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A Conservative Woman's Problem with Sarah Palin
American Thinker ^ | 06/18/2011 | Lisa Fritsch

Posted on 06/18/2011 7:47:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: curth

There are none so blind as those, that will not see.


141 posted on 06/18/2011 9:20:44 PM PDT by KantianBurke (Hey Tea Party folks - what about Social Security reform?)
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To: Happy Rain

“Oh good grief! The woman ran off every anti-Palin talking point there is and ALL have been refuted here over and over again.”

Silly little RINO PDSrs have very little brain.


142 posted on 06/18/2011 9:21:05 PM PDT by rbmillerjr (Murdering unborn children is the highest sacrament in the liberal religion.)
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To: rbmillerjr
The entire PDS game relies upon, lies, misrepresentations and false assumptions.

... otherwise referred to, by the tireless little trolls of Team Romney, as "our campaign strategy." ;)


143 posted on 06/18/2011 9:21:20 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("If you're not fiscally AND socially conservative, you're not conservative!" - Jim Robinson, 9-1-10)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

I was quoting a Scripture...The road to heaven is narrow and there are few that find it...Sarah Palin is not mentioned in the actual Scripture, I never said that she was.

However I am quite sure that Sarah is one of the few, so no worries :)


144 posted on 06/18/2011 9:21:59 PM PDT by Friendofgeorge (SARAH PALIN 2012 OR BUST...NYTimes/MSM wants Bachmann to be the nominee..)
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To: pgkdan
Gee...that’s brilliant.

Only in comparison.

145 posted on 06/18/2011 9:22:34 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("If you're not fiscally AND socially conservative, you're not conservative!" - Jim Robinson, 9-1-10)
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To: SeekAndFind
She lacks the ability to cross over and present herself in the wider social and political strata.

That hardly makes sense when you are discussing the most popular Governor in the nation, you become that by uniting people and winning the support of the voters of all persuasions and parties in your state.

146 posted on 06/18/2011 9:23:17 PM PDT by ansel12 (America has close to India population of 1950s, India has 1,200,000,000 people now. Quality of Life?)
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To: SeekAndFind

I like to think of myself as a thoughtful Palin supporter. I’m also conservative and female. Some of the things this writer has ennumerated seem not properly justified to me. For starters, she says, “There are many other votes conservative women would cast for her if possible — U.S. senator, RNC committee chair, NOW president — but president of the United States is just not one of them.” I would cringe in distaste if Palin ever sought the presidency of the National Organization of pro-choice
Women. I would not be impressed if she sought a Senatorship, and yes, I would like to see her chair the RNC or the RNSC only because leadership there has been sorely lacking, with all due respect to Reince Priebus.

Second, this comment made no sense to me: Conservative women adore all of these things about Sarah Palin in the same way we adore a diamond. Much as we love these jewels in our lives, we also admit that their brilliance doesn’t illuminate every corner of our being. Sarah Palin is such a jewel. I don’t think most women would look to jewels to ‘illuminate every corner of their beings’. They have many other purposes, but that is not among them, I would wager.

Fritch asserts, “The show depicted a woman more interested in being seen and heard than a woman with an indispensable voice on the subjects that really matter.” For me, subjects that really matter are arguments such as QE2, and I’ve found Palin’s to be an indispensable voice on such as that, oil spill cleanups, etc.. In point of fact, it is to inform myself on those positions that I signed up on Facebook.

She contests: Why not simply explain oneself without a defensive “I know my history”? On that, I agree. I understand why Palin is exasperated, and I myself am exasperated by the patronizing and paternalistic attitude of Krauthammer, O’Re!lly and Wallace in talking about her, but I agree that she would’ve done well to be less defensive in answering that question.

I’m surprised that at this point in the article, after making these fatuous claims, she breezily adds, “While she passes the test of social and conservative convictions with flying colors, Palin simply does not excel in the hot seat.” How so, Ms. Fritch?

As to lacking a serious resume, if Fritch wants to say that, what she is actually asking is for us to disregard whatever else she has to say because while one may take swings at Palin, that is a vacuous rhetorical crack. The cherry on top was this: The conservative candidate will have to be so masterful at language, expression, and self-assured knowledge that she can speak candidly and from the bowels of her being without a hiccup or a worry of who thinks what. I’ve been counting the uhs, uhms and ers in politicans’ speech, and I hear very few of those in Palin’s parlance because she is self-assured and can speak candidly from the bowels on her being without either a hiccup, a worry or a teleprompter.


147 posted on 06/18/2011 9:23:37 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (There is no native criminal class except Congress. Mark Twain)
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To: SeekAndFind
This idiot woman thinks a Tina Fey quote is the same thing as a Sarah Palin quote.

That's all you need to know.

148 posted on 06/18/2011 9:24:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If Sarah Palin really was unelectable, state-run media would be begging the GOP to nominate her.)
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To: mountainbunny

“One other woman and myself probably came the closest when we said we’d vote for her if she is the nominee. No one else would make that commitment.”

First of all I question the sincerity of your invented anecdote. But if it were real, and then would not vote for Palin over Obama......they are NOT conservatives, they are pretending to be conservatives.


149 posted on 06/18/2011 9:24:15 PM PDT by rbmillerjr (Murdering unborn children is the highest sacrament in the liberal religion.)
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To: curth
We’ll defend her anywhere. There’s no cult. We believe in her and trust her.

Very well said!

150 posted on 06/18/2011 9:25:40 PM PDT by Jess79
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To: Friendofgeorge

That’s okay, it’s late and now I do understand. :-)


151 posted on 06/18/2011 9:25:40 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: SeekAndFind
One of Eric Holder's people claiming to be a conservative.

Isn't that special?

152 posted on 06/18/2011 9:25:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If Sarah Palin really was unelectable, state-run media would be begging the GOP to nominate her.)
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To: rbmillerjr

September 4th, 2008 - November 4th, 2008.


153 posted on 06/18/2011 9:26:05 PM PDT by KantianBurke (Hey Tea Party folks - what about Social Security reform?)
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To: swatbuznik

I think most women hate her because she’s beautiful.
It’s as simple as that.


154 posted on 06/18/2011 9:26:19 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: SeekAndFind

What a bunch of shallow bull crap!

So, this idiot author expects me to believe that, if Palin were to get the GOP nomination, then “conservative women” would turn their backs on her—and give the Bung Hole Hussein another four years to DEVASTATE this country—all out of spite?

Get effing real!


155 posted on 06/18/2011 9:26:38 PM PDT by TCH (DON'T BE AN "O-HOLE"! ... DEMAND YOUR STATE ENACT ITS SOVEREIGNTY !When a majority of the American)
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To: nopardons

I felt very bad about giving you wrong impression, you are one of the good guys.

Thanks :) my bad

Sarah Palin or bust.

Time for my bed, good night :)


156 posted on 06/18/2011 9:27:27 PM PDT by Friendofgeorge (SARAH PALIN 2012 OR BUST...NYTimes/MSM wants Bachmann to be the nominee..)
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To: Gene Eric

That is your choice based on your prejudice, and you’re certainly welcome to it. There are lots of good-looking women who have no problem lauding other good-looking women in business, the sciences, etc..


157 posted on 06/18/2011 9:27:27 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (There is no native criminal class except Congress. Mark Twain)
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To: mountainbunny
And addressing women’s actual concerns is probably just stupid.

Can you enumerate the concerns of women that have not been addressed by GOvernor Palin?
158 posted on 06/18/2011 9:27:35 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: packrat35

Yeah, no lie.


159 posted on 06/18/2011 9:28:33 PM PDT by TCH (DON'T BE AN "O-HOLE"! ... DEMAND YOUR STATE ENACT ITS SOVEREIGNTY !When a majority of the American)
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To: pgkdan

Yes you were lying, trying to tell the people here that she had left office at an absurd 34% instead of an actual high approval rating of 56%, and even that was a result of her having become a national Republican and conservative symbol, which of course forced the Democrat voters in her state to give her lower approval than they had in the past.


160 posted on 06/18/2011 9:28:44 PM PDT by ansel12 (America has close to India population of 1950s, India has 1,200,000,000 people now. Quality of Life?)
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