Posted on 06/01/2011 9:43:57 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
Please forgive me for giving you the opportunity to behave like an adult. It was unfair of me to set you up for failure.
FDR. Eisenhower. Nixon. LBJ.
Need we continue?
Way to miss my point.
Why do you think I mentioned Katie Kouric in my post? Do
you really think the media will treat Sarah Palin or Rick Perry the same way they treated Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton?
i'm thinking George Herbert Walker Bush...
If Obama’s education is what it means to be “schooled” I’ll take a pile of dirt over him to be president. Krauthamer is clueless. Palin is my choice!
Thanks Rennes Templar. Sure is odd how well thought of he is by the libtard media shills. Gosh, I wonder why.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer
[snip] In 1978, Krauthammer quit medical practice to direct planning in psychiatric research for the Jimmy Carter administration, and began contributing to The New Republic magazine. During the presidential campaign of 1980, Krauthammer served as a speech writer to Vice President Walter Mondale. In January 1981, Krauthammer began his journalistic career, joining The New Republic as a writer and editor. His New Republic writings won the 1984 “National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism.” In 1983, he began writing essays for Time magazine. In 1985, he began a weekly column for the Washington Post for which he won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. [/snip]
I'm reading Andrew Breitbart's new book, "Righteous Indignation," and he describes how we got here, starting with the Drudge Report, and Arianna Huffington before she flaked out. I think now, a little over ten years past where I've reached in the book, we really are seeing the last gasp of the state-owned media's real power.
IMHO...
Well, I don’t think she’s made any speeches at various economic or foreign policy institutions, etc. Nothing in depth. Through serious, in-depth papers and speeches that a future candidate can make known how their philosophy and vision would shape their future Presidency. If only her books had instead been in-depth policy discussion papers, i.e., analysis of the healthcare system, the middle east, china, etc. If those sorts of papers had been written, she’d be well on her way. They could have been combined and published in series of books, “The Palin Papers”. She could have had a panel of people discussing things with her, bringing her up to speed on the issues and use all that material to construct the papers which would have been her take.
She would have disappeared from the media spotlight for all the work, but about now the effort would have started paying off, as she would have turned herself into a recognized formidable mind on the world stage.
Instead, it looks like the Repub machine is not buying what she’s selling, so she’s attempting to make a run on her own, but I don’t think she’s winning many NEW converts, just the same people who have supported her all along.
I just hope they don’t get down in the dumps if things cool off. I hope they realize that it’s not about Sarah, it’s about them - their lives - and America. We need a conservative candidate, not any particular conservative candidate. I happen to favor Cain at this point, but if not him - then someone else has to get in there ! I will not sit and cry about it all would have been better if Cain was elected, etc., I need to keep going no matter who’s elected. Actually, I DO NOT want to prop up my candidate at all by showering praise, and going on and on about how they’re just the picture of perfect Americana, etc. I know that the Repub candidate is going to have to survive on their own; the candidate’s supporters do not run the press conference.
How about an example, Mr. K? And how do you know what she does and doesn’t know?
You know, perhaps you should remember that great president FDR, the one that bombed factories full of slave labor, you know those pesky Jews and Poles, I mean they were hardly being missed anyway.
This is pretty smarmy, even for you.
I think she’s playing rope-a-dope on policy for the time being. If she decides to run, at the right time, she will explode with policy statements.
But then, I not a smart as CK. ;-)
Exactly. When someone is principled, they can apply said principles to a situation without having to be an expert in the particulars.
I will always remember that, Mr. Mojo. CK is a pompous ass.
Ok, you first. Since you haven’t made a valid one yet.
Use a lot of big words, it confuses the rednecks that support Palin.
If the indies are sucker enough to vote for Obama again, against any living republican, then what on earth does it matter, the republic is doomed.
He acted like someone with Stockholm syndrome, in his post war dealings with Nam.
Who decided this?? The libs that love dumping on Conservatives??
Pretty much like Bozo winning the Nobel Peace Prize!
Thanks.
I’m going to have to agree with you MBB1984. Faucetman responded with comments that reflect my thoughts on the subject quite well. Thank you Faucetman.
After the 2008 election, when it became obvious folks where going to push Palin to be our nominee in 2012, I suggested she need to brush up on international dynamics. That’s basically what Krauthammer was suggesting, Palin hasn’t seemed to have done that. Your comments about Greta’s and her conversation from the other night ring true for me.
I’m not particularly pleased with the terms Krauthammer used here either. I share some of the Palinista objections to the word ‘policy’, because I have seen too much bad policy in the last 16 years.
That’s why I would rather reference international dynamics. Regional dynamics are very important, if we’re to avoid pitfalls. Even a well meaning person with great instincts can really screw things up, if they don’t understand regional dynamics.
For example (and this is not a reflection of Palin), it sounds nice to think of a Palestinian state living in peace with Israel. Treating this goal blindly as a lofty one with two sides pushing for the same thing, could be fatal for Israel. There were times under Bush, when I honestly didn’t think he understood clue one with regard to the dynamics of the region.
Israel would get attacked, and respond. The next thing you’d know, he would admonish Israel to keep the response to a minimum, or admonish it to hold off altogether as if a peace agreement were just around the corner and might be jeopardized. He was clueless. Rice and Powell seemed to be also, all too often.
Of course Clinton and his walks with Arafat revealed a cavern of ignorance that knew no bounds too.
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