Posted on 04/21/2014 10:38:35 PM PDT by palin45potus
She does not subscribe to one of Commentary’s themes, which is that we are all reasonable people and that the left will eventually be persuaded by the force of our superior logic, so she understands the importance of determination and élan.
We will see about the electoral future. Palin will do what she does, which is rally the forces of liberty and support good candidates. She will not triangulate or dissemble. The current wisdom of the political class is that this does not result in electoral victories, a conclusion borne out by Obama’s success. But political climates change, and honesty and patriotism may someday come back in style. One would think Commentary, a staunch supporter of Israel, would appreciate Palin’s firmness.
The final bafflement is that Tobin thinks he can kowtow to the left over its treatment of Palin, but stand up to it when the same weapons are leveled against other women. Or leveled against others who try to escape the liberal plantation, such as Justice Clarence Thomas, or Miguel Estrada, denied a judgeship by the Progressives because he is Hispanic. To abase oneself every time the opposition finds a flaw in one’s champions is a prescription for failure.
In the end, Tobin and his ilk reveal themselves as snobs, anxious to impress the chattering class Ivy Leaguers of Washington and the coasts by rejecting this hick from Alaska. This makes them easy prey for any leftie who looks down his nose and says of some Republican woman, “She’s not really one of us, you know.”
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In a recent column on Susana Martinez of New Mexico, Jonathan Tobin says: “there is little doubt about the reality of another war on women: the one that is being waged by left-wing ideologues against any female Republican who dares to emerge on the national political stage.”
Tobin is a senior online editor at Commentary, so his columns provide a reasonable window into establishment Republican opinion.
Then he goes on:
While I’m no fan of Palin’s, the former Alaska governor was subjected to the sort of attacks that would never have been tried against any man, liberal or conservative. That she did not weather this assault with the sort of grace or the wit that might have undermined the effort to brand her as unready for national office is to her discredit, and her subsequent career has been handicapped by her decision to resign her office as well as a bitter tone that has left her a strong fan base but no electoral future. But there’s no denying that the attacks on her were unfair. Unfortunately, Palin’s marginalization has encouraged the political left to think it can do the same to any other Republican woman, something that New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez is just starting to learn.
Tobin's criticisms are ridiculous. Palin was faced with a well-funded assault designed to use vague ethics laws to attack her repeatedly. As the Progressives know well, mud sticks, so this in itself was seen as useful, and Palin, who was not personally rich, did not have the financial resources to counter a serious campaign.
So rather than play a game rigged against her that she must lose, Palin changed it by resigning. What does Tobin think she should have done? There is no point in putting the question to Progressives, who attack the resignation because they have no interest in truth, but it is fair to demand that the Tobins provide an answer. Should she have gone down in a morass of personal bankruptcy and fraudulent charges so the conservative establishment could wring its collective hands over the nastiness of the left? (Perhaps this is indeed their view; another Commentary writer recently bemoaned the Koch brothers’ willingness to go toe to toe with Harry Reid.)
As for the “bitter” tone, what does that mean? Palin expresses anger and firmness, but why is this “bitter”? If the attacks were unfair, why was it wrong to meet them with anger? And why is it wrong to keep on meeting the distortions of the left with firmness and humor? (That Tobin thinks she lacks wit just means he has not seen her speak.) She does not subscribe to one of Commentary’s themes, which is that we are all reasonable people and that the left will eventually be persuaded by the force of our superior logic, so she understands the importance of determination and élan.
We will see about the electoral future. Palin will do what she does, which is rally the forces of liberty and support good candidates. She will not triangulate or dissemble. The current wisdom of the political class is that this does not result in electoral victories, a conclusion borne out by Obama’s success. But political climates change, and honesty and patriotism may someday come back in style. One would think Commentary, a staunch supporter of Israel, would appreciate Palin’s firmness.
The final bafflement is that Tobin thinks he can kowtow to the left over its treatment of Palin, but stand up to it when the same weapons are leveled against other women. Or leveled against others who try to escape the liberal plantation, such as Justice Clarence Thomas, or Miguel Estrada, denied a judgeship by the Progressives because he is Hispanic. To abase oneself every time the opposition finds a flaw in one’s champions is a prescription for failure.
In the end, Tobin and his ilk reveal themselves as snobs, anxious to impress the chattering class Ivy Leaguers of Washington and the coasts by rejecting this hick from Alaska. This makes them easy prey for any leftie who looks down his nose and says of some Republican woman, “She’s not really one of us, you know.”
So they need to wise up and get in the game. And that game is not beanbag.
James V DeLong has two degrees from Harvard. He agrees that Palin is not one of us chattering-class Ivy Leaguers; she is better than that.
As long as the most prominent conservative voices in the media are more interested in maintaining their good standing in their snooty social spheres, and won’t stand up for conservatives who are under attack from both the Dems and their lapdog MSM but also the GOPe, then we will continue to see an endless parade of losses.
I look back at the lack of response by the GOP in defending not just Sarah Palin, but also Miguel Estrada, Alberto Gonzalez, Clarence Thomas, Lt Col Allen West and most recently Sen Ted Cruz when the WW2 Veterans were being barred from the Memorial and no one stood behind him, preferring to let Obama cast him as the bad guy while they jammed Obama-care through.
Conservatives are not well represented in the media by the so-called “conservative” pundits. They do us more harm than good, and bravo to James DeLong for taking Jonathan Tobin to task.
It’s a neocon publication. They are pro-amnesty there, constant bemoaning anything remotely rude that comes from a conservative, New York RINOs.
Next for GOP leaders: Stopping Sarah Palin
I'll never forgive the Republican Party for its treachery and hypocrisy with respect to Sarah Palin.
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The Republican Party DID, and DOES STILL, shove the knife in Sarah Palin’s back, meanwhile, attempting to shove a plate of RINO, in front of a People hungry for Liberty and true American values and Freedom.
“.....honesty and patriotism may someday come back in style”..
Not until we completely eliminate all the liberal college professors, judges, politicians and other ilk that have ruined this once great nation. It will take a lifetime, IF indeed it does happen at all. I will NEVER again see the country I grew up in.
If he simply praised Palin without reservation he’d lose the gig, all the invitations, his elitist/intelligentsia special decoder ring, etc. Plus, he’d have to grow a pair first and that won’t happen anytime soon.
With you. Who needs enemies when you’ve got allies like the GOP? And this is far from their first foray into torpedoing Conservatives. It’s been going on since Eisenhower.
Correct and the question is who stabbed who in the back.
The NeoCons brought Palin onto the national stage and invested heavily in her.
NeoCon Randy Schueneman was Palin's first advisor in the McCain campaign and he stayed with her after that. In 2010, Palins second NeoCon advisor(Michael Goldfarb) arrived.
Now the NeoCons gave Palin forgiveness over the Sharon Angle endorsement but Bill Kristol and Schueneman both told her not to endorse Christine O'Donnell, but she went rogue and did anyway. Then the NeoCons had to attack O'Donnell and a few of the NeoCons also began to attack Palin.
Then the next fight was spring 2011. The NeoCons had been very influential in getting Obama to intervene in Libya, but Palin was opposed to that, so she fired Schueneman and Goldfarb, and replaced them with the Realist Peter Schweitzer. After that, all the gloves came off, and that is really what ended her political career..
I understand the NeoCons. Palin and Beck were supposed to co-opt the Tea Party for the benefit of the NeoCons, but Palin and Beck co-opted the Tea Party for their own financial benefit.
Sarah does derive her happiness from money. The things she loves most are free.
does NOT
It’s great that you think that her political career is over. By your logic, the neo-cons are in complete control of who can have a viable career. That’s more power than I’m willing to give them, but for now, it appears that they call all the shots.
(I will concede that their stranglehold on the media does allow them broad latitude in the way they promote those they want to promote, and to outright lie about those they wish to destroy. But that’s as much a criticism of the American people who stupidly allow themselves to be lied to again and again and again by the same people who we should have stopped listening to back when we first figured out that we cannot trust anything they say. In Palin’s case, they have been lying about her from the first weekend she was on the scene. This was done by those with a vested interest in Jeb, Hillary AND Obama, each for their own reasons. Palin never stood a chance against such a coordinated attack. Who would?)
But I must take issue with your cavalier dismissal of her, as though she simply was out-played by a group that was even more devious than she was. If Sarah Palin had gone along with the pathway to power that is standard in DC, she would have met with the so-called “Big Donors” and made sure that they were well taken care of. She’d have perfected the art of double-talk, where she tells one group what they want to hear, but then meets privately with those insiders and a whole new tone is heard. This has not happened with Sarah Palin.
She in fact met at Newsmax HQ in late 2010, and whatever happened in that meeting, the RINO establishment made clear that taking her down as soon as the 2010 mid-terms was over was job #1 for the GOP. Tucson was perfect, and she was left to be destroyed.
And in case you missed it, her speech at Indianola made it clear to anyone listening that she was not for sale. The very next business day, Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter went after her on the BOR show, which is really when it was obvious that she was “on the outs” with the GOP.
I haven’t written her off. Someday, it’s entirely possible that America will not be able to afford the crony-captalism that she detests. When that day comes, she will be well-positioned to show us a different brand of conservatism than the Fox News Boys have been selling us.
She was right about Libya, and she was right about Syria last fall when Obama wanted to drag us into that civil war, and on the side of Al-Qaeda no less! Read her Op-Ed “Let Allah Sort It Out” and you can see that she understood hat was at stake as well as anyone else in DC. I wasn’t willing to send our troops to fight for al-Qaeda’s takeover of Syria. If the neo-cons wanted that, then I’m glad she has nothing to do with them.
I still believe she had every intention of running for President the day she made that speech. It had all the characteristics of a campaign kick-off.
And in case you missed it, her speech at Indianola made it clear to anyone listening that she was not for sale.
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