Posted on 07/19/2009 2:35:51 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Mmm, I'd disagree with you a little on that. America is tired of being led by people who have a lot of formal education but no life experience. But surely we don't mind being led by someone who has a good education if she also has a record of accomplishment and a lot of life experience. Some years spent studying history, political philosophy, and foreign affairs along with ordinary exposure to other cultures and people will put a fine edge on the steel blade that is Sarah Palin.
Palin is being put forward as someone who is to be leader of the world. She needs to be equipped for her task. Do you recall, in the movie "Patton," that Patton gloated over the fact that he had read Rommel's book on armored warfare and was winning a battle because he could anticipate Rommel's tactics? The same principle applies in foreign affairs. If you know history, if you have studied foreign affairs over a period of some years instead of trying to learn it in a few short weeks before a conference, you may be able to deal with your nation's friends and allies better. Look at Obama: no foreign experience at all, so naturally he is making a miserable mess of things abroad.
Hanson makes a lot of good points. Missing from his analysis, though, it the Jackie Kennedy factor. On any scale, who is closer to the Kennedy Camelot: Sarah Palin, or Michelle Obama.
Sarah always looks sophisticated, even when the media attempts to paint her like a Wal-Mart welfare queen. The answer, in my view is that the left totally fears her - not for her plain-ness, but rather for her sophistication.
Right you are. Sarah Palin has a natural, down-to-earth sophistication that doesn’t come in a jar and isn’t available at the salon. It is one that is sustainable in or out of the wilderness, doesn’t evaporate (or bow down) in the company of world leaders and is equally apparent while hunting or fishing.
Carpe diem, Sarah.
At our current precipitous rate of descent, the US that the founder’s envisioned may not have a proverbial tomorrow. The cause is urgent and just. She is well aware that we cannot afford to wait.
Forget 2010 or 2012; focus on 19JULY2009.
I have also thought that the GOP sees 2012 as a golden opportunity and they want that to be Romney or some other milquetoast, not Palin.
The next few years will of course be the real story. It won’t matter one whit what Barnes, Krauthammer, Noonan say.
If SP can enter the national debate and be effective as a campaigner and conservative leader, then she will be the nominee.
I noticed that right after SP has an op-ed piece in the Post, the Libtards immediately respond and Bill O’Reilly talks about cap’ntax that night. It looked to me like Fox and BOr was saying “me, too”. Loved that commercial in FL where Palin and Crist were called quitters. What a dumb ad.
Lawyers as president should be as rare as generals. I wouldnt favor a constitutional amendment but lawyers as a class have aobviously screwed this nation.
Sarah Palin seems to be that kind of Reagan-like person as well. It appears to me that she really believes in the things she says. I think the phonies don't like her for the same reason that they did not like Reagan.
The inside-the-beltway mentality people are like a pack of wolves. They recognize the smell of their own pack. Sarah is not from their pack so they turn on her. Real people are the ultimate threat to the opportunistic phonies that rule this country. When a real person comes on the scene both the Democrat and Republican phonies join forces in driving out the truthful person. The Dems and Repubs may be enemies and rivals but they know that honest people are the ultimate threat to their system of duplicity and exploitation.
I guess you’re right. Obama has had no real leadership experience despite being exposed to good schools, and I suspect he has shunned the classics as being too Western.
I don't know whether he has read the Greats or not, but quite often Marxists have done so and reject all the wisdom of the past in favor of the facile tenets of Marxism.
The point is, we don't want Sarah to change the honesty, clarity, and directness of her approach--the approach of common sense and Christian truthfulness--but she should be armed with the same weapons her enemies are carrying, in addition to her own excellent attributes. I think Ann Coulter is quite right when she says Sarah ought to study. Remember that the Founders were all superbly educated.
Ping to 2009 VDH article.
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