Posted on 01/30/2015 6:11:54 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
“I hope she just keeps getting in the control freaks faces and endorsing tea party candidates.”
Amen!
Love him or hate him Trump is totally qualified to be President. If it comes down to Jeb, Mitt or Crispy I’m voting for Trump all day long.
No Obama supporter should ever refer to “obviously unqualified presidential contenders”. The bar is so low after having seen the low-information voter choice for 2008 and 2012 that no one now qualifies as an obviously unqualified presidential contender.
It’s sad that it matters, but it just does. Southerners and Texans aren’t going to hold it against her, because they experience the same thing. Upper mid-westerners and Northern Plains folks won’t, because that’s how they sound. Both coasts and D.C. will and do hold it against her, and that’s where virtually all of our media originates.
So you’ve bought in to the media’s lies about Palin eh?
Mitt announced today that he’s not running.
Well, the media liked them...until they didn't like them.
But who would think the Liberal media would toady up to a soon-to-be loser candidate long enough for them to get the nomination and then turn on them?
All that howling about "electability" for flawed candidates who wouldn't inspire a conservative to cross the street has produced what, exactly? Losers.
I much prefer someone who will stand on principle--and whose principles align with mine.
Palin isn't stupid (I think that was Tina Fey), she resigned the governorship because she had been rendered ineffective by trivial lawsuits which were bankrupting her and costing the State of Alaska a fortune. I can't fault her for that.
She remains a potent political figure in the sense that people, good, ordinary working folks (and those who wish they were working) will listen to what she has to say. That is power in the political arena, and I think that the Liberals and the GOPe are so afraid of her because the Libs are going to run a woman (Cankles of Fauxcahontas) and Palin could wipe the floor with either in a debate. The GOPe saw what she did with the good ol' boys in Alaska and she has them soiling their Depends at the prospect of her cleaning house there, too.
So I'm not surprised at the umpteenth hit piece aimed at Sarah. I'm just surprised at the level of support that gets from commenters on a Conservative website.
They did it to Eisenhower, affable, but not a great thinker, Nixon they portrayed as corrupt, Ford was a bumbling fool, Reagan was a senile old man,
...so true and while he wasn’t a favorite of mine, the idea of Ford being a bumbling fool...he was only an All American athlete and never lost his agility, but one slip on a steel step and the press went to town. Hate the leftist ba$tar&s even more that the demorats...
ymmv
It was written by Reason editor Nick Gillespie, but published in the Daily Beast and linked back to Reason. So, the intended audience for this article are liberal Daily Beast readers.
It's funny that Nick Gillespie is down on long shot candidates!! Hysterical. Didn't he and his whole magazine march out of the GOP coalition to support --- wait for it --- Gary Johnson? What is the difference between Gary Johnson and Herman Cain? Is Johnson not, also, a "schmuck" by this articles definition?
Do you mind if I use that in the future?
Also:
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”
-- John Quincy Adams
Well, at least Gary Johnson was a somewhat successful governor, as a Republican; a detail that Nick Gillespie tends to overlook. Every Libertarian Party candidate is a longshot or no shot. There has been only one recent grassroots movement of any significant size that builds itself on calling for a reduction in the size of government. That is the Tea Party, and the Libertarian Party attacks it with the exact same tactics the Left uses.
Reason’s editors often sound like hipster liberals who get mildly upset around April 15. They think that they can convert libs to their side by appealing to them on issues like pot legalization; erroneously thinking that it will lead to libs seeing the foibles of other government solutions. Sorry, Reason, but libs don’t “reason”, they emote. They just want to get high, and don’t care about personal responsibility or freedom or federalism or any of that. That is why Reason ultimately fails.
All that said, Nick Gillespie does do some outstanding writing, and is a very interesting conversationalist/interviewer. There is much in his arsenal from which conservatives can draw. When it comes to social issues, the Tea Party, foreign policy, or religion, he’s almost useless.
Be my guest! I like the Adams quote, too.
Governor and vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, has been in elective politics for decades, she should never be mentioned in the company of people like Carson, Trump, Cain and even Mitt Romney.
At least Romney has won one election in his career, which is as long as Palin’s, but with only a single victory to show for it, and he failed in that office.
He is wrong about Cruz
There is no question that Palin is a political genius. Against the leadership of both parties and the national media, she has reshaped American politics and the GOP since 2008.
The people who sound the stupidest to me are in New York and New Jersey. Not all of them by any means but some of them definitely sound as if they should be going to see the Wizard to ask him for a brain. Strangely enough most of those who sound the worst seem to think they are the only people who don’t sound stupid.
Hopefully conservatives will coalesce around Ted Cruz. I believe he is by far the best choice.
Point on. Pub guvs, like Walker, Kasich and perhaps Jeb, are qualified but Walker is a real conser. Jeb is suspect. Then there are the guvs that no one knows: Pence, Martinez, Snyder. Then the Senators: Rubio, Cruz. Please no more Sarah, or Ben, or Trump or people who get some news but will never win nationally. My team is Walker-Kasich.
The question that must be asked by conservatives: which “conservative” candidate if elected would have the steel spine needed to fight the onslaught of the liberal-leftist bacteria that has weakened this country for the last fifty years? Obviously, Palin, Cruz, Walker, and a few others. Too many “conservative” Pubbies gets elected and then collapse their values to “get along” with the libs.
lol
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