Posted on 03/26/2009 7:07:18 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
(March 26) - Sarah Palin is teeing off on the media once again.
In a little-noticed speech to a GOP dinner in Alaska last week, Palin riffed for nearly an hour on a variety of topics — including her relationship with former McCain staffers, the Bush administration's anti-terror efforts, and actress Ashley Judd.
But the Alaska governor returned multiple times to the "unprecedented level of media slant" that she witnessed during her two-months on the Republican ticket with John McCain.
Her speech, delivered last Friday to the Anchorage Lincoln Day Dinner, was recorded by the Alaska Republican Party and posted online Tuesday.
Reflecting on the campaign, Palin said there were "a variety of reasons" Republicans lost in November, namely the faltering economy, but she seemed to place most of the blame on the press.
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Ok, if you really want I'll limit it to the SarahPAC button.
Republicans in the House and Senate are the only people in the country attempting to stop this president. It would nice if they got more support.
not a push because the base would not have gone anywhere for mccain.
I would have done NOTHING for a mccain candidate with a genetric VP. ZIP.
Most of the volunteers I met were of the same mind. (conservatives for a person, sorry mr. rino hip hop steele) Sarah was a pure asset.
Just look at the crowds. Obama had huge crowds (consolodations and rent a mob unionistas) and Palin was number two with thousands who just came to see her. When McCain was alone he could barely muster hundreds in a regualar stump speech.
The physical evidence stomps your claim.
Exactly. Look at George Allen. They successfully used Rule #12 on him. Where was Rick Santorum? Rule #12. How did a freak of a so-called comedian beat an incumbent senator who was pretty darn good, though too moderate for many of us? Rule #12. Sarah Palin? Rule #12. Don Imus? Rule #12.
See a pattern here? It’s also a lot like the Hegelian Dialectic.
And the election result stomps yours. McCain lost. End of story.
She drew huge crowds and brought in the do-re-me. That’s why I think she can be a force if she chooses. She who has the gold rules. She can pay for a microphone.
Fixed it.
I didn’t think Sarah was awful in the debate - I thought she held her own quite well.
I know Couric edited Sarah to make her look bad asking the same question over and over and over to try to get a gotcha moment and now Couric has an award for this for great journalism. BARF. Gibson clearly disregarded Sarah. I think Sarah got angry that journalism isn’t journalism anymore and she let this get to her.
We had 8 years of the media trashing Repubicans - taking our safety and prosperity for granted - and given that we can surprisingly close.
I would say that Governor Palin has had the most positive effect on a presidential race in at least modern times.
Remember that usually a veep would not make any difference at all and in an election year when we know we are doomed from the start and primary choices that leaves McCain as the final choice, then without Palin serving as our surrogate presidential candidate the republican ticket would have suffered much worst losses all the way down the ticket.
Something that gets overlooked is how much she carried our spirits up after the election, can the people here imagine how bad our emotional state would have been if we did not have the hope for a future that Palin gave us, if after this defeat we only had those primary losers as the face of our conservative future?
“What does that say to you?”
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That says to me that, thank God, not all of us are uninformed and lazy, willing to swallow the “information” put before us by the entrenched filtering of the LeftPropaganda machine.
Still, the fact that McCain (let alone the detritus that is Obama), was able to win the candidacy, indicates a major problem with the electorate.
Same sentiment here in our neck-of-the-woods!
We voted FOR Sarah in ‘08 not for MCCain or against UhBamUh.
Why not just a small button sized banner if you must.
For those of us that try to hit every Palin thread a little subtlety would be appreciated.
She turned a loss into...a loss. She had zero effect, in the end.
Remember that usually a veep would not make any difference at all
Which is just what happened. McCain lost anyway.
and in an election year when we know we are doomed from the start and primary choices that leaves McCain as the final choice, then without Palin serving as our surrogate presidential candidate the republican ticket would have suffered much worst losses all the way down the ticket.
Maybe. It certainly didn't change my vote. I was resigned to voting for the GOP no matter what bozo they nominated. And I certainly was going to vote for Scott Garrett come hell or high water.
Something that gets overlooked is how much she carried our spirits up after the election, can the people here imagine how bad our emotional state would have been if we did not have the hope for a future that Palin gave us, if after this defeat we only had those primary losers as the face of our conservative future?
It was definitely an emotional attachment, that's for sure. As for me, my expectations were close to reality, so I was not hungover at all.
You reveal yourself with that one, she did a very fine job in the debate.
I thought she was so bad it was painful.
I know Couric edited Sarah to make her look bad asking the same question over and over and over to try to get a gotcha moment and now Couric has an award for this for great journalism.
There were plenty of uninterrupted segments where Sarah was plainly bad. Like the discussion of Roe and the SCOTUS. She was pathetically bad.
BARF. Gibson clearly disregarded Sarah. I think Sarah got angry that journalism isn’t journalism anymore and she let this get to her.
Well then shame on her for not knowing what she was getting into.
We had 8 years of the media trashing Repubicans - taking our safety and prosperity for granted - and given that we can surprisingly close.
Phony prosperity. And two wars that rolled on with no end in sight. The GOP overpromised, underdelivered, and paid the price for it.
Will see how I’ll do it...
I thank you for that Ichabod and I agree, particularly the part about working from a blank slate. Yes, I’ll go for that...
I’ve read your replies and I think I get your point. The point that others and myself would make is if McCain had picked Liberman for instance, he goes down by double digits. His liberal-lite agenda doomed him especially with the economy, Bush fatigue, the novelty of Obama and a fawning press. The fact that Obama was able to position himself as more Conservative than McCain towards the end speaks volumes of how weak McCain was on the issues that really count.
I work in North Texas. McCain’s campaign was DEAD - absolutely comatose until Sarah was added to the ticket. Her presence brought in $$$ and excitement that was not there before she joined the ticket. There wasn’t enough yard signs and bumper stickers to go around!
My experiences were echoed in other areas including my old college roommate in Austin whose wife was running for judge and my sister in Houston.
It wasn’t that she was a Conservative, attractive, right on the issues, female, mother - it was ALL those things. All types of people could relate to her on a personal level. She spoke about the issues from her heart, which is lacking from most of the Washington insiders who have both their hearts AND brains surgically removed when they live in DC too long.
And on Sarah and the media:
The mainstream media will always be enemies to the Conservative cause. Take the message directly to the people. Use alternative media (talk radio, Internet and friendlier networks). The Conservative message wins when it is properly explained to people.
More and more people see the bias in the media. More than one liberal friend admitted they were disgusted by Sarah’s treatment (which they saw to a lesser degree with Hillary in the primaries). That was an unprecedented display of bias against both ladies.
This is a Conservative nation and conservatism always wins when it is presented properly. It is also a nation made up of decent people who will not tolerate such hateful attacks and extreme bias for too long.
Well, there’s no empirical way to measure it, so we’ll just have to disagree. As for “revealing” myself, ooooooh, scary. Why would I try to conceal what I think? What would be the point of that? In the end, the VP debate was a meaningless sideshow, so it’s beside the point. It’s the top of the ticket that matters. As the results of the election proved.
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