Quotes of the day
posted at 9:30 pm on November 15, 2009 by Allahpundit
“The book tour starts this week, and I look forward to it! I’m most looking forward to meeting many of you, shaking your hands, and telling you, ‘Thanks for loving America.’ I’ll give you a scoop here and tell you what’s on the book’s Dedication Page – it’s dedicated to you – Patriots – who love the U.S.A. as much as I do.”
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“Through it all, Mrs. Palin emerges as a new style of feminist: a politician who took on the Ole Boy network and won; a wife with a supportive husband whose career takes second place to hers; and a mother who, unlike working women of an earlier age, isn’t shy about showcasing her family responsibilities. She writes with sensitivity and affection about her gay college roommate, and she confesses her anguish when she found out that she was carrying a baby with Down syndrome. That experience, she says, helped her to understand why a woman might be tempted to have an abortion. This is not the prejudiced, dim-witted ideologue of the popular liberal imagination…
Mrs. Palin’s veep candidacy ignited fury on the left and much skewed reporting in the mainstream media. It is probably too much to hope that a book that begins at the Right to Life booth at the Alaska State Fair will inspire her critics to read on. But if they do, they’ll find themselves in the company of a woman whose views are more nuanced than they were portrayed to be during the campaign. As for her supporters on the right, they won’t find much new ammunition with which to counter those who say that Mrs. Palin isn’t ready for the rigors of the White House.”
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Wow. Awesome post. Should be QOTD. You took Brooksey and the intelletards to school and stole their lunch money to boot.
Geochelone on November 16, 2009 at 12:05 AM
canopfor – He is definitely accomplished in those lib character requirements.
Sporty1946 on November 16, 2009 at 12:01 AM
Sporty1946:Liberal resume enhancement!!:)
canopfor on November 16, 2009 at 12:06 AM
Obviously untrue. Have you ever tried lacing children’s shoes or changing diapers or a host of other things parents do every day for their children without bowing down before them?
Loxodonta on November 16, 2009 at 12:06 AM
Cindy Munford on November 15, 2009 at 11:57 PM
Wow. Awesome post. Should be QOTD. You took Brooksey and the intelletards to school and stole their lunch money to boot.
Geochelone on November 16, 2009 at 12:05 AM
Geochelone:A verbal masterpiece!!:)
canopfor on November 16, 2009 at 12:07 AM
I don’t know if the first part is from you but you know jack about Gov. Palin’s governing style it was her and the AK Dem’s who got the gas line up and running but you wouldn’t know this because you are still stuck to the media’s teat.
Clyde5445 on November 16, 2009 at 12:07 AM
David Brooks sarcastically twice called Palin a talk-show host, which of course, she’s not. What does he think of Huckabee, who actually is a talk-show host?
CP on November 16, 2009 at 12:08 AM
I’d like to give David Brooks a back hand right across his !ocksucker.
heshtesh on November 16, 2009 at 12:08 AM
Comedy Gold.
Geochelone on November 15, 2009 at 11:57 PM
Geochelone:)
canopfor on November 16, 2009 at 12:09 AM
Heh. What I meant is for THIS Democratic president. Can you imagine the fit-throwing and cries “America is racist!” that would ensue if Obama lost? I just don’t see it happening. Too many black voters, too much support from the goober liberal media, and too much white liberal guilt will carry him to a second term no matter whether he’s a good president or not. You just watch!
NathanG on November 16, 2009 at 12:09 AM
I thought what Barry had was the news and entertainment industries. He has intelligence or cunning? Really?
Loxodonta on November 16, 2009 at 12:09 AM
The problem is not with the going to college, the problem is with the elite’s view that they can run other people’s lives better than those people can run their own.
PackerBronco on November 16, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Based on the importance he puts on pants creases, I’d say that Brooksie is – at best – a fashion consultant.
PackerBronco on November 16, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Thank you, you are very sweet. Intellectual “victims” are just more than I can take.
Cindy Munford on November 16, 2009 at 12:12 AM
+1000
That was great and brutally honest.
Gracelynn on November 16, 2009 at 12:13 AM
The discussion of Palin has gotten so polarized that I’m not sure about her running for President. She seems to have done a great job governing Alaska, but the discussion is not about that at all. The democrats and the media were successful in their campaign to make her the dumb woman with no experience. She needs an interview based upon policy only to change that. IMO O’Reilly (though I see him as a bit arrogant) might be one that could achieve that. The way that she was introduced to the country was probably flawed. Rather than touting all of her good policy positions and the good things she did as AK’s governor she was portrayed as just one of us (and she did speak of this in her convention speech so I conceed that)and I think she is more than that. Regardless of all of the stories which proved to be false, she got labeled and discredited as “not a serious person”. I would think the state that elected her would be able to come to her defense on policy issues and what she did as Governor, but I guess not. Perhaps the campaign did this, or perhaps it was her. I lean one way, but we’ll see how it plays out.
thevastlane on November 16, 2009 at 12:13 AM
I really hope you are right and I am wrong about 2012.
But 2010 is looking brighter and brighter for us.
So, I have Hope. For Change. Yes we can!
Loxodonta on November 16, 2009 at 12:14 AM
Darn it, I thought I was going to get to watch Red Eye (since 3 a.m. is not happening in this old person’s life) and The Won is on live from China. He is the continual nightmare.
Cindy Munford on November 16, 2009 at 12:16 AM
When I think of the debates, Sarah is the only one that I think would really confront Obama. When I imagine an Obama/Romney, Obama/Huckabee, or and Obama/Pawlenty debate, all I see is those guys bending over backwards to be deferental to Obama so they won’t look “racist” for aggressively attacking the black guy. Sarah is the only one right now that I see staring him down and with a twinkle in the eye telling him that she thinks he’s nuts.
PackerBronco on November 16, 2009 at 12:16 AM
That made me laugh. Thanks!
Loxodonta on November 16, 2009 at 12:17 AM
I wonder what happened in AllahP’s life to cause him to hate women and fat people so much? He’s having a grand ol’ time on the tweeter right now making fun of both.
rinohumper on November 16, 2009 at 12:18 AM
I liked when Bill Kristol said today on Fox that at least Sarah would’nt be bowing to anyone.
heshtesh on November 16, 2009 at 12:20 AM
Meghan McCain again? Allah is such a chubby chaser :)
Dr Evil on November 16, 2009 at 12:20 AM
DAVID BROOKS, R.I.P.
That is it. This guy is the ultimate joke.
So…. if he thinks Sarah Palin is a joke in his upside-down world, she must be pretty normal.
anyhow, this is the final nail in Brooks coffin on having him ever ever to be taken seriously. He is nothing more than a rediculous lib parading as a republican.
mooseburger on November 16, 2009 at 12:20 AM
That was funny. Even I could understand a great deal of the German dialect spoken in Austria and my German Professor was from Central Germany.
Holger on November 16, 2009 at 12:22 AM
You can look sophisticated with the help of fashion, hair, and make-up professionals, speech coaches, and exercise regimes. All of which is entirely superficial. Of what value is it other than your ranking among the elites? I find so much more value in an unsophisticated, honest, skilled auto mechanic than any sophisticated airhead like Barry.
Loxodonta on November 16, 2009 at 12:23 AM
That panel seems to think if they say it enough times,
(Sarah Palin is a joke) it will be come to be (believed by every one else)..they seem terrorized by the idea of taking Ms.Palin seriously.
“Sometimes negative” and “lacks a steady hand” is code for she scares the beejeebees out of us.
Keep up the good work Sarah.
HGFinley on November 16, 2009 at 12:25 AM
test
Sapwolf on November 16, 2009 at 12:26 AM
I can’t post a link.
Has that been disabled or something?
Anybody know?
Sapwolf on November 16, 2009 at 12:27 AM
Great post Cindy Munford! If the elites running our country can screw it up so badly, why would we fight them?
Oh yeah, because we don’t really have it out for the “elites” until they are the ones screwing everything up and we get fed up with it. But, to be sure, all of us non-elites should just shut up and wait for our republican approved welfare.
thevastlane on November 16, 2009 at 12:28 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvoeeq-BH4w
Sapwolf on November 16, 2009 at 12:29 AM
Darn it, I thought I was going to get to watch Red Eye (since 3 a.m. is not happening in this old person’s life) and The Won is on live from China. He is the continual nightmare.
Cindy Munford on November 16, 2009 at 12:16 AM
Cindy Munford: Best of Red Eye 2008!!
Part 1/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INLQnU36e9s
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Part/2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs5kF-QOBYg&feature=related
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Part/3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1sDNGT62fY&feature=related
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Part/4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PiSHjFN4oU&feature=related
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Enjoy,Cindy!:)
canopfor on November 16, 2009 at 12:30 AM
She can change popular opinion about her, but not much among the intellectual elitists or the left. And nothing will be win/win for her. There will always be risks.
This is very good advice. Especially the “amiable” part. Many of Reagan’s most vocal political opponents had a difficult time hating the man, because he really and truly was amiable, charming, cared about people, and had a delightful self-deprecating humor. Humor and charm help in so many difficult situation.
Good grief! You didn’t even scare me tonight. You’re off your game!
Loxodonta on November 16, 2009 at 12:30 AM
Do you have javascript disabled? Try a different browser. You could do it manually if ya know a little html. Look up the anchor tag in google. Or cut and paste the link raw and wordpress will mark it up for you.
Geochelone on November 16, 2009 at 12:33 AM
Thanks for pointing that out. It was my take on the whole silliness of the roundtable.
Has any interviewer ever asked Palin in depth what she did to root out political corruption in her state or how she achieved the implementing the gas pipeline or how she approaches the use of natural resources and being responsible towards the environment or what jobs benefits and national security issues are resolved by exploiting our own plentiful natural energy resources or how her own home state has been important to national security or how smaller, lesser government allows people to live in more liberty or …
You get the picture.
onlineanalyst on November 16, 2009 at 12:34 AM
Of course, you do not have to go to college or graduate from college to be successful. Didn’t Bill Gates quit college?
Johan Klaus on November 16, 2009 at 12:34 AM
And here I thought it was an out-of-bowel experience…you know, that he’d finally pulled his head out!
mnealtx on November 16, 2009 at 12:34 AM
There’s more and it’s about the “intellectual elites”.
Cindy Munford on November 16, 2009 at 12:35 AM
Regardless of when, why, who, or how unfair it is, it’s happened. So, Palin will simply have to turn those negative polling numbers around. If she can, and she wants the nomination, she’ll get it. If she can’t, she’ll continue being a powerful force in the party anyway.
Loxodonta on November 16, 2009 at 12:35 AM
I can’t post a link.
Has that been disabled or something?
Anybody know?
Sapwolf on November 16, 2009 at 12:27 AM
Sapwolf: I just posted some Red Eye videos to Cindy,
but,POOF,it didn’t post!!!!!:)
canopfor on November 16, 2009 at 12:35 AM
I think of George W. Bush as Reagan lite, personality wise. In my opinion, he displayed the same affable qualities of Reagan, but didn’t have the right policy decisions sometimes. Reagan obviously believed more in states’ rights more than Bush.
NathanG on November 16, 2009 at 12:35 AM
More power to you!
Loxodonta on November 16, 2009 at 12:36 AM
And here I thought it was an out-of-bowel experience…you know, that he’d finally pulled his head out!
mnealtx on November 16, 2009 at 12:34 AM
mnealtx: Multiple meanings,haha!!:)
canopfor on November 16, 2009 at 12:37 AM
Lets Roll. We are coming.
Geochelone on November 16, 2009 at 12:37 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvoeeq-BH4w
Sapwolf on November 16, 2009 at 12:29 AM
Sapwolf: Right back at ya!!hehe:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f1cwycSWq0
canopfor on November 16, 2009 at 12:42 AM
Thanks, I can get them at Fox, I was just hoping to fold laundry and watch at the same time. Instead I am talking to you and getting nothing done. Guess which one I like better?
Cindy Munford on November 16, 2009 at 12:42 AM
Well,I’m off to bedlam!!
Nite everyone:)
canopfor on November 16, 2009 at 12:43 AM
I was looking for a live version of Don’t Tread on Me. No luck, just audio or cover bands. Boo!
Cindy Munford on November 16, 2009 at 12:43 AM
canopfor on November 16, 2009 at 12:35 AM
Thanks, I can get them at Fox, I was just hoping to fold laundry and watch at the same time. Instead I am talking to you and getting nothing done. Guess which one I like better?
Cindy Munford on November 16, 2009 at 12:42 AM
Cindy Munford: The laundry!!,I kid,nite Cindy!:)
canopfor on November 16, 2009 at 12:44 AM
Good night, sweet dreams.
Cindy Munford on November 16, 2009 at 12:44 AM
Beware of the wolf in sheeps clothing. It is my belief that the left has carefully crafted a plan to infiltrate the GOP with moles probably since before GBW got re-elected. Nicole Wallace was Sarah Palin’s campaign advisor, but I find it hard to believe thay any right leaning Hot Air reader would ever write something like this:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-22/republicans-for-obama/
With advisors like that who needs enemies.
I had forgotten all about this post, as it was written back in Jan. 2009. So many things just don’t add up. Do you doubt that Rahm & his ilk aren’t capable of devising a plan of recruiting moles? It really wouldn’t be hard.
redridinghood on November 16, 2009 at 12:47 AM
Anti-intellectualism? What is that exactly? Escaping the leftist indoctrination of our elite universities?
Connie on November 16, 2009 at 12:49 AM
A terrifying and utterly real possibility.
SG1_Conservative on November 16, 2009 at 12:56 AM
Yes, and just like Sarah’s, it is available for pre-order on Amazon.
It’s current sales rank? 72,997
Forget Romney. He couldn’t bring 50 people to a rally even he paid them.
Norwegian on November 16, 2009 at 12:57 AM
He sucks at baseball too.
His writings on it are just what you would expect of a guy who didn’t play it and never could really be ‘in the club’.
Sapwolf on November 16, 2009 at 12:59 AM
Yep.
Wallace is a leftist and Sarah will need loyal libertarians and conservatives in her campaign all working off her vision.
When I first heard of Wallace in McCain’s campaign last year, I was shocked when I got up to speed on her.
McCain even having someone like that that high up in your campaign showed total incompetence.
I personally don’t think McCain could be a good executive and it showed.
Sarah knew more about campaigning than most of the nitwits that she had to work with.
Sapwolf on November 16, 2009 at 1:03 AM
She’s really putting some serious fear in you.
I’m enjoying your posts.
Your meltdown is epic.
Sapwolf on November 16, 2009 at 1:06 AM
Another one in meltdown.
Darn, no popcorn around.
Sapwolf on November 16, 2009 at 1:08 AM
Sure seems like him. Melting….Melting….
Sapwolf on November 16, 2009 at 1:13 AM
Wallace, Brooks & Co are all RINO swine.
Wallace is a lying leftie; Brooks is a laughable clown who can’t stop drooling over Obama’s pant crease.
Whomever these scumbags attack, I will support.
And whomever they claim the GOP “should” nominate in 2012, I will never vote for.
Norwegian on November 16, 2009 at 1:14 AM
Part of the problem that the media have with Sarah Palin is that they speak/evaluate from an urban viewpoint. What SP needs to do via her upcoming interviews is to demonstrate how her message of conservative governance is a positive for urban inhabitants, as well as for those in suburban, small town, and rural areas.
She can take on the points to appeal to all sectors by emphasizing pocketbook issues, promoting support for small businesses that offer opportunities to any community, having access to cheaper energy and thus more money in one’s wallet, promoting school vouchers to provide competition for academic excellence, etc.
onlineanalyst on November 16, 2009 at 1:21 AM
Yep.
People ignore the incredible FUN of Sarah becoming POTUS.
I can’t wait to see the heads explode.
Yah Yah I know she’ll try to lower taxes and will get the economy going and won’t be so weak on foreign policy like O-man, but the absolute ecstasy of FUN watching the libs meltdown like Proud Rino x a million is reason enough to get this gal to the White House.
FUN FUN FUN til her Daddy took the T-Bird away.
Sapwolf on November 16, 2009 at 1:28 AM
Another part of the problem the media have with Sarah Palin is that she doesn’t kiss up to them. One doesn’t need “the media” any longer in order to get in front of the people.
“The media” used to be the conduit for interfacing between popular figures and the people. They aren’t anymore. She can put something on her facebook page and have instant access to the people and the people to her.
People are less interested in what a “journalists” take is because they can now form their own opinion having better access to what the person has to say in a more instant fashion. The “journalist” doesn’t have better access to her than we have ourselves.
crosspatch on November 16, 2009 at 1:28 AM
She already has talked about that stuff except for the school vouchers.
Sapwolf on November 16, 2009 at 1:29 AM
+2
I love to watch the hate. Libs are sooooo deranged about Palin it truly is comedic.
Mojave Mark on November 16, 2009 at 1:33 AM
It was the particular link. There was something in the path that didn’t work. Not sure.
Sapwolf on November 16, 2009 at 1:35 AM
What are you talkin about? Sarah graduated from college with a journalism degree. Everything she has said about the media is true.
Sapwolf on November 16, 2009 at 1:38 AM
So is there going to be a live blogging of Oprah’s show tomorrow?
Come on, AP, think of the hits you’d get.
Everybody was laughing on ‘this week’ when her name came up.
Gwen Ifill of all people seemed to almost-defend her.
They can laugh all they want, I have no idea what will happen to Palin, but there’s 1 reason why she could be president. Barack Obama.
If someone had mentioned him back in 2005, I would have laughed at it.
No qualifications, check.
Crazy anti American preacher for 20 years, check.
No foreign policy ideas except Bush is wrong, check.
Yep no way he can win.
So for these people to laugh at her is just a bit ironic.
I wish she had more experience, I wish she hadn’t resigned, even tho it WAS a good move in the situation she was in, it doesn’t look good to the country.
But Obama had NO experience whatsoever. The problem IF Sarah Palin wants to run (and I’m not sure she really does, folks) is that this country might say “we took a chance with a guy who had no experience in ’08, we want someone with a long resume of experience to replace him.”
That could work against her.
I hope she does well this week; because there are a bunch of people out there (namely women hence the appearances on GMA and Oprah) who have a neg view of her. She definately can change that, but she’s got to do it this week.
Good luck to her.
B Man on November 16, 2009 at 1:44 AM
We know that because we read conservative websites or have attended her campaign rallies, BUT that meesage needs to get out via visits to urban areas and through general media interviews.
Palin needs to deflect or divert interviews away from the probing of her personal life and towards the issues that she wants to expound on.
onlineanalyst on November 16, 2009 at 1:45 AM
There needs to be a gradual emphasis now towards fighting the Dem policies and promoting her and/or limited government solutions to issues.
Sapwolf on November 16, 2009 at 1:51 AM
David Brooks is a joke. He seems to refer to himself as an intellectual. Hahaha…funny guy.
Mo2Do on November 16, 2009 at 2:07 AM
Much or her personal life story is very interesting, and the way she talks about it is very charming or endearing. I don’t think she should stop that.
The interviewers that me cringe are the ones that get too personal or of a tabloid nature or treat her like she is a cartoon character. It would be good if she could avoid those.
Loxodonta on November 16, 2009 at 2:24 AM
“It would be good if she could avoid those.”
I think they all would avoid them but you don’t see them coming. You are sitting in an interview and suddenly someone asks about your Thanksgiving dinner guest list. That is so irrelevant that I don’t believe anyone would anticipate that coming. The trouble is that when you have a media that is basically in the cartoon business, everyone interviewed by them becomes a cartoon character.
crosspatch on November 16, 2009 at 3:12 AM
Always enlightening to watch a group of people who would look down their noses at me, and realize they couldn’t collectively think their way out of a wet paper bag.
They could have sat around and made pointed and plausible criticisms of Palin. Everyone has flaws, and that includes Palin.
But that wasn’t enough. Brooks had to call her a joke, Will had to say no one takes her seriously. Everyone agrees she’s hostile, and pessimistic.
There was nothing said in the whole video that would make me say, “Well, that’s a good point.”
These people can keep telling each other how Palin could never win an election, but the American people have a way of making that decision on their own, and when they do, the opinion of Brooks, Will, etc. won’t amount to a hill of beans.
If the opinions of these people actually mattered to the American people, there would never have been a President Reagan.
There Goes The Neighborhood on November 16, 2009 at 3:15 AM
I would rather have Palin than Obama
I could not get myself to say the same about McCain.
McCain played games with the other side to get around conservatives and then wanted conservatives to vote for him because otherwise they would have Obama. Going to the polls was like going to get a root canal. McCain and his crowd got me to the point I would welcome the anti-Christ to get the tribulation part over with, even if I got thrown in the lake of fire. At least I wouldn’t have to see another ballot choice like that one.
Palin hasn’t done anything to hurt me, yet. And she hasn’t said enough to connect her to the RINOs. That is because, she hasn’t said anything yet. From what I hear, her book is dishy but not political. She is parsing out her politics. It shows she isn’t stupid because the public has been so betrayed she could scare them off
There is plenty of time for Palin. She is a serious player. The way she is working the media is like a cowpoke feeding out the rope on a calf to control it without letting it know it has already been lasoo’d
That said, I am hopeful, that the RINOs will be beaten this time by the mood of the public, and we will have some real choices. I won’t be blackmailed again
entagor on November 16, 2009 at 3:19 AM
Hear hear.
the_nile on November 16, 2009 at 3:24 AM
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
the_nile on November 16, 2009 at 3:35 AM
David Brooks you are a complete ASSCLOWN!
Frances on November 16, 2009 at 5:50 AM
There is going to be a whole slew of Palin critics who are going to be dumbfounded by the impact she is going to have on the next few elections.
This is a much bigger movement than Zero’s ACRON driven empty ‘hopenchange’ hype. People are actually behind this in large numbers – and they are doing it without media hype. Indeed, they are doing it against a full on smear campaign against Palin, the Tea Party movement and a genuine grassroots movement to elect a leader of the people and for the people.
Mr Purple on November 16, 2009 at 6:15 AM
So, I guess that for the near future there will be few if any posts on Obama’s dithering, the Democrats over spending or the terrorist attacking. It will be just be wall to wall Sarah Palin.
I like Sarah Palin, I voted for her…but come on.
Terrye on November 16, 2009 at 6:46 AM
Looks like David Brooks is auditioning for some beta male reality show.
CarolynM on November 16, 2009 at 6:54 AM
Well said. The beltway “elite” underestimate the degree of dismay present in the true “working class”, the middle class. That attitude, hopefully, will help un-elect them all.
Sarah 2012.
Zorro on November 16, 2009 at 6:59 AM
AAha. I knew Romney’s name would be dropped. They just can’t help themselves.
What a bunch of elite self-serving, white, male, sexist DIRTBAGS !!!
GO SARAH !!!
stenwin77 on November 16, 2009 at 7:07 AM
Oh, by the way, BOYS, you are NOT picking our candidate for us in 2012 !
stenwin77 on November 16, 2009 at 7:08 AM
Zorro:
I don’t think Palin wants the nomination in 2012, and to be honest, I don’t think she can win. I think she would be better than Obama, but I don’t think she can win.
But, what do I know?
Terrye on November 16, 2009 at 7:08 AM
In fact, I think the 2008 campaign is ancient history to a lot of people and they could care less who was or was not responsible for Sarah’s interview with Couric…the blame game is not really going to be that important to most people. I think the fact that Sarah Palin quit her job as Governor of Alaska will hurt her more than that campaign. I understand why she did it, I get that..but I do think it will have an effect on how average people see her as a leader.
Terrye on November 16, 2009 at 7:14 AM
.
Like when Janet Reno said she took full responsibility for the Waco tragedy. Where the consequences of taking that responsibility was… was nothing.
Dasher on November 16, 2009 at 7:32 AM
IMO the reason the left and especially the punditry like Brooks hate Sarah is very very simple
she PROVES that what Gerry Ferraro said was true
any WOMAN with the amount of experience Teh one had would have been laughed off the camnpaign trail
and that is exactly what they did to her
I dig Sarah and Hill
I would really like to see Romney/Palin 12 I think it is a winning ticket
ginaswo on November 16, 2009 at 7:34 AM
Who listens to these media hacks anyway? It’s funny that they believe they’re still mainstream, when most people have awakened to the fact that they are just propagandists for the far left.
Their fear of Sarah Palin is comical, and their, oh so obvious, attempt to destroy her will simply render them even more irrelevant than they have already become.
Anyone that seriously seeks the truth and investigates what she accomplished in Alaska cannot deny her leadership abilities and integrity. Of course, those who attack her are not interested in truth.
texanpride on November 16, 2009 at 7:36 AM
Well said. I agree.
beachgirlusa on November 16, 2009 at 7:39 AM
Exactly.
beachgirlusa on November 16, 2009 at 7:41 AM
I don’t think it was all that damaging in the first place. Those who already had an axe to grind used it as “proof” that she was unfit as a leader but that was about it. More importantly, just as the 2008 elections are already ancient history, Palin’s resignation will be irrelevant should she attempt a run at office in 2012 (which I hope she doesn’t do for other reasons).
highhopes on November 16, 2009 at 7:49 AM
I think anybody in the GOP leadership who had a hand in giving John McCain the nomination should be drummed out of the party in disgrace. However, your emphasis on “boys” I hope is generic and the party is looking at all serious options not just finding a niche demographic to take on the psuedo-American currently infesting the White House. Stooping to identity politics never works for the GOP and it won’t work here.
highhopes on November 16, 2009 at 7:52 AM
Was it him or whats his name (mister deep throat) who stated that the Republicans voted for the Obama because of Palin.
Here are a couple of guys who have never, in the past 30 years, ever talked to a ordinary person in earnest.
They only know what they are told at the cocktail parties, and I would bet that is what they had heard.
Two reasons, and only two got Obama elected…first the economy, Republicans were ahead until that bomb dropped, and second, because many white undecided had to go the affirmative route so as not to be labeled racist.
That was the two over riding reasons…ad to that a poor campaign by McCain, but besides that, in spite of that, he was leading until the economy blew up…and he “suspended” his campaign….stupid.
right2bright on November 16, 2009 at 7:53 AM
Ivy College,
Drink,sleep late, tell self you are elite,hang with like minded people,call daddy for money,do spring break,write paper from outside source,suck up for prestegous job.Market tanks mega house for sale daddy broke,might have to get a real job. Poor babies,”we ain’t hirin’ no ivy types no more.”But what the hell kid can get a job in DC with no practical knowledge and still tell the sod busters how it is to be. Guess the baby has never met a determined Westener type who thinks the east can go t hell.
Palin scares the wad outa them cause she can and will call them on the BS they roll out.
Woman is way better than any of the current crop of rino retreads. New blood for this Nation is needed NOW.
Col.John Wm. Reed on November 16, 2009 at 7:54 AM
That’s the disappointment with Obama…good call.
He should take responsibility for the 10%+ unemployment, the economic chaos, the extended period of recession, the ever lower expectations of gov., the embarrassing mistakes in foreign policy, the foolish focus on talk show hosts instead of the nation, the foolish war on Fox, instead of the war on terror, the foolish attacks on Palin, and not resolving energy, the focus on his detractors and not our problems. He should apologize for spending so little time on the war in Afghan, so little time communicating with our generals…he should apologize for leaking classified information then trying to blame a general.
He has a lot of apology and taking responsibility…but he won’t.
He is not unlike a rino…they have no standards.
right2bright on November 16, 2009 at 8:00 AM
Who the hell is David Brooks and why should I pay attention to him?
George Will’s contempt for anyone from outside his little Beltway cloister really shines through when surrounded by like minded tools, doesn’t it? Hey, George, how’s Obama workin’ out for ya?
The other two dopes at the table…don’t know who they are, no interest in finding out. They’ve personified the term “talking head”.
Never thought I’d EVER say this: Donna Brazil is the only person at that table who knows what the hell they’re talking about.
SuperCool on November 16, 2009 at 8:01 AM
Criticize Palin because her book written specifically to relay her 2008 campaign experience is not a treatise on the threats facing our nation. THAT is a joke; David Brooks is a joke.
maverick muse on November 16, 2009 at 8:03 AM
Pigeon holing Palin into the 2012 Oval Office is the same problem (for different reasons) as projecting progressives Mitt/Huck there.
Admire Palin, and enable her to grow. No joke uniting with her efforts to enhance patriotism, love for our Constitution, and support for fellow conservative politicians, especially those who are up and coming.
Big mistake transposing any politician today onto the next potus campaign ticket. It isn’t that some won’t make great presidents. It is that now is not the day to fight that fight.
Premature birth vs. full gestation. Give it a break, don’t abort, nurture and wait.
maverick muse on November 16, 2009 at 8:13 AM
I do not hold it against George Will that Palin is not his choice.
But how Will explains his own views matters. If he doesn’t “like” Palin, he should extend to her the same courtesy he expects from others towards himself. If you dismiss someone out of hand, then get off that someone’s case. If you dig in the hatchet to assassinate the messenger with the message, that’s brutal sabotage reflecting the warfare in which all’s “fair”, Dirty Chicago Politics. Is Will aligning on the corrupt side in the name of brilliance?
maverick muse on November 16, 2009 at 8:20 AM
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