Posted on 03/28/2010 8:28:25 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
Nothing annoys certain of my fellow conservative intellectuals more than when I remind them, as on occasion I mischievously do, that the derogatory things they say about Sarah Palin are uncannily similar to what many of their forebears once said about Ronald Reagan.
It's hard to imagine now, but 31 years ago, when I first announced that I was supporting Reagan in his bid for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination, I was routinely asked by friends on the right how I could possibly associate myself with this "airhead," this B movie star, who was not only stupid but incompetent. They readily acknowledged that his political views were on the whole close to ours, but the embarrassing primitivism with which he expressed them only served, they said, to undermine their credibility. In any case, his base was so narrow that he had no chance of rescuing us from the disastrous administration of Jimmy Carter.
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Intelligence isn’t measured by knowledge, but by the ability to acquire knowledge.
Sarah Palin has, and is being, proved to be a very quick study.
As Poderhertz pointed out, Biden has 30 years of “experience” in international affairs, and has never in that time turned out to be right about anything.
Combine Biden’s foreign policy council and Obama’s intellect and you get a $800 million subsidy to Hamas, a world wide apology tour of our enemies and carefully crafted insults to England and Israel, our two most reliable allies.
Unlike both Obama and Biden, Sarah Palin has actually had a real job. In fact several.
If Obama has so much smart, why can’t he formulate a complete sentence under pressure and without a teleprompter?
I curse every one of the white guilt co*k suckers at fox news. They all knew this and were too damned afraid to report it. I curse brit hume, bill andrea mackris o’reilly, roger ailes, rupert murdoch, every G.D. one of them. They did this to us.
Yep. :)
You’re GOOD.
In this context I think it means Idiot Quotient. It's how many well educated idiots you can fool into believing you are smarter than they are by speaking repeatedly about lofty goals, Utopian dreams, and empty promises. The more well educated idiots you can fool, the higher the IQ.
Sarah isn't trying to fool anybody when she speaks.
Well...
I never tire of pointing out that Sarah Palin isn’t running for President. Never has and certainly isn’t now. She is in the forefront (not leading) a movement.
Podhoretz, like everybody else, doesn’t seem to be able to keep their minds on the work at hand. Palin has chosen a job right now. Stop a socialist takeover by Democrats who see that as fairer and better.
They are wrong in my view. She is right in my view. Who cares about her intellectual skill set.
She is right.
Right now.
Forget the Presidential crap. It doesn’t matter. We have our work cut out for us, and we have her on our side. We just can’t get distracted by intellectual blind alleys.
It would help if Podhoretz and other columnists with a conservative bent would just call Socialism by its name.
I will say, though, that Palin knows a great deal more about foreign policy than 0bama or his (God help us) Secretary of State, who are quite possibly the least competent individuals ever to fill that function in American government, and that's saying a lot.
Heh, I wonder what the other conservative intellectuals' think of this!
I don’t see the evidence that Obama has a particularly high IQ, and I suspect there’s a reason we don’t have his SAT and LSAT results, his undergraduate or law school grades.
still drunk on sake and yet to sober up.
You sure hit the nail on the head. But you forgot to mention the real conspiracy is headed by the Trilateral Commission, the Queen of England, and the Council of Foreign Relations. Sarah Palin is just doing their dirty work.
She’s got that somthin’ that many politicians would kill for.
I think it is she is genuine, not born of DC but of something else entirely, what you see is what you get.
Okay, okay . . . I get that you’re an old-time, conservative intellectual, Norm. But YOU don’t get that WFB was more religious than he was conservative, and more honest than he was intellectual. Because he never had the chance to give Sarah the imprimatur she’d need to impress all his intellectual conservative friends, far too many of them (including “Dame Peggy,” who attended north Jersey’s Fairleigh Dickinson, hardly an Ivy) doubt or second-guess her “intellectual” conservative bona fides. He’d have noticed and respected her utter (I detest using the next word) authenticity, and I don’t mean her homey speech. That authenticity comes from convictions courageously borne and unashamedly, honestly proclaimed. Sorry, but intellectualism, real or perceived, can’t hold a candle to that.
Secondly, I think we’re all getting pretty sick of hearing about Obama’s IQ, the measurement of which is no more accessible than Mortimer Snerd’s. We can’t even access his grades in school, ANY school.
But I’m sicker still of the faint, grudging, and almost apologetic praise that always manages to snake its way through a “positive” Sarah-article—especially articles by “mainline” Conservatives. All they prove with their snarky, inside-the-beltway-club quips is that all their CQs (courage-quotients) combined don’t equal Sarah’s.
LOL. Well, “good morning to you” and I’m about to say “good night.”
sleep well!
"For more than a year," Van Voorhees tells us, "I have warned that . . . the conservative movement risked abandonment by its few remaining serious intellectuals"—"luminaries" like "the vivacious [Washington Post columnist] Kathleen Parker, Dame Peggy Noonan, and those two mighty Davids of conservative letters, Frum and Brooks"—and "being overrun by the unsightly hordes of Wal-Mart untermenschen typified by the loathesome 'Tea Party' rabble" with their "base enthusiasms and simian grunts. As is now obvious, events have proven me right."
The left gives this “Sarah Palin” treatment to any conservative. They would trash Maidson, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, et al
She might have “curb appeal” but she is promoting people that the Tea Party people would never endorse. “By their actions you will know them”
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I had read that she trashed McLame’s foe . Perhaps it was BS . ParDON .
We need MORE Michael Savages and fewer RINO supporting Palins . Screw you .
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