Posted on 07/12/2009 12:28:52 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Professional politicians and political journalists don't waste energy on political corpses. They reserve their energy -- positive or negative -- for viable politicians.
Thus, an intriguing part of the Sarah Palin phenomenon is the intensity of response to her every word and move -- from both Republican Party and Democratic Party professionals and from the conventional media. The negative but sustained passion being expressed by the professional Washington political class against her tends to belie its almost unanimous assertion that she is washed up.
I happened to be on CNN on July 3 just as the story was breaking of Palin's resignation as governor of Alaska, and for the next hour, I was the only on-air guest -- Republican, Democrat, journalist, politician -- who was not overtly contemptuous and dismissive of Palin and her political future. On July 5, as a panelist on ABC's "This Week," I was similarly situated.
What is it about Palin that elicits such furious bipartisan Washington dismissiveness? After all, the polls show her to be tied with Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee for the very early lead in the 2012 Republican primary.
As an outspoken conservative with about an 80 percent favorable rating among Republicans and a high-40s-percentage favorable plurality among independents, objectively she should be seen as quite competitive nationally compared with other Republicans, particularly given that Republicans are generically weak and that she has been targeted so viciously by the media.(continued)
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Palin is the only true conservative who has any reasonable chance at becoming President any time soon. That fully and completely explains the reaction she elicits from anti-conservatives.
The chattering classes are spending a tremendous amount of energy arguing that she’s not worth the energy. . .
You can smell the fear.
Give em hell Sarah !
She’s the Dr. Pepper of American politics.
Your right! If she is so bad, so inept, so clueless why all the Page 1 press?
Maybe it is because she has the ability to connect with people. You know normal people like us. People who worry about where the country is going. People who want their children to inherent a country as good or better than that given them by their parents. People who live their lives using a moral compass such as the Ten Commandments and cannot understand why freaks and liars are celebrated on TV and in the MSM.
I hope she will build herself a big base in the lower 48, get some good men and women elected in 2010 and set the tone and conversation for 2012.
“Professional politicians and political journalists don’t waste energy on political corpses. They reserve their energy — positive or negative — for viable politicians. “
To make Tonys point look at Mark Sanford.It was a big story.But its already run its course.
But not like Sarahs.And the hysteria by the libs and RINO’s is incredible.They come up with all the chickenshit reasons to hate her as a smokescreen because there are a million reasons to like her.
Women wish they could be like her. And real men wish they could be with her.
Shes an outstanding role model for everyone.She needs to be more polished (prepared) as a politician.
I’d say Tony has put them all in the black.
( Note: a target metaphore, no racial inference
suggested. Author)
“Well, I’m not so sure that being an incumbent is an advantage if the world seems to be going to hell and government is seen to be at least part of the cause for that journey. And though many conventional politicians might be seen as quitters if they resigned their offices, I have a very strong hunch that Sarah Palin is constitutionally incapable of being seen as a quitter. Because she is not. She constantly is taking on the biggest challenge on her horizon.
Now, I am not endorsing her, predicting she will run, or predicting she is likely to win if she runs. Let’s wait a couple of years before getting to those questions. If President Obama is seen by the public to be a great success as president in 2012, he probably will be re-elected.
But if he is not seen as a great success, the public may be looking for a straight-talking candidate from the heartland who calls for and truly believes in limited government, maximum personal freedom and fiscal responsibility.
People may be listening for someone who knows how to talk to them rather than at them or down to them.
They also may respond favorably to a candidate who does not respond favorably to the Washington political class — nor it to her.”
At the stage we are in, someone who appears part of the problem ie;government is not the solution.
Go Sarah.
Fire in the belly?
You bet’ya.
There are really no more points for them to make. Wet ammo. Spent bullets. She is COMING. PERIOD!
All I can say is...
Go Sarah! :)
You’ve got my absentee vote!:)
What you said, LOL! But you’re absolutely right.
And I must say, sometimes I get tired of defending GWB (on the war on terrorists) and Sarah Palin (just because I like her and her faith and devotion to country and family) up here in the great white north.
However, I will continue to do so. ;)
All she needs is to talk to Maggie Thatcher and Nancy Reagan, and to go over Ron's old videotapes and chat with Michael Deaver a bit on how Reagan handled the press.
She'll be fine.
As for the media reaction, I remember vividly the column that Maureen Dowd wrote the day after Sarah's speech at the Republican National Convention. It reminded me of nothing so much as the climactic scene in Jurassic Park, when the raptor that is about to lunge at our heroes is suddenly snapped up by the returning Tyrannosaurus rex. Remember the reaction of the other raptor? It let out a scream of rage and fear, and just flew at the tyrannosaur's neck. That's what Mo Dowd did -- positively Mesozoic of her!
I love the smell of liberals sweating their guts out in the morning.
The RINOs and other worthless bastards had better step aside and allow Sarah and other Conservatives to rescue our Republic.
The RNC won't get any money from me if they block Sarah and other great folks like her.
The fear and superstition demonstrated by the press, pundits, and the paid thugs and character assassins remind me of the historical times that occurred before the civil war. People were so afraid of a general uprising by the slaves that they overreacted with murderous intent over and over again.
I would vote for Sarah Palin in a heartbeat.
Saving for later.....
The reaction to Palin’s announcement gives proof to the contention that there is some kind of virus inside The Beltway which infects the brains of those who live there for more than a few years.
Sarah Palin is light shedding on all (Dems, RINOs, etc.) who are lying to us for their own power, glory and money. Hopefully, that will be the light illuminating the truth thus enabling the rest of us to focus our energies in order to effect some serious changes in the ranks of our elected officials. I’m sadly of the opinion that it may be too late by 2012. We’ve got to clearly make the case and make those serious changes in 2010. Even if she runs for no office, her voice and her words will bring clarity if she is allowed to speak. The opposition’s defense, as usual, will be to “change the subject” from her message to her so-called behavior, which is the first tactic of all evil doers. “Obfuscation” will be their theme.
Ever since she appeared on the scene, I’ve been trying to get a grasp of Sarah’s thinking. I like what I have discerned. She has a solid view of reality and is comfortable with her place in it. She believes in God. She believes that God is personally involved in our lives and that He opens and closes doors.
I think that is where she gets her obvious courage, and that is what makes her smarter and stronger than the inwardly empty chatterers who assail her.
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