Calculated move? Or political suicide? I'm still trying to figure it out.
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The Curious Case of Sarah Palin - Comments Page 3
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76 - Franco
Joanne Huspek
I enjoyed reading that. And your right, Sarah Palin was is the quintessential anti-politician. A genuine human being first and an accidental politician second.
"Calculated move? Or political suicide? I’m still trying to figure it out"
One thing is for certain though, the unrelenting and trigger happy critics of Palin keep their full court press on at all times and can not give it a moments rest even as you read this. This speaks volumes to the fact of how much political power potential they know she still holds. Because clearly if she did not have the power, they would not be giving her the time of day. I like that the most!
77 - Cannonshop
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58 - roger nowosielski
Jul 10, 2009 at 11:23 am
Below standard, Cannon, and you know it. Indeed, even above average Americans apparently suffer from diminished acumen. That's the worst I've seen from you yet.
I know, I know... my real problem is that I can't believe anyone is still taking her seriously enough to watch her speeches in hopes of getting zingers.
Seriously. Palin was a state-grade politician tossed in to fill a hole the GOP didn't want to fill with someone they thought had talent. I admit, I fell for her too-but then, that was only because the idea of a Chicago Politician and Joe Biden as No.1 and 2 respectively creeped me out that much.
Still does, matter of fact...Palin cracked up-who wouldn't-at least, who that isn't a sociopathic droid wouldn't? At least she had the brains to step down and out before she became another media vampire like so many others.
I just wish the Democrats could find someone INTERESTING now-what's next, full-hour critiques on prime time about her elementary-school-years arguments? Rattled ex-boyfreinds? Bigfoot? what??
78 - Glenn Contrarian
C-shop -
You're looking for someone interesting? Personally, I think that's one of the biggest differences between liberals and conservatives. You look for 'interesting' high-flying rhetoric, and we look for pragmatism, that which makes our lives collectively better.
79 - roger nowosielski
Well, Cannon, I misunderstood your comment then. Yours is one of the more reasonable voices from the right, and it just didn't jibe. Sorry.
80 - Clavos
that which makes our lives collectively better.
There's the real difference: that word, "collectively."
81 - Bliffle
As I said when Palin was chosen for the republican ticket: she's an insubstantial lightweight and was blown away by the first gust of political winds.
82 - handyguy
It's interesting to me that relatively few voices on here are standing up for the governor, considering how much excitement and saliva she aroused on these pages last September.
I've never understood her appeal, but I don't deny its existence. Mary Matalin reported that she was in a Wal-Mart in Virginia when the resignation story hit cable news, and other shoppers responded with a 'yee-hah' supportive of Palin. [Maybe Ms. Matalin -- the multi-millionaire pundit in a Wal-Mart!? -- misinterpreted the intent of the happy yelling. Maybe they were happy to see her go.]
My heart sank when I saw that Frank Rich was devoting his entire column, "She Broke the G.O.P. and Now She Owns It," to Palin today. Enough already! But his point may well be valid: there is a substantial amount of inchoate rage out there, largely among white rural voters. They feel disenfranchised and alienated. And the right candidate could latch onto that and build a campaign around it. [Probably a losing campaign, but still.]
And these folks do like Palin. So do Republicans nationally: 71% of Republicans polled after the resignation announcement said they'd vote for her for president. That may not be the most meaningful of statistics, but it's not an indicator of a pariah or a has-been.
83 - roger nowosielski
Read that article, too, Handy, and frankly, I was also surprised. Frank Rich may have something there, but I really doubt whether the "disenfranchised rural voters" can carry the nation. If anything, it's a reflection on the deteriorated quality of conservative thought - just a tad above the Christian Right.
When will we see the end of ignorance?
84 - zedd
Roger,
Well put.
85 - Ruvy
About comments 83 and 84 - what disgusting arrogance!
86 - Cannonshop
#78 No, Glenn, you misunderstand. Liberals are generally boring because they repeat the same shit that has failed over and over again, but with the Mantra "This time it will be DIFFERENT." The Great Society and War on Poverty didn't fix anything-they just generated permanent votes from a captive class kept just comfortable enough to remain a captive class.
The Inner City is the Democrat "Vote Plantation", and the self-appointed "Elites" on the left are the Plantation Masters, complete with the same Paternalistic attitude and similar exploitive behaviours (only without the open and honest brutality, instead it's replaced with a system of encouraging dependence and self-pity.)
Palin WAS interesting-up until she cracked. She was interesting because she broke the Republican machine in Alaska and put corrupt pols from both parties out of office...something dems don't do. It was the main source of her appeal, and to an extent, still is-but she has all the chance of a fart in a whirlwind of being effective at ANYTHING now-other than retirement from public life.
Your "Pragmatism" is the "Pragmatism" of a true-believer in the church of Karl Marx, it's about as pragmatic as Radical Islam, and about as effective at fixing REAL problems...So far, your side's "Solutions" have a zero percent success rate in the United States, even when they're entrenched for decades and rendered untouchable.
FNMA, FDMC, CRA, SSI, these and thousands of other programmes have only served to get innocent people into deep shit, or in encouraging apathy and an "Entitled" mentality-one that is right down at the bottom of the mess we're in as a country right now (financially AND economically). Massaged numbers to hide unemployment don't help fix the problem, buying GM and Chrysler isn't fixing the problem, Buying Banks isn't fixing the problem, handing out cheques isn't going to fix it either. Nor is funnelling money to slush-funds and half-disguised party organs like ACORN.
The PROBLEM is good intentions gone rampant combined with a deliberate ignorance of both prior experiences, and current results of prior attempts.
"Comfortable in Poverty" is NOT the same as "Getting OUT OF POVERTY." It's not even CLOSE.
By the way: when ARE Democrats going to start paying their (badword) Taxes?
87 - roger nowosielski
#85,
Spoken like a true champion of humility.
88 - badger
Remember Obama had less experience than Palin. He won due to his race, deceitful actions with acorn (fraudulent registrations, college students voting twice, thugs strategically placed outside polling booths, Tables for Obama actually set up INSIDE of voting places. So actually Obama won not because of his credentials but because he cheated. I guess he could not be elected for his skills. No candidate has ever gone that far. Like any good casino that recognizes a cheater we will be ready to counteract all of the deceit. With CNN ratings falling as fast as Obamas, I don't think the bought and sold media will be much help to him this time.
So if Palin goes against him she WILL have a great chance. She has as much experince as him (actually a little more than he did before being elected) and she has two things he doesn't. Honesty and a love of country. Obama's Acorn tree has rotting roots that will send it plumeting by 2012 and he will be riding it all the way down.
89 - Telus
"Both had little experience and both were the flavor of the week."
Think you're talking about Sarah and HILLARY here! Being the 'better half' of some president does not qualify you to run for office as a senator or a president any more than being Miss RunnerUp in a beauty contest, just as running for senator as a stepping stone to a run for the presidency is no less egregious than running for governor as a stepping stone to national media fame and fortune.
Both of these ladies used their political offices for personal aggrandizement in the most callous way, and the invectives and slurs they used to claw and paw their way to those power positions should be forever branded in scarlet letters on their chests.
90 - Telus
Cannonshop ... "they repeat the same sh-t that has failed over and over again..."
Ahh-ha-ha-ha-ha! I thought you were talking about NAM and GWOT! When are we going to dismantle the charade 'Defense' that for all the $Ts we pumped into it, not only failed to *defend* our shores at Pearl Harbor and at WTC, but they failed egregiously, failed deliberately, PNAC's 'Mein Kampf' was to 'start a small war', and now we are sacrificing our economy and our health care to what, carpet bomb goat herders. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!?
Palin was interesting because she ratted out her own *mentor*, which shows just how far you can trust that broad behind your back, and poof, sure enough, six months later she walks away from a state she has bankrupted, for a fat $Ms book deal, with 28 indictments against her, but Palin is just Paris in a pants suit, the ReThugs in power will manipulate the media to make sure she dances on air until 2012, then they'll discard her like a streetwalker.
Good job, men!