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 knew how to even remotely decipher the english language, you would understand I’m farther removed from Gerson and his idiotic drivel than even the most diehard Palinista.

[pissant]

Pence is no Piker.

[eyedigress]

Anything at all....

[microgood]

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

He is not qualified either. And now America knows it. But after four years, if America is faced with Obama, versus another unqualified candidate, my fear is that, since now he has been a President for four years, he now does have experience and depending on the cirmcumstances, this may benefit him.

America cannot survive four more years of Obama. I think the Republicans need a General or Admiral since there is noone else out there that has the nads to straighten out this country.

[SoConPubbie]

You must be a lawyer.

Ha!

The pure hypocrisy of that statement of yours is mind-boggling.

You start out by saying Sarah has no experience, and when I prove that the founder of our party had less experience, and made similar decisions in his career you switch gears, JUST LIKE A LAWYER.

What you should have done is admit your were wrong and then make your next point. But


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.

Do you even read anything that Sarah states?

Have you paid attention at all to her speeches lately?

Does this sound like somebody who just wants to be the Boss?

"If we manage to do these things, there is no reason why we can't look forward with confidence to winning in 2012. I have said all along that this election must be seen in conjunction with the next. Ultimately 2010 must be viewed as just the first battle in a much longer fight that leads to November 6, 2012, and beyond. We cannot fully restore and revive America until we replace Obama. The meaning of the 2010 election was rebuke, reject, and repeal. We rebuked Washington's power grab, rejected this unwanted "fundamental transformation of America," and began the process to repeal the dangerous policies inflicted on us. But this theme will only complement the theme of 2012, which is renew, revive, and restore. In 2012, we need to renew our optimistic, pioneering spirit, revive our free-market system, and restore constitutional limits and our standing in the world as the abiding beacon of freedom. "

Read the whole article by Sarah so that you don't embarrass yourself again

You're fighting with an empty weapon.

Get back to me when you have educated yourself.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Exhibit A: Barack Hussein Muhamed Obama, Jr.
Exhibit B: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Exhibit C: Warren Gamaliel Harding
Exhibit D: Andrew Johnson

[SoConPubbie]

Pence is no Piker.

I'm not convinced since he chickened-out on Illegal Immigration.

He strikes me as some one whose idea of religion might get in the way of making the tough decisions.

For me, the jury is out on him for right now.

[eyedigress]

You have nothing. You have a failed state. Be proud, you are a part.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s nice to know that the commie ‘RATS are still worried about the GOP screwing up. After that Tuesday night disaster, we need all the help we can get. ROTFL!!! Losers!

[pissant]

He didn’t chicken out on illegal immigration. He tried to craft a compromise between the “immigration reform” crowd (better known as amnesty) and the enforcement only crowd.

Palin, OTOH, is in the amnesty crowd.

[eyedigress]

He NEVER had ANY experience. EVERYBODY is a RACIST on MSNBC. LIBERALS do not understand the complexity of the Nation. It is time they shut the hell up. The people have been protected for years. Well, buck up, the gloves are off and we shall not nor will not see this go down some socialist highway.

[Moorings]

Its people like Jim Demint and Sarah Palin the reason why the tea partiers still have stayed with the GOP. The RINO’s are more concerned about their power within the party, than they are of losing elections.

[csense]

The scary thing about her is that she thinks she is qualified to be President.

Whatever other qualities you think a Presidential candidate should have, pale in comparison to the one we need right now:the character and integrity to put an end to all this nonsense, and so far, she is the only one who possesses this quality.

[pissant]

Harding was an excellent president, btw. But take your argument up with Soconpubbie, not me.

[SoConPubbie]

Palin, OTOH, is in the amnesty crowd.

Nope, as usual, your opinion concerning Palin is driven by your bias against her and you state your opinion as fact, when it is just your opinion of her stance on this issue.

Pence's position was exactly like Palin's.

Go back and study it. He wanted some type of path, no deporting, for those already here.

[microgood]

Get back to me when you have educated yourself.

You are the one who compared her to Lincoln. And unlike Sarah, he wrote this all by himself:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Let me guess: Teapot Dome was a frame up and Watergate was just a bungled burglary? Yes, the Democrats are even worse, but that’s not really the point, is it?

[pissant]

Bull.

Pence was the architect of the mandatory “touchback” program. Weak tea, I know. But Palin is pro-amnesty, no touchback necessary.

And even if their two positions were identical, then why dismiss Pence and praise Palin?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Were you with him when he wrote that? Then how do you know he “wrote it all by himself” other than the mythology that started as he lay on that rooming house bed, dying? If they can make up tons of stuff about Obama, JFK, FDR and others, why do we doubt that they were doing the same in the 19th Century?

[eyedigress]

In what legislation did Pence and Palin vote on.