What the press still refuses to admit is that, were Sarah Palin able to get Obama’s press, she’d be elected in a landslide. Obama could never have won had the press not carried his water for 9 months. I’m not sure McCain could have defeated Obama but I do know that, with all the baggage he had, he wouldn’t have gotten as many cross-over Republicans and Independents as he got.

As to Sarah Palin, she’s no Ronald Reagan. Reagan wrote (not ghost wrote) and talked about conservatism for decades before taking office. Palin is more of a populist. The thing is that she really hasn’t said what she believes. I think the left is attacking her because they see how popular she is and are making a preemptive strike. It could also be premature because I suspect that she won’t be running for any office in 2012.

highhopes on October 5, 2009 at 7:32 AM

Huh?

You realize Sarah WROTE her own book too, right? Yeah, she had help, so do most non authors. they are called collaborators.

Barack Obama had ghostwriters. “Dreams of the Kenyan Guy I Never Met” was written by murdering terrorist Billy Ayers, and the “Audacity of Hype” was written by Jon Favreau.

And WTF? She “hasn’t said what she believes?” Are you kidding me? She says it every time she opens her mouth!

Sarah has been giving some pretty red meat speeches for quite some time.

Do you hear speech back in June in Anchorage when she introduced Michael Reagan?

Her speech to her troops in Kosovo?

Her last speech as Governor?

Her speech in China?

Hell, her speech at the 2008 RNC?

If you haven’t figured out what Sarah Palin believes, what she stands for, and what her vision for America is, then you are either not paying attention, or incredibly dense.

Decider on October 5, 2009 at 9:59 AM

This may be a shock to your sensitive, squishy system but if you agree with the likes of brooks you are not a conservative.

In Allah’s Quotes the Day, he featured two: One an attack on the self-styled elites who do nothing to advance anything at all except their own outsized sense of self-importance, and the other the elites ragging on the “far right”……

Decider on October 5, 2009 at 9:59 AM

No your not. Your a troll who thinks that George Bush took away a whole list of freedoms….which I’m still waiting for you to present.

STFU

In order for Sarah Palin to win the nomination for 2012 she will need to appeal to the independents who up for grabs. And I think some here on Hot Air are not going to like that.

terryannonline on October 4, 2009 at 11:00 PM

Doesn’t work that way, never has.

REAL conservatives, like Sarah Palin and Ronald Reagan never, EVER stray from their core values. They have ONE message for everyone. Period.

THAT’S what people want. People want a LEADER. People want someone who stands for something. Someone who BELIEVES in what they are saying, and won’t bend one inch.

The independents will vote for Sarah in droves because they will see that she is real. They will see that she says what she means, and means what she says. They won’t agree with 100 percent of her agenda, but they will agree with 70-80 percent of it.

And BTW, I’m talking about the general election, against Teh Won. Indies don’t vote in the primaries, and the base will nominate Palin in a heartbeat. It won’t even be close. There IS no one else.

And since you have obviously have never seen this gal debate an opponent, on her terms, you simply cannot appreciate the ass whippin’ she will give Obama on the debate stage. It won’t be pretty at all.

The bottom line is this, if she runs in 2012, and there is absolutely no reason to think that she won’t, she will be the next President.

You can take that to Vegas!

Maddow, like a trained bitch hearing Pavlov’s bell, responds to the bait and immediately begins to attempt to annihilate Palin’s co-author, Lynn Vincent, who co-authored a book with Robert Stacy McCain (The Other McCain, I think) called Donkey Cons, which exposed asserted criminal association as a part of Democrat political life. She then alluded to accusations that R. S. McCain is a White Supremacist, that is, a racial hater.

So here we have David “Cecil” Gregory throwing out red meat for squishies and Rachel to disparage (Maddow and Dionne showing notable lisps in their delivery) and for Rachel Maddow to begin the PDS interlude by tainting the “association of an association.”

Get it? “Harshness” is against the rules for Republicans and other conservatives but totally acceptable for RINO and liberals to spew without constraint among the political “elite.”

Here Rachel: I long to see the day when you interview Sarah Palin and, after she leaves, you are caught on video sniffing her vacated seat in longing and desire, you Tea Party hating elitist!

You STARTED it!

Tim Russert is no Tim Russert. The reality is that Russert was a fairly decent host but he was hardly the unbiased objective interviewer that has become legend. Many a week he was out there blatantly beating the drum for a liberal ideology.
highhopes on October 5, 2009 at 7:32 AM

Thank you, highhopes! Many a time I would be yelling at the tube when Russert was showing his bias. Yet he gets a pass from most conservatives. It’s an example that we’ve gone so far left we don’t even recognize bias when we see it.

alphabetical by author
publiuspen on October 5, 2009 at 10:17 AM

Well…almost alpha order. Sorry, merged two lists.

Once you Dittoheads understand that and unite the movement will grow strong.

Decider on October 5, 2009 at 9:59 AM

That’s a very poorly constructed sentence for a self-proclaimed “elitist”.

what about roads, food inspections, federally insured banks, street lights, government funding for cures for cancer?

Grow Fins on October 5, 2009 at 9:14 AM

I realize the cat has long since been let out of the bag on this but the federal government’s powers are constitutionally limited with all other powers left to the states or to the people. Also, government at any level should only do for us what we can’t do for ourselves (i.e. pave roads, inspect food, defend the borders, deliver the mail, etc.). Contrary to your implication, conservatives aren’t anarchists. We believe in government–limited government but government.

On another note, I found it hilarious to see these talking heads opine about how the Republicans need to “Modernize” the party and what type canidate they need to run. Of course the icing was not realizing that McCain lost NOT because of Sarah as a running mate but because of McCain on the ticket.

What other books are on your suggested reading list for self-educated, non-elitist, non-pseudo-intellectual, common sense conservatives?
publiuspen on October 4, 2009 at 11:31 PM

Here’s HA reader book recommendations from last night and this morning, alphabetical by author:

Bloom: The Closing of the American Mind
Conquest: Harvest of Sorrows
Ellis: Founding Brothers
Friedman: Money Mischief
Hayek: Road to Serfdom
Levin: Liberty and Tyranny
Paine: Common Sense
Goldberg: Liberal Facism
Courois: The Black Book of Communism
O’Rourke: Parliament of Whores
McCullough: 1776
Lewis: Screwtape Letters
Friedman: Free to Choose
Steyn: American Alone
Wood: Radicalism of the American Revolution
Hayek: The Constitution of Liberty
Huxley: Brave New World
Muravchik: Heaven Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism
Page Smith: The Constitution: A documentary and Narrative History
Rand: Capitalism the Unknown Ideal
Shales: The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
Shuffleton: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
Skousen: The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World
Solzhenitsyn: Gulag Archipelago

And the original blueprints:

Declaration of Independence
Federalist Papers
U.S. Constitution

Interesting list for the family bookcase, nightable reading or potential Christmas shopping list…

Decider on October 5, 2009 at 9:59 AM

Says the person who thinks George “open borders” Will is a conservative.

I don’t mind criticism of Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, etc. from the true conservative right. But it annoys me when I hear it from phonies such as yourself.

Sheesh. It just goes to show how liberal this country has become when Sarah Palin is regarded as “far right.”

Also, Rachel Maddow is a scumbag. But I’m sure I’m not breaking any new ground there…

There are a great deal of “intellectuals” that can and should be completely dismissed.

jhffmn on October 5, 2009 at 9:50 AM

Which conservatives fail your litmus test?

what about roads, food inspections, federally insured banks, street lights, government funding for cures for cancer?

Grow Fins on October 5, 2009 at 9:14 AM

If the argument is that I’ve compromised myself, that I can never again object to a federal takeover if I support those things…then scrap them.

Scalia told C-SPAN: “I worry that we are devoting too many of our very best minds to this enterprise.” Scalia says he sometimes listens to a brilliant lawyer and wonders: “Why isn’t she out inventing the automobile or… doing something productive for this society? I mean lawyers, after all, don’t produce anything.”

Recognizing the idiocy of the sniveling elites in academia and government does not automatically make one a populist. However to dismiss all Ivy Leaguers as too highfalutin’ to represent Americans is equally idiotic.

Buy Danish on October 5, 2009 at 7:25 AM

There is a simple litmus test for Ive Leaguers to test how highfalutin’ they are. Actually there are several.

Here I’ll list a few.

1) Do you support government run health care?
2) Do you feel wind energy is a viable alternative to coal?
3) Do you feel Obama’s stimulus package will ultimately benefit the economy?

The list goes on, but you get the idea.

There are a great deal of “intellectuals” that can and should be completely dismissed.

what about roads, food inspections, federally insured banks, street lights, government funding for cures for cancer?

Grow Fins on October 5, 2009 at 9:14 AM

That’s right GrowFins. I’m with you: complete government control over everything!

I’m sick of having to be self-reliant and responsible for my own actions. I no longer what to think for myself, do for myself, or even be myself!

If the government can ruin run the roads why not my health too! If they can turn on the lights, they should be able to turn mine off!

Chant with me growfins: More Government! Less Freedom! More Government! Less Freedom!

Where is Robespierre when you need him?

I hate it when I mix up my late 18th century revolutions…Actually, I thought the guillotine metaphor would have been clearer (off with their intellectual heads)…

what about roads, food inspections, federally insured banks, street lights, government funding for cures for cancer?

Grow Fins on October 5, 2009 at 9:14 AM

Oh, jeez, not this sh*t again.

Roads and food inspection – not equal to – government ownership of banks and automobile companies.

Street lights – not equal to – government takeover of college lending.

Government cures for cancer? Can you name a cancer that is being cured thanks to government?