Republican pundits open fire on Sarah Palin

LA Times ^ | July 13th, 2009 | Mark Z. Barabak

[guitarplayer1953]

Sounds like this could be part of the big picture.

[ShyannCanon]

God bless Sarah Palin! She is up against a pack of wombats and rattlesnakes and still manages to keep a smile on her face. You know it’s easy to do this, when you can stand on your principles and values.

[Smokin' Joe]

She just won’t play “the game.” Thus, isn’t beholden to them. To these loathesome characters, that makes her a wild card. Extremely dangerous, if she actually tries to operate on behalf of the American people, and not her own self interest. I imagine there were a lot of heads exploding (in both parties) when she said she’d campaign for conservatives of either party.

Not just that, but despite the mud they have been slinging at her, none of it stuck.

I'd wager the People on Capitol Hill who can be found completely free of career-wrecking indiscretion (at least by assumed Republican/Conservative standards) can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

Unencumbered by such debts of silence, there is no leverage by which the establishment can sway her on issues.

That gives her the relative luxury of speaking her concience, and that scares people on both sides of the aisle.

[mono]

#27. Yes, they did name GOP pundits. They are in the article. You can decide if their criticism is valid.

[GeronL]

I am not going to their site, I don’t want to give that rag another hit on their counters. No, I don’t think any of its valid.

[skinkinthegrass]

I’ve seen more articles ABOUT “Republicans attacking Palin” than I’ve seen Republican attacking Palin.

BUMP THAT.
....and d@mn you, yappin' little 'rat dogs.

[Darkwolf377]

d@mn you, yappin' little 'rat dogs

Wow, that's a tagline if I ever saw one, reminiscent of Chuck Heston in Planet of the Apes! :D

[skinkinthegrass]

Wow, that's a tagline if I ever saw one,
reminiscent of Chuck Heston in Planet of the Apes! :D

does anyone, have that famous Chuck Heston /
Statue of liberty pic. handy?

[dools007]

Good point. She has forced the RINOs to admit who they realy are—demrats by another name. The Demrat Party completed coopting the GOP after Reagan’s presidency.

[The Wizard]

Scared they are......and rightly so....she is bringing a new order and they are at the bottom....

[The Wizard]

It hit me this morning walking the dog.....something everyone had missed, the pondits, TV clowns, writers, et al: America Wants Sarah to be President. Period.

We don’t care what her background is, what her experiecne is, where she’s from what she wears, who backs her, etc. We want her to be our President and that’s all that matters....

I mean, look what we have now: Barney Frank, Al Franken, the Bomb....where is the criteria there? HOW could she be any worse than them......She is more honest than any of these clowns, has more administrative experience than the Bomb, has more proven moral intigrity that any 20 congress critters or Senators already demonstrated by her actions to date.....

She has tougher skin than any other elected offical and they have NEVER had to go through what she has had to go through, and she isn’t even President yet....

Quitter????? You mean by not milking one job to run for another, (Biden, Bomba, Hilterly, etc, etc, etc) she is a quitter.....don’t make me laugh....

And if she stayed up nights and worked around the clock she couldn’t be worse than those mentioned above, not even if she tried.....

So I say to the Andrea Mitchell Greenspans and the other hosts of fraud, and especially our good friends at the View, (worthless creitians whose opinion is worth less than toilet paper, which after all does serve a purpose) take a trip, get out, we don’t care what you think or say:

America has decided to give Sarah a chance to see what she can do, and that’s all you other clowns need to know.

[LibLieSlayer]

Conservative pundits have not... there is the difference for anyone who ever pondered it. I am no longer a repubic... but I have always been and shall always remain a Conservative.

LLS

[mo]

This is the long-term response of our Government to the desires of the American public to participate in American Leadership....an indoctrination academy...will be sure no further Palins ever get near the levers of power...

http://uspublicserviceacademy.org/

[RichInOC]

Okay, I’m disappointed in the Times. There are several notable Republican/conservative pundits who’ve been critical of Governor Palin, folks prominent enough that people who aren’t complete political geeks might recognize and care about their opinions. So that’s the article I figured they were going to write.

Nope. We have...what?...three staffers. I barely care what the candidates and the actual pundits think about the governor being a player going forward, primarily because she is whether they like it or not. Imagine how little I care about what the staff pukes think. My reaction to Todd Harris is “Sorry, who?”. Oh, yeah, and “Miami Vice” is still a pretty cool old show. Stuart Spencer? You saw nothing that Sarah Palin added to the McCain ticket? Really? Pardon me while I slap some sense into your seeing-eye dog.

And Mike Murphy? The base is stupid? That’s your take? I mean, I’m a stupid grass-roots GOPer. I lack the view of the broader horizon, I guess. But it seems to me that if there’s a candidate out there that the base is really enthusiastic about, it’s a lot easier to get that candidate up to speed and build a majority on that base than it is to try to build enthusiasm from the bare ground up around somebody else. And telling the base they’re stupid would seem to make the job more, not less, difficult. And Mike...if you guys really can see that broader horizon, and you’re all as smart as you think you are, tell me this: How come you didn’t see the losses in ‘06 and last year coming and figure out how to avoid them? Well, good luck with your career there. And you stay classy.

And those congressfolks who don’t want the gov on the campaign with them...go find the T-Mobile Makeover commercial with the economists and Catherine Zeta-Jones. It’s on YouTube. Watch it and draw the obvious lesson.

[Sig Sauer P220]

Conservatives need to break away from the republican party and get the Conservative Party up and robust. Screw the two party (actually its the same) system.

[redk]

It's just like S.E. Cupp said a couple nights ago on Hannity, she said way the left keeps calling her a disaster and still to this day obsessing over things like the Couric interview makes them seem paranoid.

[wisetrog]

Guys, you are terribly underestimating these people. After she went back to Alaska, the GOP beltway clique has continuously tried to derail her. They are full of fear and loathing about the governor. Kevin Madden, John Feehery, Carl Forti, Todd Harris-- these are all political consultants who have been taking potshots at her. I am sure they are spreading the nonsense that Parker n Noonan spout without thinking; stuff like she doesn't read, she's not taking advice etc is coming straight out of these people. I think these people have formed a Clique of sorts whose mission is to foil her plans. Guess what the people I named are also part of a downtown communications group hired by NRCC. Wouldn't it be easy for them to set Palin up and then disinvite her to make sure it produces bad impression? They've been taking potshots at her since the beginning. They religiously track what the governor is doing and behave as if she owes them to reveal what are plans are, they reacted with extreme suspicion when she started talking with John Coale, Greta's husband and made sure they leaked his emails, after all they are Becky Donatelli's friends, and remember once Donatelli was fired from running her PAC, the leaks stopped immediately. Then they piled on the governor during the NRCC dinner. Remember the hysteria they generated; it also mirrors what these people are going through. They are totally paranoid about her. What they are doing is trying to prise information about her and stop her next move and neutralize her plan. They made sure the governor lost the NRCC speaking gig because that'd have legitimized her as the leader in GOP. Now that she resigned, they reacted with barely concealed contempt but they must have been horrified to know that her numbers remained unchanged. Once it began to dawn on them that her next plan could be to tour the rubber chicken circuit and collect IOUs, they are trying to make sure that doesn't happen. They are trotting out the politicians they control to say that they don't want her to campaign for them. What they are doing is to try n figure out what her game plan is and then neutralize her moves, to make sure she is not effective. I believe this is organized, not spontaneous. Could Mitt Romney and/or Jeb Bush be behind this? Possible. But the Clique is trying to make sure Governor doesn't advance in the GOP. It's a serious matter and we should fight back.

[MrB]

Or, grass roots conservatives (individualists) need to root out and expel the elitists that infest the GOP.

[McGruff]

Consider a USA Today/Gallup poll released last week. About 7 in 10 Republicans said they would be likely to vote for Palin if she ran for president.

Ok, who's you other 3?

[McGruff]