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In Defense of Sarah Palin
Washington Post ^ | Monday mArch 28, 2010 | NORMAN PODHORETZ

Posted on 03/28/2010 8:28:25 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

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To: VaFarmer
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.

Very true. Benjamin Franklin was also at the forefront of an American political movement but wasn't president. As far as Sarah and Reagan being "retrograde" that is more of an insult than the IQ statement. Retro perhaps, but not retrograde.
61 posted on 03/29/2010 3:37:49 AM PDT by Canedawg (Deem this regime to hell.)
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To: BCrago66
I don’t see the evidence that Obama has a particularly high IQ

If he had any intelligence at all he wouldn't be part of the hate-America commie left. He would recognize and appreciated the great country that America is.

62 posted on 03/29/2010 4:28:25 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Bigtigermike

Thank you Norman Podhoretz. This needs to be trumpeted far and wide. Thank you, thank you.


63 posted on 03/29/2010 4:31:41 AM PDT by oldtimer2 (The majority is not silent--The government is deaf)
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To: All

Great read.

A rare positive article about Palin in the mainstream press.

That is a good thing lol.


64 posted on 03/29/2010 5:09:01 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (Let hot tar wash their throats and may it flow freely.)
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To: ReneeLynn

I guess knowing how many States there are is not part of an IQ test.


65 posted on 03/29/2010 5:24:56 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: JApost

“Waahhh! It’s all Fox’s fault!”

ABC, CBS, NBC, PMSNBC, CNN, etc. must be blamesless.

/sarc

- JP


66 posted on 03/29/2010 5:49:08 AM PDT by Josh Painter ("We cannot spare this woman. She fights" - David Karki, regarding Sarah Palin)
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To: Lakeshark; onyx; sushiman
"Countdown to the first Paultard reminding us that the author is a jooooo"

The money quote from this neocon article is found it that exerpt in reply number one, in the first paragraph under ***

"they are the isolationists or protectionists on the paleoconservatve right or to the unrealistic realism of the moderate Republicans who inhabit the establishment center"

In the the world that the NeoCons inhabit, these realists are jooooo haters just like the Paultards. Realist James Baker, because he chaired the Iraq Study Group, was called a jooooo hater.

As for "the empty vessel from Alaska", her only knowledge of foreign policy is what NeoCon Randy Scheunemann told her.

67 posted on 03/29/2010 6:38:05 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin

LOL, a mayor a Governor....

But a message board commando, now that a IQ loaded vessel?

Get a life. You aint no Palin.


68 posted on 03/29/2010 6:56:29 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (Let hot tar wash their throats and may it flow freely.)
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To: rbmillerjr

If that phrase “empty vessel” offends you, you can substitute “Edith Bunker”.


69 posted on 03/29/2010 7:57:26 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin

Don’t you have a Ron Paul webinar starting soon.


70 posted on 03/29/2010 8:06:12 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (Let hot tar wash their throats and may it flow freely.)
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To: sushiman
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 .

You lied.

She never trashed JD and you know it.

Your language sux.

71 posted on 03/29/2010 9:29:35 AM PDT by onyx (Facts don't matter. Proof not required. Anything goes! Racial slurs, death threats.....)
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To: rbmillerjr
Ron Paul?

Re-read #67. I'm not a member of that fringe group. I'm a main stream Realist.

The apex of US post cold war foreign policy was Desert Storm and that was put on by the realists. The lowest point of US post cold war policy was when the NeoCons walked away from Afghanistan and invaded Iraq

So you see, the battle has nothing to do with Ron Paul, the battle is between the NeoCons and the Realists, whether that be Dick Cheney vs Colin Powell or Paul Wolfowitz vs Stephen Walt.

The number two battle is the battle amongst the Neo Cons. Why do you think NeoCon David Frum was fired from AEI? The first thing he did was criticize the empty vessel and that made Bill Kristol mad because Kristol picked her to be McCain's running mate. The second thing Frum did was criticize the GOP for not negotiating on health care and that strategy originated with Bill Kristol.

72 posted on 03/29/2010 10:38:08 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: ETL
If he had any intelligence at all he wouldn't be part of the hate-America commie left. He would recognize and appreciated the great country that America is.

Unfortunately, intelligence is a tool. Like any other tool it can be used for good or for evil ends. Mussolini, Lenin, and Ho were all undeniably brilliant.

Many evil men have been highly intelligent. This does not make them less evil, all it does is give them the potential to be more effective at implementing the positions they choose to pursue.

73 posted on 03/29/2010 10:43:18 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: sushiman

“We need MORE Michael Savages”

LOL! stop it you’re killing me. Are you talking about the same Michael Weiner who demanded Bush be impeached, who said autism was caused by wimpy dad’s, who who said McCain blew the election it by picking this “nobody” Palin, and who said Rush is a fraud. That Michael Weiner?


74 posted on 03/29/2010 11:48:48 AM PDT by NavyCanDo (In 2012 Sarah Palin will see the Potomac from Her House)
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To: al baby

I think, looking at that statement in context, he was being facetious...


75 posted on 03/29/2010 12:27:28 PM PDT by TopDog2 (Sarah 2012)
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To: Bigtigermike

She’s a self-made American through and through. Her gut instincts will be just fine with me.


76 posted on 03/29/2010 6:26:23 PM PDT by Melian (The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity.)
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To: Sherman Logan
Unfortunately, intelligence is a tool. Like any other tool it can be used for good or for evil ends.

I like to think that true intelligence leads one to do good things, not evil or self-destructive.

77 posted on 03/29/2010 7:17:48 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

I’d like to think that too. Unfortunately, 40 years of reading history has thoroughly destroyed my illusions.

Great intelligence can often lead, by an obvious process, to arrogance and contempt for those of lower intelligence and the evils that flow from such an attitude.

In addition, intelligence provides of itself no defense against the desires and lusts that lead to all other types of evils.

I have never seen any evidence whatsoever that intelligent people are less likely to commit evil acts.

Less likely to get caught, perhaps. :)

The desire to commit good or bad comes from the heart, not the head.


78 posted on 03/29/2010 7:30:51 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (It's the worse case in the nation of the Feds stealing from the state and it's residents.)
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To: Sherman Logan

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Jeremiah 17:9
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79 posted on 03/29/2010 7:32:29 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: editor-surveyor

Quite true.

If you believe the Bible, you believe that the superhuman intelligence of Satan chose to rebel against God, and many superhumanly intelligent angels chose to follow him into rebellion.


80 posted on 03/29/2010 7:35:34 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (It's the worse case in the nation of the Feds stealing from the state and it's residents.)
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