Hey GOP, take the Palin cure
She’s tough as nails too. After Election 2008, she was supposed to have been through. This year eight of the 14 GOP candidates Palin endorsed for Congress won election or reelection, including tea party favorite Ted Cruz for a Senate seat in Texas…
There are also the snooty East Coast Republican intellectual types, such as Peggy Noonan, who look down their noses at a woman who doesn’t shop at Neiman Marcus and didn’t attend an Ivy League university. But Peggy made a fool of herself calling the election for Romney on Nov. 5. Who’s going to care what she and her ilk have to say next time?
Some Republicans will say Palin has too much baggage from 2008, and we need to look for a new Sarah Palin. But I don’t see what’s wrong with the one we’ve got. Ever since the 1990s, Republicans have been looking for the next Ronald Reagan. Reagan is now revered in bipartisan circles, but during his presidency he was, like Palin, ridiculed by liberals. They cited “Bedtime for Bonzo” and sneered at his no-name college degree.
Sarah Palin is the new Ronald Reagan: charming and affable and unwilling to back down if she’s right. I can’t see what’s wrong with that.
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Huh? Are you drunk again?
An inexperienced female candidate whose capabilities as a national candidate have yet to be determined will inevitably be compared to Sarah Palin. It’s just how it is. We shouldn’t be pushing people out there before they are “ready.” Let’s learn from the Palin debacle. I would love for Republicans to have the first woman president, if only for bragging rights and to help the party brand. Yes, race and sex shouldn’t really matter, but if these things will help us win, then let’s take advantage of our diverse field.
bluegill on November 19, 2012 at 5:08 AM
Dreadful it hasn’t hit you yet. Ms. Palin is deserving of respect because she WAS “out there”–ready or not.
Huh? Are you drunk again?
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on November 19, 2012 at 5:35 AM
Of course she deserves respect. She gave it her all, and she did the best she could under the circumstances. Unfortunately, she just wasn’t up to the task. Infantilize her all you want, but the excuse-making for Palin reminds me a lot of the “bigotry of low expectations.” She still hasn’t shown that she would be able to withstand a grueling presidential campaign. She cocoons herself on Fox, and she doesn’t face any challenging news interviews. She quit her job as governor half-way through her first term. She still has never displayed the basic level of articulateness that you would expect and require from a presidential candidate. As others have pointed out, she comes across as shallow, unserious and almost like a gimmick.
Don’t you think we should expect more from our party’s presidential candidate?
bluegill on November 19, 2012 at 7:14 AM
Palin was targeted disproportionately because the media were less able to target McCain. He had been in the public eye for so long, it was hard to “discover” anything new, believable, and game-changing. Palin was much less-known, and much easier to make shyte up about.
People also fell in wuv with Black Jebus, but wanted to tell pollsters something more substantial than “squee.” Like Big Bird Binders this year, Palin was their justification for their 2008 votes.
Sekhmet on November 19, 2012 at 7:39 AM
They targeted her, because unlike McCain, she knew what was at stake, for her infant child, her eldest, who was walking point in Iraq, now Afghanistan for her state, which is being axfixiated by
the EPA idiocy, and for her nation,
narciso on November 19, 2012 at 8:51 AM
I’m just wondering if the people who are screaming we shouldn’t accept the left’s rhetoric against Obama ‘buying the election’ are the same ones who accept the left’s rhetoric on Palin?
MaggiePoo on November 19, 2012 at 12:06 PM
I see the usual PDS crowd, who claim to be conservative and Republican, are out in force, falsely attacking and maligning Sarah Palin. Talk about a fifth column.
Thank you Charlotte Allen for writing an excellent op-ed.
Wonderful to see that a woman, who is a common sense constitutional conservative Republican is the subject of a favorable op-ed in a national news paper.
john.frank on November 19, 2012 at 2:18 PM
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