Sweet SoConPubbie just posted a list of all of Sarah's Accomplishments just as Governor.
There are WAY to long to post here in the Ping. But I encourage everyone to take a look.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3251390/posts?page=70#70
Posted on 01/28/2015 12:15:17 PM PST by SeekAndFind
It’s time to admit that, whatever their motivation was at the time, the Alaska governor’s critics always had a point. Has conservative genuflection at the altar of Sarah Palin finally come to a halt?
In case you missed it, her speech in Iowa this week was not well received on the right. The Washington Examiner’s Byron York called it a “long, rambling, and at times barely coherent speech” and National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke said she slipped into self-parody. And there’s more. The Examiner’s Eddie Scarry, for example, contacted several conservative bloggers who were once Palin fans, but have since moved on.
But here’s my question… what changed?
Yes, in 2008, Sarah Palin delivered one of the finest convention speeches I’ve ever heard (trust me, I was there), but she hasn’t exactly been channeling Winston Churchill ever since. Remember her big speech at CPAC a couple of years ago? You know, the one where she took a swig out of a Big Gulp and said of her husband Todd: “He’s got the rifle, I got the rack.” Not exactly a great moment in political rhetoric.
So why is anyone surprised when, this weekend, she said: “‘The Man,’ can only ride ya when your back is bent?”
Demosthenes, she is not, but there’s nothing new about Palin’s penchant for populism or lowbrow rhetoric. What does feel new is that she has finally gotten around to roundly losing conservative opinion leaders. (OK, this has been a long time coming. In 2011, Conor Friedersdorf noted that the hard right was skewering Palin, and that Kathleen Parker had been vindicated. And as recently as this past April, I wondered whether it was finally safe for conservatives to criticize her publicly.
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They prefer the circular-commit-to-nothing rhetoric that way they cannot be cast as leaning one way or the other. Talk a lot and say little. I prefer someone who is blunt and answer a yes or no question with a yes or no rather than 5 minutes of “um”... “community needs”... “best for the people if”... and other $10 words that mean nothing.
I believe Sarah Palin paved the way for people like Ted Cruz and Scott Walker. Without a Sarah Palin as the forerunner, the others would be slogging through the corrupt MSM ridicule torture chamber.
When the attacks on Palin hit an uptick, I always think “romniacs”.
Why they think attacking her helps their cause is beyond me.
It looks that way to me
Whatever. I’ll stick with Palin over those effete pajama-boys like Matt Lewis and Byron York, who slobber over the northeastern establishment crowd. Some conservatives might buy into them, but I regard them every bit a cultural and ideological enemy as those cretins on MSNBC.
Sweet SoConPubbie just posted a list of all of Sarah's Accomplishments just as Governor.
There are WAY to long to post here in the Ping. But I encourage everyone to take a look.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3251390/posts?page=70#70
I’ll always like Sarah Palin because she is so likeable; she’s confident and competent. Maybe also because I’ve been told many times that I look like her ;).
Apparently this guy missed her appearance last night on Hannity..she knocked it out of the park!!!
Typical Establishment “conservative”. Sarah has been right about most things and it drives the Establishment crazy.
Perhaps that wasn’t her best speech. OK. Everyone has an off day. But she’s been an articulate, prescient defender of our principles. That’s the real reason that liberals and Establishment types hate her. And yes, I meant to use the word hate. (That is what drives “progressives”, after all.)
Sarah has been able to rally the base like no one I’ve seen in a long time. That’s another reason they hate her.
Besides, suppose she got elected. We can’t allow the first female president to be a conservative, now, can we?
These are the same people that love Biden’s “folksy” verbiage.
Elitists can’t stand anyone that isn’t another elitist. They look down on the hoi polloi as peasants to be exploited and used and thrown away at their pleasure.
Exactly. Another heart breaker for many was Fred Thompson.
If Barack Hussein Obola can be pResident, anybody can be President, including Sarah.
They think attacking her helps pave the way for yet another liberal scumbag like Romney. It doesn’t. It just wakes more people up like me, who voted GOP all my life, realize that the Republican Party is full of backstabbing garbage, and unworthy of my vote.
Matt Lewis and Byron York and Jennifer Rubin and all those other hacks can frankly go choke to death.
Sarah Palin will be this generations Phyllis Schafly.
Leave it at that.
It was a pretty good, informal, speech. Not a barn-burner, it wasn’t intended to be.
you’re right marron.
the current pres has lowered the bar so low just about anyone would be an improvement
After a certain “PRESIDENT” proves beyond a shadow of a doubt the OVER-IMPORTANCE of depending on ‘speech-speaking’ abilities to successfully govern over the vast U.S. EMPIRE, .....we now have the same duplicitous standard applied to someone the Left LOVES TO HATE.
Phew! What an idiot. I’ll provide an “out” for him: when he realizes that that was a quote from MLK, he will say that as a white woman she had no right quoting it.
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