Posted on 07/31/2009 9:23:39 AM PDT by AJKauf
The gap is improving but the point is that occasionally I see a post such as feminist Ms tickly’s that is trying to paint a picture that is the opposite of the truth, it is very weird to make those posts except as an attempt to spread some phony feminist illusion.
There’s only one Sarah Palin and there’s not another soul on the national stage who can even come close to filling her high heels. At a time when the Republican Party has lost so many seats in Congress that it’s teetering on the brink of irrelevancy, Palin’s detractors on the right should ask themselves how much sense it makes to help the liberal media try to tear down the biggest star in the conservative movement.
I am Sarah’s #1 supporter and I gave her money, twice and I gave to her Pac. Conservatives4Palin also had a webathon in late June where over a 130,000 was raised, considering how bad this economy is, people were willing to give. You don’t know how much money was raised by that defense fund, but the way it’s looking, the bastards on the left will make sure she doesnt see a dime of it
You heard it here...LOL.
Oh, and I thank you for sharing that one, too!
There’s only one Sarah Palin and there’s not another soul on the national stage who can even come close to filling her high heels. At a time when the Republican Party has lost so many seats in Congress that it’s teetering on the brink of irrelevancy, Palin’s detractors on the right should ask themselves how much sense it makes to help the liberal media try to tear down the biggest star in the conservative movement.Clearly, Sarah is an apple cart upsetter. But it NEEDS to be upset.
Thus, I suspect there are many arrogant, territory protecting, empire building muckety mucks in the Republican party that hate her guts.
Do I think that Palin should be the next president? No.
Do I think she should be a leading voice of the conservative movement? Absolutely! So in that sense I am a big fan of her, just like I am of Rush
I did not see that Palin was +2 in favorables/unfavorables according to Rasmussen. Where did you get that?
The number in my mind was 47/45. I see now that's the PPP number. Right number, wrong poll, sorry.
Since Rasmussen has Palin at -6 in a Palin/Obama matchup and PPP has it at -8, the Palin fav/unfav for Rasmussen has to be pretty similar, I would think, but I do not have access to the crosstab data.
hey techno!! did you see naomi wolf and that PHD guy on O’reilly last night??
Indeed the virulence and irrationality and even the flat dishonesty of most of the attacks on her make it almost impossible to have a real discussion about her.
I don’t know if she’s going to be president, I don’t know if she wants to be president. I expect her to try and find her footing over the next couple of years, find the level she wants to engage at, and until then maybe she doesn’t even know for sure what she’s going to do.
But I know she has good instincts (if a little more populist than me). She has character, she tries sincerely to do the right thing, and she is brave, and not afraid of a fight. So I can’t help but admire her.
And when the time comes, if she decides she wants to be president, I would far rather have her than any of the weasels who have been sniping at her from the shadows, or damning her with faint praise.
When they take a position, its been nuanced and focus-grouped and they’ve calculated it will attract the key demographics they need (while keeping the door open for a mid-field correction when the time comes). When she takes a position, its because she means it. That by itself is gold.
I’ll bet Sarah is doing a little summer reading...
“The Health care package”
While I’m all in favor of strong family values, you’re a damned fool if you think they can guarantee your kid won’t go off the rails. You do the best you can and pray for a good outcome.
Can somebody please explain to me what’s so wrong with being a populist?
Isn’t the root word of populist, people?
And isn’t this the country in which all [people] are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights?”
And didn’t Lincoln implore us that this government, which is “of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth”?
So when in the history of this constitutional democracy did “populist” or “person of the people” become a dirty word?
Thanks.
Interesting point — got any hard statistics?
Populism inevitably is rabble-rousing. Socialism is essentially populism. Free food and free circuses.
There are various forms of populism-left and populism-right but it boils back to the same thing.
This is quite different from the kind of republican democracy you are describing. You are describing John Locke-Thomas Jeffersonian “classic liberalism”. Thats quite different.
Populists will overthrow republican democracy every time. Chavez in Venezuela is the classic populist. He is the master at working the crowd.
When I made my remark about Palin, it was a throwaway comment. She is not a populist, by no means. But she occasionally reverts to populist language without probably noticing it, and probably few people do. Her actual instincts are conservative, republican, classic liberalism. So I’m not worried about her.
conservatives have been betrayed by the GOP for years. They take us for granted, figuring we have no place else to go. They know we won’t vote for the dems, they know that most of us think that voting 3rd party is the same as voting for the dems, and they know we won’t stay home enmass, so they just trample what we believe in under their feet, and thumb their noses at us. That is why the fear Sarah Palin as much, if not more than the dems do. If Palin were to win the nomination (and she will if she runs) even if she loses to 0bama, she would still be the big gun in the GOP, and that would mean that all the country club, party boys and girls will be out of their cushy jobs. Palin would install people like her in key positions, and rebuild the party in her own image. Wouldn’t that be wonderful, a party that would not scorn us.
Got a mouse in your pocket?
Sure a “Bristol” could happen to anyone BUT with strong family values at HOME, it doesn't happen.
BS...cite statistics to support this nonsense please.
It's Mom doing her job at home till the kids are grown - THEN GO FOR IT!
And here I thought neanderthals were extinct, did you get caught in a time warp?
The rest of your comments are pure crap. You are disgusting to categorize women who work as being neglectful of their families, shame on you. Call yourself whatever you want, but if you support that lying RINO Mitt, you are a RINO as well.
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