Democrats and Media are not Sarah Palin’s Biggest Problem

self | jimjohn

[jimjohn]

Okay, the dust has settled and even rank-and-file democrats know that Sarah Palin and others on the right had nothing to do with the massacre in Tucson on January 8, 2011. Yet we know the attacks on Palin won’t stop. We get that. Thank you media, for detailing for us how irrelevant she is by taking the only meaningful statement on the matter - a 7+ minute video and text message - and reducing it to a record breaking two-word sound bite. Priceless. But some of us also know there only one reason the media and the left can continue this fruitless line of attack – which exposes Palin biggest problem.

[convertedtoreason]

After what happened last week,

I give up. I will vote for Sarah Palin in the primaries and in the General Election.

I will devote TIME, MONEY AND EVERYTHING FOR SARAH PALIN 2012!

Enough is enough!

All the Republican men in the field HAVE NO BALLS AND PATHETIC! Jeb Bush was just trying to win some points to get the Palinistas! How lame!

[DJ MacWoW]

Sorry but you’re being much too picky. We’re supposed to PRAISE our children too. I don’t get stuck on that kind of garbage. It’s silly.

[dforest]

I would never praise my children. I don’t particularly do what we are “supposed to do”.

Yet this piece attempts to tell everyone what we are supposed to do.

So...you are stuck.

[GOPJ]

Look at the Democrats. You attack one – it’s like attacking all of them. They rarely speak ill of another democrat – if at all. On the other hand, republicans will throw one of their own into a live volcano at the drop of the hat (or one drop of ink from the New York Times)

What a joke. The only sure way a Republican can be assured of being quoted in the MSM is if he attacks a fellow Republican. It's the opposite for democrats. When dems objected to some of the more outrageous Clinton stuff, they didn't get covered - at all - or days later, buried...

Does the writer feel Dan Rather would give air time to a dem trashing a dem with the same relish he would give to a Republican trashing a Republican? Gimme a break.

And the New York Times? The old whore is the poster girl for bias and blood libel...

[DJ MacWoW]

You can descend into silly alone. I won't follow.

Food for thought: 13th century. Via French < late Latin pretiare "to prize" < pretium "price"

Synonyms: admiration, commendation, approval, acclaim, tribute, applause, compliment, recommendation

[dforest]

Don’t get stuck on the word. Which you are stuck on it.

[DJ MacWoW]

I'm not the one that wants to set aside certain words, you are. My God isn't that petty.

You have a nice day.

[dforest]

I certainly will. And thank you.

[DJ MacWoW]

You’re welcome. Tomorrow’s Monday! :-P

[TheOldLady]

Thanks for the excellent ping.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

You all agree with liberals as you all of you believe Republicans are the problem.

Hey, pal, in case you haven't been paying attention over the past two years, the Republican poo-bahs, including Romney, Huck, Pawlenty, Schmidt, Wallace, Rove, the Bushes, and all the unknown GOP operatives who have been crying their hearts out to Politico, have been backstabbing Palin and the Tea Party ever since they became a clear threat to the establishment after the 2008 election.

We're Conservatives FIRST and Republicans distant second, and the GOP cannot count on our votes, especially if they continue to undermine and attack Sarah Palin.

'nuff said!

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

After watching it, it dawned on Brit Hume that only a presidential candidate would bother to make such a professional recording. Ya think?

Disappointing if Brit is only figuring that out now.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

The democrats aren’t her biggest problem. It’s the people that are supposed to be covering her six, but aren’t.

[gidget7]

I don’t think that is what he/she is saying. Have you watched FOXNEWS and seen the like of Karl Rove, and his like minded counterparts, sadly including Dana Ferino, all saying negative things about Palin? That is what he is talking about, and yes it is a bigger problem, because their remarks and actions work from the Republican party, and if she cannot count on Republicans, all of them, that is a big problem. That is exactly what gave us McCain last time.

[arasina]

Surely her name was brought up frequently at the GOP weekend retreat of the January 15 weekend. One wonders how many there may suspect what we already know: If they get rid of Sarah, how long before the left/media turn their guns on the next GOP threat? And since no one wants to be that person, let them expend all their ammo on Sarah, right?

Wrong. Look at the Democrats. You attack one – it’s like attacking all of them. They rarely speak ill of another democrat – if at all. On the other hand, republicans will throw one of their own into a live volcano at the drop of the hat (or one drop of ink from the New York Times) The GOP has this critically bad habit of allowing the left and the media to dictate the rules of engagement. Those attacked after the Tucson shootings are the ones who don’t play by those rules. Sarah is the most notable and effective among them.

Excellent! I like your style of "writing with a bite"! Your entire post nails it.

[arasina]

This is well said. As a non-American (Irish) I have puzzled why so much ink and words have been concentrated on Sarah Palin. There is only one explanation possible, having dealt by a process of elimination with all the others. The GOP elite know that she is capable of sweeping the nomination, and the Democrats realize full well that she is capable of overwhelming Obama in 2012. Washington knows that she is a genuine reformer and that she would go through that town like a dose of salts.

Indeed! (Now tell me what "a dose of salts" is. Is it a reference to putting salt on a slug?) =o)

[okie01]

Dose of salts = powerful laxative

[arasina]

Dose of salts = powerful laxative

Oh. I think my interpretation works just as well. I rather like the idea of Sarah Palin stopping the slime in its tracks. ;-)

[jennings2004]

Witnessed by the vote on ratification of ths START Treaty give-away in the lame duck session, 2010.

[okie01]

Sarah Palin is proxy for all of us.

Well put.

Leading to a good line:

Sarah Palin Is My Proxy