Thanks, grey_whiskers.
Posted on 06/06/2011 10:03:59 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
(That's some smart sh!t !)
Cheers!
Wow — that is one tough row to hoe. But worth the trip.
But after all is said and done if I suggest Gov. Palin may not run, does that make me a bad person?
(hint: yes it does)
Cheers!
>>Erudite bird droppings *PING*.<<
On second reading, you scored on offence and defense and went for 2 on each side and made it.
PDS exists and is a great and huge/slow target for all of us.
But my question hangs out there, nonetheless.
Does ~prediction = derision?
Thanks, grey_whiskers.
>>Depends how you say it, why, and how often, eh?<<
Dude! Why are you up so late and cracking wise?
(one could ask the first part of that Q to me, I suppose).
I always look forward to your pings — a great combination of analysis and freaking nuttitude!
It is defined by the intentions of the speaker, and interpreted / assigned by onlookers, depending on the timing, context, tone, and the rest.
It's not enough to point out flaws -- if one overdoes that, one is either a PDS sufferer, a jerk, or a pedant.
One must show the flaws are
a) of sufficient magnitude
b) of sufficient relevance (i.e. to the campaign or her gaining a mandate once elected) c) of sufficient reliability (you're not just reading your own dislikes onto her, enough other people who will do something about it, feel the same way you do, and feel strongly enough to act on it.
From what I've seen of you, you are a genuine conservative, but a little worried that the swarm of negative press is too much of a hill to climb.
I disagree, simply because she is getting all this free press and drawing crowds, without even having declared.
People are aching for genuine leadership: and true conservatives know Palin was on a leash for the duration of the McCain campaign.
Her openly calling Obama and Pelosi liars the other day (in addition to her flipping off the press in effect, by not giving them a schedule and perks) are just the kind of red meat the conservatives want.
The economy sucks. Obama's base was never that committed, they were mainly mouth breathing Daily Show watchers who wanted to get sex with loose liberal girls, or reassure themselves that they were too "all that" and intelligent to boot (despite relying on a second-rate comic on a cable channel for their understanding of world events).
Now that they're all back to living with Mom and Dad (oh the horror! They have a college degree, it's not FAIR), they feel betrayed not energized.
Obama's base is not turning out, and the wishy washy middle still remembers that under Bush they had cars and jobs and their homes. BUSH didn't take those things away.
Obaama's trying to thread the Cloward-Piven needle by bankrupting the country to make people dependent on him, fomenting unrest and revolution (particularly among Holder's PeopleTM), and then settling in as Thug-in-Chief.
It won't work. And if he tries to suspend elections, it will get VERY ugly, VERY quickly.
But ugliest of all for the liberals.
Revolution is a young man's game -- and Ayers et al are OLD: and the rest of the crew like their posh lifestyles too much to give up any perks for revolution.
Cheers!
Confess! You spent the last four hours preparing this missive didn’tya! ... BTW, nice work, old dude. [We old dudes can say thet don’tchaknow.]
About an hour and a half, maybe two hours tops.
But thanks for the compliment, fellow old dude.
Cheers!
These are indeed insteresting times ... please, keep opining on them for us.
Wow — I am not even sure my question deserves the level of analysis you provided.
I just am predicting Gov. Palin won’t run. Like all things in life it is 50/50 — she will or she won’t.
please allow me to add my compliments also.
Truly an impressive, well-researched, thought-provoking piece.
(and maybe i will need to be fitted for that tinfoil hat. i was shocked when i read this:
“It may not be personally convenient for him, but the times will never again so completely require the gifts that he possesses. Whether you’re liberal or conservative, you should hope Barack Obama runs for president.
Bear in mind that this was written in November 2006, long before anyone had heard of Barack Obama”
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...in 2006, he was even more unqualified. yet Brooks wrote that back then?!? ...i have to question his motives.
again, thank you for posting this fine article Sir !
Nothing towards you personally but in general: I dont give a rip about what some leftist or RINO hack says in the media about Palin or conservatives in general, they will always denigrate them nobody what! Even if Palin was to save their lives from danger, I’m sure some will complain about something she did wrong in going about saving them. There are some conservatives who sit around hoping and praying that some elitist media pundit or reporter would recognize or approve their candidate or politicain as though it’s like winning a medal or something.
I’m just sick of hearing about ‘them’ and what ‘they’ say, I’m not burying my head in the sand on anything but it’s time to talk about what we say
Look, these snivel nasal drippers know as much about who is qualified to lead this nation as the next man walking past you down the street, they are very ignorant men and women who only can function on tv or radio as long ad they have a list of preset talking points for the day up and running and without it, they are babbling fools, it’s the truth!
The people of the country will decide, not the media elites and one more thing to this - these people are not gods and they are not all powerful -yes they influence a lot of Americans and they help a teleprompter get elected but that had more to do with many in the name of conservatism abandoning conservatism for years. Let true conservatism be a direct and bold contrast to Obama and you will see a grassroots movement of conservatives come out in droves because Obama will be exposed to the hilt for all to see!
The link I just gave you is from five years ago: I came across it just now when I Googled for this piece that I just wrote.
Cheers!
your post #8, is almost as good as your original article. a lot there to think about also. and i certainly agree with this:
“Obaama’s trying to thread the Cloward-Piven needle by bankrupting the country to make people dependent on him, fomenting unrest and revolution (particularly among Holder’s PeopleTM), and then settling in as Thug-in-Chief.
It won’t work. And if he tries to suspend elections, it will get VERY ugly, VERY quickly.”
= = =
...but even if it won’t work, in that scenario, we will still end up with major chaos, and a bankrupt economy.
...this must be prevented at all costs.
but i noticed Carville is already predicting such “unrest”.
i fear very much for the future of my young child...
Brooks, as smart as he may be, likely has no clue what tensors and vectors are. These are the foundation stones of modern technology, indeed of civilization as we know it, and an engineering student at the most third-rate cow college in the land has more grasp of them than anyone who writes for the New York Times.
Great stuff. Question for the assembled: Is it moral for me to work for Palin with the ultimate goal being that I/we can lord it over the smarmy elitists after an enormously successful Palin Presidency? Her success may be a self-fulfilling prophecy; I know that I for one would work hard in my little corner of the world to be a productive little worker bee and boost her economic numbers. It’s hard to root for Dear Leader in any respect at this point.
He's got no clue, PERIOD.
Let me quote a little more from his November 2006 piece "Run, Obama, Run":
<snip>
He should run first for the good of his party. It would demoralize the Democrats to go through a long primary season with the most exciting figure in the party looming off in the distance like some unapproachable dream. The next Democratic nominee should either be Barack Obama or should have the stature that would come from defeating Barack Obama.
Second, he should run because of his age. Obama’s inexperience is his most obvious shortcoming. Over the next four years, the world could face a genocidal civil war in Iraq, a wave of nuclear proliferation, more Islamic extremism and a demagogues’ revolt against globalization. Do we really want a forty-something in the White House?
And yet in his new book, “The Audacity of Hope,” Obama makes a strong counterargument. He notes that it’s time to move beyond the political style of the baby boom generation. This is a style, he said in an interview late Tuesday, that is highly moralistic and personal, dividing people between who is good and who is bad.
Obama himself has a mentality formed by globalization, not the S.D.S. With his multiethnic family and his globe-spanning childhood, there is a little piece of everything in Obama. He is perpetually engaged in an internal discussion between different pieces of his hybrid self — Kenya with Harvard, Kansas with the South Side of Chicago — and he takes that conversation outward into the world.
Read the whole thing -- the link is from DU, but you can find it elsewhere.
Brooks is so wrong in EVERYTHING he said about Obama, that either this WAS a deliberate Soros/KGB plot to put a Communist mole in the Oval Office, or Brooks is literally demonically inspired.
Cheers!
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