Posted on 01/12/2011 4:32:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
“Together we trive” ? What a gay slogan.
trive=thrive
Governor Sarah Palin is excoriated by the left and some of the right because she doesn’t fit well with the elites - she is not one of them.
She is just a regular American who resonates with other regular Americans. And the more they love her, the more the liberals hate her. Polls aside, she has a good chance now of defeating Obama in 2012.
The more they pile on her, the better she gets. She is in fact a unifier because she speaks straight over the heads of the media and articulates what most Americans think.
As far as her experience is concerned, she is better qualified than Barack Obama ever was and we know all about her. We know some things about Barack Obama and none of them are inspiring.
People don’t want to see the same old faces in the Republican primaries.
Go Sarah!
Dianne Sawyer also described her as “almost presidential” tonight.
The only problem with Sarah’s speech is that it was released too soon. An hour before Obama’s would have been good.....
YES! I've thought this from day one - she is so fabulous that they felt they had to destroy her - she is their worst nightmare. Just imagine if she were advocating wealth redistribution, unions unions unions, abortion, and illegal immigration - they'd be licking her feet.
I’d vote for her twice
That's a good point. Anyway, I respectfully disagree with the general tenor of the article. I think Palin did herself a disservice with her remarks. Were the accusations against her outrageous? Of course. All the more reason they don't need to be dignified with a response IMO. Palin seems to have difficulty remaining silent when she is accused. (Remember David Letterman's tasteless comment about her daughter? I don't think she should've dignified that with a response either.) I think she just gave her detractors more ammunition to accuse her of using a tragedy to further her own image.
I think Palin should've just said that this situation is a terrible tragedy, and that she is praying for the victims to have a full and speedy recovery. Period.
In general, when you are insulted, I think the best response is no response. If you're someone as popular as Palin, you have millions of people who are willing to jump to your defense--I don't think you need to defend yourself directly, or at least not in public.
I don't expect mine to be a popular opinion, of course, YMMV.
I agree she does tend to respond more personally than others, but I think she’s gotten better at being more selective. There was a time when she’d respond to everything. The media likes to goad her.
The Letterman example you cited wasn’t all her. She was asked about on an interview with Matt Lauer. She didn’t bring it up first. I suppose she could have given a no comment. She didn’t really say all that much, and it sort of grew over the next day or so.
It can be tough deciding when to comment and when not to. If you say nothing then they just repeat it over and over and it goes unchallenged and it becomes accepted and people believe it.
That was one of my big complaints with W. He had this hands off attitude. He’d never repsond to anything, just let the media and the democrats and the left bash him incessantly, lie constantly, etc... He’d say “well, I’m the President and I’m above that, I don’t want to go down to their level”. But he’d just take it and look what happened. His approval tanked, the GOP’s standing tanked, and it led to Obama and dem dominance for 2 years.
He did a great job addressing the critics and the lies in Decision Points and on his book tour. He was great on Oprah, Leno, the Lauer interview on NBC. If he had done stuff liek that when he was in office and responded that way I think things would have been different.
So, I don’t think you needto respond to everything. But when the natl media and many in the dem establishment pretty much spent the past three days singling her out as the culprit and being responsible for a mass killing and assassination attempt, I think that rises to the level of something that merits a reply.
No mob of gushing teeny-boppers (for a FUNERAL??), no teleprompter, and NO souvenir T-shirts.
Prayers UP for the families.
That was a good analysis. While I personally feel that Palin would have helped her image more if she’d simply expressed her condolences over the tragedy and, if she felt the need, added no more than something like, “This is not a time for either side to be accusing the other,” I think you made many excellent points.
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