There are millions and millions of facts and quotes about all kinds of things in this world today that might come up about countless subjects, political or otherwise. Who can keep track of even an eighth of them. Do you really think that everybody who is not naive would have recognized this particular quote? Sarah Palin was running from one place to the next almost everyday in a whirlwind of activity. She certainly did not have time to research every statement handed to her in her speeches. She should of been able to trust the writers, that they were not putting things into the speeches that were sourced from fascist bigots.
Sarah Palin has and had no bigger fan than me.
I never idealized her, or romanticized her, I just
took her for what he was, and the way she presented herself, from the moment of introduction onwards, was refreshingly cast in the mode of “this is who I am, this is what I’ve done, this is my family, take it or leave it.”
As straightforward as that was, it was something I have never seen before, except for Ronald Reagan, but Reagan was infinitely more familiar “as a commodity” by 1979 to Americans than Sarah was two-three months ago. It’s no big insight at this point to recognize that a huge number of votes gravitated to McCain because Sarah was on the ticket.
There was even a joke about worrying whether McCain was going to be a drag on the ticket. As it turned out, yes he was.For all I know, Matthew Scully, being an animal rights zealot, dropped this little stinkbomb in the speech just in order to cast doubt on Sarah and show her as a bigot once the source was revealed. Yep, coulda been a plot, and we could find Matthew Scully gaining employment as speechwriter for Team Obama in the future.He could be the new David Brock. OTOH, he could have sullied his reputation forever by using the Pegler quote. The fact that the McCain campaign used him, though he’s avowedly Republican, wrote for Bush, etc., shows just how sloppily they continue to reach across the aisle. I value independent thinking above all else, but isn’t there a little cognitive dissonance between the book DOMINION and giving a speech written by the author of that book to Sarah Palin, wellknown Moose hunter from Alaska? Just how naive and amateurish are these campaign honchos and deciders that they couldn’t see the negative possibilities there? Having said all that, given the tone of the past two months, I am surprised the MSM did not make more of this: the first I heard of it was yesterday, and that was here, on Free Republic. Turns out RK, Jr. brought it up the moment he heard it, on my birthday on 9-15.I am sure someone informed him of it and told him who Pegler was.
RFK is a true loose cannon himself,and a hyperzealot who will no doubt be put in the Obama Adminstration. (MONTHS AGO, he was apopletically calling for all those Global Warming Skeptics to be considered to be literal “traitors”.) Maybe too much else was going on for the MSM to have latched onto this little bit of arcana. I doubt if ANY of them except those well into their 60s would even recognize the name
Westbrook Pegler. He’s even fading fast in my memory, sort of like Father Coughlin, his counterpart in the Church.
Yes, I think Sarah has a real future in national politics.
Given what a normal person she is, or seems to be, I wouldn’t want to advise her or assume to know what’s in her heart. One of you mentioned that to re-enter she’s inevitably have to get more aggressive, become more like Hillary, and get elected that way. Maybe so. Would she still be Sarah? SHOULD she still be Sarah? The key to how this whole experience of the past months hit her may be revealed tonight in her interview w/ Greta vonSusteren on Fox. Either way, I think Sarah made an unprecedented kind of impression on the American people in the short time she had in the spotlight.I think tens of millions of us love her and respect her. And I think she was rather cynically manipulated by her “boss”, McCain, the RINO, not because he likes to exploit or manipulate, but because he wanted to revive a campaign he saw had so much stacked against it.
They made FATAL mistakes in how they handled her, almost sacrificing her on the altar of Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric, but that just shows you what’s wrong with The Mind of McCain, for him to let that happen, or maybe encourage it.I wouldn’t expect Palin to say anything negative about him tonight, she’s too classy for that. For Sarah to win the Presidency in 2012, she 1 . Has to want it herself, first and foremost, 2. Has to do NOTHING BUT GO TO THE PEOPLE, the way she SHOULD have been allowed to in September and October, INSTEAD of being shredded by the MSM
who, as we know, think it’s “all about them”. I would hate to think that McCain has ruined it for her and for all time for Conservatism to ever regain its power and influence in AMerica. The answer to that almost depends on Sarah, and a handful of others, and , of course, US.