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To: Al B.

Here’s a different opinion-from a “Renew America” columnist:

http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/cavere/090717


21 posted on 07/18/2009 9:19:47 AM PDT by mrmeangenes
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To: mrmeangenes

Sorry, but this article isn’t “different”, it’s just stated in different terms. To judge Gov. Palin by the average person identifying with her is narrow-minded. The music in the background on that is elitist, again. “We don’t want an average person, we need someone above average (like me).”

And to take Gov. Palin’s interview with Hannity as the sum total of her political views is to simply disregard her accomplishments. How is that any different than what the rest of the main stream media is doing?

This article, while stated somewhat more gently, isn’t any different than the others. It just simply ignores that Sarah Palin has the same values as a majority of Americans, believes in something greater than herself, and has accomplished a great deal.


35 posted on 07/18/2009 9:34:47 AM PDT by Jackson57
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To: mrmeangenes

Like many commentators on Palin, Kristia Cavere at Renew America makes simple assumptions about why people strongly support Sarah Palin. For instance, its because she is ‘one of us’, or because she was so savagely attacked in the Media. all while her supporters overlook her alleged inability to articulate on policy issues and give good interviews, even to ‘friendly’ interviewers like Sean Hannity.

I think Cavere is missing an important aspect of why people support Palin. It seems to me that a key difference between those who are positive to Palin and those who are not is this. Those who are positive have taken the trouble to actually examine her career and accomplishments closely; her detractors have not, or if they have, ignore or surpress them. The emphasis here is what she actullay did; no one is suggesting that she can spout like your average policy wonk. Arguably, between January 2007 and the end of her second legislative session in April 2008, Governor palin accomplished more than her predecessor had in 25 years, and with massive bipartisan support. Arguably she did more in that time than Barrcak Obama or Hillary Clinton had done in their entire careers, in spite of their capacity to ‘talk the talk’. It is the real ability to ‘walk the walk’ that wins support for Sarah Palin.


49 posted on 07/18/2009 9:56:10 AM PDT by Emerson Car
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