No complaints here!
Posted on 08/05/2010 12:07:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin’s going to run for president.
She is running. Hers is the most long-term dedicated campaign since Ronald Reagan left the governorship of California in 1975 and became a full-time presidential aspirant.
Notably, the very act of running doesn’t cost her resources, but creates resources for her. She’s self-sustaining. Every day her organization builds and her reach expands. The more she runs the more inevitable she is.
In a nutshell, the system, meant to filter out the oddballs, has allowed one in. Never before has someone so outside the mainstream of political conventions had such good national prospects. She’s a classic third-party candidate who, given the organizational benefits of an early and dedicated candidacy, the fundraising advantages of a narrowly targeted base, and the boon of her preternatural access to the media, might easily become a major party candidate. And, given the Republican party’s built-in near-50% share of the voting public, she’s as likely to become the next president as anyone.
Many things could, of course, derail her. Not least of all if the opposition comes up with a way to effectively characterize her distance from political norms. So far this has been a problem, though, because part of her attractiveness is that distance, and, too, she is distant in ways that are themselves not normal and hard to characterize. Her extremism is not so much fanatical as it is kooky—or even comical. The worst thing that can be said about her, so far, is that she is not too smart—wily, but dumb. In a nation that, arguably, has become progressively dumber (or, at least, less interested in what used to be considered smart), this isn’t much of a liability. The real annoyance, even perhaps more than her inchoate conservatism (arguably, no more inchoate than George Bush’s), is her tastelessness. That, too, is hard for the opposition to express—other than in a fumfering way.
The threat for her is that the Republican establishment, which finds her as dumb and tasteless as the Democrats do, will come up with some stolid figure of conservative probity. But saying it that way highlights the problem of competing against an original, vivid, and always engaging outsider. Possibly a Republican congressional sweep will give the Republican mainstream new resolve. But, as likely, Sarah Palin will take credit for that success—and she might deserve it.
It’s happening, which is extraordinary.
Yeah, everyone uses the Reagan analogy. Reagan ran for president three times before being elected in a very different world. Reagan had considerable public relations skills and I don’t remember his embarrassing child being in the media all the time. You could be right or you could be wrong about her being the next Reagan. Either way I’d hold the mockery if you want to convince people who are even the slightest skeptical. Reagan’s people didn’t do that.
inchoate
fumfering
stolid
probity
Someone got a Thesaurus for his birthday!
Using big words actually doesn’t impress those with a large vocabulary. Someone should teach that. Maybe in Journalism classes.
But it's Vanity Fair (sniff). Insecure intellectuals love big words.
In a nutshell, the system, meant to filter out the oddballs, has allowed one in.
Lucid? I think not.
inchoate
fumfering
stolid
probity
WTF language is he using?
I suppose that if you're an envious little editor of an insignificant rag, and you must bring down someone so much more accomplished than you, then you must attempt to display your superiority SOMEHOW?
Uh, you don't remember Ron Reagan and Patti Davis? Seriously?
I didn’t say 100% lucid or pro-Palin. But he knows she has a Hell of a shot at the White House and isn’t denying that she knows the alphabet and counting like 95% of the jourbalists...
I'm not trying to "convince people."
Anyone who by now actually doesn't see that Sarah Palin is our one chance out of this mess isn't about to suddenly grow a brain as a result of some genteel witticism from me. I say what I say so that when she wins in a landslide in 2012, I can pull all these self-archived posts out of my 1-terabyte-usb disc and rub your silly, petulant ostrich-beaks in it.
So chill, mango. It's all good!
:-)
Fumfer is Yiddish meaning “to mumble”. So someone who is fumfering is someone who is mumbling alot.
No complaints here!
“Severe case of PDS.”
There is a lot of that going around. Those suffering from this dreaded condition, seem to feed off each other, because they know they are failing in their recruitment efforts.
Picking up a few lib techniques, many have modified their pitch with hollow preludes such as, “I love her, but.... trash, trash, trash” and so on. With all the straw-men arguments that litter the pages of FR lately, I could feed a very large herd. Well, you don’t really feed them straw, by the term isn’t hay-man. LOL
If Palin want’s to become the President, she will. Those that helped her along the way, can be proud of their efforts. The others can rant until their brains fall out for all I care.
Palin 2012..... Failure is not an option. America must survive.
I was young and fell for that one. But I am older and wiser...Sarah has three things you just don't find often in politics...guts ...cajones...and character....
I've been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan to emerge and lead our party and our nation. I insisted that we'd never see his like again because he was one of a kind. I was wrong! Wednesday night I watched the Republican National Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my Dad reborn; only this time he's a she. And what a she! This was Ronald Reagan at his best -- the same Ronald Reagan who made the address known now solely as "The Speech," which during the Goldwater campaign set the tone and the agenda for the rebirth of the traditional conservative movement that later sent him to the White House for eight years and revived the moribund GOP. Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time around.
~Michael Reagan, syndicated conservative talk show host and son of President Ronald Reagan
I remember them quite a lot AFTER the election. Sure they were around before but there was much less media to trumpet their every idiocy. Besides they were more “sophisticated” and much more acceptable to the NY and LA media so they weren’t ridiculed as country bumpkin rubes. I’m not saying Palin can’t overcome those challenges in time but most people only heard of Palin...what 2 years ago? People knew Reagan for years and years so the Bedtime for Bonzo stuff just didn’t stick because he’d made many, many movies and was politically active for years before running for the third time and succeeding. Look, if she wins the nomination I’ll vote for her but I’m just trying to look at it objectively instead of just drinking the kool aid for her or just shooting her down because I’m supporting someone else (which I’m not).
I personally think she’s great too,only one way to go now and that is up after Obama.Alvin Green could do a better job than Obama.
I think she realizes that; that’s why she dumped elective politics and moved to the rubber-chicken and publishing side.
“The threat for her is that the Republican establishment, will come up with some stolid figure of conservative probity.”
The Journolist just received its marching orders....to help the pubbies along in this regard...
I do not dislike Palin. Really. But I just don’t see this happening.
Her voice and manner of speech would drive most people bonkers over time. Petty? Yes. But true.
You’re assuming we’ll be unhappy which some of us won’t. So keep the Kool Aid on ice Loud Mouth Lime. (right back at you) ;-)
You mean like that fake “black preacher” monotone that a certain pol uses?
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