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The Perils of Palin
Townhall.com ^ | January 22, 2011 | Dick Morris and Eileen McGann

Posted on 01/22/2011 8:13:05 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: P-Marlowe

No way... Sarah has scruples.

LLS


41 posted on 01/22/2011 8:56:32 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!!!)
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To: dirtboy
Dick Morris wants to be Sarah Palin's advisor so bad, he can barely conceal it. He's a keen political observer, there's no doubt about it, but like most of those in the thin gene pool of the Consultant Class, his pay check is based on two things 1. Reputation (based on the all-too-human denial of chaos and/or God Almighty) and 2. Fear, on the part of politicians, the sort of thing that makes geniuses of court astrologers and crazy heretical priests like Rasputin. Politicians fear being perceived as merely human, and they really, really HATE asking for money.

Reputation is every thing for this compulsive individual though, and who doesn't enjoy listening to what he has to say?

He's under a lot of pressure to get it right, and this accounts for his grasp of the obvious.

I don't buy his theory of his about Sarah Palin's video response. I would have advised her to say less, in a less guarded venue, but (as much as I hate the idea) I think the pile-on "vitriol" strategy did succeed in pushing her negatives six points. So what? It just fired up and hardened briefly a soft fashionable sentiment. You would think she already had the nomination and it was only a week out from Election Day.

Morris needs to grasp the strategy and understand it for the rehearsal that it was, eventually to be used against whomever carries the "R" label in 2012.

42 posted on 01/22/2011 8:59:07 AM PST by Prospero (non est ad astra mollis e terris via)
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To: Kaslin

Dick Morris no longer counts in my world.


43 posted on 01/22/2011 9:00:07 AM PST by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: don-o
They didn't 'cast bait'.

They attacked her personally and relentlessly, blaming her for the deaths before the blood had even dried.

You really sound like a concern troll on this one: deliberately mixing up the facts to misinform others and to dishearten the Right.

44 posted on 01/22/2011 9:01:50 AM PST by agere_contra (Historically every time the Left has 'expanded its moral imagination' the results have been horrific)
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To: Josh Painter

the toe sucker is craving attention


45 posted on 01/22/2011 9:02:15 AM PST by stickywillie
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To: don-o

If conservatives lie down and think that “by rising above the fray” when they are wrongly attacked is going to make them noble and Presidential is a fool! The media and the dems will be picking off everyone easily, acting civil got McCain “we don’t need to be afraid of an Obama Adminstration” nowhere, look at what happened to George W Bush when Karl Rove told him to ignore the attacks and don’t fight back!

The media is in the tank for Obama and us being silent will only let them set the narrative on us and define us and all it takes is a small percentage to believe it and vote Obama in a second term.......if this Obama/Dem/MSM is impossible to overcome, I would rather go down with the ship fighting than being honorable and not fighting back!!


46 posted on 01/22/2011 9:03:33 AM PST by Bigtigermike
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To: Navy Patriot
"The Bushes and McCain were above it all and never answered charges or educated from the Bully Pulpit, and as a result, the lying Marxists made huge advances when the RINOs were in power."

Exactly.bttt

"Karl [Rove] has admitted that one of his mistakes was not defending Bush against all of these insane, stupid, slanderous, libelous attacks against Bush for eight years," Limbaugh said."

47 posted on 01/22/2011 9:05:28 AM PST by Matchett-PI (Trent Lott on Tea Party candidates: "As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them" 7/19/10)
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To: Kaslin

Dear Dick Morris,

You want Palin to handle this like Bush handled the mountain of scurrilous lies levied against him? That really worked out well, didn’t it?

Your advice is stupid. But not answering the charges, Palin would allow the leftists media to define her with the lies.

Answer every media lie with the truth.


48 posted on 01/22/2011 9:07:05 AM PST by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: Kaslin
The point is that Palin should not and cannot answer.

We see how well that worked out for Pres. Bush.

49 posted on 01/22/2011 9:09:29 AM PST by rabidralph
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To: P-Marlowe
Don't be surprised if he ends up on Sarah's Campaign payroll.

She can put him in charge of buying her shoes. She has nice shoes. Dick Morris will appreciate that. Perhaps too much.

50 posted on 01/22/2011 9:10:33 AM PST by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
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To: Kaslin

51 posted on 01/22/2011 9:13:18 AM PST by Iron Munro (When a society loses its memory, it descends inevitably into dementia - Mark Steyn)
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To: agere_contra
You really sound like a concern troll on this one: deliberately mixing up the facts to misinform others and to dishearten the Right.

So, because I do not fall in lockstep, I get called a name? That's what you got?

Lovely.

52 posted on 01/22/2011 9:14:15 AM PST by don-o (He will not share His glory; and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever.)
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To: don-o

I’m really not being hostile here, but, empirically, someone please tell me when Dick Morris has been right about anything in the last four years? I seem to recall he missed the number of GOP wins by about 40. He said McCain was going to pull it out at the last minute, and it wasn’t even close. I just don’t recall anything he’s predicted in the last few years that has actually come true. Am I missing something?


53 posted on 01/22/2011 9:16:08 AM PST by seanmom
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To: don-o

“dick is out of date and not able to properly address the present

For once, I have to say that Morris is spot on about this. Palin made a huge blunder in taking the bait.”

And if she had said nothing, she would be accused (as they were already accusing her) of “hiding out”.

Her response was pitch perfect, both in the video and on Hannity. The fact that the Establishment and its MSM pipe organ rose as one man to condemn it is of zero consequence. Her address was dignified and Presidential ( in contrast to Obama’s disgusting pep rally complete with campaign tee shirts)t and it placed the blame squarely where it belonged, on the perpetrator and not on the lack of “civil” discourse (the PC code word for restricting the 1st Amendment political speech), as Obama did.

Morris feels he needs to make himself relevant where Palin is concerned. He is not. He would like to be her advisor. He won’t.

You see. Sarah Palin does not need an adviser. Her own judgment and political instincts are far superior to those of Morris or any other Washington expert. She has turned the political world on its ear without so much as an assist from the likes of Morris or Karl Rove or any of the other wannabes, whose chief talent is claiming credit for what others did. The fact that she doesn’t need them irks then to no end. That they lash out at her surprises no one with a brain.


54 posted on 01/22/2011 9:17:20 AM PST by Brices Crossroads
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To: Kaslin
"The point is that Palin should not and cannot answer. She needs to rise above the attacks."

You mean she should be more like Bush. I call cr@p on that one. Bush should have defended himself, just as Sarah does.

We want a leader with a spine and Sarahs got a steel one. May God continue to Bless her.

55 posted on 01/22/2011 9:22:08 AM PST by NoGrayZone ( Thus far, ALL the violence has come from the left. Mirror anyone?)
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To: Texas Eagle

Dick Morris is still viewing politics through the eyes of a insider Republican. The majority in this country don’t give a hoot about beltway politics. Sarah Palin, thankfully, does not seem to care much about the nattering class in DC either!

Dick Morris better figure out what the non-politico Americans care about or he will never get his prognosticating right.


56 posted on 01/22/2011 9:24:06 AM PST by Laserman
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To: don-o
"Palin made a huge blunder in taking the bait."

That was no bait. They attack her every chance they get. I don't want another Bush. I want someone with a steel spine who WILL NOT allow BLOOD LIBEL to go unanswered.

57 posted on 01/22/2011 9:26:43 AM PST by NoGrayZone ( Thus far, ALL the violence has come from the left. Mirror anyone?)
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To: Kaslin
Hey dick... we all know now that mitt is paying you as a consultant... do you make your wife brush the toe jam from her teeth before you kiss her?

LLS

58 posted on 01/22/2011 9:27:09 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!!!)
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To: Kaslin

Dick Morris and Eileen McGann...MR. & MRS. TOESUCKER
No further comment necessary.


59 posted on 01/22/2011 9:28:06 AM PST by Tucker39 (Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:)
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To: LibLieSlayer

WADR....my question would be whether SHE makes HIM brush before kissing. HE’s the toesucker.


60 posted on 01/22/2011 9:29:54 AM PST by Tucker39 (Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:)
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