Posted on 10/27/2010 7:35:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I know that Barky is full of something but I don’t think it is Gravitas.
You mean, like Zero's pimptrot down the stairs of AF1, Tokyo Rove?
Just because????Do you have any idea the sacrifice he made? I dont agree with his moderate approach to things, but remember he been there for 25 years. He goes back to Carter and Reagan. give him credit. The enemy is the left and Marxism, not John Mccain. McCain will radicalize as the country does. He Will move right as we all r doing. This is the consciousness raising phase of the conservative revolution.
Since your tagline has my favorite author in it (Perelandra is probably my favorite), I will assume that’s not a loaded question. I will endeavor to answer it honestly, and that may mean it isn’t a perfect answer.
I think the experience level should be pretty high, but that could come from government, other types of public service (military or large charitable organization), or , heaven forbid, business. Ideally there would be a mix of executive responsibility and proven results in a very large scale role. I also want a person with proven moral courage and leadership.
Palin has a pretty good ideology, from what she has articulated, but she was Governor of a small population state. That is not to be scoffed at... but she jumped ship. That just doen’t cut it for me. She also did not campaign very well for VP (I realize not all her fault), and has family drama that will continue to be a distraction. Is that fair, probably not, but it is true.
What has Palin really done? What collosal problem has she led people through as Governor? We have some SERIOUS issues facing our country, and we had better get this right!
I agree. Sarah would not have done a reality show if she were running for President. I don’t think she could win. Also, she can be valuable in other ways.
I think that Palin has plenty of experience from her almost 19 years in politics, more than Mitt Romney for instance.
“Karl Rove? Isn’t he irrelevant? Just another RINO casualty?”
Indeed, as are Perino and Krauthammer. I guess Fox hasn’t gotten the memo yet. My husband and I just hit the mute button when they’re on. Ironically, we used to hit mute when Juan Williams was on, but now it’s been interesting to listen to him. Nothing like seeing/hearing a lib talk about getting the lib treatment. When will Fox wake up and realize a huge portion of their viewers really do call him “Tokyo Rove” at home?
And during politics, that is why Reagan was forced to quit his cowboy series during the Governor's campaign, his opponent said it was an unfair advantage.
Palin is only doing news and politics on cable, and an 8 part documentary as an Alaskan governor, on Alaska, it is a good move.
Today is the 46th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s famous speech, “A Time for Choosing.”
The thing that struck me as I watched it again was how relevant its message still is for today’s America. Just as in 1964, we have a president who says “we must accept a greater government activity in the affairs of the people.” And just as then, we hear the voices of those on the left who claim the profit motive has become “outdated” and the Constitution “outmoded.” Back then liberals aimed to build a Great Society in which the state looked after us “from the cradle to the grave.” Today’s “fundamental transformation” doesn’t have a similarly catchy name, but its aims are no different from those of Johnson’s central planners.
And so once again we face an election in which the fundamental issue is “whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.”
Reagan believed that in the end, Americans would always choose liberty over tyranny. He called it our “destiny,” our American birth right. Well, this coming Tuesday, you and I have another rendezvous with destiny. America, let’s go and win one for the Gipper.
- Sarah Palin
Glad you like my tagline!
I like the whole trilogy, hard to say which is my favorite, I think That Hideous Strength.
It was not a loaded question, I really wanted to know.
I sort of agree with you and sort of don’t. The situation we find ourselves in right now is so dire that ordinary experience such as you list does not guarantee that a person would “know what to do” because they’d been through similar situations. There’s no way anyone could have experience that would “train” them for being President right now. Hard to really articulate what is in my mind.
Maybe this - executive experience, being in a leadership position that involves taking big responsibility, as well as being able to delegate responsibility, would be important. Being cautious with money, no squandering public trust or funds. But now we’re veering into character traits, like honesty.
There is a perfect storm heading toward us with many fronts all at once. In this case, intelligence, humility to know one’s limits and how to turn to for good advice or counsel, strong moral character and courage, being a good judge of character, the ability to make decisions, far sightedness, stout conservative principles and sound understanding of the intent of the Constitution - all these are more important than the experiences you list.
Just IMO.
Of course, I'm aware of it. Please, no insults. But what the hell does the Hanoi Hilton have to do with excusing his authorship of McCain-Feingold or his espousal of amnesty, etc.
If somebody promotes wrong-headed and unconstitutional legislation, I should forgive them because the Gooks broke his hands forty years ago?
And you'll never convince me that McCain is any longer a conservative. At one time, perhaps, he was. But, long ago, he became a career politician who worships at the altar of opportunism. So far as I can tell, he has no political principles.
Yes, I voted for McCain -- even though I firmly believed he would be a disaster as President. But Obama, I was convinced, would be a catastrophe of a high order.
By this, I mean no disrespect for his service. Quite the contrary. But that doesn't mean I can't disrespect his politics.
Yet the closest thing to Reagan that the nation has seen since him is Sarah Palin, that is why everyone keeps thinking of him when they see her and her leadership.
By Michael Reagan
I’ve been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan to emerge and lead our party and our nation. I insisted that we’d never see his like again because he was one of a kind.
I was wrong!
Wednesday night I watched the Republican National Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my Dad reborn; only this time he’s a she.
And what a she!
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Her astonishing rise up from the grass-roots, her total lack of self-importance, and her ordinary American values and modest lifestyle reveal her to be the kind of hard-working, optimistic, ordinary American who made this country the greatest, most powerful nation on the face of the earth.
As hard as you might try, you won’t find that kind of plain-spoken, down-to-earth, self-reliant American in the upper ranks of the liberal-infested, elitist Democratic Party, or in the Obama campaign.
Sarah Palin didn’t go to Harvard, or fiddle around in urban neighborhood leftist activism while engaging in opportunism within the ranks of one of the nation’s most corrupt political machines, never challenging it and going along to get along, like Barack Obama.
Instead she took on the corrupt establishment in Alaska and beat it, rising to the governorship while bringing reforms to every level of government she served in on her way up the ladder.
Welcome back, Dad, even if you’re wearing a dress and bearing children this time around.
Aha, so that's what you're up to.
I also prefer her to any republican President or losing candidate in modern history with the exception of a 2010 model of Reagan himself.
Nixon, Ford, HW Bush, Bob Dole, GW Bush, John McCain, I prefer her to any of them.
I bet that some of these guys here even voted for the "greatly experienced" pro-abortion, anti-gun, Ross Perot, who has never held office or won an election.
Being part of the GOP establishment that purged Reaganism out of Washington, I'd say he never cared for Reagan.
Clinton had no gravitas, and I'd never heard of the word until W picked Dick Cheney to add gravitas to the ticket.
Gravitas was the word that the media used to destroy vice president Dan Quayle, Rove knows that.
One day we woke up to the entire media simultaneously using that word against Quayle, Rove wants that word to resonate and echo.
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