Palin, Populism and Potential...(MSM &dRAT hatred of Sarah Palin may be the key to future)

Intellectual Conservative ^ | December 28, 2008 | Steven D. Laib

[Al B.]

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[screaminsunshine]

Simple..Conservative women can not be alloed to suceed. It would mess up the left wing template of women need the government to save them from evil white men.

[Rodney Dangerfield]

Excellent and well-written article, and one that will never see the likes of a major, liberal newspaper.

This is what real journalism looks like, not the 8th grade “I’ve got a crush on Obama and BTW, isn’t he sooooo dreamy” crap we’ve been seeing/reading/hearing for the last two years.

[MathDoc]

Good commentary. Thank you.

[NeilGus]

BINGO

[LiberConservative]

Good read. Governor Palin is one of ‘us’. I can't remember the last time I thought so highly of a politician. As much as I loved Reagan not even he piqued my interest the way Sarah did. And for a the tough road ahead I can't think of anyone better suited to lead the way.

[mainepatsfan]

There can be no doubt that Palin’s potential appeal among independent women was a major fear for the Democrats but it was here solid conservative views that truly petrified them.

[MathDoc]

Simple..Conservative women can not be alloed to suceed. It would mess up the left wing template of women need the government to save them from evil white men.

Almost but not quite right. Hillary had to go also. Even a big government liberal woman could not be allowed to succeed because that would mess up the template and prove that we no longer need big government liberalism to protect the minority of the day. Liberals and the media are the most sexist of all groups in today's society. They don't want any women to succeed because that would threaten their power.

[Fiji Hill]

One of the most important aspects of what makes Sarah Palin different is the fact that she is not part of the traditional Eastern college, big money, Washington insider school of politics

There are even posters on FR who argue that Sarah Palin is unqualified for national office because she didn't attend an Ivy League school, hails from a sparsely-populated Western state, and has no Washington experience.

[Vigilanteman]

I can't speak for the entire nation, but I can tell you about the view from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania because the Mrs. and I worked on the campaign. Before Sarah was on the ticket, the GOP headquarters was largely deserted and couldn't give lawn signs away.

Volunteers came out of the woodwork once Sarah was on the ticket. Sarah is the only thing which kept this election from being something like a 60%-40% blowout.

She spent a lot of time in southwest Pennsylvania and was the main reason our swing county went 58% for McCain.

McCain didn't even show up here-- every volunteer I talked to or worked with here in Westmoreland County was there because of Sarah.

This is NOT a Republican county. Mondale carried it during the Reagan landslide of 1984. Registered Democrats are over 60% of the voter rolls here. No Republican has ever been elected to the state house of representatives from our district since it was created in 1969 until this year.

This county is heavily Catholic, blue collar and union, more urban than rural and we saw everyone campaign here this year except McCain-- Obama, Biden, Hillary and Sarah. And guess who beat them all?

[mainepatsfan]

Any GOP candidate running in primaries over the next few years will kill to get Palin’s endorsement.

[Fiji Hill]

Despite statements by members of the talk radio crowd that John McCain had genuine conservative credentials, many people I spoke with here in the Houston area as well as those I correspond with around the nation disagreed. One of the many criticisms I heard repeatedly was that McCain was out of touch with the voters he expected to elect him. These same people were frequently of exactly the opposite opinion with respect to Palin. They saw her as someone they could trust, rather than someone likely to double-cross them.

One website is selling bumper stickers that read, "Don't blame me--I voted for Palin"

[SoConPubbie]

I believe the usage of the word "Populism" or "Populist" with regards to Sarah Palin is sadly incorrect. For the Huckster, it is closer to the truth.

According to Webster's on-line, the word "Populist" has the following meaning:

1: a member of a political party claiming to represent the common people ; especially often capitalized : a member of a United States political party formed in 1891 primarily to represent agrarian interests and to advocate the free coinage of silver and government control of monopolies

Furthermore, the attempt to link the Huckster to Governor Palin is also misguided as the Huckster does believe and openly states his support for Big-government and his disregard for limited-government Republicans while Governor Palin, more or less, is a limited-government conservative.

[Lonely Are The Brave]

Imho, today, the conservative intelligentsia has disdain for populism.

Even The Great Man Ronald Reagan was not liked in his time for some of his populist views.

The establishment disliked Reagan...

“All great change in America begins at the dinner table.”

The Great Man Ronald Reagan

[KevinDavis]

To be honest, I think that populist and socialist are the same except that the populist would like to have the Government monitor our bedrooms..

[Vigilanteman]

FR has no shortage of idiot posters. We see that every time Mitt Romney, at worst a Bush-like RINO, gets a thread. You'd think he was a bigger threat to the republic than Al Qaida or Obama by the vitriol in some of the posts.

However, I'm now convinced that Sarah Palin could beat him in an election in Utah and he knows it. He may spend the next four years honing up his conservative credentials to be a VP or cabinet member (where he may actually shine), but Sarah is front runner in 2012 if she wants it.

Best of all, Sarah sucks all the oxygen out of that Judas Goat Hucksterbee. Evangelicals love her, and so do Catholics and Mormons. There is nothing Elmer Gantry or bigoted about her. She may very well be Teddy Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan in a skirt.

[NeoCaveman]

I’m not anti-elites on principle, it’s just that for a nation this great we should have much better elites than ones we have.

We should have elites that love this nation, its culture, its constitution, but we have the opposite.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

One of the most important aspects of what makes Sarah Palin different is the fact that she is not part of the traditional Eastern college, big money, Washington insider school of politics. ...... ......someone who is from the same background they are; someone who has both feet grounded in the real world, instead of the world of elites, big money and an “inside the beltway” mentality.

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[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

There are even posters on FR who argue that Sarah Palin is unqualified for national office because she didn't attend an Ivy League school, hails from a sparsely-populated Western state, and has no Washington experience.

Those are the very qualities that attracted me to her in the first place.