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The Palin Rebound
NY Times ^ | David Brooks

Posted on 10/03/2008 9:44:14 AM PDT by Chet 99

There are some moments when members of a political movement come together as one, sharing the same thoughts, feeling the same emotions, breathing the same shallow breaths. One of those occasions occurred Thursday night when Republicans around the country crouched nervously behind their sofas, glimpsed out tentatively at their flat screens and gripped their beverages tightly as Sarah Palin walked onto the debate stage at Washington University in St. Louis.

There she was, resplendent in black, striding out like a power-walker, and greeting Joe Biden like an assertive salesman, first-naming him right off the bat.

Just as the midcentury psychologist Abraham Maslow predicted, Republicans watching the debate had a hierarchy of needs. First, they had a need for survival. Was this woman capable of completing an extemporaneous paragraph — a collection of sentences with subjects, verbs, objects and, if possible, an actual meaning?

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008debates; davidbrooks; palin
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1 posted on 10/03/2008 9:44:14 AM PDT by Chet 99
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Tepid praise from David Brooks.. I wonder if Kathleen Parker will be next?


2 posted on 10/03/2008 9:44:48 AM PDT by Chet 99
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To: Chet 99
Memo to Sarah Palin:

Your repoeated inapproprate mouthing of the term "reform" in last night's debate will never convince anybody with a pulse that you are a reformer or that your running mate is a "maverick".

3 posted on 10/03/2008 9:47:45 AM PDT by MurryMom
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To: Chet 99
Was this woman capable of completing an extemporaneous paragraph — a collection of sentences with subjects, verbs, objects and, if possible, an actual meaning?

Hey Mr. Brooks, eat moose and die!

4 posted on 10/03/2008 9:48:19 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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To: MurryMom

Dahling,

spell chek is yer frend


5 posted on 10/03/2008 9:49:19 AM PDT by Carley (she's all out of caribou.............but does have a bracelet!!!!)
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To: MurryMom
Memo to Sarah Palin:

Your repoeated inapproprate mouthing of the term "reform" in last night's debate will never convince anybody with a pulse that you are a reformer or that your running mate is a "maverick".

LOLOLOL!

It must be sad to have nothing more than pure denial left to hold onto.

6 posted on 10/03/2008 9:49:19 AM PDT by TChris (Obama campaign: Where are we going? ...and why are we in this handbasket?)
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To: Chet 99

Can’t believe this is from the Slimes.

This Republican was standing and cheering on the couch at Palin’s entrance and never got down.


7 posted on 10/03/2008 9:49:29 AM PDT by itsthejourney (Sarah-cuda IS the right reason)
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To: Chet 99

Show of hands for those of us who were “crouching nervously behind our sofas” and so on??? I am so tired of this nonsense.


8 posted on 10/03/2008 9:49:37 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: MurryMom

Memo to arm chair political consultants: Your continuous hammering and whining helps NO ONE.


9 posted on 10/03/2008 9:49:38 AM PDT by aft_lizard (One animal actually eats its own brains to conserve energy, we call them liberals.)
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To: MurryMom
And repeated use of the word “change” is meaningless.
10 posted on 10/03/2008 9:50:45 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: MurryMom

Scares you, doesn’t she?


11 posted on 10/03/2008 9:50:56 AM PDT by Interesting Times (Swiftboating, you say? Check out ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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To: MurryMom

Ah, MurryMom’s back!

Didn’t Sarah Palin look good last night? You know she’s had five kids and still looks like that? That’s gotta p!ss you off, doesn’t it? She runs (ie, works for it).

Oh, and as to your “reform” criticism, you must be unaware of her record in Alaska. Look it up and get back to us.


12 posted on 10/03/2008 9:51:01 AM PDT by MrB (0bama supporters: What's the attraction? The Marxism or the Infanticide?)
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To: MurryMom

Go away drama queen.


13 posted on 10/03/2008 9:51:25 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: itsthejourney

The token Republican at the soon to be bankrupt NYT had to say something, I bet he is now afraid Tom Freidman will start slapping him the back of the head as he walks by Brook’s desk..


14 posted on 10/03/2008 9:51:30 AM PDT by padre35 (Sarah Palin is the one we've been waiting for..Rom 10.10..)
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To: Chet 99

Parker would look pretty stupid since she was on every show that would take her yesterday, talking trash about Sarah and demanding she step down.


15 posted on 10/03/2008 9:51:33 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Interesting Times

She brings an unarticulatable dread to leftists -

they know that she represents the destruction of their entire power base.


16 posted on 10/03/2008 9:51:57 AM PDT by MrB (0bama supporters: What's the attraction? The Marxism or the Infanticide?)
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To: Chet 99

How did the misconception that brooks was somehow a “conservative” get started?

Even if he is on the left cusp of conservatism, then like George Will and a few others, he’s a conservative elite.

I wonder if Kathleen Parker is still clutching to her hope that McCainw will dump Sarah and replace her on the ticket with Mitt Romney?

Only in the Fantasyland of the conservative elites...


17 posted on 10/03/2008 9:54:43 AM PDT by Josh Painter ("I don't believe that people should be able to own guns." - Barack Obama)
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To: MurryMom

Well for heaven’s sake, look what the cat drug in! FR’s own little Maureen Dowd.


18 posted on 10/03/2008 9:54:49 AM PDT by Sisku Hanne (The day begins and ends in Alaska.)
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To: MurryMom

Not very happy today are you? LOLOLOLOL


19 posted on 10/03/2008 9:55:34 AM PDT by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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To: Chet 99

Can we switch McCain out for Jindal?


20 posted on 10/03/2008 9:55:53 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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