Quotes of the day
posted at 10:30 pm on February 9, 2010 by Allahpundit
“‘If the primaries were this year, I suspect she’d be nominated,’ a senior adviser to one of Sarah Palin’s potential rivals confides. It’s easy to see why: no one who’s thinking of running beats the enthusiasm she generates among Republican activists. But there is more to the case for Palin than just the confluence of her personality and a vacuum within the Republican Party: there is a method to her management of her public image. It strongly hints that she has pretty much decided to run for president in 2012, unless something knocks her out of the race; it is more organized and structured that it appears; and it is something that Republican insiders, in particular, will ignore at their peril…
“Palin, writes Jonathan Raban in an excellent essay in the New York Review of Books, has an ‘exceptionally canny political instinct for connecting with her own kind.’ It has been noted that her conservatism is resentment-based, and is fueled and nourished by the specter of elite mistreatment. (Palin is savvy enough to tease back.) But it is more than that. More than a list of grievances, Palin mixes Nixonian derision for those who think they know better with an aspirational dimension that motivates the middle class to vote. Out of the tony leagues of Washington and New York, she is — well, an Idahoan by birth, an exurbanite mother, able to expurgate the Republican Party of its own cosmopolitan tendencies. (This is one reason why the McCain campaign could not tend to her.) She is, as my friend @thetonylee says, ‘a hybrid of Nixon and Buchanan.’”
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“Palin’s ease around a soundbite stands in stark contrast to the preferred rhetorical approach of President Obama who clearly believes that the soundbite culture has led to the dumbing-down of politics and, as a result, resists engaging in it…
“There is, of course, a limit to how far a soundbite strategy will get you. While Palin’s pithy one-liners win her applause from like-minded crowds and help influence the debate, she remains poorly regarded by major swaths of the population who believe she is not adequately equipped to serve as president. (In a Bloomberg poll conducted late last year, just 25 percent said Palin was qualified to be president while a whopping 67 percent said she was not.)
“Palin’s refusal to give any interviews to members of the media or offer any sort of detailed policy proposals of her own speak to a glaring weakness in her overall strategy.
“Soundbites — even when delivered with the skill Palin displays — are not, in the long run, a substitute for substance and won’t persuade those who have doubts about her that they misjudged her abilities.”
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This is hilarious. Any of us old enough to remember the Nixon adminstration are laughing at this comparison. What is even funnier is that the writer doesn’t know that Buchanan was Mr. Inside in the Nixon Whitehouse, that Buchanan came up with the southern strategy, that he coined the phrase silent majority, that he was Nixon’s right hand man from his days in the wilderness after losing the California governor’s race until the presidential resignation. When Nixon spoke he spoke in Buchanan’s voice (mostly, with some Bill Safire as well) The only similarity between Nixon and Palin is they both came from modest backgrounds as children. They are polar opposites as people and as politicians. Anyone who knew enough to try to make an analogy between Nixon and Palin would never qualify it with Buchanan. It’s just so stupifyingly ignorant and arrogant at the same time. Hilarious.
Ted Torgerson on February 9, 2010 at 11:23 PM
In the Obama era, people are so starved for honesty and integrity in their leaders, naturally, that rises to the top of the list of qualifications. Where leader integrity is concerned, we’re walking around malnourished, half dead. If not for Obama, Palin’s qualities would probably not rise to the top of the list, but in 2010 they do.
RBMN on February 9, 2010 at 11:23 PM
HotAir QOTD traffic distractions all. It’s the economy stupid.
Americannodash on February 9, 2010 at 11:24 PM
Of course I understand what you’re saying. But you don’t get the fact that since you have introduced the idea that some blacks can’t make it on their own, that opens up the notion and they are all suspect. It’s logic. Something that always escapes the dense left.
atheling on February 9, 2010 at 11:24 PM
I should have said, “that any one of them are suspect.”
atheling on February 9, 2010 at 11:25 PM
I think the comparison was to James Buchanan not Pat.
thomasaur on February 9, 2010 at 11:26 PM
I think Matthews has it backwards. Palin’s writing on her hand suggests she could never have cheated in school, so her mind is just fine. Obama, however, refuses to release his college records. You figure it out.
SouthernGent on February 9, 2010 at 11:26 PM
And in this particular case, after a disastrous year, Obama is clearly unqualified. He was elected on affirmative action because he has no record of leadership, quality, or principles (except abortion, America is Bad and Blame Bush).
atheling on February 9, 2010 at 11:27 PM
No, considering the hoopla over this it’s a capital offense. Nixon and Buchanan?
Cindy Munford on February 9, 2010 at 11:28 PM
I don’t think you do.
No it’s not. In fact it’s a logical fallacy.
Let’s play a simple game.
We know that some whites can’t make it on their own (take, ddrintn for example). Does it follow that all whites are “suspect”?
crr6 on February 9, 2010 at 11:29 PM
Read my correction.
atheling on February 9, 2010 at 11:30 PM
I would love, love, love to see that cast in a movie!
INC on February 9, 2010 at 11:30 PM
It’s not about accurately identifying Palin. It’s about smearing Palin with the media created negative stereotype of Nixon/Buchanan.
Skandia Recluse on February 9, 2010 at 11:31 PM
No, we don’t know that some whites can’t make it on their own and we don’t know that some blacks can’t make it on their own either.
What a remarkably revealing statement you made.
darwin on February 9, 2010 at 11:34 PM
You’re still making the same mistake. Simply because one may be suspect, does not mean that each is suspect.
As I said in the first post, merely because one black is lazy, does not mean that each black is lazy. Just because one HA poster is a moron, does not mean that each is.
Again, it’s no one’s fault but your own that you think every black who achieves something is automatically “suspect”. That is the fault of your own individual prejudice.
crr6 on February 9, 2010 at 11:34 PM
Geithner’s Other Hot Mess: Taxpayer Seeks Divesture of Billions from AIG Alleging Funding of Islamic Insurance Subsidiaries Violates the Constitution
TheBigOldDog on February 9, 2010 at 11:34 PM
There are a couple of matters I would like to clear up.
It revolves around the idea that “Palin is just like one of us”. Lets be clear, she connects with us as if she were one of us. She has experienced some of our experiences.
In other words she understands the average american.
But she is hardly average. Could an average person withstand the severity of the floodgates of hell that have been unleashed in her direction for 18 months or more? No. I think that is exceptional.
Could an average person endure the stresses of a radical and controversial career change over the course of half a year all while the world critiques their every move? And in the midst of it regroup and whip together a 3 million copy best seller? No.
Does the average person have the vision to see that stepping down was the right thing to do knowing they could rise again to reload? No. The conventional wisdom was that she had committed herself to ruin.
Does an average person have the chutzpa to challenge the President so candidly and publically (on an almost daily basis) knowing they will have to cope with the full force of backlash from government-media complex? No.
Rush can do this but he is far from average.
I could go on.
The point is she is NOT average, she connects with us because she understands us. She is anything but average.
That’s all I wanted to say.
In two days (February 11) she will be 46. At that age what she has accomplished thus far is far from average.
Geochelone on February 9, 2010 at 11:37 PM
Common Sense Conservatives: “I’m your Huckleberry”.
portlandon on February 9, 2010 at 11:37 PM
Use the damned syllogism on yourself, will you?
atheling on February 9, 2010 at 11:37 PM
Bingo.
silverfox on February 9, 2010 at 11:37 PM
Reagan came from ordinary circumstances but reached extraordinariness (is that a word?) himself. Perhaps there’s another factor here. *s*
atheling on February 9, 2010 at 11:39 PM
Don’t do that Cindy. That’s tantamount to quitting HA (unless Allah gets a new gig) if you know what I mean. Stay here with us, we need your wisdom.
Geochelone on February 9, 2010 at 11:41 PM
Nixon and Buchanan. Classic leftwing dog whistle.
rockmom on February 9, 2010 at 11:41 PM
Huh? If anything has been “revealing” in this thread, it’s been atheling’s posts. He has basically admitted that he thinks any time a black person achieves something, it’s “suspect”. What’s worse, is that no one seems to find anything wrong with that reasoning.
Very revealing.
crr6 on February 9, 2010 at 11:42 PM
Obama and his team knew how to prey on the wishful thinking of a slim majority of the voters with simplistic slogans and a smiling, unthreatening minority candidate.
His failure to deliver on his promised HOPE and CHANGE has rendered him one more blowhard b.s artist playing his constituency for fools and dupes.
They will not forgive Barack for their being used like political prophylactics to sheath his sterile tumescence.
The reckoning has begun in New Jersey and Massachusetts.
And will sweep Barry and his impotent pack of cynics from power.
Palin is puncturing his bluff and bluster and braggadocio.
Whether she runs in 2012 or not, she is deftly tenderizing this stringy ham for the election that will be his last.
profitsbeard on February 9, 2010 at 11:42 PM
Obama is the dumbest f*ck. It’s time to start calling him what he really is: a second-class affirmative action hire.
BuckeyeSam on February 9, 2010 at 11:42 PM
Personally I cannot fathom why there is even a discussion concerning Palin when Obama has done so totally awesome. Like when he saved us all that money by bring the troops home from both those useless wars and by closing Gitmo, and then using the money we saved to turn health care around for the whole nation averting a majorly sick economic disaster.
I mean, I know the moose hunter is a doll an’ all, but really …things are so smooth now that the demos have solved all the probs…and legalizing dope…Dope!
Observation on February 9, 2010 at 11:43 PM
A realistic look at what voters think leadership is today in this country, by stagheath
Read it all, it’s great.
lowandslow on February 9, 2010 at 11:44 PM
Hey John Stossel just said we are on the road to serfdom!!!!! That’s what I’ve been saying for months!!!!! I said it yesterday several times in the comments in oh heck whatever Brit paper I was on….. I think Stossel reads me! okay probably not but at least I’m not the only one who sees the likeness!
In serfdom people worked for the Lord. The lord took care of them provided all social services… That’s what I think Europeans have chosen as their current form of government. Same old same old for them. And I think that’s the way we are headed. Only this is new in America. The children of liberty are choosing serfdom. I find that alarming!
An Elite ruling class takes care of the rest of us cradle to grave. They live off the sweat of the rest of society with all kinds of privileges only available to the ruling class.
Socialism equals Serfdom!
petunia on February 9, 2010 at 11:44 PM
I read that but it seems funny how someone can go from the bottom 15% to Magna Cum Laude without some sort of help. He was in the bottom 15% of his class at Occidental when he transferred to Columbia University (the educational standards must have been a lot more lax back then… either that or some other factor played a part). He then graduates without honors (meaning 3.0 to 1.8 GPA). Even assuming a 2.99 gpa, even if he got 4.0s in EVERY class then the best he could assume would be a 3.5 or so. No where near close enough for a Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School, without some sort of strings being pulled.
As far as the slacker part, What else can you say about a man who pays more attention to his NCAA brackets than the economy. This is a man who needed a teleprompter to speak to middle school kids. He doesn’t have his eye on the ball, so to speak.
Wolftech on February 9, 2010 at 11:45 PM
He was the extraordinarillustriousnessest of them all.
That’s what you meant right?
Geochelone on February 9, 2010 at 11:47 PM
What??? I was hoping the QOTD would be about Megan McCain describing herself as a progressive….
FloatingRock on February 9, 2010 at 11:47 PM
Nixon more resembled someone in touch with the Trilateral Commission than Sarah Palin. I got the feel of Ronald Reagan from Palins TP convention speech. Sarah Palin is a Christian and notably no one seems to mention it ,but she does seem to keep her beliefs on the downlow. She needs to get a grip on her intellectual shortcomings and either vastly improve or support a qualified candidate which she said she would do whole heartedly . The last batch of flip flop artists in 2008 were a bunch af snake oil salesman. I trust in God to send the country a leader because I know he isn’t through with the US by a longshot!
sonnyspats1 on February 9, 2010 at 11:47 PM
Interruption for an OT: Chavez is now broadcasting on his own radio show. Hopey-Changey might start getting ideas from his mentor.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/venezuela/7200912/Chavez-launches-his-own-radio-show.html
onlineanalyst on February 9, 2010 at 11:48 PM
I will walk over broken glass to get this woman elected. I haven’t felt this good about a Republican contender since Ronald Reagan.
Norwegian on February 9, 2010 at 11:49 PM
The best person to vote is always the one that drives the Left the craziest
and that person is S.P.
datadriver on February 9, 2010 at 11:50 PM
Your law school GPA does not take into account your GPA in undergrad. So he essentially had a clean slate when he began law school.
And where is your info re: your claim that he was in the bottom third at Occidental?
crr6 on February 9, 2010 at 11:50 PM
Pfft. You are misrepresenting what I said. If you handicap someone because of their color, it makes any one of them suspect as to whether he is truly capable. How will one know who is truly able and who is not?
Ironically, you’ve made some presumptuous errors. I am not a he. I am only half white. So does that make me half racist?
atheling on February 9, 2010 at 11:50 PM
Well I don’t want Allah to get a new gig, just greater and greater success here at HA. You have to admit this is a lot of heat towards a private citizen who endorses and encourages citizens getting involved and being informed.
Cindy Munford on February 9, 2010 at 11:51 PM
Affirmative action, as with all liberal programs, has the opposite of the desired effect. For example, instead of all people, regardless of race working hard towards individual goals, some are thrust into positions they are neither qualified or prepared for. I’ve seen AA up close and rarely do the recipients of AA justify it’s existence.
And as with all government programs it’s abused.
All liberal programs destroy incentive and initiative. The black poverty rate was no near what it is now prior to Johnson’s fatal “great society”. Affirmative Action is no different. And yes, it does stigmatize people.
Plus I don’t care how hard you try to paint Obama as some sort of intellectual, he’s not. He’s simply an idealogue who’s been steeping in his radicalism for decades. He never would have gone to Harvard on his own, he’s simply not that bright.
darwin on February 9, 2010 at 11:51 PM
Yessireebob!
atheling on February 9, 2010 at 11:53 PM
No, I’m not.
Make a judgment call yourself based on their merits, and assess them individually as human beings? Crazy, I know. I thought you guys were supposed to ignore color.
Again, you’re basically saying that merely because one member of a group has a trait, every member of a group is suspect of having that trait. That’s inherently illogical.
crr6 on February 9, 2010 at 11:54 PM
Ditto that!
atheling on February 9, 2010 at 11:54 PM
Nope, no bias there. Contrast her to Nixon and Buchanan, guaranteed to incite a visceral reaction from critics.
Nixon? No! Reagan? A whole lot more parallels and a more valid comparison.
AZfederalist on February 9, 2010 at 11:54 PM
No, don’t misunderstand. Allah is here and his job is to be Agent Provocateur. The suspenseful tension, the friction of our Love-Hate relationship with Allah, like all tragi-comedy plot lines, generates the heat which drives the hit machine; which really is a cash register.
Geochelone on February 9, 2010 at 11:56 PM
Exactly right.
Speaking of Nixonian politicians. Which current occupant of the Whitehouse is a petulant baby who has an enemies list? Who keeps track of perceived wrongs and retaliates? Obama is more like the left wing fantasy Nixon than Nixon himself was.
Even the way Obama talks about his prayers… I fully expect Obama at some point to utter the words, “I am not a crook.”
petunia on February 9, 2010 at 11:57 PM
Cillizza writes for the WP…what would he know about “substance”?!?
Karmi on February 9, 2010 at 11:59 PM
There can be no more important mission than to take control of the narrative, yesterday.
Speakup on February 10, 2010 at 12:01 AM
Why can’t she just be Palin? I mean we didn’t say Reagan was just like anyone who came before him. Or Nixon either. I think it weakens her to call her Reagan. She is who she is. Let here sink or swim on her own.
By the way. She is winning me over. I’ve been pretty wary of her but I am so desperate to replace Obama. And really could anyone do a worse job than he has done? She has enough to do at least as good a job… and she gets better all the time.
petunia on February 10, 2010 at 12:01 AM
If Palin came to town to give a speech she would fill the largest auditorium in the city. If Romney and Hucklebee came, they could fit their crowds into the same phone booth and still have room for their podiums, teleprompters and the media.
Yeah, I’d be worried.
PackerBronco on February 10, 2010 at 12:02 AM
In short I feel the same way.
I should have said this instead of my “No, don’t misunderstand” as if I was totally clear and it was you who didn’t get it.
Geochelone on February 10, 2010 at 12:04 AM
Had to FIFY.
chewmeister on February 10, 2010 at 12:04 AM
I once said that Anninca is Allah in reality. We HotAir folks are lucky with two such great writers. Not to mention the Green Room. I have to admire Allah for not putting MM on today since she got a lot of publicity today.
Cindy Munford on February 10, 2010 at 12:04 AM
Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr What??????????????????????????????????
On what planet does this “President Obama” live?
Is it the planet “Yes we can” in the “Hope and change” galaxy?
Or is it “fire it up” in the “Ready to go!” galaxy?
DSchoen on February 10, 2010 at 12:06 AM
I found it here but it cites a WSJ article and a Biography.com article that is not longer available.
As far as the grade reset, I would have to verify that myself, but they don’t call it a cumulative GPA for nothing. Leaving off the Occidnental GPA issue, then, it still leaves the question, how did he get into Harvard with such a low GPA from Columbia? If his grades were mediocre at best, then some other factor MUST have played a part in his acceptance into Harvard Law, considered by most to be one of the leading Law institutions. I know for a fact that they are very strict on their acceptance policies, because there was a student in our Poly Sci department who has tried to get accepted into Harvard and even with all her accomplishments and a 4.0 GPA, she still got turned down.
Wolftech on February 10, 2010 at 12:06 AM
Something tells me that in 2012, after going on 4 years of the Child Emperor, a lot of folks will be looking for an Eisenhower. Who that would be I have little idea.
MB4 on February 10, 2010 at 12:09 AM
Nixon used to say, “Let me make things perfectly clear”. Doesn’t Obama say that?
atheling on February 10, 2010 at 12:10 AM
Good night everyone. Sweet dreams.
Cindy Munford on February 10, 2010 at 12:10 AM
I’m sorry, but that clip was unbelievable. He’s never heard her say anything on the subject of energy? She’s only been talking about that topic since before she was even tapped as McCain’s VP pick. There are even interviews posted on YouTube in case Matthews thinks I’m lying. Does the phrase “Drill, Baby, Drill” mean anything to these idiots?! It’s simplistic, no question about it. But it does articulate one of her positions on energy policy. If even the dunces at MSDNC can’t understand that, then they should be careful who they accuse of being an empty vessel.
Doughboy on February 10, 2010 at 12:13 AM
You forgot: “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for!”
INC on February 10, 2010 at 12:13 AM
In Norse mythology, Loki [aka, Allahpundit] is known as a trickster. He is described in the Prose Edda as a “contriver of fraud”. Although he doesn’t appear often in the Eddas, he is generally described as a member of the family of Odin [aka, Michelle Malkin's clan]. Despite his divine or demi-god status, there’s little evidence to show that Loki [aka, Allahpundit] had a following of worshippers of his own [not even Meagan McCain to his utter dismay]; in other words, his job is mostly to make trouble for other gods, men, and the rest of the world.
Loki [aka, Allahpundit] is known for bringing about chaos and discord, but by challenging the gods, he also brings about change. Without Loki’s [aka, Allahpundit's] influence, the gods may become complacent, so Loki [aka, Allahpundit] does actually serve a worthwhile purpose.
MB4 on February 10, 2010 at 12:14 AM
Don’t bother. I’m in law school. Your law school GPA is based entirely off of your law school grades. This is true in every single law school in America. I’m actually kind of curious as to why you think otherwise. I thought that was pretty much common knowledge.
Most law schools base their admissions decisions largely on your LSAT scores. LSATS are typically a better predictor of law school success than undergrad GPA.
Don’t get me wrong, undergrad GPA is a big factor, but having a lower GPA in undergrad is definitely not dispositive. Many people with lower GPA’s and high LSATS are still admitted to top law schools. Also, the fact that he went to an Ivy for undergrad means Harvard was probably more willing to accept him with a lower GPA (as opposed to someone from a toilet undergrad with a 4.0).
crr6 on February 10, 2010 at 12:14 AM
Yes, and speaking of empty vessels, that would be those viewers who buy that narrative.
atheling on February 10, 2010 at 12:14 AM
Ditto.
Well Trolls are a necessary evil. How boring would it be without some of them. Most are scummy, not all. Now we both have been flummoxed about what to do with AnninCA. She is not a blatant Troll, she is a rather pesky and sometimes temperamental concern Troll.
Do I want her banned? Yes-No Yes-No.
If she would come clean and not pretend I think her true view point would add nicely to the mix. A little salt and peppa.
I just try to warn people not to be duped. But now that most everyone knows about her antics we are safe.
There is no question the hit count jumps when she jumps aboard the thread train.
Geochelone on February 10, 2010 at 12:14 AM
She won’t beat Obama.
WisCon on February 10, 2010 at 12:14 AM
You just watch.
atheling on February 10, 2010 at 12:15 AM
Somehow their Hope-N-Change express train took a wrong turn in Virginia, blew a gasket in New Jersey and rain off the tracks in Massachusetts and is now sinking in a sea of tea.
So sad.
MB4 on February 10, 2010 at 12:19 AM
Good. Then it is written into the Herclitean flux of the cosmos. I dare not attempt to alter what, by necessity, is most harmonious with the very fabric of reality. Tis stupid to incite the wrath of untold numbers of deities hiding among the quantum froth.
Geochelone on February 10, 2010 at 12:21 AM
I’m not worried about their viewers. The few they can claim are probably as far gone as the people working for that network. Palin will never appeal to them and she won’t need to bother.
But after watching Gibbs’ pathetic attempt at humor this afternoon, it’s looking like the folks at MSDNC are in lockstep with the people running the White House. And if all of these so-called pundits and experts think portraying Palin and the millions of Americans she speaks for as rubes and ignoramuses is the path to electoral victory and legislative success, they’re gonna be out of power for a generation.
Doughboy on February 10, 2010 at 12:23 AM
:-)
Thanks for the link about Obama’s academics. A GPA less than a 3.0 and greater than a 1.8 and in the bottom 15% of his class! He really is an empty suit.
INC on February 10, 2010 at 12:24 AM
In between all Matthews’ tinkling down his own leg, his guest mentioned somebody much more likely to be on the R ticket – Kasich.
forest on February 10, 2010 at 12:25 AM
If you’re in the bottom 15% of your class, you’re flunking out.
INC on February 10, 2010 at 12:25 AM
The way I see it Sarah Palin is playing a game of high stakes political poker and she is playing her cards close to her chest, not giving her opponents anything that they can use this early in the game and when the time is right I think she will go all in and show us all the hand that she has. Besides why should the hottest political star besides the President reward an elite media with access, interviews and ratings when they have been relentlessly trying to destroy her and her family for the last year and a half.
Hellrider on February 10, 2010 at 12:27 AM
Let’s just hope that the USS Obamunism sinks before he sinks us.
Mojave Mark on February 10, 2010 at 12:28 AM
(type… type… type)
Sniffs fingers…
(type… type… type)
Breaks out the lotion, whilst sniffing fingers…
Seven Percent Solution on February 10, 2010 at 12:28 AM
Let’s just keep this a secret. Wouldn’t want the MSM-WH to get a clue at this critical juncture.
Geochelone on February 10, 2010 at 12:31 AM
That, along with the ever-popular “if you had been an art student in pre-WWI Vienna, would you have ….. … … knowing how he would turn out?” as satirized in the movie The Last Supper. Let’s hope that kind of crazy talk doesn’t find root.
All the more reason to worry. Even the ‘adults’ in those groups are not managing their state of mind very well it seems.
RD on February 10, 2010 at 12:36 AM
Sarah Palin has more substance in her little finger than all these loud-mouthed, progressive politicos with their elitist ramblings put together.
Dr. ZhivBlago on February 10, 2010 at 12:36 AM
The Mad Hatter told me that he went to college with him where he excelled in reeling and writhing, of course, to begin with and then the different branches of arithmetic: ambition, distraction, falsification and derision with additional courses in Karl Marx, Napoleon Bonaparte with teleprompter – extra.
Cheshire Cat on February 10, 2010 at 12:41 AM
It won’t take much for another 10%-15% of the electorate to move to Palin. She has a good shot at winning the nomination if she goes for it. And then its an electoral college battle, not a popular vote battle. I think she would have a good shot at the rust belt and that would do it.
huckleberryfriend on February 9, 2010 at 10:42 PM
dirty secret is that if the gop/dem numbers stay the same VA,NC, IW, NV, CO, OH, FL all go to the GOP. that’s about 100 EV Obama won with around 370 EV You need 279 to win. All Palin will need is one or two more states like NM or MI to go red and she wins EV.
This is why Palin is spenidng so much time and energy on MI> she kicked off her book tour there she is going back for a speech soon. she is going to make MI her state to win in nov 2012. She is settting the frame work as we speak to turn MI red from blue. It is the state with the highest unemployment, the state with the highest taxes, it is a state that is ripe for the GOP’s less taxes, less gov message to take seed and grow.
unseen on February 10, 2010 at 12:45 AM
I ain’t sure if it’s estrogen or testosterone, cuz ya’ll are genderless to me…but whatevah the hormone, it be happy and heavy tonight…good night…there is way to much plummage being fluffed here!
Having said that, it was an evening of very good, very lively discussion.
(SNIFF, I JUST MUST get one of those, “life” thingys!)
Love y’all!
Chewy the Lab on February 10, 2010 at 12:50 AM
You know, this is the Carter years all over again. The malaise. International unrest. High unemployment. High gas prices. Everything is shaky and gloomy. Even the dismal forecasts of world famine, a new ice age, and running out of fossil fuel… all back in the late ’70′s.
atheling on February 10, 2010 at 12:51 AM
Believe me when I say that I am a HUGE supporter of Sarah Palin and would love to see her elected to national office. I have donated to SarahPAC several times.
But some of her recent speeches have been a little disappointing to me. I don’t think the sound bite strategy is a winning one, and she’s been leaning on it a little too heavily lately. It’s not going to do much to win over the people who stubbornly insist that she is stupid.
Come on, Sarah, you’re capable of much better speeches. Show us what you’ve got.
UltimateBob on February 10, 2010 at 12:54 AM
Speaking of an empty vessel. BTW, what are you wearing tonight you little fundamentalist/bigoted minx you?
dakine on February 10, 2010 at 12:56 AM
There you are! I knew you’d come crawling out from under your rock since this is a Palin thread.
Did you miss the cartoon thread, you intellectual wonder you? Still working with all those “smart people” whose intelligence just oozes all over you?
atheling on February 10, 2010 at 1:01 AM
After this last election, you’d think you’d have had a bellyful of speechifying. Read her Facebook posts, book and watch her interviews.
atheling on February 10, 2010 at 1:03 AM
atheling, you’re the jackass with the unbelievable lameness to lay claim to Mensa membership and a 174 IQ on a blog site comment section. It literally doesn’t get any lamer than that, so STFU you blathering hypocrite.
dakine on February 10, 2010 at 1:07 AM
Her book was ghost written. There’s no way she writes her own Facebook posts. And her interviews are embarrassing in their vapidness. No big surprise that you have a girl crush on this vacuous populist without a clue.
dakine on February 10, 2010 at 1:10 AM
AMEN!
TheBlueSite on February 10, 2010 at 1:10 AM
Heh, that sure set off the hamster wheel in your head, didn’t it? Do you ruminate on it often? Make you scream, “it’s not fair!” in your pillow?
And you have no class, either.
atheling on February 10, 2010 at 1:12 AM
Hey there lonely boy… lonely boy….
Everyone hates you here and over at MM’s blog. Did they drive you away from the Kos and Huffpo too? Must suck to be you.
atheling on February 10, 2010 at 1:13 AM
dakine on February 10, 2010 at 1:10 AM
I don’t call them interviews, I call them friendly chats with friendly reporters. She won’t give interviews to hostile sources. Which is lame. Her becoming a Fox News employee makes her look even sillier- not only does she refuse to do any hostile interviews, she even goes to work for the only people she will allow interview her!
TheBlueSite on February 10, 2010 at 1:13 AM
*waiting for lonely boy’s frothing at the mouth response*
atheling on February 10, 2010 at 1:14 AM
Folks let’s get real. 6 months ago Palin resigned as governor and was written off forever and considered damaged goods. Two recent polls showed her the frontrunner and she did magnificently over the weekend.
What more do you want?
technopeasant on February 10, 2010 at 1:14 AM
Well, I’ll let you two little trolls circle jerk each other now that you’ve found each other.
atheling on February 10, 2010 at 1:15 AM
Lol, just makes the trolls’ heads explode, doesn’t it?
atheling on February 10, 2010 at 1:15 AM
Is Palin expected to prostrate herself before Chris ‘tingles’ Matthews and allow him to call her an empty vessel, Rick Sanchez of CNN to be called anti-immigrant, or George S on ABC who throws at her 50% gotcha questions.
technopeasant on February 10, 2010 at 1:17 AM
She’s ridiculous BlueSite, and it’s stunning to me that anybody thinks this woman is qualified to run anything, let alone the United States.
Seriously? What are you, in second grade? You might be the most emotionally immature person I’ve seen in the blogosphere in a long time.
dakine on February 10, 2010 at 1:18 AM
You really aren’t adding anything to the discussion.
Sounds like you are full of hate. It’s probably rooted in an unpleasant recognition, your true self-image has suddenly dawned on you.
Looking back over your life you realize that you have been a complete failure. So I can understand your bitterness and your inability to have any kind of sustainable relationship with anyone since you don’t even admire yourself. Your self-loathing shines through. How sad.
Geochelone on February 10, 2010 at 1:18 AM
He’s frothing. And he used to comment at Michelle Malkin’s, but got so soundly thrashed every time that he no longer goes there. He comes here occasionally and insults every one so that no one likes him here either.
It’s quite clear that he’s a miserable creature.
But anyhoo, how goes The Project?
atheling on February 10, 2010 at 1:21 AM
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