Now go back to your drunken sleep.(parasites)
you elitist, snobbish, rump sniffers..

Their lukewarm support of anyone not agreeing with them exactly, the so-called conservative puditocracy has determined to take a 4-year run at killing party and conservative chances in 2012. They’re getting older, so that explains their needing more lead-time.

What spites the chattering classes, though, about Gov. Palin is not the lady herself…but the fact that the “unwashed masses” like her more than they read them.

One wonders what, exactly, they’re trying to conserve.

Reneging on missiles in Europe (Poland and Czech Republic)
Blasting forward with tax increses on businesses and further destroying the world economy

Not only does she have to deal with the Left and the media — which fear her. But now she has to deal with moderates in her own party who also fear her.

Brooks, Will, etc. love above all the sound of their own voices. If backing Palin will give them a platform for their “profound insights” then they’ll back her. What happened in 2008 is that they saw the writing on the wall and saw no reason to tie themselves to a losing ticket. If Palin gains popular momentum in 2012, they’ll hop aboard.

And, I think that the MSM is obviously going to give Obama a long, long honeymoon so it’s possible that any Republican will be a sacrificial elephant in 2012. I want the ‘Cuda to have the best possible chance when she makes her run.

Going forward, the Party needs to purge the pretenders and move on with leadership that is not going to buckle for Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama and Al Qaeda’s Washington Spokesman, Harry Reid.

Dump the Elephant and make it the Moose.

its amazing to me that one bad interview could detroy one
person’s promising politcal career.

It didn’t. MSM, etc. is talking to her and about her now more than ever. I see a 4 year run for the Presidency right from her living room in Alaska.

Not only does she have to deal with the Left and the media — which fear her. But now she has to deal with moderates in her own party who also fear her. It is sickening what the McCain people did to her and I am beginning to feel as if Johnny Mac is part of this as he has remained silent on the matter.

Going forward, the Party needs to purge the pretenders and move on with leadership that is not going to buckle for Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama and Al Qaeda’s Washington Spokesman, Harry Reid.

Who would you rather sit behind on a snow machine: a Brooks, a Will, a Noonan, a Parker, or a Palin?

Freakin’ nerds who were always picked last.

Losers.

I won’t read any of them anymore.

America is the elites vs. non-elites. No longer a “party” thing.

Let’s roll.

Dash on November 10, 2008 at 9:31 AM

Until Obama actually proves that he can actually do something other than talk, I’ll never believe that he is anything more than a puppet. The scary thing will be discovering who pulls the strings.

So until he proves an ability to plan and execute, it doesn’t really matter what he says. But all the ideas he’s expressed so far, no matter whose ideas they really are, deserve a resounding “Hell No”!!!

We don’t need cerebral intellectuals in ivory towers–we need competent, incorruptible leaders who can get the job done.

Steve Z on November 10, 2008 at 9:13 AM

Damn straight, Steve. Having the highest IQ is not part of the job qualifications for POTUS. Strength of character IS.

Speaking of “Job Qualifications”, I would like to see a candidate address some of the silly-ass questions by clarifying what the job of POTUS does and does not entail. Their position on abortion is a character question, but has nothing to do with being POTUS (except tangentially to appointing SCOTUS). Same for hESC. Same for Gov’t Bailouts – that’s the job of the HOR & Senate.

True responsibilities: CinC of the military. Enforcement of national law. Appoint federal justices. Make treaties. Sign or veto bills that have been approved by Congress. Being above corruption is far and away more important than IQ in the performance of these duties.

Not to say that Sarah is lacking intellectually. It’s just not an issue, IMO. She is more qualified than Obama. EOM.

IfWhen Obama runs hard left and destroys the economy even worse and our enemies are approaching our borders, within two years voters will be clamoring for ANYTHING to stop him!

Fix it for you since we’ve already had the announcement that Obama will spend, spend, spend.

Now, there may be a large number clamoring for anything to stop Obama, but I will not be one of them. No RINOs. I’m sick and tired of choose the lesser of two evils and see which one wins. I want a candidate that represents ME.

Anyone who thinks Palin has anything more than potential at this point is in denial. She may have been mishandled and may have shown flashes, but she’s utterly unready at this point, period. Deal with reality please so we can be successful.

On the other hand, to scoff that she hasnt “spent her life preparing for an intellectual revolution to lead the party out of the wilderness.” is pretty stupid too, the woman is 40 something. I mean, Reagan was running the Screen Actors Guild in his 40′s, she’s a state Governor. That doesnt mean she’s Reagan but come on.

Anyone who thinks Palin has anything more than potential at this point is in denial. She may have been mishandled and may have shown flashes, but she’s utterly unready at this point period. Deal with reality please so we can be sucessful.

On the other hand, to scoff that she “spent her life preparing for an intellectual revolution to lead the party out of the wilderness.” is pretty f*&%ing stupid too, the woman is 40 something. I mean s&^t, Reagan was running the Screen Actors Guild in his 40′s, she’s a state Governor.

What’s most important to me is a party that is honest, doesn’t eat its own and actually believes in representative government. No RINOs allowed.

Romney is fine with me unless he or his minions have been involved in this Palin assassination. but unfortunately, Romeny appears to be more of the same and we not only need better, we deserve better.

There are some Republicans who HAVE been advancing the conservative cause in government by practicing what they preach–Bobby Jindal, Haley Barbour, Jim DeMint, Jeb Bush, and Sarah Palin.

The perceived lack of “intellectual” heft with Sarah Palin was due to her inexperience with NATIONAL politics, which allowed her to get tripped up by the leftist “gotcha” media to which she was unaccustomed. In Alaska, where she had watched the workings of politics for twelve years as mayor of Wasilla and member of the Oil and Gas regulatory board before becoming Governor, she was both incorruptible and extremely well-informed, and won the Governorship by out-foxing the wonks and coming down on the side of the Alaskan people.

For those who love ivory-tower intellectuals, they’ve got their wish with Obama–the cerebral thinker who mesmerizes the crowds with his rhetoric who has never DONE anything constructive. The Chicago Annenberg Challenge–$160 million and 6 years for an educational FAILURE. Forcing Chicago banks to lend to insolvent borrowers, and now taxpayers are bailing out banks. His time in the State Senate was spent giving hundreds of millions of dollars of State money to his rich cronies to build tenements, which are now rat-infested slums. Four years in the U.S. Senate, and no Obama legislation.

Obama is a great “thinker” and orator, but as a DOER is a colossal failure. The media managed to hide this from the American people while he was a relative nobody in Chicago, but now that he is President, people will see the results, whether the media likes it or not. If Obama runs hard left and destroys the economy even worse and our enemies are approaching our borders, within two years voters will be clamoring for ANYTHING to stop him!

It’s time for true conservatives to stop pointing blame and start organizing. The Democrats will be in charge for the next two years–we can blame THEM for anything that goes wrong. It’s time for Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney and other former GOP leaders to stop pontificating and start recruiting solid conservative challengers in swing districts for 2010, to whom voters can flock after The Great Intellectual Obama has repeated the glorious failures of Jimmuh Carter. Meanwhile, let Gov. Sarah Palin exude quiet confidence and competence in Alaska, and let her gain experience on national issues on the interview circuit–with Obama feeding her lines of attack. A lot of things can happen in four years (who would have thought in late 2004 that a financial crisis, not Iraq, would derail the GOP now?), and Sarah Palin may or may not be our best hope in 2012, but she will be part of the solution–she is definitely NOT part of the problem.

We don’t need cerebral intellectuals in ivory towers–we need competent, incorruptible leaders who can get the job done. This is where the second Bush term and the 2005-06 Congress failed us–they were incompetent and/or corrupt. Sarah Palin is neither, but she can’t do it alone–we need to rally the others to the cause of taking back Congress and stopping the Obama-nation.

Pugnaciousness may not be a “political philosophy,” but it is certainly a admirable and necessary quality which Gov. Sarah has in spades.

Sarah’cuda!

‘I’m not sure it’s all fair, but one would not say she has spent her life preparing for an intellectual revolution to lead the party out of the wilderness. Let’s put it that way.’”
-David Brooks

And I would say that Brooks has spent his whole life preparing to be a toady for whomever is in power from the very first time that someone at the playground knocked off his glasses and gave him a wedgie.

Really, when has this milktoast ever stood up forcefully for anything or anyone?

Which Romney policies are too moderate for you? This isn’t a 1994 run for a Massachusetts senate seat anymore, he doesn’t have to play that game.

Obama could dismantle the military and the lead story on MSNBC will be “Is the Republican party dead?”

Obama could call for the release of all black drug dealers in prison and the CNN story will be “Will republicans ever recover?”.