As opposed to the perfectly creased pants community agitator from Chicago, and his senile half uncle from Delaware?
I love how these a-holes refuse to consider that there is so much time for one to hit the right wave to the presidency. Let em bloviate to their LIV constituents.
Sarah relates well to working class women. Its welfare crack whores who can't identify with her.
Dreher, another Republican “man” who stood back and did nothing as leftists savaged a Republican woman. Get thee behind me wuss.
Why are they writing off a woman they have been writing off since 2008? How bizarre. Or do they just know she is click-bait for their tiny little magazines? They should all be ashamed of themselves.
It is reminiscent of the aftermath of the Nixon debacle and resignation. For years after Nixon had left the national stage, writers and media types gleefully and gratuitously would include snide insults and sideways shots at him, without reason or purpose, other than to enjoy doing harm to someone they hated.
Expect that the same thing will continue with Palin, now already six years after return to private life and with no likelihood of ever running for anything again. You will still see this kind of drivel for years from now.
There is no hate that endures like the hate of a leftwinger.
“Reader Richard” sounds a bit effeminate, probably GAY. Sarah is ALL FEMALE.
For later
Far beyond the biggest dream in Rod Dreher’s life is to have become noticed by Levin. And properly called out for being an ignoramus. That much, doesn’t seem to faze him. You can read his writing for yourself. Mediocre, undistinguished. Possessed of no special insight nor clever touch of phrase.
He knows, you know, what American women think, doesn’t he? Why is that? Because he’s a woman? Or because he’s a Wash DC cocktail party suck-up and isn’t smart enough to discern that he’s fallen right into liberal dumbness. He’s made his choice. He likes pounding on Sarah Palin but see, he has this little angle where he is not as vicious as all the other folks who have worked to trash her. He’s better than they are, he’s not directly repeating all those vile things that others have: he points them out, they are over there, he never said such a thing. But then he kind of softly rephrases them!
Impressed yet?
Douchebag and putz. It’s kind of a unique combo.
Since we now know that both the Charles Gibson and Katie Couric interviews were “splice and dice” jobs meant to make her look as bad as possible, including the “Unanswerable question” about the Bush Doctrine which was composed by Former Senator Sam Nunn, this entire essay is based on inaccuracy.
And I suspect that the author Rod Dreher and the “Reader Richard” knows this.
I have no idea if Sarah Palin will ever run for any office again. But she’s done more for trying to wake up Americans about the very real possibility that the country they love is being transformed into something else right before their eyes than almost anyone else has. She has payed a severe price for her willingness to speak out about it instead of playing along and being a “player” in the process, which she has had opportunity to do.
Instead of sitting on the fainting couch after her remarks on Sunday, pretending to be horrified by her remarks Rod Dreher should save his outrage for the Administration that left 4 men for dead because his Administration has been gun-running to supply “rebels” in Syria in their attempt to overthrow Assad.
(And yes, I am fully aware that John McCain who she endorsed was the head useful idiot in the effort to sell these Al-Qaeda “rebels” as worthy allies for America)
Sorry, but this Rod Dreher, along with the others who are supposedly so offended by Sarah Palin had better concentrate on who is ruining our future. It’s not Sarah Palin. Criticize her voice or her TV shows or whatever you want to but please don’t question her patriotism or concern for America. Especially when you publish a letter of “concern” that’s very basis isn’t honest, which relying on 2 interviews that were set-ups and not honest journalism were.
Incumbents & Challengers alike beg for her endorsement!!
I don't know the exact percentage, but I do know a high percent of her endorsements indeed win.
Every venue she attends is standing room only!!
Dreher's Mark Levin article got 218 responses. His Palin article got 180 responses. I don't see "Reader Richard" in there, but would it really be a surprise or an impossibility if somebody in Alaska sent Dreher an email like that?
I don't see anything "disastrous" about the Gibson interview Dreher quotes, though. The later Couric interview when Sarah didn't give the names of any newspapers she read was pretty awful for Sarah Palin, but so far as I can tell, she didn't do any worse in the Gibson interview than any newly nominate VP candidate would.
Here's a comparison of the questions Gibson asked Palin, with those he asked Obama at about the same time. It's an old trick. When Bush ran in New Hampshire in 2000 a Boston political reporter asked him for the name of the president of Chechnya.
Probably Andree McLeod.
Palin was vetted by one of the leading law firms in Washington. Her views, life, intelligence, honesty, etc., were all weighed and found to be sound. She simply doesn’t speak like a politican.... Um, that’s why we like her. She’s not a polished Ivy League bullshitter.
I confess to not seeing the point after reading the article.
Is the backstory that paleocons just want to trash someone they consider a neocon (that is, a supporter of Israel)?
Does Dreher think women don’t belong in politics?
Rod Dreher is a movie reviewer, fercryinoutloud. Who gives a rat’s a$$ what he says?
GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions, particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proximity of the state give you?
PALIN: They’re our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.
GIBSON: What insight does that give you into what they’re doing in Georgia?
PALIN: Well, I’m giving you that perspective of how small our world is and how important it is that we work with our allies to keep good relation with all of these countries, especially Russia.
We cannot repeat the Cold War. We are thankful that, under Reagan, we won the Cold War, without a shot fired, also. We’ve learned lessons from that in our relationship with Russia, previously the Soviet Union. We will not repeat a Cold War. We must have good relationship with our allies, pressuring, also, helping us to remind Russia that it’s in their benefit, also, a mutually beneficial relationship for us all to be getting along.
GIBSON: Would you favor putting Georgia and Ukraine in NATO?
PALIN: Ukraine, definitely, yes. Yes, and Georgia.
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I'm sorry, what did she say above that is a disaster and disqualifies her in the author's mind?
She was unqualified so we elected Obama...proving she didn’t need to be qualified.