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Palin is Not the Answer
Reason Magazine online ^ | July 10, 2009 | cathy young

Posted on 07/10/2009 12:37:29 PM PDT by dr_who

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To: Pan_Yan

Bush 41 got rolled. Indeed, so much for being a beltway insider. The other two were (arguably) good at creating the appearance that they knew what they were talking about. If you can take on the “experts” by showing that they’re talking a lot of tosh, you win. And no, that doesn’t have to interfere with your populist message of optimism. Do groundless ethics accusations from opposition hacks get in the way? Yes, but persistence and public exposure seems to be the only balm for that. If she’s really aiming for 2012, she’d better get busy.


101 posted on 07/10/2009 1:23:53 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: norraad

Big J is needed now my friend..The entire world is in trouble.. Way to big of a job for any human being....

:)


102 posted on 07/10/2009 1:24:53 PM PDT by TaraP (Unless we stand for something, we will fall for everything.")
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To: MrB
"Ah, so you don’t believe that Christians bear the scent of Christ that is the scent of death to the perishing and the scent of life to the saved, and who react accordingly."

Actually, I do believe that, I just don't see what it has to do with one's views on Sarah Palin. Mike Huckabee is a Christian, did you attribute all criticism of him to the sorry state of the critics' souls, too?

"OK, I’ll tell Paul that he’s been trumped by your superior understanding."

While you're at it, why don't you tell John the Baptist that his description of God's redemptive plan and the apocalypse in Matthew 3 was really about a flash-in-the-pan politician? I'm sure he'd get a kick out of it.

103 posted on 07/10/2009 1:25:44 PM PDT by Dan Middleton (Say no to political personality cults, on the left or the right.)
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To: Mojave

Could someone like Palin set the record straight about Mitt’s wunnerful healthcare program?


104 posted on 07/10/2009 1:25:56 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: Snickering Hound
Let's see, she's born in the old Soviet Union, she came here at 17, sounds like Yuri!

Send her back.

105 posted on 07/10/2009 1:26:21 PM PDT by Clock King
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To: counterpunch
"John McCain created a real monster."

She is frightening to you is she? What is more frightening than the Republican party being taken over by narcissistic globalist/socialist totalitarians educated by "elite" marxists?

To quote Michael Jackson, "All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us."

106 posted on 07/10/2009 1:26:56 PM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
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To: counterpunch

Good analysis.


107 posted on 07/10/2009 1:27:00 PM PDT by MBB1984
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To: TaraP
Well, friend, we could sure stand to have Jesus Christ return now. I'd certainly vote for him and he wouldn't even have to produce a birth certificate. It would be interesting to see how ObaMao and ACORN would handle it.

Unfortunately, I don't think the country has learned their lesson yet and Lord Jesus is unlikely to return until there are a sufficient number of righteous people to recognize and welcome him back.

108 posted on 07/10/2009 1:27:19 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: neocon1984

I’ve noticed that the most vitriolic hatred for Palin comes from women, many of those who could have been McCain voters.
Perhaps it is because they felt the McCain campaign was trying to manipulate them by nominating Palin? Could it be that they know that Palin would not have been McCain’s running mate, nor the object of all this discussion today, if it were not for her gender?

Perhaps could they resent that?
Perhaps they feel insulted by those who hold Palin up as the best their gender has to offer?


109 posted on 07/10/2009 1:27:56 PM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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To: dr_who

I believe she is. She’s a real leader.


110 posted on 07/10/2009 1:29:03 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: meadsjn

You gave a perfect summation of this article—the author Cathy Young appears to be one of the great unwashed and I will pass on letting her affect my opinion of Palin!


111 posted on 07/10/2009 1:29:43 PM PDT by nclaurel
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To: dr_who

From Wiki:

"Young (born Ekaterina Jung in Moscow, 1963) is a Russian American journalist and writer. She writes columns for Reason (monthly) and The Boston Globe (weekly), and is the author of two books and a number of articles. Her writing commonly espouses equality feminism."

112 posted on 07/10/2009 1:30:48 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: nclaurel

Putting blinders on is no way to go through life.


113 posted on 07/10/2009 1:31:48 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: TaraP

Well, ok, but I still want Sarah in there somewhere, after all she lead a state with a negative tax rate, I mean if that’s not a miracle what is?


114 posted on 07/10/2009 1:32:14 PM PDT by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: MrB

You hit the nail on the head!


115 posted on 07/10/2009 1:32:16 PM PDT by Left2Right ("Starve the Beast!")
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To: MBB1984
instead of uniting the party as did Reagan

As someone who was alive back in 1976 and 1980 i can tell you it wasn't all hugs and cupcakes in GOP land back then either. It was just that after four years of Iran, stagflation, and the misery index the Bush wing of the GOP was willing to go along with RR since he could send Jimmy into early retirement. Remember that the term Voodoo economics was invented by a G H W Bush.
116 posted on 07/10/2009 1:32:25 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world, and they are all out to get me.)
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To: deport

Here’s my interview with him from March.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2211574/posts


117 posted on 07/10/2009 1:33:58 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: counterpunch
Perhaps they feel insulted by those who hold Palin up as the best their gender has to offer?

I smell Peggy Noonan.

118 posted on 07/10/2009 1:35:24 PM PDT by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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To: Vigilanteman

You make a valid point!

But the world is sure in a heap of a mess...

Can any mortal accomplish what this planet needs?
Will just have to stay tuned, and seek the wisdom that comes from our Creator....

:)


119 posted on 07/10/2009 1:35:49 PM PDT by TaraP (Unless we stand for something, we will fall for everything.")
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To: counterpunch

Actually, it’s the Palin detractors who can’t be reasoned with. They see themselves as “elite” and “above the rest of us mere mortals.”


120 posted on 07/10/2009 1:35:56 PM PDT by Left2Right ("Starve the Beast!")
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