Rules are rules
Posted on 02/09/2010 4:02:21 AM PST by euram
Former V.P. hopeful and FNC contributor Sarah Palin told "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace that if she didn't run for president she'd do the best "darn good job" as a reporter.
Well it turns out that Palin, with all her dang, darn, heck, hell no, bull-stuff and you betcha's earned Wallace his best show ratings ever this past Sunday in his six years hosting the show. She explained the e-mail "issue" involving her husband, Todd, whom she referred to as "Alaska's first dude," she re-issued her call for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to resign for using the phrase "f--king retarded" and analyzed the GOP presidential field, which included herself.
Wallace interviewed Palin in Nashville, where she was keynoting the National Tea Party Convention.
Nielsen reports show Wallace's high ratings with 132,000 viewers and a 4.2 Household rating - record-breaking numbers for the show in D.C. In the demographic (25-54), "Fox News Sunday" had 58,000 viewers, beating all three shows -- NBC's "Meet the Press", CBS's "Face the Nation" and ABC's "This Week".
Watch the video here.
I largely agree with Sarah. But it’s kinda like watching the WNBA. :)
bttt
Good for Chris Wallace...and Fox....(He flew into Nashville on the same plane I was on out of DC. No private jet for Chris!)
But does the video show him saying he would like for her to sit in his lap?????
Been told he said that - thread around here somewhere.
Dear Chris - nevermind.
Palin, with all her dang, darn, heck, hell no, bull-stuff and you betcha’s earned Wallace his best show ratings ever this past Sunday in his six years hosting the show.
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Heh, but she made a mistake stepping down as Governor and hitting the campaign trail. No one takes her seriously. /sarc
Rules are rules
I happened to watch a little bit of Lardball last night. I wanted to see if Sarah gave Chrissy a tingle down his leg.
He had a look in his eyes of absolute hatred for her. The way he demonized her for everything she has ever done or will ever do was frightening as well as hilarious.
It’s obvious she is a serious threat.
bump!
The obsession by show hosts to get politicians to announce their Presidential Campaign on their program annoys me to no end.
Hannity is already grovelling to Newt about announcing his Presidential run on his program. It's stupid and embarrassing.
I was supposed to keep it on the q.t. but Hannity is groveling for me to declare on his show.
I believe that when Wallace went on Imus' show a few days before, Imus asked if Palin was going to do the interview sitting in Wallace's lap. Wallace replied, "One can hope." One certainly can....
Sarah was awesome in this interview. I find her saying all of the things I am thinking and she is so cute when she says them. She has a marvelous sense of humor, a sure sign of intelligence, and she is just fun to watch. Her ideas are simple, and simple is good. She talked about her idea of foreign policy, “We fight, we win”. I like that. If we deem a cause worthy to risk the lives of our young people, we had better be fighting to win. That means no rules of engagement that put these brave souls in danger. The type our soldiers find themselves operating under today. She wants to drill for oil. Well dah! We, perhaps, have more oil and gas than Saudi Arabia did in its heyday and we allow ourselves to be dependent on people that would prefer us dead. That is insane. We could turn our country around, rather quickly, if we build an energy economy. In addition to becoming independent, we could supply energy to China and perhaps cancel some of our debt. Exploration, drilling, refining, technology, transporting, shipping...JOBS. All technology has become more “green” in that we have learned the importance of doing our best to be stewards of the earth. But God put these resources at our disposal and told us to use them. To subjugate ourselves to foreign despots with insane religious beliefs, because we don’t want to use our own resources, is crazy. Sarah gets this. She has common sense. A rare gift these days. I do think, the people will get it, too, and that she will be our next president. I hope so.
Yes, from a politically serious point of view. But from her perspective, keeping that possibility open in Republican’s minds fuels the fascination with her. It keeps the ratings high on FNC too. It's entertainment!Keep the ga-ga thing burning!
People said that Obama was worldly, because as a child he was dragged to a variety of different countries. But Obama doesn't understand how the world works. He's never worked for a business, never run a real enterprise. They tell me Obama is smart, but I've seen him speak without a teleprompter: he's not that smart. Also, the man lies constantly -- he has no integrity.
I'm looking for a president who undertands the world. Sarah Palin has run a business, run a city, run a state, and been successful at everything. She knows how this stuff works.
I'm looking for a president with common sense. Being smart is a plus (and Sarah is plenty smart) but simple American common sense is much more important. You can hire smart people. The person at the top really needs good sense.
Most of all, I'm loking for a president with integrity. Say what you mean. Mean what you say. Don't go blaming everyone in the world for your own mistakes. Be a man. Sarah is much more of a man than Obama. And she's all woman too.
It’s weird. At this point I want her to be President not so much for what she’d do as President(most likely no different than any other Republican)but more for the reaction of the media.
I truly think that watching the returns on Election Day 2012 if she were to take down Obama would be the greatest night of television ever. Better than even money odds that one of the anchors or reporters or pundits literally starts crying on the air and has a total breakdown. You may even see a Bud Dwyer situation at MSNBC. Take the reaction to Brown last month and multiply it by about 100 trillion. It’d be like the old USSR when state TV would play mourning songs after Brezhnev died.
They loathe her with such a passion. It’s way beyond anything they ever had for Bush, Cheney, Gingrich, Reagan, anyone. With them, sure they didn’t like their policies, but I never got the sense they personally despised them, their families, and everything they represented. It’s even worse than I sensed came from the right against Clinton and now Obama. You don’t get that whole personal angle to it.
It would be interesting to sit down with say 100 or so of the top DC and NY media types in a private and unfettered setting and hear what they really think of her(and btw I think that includes a number of nominal conservatives/Republicans).
It can’t be her policies because they’re really no different from any other Republican or conservative. It can’t be her power because she doesn’t have any. I mean after Mondale/Ferraro lost in 84 did you see any Republicans continuing to go after her? Did anyone go after Lieberman or Edwards or Kemp after they lost? No.
But for some reason they continue to attack her on every level. I think it’s mainly a class/social thing. She came from nowhere. She was never part of the DC crowd. She doesn’t have an Ivy League/establishment background.(Even Bush had a Harvard MBA, Yale BA, went to Phillips Andover, etc... doesn’t get much more establishment than that. It’s why they like Romney too, a Harvard MBA/JD, was in the Wall St world). She didn’t have family connections that paved the way for her. She was never really listed in the media’s V speculation and they adopted this how dare he pick someone we didn’t approve of view. Basically, for lack of a better term, they see her as white trash. I guess it does say something when an all white media can fall head over heels for a black guy and take his side against someone white. You wouldn’t have seen that before. Progress?
But her being President would be the greatest revenge possible against the media, and I think that’s the main reason I hope it happens.
Just to see Chris Matthews’ face when that graphic of her with the “45th president” comes on the screen. Priceless, as Mastercard says.
Wallace tried to steamroller her a couple times and she owned him. His gloves were off and she won.
GO SARAH!
Drives me crazy when I think of America letting a few crazy enviros and politicians keep us dependent on foreign oil.....Why are the obvious solutions so hard to see for these people?......That’s right I forgot, they hate the country that allows them the freedom to act like and elect other idiots......
As Glen Reynolds said, “If the results had been reversed and McCain had won, would Joe Biden attract a crowd like Palin can?”
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