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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: Wonder Warthog

Do you think the country club Republican elite is more scared of Palin or more scared of the Democrats?


81 posted on 07/10/2009 1:15:01 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: dr_who
Indeed, Douthat concedes she has to "bone up on the issues" if she is to have a political future.

I keep hearing this mantra and frankly I consider it laziness. What exactly do they want her to bone up on? Clinton knew all the issues. Biden is a 'foreign policy expert.' Bush 41 was a seasoned beltway insider with extensive experience. They are all failures, or disappointments to say the least.

Know the constitution. Apply it's principles to every decision. Appoint wise executives who also know the constitution to your cabinet. Tell all of them except the SecDef to cut their departments in half. Veto everything that is not in plain language and has more than 10 pages. Support our allies. Make our enemies afraid. Wave as you board Air Force one.

We don't need another law scholar or bureaucratic deal maker. Government should be simple. Collect enough revenue to buy ammunition and gun oil. Keep the bayonets fixed pointing outwards. Repeal, deregulate or unfund everything else.

82 posted on 07/10/2009 1:15:10 PM PDT by Pan_Yan (All gray areas are fabrications.)
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To: dr_who
"Nevertheless, aside from getting “cult” status in the Republican party, what was her message?"

Small Government by the people, for the people. Pretty much dirty words to the Fed GOP and the dem party. It's abundantly clear that "The Parties" and their echo chambers have nothing but disdain for the people. They are in it for themselves.

83 posted on 07/10/2009 1:15:27 PM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
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To: counterpunch
We need another Great Communicator to communicate great ideas. That’s what Newt is.

Most Sarah haters won't disclose who they support. At least you did. You do him no favors by attacking probably the favorite candidate on this site and the base of the GOP.

The Republican elites better get on board or the Conservative base will leave them asking "What happened?"

84 posted on 07/10/2009 1:15:46 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't explain; your friends don't need it, and your enemies won't believe you anyway)
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To: mbarker12474
This article is political advice coming from an enemy of conservatism. Take it for what that sorta thing is worth......

Sarah Palin projects an image that is exciting to middle American nominal conservatives, in the same way that Barack Obama projected an image that was exciting to middle American victim identity and race-baited liberals.

Her conservative detractors wonder about the substance behind the image, as do I, but I also wonder about the alternatives to Sarah and ask who is in 2nd place in image attractiveness. There ain't nobody even close.

Besides, an elected Sarah Palin will surround herself with a thousand deputies and advisors, and these folks will tend to be conservative. This is what really matters when Washington changes hands. It's not the President so much as the tentacles of the president, which reach far down into the federal courts and a hundred executive agencies.

85 posted on 07/10/2009 1:16:10 PM PDT by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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To: pissant

Thanks..... I hadn’t heard what he was doing since leaving congress nor if he had any plans regarding another run. I think 12 will be basically decided upon how popular Obama is at the time. If he’s still the ‘One’ then I don’t see it in the cards to defeat him. Thus standing down for a run in 16 maybe a better option.

I think Palin is out for 12 based upon her needing to get her life back in order, family raised, book[s] written, etc. JMO but she needs to reassess her priorities and develop other skills.


86 posted on 07/10/2009 1:16:28 PM PDT by deport
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To: meadsjn

Born Ekaterina Jung

1963

Moscow, Soviet Union

Education Rutgers University

Occupation Journalist, writer, research associate

Ethnicity Russian American

http://www.cathyyoung.net/

87 posted on 07/10/2009 1:16:30 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: MrB

It’s precisely your use of views on Sarah Palin as a litmus test to determine the saved and the lost that troubles me.


88 posted on 07/10/2009 1:16:44 PM PDT by Dan Middleton (Say no to political personality cults, on the left or the right.)
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To: dr_who
Noonan has gone from being a poser to a political whore.

No, she's the "right" according to this Libertarian drivel.

89 posted on 07/10/2009 1:16:55 PM PDT by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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To: Pan_Yan

When you have a solid core foundational understanding of the basis of the founding of the country, and the basis of good government,

then you don’t have to be an expert on every topic,
as every topic that comes up can be measured against this core.


90 posted on 07/10/2009 1:17:04 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: dr_who
Palin is Not the Answer

Correct! Palin is the Solution.

91 posted on 07/10/2009 1:18:47 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Dan Middleton

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.

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


92 posted on 07/10/2009 1:18:56 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: DaveyB
Okay. I'll start it. It's overdue anyway.

Look hotter than any liberal feminists

Mitt has great hair.

93 posted on 07/10/2009 1:19:04 PM PDT by Pan_Yan (All gray areas are fabrications.)
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To: Pan_Yan
Mitt has great hair.

Or a great hair dresser.

94 posted on 07/10/2009 1:20:00 PM PDT by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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To: dr_who

Palin’s introduction at the Republican Convention impressed me.
After that, it was all treading water upstream for her.
It became clear very quickly that she was just trying to keep her head above water.

Unfortunately, all of the Palin hype that is still repeated out there is just a recitation of the myths the McCain campaign desperately tried insulate her with in the early days as they tried to hold her together.

John McCain created a real monster. Even now, he is still able to lead the Republican party down the path to defeat, yet again.


95 posted on 07/10/2009 1:21:06 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: Miami Vice

From your link...

Palin seems to be part of a growing core of Republicans – especially women – who are as mad as hell and ain’t gonna take it anymore.

Liz Cheney is part of this group. So are Michele Bachman, Marsha Blackburn, Rosario Marin, Heather Wilson, Renee Amore and Mary Fallin.

Blackburn, Marin, Bachman, Fallin and Wilson, along with Carly Fiorina and Renee Amore all publicly defended Palin after the smear campaign against her began immediately following her nomination.

For the Peggy Noonans among you, who notice such things, please note:

· Rosario Marin is a Mexican-American, who was the Treasurer of the U.S. during the Bush administration. (Take that Sotomayor.)

· Renee Amore, is African-American and the deputy chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party.

· Carly Fiorina was the CEO of a Fortune 500 corporation

· Heather Wilson was a Rhodes scholar who graduated with honors from the Air Force Academy

Not one of these intelligent, accomplished (and, yes, attractive women) who are working mothers, ever doubted for a second Sarah Palin’s intellect or ability!

Who knows maybe Sarah Palin’s new role will be to join forces with these forceful, talented women and provide some spine and direction to the Republican Party. Maybe they can provide what is desperately needed in the party. There is no question the men have not been able to figure it out.

Thank you Mr. Tremoglie.


96 posted on 07/10/2009 1:21:06 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Vigilanteman

Sorry, but until somebody clearly better comes along..

Maybe that will be Jesus Christ....I pray he comes before 2012...


97 posted on 07/10/2009 1:21:32 PM PDT by TaraP (Unless we stand for something, we will fall for everything.")
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To: dr_who

Certainly not for the lackluster libertines at Reason.


98 posted on 07/10/2009 1:22:13 PM PDT by Antoninus (I hereby pledge not to allow media whores to pick the GOP candidate in 2012.)
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To: TaraP

Save big J for later, Sarah’s great for now.


99 posted on 07/10/2009 1:22:51 PM PDT by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: dr_who
Palin is not the answer.

I guess that depends on what the question is...

100 posted on 07/10/2009 1:22:54 PM PDT by BlueNgold (... Feed the tree!)
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