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Cutting bait (Steyn on Palin)
NRO ^ | 7/3/09 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 07/03/2009 10:57:15 PM PDT by pissant

With respect to many of the Palinologists below, I think they're getting way too hepatomantic over the entrails.

As a political move for anything other than the 2010 Senate race, today's announcement is a disaster. And I'm not sure it's a plus for the Senate - and, even if it were, the manner and timing suggest it was not a professionally planned event and therefore is unlikely to have any grand strategy behind it.

So Occam's Razor leaves us with: Who needs this?

In states far from the national spotlight, politics still attracts normal people. You're a mayor or a state senator or even the governor, but you lead a normal life. The local media are tough on you, but they know you, they live where you live, they're tough on the real you, not on some caricature cooked up by a malign alliance of late-night comics who'd never heard of you a week earlier and media grandees supposedly on your own side who pronounce you a "cancer".

Then suddenly you get the call from Washington. You know it'll mean Secret Service, and speechwriters, and minders vetting your wardrobe. But nobody said it would mean a mainstream network comedy host doing statutory rape gags about your 14-year old daughter. You've got a special-needs kid and a son in Iraq and a daughter who's given you your first grandchild in less than ideal circumstances. That would be enough for most of us. But the special-needs kid and the daughter and most everyone else you love are a national joke, and the PC enforcers are entirely cool with it.

Most of those who sneer at Sarah Palin have no desire to live her life. But why not try to - what's the word? - "empathize"? If you like Wasilla and hunting and snowmachining and moose stew and politics, is the last worth giving up everything else in the hopes that one day David Letterman and Maureen Dowd might decide Trig and Bristol and the rest are sufficiently non-risible to enable you to prosper in their world? And, putting aside the odds, would you really like to be the person you'd have to turn into under that scenario?

National office will dwindle down to the unhealthily singleminded (Clinton, Obama), the timeserving emirs of Incumbistan (Biden, McCain) and dynastic heirs (Bush). Our loss.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: careerendingmove; chickenlittles; democratswin; fedindictmentcoming; gopimplosion; marksteyn; palin; quitter; sarahbarraquitta; soroswins
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To: DoughtyOne

Everyone thinks it was a mistake now. But that was his plan. I can even understand it. Huckabee won Iowa because the GOP is pretty fundamentalist there. So Iowa was not Rudy territory. Rudy probably considered NH to be Romney turf. So he probably figured there would be little shake out until FL. He was wrong.

Palin may be wrong here. She may be right. We may never know ala Rudy.


341 posted on 07/04/2009 11:02:32 PM PDT by JLS
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To: wardaddy; TigersEye; counterpunch
"She’s not the Moses to lead us out of the desert."


Oh, ye of little faith.

Stand back, and behold her mighty sword!

She's about to kick some RINO and 'Rat butt.

Seriously, she's the only pol in which I have any kind of faith.

342 posted on 07/05/2009 1:02:59 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Sarah's about to kick some serious blogger butt! You go girl!)
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To: dixiechick2000

The only one at all?
What about Mike Pence?
What about Jim DeMint?


343 posted on 07/05/2009 1:04:13 AM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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To: counterpunch

Forget any wussie men.*

Sarah is about to punch back with defamation lawsuits.

If anyone deserves her day in court, it’s Sarah.

*Wussie men — Republican men.


344 posted on 07/05/2009 1:15:20 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Sarah's about to kick some serious blogger butt! You go girl!)
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To: JLS

Yes, we will see. Thanks for the posts.


345 posted on 07/05/2009 8:00:48 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (_Resident of the United States and Kenya's favorite son, Baraaaack Hussein Obamaaaa...)
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To: skinkinthegrass; SuziQ; All

Listened to KGO, San Fran last night with Christine Craft, who claims to be a lawyer.
She was slamming Palin like you can’t believe. Said Palin was unable to find France and Germany on a map and was dumber than a box of rocks, etc, etc. for 3 hours!
I tried to call in, couldn’t get the # to ring! I have emailed her today, hope you will too!

I can’t even find a rumor resembling Palin not identifying France & Germany on a map!

christinecraft2@yahoo.com

try this too
chsristinecraft@kgoradio.com

Here is rumor on Palin’s SAT scores...where’s Obama’s test scores?

http://conservablogs.com/publiusforum/2008/10/11/fake-palin-sat-scores-fool-left-o-sphere/


346 posted on 07/05/2009 8:55:34 AM PDT by AuntB ("JESUS WEPT" An American Story http://jesusweptanamericanstory.blogspot.com/)
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To: dixiechick2000
She's about to kick some RINO and 'Rat butt. Seriously, she's the only pol in which I have any kind of faith.

She has my support for whatever she wants to do. If she runs for office I will support that. If she wants to retire to the Alaskan boonies to raise kids and shoot moose I will support that. (and I wouldn't blame her)

And if people continue to attack her with vicious slander and libel ... well, karma happens. I gare-own-tee that. ;-)

347 posted on 07/05/2009 12:22:49 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: BibChr

Yup. As my wife likes to say, “interesting” is a very interesting word.


348 posted on 07/06/2009 4:52:23 AM PDT by RobRoy (This too will pass. But it will hurt like a you know what.)
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To: TigersEye

You and I are in complete and total agreement...

especially WRT karma. ;o)


349 posted on 07/07/2009 3:56:04 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (“Only dead fish go with the flow.” ~~ Sarah Palin)
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To: dixiechick2000

Oh really? I never took you for a new age dixiechick. /s ;^)


350 posted on 07/07/2009 4:09:53 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: TigersEye

LOL!

That was cute. ;o)


351 posted on 07/07/2009 4:13:40 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (“Only dead fish go with the flow.” ~~ Sarah Palin)
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To: dixiechick2000

heh heh heh


352 posted on 07/07/2009 4:19:02 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: Kennard
Mark Steyn is master of language, not a conservative.

Mark Steyn is both. Never ran for office with McCain either.

353 posted on 07/11/2009 11:39:39 AM PDT by Aquamarine
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To: EveningStar

been a dumbass all your life ?


354 posted on 07/11/2009 11:57:48 AM PDT by advertising guy (I'm figger'n by the time Texas fills up, Waco will be the Mason Dixon line .)
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To: All

Steyn’s current column is much better. I think he ate some bad food last week.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/prince-years-time-2489363-old-wales


355 posted on 07/11/2009 12:00:59 PM PDT by Luke21
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