Posted on 11/21/2012 2:11:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Caught “Game Change” on cable the other night.
Read Charlotte Allen’s Op-Ed article, “Hey, GOP, take the Palin cure,” in The Times on Sunday.
And what did I learn? Well, something doesn’t add up. Or, to paraphrase “I Love Lucy”: “Charlotte, you got some ’splainin’ to do.”
In her Op-Ed, Allen serves up equal parts lemonade and venomade in making her case that Sarah Palin should be the Republican presidential candidate in 2016. In Allen’s view, Palin has it all: She has blue-collar appeal, she’s “tough as nails,” and best of all, she’s a woman, which, in Allen’s world, gives her this advantage: “Men love Sarah Palin, and she loves men.”
Yep, just what the GOP needs: a Marilyn Monroe who hunts moose too.
Now, Allen also likes men, but there are some women she’s not too keen about. Take Hillary Rodham Clinton, whom she describes as looking “like Brunnhilde in a small-town Wagner production.” Or even fellow Republican Peggy Noonan, whom Allen lumps in with those “snooty East Coast Republican intellectual types … who look down their noses at a woman who doesn't shop at Neiman Marcus and didn't attend an Ivy League university.”
Anyway, you get the picture. But for good measure, Allen takes this plunge into mythology at the end:
Some Republicans will say Palin has too much baggage from 2008, and we need to look for a new Sarah Palin. But I don't see what's wrong with the one we've got. Ever since the 1990s, Republicans have been looking for the next Ronald Reagan. Reagan is now revered in bipartisan circles, but during his presidency he was, like Palin, ridiculed by liberals. They cited "Bedtime for Bonzo" and sneered at his no-name college degree...
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
At first glance the parenthetical addition to the title looked like “smell their feat” :o)
“The only one with the guts, the principles, and the smarts needed to start straightening our country out, before we finish committing suicide.”
“Too bad the GOP doesn’t understand that, as the left clearly does.”
I don’t disagree Cicero, just am of the belief there’s a reason, and that reason as I’ve posted before is that the GOP leadership is the Left. I believe the reason the radical Left always gets what they want from the GOP anymore is because they have infiltrated the leadership of the GOP just as they took over the entire of the Democrat Party. They are achieving their goals, and we are not recognizing how.
RINO’s aren’t IMO simply an establishment Republican clique bent upon the protection of their perks, and their power as they are portrayed so often, but that they are IMO enemy agents of stealth Socialist change whose job it is to keep we the people from recognizing the pending disaster until it’s too late. They keep the illusion of two parties.
Even if they are as they appear to many, and eluded to as “an establishment Republican clique bent upon the protection of their perks, and their power” we should consider them that enemy that I’m proposing they are for obvious reasons.
Only good Democrat is room temperature, and as far as I’m concerned the same with their RINO comrades.
Bush was our Clinton (I said that here in 1999).
Romney was our Kerry.
Palin is our Obama.
Would you please add me to your Sarah Palin ping list?
I’d vote for her. Not because I think she’s the best possible person, not because I find her attractive, but because of the people who oppose the notion of her being president. I would like nothing better than to watch Letterman and Maher’s heads explode the day after her being elected. I would like nothing better than to watch the Romneybots here on FR melting down in the primary season- and preferably being zotted. I would love to see the GOP-E sputter and choke on her being nominated, and elected, in spite of them. I judge her solely on the quality of her enemies, and that makes her worthy to hold the highest office- her being nominated and elected would piss off and piss on all the ones who deserve it.
I certainly don’t disagree.
It’s sometimes hard to know how much of it is ideology, and how much of it is love of power. And the two are not necessarily incompatible.
If you want power, the best way to get it is to use the ideology of the left.
Julius Caesar, who was at the turning point between Rome as a Republic and as an Empire, was a populist. He appealed to the plebeians. Mussolini and Hitler were also leftists. And so was Napoleon.
Communism pretends to be a system leading toward a Utopian state of equality, but in point of fact it has always been an extremely effective way to build power for dictators and a permanent ruling class. I can’t think of any communist countries where that wasn’t the reality.
Indicative of a sharp decline in IQ for tens of millions of eligible voters.
I can’t help, but wonder if Sarah Palin had the insight to believe in her heart that it might not be possible to defeat Obama in 2012. Maybe that played a part in her decision not to run, hence saving her stock for 2016 when the allure of Obama is gone, and things are on a more even keel. She has proven time and again that she has an uncanny foresight of future events. Maybe someday she well tell all. I would like to know if she really thought 2012 was not winnable. I admit that I was fooled completely and thought Romney would win in a landslide, so it would really amaze me if she saw through it all.
Greetings from the other Great White North
LA Times Writer Uses Sexism and Lies Against Governor Palin
Posted on November 21 2012 - 2:22 PM - Posted by: Steve Flesher
Consider that Susan Rice, on behalf of the administration, is sent out in the middle of an election to do Obama’s dirty work. She makes the rounds refusing to categorize the attacks in Benghazi (which killed four Americans) as an act of terror. Even worse, instead of simply saying that we should await a full investigation before she remarks on the matter, she defaults to the Democrat-wild card by demonizing free speech here in the United States when she blamed the disaster on a YouTube video.
Now, sensible conservatives in Congress want her held accountable before she gets a promotion. That, according to actual elected liberals in Congress is enough to throw out yet another charge of racism (and sexism for good measure).
Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., says that the attacks on Rice have gone beyond her job performance. When asked about Rice on CNN’s Starting Point on Tuesday, Clyburn said that words like “lazy” and “incompetent,” which have been used to describe black members of the administration, including Rice and President Obama himself, are reminiscent of language used to undermine minorities in decades past.
“Lazy” and “incompetent” are “code words” for black politicians. Got it?
Okay, now let’s head over to the LA Times where, yet again, someone else has come out in a hysterical frenzy over ONE PRO-PALIN ARTICLE written.
Paul Whitefield decided to dispute Charlotte Allen’s article published last week: (emphasis added)
Caught “Game Change” on cable the other night.
Read Charlotte Allen’s Op-Ed article, “Hey, GOP, take the Palin cure,” in The Times on Sunday.
And what did I learn? Well, something doesn’t add up. Or, to paraphrase “I Love Lucy”: “Charlotte, you got some ’splainin’ to do.”
In her Op-Ed, Allen serves up equal parts lemonade and venomade in making her case that Sarah Palin should be the Republican presidential candidate in 2016. In Allen’s view, Palin has it all: She has blue-collar appeal, she’s “tough as nails,” and best of all, she’s a woman, which, in Allen’s world, gives her this advantage: “Men love Sarah Palin, and she loves men.”
Yep, just what the GOP needs: a Marilyn Monroe who hunts moose too.
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Heck, if you want a Republican with common-man appeal, there’s a real governor in New Jersey right now who fits that bill.
So, how does one square Allen’s image of this Republican Party Joan of Arc with the petulant, ill-informed, diva-like Palin depicted in “Game Change”? (In an homage to Palin, I didn’t actually read the book; I settled for the shallow experience of watching the movie, though in true Palin style, I didn’t watch the whole thing.)
[...]
Commentators like Allen are all over the blogs, opinion sections and the TV and radio “news” and talk shows these days. Their aim is to provoke, to inflame — to hit the hornet’s nest and see how many angry people come out.
[F]or Charlotte Allen, the best thing about Sarah Palin is that she’s good for Charlotte Allen.
What would happen to me or to any other conservative blogger/writer if something this smearing and incendiary were written about Susan Rice, Barack Obama, or Hillary Clinton?
Here we have an alleged man implying that one pro-Palin article wasn’t written on merit, but was aimed to “provoke” and to get “angry people” to come out. I guess it couldn’t have anything to do with Governor Palin’s record of hard work and accomplishment. I suppose it couldn’t have anything to do with the fact that Governor (yes, the real Governor) Palin was able to do everything she set out to do in four years in only 2/3 of the time. Instead of realizing how incredible this was for feminism — considering that Governor Palin also has a husband and children to take care of — he ignores the logical facts surrounding her resignation, the record of real accomplishment she acquired, and the overall good she did for Alaska as its leader by fighting corruption, big oil, and special interests.
Nope! He chooses to cite a movie which has been thoroughly debunked time and time again. He chooses to take an innocuous remark made by Charlotte Allen about Governor Palin’s attractiveness to describe her as “Marilyn Monroe who hunts moose.” He then concludes by insinuating she wasn’t a “real Governor.”
Just what does this fella have to do before someone calls him a sexist pig?
Of course we can never expect the mainstream media to call it out — nor can we rely on the GOP establishment to do anything. This is why we have to continue our collective efforts to find ways around these very powerful and corrupt entities.
As Governor Palin described a few months ago at the Right Online conference, we now have the tools to meet this nonsense head on. We have to be the media when the other kind refuses to exercise professionalism and good judgment. Leaving comments, writing letters to the editor, talking about it with one another and with friends is a good place to start. We cannot allow these one-sided narratives to continue without challenge.
The lame stream media won’t know where to hide when Pres Palin takes her oath of office on Jan 20, 2017.
Please FReep this poll:
Your PDS is acting up again, gunner. Got to see your shrink again, soon.
At the risk of being trashed...I personally at this point do NOT believe the US will ever again elect a Christian President...sorry but it`s what I believe
Wide open abortion/gay marriage...The USA is on verge of becoming like Canada and Amsterdam.
Just look at the question that was asked of Rubio the other day...How old is the earth..CNN and even folks here ridiculing his answer.
And yes btw, evolution is a lie from the pit of hell
I do not see any hope, a true Christian can NOT be elected any longer, not like this is news I am breaking, if there was any hope Clinton would never have been elected, Gore and Kerry almost won for goodness sake
And America chose Barack Obama for a 2nd term...Sodom and Gomorrah
Most of the US Churches are filled with Non Christians, NON Christian Pastors...
“As a conservative, I think she’s the best potential candidate I can remember seeing, ever. “
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Bump.
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“But General Washington... our men wear rags... they are reduced to eating rats when they can find them. They wrap their feet in rags and march miles through the snow and ice. Our supplies are all but gone... the treasury is without funds... how can we possibly defeat the British”?
“We are going to drag these longboats across that icy river and we are going to kick the living crap out of those British troops and we are going to win this war and our indepedence. THAT sir... is how we are going to defeat the British.”
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