Posted on 03/14/2011 4:54:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
She will only run if we demand it of her.
If that happens, you can be assured she'll put her heart and soul into it.
Do not be ashamed if she is hated. That's a good sign. The best of us are hated by the left and the leftist media.
If she runs we must stand shoulder to shoulder.
Re: “It’s sort of like the whole business of shibboleth. If you’re an intellectual, you should know what a shibboleth is. It’s from the Bible. It’s a Hebrew word that very few Hebrews could pronounce correctly. If you could pronounce it correctly, you were an intellectual. It was a test to see if you were an actual member of the tribe.”
If you could pronounce it correctly, you were an intellectual? That’s not how I remember the Book of Judges. The Gileadites could pronounce it. The Ephraimites couldn’t, and it cost 42,000 of them their lives. A tad harsh, perhaps, but those of us who value proper diction can understand ;-)
I fully support Sarah Palins candidacy. If there are better candidates in the party, let them step forward and make their case. Sit down Newt. Mike, keep your day job.
I think that toupee glue that George has been using over the years had finally seeped into his brain. Will is just another member of the Republican Cocktail Party of insignificant and out of step fools that modern day politics has passed by. They are totally clueless, they, meaning the Wills , the Krauthammers and the Roves.
I mentioned you as an example of what seems like a hatred of someone that is got to be at least close to what we believe if we're conservatives.
I can understand conservatives disagreeing with other conservatives. But we're generally trying for the same goals and ought to be able to reasonably debate the differences and hopefully at least if nothing else remain amicable in agreeing to disagree.
I think that's at least part of what Rush is saying.
After Bush Senior took over from Reagan, I got a sick feeling when I heard him say we were going to be a kinder, gentler nation. Deep in his heart, I wonder what Reagan thought of that?
Some of you weren't old enough in the mid-seventies to remember. But Ronald Reagan was just as hated by the intellectual class then as Palin is now.
Now, I'm not saying that Palin is Reagan. I'm just telling you that Reagan didn't have the pedigree. "
Pissant is the ONLY poster on FR that I do not extend that courtesy to. I'll stop there, and leave it at that.
The same thing happen to Reagan in the 1970’s and his throughout his Presidency....’He was a crazy nut, who was going to blow up the world, plus he was stupid, “THAT DUMB ACTOR”
Reagan was called “THAT AMICABLE DUNCE”
Palin is called “A MERCHANT OF HATE WITH A SMILE”
Reagan was considered pure evil that wanted poor people to actually die and don’t forget that he turn his head away from the AIDS epidemic according to them!
Nothing has change
I disagree with him too, but I'm not going to say stuff behind his back.
My problem is not with the elitists who hate Sarah. Those people are @$$holes and we should expect no less from them.
I admire her but do not agree that she would be a winning candidate for president. I refuse to be swept up into this emotional personality worship.
I now expect the Sarah Bots to begin to shower me with vitriol and ad hominem attacks, just as the Bush Bots did when I criticized W for failing to defend his policies. But I was right, wasn’t I?
And Mods, I am not here to start a flame war. I am posting this in the hope that maybe perhaps ONE Freeper will look him/herself in the mirror and recognize the emotional nature of his/her urge to flame me. As proof of my good will, I will not ridicule the flamers like I did on a previous post.
Chuckie Hunbanger aka “Where's the beef?”
Droll.
I am particularly interested in his understanding of Bill Buckley's role in bridging the gap: whereas the Country Club Set largely disdained Ronald Reagan ("he went where? Eureka College? How ... pedestrian...), Buckley embraced him because he saw in Reagan a great force for good, and a kindred spirit of a kind he rarely encountered during his years at Yale, or for that matter, during his long tenure at National Review.
What Buckley saw was a man who knew who he was, who loved his country, and who believed in her greatness. I have some questions about Sarah Palin but they have nothing to do with her fundamental decency, her love of country, and her... normality. After two interminable years of Obama, I think that matters more than ever. She is a normal person: not a radical, not a power-seeker, not a phony. Those are her strengths. Oh, she has weaknesses, too, but those may be overcome because unlike our current "leader", she clearly does not think herself better than most Americans, of whom, at least she feels a part.
In spite of my reservations, I think it is clear that we as a nation could, and in fact have, done a great deal worse entrusting our fate. I myself come from a working-class background, but made it into one of "those" schools on the strength, I like to believe, of effort. I never for a minute thought it made me a superior person, and I regret that some on our side of the aisle seem to dismiss others who have "lesser" educational pedigrees, but better ideas for America. If Sarah really wants to run, she'll need to learn how to express them more clearly, appropriately, and consistently... but, in time, that's what Reagan learned to do as well, and better than anyone else of his great generation.
The hatred of Sarah Palin has gotten so extreme that it’s easy to pass off as overreach through overkill.
Maybe Palin is actually using Muhammed Ali’s “rope-a-dope” strategy. Let them pummel and pummel and pummel til they look silly with the continued pummeling.
And everyone can discount everything they’ve said because they so obviously are emotionally vested in hating her that their viewpoint can be discounted.
It truly is Palin Derangement Syndrome.
It’s very simple. GWB’s unjustified military attack on a country that posed no threat to us, and his subsequent spectacular incompetence in dealing with the American economy, brought about the popular revulsion that resulted in the most far left administration in American history, led by Barry Obama.
Sarah Palin is at least as much of a pinhead as George W. Bush, if not much worse. Should the country very sensibly reject Barry next time around, having had a gander at his disastrous policies for four years, and then should the country make the gargantuan error of putting Palin in his place, the president who then follows her four years later will most likely be to the left of Stalin.
Sarah Palin has no business in presidential politics. She is a self-centered lightweight whose political instincts are unfailingly wrong. A Palin presidency would destroy the Republican Party, and could — if the stars are aligned against us — destroy the country as well.
It’s ridiculous. Palin’s no populist. An anti-elitist, maybe — and that’s a good thing.
John Edwards was a populist. Divisive, carping about class injustice, fostering resentment. Palin’s nothing like that.
So toomahtoe and potahtoe would be fightin’ words in the Old T?
So were both George Bushes, John Kerry, William Howard Taft and his son Robert A. Taft.
Isn’t their secret ritual perverted?
As opposed to other fraternity initiations? Maybe, maybe not. I doubt they're killing or raping people. As in all kinds of secret societies over time the mumbo jumbo ritual becomes just something you have to do to belong, not something you take very seriously.
George Will is going off into Fantasyland. A lot of the things that are said now about Palin were said about Goldwater. That doesn't mean they were true or weren't true then or now, but the idea of a Golden Age that's lost forever if Palin is nominated is hard to accept.
On the other hand, just because he sets Palin against Buckley doesn't mean Palinites have to run down Buckley to build her up. The opposition between the two is in George Will's mind more than in the real world.
Buckley did good work in his own day. He made his contribution and got a bit lost when his era ended -- that isn't uncommon among people who are active as long as he has and live from one age into another -- but he doesn't have to be built up or run down to make points about contemporary politicians.
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