Sarah Is In Good Company
Posted on 05/25/2011 6:40:26 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
BTW I could not be more happier to hear about all the great Palin news.
Correct. Had Palin truly taken the time to prepare to run, she would have been invisible after the last election while she studied everything from manufacturing, to history, to foreign policy.
She didn't. It was all public grandstanding full of empty platitudes. She's courageous, innately intelligent, positive, and moral, but that does not qualify her to be President. She obviously lacks an education.
Consider Reagan. He spent a decade learning about manufacturing and free markets with GE. By the time he delivered "the speech," he was already prepared to be President, before he was even governor of California. Reagan cited Montesquieu, Locke, and other libertarian thinkers underlying our system of government. He had historical perspective. Palin has no such preparation and it shows. Although I was excited about her prospects after her convention speech, SHE turned me off on her prospects.
Not sure that Bachmann might just be a drag on the bottom of the ticket anyway. Let me just say that I see her in a different light now (speaking of MB)
At best all she is going to do is help split the vote.
In fact I will go a step farther and predict that even once MB gets out of the race, that she refuses to endorse Palin.
I hope to be proven wrong but I also see the same from Huck and McCain, jealousy I guess??
Like I said I hope to be proven wrong, it`s just what I believe...
The man has PERFECT PITCH, and I am personally quite familiar with the phenomenon. Certainly Willie can sing, and he sings exactly on key. You just don't like the tone/timbre of his voice, and I can understand that.
I know it's just an analogy, but that you are unable to differentiate not liking the tone of a guy's voice from the guy not being able to sing, makes me wonder if you aren't as deluded when it comes to recognizing the correct "alignment of the stars."
Then why are her speeches so much better, and her interviews so much more insightful than those of her competitors, if she is so “uneducated? I think she’s more than ready. Is she Reagan? No. But is she better than anyone since, and will she make America swell with pride to see her as President? To me, it’s a definite YES. Bob
What a bunch of horse crap!!!
Sarah Palin has not really made any gaffs, it`s all been manufactured by MSM and you bought into it hook line and sinker.
Can you imagine if Palin had not known the situation with Israel like Cain?? And if she had said what Bachmann had said about the famous battle in wrong State?
Quit getting your news from Charles Krauthammer and you may recover
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Sarah Is In Good Company
You are assuming again. Palin is well versed in all those categories. I don't know how staying invisible would help her. Palin isn't as ill-informed as you've been led to believe. She has continued to prove her bona fides building on her terrific past public service by taking on the Obama regime on issue after issue. She can also be credited with much of the 2010 election victories, along with the tea party movement. I'm grateful that she had the courage to step up the pressure on Obama when much of the GOP establishment sat on their hands.
I'm pulling for you, kiddo. Really and truly.
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That she just came in such a strong second at an Iowa straw poll dinner is striking. With Cain there in person speaking, his 55% of the vote was to be expected. But Palin with 38%? Either she’s got a very effective stealth grassroots team at work, she’s got a strength in Iowa nobody has understood, or just the hint of a whisper of her new film to be released—signally her run and her coming to Iowa—is all that it took.
Any one of those reasons is encouraging indeed. (IMO Cain is the like-Trump-not-a-pol flavor of the month who won’t sustain his popularity into the caucuses.)
*signalling*
You want platitudes (which are by definition, empty -- "empty platitudes" is redundant), listen to Romney. Listen to Obama.
"Death panels" was red meat that influenced the political tide.
"Drill here, drill now" is the antithesis of a platitude.
For an example of a platitude -- something that conveys fluff, air, and loads of pure assumption -- ponder this statement:
Consider Reagan. He spent a decade learning about manufacturing and free markets with GE. By the time he delivered "the speech," he was already prepared to be President, before he was even governor of California.
38% is nice to see but I don’t put much stock in polls at this point. Cain receiving a 55% attests to that reality. While I like Herman Cain, he has little chance of garnering the nomination. If he were to get elected, Cain would be tempted to fill his administration with party insiders to help him navigate the Washington scene. That is exactly the opposite of what I want to see happen. I believe Palin will go to outsiders to help her take on the Washington establishment. That’s about the only way we’ll be able to affect real change in our government.
Things are still very fluid, of course, but such party-insider dinner-straw polls are more relevant in IA because they more closely mimic the caucus experience than a primary.
Palin’s been written off in IA as a too-late has-been who has left Iowans feeling irreparably snubbed. That she comes on so strong in such an event at least says that none of that is true at all.
Why do you think any of that? I suspect Bachmann won’t risk her current seat for a super long-shot, and that’s what her run would be, especially with Palin in. I actually see her as working well with Palin in supporting the latter’s run.
Was Bachmann a pure stalking-horse placeholder? No, as I think she’d have been more tempted to run if Palin had opted not to. It’s looking like Palin will jump in, however, and a Palin presidency could spring Bachmann from the situation of being in a difficult state for a conservative to move up the political ladder. She could either be in the House leadership or a Palin cabinet with a GOP victory in 2012.
You’re talking about the political version of preparation meeting opportunity (or need or call or whatever).
Ha!
I didn’t say I don’t love to hear Willie sing. I could listen him all day... I have! Willie is the MAN!
As far as the alignment of the stars go. They either align or they don’t. I’m not saying it won’t happen.
Two possibilities.
They align.
They don’t align.
I don’t know what “stuck on thick” means.
But I did make a BBQ sauce last year that would accomplish that!
You are making the mistake of thinking I am anti-Palin.
I am pro Constitution, small government, Pro Liberty, rabidly pro 1st, 2nd and fourth amendment.
I think government at all levels, from neighborhood association to Federal is to powerful. I blame my idiot neighbors.
So I want a candidate who will not just reflect my views. Not just win. I want a candidate who will change the debate. Make individuals sovereign and government serfs and servants.
That’s what I want.
The huge fulcrum points of history happen with odd confluences of events and people and take on an unstoppable momentum of their own.
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