The GOP's Sarah Palin problem

Wash Post ^ | 11/5/10 | Michael Gerson

[pissant]

At their new political high-water mark, Republicans have plenty of reasons to celebrate - and at least one large cause for worry.

On Election Day, voters shattered the Obama agenda of expanded public benefits and increased income tax progressivity, leaving the president to reassemble his goals with glue and tape. During this midterm cycle, Republicans became reacquainted with estranged friends: independents, seniors, college-educated voters, working-class voters, rural voters and suburban voters. The Republican Party will benefit from the infusion of diverse, attractive new leaders, including some, such as Florida Sen.-elect Marco Rubio, with Tea Party pedigrees.

[pissant]

IF you lived in WA, it would make sense.

[pissant]

Whatever.

[Mr_Moonlight]

Let the demonization of Sarah continue. The media types have not learned anything from Tuesday. The people will no longer bow to their editorial “authority”.

They haven't learned a damn thing from Tuesday ... Chrissie Tingles looked like he about to cry, and the circular firing-squad goes on unabated within the liberal camp, blaming everything and anything except their own ineptitude and increasing irrelevance.

It must really SUCK being a true-believer liberal nowadays. Thank Goodness that I got out of that mindset at, oh, some 9 years old in the late 60's when even as a 9 year old kid their nonsense didn't make any logical sense .....

/laughs
-- MM

[eyedigress]

I hope it takes longer than that. Momma wouldn’t be proud at all.

[pissant]

Good. Then tell all your allies to quit parading ‘executive experience’ as some kind of absolute golden key to the nomination.

[onyx]

Here ya go!

POST # 9

[SoConPubbie]

Good. Then tell all your allies to quit parading ‘executive experience’ as some kind of absolute golden key to the nomination.

What are you talking about Pissant?

I assume you are talking about the posts by people who support Sarah whom, from what I remember, are responding to similiar assinine statements concerning her lack of experience.

[eyedigress]

You really should explain your position and why certain politicians bother you. Outside of that you really have no point.

[gogeo]

force fed...

How do you figure?

[SuziQ]

LOL! They just can’t help themselves. She is one of the driving forces behind the new Republican majority, and the MSM, and some establishment Repubs. just can’t stomach that fact.

[pissant]

There’s a whole contingent on your side that dismiss Bolton, DeMint, and any congressman, as unacceptable for not having “executive experience”.

Gaggles of them. 2nddivisionvet comes to mind as blowing that horn loudly.

Of course, by that stunted logic, Huckabee or Flipper should be a shoo in.

[eyedigress]

Do folks in WA. just sing together in the unemployment line and take the bucks downtown to watch the next grunge concert. WOO HOO take the ferry over and build a casino. I can’t wait till I’m sixty and taking my trips to Cancun on Obama fare.

[csense]

Never in my life have I seen one woman scare the crap out of so many people.

Here's the bottom line for anyone, including some conservatives, who want to summarily dismiss her. The opportunity will present itself during the Primary Debates whether she can hold her own. Personally, I think she has a quick wit, a firm grasp of the issues, understands tactics and strategy, and has more balls than any of her male contemporaries.

[microgood]

Another Jackass parroting the Left-Wing media and the Progressive Elites in the GOP.

You must be a lawyer.

BTW, how much representative experience, from a national perspective did Abraham Lincoln have before he became President?

Lincoln, like Reagan, was a man of vision. Both wanted to change the world and they both did. Sarah, like the Bushes and Clinton, just wants to be the boss. When referencing Reagan or Lincoln, she cannot be even remotely compared. I had to memorize the Gettyburg address in school, so I know the difference.

[pissant]

The state and national GOP got behind Rossi, in fact recruited him. We had two actual conservatives - Akers and Didier - prior to the establishment funneling all their $$ and effort to Mr. Milquetoast.

[SuziQ]

...the establishment blames the insurgents for not helping them win in states like DE, CO, NV and WA where establishment candidates might have prevailed...

If the establishment candidate couldn't even survive the Republican PRIMARY, why does the GOP establishment think that person would have gotten more votes than the conservative did in the General election? There was exit polling date in DE that showed that even Mike Castle wouldn't have won against Chris Coons. So much for the vaunted establishment candidate.

[SoConPubbie]

There’s a whole contingent on your side that dismiss Bolton, DeMint, and any congressman, as unacceptable for not having “executive experience”.

Well, all I can speak for is myself.

Leadership is what counts on conservative issues.

That means DeMint makes the cut.

I like Bolton, but not sure if he is cut out to be President.

Palin, and Demint to a lessor extent, have already been vetted by the trial by fire that they have gone through both in the Press and their own party.

Bolton hasn't really had to suffer this yet.

The rest are pikers and not ready for the game either because they haven't shown themselves to be effective leaders or in one form or another, tell us what they think we want to hear.

[microgood]

Never in my life have I seen one woman scare the crap out of so many people.

The scary thing about her is that she thinks she is qualified to be President. If McCain had not cynically picked her to save his bid for Presidency, we would not be talking about her.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Michael John Gerson (born May 15, 1964, New Jersey) is an op-ed columnist for The Washington Post and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter from 2001 until June 2006, as a senior policy advisor from 2000 through June 2006, and was a member of the White House Iraq Group...In early 1999, Karl Rove recruited Gerson for the Bush campaign...One of Gerson's first columns was entitled "Letting Fear Rule", in which he compared skeptics of President Bush's immigration reform bill to nativist bigots of the 1880s... So now you agree with a CFR, pro-amnesty, one-worlder Rove protege? Is this Falcon Party some kind of front then?

[eyedigress]

I will take that statement under advisement. Tell me what makes Barack Hussein Obama qualified for the Presidency of the United States.