with voters who do not comprehend how little the vice president influences policy.
Obama may indeed have been the lesser of two globalist evils in 2008, Certainly a McCain presidency would have destroyed the Republican Party for all time, leaving American Nationalists with no party to go to on securing the illegal immigration problem.
I voted for the Constitution Party candidate for that exact reason.
Palin’s first major speech was fantastic. She nailed the hypocrisy of the left many times in a way McStain never could do. I was such a fan of hers that night and was brimming over with optimism.
After that, it was downhill for her.
While her values were totally in the right place, she was pathetically inarticulate and intellectually shallow.
Especially painful was to watch her field foreign policy questions. While her Russia comment was unfairly criticized, her shallow knowledge of foreign policy issues was nothing short of embarrassing. I cringed watching her in the debates.
Thankfully she’s no longer a prominent face in conservative politics because she was such easy fodder for ridicule.
I realize there are many here who don’t see this at all and sorry if the truth is offensive.
The problem with this ridicule is its danger to the public. We are told that Americans are actually considering injecting themselves with these toxic remedies and that calls to poison control are up.All of this fits the fantasy theme of an intellectual culture that views the president as a madman aimed at delusional assaults on his fellow citizens.
Where did the people get the idea to inject themselves with Lysol or bleach? The obvious answer is the media and their amplifying cousins in social media.
It is dangerous in our politically reactionary society to criticize the president for advocating something he did not say. It plants the idea regardless of any caustic ridicule container with which it may be offered.
Same with Tina Fey - without Palin, Tina would be another comedic hack waiting on their big break.
I remember that, but I think the antics of Bristol Palin are what really brought her mother's career crashing down.
Well, Pence is doing an incredible and important job as vice President on the Coronavirus crisis.
Moreover, if the President dies, the VP becomes President. That happened with Coolidge and Harding. Obviously with Johnson and Kennedy.
Biden is the nominee for the Democrats primarily because he was VP.
I really think conservatives need to think more deeply about people like Palin and the larger Cause.
The idea that she, Bush, and other”rinos” were fools is simply not true.
Our intellectual culture is gravely corrupt and committed to destroying the personal lives of ever person who speaks out against the corruption. When we pretend that Palin was insignificant or misguided, we play into that process.
I do not think it will be many more years before Freepers speak of Trump as they now speak of Bush and maybe Palin.
They will still be wrong and fundamentally betraying the eternal cause of conservatism.
Trump is a unique individual chosen to attack the attackers. Palin saw that better than most.
She wasn’t a fool but she was not running for the presidency, now was she?
She was a side show, and allowing John McCain to deliver the Republican party up as another driving force in unrestricted immigration had to be stopped.
What Sarah Palin’s positions were became irrelevant after she was hitched to the unlimited amnesty Republicans.
Palin was and remains much more persuasive to the average American populist than John McCain.
McCain chose her because she was and is Rogue.
He probably liked her because she back stabbed a Republican senator in Alaska— which was honestly probably a mistake.
Nontheless, she was and remains important. As previously noted, her endorsement in 2016 was imperative to the success of Trump.
It was irrelevant both to myself and the constituency of which I am a part.
The border needs to be secured so we are not swamped with socialist and Muslim voters.
My original candidate, Ted Cruz’s wife is employed by Goldman Sachs to write legislation trying to form a North American Union.
That left Donald Trump my only candidate.
Palin’s got nothing to do with it.
Looks like she got one...A big break, that is...Making commercials for Allstate...
The comment she “could see Russia from my house” was not meant to be taken literally, but referred to the fact the US and Russia do technically share a border in the Bering Straits if the separation between Little (US) and Big (Russia) Diomede Islands of about 2 miles is taken into account...
If anything, Sarah was still naive and unsophisticated in the ways of the media, and innocently gave them a bone to chew on, and a quote to torment her with...
I held my nose and voted for McLame only in hopes he’d quickly kick off and Sarah Palin would become POTUS...She was the brains on that ticket, IMHO...
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