Are they really too deep to grasp?
Posted on 07/06/2009 3:32:06 PM PDT by lewisglad
But the panic among mainstream media commentators and the GOP establishment suggests real worry that if she does, she might pull off an upset. Why else the vehement assertions that she's clearly made a terrible mistake? Why else the categorical insistence that her political career is finished? Aren't they all protesting too much?
The media establishment didn't protest much about the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama. He gave a good speech at the 2004 Democratic convention, was elected to the Senate that fall, and immediately started running for president. He didn't accomplish much in his four years in the Senate Isn't Palin about as well positioned for the 2012 GOP nomination as Obama was in 2005 for the 2008 Democratic one?
I think so -- except that her own party's establishment fears Palin, while the Democratic establishment wasn't set against Obama.
In any case, this is the same GOP establishment that rallied behind first-term governor George W. Bush in 1997-98 and then propelled him to the nomination in 1999-2000. Had Bush accomplished more than Palin at that point?
Texas has a lot more people than Alaska does, but the Texas governorship is a weaker office -- and some of Bush's first-term initiatives went down in flames, while Palin's have largely succeeded.
She won't get that credit. For psychological and sociological reasons too deep for me to grasp, a good chunk of elite America hates Sarah Palin and what they've decided she stands for. But if she wears their scorn as a badge of honor, comports herself with good cheer and personal dignity, studies up on national issues and takes the lead in selected debates on behalf of conservative principles against Obama administration policies, she has a shot
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This is a good read. I am glad that Bill stuck to his guns. There is more to Sarah than most can grasp.
In case you are wondering. I seen all that Sarah was and could be, the moment she spoke when McCain introduced her as his running mate. I think a lot of people saw the same thing.
I think so — except that her own party’s establishment fears Palin, while the Democratic establishment wasn’t set against Obama.
holds true for many on this site.
In the minds of pea brains. The upset will only be the other way around.
Kristol is a bit too smarmy for my taste - and he is MOST CERTAINLY part of the reprehensible GOP establishment - but this is actually not a bad article and it seems to have genuine and honest sentiments.
Had to double check to make sure this was from Weakly Standard neo-lib editor Bill Kristol
Actually makes a lot of sense. A lot of GOP Liberals have their bowels in a tizzy every time Sarah is mentioned.
The GOP will pretty much disappear as a party if Sarah is not the 2012 GOP Presidential candidate...she is the only one with a good chance to beat Obama
I think the public who hates her does so because of the media who did the rats bidding when they were scared $hitless after her convention speech.
I think the establishment politico types hate her because, based on what she did in Alaska, she will destroy their “i’ll scratch your back, you scratch my back” dirty, scheming and insanely expensive to the taxpayer back room deals. How many of our public servants DON’T become millionaires once they get to D.C. And why are so many people with money interested in this job in the first place? More money.
She’s the real deal - that’s why they hate her.
She'll again get my $$$ and support.
“...Isn’t Palin about as well positioned for the 2012 GOP nomination as Obama was in 2005 for the 2008 Democratic one?...I think so — except that her own party’s establishment fears Palin...”
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Well fine...maybe it’s time to just get rid of those buggers too, and start anew!
Kristol was pro-Sarah from the very beginning.. :)
Bill, you don’t even know enough to realize you shouldn’t have a working relationship with the Washington Post.
Sit down. Shut up. Stay home on Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings. And quit appearing on CNN and FoxNews.
Let someone with half a clue have a voice. Well never mind, that’s you. We’re going in a new direction...
One column out of ten just isn’t good enough anymore.
You can like or hate Kristol. But he has been supporting Sarah from day one. He’s one of the few beltway boys who aren’t evil.
Kristol was always sypathetic to Sarah.
Sarah = America’s Maggie Thatcher
As best I can remember, as the governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter met the movers and shakers of his Party. Carter had a kind of epiphany: These guys are clowns, drunks, and reprobates. Hell, I'm going to run for president! Carter decided.
As the VP candidate Gov. Palin met the movers and shakers of her Party.
Did Gov. Palin discover the same? I think that she may have.
I don't think the traditions of mainstream Republicans have changed much since Goldwater (1964) based upon the GOP establishment's attitude toward Gov. Palin.
The quote is from The Conservative Revolution: The Movement That Remade America, by Lee Edwards and has been modified to illustrate my point.
"In the words of Nelson Rockefeller's public relations head, Stuart Spencer, "We had have to destroy Barry Goldwater Sarah Palin as a member of the human race."
He fancies himself her "kingmaker." It would be an absolute shocker if he followed the rest of the pundits on the conclusion that she's cooked her political goose by resigning.
Are they really too deep to grasp?
You’re right that there are many on this site that would rather lose with the candidate of their choice (ref: Romney) rather than get behind a candidate that can energize the Republican party like Sarah Palin has shown she can. There hasn’t been any criticism of Romney for running out on MA as governor to go campaign for President.
Freud for Dummies?
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