Posted on 08/20/2011 11:45:34 PM PDT by Windflier
I’ve been approached several times today by doubters who advance arguments as to why Sarah Palin cannot win the nomination, or if she secures it, why she can’t defeat Barack Obama.
All of the theories I’ve had pitched in my direction today share a couple common faults, and it’s important to point them out here. The most common reason I’ve heard today is the belief that the Media will destroy her. That’s silly. Is there a single Republican, never mind conservative, who the media will not seek to destroy to defend their darling, Barack Obama?
Anybody who watched the media in action after McCain’s nomination in 2008 should by now be thoroughly disabused of that shoddy notion. The Lame-Stream Media has been trying for three years running to destroy Sarah Palin, and there is no chance, having failed thus far, that they will improve results on their limited success.
The problem is that if the media narrative about a person is based on lies, in the longer run, those lies lose effectiveness as people learn the truth from other sources, and worse yet, the lies come back to haunt their purveyors because once the audience, having originally believed them, in the second instance realizes they’ve been scammed, they will thereafter no longer be inclined to believe another pronouncement given voice by that source.
The second most common flaw in the arguments I’ve been hearing and reading today is the dubious assumption that she’s an intellectual lightweight. Truthfully, there couldn’t be a more ridiculous claim upon which to base one’s criticisms, and yet this is the default argument of those who wish to suggest that Sarah Palin isn’t qualified.
It’s the constant harangue of the elite media types, and it has been a failure repeatedly. They tried to paint a similar picture of Ronald Reagan, and in fact, every Republican in my memory.
It’s a claim that falls on deaf ears in most quarters, because in the final analysis, it’s simply not believable given all she has already accompished. Having covered what critics have said, let me move on to my own list of reasons in opposition to these notions.
I firmly believe that Sarah Palin will run, win the nomination, and ultimately the Presidency.
Not in the primaries she won’t, she will split the vote with Perry and Romney will sneak in.
Perry is more electable.
“Perry is more electable.”
Yes, that is what I meant, not “better” “electable”.
The one big advantage to Palin is that the MSM has already thrown everything at her; and also that she doesn’t give a hoot what they say about her, so that is good.
However, I’ve got some lingering doubts.
She was OK stylistically in that debate with Biden, but he came out with some howlers and she let them pass by.
I forget them, but they were pretty glaring at the time.
He said something crazy at the end, I forget the details, but it was right up there with the “poland not under soviet domination” remark in terms of truth and accuracy.
She didn’t pounce on that at all, which is why I can’t remember it. Because if she had it would have been the talk of the town for days and we’d all remember it.
She’s great Sarah Palin, I love her to death, but well, we’ll see what happens.
Windflier, thanks for posting a bit of my article. I’ve been pretty busy lately, and haven’t been back over here in a week or so. Thanks for the compliment. You’re right: I actually paid extra to dispense with advertising, so I make no gain whatsoever by clicks, except I suppose a wider exposure. I decided I didn’t want to annoy my readers much more than I wanted some modest revenue stream of some sort for the inconvenience and eye-poking nature of most advertising on the Internet. Thanks for noticing. Of course, there’s the big ugly with the hat on the left margin, but you’ll just have to deal with that. Don’t whine. I have to LIVE with that...LOL Thanks! Mark
The truth is Sarah Palin still has the stink of Juan McLaim on her..
She has tried to wash it off... BUT the stink is strong.. very very strong..
Supporting Orin Hatch doesn’t help either.. the odor of Romney is ripe.. suggest staying away from him..
I like Sarah but she MUST wash off if she intends to run...
Bachmann seems to be a bit more careful.. maybe she has a better nose..
Nixon. He was despised. But, he waited until he got to the White House to quit.
Palin will split the conservative vote?
Who is the other conservative, that conservatives should submit to?
Perry is the other conservative in the race that will divide conservatives.
True, Palin is the chose for conservatives.
Palin and Perry will split the conservative vote in the primaries.
When I look back at how she handled the negative waves after the election we see that at the time when she held the chief executive office, when she held, I think, control of the Legislature, she was either incapable or unwilling to win in Alaska.
I understand she was financially beleaguered and I understand that the state was to some degree suffering by the Democrats' scorched earth war against her with ethics complaints. But, for whatever reason, she did not turn it around then against charges that subsequently have been proved to be baseless and that performance does not give me confidence that she will be able to it turn around on the national stage against the whole of the establishment media.
It is now 3 years since Tina Fey and Katie Couric took her apart on national television and she has not put herself back together for the mass of the country since.
This is not so much a question whether she can be nominated but whether she can be elected when the jury changes stripes. I agree with you, once a candidate acquires nomination he or she acquires a degree of legitimacy, but not always. I am old enough to have lived through the Barry Goldwater debacle and I will never forget what the media did to him. By the end of the campaign my neighbors thought he was a raving racist and a nutcase who would no doubt blow up the world.
I once attended a rally for Barry Goldwater and personally witnessed his supporters unable to gain admission to the event because there were so many of them. I went home, turned on the 11 o'clock news and was astonished to see that my eyes had been lying to me. Through the magic of television his supporters had morphed into protesters.
These are the realities which I have seen. The question is, is the risk of electability carried by Sarah Palin worth taking a chance when we could have almost everything we get with Palin in Bachmann or even in Perry with the last being eminently more electable?
A couple of days ago I put it this way in a reply:
"As for Palin, we know we would get a bona fide conservative but we fear she cannot get elected. My subjective conclusion is that her disadvantages concerning electability are more to be feared than Perry's defections from orthodox conservatism. I weigh the likelihood of the two and the degree of harm from the two and come up with a subjective judgment: if we lose the election we lose everything (and that includes our whole experiment in democracy) but if we get Perry, we get almost everything.
"I fully understand a subjective judgment that says we have got into this mess because we had 12 years of Rinos, 8 of them out of Texas, and we don't need any more. In other words, if we win the election with Perry, we won't get much of anything."
We will know soon whether Palin is going to force this decision upon us.
Palin is running circles around the nitwits at The Ministry of Truth. She (intelligently) is refusing to engage them on their battlefield. All the rest, Romney, Bachman, all of them are dancing like puppets for the idiots in “journalism”. She has something big up her sleeve IMHO. Time will tell but I will say this, we cannot have another election like those in the past where “it doesn’t matter much who wins”.
All the best.
“She (intelligently) is refusing to engage them on their battlefield.”
Yeah, but she won’t be able to continue to do that once she becomes a bona fide candidate.
She’ll have to do the debates, the meet and greets, etc.
Nobody can run a “front porch” campaign nowadays.
We’ll have to see if she gets in, how she does in the debates, and look at some polls.
The one thing I would say is she should not be the veep nom. again, that’s just really going to turn people off.
And on that subject I agree with whoever said it where ever it was that neither Romney nor Perry would take the veep slot. Bachmann probably would.
I’m actually liking the last 2 veeps, well of course I only like Cheney, Biden’s a moron (but he seems to be a worker, and I respect that). But the older, more experienced pol as veep is good I think. And it prevents the creation of an heir apparent.
The above statement is, of course, inoperable in the case of Marco Rubio.
As long as Palin wins, I don’t care about the fringe people and moderates.
That is very true...many of my apolitical conservative friends have swallowed the baloney. That said, with hard work by her and the grass roots, that perception can be overcome.
Do you know who Gov. Perry is?
...I start to wonder if some bone-brained schmuck isn't sitting there with two P.C.s and a laptop, all on different ISP's with unique "Absolute Adresses" posting as several people, all of whom simply "love each other's brilliance and beauty..."
Because, quite frankly, the cynical defeatist drivel offered up by Nate B. in fact deserves but to be ignored by actual thinking Americans, not applauded like some particularly prescient precept.
"I can’t think of a single politician so thoroughly loathed by the MSM, and whose image is so set at this point in the presidential election season. If Palin runs, in order to win she has to overcome a media blockade unlike any other."
Ahem. Ummmm, the Lamestream Misleadia has spent the last three years attempting to knock her off her pins with every imaginable onslaught available, tired to shut her up and convince America that she's already all washed up.
I guess you haven't noticed, but...
...they failed. Badly. Monstrously. Indelibly. Forever. Sarah Palin is better known and better liked today than when they started their assault on her all those years ago. Her Facebook fan base has tripled over the last two years. Her volunteer ground support has organized ready-to-launch teams of "get out the voter" commandos in virtually every State in the Union, basically as a response to the FAILED media attempts to destroy her.
Anyone who at this point thinks they can effectively point to the media's repeatedly ineffective assassinations of Palin as a reason why she cannot win is simply and quite obviously as blind to the truth as they'd like to paint us as being.
In fact... they, like the media, are just whistling past the graveyard. Make no mistake.
Sarah Palin is coming, and the TEA Party is coming with her.
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