Indeed. But they don't. Witness the idiocy of Heather McDonald, Peggy Noonan, and numerous other Bush-bots. And let's not forget Colin Powell...
Posted on 06/16/2009 11:51:08 AM PDT by lewisglad
If the liberal loons would have just shut up after the election in 2008, perhaps Sarah Palin would have been forgotten, a mere footnote in history.
The problem is, the liberal loons just can't help themselves, and are genetically encoded to attack anyone with ideas they deem repellent.
If you're pro life, you're an superstitious idiot. If you're against homosexual marriages you're a evil bigot. If you dare to question global warming, you're a dupe for big business. If you own a gun and like to hunt you're a mindless barbarian.
We all know the predictable screed from the irrational leftist loons.
Sarah Palin reminds the progressive nutjobs of these things, and stands as a symbol for them to mobilize against, mock, and demean. Democrats have a long history of this, calling Ronald Reagan a cowboy, Bush 41 a secret spook, Quayle a dummy, and Bush 43 a boob.
Sarah Palin represents everything the goons on the left stand against.
When you add that to the fact she's smart, good looking, and has a deadly sense of humor-- well, you have the possibility the first female president of the USA could force the first black president of the USA out of office after one term.
Things had better go well for Obama in the next three years, because they will go swimmingly for Palin.
Palin has put together a deal with TransCanada, a pipeline building company, and Exxon, of the oil producing fame, to build a new pipeline from Alaska to the continental USA that will transport NATURAL gas.
I'm not sure many Americans yet realize, but natural gas is going to be a HUGE transitional fuel as we seek "independence from foreign oil supplies."
Natural gas is going to be a very large factor in fueling our cars, as well as our buildings, mainly because the USA has a very large reserve of natural gas at their disposal, and Palin has perfectly positioned herself to take advantage of this confluence of events.
This project ALONE will keep her in the news for the next few years, and I'm sure we can count on the leftist loons like David Letterman to keep her in the headlines as well.
Sarah Palin is the future of the GOP, if they know what's good for them.
She has proved her executive mettle at high-office positions.
She has proved her ability to draw both sides of the aisle together to get things done.
She has proved that she can take a haymaker, repeated kicks in the gut while down, and still get up swinging harder than before.
She's proved that she (and only she!) among Republicans can fill everything from and auditorium to a stadium with her drawing power, and this truth persists even months after the election.
Real "STAR" power doesn't need the media to feed it (as Obama does), and time doesn't deminish it. It is what it is. She is what she is... the future of the GOP.
The only problem is, we're talking about the GOP here. The same GOP that fielded Bobdole and Commie Johnny as their "Best of the best." The same GOP that wouldn't know a winning candidate if she bit them, hard, on their ignorant, collective ass. The GOP has yet to prove that it has the brains required to nominate their strongest candidate since Reagan.
If Palin can get past the GOP gatekeepers, she'll butcher Obama in 2012, in the debates AND in the voting booths.
But she has nothing left to prove.
;-/
The third party loons and drones on this thread can only give gratuitous anti Palin remarks because they know
they candidate will never win and are only pushing the left wing message and peopaganda.
You are sounding too much like an Obama supporter circa January 2008
Everyone always has something to prove. I can’t say I am sold after 9 months of her being in the spotlight
The Freeper meant Media Malpractice (spelling error) I saw it at the National Press Club to preview the documentary with Zeigler - it absolutely blows your mind and he adds in sections of Couric’s edited interview in which would have put Sarah’s answers into better context and would have been fine. She edited Sarah’s answers and actually took some of them out - like the Supreme Court cases. She took 2-3 cases off the table for her - and the McCain regulation portion in which she actually did answer that his best fight against the financial collapse were his actions to regulate fannie and freddie in which he wrote a bill to do so... She took that out of the interview entirely.
Go to the website purchase the DVD and watch it one of these nights - it will do you and everyone else here that proports that she couldn’t properly anticipate questions from Couric, some good.
http://www.howobamagotelected.com
The McCain camp made her sit down TWICE with Couric for an edited interview, and Sarah didn’t want to do it - but she wasn’t at the top of the ticket.
Actually Gov. Palin did a gotcha with Gibson as when he asked about the Bush Doctrine, he didn’t know there were several.
He needed to put his question into context.
You have to really try to get banned around here.
I generally agree with everything has to say politically. I respect her, and I think she is very charismatic. That being said, she has no credibility when it comes to foreign affairs. She’d make a great VP candidate the next time around too. But I’d vote for Romney and Gingrich first. Thompson, if he weren’t so old, and probably even Giuliani. And, yes, my politics are more in line with Palin’s. It’s not just ideals that we are electing, however.
Again you fail to pay attention to the details. The Couric interview was not good, granted. However, note as the campaign progressed even though Sarah spent the most time in direct contact with the press,both during travel and at events, she virtually disappeared from sight...because she was doing too well. The MSM will not present the true picture of her skills, you have to look past them and dig up the facts. They are available.
I know and agree . That’s why I said “If she is Progressive”
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Yeah, there's no way she could ever win say a Governorship...
Oh wait......
No more RINOs. Ever.
Some Freepers don’t like Gov. Palin because her son is in Iraq fighting Muslims.
But she has nothing left to prove.
Yes one thing.....
She has to prove she can get passed the so called “gatekeepers” .......
Indeed. But they don't. Witness the idiocy of Heather McDonald, Peggy Noonan, and numerous other Bush-bots. And let's not forget Colin Powell...
It isn't?
I have noticed that here as well that intelligence is still derided.Lately, I've been getting this feeling that for one reason or another, many FReepers have a distrust of intelligence. I don't get it.When I was growing up, everyone wanted their children to be smart, and it was a bragging right if your child was intelligent. Now, I'm getting these visions in my head of people saying things like, "Thank God Johnny isn't one of those smart kids. I just couldn't live with myself if we had intelligent offspring." It's confusing
Governor Palin needs to do quite a bit for me to prove she is ready for prime time and can handle the media and run a well organized operation to actually win an election.
Its been one side show after the other with her since she was announced as VP candidate
Much of it undoubtedly traces to the fact that our opponents in journalism and in the Democratic Party are sophists. Sophists live or die by projecting the impression that they are wise, and opposition to them is stupid. Which is why you have heard fatuous claims for the "brilliance" of Kennedy, Carter, Clinton, Gore, Kerry, &c - and corresponding denigration of the intelligence of Dan Quayle but also of Ronald Reagan, Dwight Eisenhower, and George W. Bush.The correct response to the sophist is not to get into a "he said she said" over relative intelligence. It is to adopt the posture of the philosopher, trying to keep the discussion focussed on facts and logic instead of on the irrelevant personal claims at which the sophist excels.
Another way of looking at it is to note that phi beta kappas are a dime a dozen compared to presidents of the US. We-the-people do not concede to Harvard University the prerogative of winnowing the field of candidates we will consider for POTUS. Similarly, people who have been awarded the Silver Star for valor are a dime a dozen compared to presidents of the US. Which is why John Kerry's running on his short tour in Vietnam as some kind of credential for POTUS would have been bogus even if every medal he ever had had been unambiguously merited. How hard would it have been for Bush to have named a true military hero for his VP candidate in 2004?
In that case your post to me was misdirected. MaggieCarta is the one who suggested that Donna might be banned for voicing a negative opinion of Palin. I was correcting her by telling her that was not the case.
Some posters think by attending Ivy League schools means you've been brainwashed by liberal professors. Therefore, doing well in school means liberal. Having poor grades means you rejected the politically correct brainwashing.
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