Sarah Palin lashes out at D.C., liberals, media

The Orlando Sentinel ^ | March 12, 2010 | David Damron

[2ndDivisionVet]

How come the word "polarizing" is seldom used in an article about Mr. Obama or any other Democrat? BTW, did Canada have socialized medicine way back in the 1960's when they took Governor Palin's brother to the hospital? I don't believe they did, but why ruin a good story that slams Sarah with facts?!

[mlocher]

The wildly popular, but equally polarizing former vice presidential candidate

The Sin-tinel just had to get this dig in, didn't it? After all, Obama is the great unifier, isn't he?

However, polarization might be what is needed right now. It is time to separate the wheat from the chaffe, liberalism from conservatism, Rinos from conservatism, ....

[HapaxLegamenon]

Reagan was also accused of being polarizing because he had divided the nation into two groups: The 59% of the nation who voted for him and the the 41% who voted against him.

[MsLady]

One person told me they did. But, if you look up Canada nationalized medicine. It says it was enacted in ‘82.

[MovementConservative]

The wildly popular, but equally polarizing former vice presidential candidate...

That's the part I don't understand. Why is she considered polarizing? By all accounts she seems like a really nice lady. She's not doing controversial things like George Tiller was. Why hate her(unless you fear her). Her political obit has been written so many times it's got to be driving her ideological opponents in the MSM crazy.

[Siena Dreaming]

Palin is "polarizing" because the media polarizes itself against her.

Why? Because if they don't, I suspect she will be loved by many, many independents and even some libs.

Therefore out of desperation, the MSM has set all its firepower against her.

[Track9]

And she praised Florida's weather, noting that it is much better than Alaska, "where it's 10 degrees below Congress' approval rating."

She sure knows how to stick it to the usurpers.

[relictele]

You said it but I was going to post something with much stronger language.

I am FLAMING SICK of the MSM and their petty, childish, repetitive self-fulfilling prophecies. They hammered this person for months even after the election was over and their empty suit won. Sheep-like people who think American Idol identifies talent and who think USA Today is an in-depth read believe that Palin is a threat, is dumb, etc.

Suddenly Palin is 'polarizing' because the ignorant and the easily-led don't like her? Ridiculous. And lazy. But that's the MSM for you.

[DCmarcher-976453]

I’d love to see video of this it sounds like a real stem winder. Sarah will continue to pummel bo until he is gone.

[SunkenCiv]

On Friday, Palin advocated drilling for oil and natural gas to gain energy independence... advocating for... lower taxes, less spending, more freedom and smaller government... also singled out one Central Florida Democratic politician: U.S Rep. Alan Grayson of Orlando. Palin said voters need to remove the fiery millionaire lawyer in November. "Do it for the rest of America," she said in a speech lasting about 40 minutes.

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

However, polarization might be what is needed right now. It is time to separate the wheat from the chaffe, liberalism from conservatism, Rinos from conservatism.

Well put mlocher!

[supremedoctrine]

Good point about the loaded concept of “polarizing”.
It’s nonsense but they apply it to people like Sarah, precisely BECAUSE they still can’t bring themselves to apply it to Obama, who richly deserves it.
( I guess the idea behind this is “hey, we’ve got the word
‘polarizing’ laying around, we’ve got to use it every day, so let’s apply it to Palin, since we certainly can’t apply it to Obama—after all, we voted for him’)
BUT, what I am seeing day by day and week by week, is a process whereby, by the time it’s over, Sarah Palin will
have drawn about half of America’s semi-committed Liberals in addition to quite a healthy percentage of Apathetics
over
to her (and our) side. She’s that good.
This ‘polarizing’ label is already coming unstuck.
I expect the MSM a year or two from now, will be congratulating itself on noticing that the “once-polarizing” figure of Sarah Palin is now , somehow, a lot more popular and “mainstream”.

[hinckley buzzard]

Sarah Palin is the most archetypal mainstream American public figure since Ronald Reagan. To call her "polarizing" is to say that a substantial number of US citizens hate America and everything good that it stands for. There can be no other rational interpretation. Such ebenmies of America are to be squashed in the dirt like stinking stinging insects and not let up.

[hinckley buzzard]

ebenmies = enemies. yikes.

[bigbob]

I love the “poor man’s teleprompter” line! She needs to continue to use that because she’s really good at self-deprecating humor and it just makes those who get all wee-wee’d up and attack her look silly when she laughs it off.

[FrankR]

"but equally polarizing former vice presidential candidate "

Probably the most polarizing figure in the last 100 years sits as pResident in the White House today.

The kenyan has totally split this country down the middle, and makes it his daily duty to piss off more Americans with every teleprompter reading he does.

It is not Sarah Palin who is "ruling against the will of the people" and trying to ram a bogus healthercare plan down our throats, it's the kenyan.

As a matter of fact, at this juncture Sarah Palin has only one power - the backing of the people. But that is the most formidable power of all.

I agree that Palin is "polarizing", because if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. She is a staunch conservative; we have too many "non-polarizing" people in the government already, they're called 'liberals' and 'RINOs'.

Because Palin is a Conservative, she is supposed to be "polarizing"...she is supposed to rally people of similar beliefs and principles. She is not after appeasing the liberal/progressives, and they find that very "polarizing".

If you walk down "the middle of the road", you will get hit from both directions.

One thing is for sure, the kenyan and even running off the folks who voted for him, and Sarah keeps attracting more folks...so WHO is polarizing? If she wasn't "polarizing", she would be "bipolar", and who wants (another) bipolar president?

Thank GOD that Sarah has the courage to be "polarizing", the bipolar appeasers are the cowards of the world.

[thecodont]

She needs to continue to use that because she’s really good at self-deprecating humor and it just makes those who get all wee-wee’d up and attack her look silly when she laughs it off.

Secure people are able to use self-deprecating humor.

[Servant of the Cross]

Good point on the "polarizing" tag that is placed on Sarah by the media like they did with President Reagan. Also, note the headline, "Sarah Palin lashes out ..." Sarah, like Reagan, doesn't "lash out". That's what wimpy libs do. Sarah, like RR, uses humor and well-pointed jabs to expose the nanny-state policies of the marxists while presenting conservative policies on energy, tax cuts and "lifting America's spirit". One more similarity with RR who lifted America out of the morose malaise of Carter.

I agree with you. I would love to see Sarah polarize this nation 59% to 41% too!

[bwc2221]

On Friday, Palin advocated drilling for oil and natural gas to gain energy independence... advocating for... lower taxes, less spending, more freedom and smaller government... also singled out one Central Florida Democratic politician: U.S Rep. Alan Grayson of Orlando. Palin said voters need to remove the fiery millionaire lawyer in November. “Do it for the rest of America,” she said in a speech lasting about 40 minutes.

Imagine Mitt Romney doing that!

[loveliberty2]

Talk about "polarizing"! Just read this:

"Found in: John Adams, The Works of John Adams, vol. 4 (Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution) - NO. III. - paragraph 144

"Obsta principiis, nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society."

John Adams words castigate the "arbitrary power" holders in Washington today who have gained their offices by promises to "redistribute" the earnings of hard-working citizens,