Posted on 11/14/2009 9:14:36 PM PST by PreciousLiberty
As far as Bush is concerned, large numbers of people still believe Bush ignorant and the image big media created made it far more difficult for him to govern and to conduct foreign affairs. Many my European in-laws still question how Bush got elected when every knew he wasn't the brightest.
One example I did not mention in my first reply is how the public reacted when Thommas Eagleton admitted to having had a nervous breakdown. The public becomes very uneasy when a potential president may have mental problems.
I would wager that a significant number of people still believe that Sarah Palin thought that Africa was a country even though that story was proven to be a hoax.
She's still married as far as I know.
I'm sure Bachmann will have a place somewhere in the Sarah Palin/Liz Cheney administration; along with Nugent, Blackburn, DeMint, Pence, etc...
If you remember. the first impression of Palin was positive after the speech she gave in Minneapolis.
“In another reply I pointed out that Reagan had as a GE spokesman and as governor established a reputation even big media could distort.”
First of all, there was enough truth to the charge of stupidity that it was troublesome. Reagan made some awfully ignorant/stupid comments at times. Palin will live or die by her performance between now and the 2012 primaries/elections. Most US citizens FINALLY see how biased and distorted the media coverage is...and they’re going to other venues for information.
Second, after another three years (big sigh) of 0bama, one hopes that people realize that having the media tout someone as “brilliant”, “the smartest President ever” and so on is no guarantee that he or she will perform brilliantly. So far, 0bama’s administration qualifies as the worst idiocracy in American history.
I believe what people will want in 2012 will be the anti-0bama. Sarah Palin!
“This guy refers to her as “Ms. Palin” at least six times.
She’s still married as far as I know.”
“Ms” is used with both married and unmarried women. “Miss” is for unmarried women.
Something someone wrote after Fred dropped out in 2007 for lack of money has stuck with me.
A journo commented by-the-way that, when Fred Thompson talks to the people, there's no doubt about it, he has the gravitas, he has what it takes. The way he put it is that when Fred starts talking on the issues, Fred is the President of the United States.
Just get the RiNOs' frozen-deck primaries out of the way, and he'd be a very credible, very charismatic candidate.
I think Sarah would be a great VP pick for him, I still have this nagging feeling she's about eight-10 years away from being "ready-ready". I know, that's just me.
Put the two of them up there, offer them to the People and say, "these two people will look after your future as if it were their own", and then get out of the way. MHO.
There is nothing inherently "socialist" about populism. The "ownership of means of production" is a separate question from what makes a populist.
You could argue just as hard that populist values imply free-market capitalism.
The basic idea of populism is that the People are sovereign and Government works for them fulltime.
Nah, if he was, he'd be trying to stick icepicks in Sarah's forehead. Or her back.
I read Continetti as a messenger boy for some other big RiNO's who are offering Sarah conditional support in return for "consideration" i.e. a series of vetoes and patronage markers. She needs to ignore them.
Even if the RiNO's pull a full Rockefeller Sit-Down Strike a la 1964 (which Bush 41 threatened Ronnie with in 1980, to blackmail his way onto the ticket), the Goons are stuck with Obama and the Frankfurt Radicals running their show and so they can't replicate what LBJ was able to do by way of selling himself as Mr. Reasonable.
Sarah's a much more sympathetic and attractive figure than the astringent Barry Goldwater, so it'll be very tough for the 'Rats to do "negative advance" and all the other LBJ tricks (he invented the Donald Segretti "dirty tricks" the presstitutes pretended to find so shocking when Dick Nixon used them) without sounding shrill and vile -- a Left specialty.
how do you come back from being the most beloved GOP personality out there
her and Rush and Beck*
everyone else is second string
*yes I know...a Paine(ian) technically
>>voters continue to worry about her qualifications for the presidency,
I wish voters would have considered that when looking at Obama.
Can't agree. I lived through the entire era. Most folks knew little about Reagan as "spokesman for GE" or heard those speeches. The most widespread "first impression" was that generated by the media--that he was an old, charming mental decrepit who slept through meetings. And that widespread impression is only slowly being corrected now that he is dead.
Yes, monocle, that's the illusion.
The reality, as Wonder WW illustrates, is different.
The media is a Vegas magician convincing you that the guy on stage is being sawed in two.
Reagan got that. The GOP in pre-primary mode for the 2008 election missed it so completely that they psyched their entire primary goal around the panic call of "Anybody who can beat Hillary!" Hillary's popular support was media illusion. She never had it locked. In the meantime, the GOP had been so totally duped that we ended up with McCain, a solid lead loser.
Will the GOP this time learn that what Republicans need is "Anybody who can represent GETTING GOVERNMENT OUT OF YOUR HAIR AND POCKET, and back in the servants' quarters where it belongs."
That's the reality that the media illusion struggles to manipulate ultimately in vain.
Was it Lincoln, or PT Barnum, who said -- "You can't fool all of the people all of the time." That's the point America has reached.
Reagan's battle with the Board of Regents was widely covered and as well as other stories which demonstrated Reagan was an excellent excutive. Not only was I old enough to recall these years I was more mature and able to appreciate his actions.
I still have this nagging feeling she's about eight-10 years away from being "ready-ready".
My gut tells me she's in her prime. She's ready-ready and God-sent.
Something someone wrote after Fred dropped out in 2007 for lack of money ...
Speaking of which ... Rubio versus Crist in the Florida primaries for U.S. Senate smells like another NY23. Monday I am going to send money to Rubio's campaign.
I hope ALL conservatives who want to take back the Republican party will do the same to support Right Republicans in primaries where the GOP's "choice" is a big government moderate -- another such race is in California, pitting Big Government Republican Fiorina against Limited Government registered Republican (formerly Libertarian) Larry Elder for Senator, to vanquish the despicable Barbara Boxer.
The NRSC has told Elder not to run because it wants the GOP to put up Carly Fiorina against Boxer. It is yet another case of the offical GOP fulfilling Einstein's definition of insanity. Fiorina, like Crist, like Scozzafava, is a loser whether or not she/he wins, and worse than the Democrat because he/she sabotages the GOP's ability to contrast itself from Democrats, hence any future converts or adherents to the Republican party. They are more dangerous than the Democrats.
I hope folks who want to do more than just "poke holes in the air with their fingers" when engaging in poitics will spend a few hours reviewing Marco Rubio's website (add a dot-com to his name) and doing some general online searches, and decide each for themselves if Rubio would be better than Crist. Otherwise, the GOP establishment will go for Crist, continuing the diasaterous tack the GOP has been taking over the past few decades.
The left said the freerepublic would be gone by now.
Where were you in those years?? I can promise you that in the Deep South, Reagan was a non-entity. Nobody paid one iota of attention to who the governor of California was or the goings-on in that state.
NYC,NJ and CT
Remember the Bonus Army? The Tea Party will meet the same fate if the commies in power in D.C. perceive any threat from a gathering of protesting Americans at the seat of national gov’t power.
What is needed is a wholsale tax rebellion. That is, small businessmen must cease withholding and sending taxes of their employees to D.C. Those who are 1099 self employed must stop filing and paying income taxes as well. That will begin some effective change. Your demonstrations in D.C. will be fruitless. They do not give a rip about you or one million more like you.
The real enemy to your freedom is the federal gov’t in D.C.
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