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DAVID BROOKS: Does Anyone Think Sarah Palin Can Handle A Crisis? White House Isn't American Idol
Business Insider ^ | 05/30/2011 | Glynnis MacNicol

Posted on 05/30/2011 8:39:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Plenty of Sunday morning airtime was devoted yesterday to Sarah Palin. George Will says it's common knowledge she shouldn't be trusted with nuclear weapons.

Andrew Sullivan says he's afraid she will run because there's a possibility she could beat Obama.

David Brooks essentially thinks she's a joke.

"Yeah. But, you know, being president is waking up, somebody hands you the crisis and said, "There's a crisis in Venezuela. What are you going to do about it?" Does any, does anybody think Sarah Palin's ready for that? I don't think so. So she can manage her brand.

But running for president is not "American Idol." And I, I think people may agree with her, they may like her, but that doesn't mean they're going to vote for her. And so I--you know, the other thing is she's just not a team player. This is a team sport. Just take one little thing she did this week. She's taking her bus up to New Hampshire.

She doesn't call the Republican Party in New Hampshire, tell, tell them where she's going to appear, what she's going to do. So you got to play as part of the party, you got to play as part of the team.

She's not a team player. I don't think people are going to think she's qualified."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: davidbrooks; palin; pds; potus; rinopurge; sarahpalin; smellthefear; waronsarah; whitehouse
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To: stormer

You sound a little defensive stormtrooper. I believe all the poster said was national socialists. It was you who brought up Nazi Germany.


161 posted on 05/30/2011 12:45:33 PM PDT by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, Paradise Lost)
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To: SeekAndFind
"Yeah. But, you know, being president is waking up, somebody hands you the crisis and said, "There's a crisis in Venezuela. What are you going to do about it?"

Engage the auto-pen!

162 posted on 05/30/2011 1:22:56 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: SeekAndFind
But running for president is not "American Idol."

That's true. For DemocRATS, it's like the bar scene from Star Wars.


163 posted on 05/30/2011 1:28:02 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: SeekAndFind
She doesn't call the Republican Party in New Hampshire, tell, tell them where she's going to appear, what she's going to do. So you got to play as part of the party, you got to play as part of the team.

Funny how John McCain bucks The Republican Party and he's hailed as a "maverick". Sarah Palin bucks The Republican Party and she's not a team player.

How do the Medioso types decide what to call whom?

164 posted on 05/30/2011 1:35:02 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Jo Nuvark

I think in the SNL skit the person playing Sarah was saying she could see Russia from her house. But of course, the lame stream media (as well as Ahr-nold) made out like Sarah really said it.


165 posted on 05/30/2011 1:43:11 PM PDT by SkyDancer (It's not the police that protect our rights, it's our military)
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To: DesertRhino
David Brooks is a self anointed elite.

The more condescending and snarky a self anointed elite is, the more null the total of their knowledge.

166 posted on 05/30/2011 1:49:25 PM PDT by W. W. SMITH (Islam is an instrument of enslavement)
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To: Candor7

Is that photoshopped, or did the Bamtard really look that goofy?


167 posted on 05/30/2011 1:50:00 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Aroostook25

“The GOP establishment hates Sarah Palin because they are afraid that they cannot control her.”

I have come to believe that the GOP establishment, whom I prefer to call the RINO elite, will work hard against anyone on whom they have insufficient dirt.

I think they insist upon nominees with lots of skeletons, just so they can control them.


168 posted on 05/30/2011 1:53:04 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Jo Nuvark

I’m confused by the photo’s caption. On the left of the photo I see ... ocean, and then an island behind. Behind that, I see another piece of land ... is the caption telling me that the hump that is, essentially, in the middle of the photo where ocean meets land, is Big Diomedad, and that the land to the left of the hump is Russia? Or then again ... maybe the resolution on my computer screen is too crappy to see that those are two islands on the left?


169 posted on 05/30/2011 1:54:27 PM PDT by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: SeekAndFind
Gee Dave, I'll betcha a Million Bucks that a President Sarah Palin wouldn't have to be dragged off the Golf Course by her staff and then show up in the Situation Room wearing a Golf Shirt when an Enemy of the United States was being “eliminated” by Seal Team Six.

That might be a run on sentence, but I'm just not as smart as Brooks. What a dipshit that guy is. Pardon my French.

170 posted on 05/30/2011 1:59:27 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (After the Commies take over, Moderates will become an endangered species...)
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To: Missouri gal

You forgot “There’s been a Teutonic shift in the Middle east”


171 posted on 05/30/2011 2:05:17 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Monarchy is the one system of government where power is exercised for the good of all - Aristotle)
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To: SeekAndFind

NO WAY could any woman handle a serious national crisis, unless she is a pathologically-lying, money-grubbing, Suha Aafat-loving radical socialist. Did I mention that her daughter was almost killed by debris as she was jogging around the WTC as the planes struck?
Get a grip, Brooks, you fool, could *Sarah* handle a crisis?! If not Sarah, WHO? Bob


172 posted on 05/30/2011 2:06:25 PM PDT by alstewartfan (Trains. Who'll remember the ones who only rode in them to die? Al Stewart)
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To: bereanway
This is the same pantywaist that referred to the 0zer0 admin as an intellectual hothouse early on.

Actually it was Charlie Rose going on about the intellectual outhouse, though Brooksie was there patum_peperium/2011/04/not-bad-for-a-shiksa

173 posted on 05/30/2011 2:16:45 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Monarchy is the one system of government where power is exercised for the good of all - Aristotle)
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To: jonrick46

Any Republican that Brooks likes automatically falls off my radar.


174 posted on 05/30/2011 2:18:12 PM PDT by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can go to hell.)
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To: dsc
I think the wings are photo shopped, and they removed his horns, but I think he was just jumping up to goof around for the camera while dogging his walk.

He really is quite effeminate

175 posted on 05/30/2011 2:18:41 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Jo Nuvark
Irrelevant.

Sarah Palin Tina Fey said "I can see Russia from my house!"

176 posted on 05/30/2011 2:18:53 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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To: Finny; Jo Nuvark
See a Sept 2008 FR thread at Can You Really See Russia from Alaska?

That photo, I believe, is taken from Little Diomede Island which is in Alaska. The island in the left part of the photo is Big Diomede which is Russian territory. Behind it to the right may very well be the Russian mainland. The error in the caption is that the photo is FROM Little Diomede, not from the Alaskan mainland.


177 posted on 05/30/2011 2:25:24 PM PDT by Aroostook25
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To: JaguarXKE
Condescending pricks.

Please elaborate...

(-- never mind *snicker*)

178 posted on 05/30/2011 2:26:39 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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To: varon
One thing for certain, she wouldn't consult her Teleprompter SOROS for a solution!

Fixed it for ya'

179 posted on 05/30/2011 2:46:36 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Candor7

“I think the wings are photo shopped”

You know, his goofy expression and the faggoty posture of his hands and feet so disturbed me that I didn’t even notice the wings.

“He really is quite effeminate”

Am I the only person in America who didn’t notice that during the campaign?


180 posted on 05/30/2011 3:14:42 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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