Posted on 09/30/2011 8:17:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It seems that activity in these blogs and in the letters forums certainly picked up when discussing the fortunes of the former governor of Alaska. We leftists were spared no amount of scorn and ridicule due to our criticism of Sarah Palin. Of course it was never made to clear how our criticism of Palin is any different from the vitriol directed towards Nancy Pelosi or Barbara Boxer in these same forums, but that is another topic.
I am writing this post, because today just might mark a key turning point in the political fortunes of Sarah Palin. It would seem that we folks on the left are no longer the only ones who are starting to grow a tad weary of her.
Redstate.com is a conservative, even borderline hard-core right wing web site. The proprietor is a man named Erick Erickson who today expressed his own frustration with Palin's ongoing will-she or won't-she run saga that makes Hamlet look downright decisive. But the point is that he did not do it with straight-ahead political commentary, he used the kind of mocking ridicule he usually reserves for liberals.
When the head honcho of a leading conservative website is openly mocking you, perhaps your 4 years and 15 minutes of fame is almost over? Anyway, that's my last word on the former governor. If right wing websites are making fun of her, there is nothing else for us leftists to say, except that once again Mark Twain was proven right when he said, "it is the radical who creates the ideas, then when those ideas are worn out, the conservative adopts them".
So to all of you die hard Palin fans out there, it is no longer just us leftists for whom Palin is more annoying than anything else. Take a look and see what at least one fellow conservative has to say about Palin. Also note how he refers to her supporters as a "cult".
We leftists should now just shut up about Palin. Conservatives have adopted yet another one of our ideas. I know I am breaking my own rule about citing opinion blogs as sources. But when my point is that a specific opinion is no longer exclusive to the left, it somehow seems appropriate.
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/09/30/breaking-news-palin-supporters-claim-she-never-said-it-or-meant-it-or-something/
BREAKING NEWS: PALIN SUPPORTERS CLAIM SHE NEVER SAID IT OR MEANT IT OR SOMETHING
There is movement within the cult. They are mad as hell at us for pointing out Governor Palin set this as her own drop dead date.
I’ll repost this from another thread and address it you you Rita...
Why is Free Republic overrun with liberals calling themselves conservatives, mouthing Liberal talking points, regurgitating liberal smears, acting like spoiled children and attacking a potential candidate that embodies the principles of Free Republic, the TEA Party and conservatism better than any ANNOUNCED candidate out there?
And isn’t it time we publicly and OFTEN call them on it? This crap really needs to stop. Posters in the blogsphere have become no different than the MSM it/they claimed to hate. Look at all the little Dan Rather and Keith Olberman wannabees populating these threads and tell me I’m wrong.
But I think she is not running.
Well said.
achance was apparently connected politically in Alaska and came at Palin from an Alaska insider's perspective.
Vassar Bushmills -- well, let's say I respect him as much as the top half-dozen posters at FR. (Not to step on anyone's toes, I have a private list of who's credible & worth following regardless of topic.)
achance bit the dust first; but then Vassar and a couple of other posters were writing detailed strategy memos for conservatives: and then around the beginning of 2011 a bunch of then got banned. My memory is admittedly hazy, but it seems the management of the site didn't like the group becoming a law unto themselves and monopolizing the "recommended by" feature: despite the fact that in my judgement they were far better than the founder of the site.
I wish someone would either get in touch with Vassar and invite him here (I was an "almost never" poster there and didn't have his contact information), as well as ColdWarrior, with his Precinct Committeman project.
The rest of the site has fallen off badly in quality since the purge.
Cheers!
This is good stuff.
The sycophants collapsing at Obama rallies in ‘08 are not much different from those hanging upon every latest Tweet from Sarah today. Each have welded themselves to a personality as opposed to a direction. Both are fools and ultimately losers.
Erickson jumps at Palin? Good. They all need to be called at some point. She should provide some answers too if she is what she has portrayed herself to be. Those answers should be honest and clear.
DO NOT BE SO INVESTED IN A PERSONALITY THAT YOU FORGET TO QUESTION THEIR REASONS!
'He is plotting to become a Power. He has a mind of metal and wheels; and he does not care for growing things, as far as they serve him for the moment.'
Cheers!
I don’t understand why everyone is in such a hurry for Palin to announce. What difference does it make when? People worry about the strangest things.
Did it ever occur to you that we support her BECAUSE we agree with her and her positions, not because we worship hatt her altar??
And I speak such blasphemy as the jokingly self professed ‘Chief Druid” of the Cult of Palin.
Just perhaps?
Oh yes, please. The sooner the better.
I'm too tired right now but if I wake up refreshed, I'm going to write a vanity on what Palin is up to and the big picture of the election and the GOP field.
Cheers!
Erick Erickson is about Erick Erickson. He want’s Perry because Perry announced at his convention. A Perry win would give Redstate an aura of great influence.
Redstate has become an echo chamber. They’ve banned or scared off any posters that don’t agree with them. It’s the same pro Perry posters on every thread. They are Erick’s yes men.
His stunt today was extremely juvenile and childish.
You know that statement is completely false. They have both stuck to their statement of not running. Let's not make stuff up.
Yes, she could start by passing on the Bloomberg debate.
Wow, finally a voice of reason!
Thank You!
I read posts like yours and teh only thing I think is “Clueless. Stone cold clueless”.
Thank God for the Hobbits! The decent folk, who when pressed from their whittling porches show great courage and do heroic things.
If we took over most of the precinct committeeman positions, RINOs would have 0% chance of becoming dog catcher, much less congressman or president.
Just out of curiosity, are you the Sarah Barracuda that went all pro Perry???? I know there were two with similar user names.......
“Little Red Footballs”.
Just saying.
Heck no..that’s the other one. I am ALL for Sarah, she is my #1 choice..Cain is my #2 choice
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