Posted on 03/29/2010 7:32:47 AM PDT by Steelfish
In Defense of Sarah Palin She understands that the U.S. has been a force for good in the world—which is more than can be said of our president.
NORMAN PODHORETZ
Nothing annoys certain of my fellow conservative intellectuals more than when I remind them, as on occasion I mischievously do, that the derogatory things they say about Sarah Palin are uncannily similar to what many of their forebears once said about Ronald Reagan.
It's hard to imagine now, but 31 years ago, when I first announced that I was supporting Reagan in his bid for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination, I was routinely asked by friends on the right how I could possibly associate myself with this "airhead," this B movie star, who was not only stupid but incompetent. They readily acknowledged that his political views were on the whole close to ours, but the embarrassing primitivism with which he expressed them only served, they said, to undermine their credibility. In any case, his base was so narrow that he had no chance of rescuing us from the disastrous administration of Jimmy Carter.
Now I knew Ronald Reagan, and Sarah Palin is no Ronald Reagan. Then again, the first time I met Reagan all he talked about was the money he had saved the taxpayers as governor of California by changing the size of the folders used for storing the state's files. So nonplussed was I by the delight he showed at this great achievement that I came close to thinking that my friends were right and that I had made a mistake in supporting him. Ultimately, of course, we all wound up regarding him as a great man, but in 1979 none of us would have dreamed that this would be how we would feel only a few years
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I don’t care who it is or how courageously they present themselves as defenders of Sarah Palin, when they claim that 0bama undoubtedly has a higher IQ, I’m done reading.
After watching her non stop cheer leading for McLame, i have very serious doubts about Palin...
“As for me, after more than a year of seeing how those “prodigious oratorical and intellectual gifts” have worked themselves out in action, I remain more convinced than ever of the soundness of Buckley’s quip, in the spirit of which I hereby declare that I would rather be ruled by the Tea Party than by the Democratic Party, and I would rather have Sarah Palin sitting in the Oval Office than Barack Obama.”
Already been posted.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2482025/posts
Norman gets off a great line at the end. “I’d rather be ruled by the Tea Party than the Democratic Party ...”!
Palin knows how to answer a direct question. THAT is obviously a rare and positive quality in a politician. I say this because so few politicians (many with more extensive experience and shrewder PR skills than hers) who are able or willing to do so.
Also, Palin knows how to get on topic and stay there. Lesser politicians cannot resist artfully straying to their particular and personal pet topics...and they invariably do so with the jejune and supercilious conviction that it is unnoticed by viewers or readers. There’s enough insolence there to choke the whole stable.
Finally, Palin knows how to make a sentence with a subject and a predicate. Try finding other life time politicians of any stripe who can boast THAT talent!!
When she is finished, I know EXACTLY what she said.
McCain has caused incredible damage to America with McCain-Feingold. It helped elect Dem Congress 2006/2008 and Obama. We may lose the country because of McCain’s backstabbing.
Oh how nice of you! SARC.
You see this is the problem. While the author was “defending” Sarah and the Tea Partiers, he writes with a certain hesitation.
What the hell is I would RATHER crap??
Sarah and the Tea Party people represents true Americans down to our founding.
And what is the Crap that Obama has a higher IQ?? Does he mean OFF PROMPTER IQ or ON PROMPTER IQ??
Because without the prompter this POTUS is clueless.
It seems to me that if you would sit on your hands instead of working for the election of Sarah Palin then you just don’t get it. Marxism is here and if you believe we should fight it then we need a warrior not an intellectual elitist. We have an American Pioneer, a veritable John Wayne in a skirt, either get on the wagon or get out of the way, the rest of us have a country to save.
They are a bunch frauds. They have no backbone and will stand quietly while our country is publicly dismantled.
oooh concern trolls on here.
Isn’t it odd that they never had any probs with DeMint when he supported Romney lol.
Suspect motivations....btw this is a duplicate thread.
AMEN!!!
McCain got her huge national exposure. Huge! Of course she feels honor bound to campaign for him. To do otherwise would not only be unwise, it would tell other politicians that she is rigid and holds a grudge. McCain is push pulled by his advisers, and it is those advisers who are the real problem, or were in the campaign anyway.
No, I respect Sarah for standing up for McCain. She owes him.
Does that make him any better a candidate? No. Sarah just owes him some support.
its still a semi free country... you are totally free to vote for whom you like, as am I. But i have a hard time voting for someone who advocates reform on one hand, and goes out of her way to campaign for him... support i can understand, but IMO she went well beyond that.
” I support the conservative movement, well except in this case i dont”... sorry not a winner.
I’m praying that J.D. wins in a landslide! We don’t need McCain in ANY political position. Sarah is not helping. She owes McLame nothing!!!
She was there to support McCain, not a movement or anything else. Frankly Mcjuan is still better than any Democrat. You can’t even lump him in with Specter, who was nothing but a mole anyway. McCain is a centrist for sure, but he also handed Sarah opportunities that might never have come in any other way. Where I came from, when someone does something at that level, yea, you are in debt to that person. If nothing else, I respect that she recognizes a debt of honor, and that is a quality I admire. She pays that debt. I respect that as well.
Thank God above that it wasn’t Specter or Snowe or some other really hideous RINO that “discovered” her!
Realism is a necessary aspect of politics. When Sarah campaigns for McLane, she disarms all of the ex-staffers with the sharp knives. They would have continued their cutting at her, bouyed by by support from the media. As long as she is actively campaigning for McLane those voices are silent. By the time the election is over, to much time will have passed and their knives will be dull. Cynical, yes. Practical, yes. A wise political strategy, most likely.
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