Posted on 01/30/2012 8:04:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin stirred the pot again in the GOP presidential campaign, using her Facebook account Friday to blast "the Republican establishment" for using "Alinsky tactics" against her favored candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. I'll leave it to Conor Friedersdorf of the Atlantic to critique the historical inaccuracies in Palin's rant; he also provides an intriguing but non-scientific sampling of the blowback from Palin's followers in the tea party. I'm more interested in two of Palin's bigger points, one of which is disingenuous, the other right on the money.
Taking the latter first, Palin rightly calls out the media for promoting what is a powerfully pro-Mitt Romney meme, namely, that the former Massachusetts governor can sew up the nomination just by winning (fill in the blank). I'll confess to engaging in some of this kind of punditry myself. It may be a realistic assessment of historical patterns, but it ignores the gyrations in this year's primaries. Those gyrations stem from many voters' deep-seated misgivings about putative front-runner Romney, their lack of familiarity with most of the candidates in the race and the differing priorities held by social conservatives, tea partyers and Main Street Republicans.
The conventional wisdom has been that Romney faced his biggest challenges in Iowa, South Carolina and Florida, three of the first four GOP contests. Social conservatives -- Romney's weak suit -- are a dominant voting bloc in Iowa and South Carolina, and they have a lot of clout in Florida. If Romney did well enough in those states to prevent any of his rivals from building up a head of steam, none of them would be able to raise the kind of money needed to overcome Romney's advantages in organization and money. Or so the theory goes....
(Excerpt) Read more at opinion.latimes.com ...
I laugh at the way Palin can turn anyone at the LA Times into a meth freek snorting their second dose of after-meth cocain.
Awesome to behold.
The good thing about Jon Healey is that he is completely out of touch and wrong. The bad news is that we have to read what comes out of his head.
Lol nicely said.
That is because this piece of defective anal refuse can't find a damned inaccuracy in anything Sarah said... and neither can his dorky friend. **** jon healy (he thinks he is Bon Jovi) and his momma.
LLS
Conor is one of those faux “house conservatives” that most papers and big blogs have these days. Much like David Brooks, David Weigel, Kathleen Parker, Chris Buckley and Peggy Noonan.
... and david frum... don’t forget that pinhead!
LLS
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