She was Right NOT to TRUST the GOP.

We need a NEW real conservative PARTY..
Republicans are DEAD

jcila on January 24, 2009 at 6:25 PM

Good Lord. Is she intelligent or right. if she didn’t trust the GOP why in the sam hill did she agree to run? Because that would make her … well wrong. Oh that’s right so she could get some additions to her wardrobe and position herself as the Holy Mother Mary of the conservatives…. PUHLEASE…. get over it already. Dan Quayle, Palin, Edwards…. they are all the same— has beens who ran for VP.

YOu arent a maverick sir
your a closet liberal
Thats why you lost..

The only one who actually had some BALLS in the entire campain was PALIN..

and the GOP and the PRESS realize this
And are doing everything they can
To destroy her..

She was Right NOT to TRUST the GOP.

We need a NEW real conservative PARTY..
Republicans are DEAD

It’s simple but hard to fathom, (since we are supposed to be a representative Republic), BUT the Memememedia did it and more than 1/2 of the people who voted sucked up the pablum and believe(d) the Obama mythology and they will fight to maintain it as if their very lives depend(ed) on it. They deserved what they got, we must fight to not become The Brave New World of Obama.

Think about that. McCain lost, because undecideds went for Obama — not because he was better or his VP was better but because McCain seemed weak on the issues and faced a fresh and “articulate” face. A historical face. (A Marxist face.)

chunderroad on January 22, 2009 at 10:26 PM

One thing you forgot to mention. An awful lot of republicans didn’t bother to vote. Why bother, a RINO or Dem, not much difference. IF McCain had been elected, would there be any difference in the complaints being posted?

Go ahead and criticize Palin all you want. But keep it about her policies, actions, and statements. Otherwise, you lose all credibility, like the MSM has in their reporting of her.

I’m criticizing you for your fanboy slavish devotion to someone you know very little about and for whom you make a leap in logic that she is the “chosen one”. Her actions when put on the national stage hurt McCain, from the vacant look at Couric’s questions to the fire sale on clothes for her family. Her foreign policy of seeing russia across the water — please give me a break.
If ANY Dem candidate had done/said similar actions you would likely be at the top of the mountain screaming “Empty suit, novice, corrupt!” Oh wait you already did that.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes must be the theme song for the PalinBots….

Go ahead and criticize Palin all you want. But keep it about her policies, actions, and statements. Otherwise, you lose all credibility, like the MSM has in their reporting of her.

Which is why we “fanboys/girls” must be careful to not speak of her in Messiah-like reverance. That is what the lefties have done. They’ve confused a politician for a deity.rmel80 on January 24, 2009 at 2:36 AM

Translation: “I love being a fanboy/girl and worship Sarah as the left does Obama. So when we have a knee jerk reaction to any criticism no matter how small, we must try to act like we are not blindly defending our queen.”

Excuse me, but John McCain has NOT become a cheerleader for Obama’s socialist programs. Let’s get the facts straigt. It was the Bush Administration that did the bank bailout. McCain flirted with the idea of opposing it (he should have), but then decided to be a team player supporting Bush. McCain has since voted AGAINST the release of TARP funds as had been requested by both Bush and Obama; and McCain OPPOSED the auto bailout. These positions were consistent with his historic fiscal conservatism.

All McCain has done supportive of Obama is to follow the ritual of being gracious to the winner of a Presidential election and argue that Obama should get his Secretary of State of choice in Hillary. So what. Rush has SPECUALTED that McCain would support Obama’s programs, but I for one think Rush’s SPECULATION will turn out to be wrong and that McCain will be a thorn in Obama’s side.

Matt Helm on January 23, 2009 at 7:36 AM

dead on!

Steve Z on January 23, 2009 at 3:31 PM

you too!

Which is why we “fanboys/girls” must be careful to not speak of her in Messiah-like reverance. That is what the lefties have done. They’ve confused a politician for a deity.

She has talent, energy and charisma. That’s where so many politicians fail. She must start crafting her own message on every topic. She’s got energy production down pat. She needs to find her voice on the other pressing matters of our society and guage her ambitions as the times change over the next four years.

She was the right pick on the day McCain selected her. At the time he needed a “Rock Star.” When the banking crisis occured she didn’t bring enough to the table to make up for all of McCain’s blunders. All Obama had to do was spout some feel good rhetoric that has no chance of ever working and the masses put their votes in his hand. McCain was all over the place and looked every bit that cranky, old fool that they portrayed him to be.

A woman candidate is too difficult to get elected as President in the present time. Even some “conservatives” were mad at Palin for not being a 19th century stay at home, barefoot and cooking mother. Its just easier to run a man.

Speedwagon82 on January 23, 2009 at 11:56 AM

She’ll still fit that description. It’s just that her home will be the White House and she’ll occasionally get dressed and go out to, y’know, lead the world.

Get used to it. She will not go negative. Publicly, she is upbeat and glowing.

She has struck a good balance between protecting her family without going overboard against the media, and respecting McCain and others.

Plenty of time yet for Sarah–no rush–but she needs to take care of first things first–steer her state through the next year or two and she’ll be in good shape. But she has to succeed in that.

Matt Helm on January 23, 2009 at 7:36 AM

I agree with a lot of this post–Palin needs to take good care of her state and develop a reputation for competence without corruption, and she needs to articulate solid conservative positions on a number of issues, and bone up on foreign policy, which was considered her weakness in 2008 if something happened to McCain.

Sarah Palin was somewhat of a one-issue candidate in 2008–she was sharp on energy issues, but weak on foreign policy. She looked like a great pick in late August when gasoline was $4/gallon, but she didn’t help much when banks went bankrupt, and neither Bush nor McCain blamed the Democrats for provoking the crisis by forcing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to loan to insolvent borrowers. Obama won by promising “change” (whatever that means), and voters blamed Bush, who failed to defend himself or McCain.

Sarah Palin is a fast learner, but nine weeks was not enough to win the Vice Presidency with the national media in slash-and-burn mode, and she did not handle them well. She now has four years, and if she continues to get attention from hostile media, she will gradually polish her media skills, and if Obama’s policies fail, she could be seen as a plausible alternative. She needs to watch what Obama does, and criticize him and suggest better policies where Obama goes wrong, while being careful not to oppose EVERYTHING Obama does, so she is not considered partisan.

Sarah Palin will have some advantages in 2012 that she didn’t have in 2008: (1) she will be better known and more experienced as Governor; (2) anything wrong with the country in 2012 will be blamed on Obama, and the Republican will be the candidate of “change”; (3) she may be more knowledgeable on issues concerning the “lower 48″ than she was in 2008; (4) she can run on her own, out from McCain’s shadow (would he run at age 76?) as a solid conservative, which may be more popular then if Obama drifts too far left.

Will she be our best nominee in 2012? It’s too early to tell, but the more time she spends in the limelight, the more voters will warm up to her.

If Palin wants to further the culture of life, to further the conservative cause, to further her long-term political career, then she needs to write a statement of principles from her own perspective, a manifesto of sorts for her conservative supporters to use as a justification for their continued support. If she wants to be a Margaret Thatcher, she better leave the mud on her truck.

Matt Helm on January 23, 2009 at 7:36 AM

+10

I think with the right people around her, helping her to prep for a run in 2012 or 2016, she will prove a formidable opponent.

I don’t understand why those on the left (and a few on the right as well) don’t see why she should hold some appeal for many of us. Her emergence on the national stage was swift, but not unlike Obama’s, really. I thought he gave a fine speech at the 2004 DNC, but if you had asked me then if I thought he would be president four years later, I would have laughed you out the door. Actually, had Gov. Palin not been the nominee but had just been invited to speak like Obama was, I would bet she would be in a truly enviable position now, much as The One was in 2004. There would be lots of buzz around her as the potential future of the party, but without the hysterical fear and attending criticism that has been heaped on her.

It’s easy for me to articulate why she resonates with me: She speaks my language. For one thing she is a woman of my generation, and although I skipped the marriage and kids part, I do think we probably think a lot alike on things. She doesn’t come to us with the obligatory chip on her shoulder that women of the Boomer generation did. She is not one to sit around bemoaning or examining under a microscope her plight as “second-class citizen.” She just goes out there and does what she thinks she needs to do, and does it well. I can identify with that. That’s not to say there aren’t still hurdles that women have to overcome that men necessarily do not. It just means that she doesn’t waste time complaining about the unfairness of it all. She is bringing down barriers through action; she’s writing her own life script instead of letting some victim-oriented movement write it for her. I greatly admire that about her, and I think she sets an exceptional example for her children in that respect. She is fearless in the face of a challenge and that’s the kind of personality I want steering the ship.

Of course the other — and most important — reason she appeals to me is that she represents the kind of libertarian, frontier conservatism that Reagan espoused. That’s something that has been missing in our political discourse for an awfully long time — since the Gipper left office in fact. Her critics may wish to brand her a social conservative, but from what I’ve seen, those views are mostly ones she holds personally and not necessarily what she would impose on the people of her state or country. I’m not by any means a social conservative myself and yet I am pretty comfortable with her record as I know it, and some of the things I’ve heard her say. She doesn’t strike me as someone whose first order of business once taking office would be to radically abridge everyone’s individual liberties, and again, her record supports that. Of course I would expect some shifts in social policy under a Palin adminsitration — for example, I’m pretty sure she would re-impose the executive order that The One just rescinded that would ban federal funding of international pro-abortion groups — but in the grand scheme of things, this is not something that I think severely threatens or curtails the rights of the pro-choice crowd. Liberals just have an unfortunate tendency of making mountains out of molehills.

Anyway, these are the the things that inform my fangirl-ship, and the only reason it happened so quickly is because I didn’t really know who she was before McCain chose her as his running mate. Now I do, and I like her. I don’t necessarily think she’s the only possibility in 2012 or 2016 — I like Mark Sanford quite a bit as well. Jury is still out on Jindal for me, however. But as far as I’m concerned, she’s the front runner. Unless these other guys can show me a reason I should back them over her, I’m squarely in the Palin camp.

Just ask Carlos Slim. :)

Jim Treacher on January 23, 2009 at 10:03 AM

Dan Rather has an awesome career right now. Just ask him!

Jimmy, it shouldn’t be too hard to understand that the fact that she’s a walking talking punchline
benny shakar on January 23, 2009 at 2:07 AM

Takes one to know one, thoughtless blog troll.

Bring on the McCain-bashing…

*sigh*

+1

It’s very disheartening.

Let the liberals have their fun poking at Governor Palin. We all did the same things to Al Gore and John Kerry, and especially to John Edwards after the last two elections. Gov. Palin has a very thick skin, and we should too.

Keep whining about the media, my friends. It has worked wonders so far. :)

Just ask Carlos Slim. :)