Posted on 07/14/2009 7:27:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Where do I begin?” Thus replied one senior Alaskan Republican when asked to comment on Sarah Palin’s latest eccentricity. Her decision to quit as Governor of Alaska with 18 months of her term still to go left him reeling. Amid all the speculation about her finances and her family and book deals and presidential runs and the bizarre reasons she gave for walking out on her job, where should he begin?
The same question presents itself when reviewing the state of the modern Republican Party. What with all the revelations about adultery, the regular resignations and defections, the talk show hosts hurling insults and the tone deaf response to the Obama honeymoon, I mean, where does one begin?
I’ve decided to begin with Jon Meade Huntsman Jr. In April Governor Huntsman of Utah was riding high. He was one of the most popular governors in the country, having been re-elected with 78 per cent of the vote. His popularity wasn’t a mystery. He is lucid, moderate, likeable, an accomplished individual with a good grasp of economics and the ability to speak fluent Mandarin. He has a strong business background and had been Ambassador to Singapore. During his tenure Utah was named the best managed state by the respected Pew Research Centre.
So Mr Huntsman’s name had just started to be bandied about as a possible candidate for the Republican nomination in 2012. Here was a man with real appeal outside the base, the only candidate from the centre. And the governor began to accept a few out-of-state invitations. In May, for instance, he was down to address Republicans in Kent County, Michigan. Nothing big time, a toe in the water, that was all.(continued)
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Finkelstein should worry about the Muslims that are destroying Great Britain.
Probably a member of the Corrupt Bastards Club, the "good ol' boys" who would like to take Alaska back to the way things were.
Daniel Finkelstein has consistently attacked Palin from her VP nominee selection.
We Conservatives should care what the Eurotrash has to say? Bet Nooner and Georgie Will have this framed.
Pray for America
“Here was a man with real appeal outside the base”
Yes. They said the same about McCain ... independents loved him, broad appeal. Problem was he couldn’t close the sale. And he only started doing well in the polls when Palin was selected to join. So much about moderate “appeal” translating to anything except electoral defeat.
“Mr Huntsman’s decision is a tragedy for the Right in America.”
According to you, a liberal. But, no, not according to conservatives. Of course we don’t vote for someone that will just win (and we know now they don’t anyway), but someone who will govern as conservative in any case.
I’d rather have ours than the Dems’.
So Mr Huntsman’s name had just started to be bandied about as a possible candidate for the Republican nomination in 2012....
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Didn’t Huntsman “quit” his governor’s job to become abassasor to China??????
The UK should consider a Republic, but alas, it's too late for them, they joined Europe in going for leftist democracy by getting rid of their conservatives. Now, they try to get it back by electing "conservatives" back again, but they ain't the original thing like Thatcher, and the mob will rule, anyway.
For spite, Finkelstein tries to sucker the GOP into the same mistake by trashing Palin and pointing to "democracy".
Too bad, Danny boy, we still have the Republic. Sarah and the conservatives will see to it.
Yeah, along with Huckabee and Powell the last couple of days. We’ll soon see Pawlenty and Jindal elevated to the same status.
Oh Rupert. Tony Blair resigned in June 2007, with three years of his term still to go.
Daniel Finkelstein, like Merdeock corp writers, pushes the polices of the American Rupert Murdoch who also thinks the UK should be a republic, and supported UK Labour's Tony Blair, Australian Labor's Kevin Rudd, and USA Democrat's Barack Obama.
Well, I tried to read this, but the writer’s understanding of American politics is just too thin...
Exactly !
Aren’t those the same two who wanted Dan Quayle thrown off the ticket when it was Bush Sr.’s unapologetic position on his cave to the libs on the tax hike that was largely killing the campaign?
by whom was it being bandied?
What with all the revelations about adultery, the regular resignations and defections, the talk show hosts hurling insults and the tone deaf response to the Obama honeymoon, I mean, where does one begin?
You can start, Clownface, by digging up some sources and starting to excavate and expose the coordinated, carefully thought-out "infowar" that Rahm Emanuel and his boss are waging, with the help of people in the MSM like you, and with the help of some Clintonistas who have been embedded in major media nodes (Stephanopoulos, Begala), systematically to destroy the Republican Party and to introduce one-party rule, turning the United States into a Communist People's Republic with a President-for-Life at its head.
Start there, Clownface. Do your job.
The maths of politics aren’t very complicated. If you want to win and you don’t have enough votes from people who agree with you, you have to win support from people who don’t by accommodating their views. You cannot win elections by getting the same people to vote for you by pulling the lever harder. This, however, is the strategy the Republicans seem to be embarking upon.
Read this carefully. It's an elaborate restatement, with a certain amount of third-party sidelines gloating, of the Obama "we won" rationale for power.
It is not a parsing of the election outcome, it does not elaborate the actual views on issues of the People. Instead, it uses the fact of Obama's popular majority to claim that Obama's views now circumscribe the People's own, that their views are subsumed in his because of his elevation.
It's similar to the stunt Dubya pulled in 2000 when, having just won the South Carolina primary, he announced that the GOP faithful had aligned themselves with an OBL "amnesty" position on immigration. When, of course, they hadn't done any such thing, and subsequent events belied his claim, even with the MSM trying strenuously to cover up for him.
This guy isn't a journalist. He's an embed, a 'Rat propagandist grafted onto media. Journalism? He isn't even trying. Our friend posting above is right: This is a partisan hit piece on the GOP voters and Sarah Palin.
By the way ....has anyone counted the number of times the 'Ratmedia have used the term now, "Republican base"?
Get it? We're base.
The new New Class sneer at conservatives.
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