Scott Brown responds to Palin’s criticism: Hey, I’m a Massachusetts Republican
posted at 1:12 pm on August 30, 2010 by Allahpundit
So he is, and every last one of us was fully aware of it when Scott Brown fee-vah was raging on the right before the special election. Even the Big Red Wave that’s a-comin’ isn’t enough to paint Massachusetts red, so it’s either Scotty B or Generic Massachusetts Democrat X in Teddy’s old seat. I’ll take Scotty.
Sarah Palin, who is pushing tea party candidates further to the right, dissed Brown, saying he was not conservative enough to pass muster in a state such as Alaska.
Brown is brushing off the intraparty attacks, making no apologies for the pledge of independence he preached during his campaign and says he is living out in Washington.
“I’m a Massachusetts Republican. When I go down to Washington, people say, what are you doing? They say, well you are working with the Democrats. I say, so what’s the big deal? I do that all the time. I’ve been doing it for 15 years,” Brown said.
“I don’t know what the surprise is,” he said of the attitude of critics from the far right. “I said I was going to go down there and be an independent voice, an independent thinker and vote accordingly,” he said.
The media’s hyping this as some sort of “true conservative”/RINO intraparty smackdown but both sides are more equivocal than you think. Palin, while dismissing Brown’s “antics,” acknowledged that he might be a better fit for Massachusetts than a Joe Miller type; meanwhile, in today’s interview, Brown saluted the “outsiders” in this year’s candidate crop who are bringing “a new perspective and new ideas, I think a new accountability,” which I assume is a reference to tea-party candidates like Miller. In fact, per what I said two weeks ago about Palin being a savvier politician than even her biggest supporters sometimes give her credit for, I wonder if her knock on Brown isn’t something done deliberately to boost him with Massachusetts voters. As any Chuck DeVore fan will tell you, Palin has no qualms about supporting a more centrist candidate over someone more right-wing in a blue state if she thinks there are electoral advantages to doing so. She knows that the left loathes her too, so beating up on Brown for not being enough of a “Sarah Palin conservative” will only endear him to the Democrats he needs to win. (It also gives him a little extra space to vote with the GOP since, even if he annoys Massachusetts lefties by doing so, he can always comfort them with the thought that their Wicked Witch thinks he’s a bleeding-heart liberal.) I’m not sure that that’s what she’s doing here — maybe she just really doesn’t like Brown — but for someone whose endorsements attract so much attention, maybe she’s realized that an anti-endorsement under the right circumstances can also help the GOP. Turn that polarizing effect to your advantage, Sarah!
Exit question: Speaking of polarization, what can she do now to turn this around?
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The old guy I wouldn’t mind going with again. But not the annoying one. I am still steaming about that idiot.
upinak on August 30, 2010 at 6:39 PM
Yeah, it’s just so easy to graduate from Harvard and get your J.D. Anyone can do it without opening a book!
Never said he was brilliant, but that’s exactly what you’re saying if you think he didn’t have to study to graduate from law school.
Of course it’s not. The job takes a learning curve. All new presidents have had to come to terms with reality.
Thanks for the junior high insult. And here I was thinking I was talking to someone old enough to have voted for Reagan twice (starting in 1984, naturally).
Esthier on August 30, 2010 at 6:40 PM
Really? Most of the absentee ballots I know of aren’t from military… but those of us who went hunting. I was out on a freaking mountain, and did absentee.
This is hunting season right now.
upinak on August 30, 2010 at 6:41 PM
No, I don’t. As I already said, I’ve used both as synonyms, which you’ve said is correct, as they both mean the same exact stupid thing. If it offends you, I have no problem saying she resigned instead. But since I don’t see a difference between the two, I may forget your preference next time.
Not that it’ll matter, because as I see below, even using your word choices makes me a liberal somehow.
You’re the one who called them that. I was using your words.
So now I’m a liberal because I’ve copied your word choices?
Figures.
Esthier on August 30, 2010 at 6:43 PM
How do we know that even actually attended Harvard?
And if he was an A-A, Saudi funded student, maybe he didn’t have to crack a book open!
(All of his academic records back to the 7th grade are under lock and key!)
Learning curve?!?
Harry S. Truman made the decision to drop the bomb on Japan after he’d been in office a scant 3 months!
I’m sorry. I must have missed seeing your 0bama knee pads!
I thought you were a conservative before today.
What a mistake that was.
Jenfidel on August 30, 2010 at 6:44 PM
Esthier likes to pretend she is big thinking and definitely loves to show love to the left just in case the day they come for the rest of us she will be on the outside of the fence shining the Obamabots’s shoes.
CWforFreedom on August 30, 2010 at 6:44 PM
This is hunting season right now.
upinak on August 30, 2010 at 6:41 PM
I don’t know… the folks at C4p make a good case based on election day turnout:
Only 2.55%, 4.97%, and 3.55% of the voters at Fort Wainwright, Elmendorf Air Force base, and Fort Richardson, voted on election day. The percentage of the electorate that turned out on election day was 28.36%. What that suggests is that an overwhelming majority of voters from the three military bases decided to send in an absentee ballot. The absentee ballots should be comprised of a disproportionate percentage of voters from these three areas.
Miller won over 75% of the vote at Fort Wainwright, Elmendorf Air Force base, and Fort Richardson. Contrary to what the Juneau Empire asserted, it appears that the absentee ballots are actually from Miller strongholds, including these three military bases.
something to think about if nothing else. Military personal are more prone to voting absentee do to the nature of thier job..
unseen on August 30, 2010 at 6:45 PM
Well, we will never know. He won’t release his grades and after some questions came up about the bar exam he took he surrendered his license instead of answering the questions. That’s not indicative of a really smart guy.
darwin on August 30, 2010 at 6:45 PM
No, you’re a Liberal because you’re a Liberal.
Your politicians of choice are Leftist Liberal Democrats.
Your ideology is that of the Left.
Anyone who says that Teddy Kennedy is as equally electable and appealing as Reagan and for the same vague reasons is a hopeless Democrat.
Jenfidel on August 30, 2010 at 6:47 PM
I don’t think that’s what she said.
darwin on August 30, 2010 at 6:48 PM
Say… have you read that book ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’?
sharrukin on August 30, 2010 at 6:49 PM
Time for the movie “Office Space” because this troll has given me a case of the Mondays! LOL!
What a cretin.
Jenfidel on August 30, 2010 at 6:50 PM
Unseen trust me. This is hunting season, and there are a bunch of P.O.ed hunters (like myself) who only have a certain amount of time to hunt. 24 hours in some cases. 24 F-ing HOURS!?!?! Why do this around election day? Makes me and the guys I was with wonder. Besides… most of the guys who are Military are back. I only know of 3 units )Airforce and Army) that are gone right now. And right now, there are more hunters, hunting then Military who are gone from state.
Can you just trust the ALASKAN for a moment and not those whom don’t live here?
upinak on August 30, 2010 at 6:50 PM
Really? Come on now you sound like CRR. Way to tell others what they think. So if someone studies they are brilliant? Hey those ARE YOUR WORDS.
CWforFreedom on August 30, 2010 at 6:51 PM
Esthier is a lost cause and if you don’t think she would not turn you into the Obama police force you are kidding yourself.
CWforFreedom on August 30, 2010 at 6:52 PM
I have read enough of your posts (and agreed with most of them) to know you would be one of the first she would finger.
CWforFreedom on August 30, 2010 at 6:53 PM
Actually, what she said was a bit worse:
Teddy had more “government experience” than Reagan, if by “government experience” you mean parking your fat b*tt in the Senate for 40 years and playing sandwich with Chris Dodd and a D.C. waitress.
Notice ideology seemingly doesn’t enter into her consideration at all as to who’s a “better candidate for higher office.”
(Ever seen a picture of Reagan and Kennedy together? Betcha you haven’t!)
Jenfidel on August 30, 2010 at 6:54 PM
I don’t completely agree, but it depends on what we’re comparing.
Sure, and on that, they couldn’t be further apart, but that’s not the only thing the two can be compared on.
1. Both were selected, specifically in that election, on the basis of their gender/race, products of identity politics. McCain needed someone to give himself Righty cred, but he also needed someone who could equal Obama’s historic presidency.
2. Both were nearly complete unknowns just two years earlier but inspired passion in their supporters within months of being launched onto the national scene. And this it the comparison I’m most thinking of when comparing them. Neither “paid dues” in government positions, building a name and a reputation.
3. Both have supporters who know little about their candidate but accept that he/she can do no wrong and trust every word out of his/her mouth.
That’s about all they have in common, and most of it isn’t even Palin’s fault. I can’t imagine she wants to be viewed so unobjectively even by her fans. She seems humble enough to know her own faults, enough to bring herself to God for guidance, whereas Obama’s more like to think God should come to him.
I know you think this, but I disagreed with you on this recently and haven’t changed my mind. He doesn’t want to be seen as taking any stands, but I don’t at all believe he’s letting someone else actually pull the strings. He’s much too arrogant to think that anyone else can do the job, or else he never would have bought GM, or run around telling people he “won” as though it shouldn’t have already been obvious.
For him to be a puppet, would require much humbling on Obama’s part that he just hasn’t shown.
Esthier on August 30, 2010 at 6:54 PM
So, up, how was that hunting trip you went on?
Did you bag anything? You told me you’d be gone for the primary.
victor82 on August 30, 2010 at 6:55 PM
Oh, I know. She did the same thing with me when she tried to maintain that only 10% of Muslims supported Sharia and when I posted the info and polls showing it to be around 60-75% she went suddenly silent.
sharrukin on August 30, 2010 at 6:55 PM
You spell that R-I-N-O. Ask your neighboring Maine Sisters for confirmation.
abcurtis on August 30, 2010 at 6:56 PM
No, I don’t. As I already said, I’ve used both as synonyms, which you’ve said is correct, as they both mean the same exact stupid thing. If it offends you, I have no problem saying she resigned instead. But since I don’t see a difference between the two, I may forget your preference next time.
the correct term for a politican that leaves office for whatever reason is resigned. did obama quit is senate seat or did he resing it? did huntsman quit or resign. the media and left never uses the word resign when they talk about Palin leaving office. Period. you can not deny that fact. the ommission is purposeful.
So now I’m a liberal because I’ve copied your word choices?
Figures.
Esthier on August 30, 2010 at 6:43 PM
first of all the word choice was not mine. It came from the link.
Second youe word choice for Palin’s debate prep were “craming” and going to “debate camp”
Biden had aides in a hotel… Palin had “craming” at “camp”
they both had the same level of help. they both had to brush up on things, practice debating other’s, they both had aides/coaches
Yet Palin had to go to “camp” and “cram” whereas biden was at a “hotel” with “aides” to “prep”. Just another example how word choice protrays two very different images about 2 people practicing the same activity.
unseen on August 30, 2010 at 6:58 PM
I’m sure that was all just a conspiracy to get him elected president one day.
Cause they just hand out JDs to Saudis all the time?
So the woman who can’t even write oral is now accusing me of being a BJ wh*re. So classy, Jen. Not sure what debate Gob was seeing where things weren’t so disgustingly personal.
No, you didn’t. You’ve been calling me a liberal since the first time I disagreed with you.
Esthier on August 30, 2010 at 6:59 PM
You nailed it. This one big reason I find Estier to be such a turd. He is a fox in the hen house. Maybe the trojan horse is a better analogy. Either way I do not trust Rinos or whatever he is.
CWforFreedom on August 30, 2010 at 6:59 PM
Thanks, darwin, but there’s no reasoning with a liberal troll such as myself. It’s best just to call me names and tell me about how much I love to get on my knees for Obama.
Esthier on August 30, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Esthier is far from a liberal. Based on everything I’ve seen from her around here, she’s a pretty dedicated conservative. Difference between Esthier and Jenfidel = Esthier thinks for herself, Esthier has manners, Esthier is willing to discuss issues in good faith and good humor, even with those with whom she disagrees. In short, Esthier is a honorable person with intelligence and wit. You, on the other hand, are a fundamentalist parrot.
BTW, jackass, anybody who thinks that Obama did not attend and graduate from HLS is a raving loon.
dakine on August 30, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Yeh I am sure Jen was not using it as figure of speech./Sarc
You friggin drama king.
CWforFreedom on August 30, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Oh, that’s alright then.
My instincts never fail me!
Jenfidel on August 30, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Esthier, I hate to break your bubble, but Obama would still be in Chicago today hustling favors for Eddie Jones if he hadn’t hooked up with George Soros.
Period. That’s just fact. Obama found an enormously wealthy Bond Villain to give trajectory to his career with whom he made a Faustian Bargain. Obama is George Soros’ errand boy. End of story.
victor82 on August 30, 2010 at 7:01 PM
SO you have seen his transcripts . Awesome please share.
CWforFreedom on August 30, 2010 at 7:01 PM
Source? Oh, wait, I forgot, that’s just what I’m supposed to do. You get to throw out assertions like this just cause.
For someone who constantly calls into question others’ ability to read, you sure have made an illiterate leap here.
But no surprise considering you earlier said I didn’t say government experience even though you’d actually quoting me as saying exactly that.
But it’s not lying when you do that. And I’m being serious there. I think you are being 100% sincere and only know that I disagree with you, tainting all of my comments with your hatred of me.
Esthier on August 30, 2010 at 7:02 PM
ANYONE justifying that Obama is anywhere close even to this day to being qualified to be President is insane. Also, to compare him to ANY of our Presidents of the last 100 years takes a lot of gall.
CWforFreedom on August 30, 2010 at 7:03 PM
Of course, being one of her horny-headed Lefty troll friends, you would say something so completely ludicrous!
Jenfidel on August 30, 2010 at 7:03 PM
Irony
CWforFreedom on August 30, 2010 at 7:04 PM
Esthier on August 30, 2010 at 6:59 PM
Yes, it devolves like this sometimes. Dakine pretty much bottom-lined it.
Gob on August 30, 2010 at 7:06 PM
No, but just passing law school is something. Let’s not devalue the hard work it takes just because he did it.
Try again.
Need help? To spell it out even further, what I said was that anyone who thinks Obama didn’t have to study to pass law school is saying that Obama is so brilliant that he could skate through it.
Esthier on August 30, 2010 at 7:06 PM
Oh, I don’t hate you personally.
I told you earlier: this thread isn’t about you.
This thread and this blog are about political war: Who’s going to win elections and run the country and on what set of values, ideals and principles.
I hate the Left.
I will go after the acolytes of the Left, like you.
But “hate” you as a person? No, but I feel sorry for anyone that is so easily led by the lies of the Left.
You’ve picked your ideology and now you have to live with yourself.
Jenfidel on August 30, 2010 at 7:07 PM
O/t
Rick Sanchez: Obama Is “The Cotton-Picking President of the United States”
—Ace
wow when liberals don’t control their inner thoughts. you get fireworks….
unseen on August 30, 2010 at 7:07 PM
Look, Jen I sincerely believe you to be mentally disturbed, so “arguing” with you is a monumental waste of time. You’ve got a pretty nasty little mean streak running through your veins Jen…almost positive that Jesus wouldn’t approve of the words you choose around here. Try walking your hypocritical talk.
dakine on August 30, 2010 at 7:08 PM
We don’t know that he studied.
We don’t know that he passed law school the normal way like every one else.
And from all we’ve seen over the last 18 months, he doesn’t seem all that brilliant.
Jenfidel on August 30, 2010 at 7:09 PM
Jen, try actually reading this time.
You missed my point entirely, which was that just because he had more experience didn’t make him a better man or a better presidential candidate. In fact, I said just that.
One more time:
Esthier on August 30, 2010 at 7:09 PM
Jesus told us: Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”
Word.
Jenfidel on August 30, 2010 at 7:10 PM
Esthier shhhhh you are not talking to me
CWforFreedom on August 30, 2010 at 7:10 PM
Hmmm coming from you that post was quite well let us say again– ironic.
CWforFreedom on August 30, 2010 at 7:11 PM
What you didn’t say was that Teddy was unfit for office because he was not only a murderer, but a Communist, who worked with the KGB against President Reagan.
Jenfidel on August 30, 2010 at 7:11 PM
Scott was foolish early on. He made some remarks about how the conservatives in MA didn’t really make a difference in the election.
Oh really? I think Sarah was giving him a smackdown after her success in picking this last primary election night.
Frankly, she could be right, too. That and a few votes, he may find himself really wishing for their support. I presume he thinks he’ll pick up enough moderate voters to offset the loss.
Personally, I think any politician who dismisses voter blocs at all is just not all that bright.
AnninCA on August 30, 2010 at 7:11 PM
nada.
upinak on August 30, 2010 at 7:12 PM
They both quit, as did Hillary. But if it makes you feel better, we can say they all resigned. Don’t really care.
Which YOU quoted. If it was so wrong then, why use it?
It wasn’t the same activity. With decades of experience in national politics, Biden had an educational advantage over Palin in the debates.
Esthier on August 30, 2010 at 7:14 PM
You seem convinced that people must be in government before they can be “good” candidates. Palin is building her name and reputation as a private citizen.
Actually, people know quite a bit about Palin, how can they not with the media directing their focus on her 24/7. In contrast, the media virtually ignored Obama’s past and just made shit up.
:)
He’s been trained and conditioned to be exactly what he is. He doesn’t have an original thought in his head.
darwin on August 30, 2010 at 7:14 PM
Holy shit! Are you for real? If it’s not too much trouble, would you please provide links to credible and objective evidence supporting this assertion?
dakine on August 30, 2010 at 7:17 PM
Thanks for trying to defend me, but obviously I’m just a shemale, liberal with a blue dress in the closet. Not that it should be about me.
Then stop making it about me. Quit talking about me personally and focus on the actual topic.
Esthier on August 30, 2010 at 7:17 PM
Yes, right after he told Mary that she should get some knee pads.
Esthier on August 30, 2010 at 7:18 PM
Um, not really. Palin supporters know just about everything there is to know about her. And not all Palin supporters trust just about everything she says. If she were to come out for higher taxes and greater entitlement, she’d most definitely lose support.
As for identity politics and the idea that Palin was selected only because she’s a woman, you forget that at the time gasoline was $4 a gallon and the Iraq war issue was losing its force. Besides, the case could be made that gender/race has played a role in the choosing of every VP nominee. “White male” used to be the requirement.
ddrintn on August 30, 2010 at 7:19 PM
Looks like you’ve got a pretty nasty little mean streak in you as well.
darwin on August 30, 2010 at 7:19 PM
Did I need to? Are those things people here don’t know already? Do I also need to explain why Reagan was a good candidate?
Esthier on August 30, 2010 at 7:19 PM
No worries Esthier…glad to to it, even though it’s a fruitless endeavor. Jen is way, way, way out there. Used to seeing her kind on the more fringe/extreme blogs, but fortunately, she’s part of a relatively small group of lunatics who post here.
dakine on August 30, 2010 at 7:20 PM
It wasn’t the same activity. With decades of experience in national politics, Biden had an educational advantage over Palin in the debates.
Esthier on August 30, 2010 at 7:14 PM
yes my dear it was the same activity unles sof course you were at both events and can tell us exactly what the two groups did that were different.
Biden had an educational advantage over Palin in the debates.
and yet for some strange reason he got so much wrong from the duties of the VP, to the fact of “When we kicked — along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon”
maybe biden should have gone to “camp” and “crammed”
unseen on August 30, 2010 at 7:20 PM
???
darwin on August 30, 2010 at 7:20 PM
Yeah, and the idea he expressed that NATO should’ve gotten involved there. LOL
ddrintn on August 30, 2010 at 7:23 PM
Maybe, but the post you quote is my sincerely held belief regarding Jen’s posting history over the last few months. And, BTW, she’s the one who infuses just about everything she says around here with her Christian beliefs, so her juvenile insults are particularly hypocritical.
dakine on August 30, 2010 at 7:23 PM
Not need, but that is my preference. That way we truly see what someone is worth. How many conservative appointed Supreme Court justices have turned out to be completely unprincipled and somewhat idiotic?
A long record helps immensely.
Which was wrong of them. They should have gone after Obama much more than Palin considering he was at the top of the ticket. But I’m not just talking about who Palin is as a person but what she will do in a variety of situations that a president will have to handle. We learned a lot from her 2+ years as governor, but I’d like a bit more.
That’s a preference, not a mandate.
Sure, maybe but do you think he believes that?
Esthier on August 30, 2010 at 7:24 PM
hey Scott Brown thanks for giving us this with your RINO vote:
US companies face a “logistical nightmare” from a new rule forcing them to disclose the ratio between their chief executive’s pay package and that of the typical employee, lawyers have warned.
The mandatory disclosure will provide ammunition for activists seeking to target perceived examples of excessive pay and perks. The law taps into public anger at the increasing disparity between the faltering incomes of middle America and the largely recession-proof multimillion-dollar remuneration of the typical corporate chief….
……Pay experts said business had been caught off-guard by the measure, which was not one of the high-profile battlegrounds of the Dodd-Frank legislation. Companies are now gearing up to lobby the Securities and Exchange Commission, which has to write detailed provisions for the new rule.
The rule could also reward with a relatively low ratio those companies that outsourced low-paid work rather than keeping jobs in-house, lawyers said.
unseen on August 30, 2010 at 7:24 PM
Tellme, do your instincts tell you that you are an annoying little twit?
katy the mean old lady on August 30, 2010 at 7:25 PM
Yes, but why call him out if you won’t call out Jen? Or is what she’s said to me somehow more appropriate?
Esthier on August 30, 2010 at 7:25 PM
Maybe, but I save my vitriol for folks of the “left” persuasion. Couldn’t we at least try to have a little patience with others on our own side? I know it may be hard at times and I’m sure I’m guilty of it myself, but shouldn’t we try at least?
darwin on August 30, 2010 at 7:26 PM
So the fact that Romney served two more years as governor than Palin puts him on some sort of impossibly higher plane? I don’t buy it. Bush Sr. had loads more government experience than Ronald Reagan.
ddrintn on August 30, 2010 at 7:27 PM
To be honest everyone else gangs up on her so I didn’t feel the need to pile on.
darwin on August 30, 2010 at 7:27 PM
Jen’s claiming to be following Jesus even with her nasty remarks in here. Somehow I just don’t see Jesus calling women wh*res, even though he actually spent time with some.
Maybe he should have, but he didn’t. Obama picked him specifically so that he could give the ticket some foreign policy cred. Gaffe machine or not, that’s what he supposedly brought to the ticket.
Esthier on August 30, 2010 at 7:29 PM
I believe he thinks he’s absolutely the greatest thing to walk the planet. I believe he’s been conditioned to think that, and everyone around him has worked to make him think that and cover for him. In fact I know he believes it because even though America has turned against him he thinks we’re the ones who are wrong.
darwin on August 30, 2010 at 7:31 PM
Not to defend Jen who I am not a big fan of, but unless the event was made into a Hollywood movie then I doubt you would believe it.
Let me guess, you have never heard of Chappaquiddick either? You kids these days.
I love how guys like you request what you consider an “objective” and “credible” source knowing full well that the left owns every major news outlet but a few and only reports embarrassing information such as this when forced to.
Here it goes anyway:
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/10/20/the-kennedy-kgb-letter/
For someone who “thinks for himself” you sure are ignorant of quite a bit.
ClassicCon on August 30, 2010 at 7:32 PM
Not from everyone. But that is also why I wrote “some” as Palin has thousands of sane an educated supporters.
I don’t forget that. She brought that to the table as well but did so by disagreeing with McCain, which likely hurt him more than it helped.
And yes, “white male” used to be the requirement, but it wasn’t last election. Last election was all about making history. McCain knew that if his candidacy didn’t offer the same opportunity that he’d lose many voters just on the superficiality of it all.
And he did too, just not as many as he would have without Palin.
Plus, it was about getting the PUMAs, who unfortunately weren’t as large or angry as many thought.
It wasn’t the only reason Palin was picked and probably not even the main one, but her gender certainly had something to do with it being her and not Leiberman or a white male Republican.
Esthier on August 30, 2010 at 7:33 PM
Well Jen has some repentance ahead. That said, Jen is not Jesus. Jesus was perfect and had no sin. We’re not and we sin a lot. One can love God and try to emulate Jesus but still be far, far short of nice.
darwin on August 30, 2010 at 7:33 PM
…is something you’re going to bring up anyway.
ddrintn on August 30, 2010 at 7:35 PM
I understand that, but that’s certainly not the case here. In fact, dakine has much fewer supporters here than Jen.
Plus, she often gets “ganged up on” because of the nasty comments she makes. There’s no reason for her to be making them. These things don’ have to be personal.
You and I disagree, strongly I think even. And yet, we can converse without assuming the other needs to be on a street corner or votes liberal.
Esthier on August 30, 2010 at 7:37 PM
When it comes to experience, yes, but I’m not at all saying experience is the only thing that matters.
Certainly. All the more reason why I just can’t see him actually letting other organizations make these types of decisions for him. Maybe Rahm is pushing him to do something and then he pushes an organization to make it work for him (so that he’s free of any responsibility for his actions), but even then, I think he buys into whatever Rahm tells him so that it really his idea, just not his original idea.
Esthier on August 30, 2010 at 7:40 PM
Sure, but if that person never changes and never grows away from being nasty to people over simple disagreements, it’s worth wondering whether or not her fruits are coming from a rotten tree, to paraphrase a bit.
Just like I brought up the point about Obama being black and getting picked for that reason. It wasn’t the main reason and not necessarily the primary reason, but it certainly helped him beat Hillary even though they agreed on almost all the issues.
Esthier on August 30, 2010 at 7:43 PM
We gave to Scott when he was just a truck driving former centerfold. We had hopes.
Senator Brown, you’ve been a disappointment and you won’t be getting anymore of our campaign contribs.
PappyD61 on August 30, 2010 at 7:47 PM
Way biggest monster DUH in history of universe. Of course Brown’s a Massachusetts pol. Yup. Knew it going in. Yup. Take him over MassDem any day.
And yup: Sarah, call him on every blown vote. Sound of freedom. Stay on his backside. Just remember Reagan’s 11th Commandment.
J.E. Dyer on August 30, 2010 at 7:51 PM
Don’t fall for the trap of the left……..let’s see how it plays out during the campaign.
What sweet payback to see the most arrogant President in American History a self-proclaimed “CITIZEN OF THE WORLD” (as he said in Berlin) be beaten by a HILLBILLY from Wasilly…..and on top of that….beaten BY A GIRL!!!
Exit question: Speaking of polarization, what can she do now to turn this around?
As much as I like her, I’m afraid that there’s no way Palin will ever be elected to national office.
itsnotaboutme on August 30, 2010 at 1:16 PM
PappyD61 on August 30, 2010 at 7:52 PM
Scott’s doing fine in Massachusetts. He’s been a boon for candidate recruitment and fundraising. He is extremely popular and is making it okay to be a Republican up here.
Every time he stalls or stops legislation gets no attention, but the few times he voted with Dems makes front page news. Anyone who is mad because Scott doesnt vote with the GOP hardliners all the time is semi-retarded.
Less then 12% of voters in Massachusetts are registered Republicans, LESS THEN 12%. He is not a ideologically driven suicide mission.
Of course he wants to get re-elected. The campaign for his seat, up in 2012, is already on. He flashes his “indie” creds as needed to keep him viable. But he has also held tough on numerous issues too, and he helped stifle the amnesty bill and the cap and trade bill.
It would be like lib-tards being upset because a Democrat who won Tom Coburm’s seat didnt agree with Nancy Pelosi all the time. Grow up.
swamp_yankee on August 30, 2010 at 7:57 PM
PappyD61 on August 30, 2010 at 7:52 PM
Well, she’s having way too much success lately. *hehe
AnninCA on August 30, 2010 at 7:58 PM
And Hillary is a woman. You can’t say the reason Obama was picked is that he’s black and then say “well, it wasn’t the main reason and not necessarily the primary reason”. If that’s the case, there’s no reason to bring it up in the first place.
ddrintn on August 30, 2010 at 8:02 PM
Anybody who thinks that Obama actually earned his harvard degree is a fool..
proconstitution on August 30, 2010 at 8:36 PM
Actually he didn’t surrender his license
SgtSVJones on August 30, 2010 at 9:06 PM
That is true. But we knew that one year ago. Welcome aboard.
csThor on August 30, 2010 at 9:35 PM
I’m not intending to say that it’s the reason in general but that it was the reason for many individuals and thus a reason for his selection over all, same with Palin. That’s all.
Esthier on August 30, 2010 at 9:50 PM
That would be too clever by half.
AshleyTKing on August 30, 2010 at 9:52 PM
Well, speaking of savvy, breaking on Conservatives4Palin is a story (by way of an Iowa Republican website) that Palin will be keynoting the Iowa Republican Party’s Ronald Reagan Dinner on September 17th. Sources within the Iowa Party are said to have just confirmed the date.
Well, I’ll be dadgummed! She could be anywhere on September 17th, but she chose to be in Iowa with Terry Brandstead.
victor82 on August 30, 2010 at 9:55 PM
Of course it was the main, primary reason!
(By the way, your wording is redundant! ;-)
The DNC Rules Committee helped him “beat Hillary” by giving him her votes and awarding him the nomination.
He “beat” Hillary because she is unelectable and disliked by a large swath of the population.
And yes, they’re both on the Far Left when it comes to their politics, with no real differences.
And neither has any executive experience, nor did either have any major Senate bills with their name on them.
Jenfidel on August 30, 2010 at 10:16 PM
Sorry, but you’re hallucinating.
And it’s not for you to judge my Christian faith.
I have not made “nasty remarks” to you or anyone else!
And I certainly didn’t call you a “wh&re.”
One of these days, AP and Ed are going to have to enforce their own terms of service and stop the personal attacks.
Jenfidel on August 30, 2010 at 10:21 PM
My first election was 1976 and I voted for Ford.
And you? Carter, I suppose.
Jenfidel on August 30, 2010 at 10:22 PM
Addressing the Palin Poll tacked on at end saying 6 in 10 Americans say she wouldn’t be an effective president just consider how many out of the ten said Barack Obama would be a good president. On to ’12
Herb on August 30, 2010 at 10:39 PM
upinak, the State of Alaska spending went up from 7.37 billion in 2007 to 9.41 billion in 2009. Check the Office of Management and Budget website.
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/Archive/Index.htm
2008 fiscal summary is under amended.
AshleyTKing on August 30, 2010 at 11:13 PM
IS THERE ANYTHING ABOUT THIS MAN THAT IS HONEST, PURE OR DECENT?
ANYTHING????
EVEN HIS WIFE IS A CORRUPT PERSON WHO ALSO HAD TO SURRENDER HER LAW LICENSE.
tigerlily on August 30, 2010 at 11:15 PM
Oh yeah sure. that would mean you are at least 52 and possibly 55 years old. I have never met a woman of that age who acts as childish as you do from thread to thread. You throw Reagan under the bus, say he was an inconsequential but lucky president, positively worship Palin as if she is a deity, and equate all disagreement with hate. then you just have to add to it by being foul mouthed and insulting others with junior high type insults. You even question people’s loyalty to country and patriotism when you have nothing else in the way of serious discussion.
Not buying it for a second Jen. Unless you say that you indulged a little too much of the mind altering substances at so popular in those days there is no real explanation.
You claim to be a media pundit but have no sites you are willing to link to so we can see your past work – come on share. Let’s see the real Jen.
Bradky on August 30, 2010 at 11:19 PM
*laughing at the spot-on characterization, all the while knowing the same fate awaits*
tigerlily on August 30, 2010 at 11:19 PM
Sarah Palin tried to reject as many Porkulus and federal funds as possible, but the AK legislature overrode her veto as Governor.
Satisfied now?
Jenfidel on August 30, 2010 at 11:21 PM
Personal attacks on me are against the Terms of Service rules of this site.
Jenfidel on August 30, 2010 at 11:22 PM
What exactly have i done to attack you? You have been on this thread for 8 solid hours lobbing insults at others.
Bradky on August 30, 2010 at 11:24 PM
I stated on this thread that I consider Reagan to be a giant.
Again, see above.
Uh, no.
Never happened–you’re just making stuff up.
More lies.
My (war) blog is archived and online and my Twitter and Facebook accounts are active.
Smearing people with accusations, lies and invective is your thing, huh?
Jenfidel on August 30, 2010 at 11:26 PM
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