Posted on 06/16/2009 11:51:08 AM PDT by lewisglad
Inevitably they become corrupted old-boy-network scumbags.
Has Sanford ever bucked his own party? Put members of his own party in jail for corruption? Stood up to and overcome the cronyism between members of his own party and Big Oil? Because if he hasn't, he can't even carry Palin's water.
Palin has done all of the above and tons more. The last thing we need is just another entrenched GOP party hack.
;-/
No, I mean she couldn’t name anything she’s read in the past year, nor could she name a single Supreme Court decision.
At all.
She went to college. I don’t know what she took away from the process. It obviously wasn’t knowledge.
And let’s note I don’t dislike the woman, and think she has potential—she’s just not ready for the Big Leagues yet.
Out here in the real world, people are still rejecting McCain as W lite. And W is looked down upon...and that’s putting it mildly. W’s administration was a catastrophe for the Republican Party.
I DO NOT DISLIKE Palin. I just don’t think she’s ready for the Big Time, yet. She needs experience handling the pressure of a major campaign.
College has nothing to do with it. What counts is breadth of experience.
For instance, W was born into a blueblood Connecticut family, and never held a real job in his life (did you know he got his first driver’s license in his twenties because he always had a “driver?”) He has no idea of what goes on in the real world, and he comes across as a dumb**s because YOU would have degrees from Yale and Harvard too if your daddy and his powerful friends picked you out for the White House when you were five years old.
Reagan, on the other hand, had all kinds of real world experience, had jobs and maintained a real household. Also, he went to a small, but good-quality college and was a trained economist. Most people don’t know what last about him.
I have five college degrees (and I could be ordained as a UMC minister today), all paid for by working—including five years as a roofer when I was a young man. I’ve been married for over twenty years, and paid for my own home. Does that make me wise? Blue-collar “expertise” means nothing, by itself. That’s my point.
my point, in the long run.
you have made it.
Great point. I too worked for my (3) college degrees part time over 20+ years while I was in the Air Force.
On the other hand, Bush DID go to Harvard AND Yale and meanwhile people like Martin Sheen were bashing him and calling him stupid and when you look into Sheen’s education...well there wasn’t any to speak of...dropped out of H.S. IIRC.
Education doesn’t always equate with intelligence. And frankly, I’ll take my education over 3 continents and as many decades to Yale any day!
Props to your military service, sir. My daddy was career Marine Corps.
I was turned down because of a minor heart condition. If I had made it into the Navy, how life would have turned out different for me!
Well, there are feminists and there are feminists. Is she a feminist like the Wyoming women who got the vote in the 19th century, or is she a sapphic, man-hating gender-fem, a "Feminazi"? </Rush>
Too, there were "progressives" in the GOP back in 1904: they supported Theodore Roosevelt for re-election. Four years later, they bolted the Party and went Bull Moose.
The "progressive" tag was picked up lying in the street by Stalinists in the 1940's, and it has meant sub-rosa, crypto-Stalinist hardcore types ever since then -- the people who nominated George McGovern and Barack Obama, f'rinstance. (And McGovern himself was a delegate to the "Progressive" convention in 1948 that nominated Henry Wallace, Stalin's man, for President. So what did that make McGovern?)
So is Palin a "progressive" in that sense? I seriously doubt it!
Well said Post #29!
Thanks, and thanks to your dad!
Yeah, she hasn't done that yet. Nor looked into the cobra's eye while taking Katie Couric's questions.
Ahem.
Large enthusiastic crowds during and after the campaign says otherwise.
I’m certainly not voting for her. We can do better, much, much, much better.
That's your right and I respect that. However, you should keep in mind that there is virtually no other elected Republican right now calling Obama out on his policies and galvanizing the conservative base, and other than Palin or Sanford, there really isn't a strong conservative GOP Governor that can run in 2012 and capture the conservative vote. The rest are all RINOs, and I'd include Barbour with Palin and Sanford but he's too much of an insider and isn't telegenic to be POTUS. No conservative is going to nominate another Senator or Congressman.
She's held elective office since 1992. That's far more experience than the Kenyan.
What does she need to prove?
She was restricted by McCain's handlers. Now that she's her own person, she has and will continue to do much better.
Its been one side show after the other with her since she was announced as VP candidate
All orchestrated by the leftist media and the tabloids. Quit carrying water.
Sanford is a self made millionaire and was in the private sector for quite a while. And as much as I despise UVA (being a Hokie and all) he did graduate from UVA near the top of his class
He bucked the party on Capitol Hill quite a bit in Congress and has constantly been a thorn in the side of the Republican led legislature in SC
He was one of the few from the class of 1994 to actually honor his term limits commitment
Saying Sanford is another entrenched party hack is ridiculous. In fact, he is the exact type of conservative we need today
Yeah...she’s NOT as smart as Obama....that’s for sure!!!! BBAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
Its not about the Kenyan to me
Its about her
Does she have a real platform?
New ideas? Solutions using conservative principles for 21st century problems
What people don’t seem to see what I am getting at is Reagan had a real intellectual framework for his agenda, which he espoused from 1964 until he became POTUS
Honestly, I just haven’t seen enough of Palin yet to say she is ready to become President. I won’t make the same mistake again that I made in 1999 with George W (who by all accounts, should have been a far better President with his experience as governor of a large state)
Does he need to run for Goobernor of Tennessee? Senator again?
Does Obama have any “intellectual accomplishments?” Just wondering....
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