Posted on 12/30/2008 8:07:53 AM PST by IrishMike
Yup. I was amazed to find a couple of Republican friends who didn’t vote for McCain because of Palin...they said she wasn’t qualified.
I’m afraid the Mainstream Media affects Republicans as well as the Mindless Middle.
I don't think that phrase means what Laib thinks it means.
John is/was a politician through and through. He was formed by the disciplines of the Army/Navy/AirForce ... armed services. He said he knew how it works in Washington and he knew how to fix it. No real meat as to how he would do it. He does/did not want to listen to the people. After all ... he knows best. Sarah was a brilliant choice. I believe it was inspired by God. There are no accidents. She is an important part of our future.We saw how the press/medias/liberals controlled the news; and still are controlling it.
#1 There are more Democrats than Republicans. Republicans do not unite well. We splinter and conversely ... do ourselves in ... leading to a lost election overall: Congress, Executive, Judicial. This portends bad things coming for America. In Spades.
Students of history can see this happens over and over again. It appears ... we do not learn from History. Perhaps real recent history abit. On second thought no we do not learn ... else how could it be we have essentially the Clinton's and their cohorts all back in office as of January 20,2009?
The Democrats were campaigning for many months before the election. They had thousands of volunteers doing constant legwork, getting their teams up and operating 18 months before the election. Did the Republicans? We are bested ... not by ideas but by long range planning and hard work ... backed by lots of money.
While we listen to Rush, Shaun, Laura, and several others on talk shows; and we feel like that is enough. Ann Coulter writes a book or two;and we agree with her and seem to think that our posting to the inter net to others like us is sufficient.
Does it work that way? You decide.
Governor Palin might not want to run after all the bad, false sh*T that was thrown at her by Demoncraps and Repubs alike!
She is a Jacksonian "populist".
His reason was like lightning and his action like a thunderbolt" Amos Kendall,.
Prominent Jacksonians: Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Dick Cheney, Fred Thompson, Oliver North, Pat Buchanan, Zell Miller, Sarah Palin
This guy is a lousy writer. He needs to edit his work. And calling Palin a populist is lowbrow. She’s popular because she’s conservative, and RINOs have a lot of trouble with that.
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A legend, still in the making.
Hence the liberal MSM’s frenzy to re write history.
Just have a look at google, put in Sarah Palin
and before you select anything the prompter suggests
Sarah Palin 49,200,000 results
Sarah Palin pictures 18,200.00 results
Sarah Palin Photos 24,000,00 results
and the list is long which by itself stands out because of the relatively short period of time since she was picked by Johnny Mc Vain and entered the national spotlight.
The left assaulted Sarah because she represented the wedge issues that fueled the Bush - Rowe victories: God, guns and gays. She was an election winner and had to be destroyed. Obamachev signaled that it was OK to slime her by calling her a pig. We have to admit the campaign against her was successful.
I think McCain made a mistake tapping her with little time to prepare for national exposure. Maybe in 2012, Sarah will be more prepared.
Obama’s position is very vulnerable right now. He has to tread a fine line between becoming a socialist, leftist and the moderate clintonesque rightist. It all takes just one major screw-up. It might be as simple as mishandling Iran (BTW, Iran was the Achilles heel for Carter and very well might be for Obama too). Once, people know there is a viable alternative in Sarah, they will desert him in droves. Then, it will be 1976 all over again
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She's has many "conservative bonifides" e.g. supports low taxes for small business, prolife etc. but also took Exxon and Chevron to court in order to get get a piece of their profits sending each Alaskan citizen their cut of $1500 each.
A very "populist" but "unconservative" policy.
The Dems used to own these kinds of "giveaways". That's why the liberal media essentially ignored it.
She is very much in the tradition of the "Reagan Democrats". Hence their fear.
Hmmm. Has a ring of truth to it.
[So where does this lead us?]
It leads us to having Jeb Bush shoved down our throats, that’s where. More Royalty, that will solve everything.
When he was dubbed a warmonger and an idiot, blamed for everything from homelessness to AIDS, when it was asserted that he was engaging in an arms build-up not to draw the Soviets to the negotiating table but to launch nuclear war, when protestors staged “die-ins” dressed as mock coffins outside the White House, Reagan simply ignored them. When they screamed, he never listened.
Such accusations drove other men crazy. One president driven over the edge by the left’s rage was Richard Nixon. “Others may hate you,” said Nixon in his White House farewell, “but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.” Nixon let the hate of his enemies consume him, and then they won.
I sense that Sarah Palin understands these things.
Her virtues are destined to bring out the vices in her opponents. She loves, and they envy how she loves. She chooses life, and they assail her choice.
Her temperance and fortitude tempts their pride. Her faith, hope, and charity, inspires their disbelief, despair, and disdain. Her happiness fuels their anger.
Often, maintaining sanity and surviving means simply ignoring the haters. That’s where Ronald Reagan was before he stepped foot in the White House. And that’s a good place for a conservative Republican like Sarah Palin.
So they had to crush her. Lies, rumors, bogus investigations, ignoring Biden's stupidity, no tactic is out of bounds when the goal is to defang the only real candidate in the field.
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