During her interview with Oprah Winfrey, Sarah Palin tried to come across as a “perky, folksy” working mom. She blamed McCain campaign staffers for her shortcomings and inadequacies as McCain’s VP pick. Palin argued that they wouldn’t let her be herself, wanted to make over her family or refused to allow her to give a concession speech along with McCain.
In defending the “bad” interview with Katie Couric, Palin told Oprah she thought the interview was going to be “light-hearted and fun, moms talking to moms.” Palin said she took offense at Couric asking her what publications she read because it implied she was “some kind of Neanderthal” living out there in Alaska. Palin expressed equal disgust with Couric asking her twelve times about her position on abortion. These though are basic questions any journalist would ask a vice-presidential or presidential candidate. Reflecting back on the Couric interview, she said laughingly to Oprah, “I don’t blame people for thinking I wasn’t qualified after seeing that interview.”
When Oprah asked her if she was shocked to receive the phone call from Senator John McCain about being his running mate, she said she “didn’t blink or question her ability.” Oprah later told Palin when she watched McCain announce her as his running mate, Oprah said “I was like wow, who is she?” Palin told Oprah she wasn’t to blame for McCain losing the 2008 presidential campaign. “I think the reason that we lost, the economy tanked under a Republican administration. People were sincerely looking for change,” she says. “I think, unfortunately, our ticket represented what was perceived as status quo. And so I don’t think that I was to blame for losing the race any more than I could be credited with winning the race had I done a better job as the VP candidate.”
At the end of her interview, Palin told Oprah she’s not “retreating, she’s re-loading.” For what role specifically, Palin wouldn’t say but Oprah asked if she was going to get her own talk show. Seems like the natural role for her because while she claimed to Oprah she’s “really not into the drama,” it follows her everywhere andwould be great for ratings if not for politics.
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1 anniemargret // Nov 17, 2009 at 4:51 pm
“Sarah Palin tried to come across as a “perky, folksy” working mom…”
But this is the problem of course. Thousands of voters don’t want a ‘perky folksy working mom.” We much rather have a serious minded substantive well read and educated person in the White House who can give us more than platitudes and right wing mantras…”drill baby drill.”
That she thought her interview with Couric would be (…”“light-hearted and fun, moms talking to moms”) is unbelievably naive, one of the most stupid statements I’ve ever heard coming out a so-called politician seeking high office. Can you imagine Hillary saying such a thing?
This is the woman McCain presented to this nation and world as ‘being ready’ to take on the serious responsibilities of the V.P. a heartbeat away from the Presidency. He should be tarred and feathered. I don’t give a fig about “moms talking to moms’ when I pick a president. I do want to hear in-depth discussions about national and foreign policy, without resorting to her playbook.
She’s a train wreck.
2 anniemargret // Nov 17, 2009 at 4:56 pm
….is she running for the local beauty contest (Newsweek cover that she is now complaining about but she willingly posed for Runner’s World, as if she didn’t know they would not use this photo elsewhere…does she think we are ALL idiots?)……
….or she trying out for top dog at the local PTA? (Oprah: “Why didn’t you just name some books or magazines?”
Palin: “By the time she asked me that question I was already so annoyed and it was very unprofessional of me to wear that annoyance on my sleeve.”
Yes. Unprofessional.
3 ProfNickD // Nov 17, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Funny, I don’t remember Biden being challenged in his interview with Couric on his fairy-tale claim that President Roosevelt “got on t.v.” when the Depression hit (in 1929, prior to t.v. being in use by the general public and even prior to FDR being President).
Palin has never said anything remotely nonsensical and unreal as that — despite the press patently trying to goad her into doing so.
4 anniemargret // Nov 17, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Yes. Biden is and can be an idiot at times. I agree.
But please don’t be so obtuse to think she and he are on a level playing field. He is has over 30+ years serving in the federal government (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden). Quite an extensive record I think.
He is the V.P.
She is a governor that quit and didn’t even bother to finish her term to make lots and lots of moolah. Big difference.
5 forgetn // Nov 17, 2009 at 5:39 pm
The more I see how the republican party is behaving the more it looks hopeless for 2012. There are so many internal fights that have yet to be fought that I cannot see how the party can recover before 2012. The selection process for the next Republican presidential candidate will begin on November 4th 2010, about 5 minutes after the polls for the mid term election close.
What damage will the party have sustain by they from the “Club for Growth” and other Anti-RINO organisations. Mrs. Palin will be a fun raising machine for 2010 mid term elections because the money to run elections comes from the base and not from independents. By 2010 the republican candidates will have figured out Obama’s fund raising machine and replicate its most attractive features.
Mrs Palin really needs to get into gear and think policy, because of her popularity, ego and desire for revenge it is almost certain that she will be running for president for the 2012 elections. She has so far resisted thinking or even mentioning policy; her sole outing was the “death panels” and that was hardly a success. Mrs Palin is not a stupid women, there is no way she could achieve as much as she did had she been; granted she has set up high barriers to the “intellectual right” which she seems to distrust, but she is not a stupid women. Hopefully she has gotten the bile out with her book. She has 6-9 months to put her thoughts on where the Union should go, and although this is not very long she is a smart women and can achieve this goal.
6 CentristNYer // Nov 17, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Biden had long ago established his credibility and his record was quite clear on the substantive issues of the day. His views on international and domestic issues were well known from his three decades in the Senate and he didn’t have to prove that he was up to the job. Not so for Palin, who had no record of accomplishments, had expressed no opinions about Iraq or Afghanistan and whose only campaign issue was the insipid “drill, baby, drill.”
The fact that she couldn’t be induced to even share her daily reading list speaks for itself.
7 Sabba Hillel // Nov 17, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Actually, having listened to Biden and seen what he has said and done, I would say that his 30 years of “experience” were actually a flaw and made Sarah palin a better candidate for VP. I also find it interesting that she had more and better experience than the presidential candidate. If she had too little experience to be VP, then Barack Obama should have been rejected for having even less.
As far as resigning as governor, had she stayed, the phony “ethics” charges that kept getting filed would have made it impossible for her to actually do anything and could have bankrupted her or possibly the state.
8 PracticalGirl // Nov 17, 2009 at 5:52 pm
The “Oprah”interview legitimized all my questions about Palin’s competency to lead in a time of great confusion and upheaval. No surprise, Plucky Palin beat her tired drum about how the media made her look stupid. All her protestations, especially about continuing the Couric interview segments when she says she “knew” she shouldn’t, are the lasting thing that really makes her look incompetent.
She couldn’t make the right decision-terminate the interviews, as she has said over and over she wanted to-even when it was clear to her that that was the best course of action. I shudder to think about how that kind of Beauty Queen decision-making-by-peer-presure might have translated into a stint as VP. Palin certainly was ready when she took the stage as Miss Wasilla. But the national and international stage as the Vice President of the United States? Not so much.
9 Oldskool // Nov 17, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Unfortunately for her and the other dingbats in the Republican party, they’re sandwiched between two gifted Democrats, Clinton and Obama. Palin and the rest would probably fair a lot better if they were being compared to a leftie version of someone like Bush 43. Thankfully no such animal exists right now.
10 anniemargret // Nov 17, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Sabba: “Actually, having listened to Biden and seen what he has said and done, I would say that his 30 years of “experience” were actually a flaw and made Sarah palin a better candidate for VP.”
Tell me you’re kidding.
The majority of Americans trust and honor Biden’s long extensive and honorable work for the government. He has been a good public servant.
She cut and ran. Next!
11 CentristNYer // Nov 17, 2009 at 6:10 pm
The idea that anyone could have viewed Biden and Palin side-by-side and come away impressed with her is astonishing. Even kind of disturbing. Her policy prescriptions read like bumper stickers and she spent much of her debate shoehorning scripted talking points into answers. Even Dan Quayle had more substance. (And at least he didn’t try to wink his way through a painful performance.)
12 MI-GOPer // Nov 17, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Off topic for a second…
Anniemargaret, you’re sounding more like a Village Troll than the responsible, thoughtful commenter image you tried to project when you last “cut & run” from this site a short while ago. It’s these kinds of comments that had me wishing you’d stay away a tad longer and allow serious people to discuss important topics without your annoying, nonrelevant injections. Well, “serious” if you ignore oldskool.
Frankly, your repetition of the childish, asinine DailyKos, DemocratUnderground or AmericaBlog talking points like “she cut and run. next” is what I remember mostly about your “contribution” here –and I use that term advisedly. Mrs Palin neither deserves your petty scorn nor your childish, asinine reiterations of someone else’s once-clever spin gathered from some Democrat cyber salon. Cripe, you can’t even be original, woman.
Whether or not you appreciate Mrs Palin’s contribution of public service or her dedication as a working mom, a devoted spouse, a patriotic parent with a son serving in the military or her strong, moral convictions, you come off as a petty, petulant, angry little troll still bitter that someone dared to speak on behalf of working moms and career female CEOs and somehow not be a Democrat or feminista. Mrs Palin has something you’ll never achieve in a thousand threads… character. And that sticks in your craw like a soda cracker on a hot July evening.
Please, either take a hike from this site for a longer time or keep the reiterations of DailyKos talking points for the HuffPo or WashPo or KeithOlbermann’s blog, ok?
Back on topic: I also watched the Palin interview on Oprah and didn’t think she came off sounding anything different than she really is –which is exactly what Mrs Palin tries to do… not be artificial and contrived –we got enough of Obama as Messiah for that schtick. I thought her statement of loving concern for the black sheep of the clan and that newest darling of the immoral Left (Levi) about coming to T-day was sincere, touching and genuine.
I also thought that Oprah, the TV Queen who knighted Obama, was the artificial, pandering, insincere person on stage. Her interview made similar articles and pic-pages in People magazine look enlightened and serious.
I’ve never found Oprah to have much depth or seriousness –she’s long past her days of trying to appear a journalist or informed social commenter and is fat-out stuck in the “celebrity without depth” standard that has consumed such luminous Left wing talents as Geo Clooney, Susan Sarandon, Baba Streisand and Ed Begley.
Oprah was out of her league in interviewing Mrs Palin, but then, Oprah’s league is now on a par with “The View”. Maybe it’s time for Oprah to exit stage Left and grab some ambassadorship while the Obama is still in power. She won’t have long to do that, thank God.
13 MI-GOPer // Nov 17, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Just to make the point: AnnieM contends “(t)he majority of Americans trust and honor Biden….”
Which is, naturally, a lie. Most Americans, according to the latest Gallup poll, either have an unfavorable opinion of Biden or find him not worthy of even expressing an opinion –58%. That a John Kerry like flip-flop from the Election Day 08 high of 59% favorable. Flip, flop. Andyone got a sailboard for ol’ Joe to ride in the Delaware wind?
http://www.gallup.com/poll/123860/vice-president-biden-favorable-rating-continues-decline.aspx
A majority of Americans have Biden pegged perfectly for the stage-grabbing, ego-horse, BoToxed, lightweight, hair-plugged political hack our Veep truly is… experience? Oh yeah, how’s that plan to divide Iraq into three seperate nation-states going? Its in Obama’s White House dustcan? Hey, how’s that plan to replace Afghani Prez Karzai with Dr Abdullah going? Oh, it’s in the dustcan too?
I wonder if ol’ Joe is still thinking that the Obama will be tested on something like a nuclear weaponed Iran, hesitate, dither and bring about unilateral Israeli action… only to watch the Middle East explode like an IED on the road to Kabul?
Yeah, thank God that when the Democrat left talks about Joe they think statesman. It keeps the bar artifically low for the next generation of Democrats to be able to excel.
14 JeninCT // Nov 17, 2009 at 7:29 pm
I couldn’t have watched the same interview as Ms. Wright. Palin came across as herself, not as though she was ‘trying’ to come across as some folksy character. This is who she is.
Regarding the “bad” interview with Katie Couric, you say “Palin told Oprah she thought the interview was going to be “light-hearted and fun, moms talking to moms.””. That’s not what I saw. Palin said she was told it was going to be light-hearted and fun, moms talking to moms. Big difference.
In my opinion, the highlight of the interview was when Palin referred to Couric as “The perky one with the microphone.”
15 Oldskool // Nov 17, 2009 at 8:07 pm
MI-GOPer // Nov 17, 2009 at 7:15 pm
“Off topic for a second…
you come off as a petty, petulant, angry little troll ”
Are you ever on topic? You spend most of your time flaming everyone you disagree with. Grow a pair and act an adult for once, even if it’s only an act. Everyone here would appreciate it.
16 teabag // Nov 17, 2009 at 8:26 pm
MI-GOPer // Nov 17, 2009 at 7:15 pm
“Off topic for a second…
you come off as a petty, petulant, angry little troll ”
Are you ever on topic? You spend most of your time flaming everyone you disagree with. Grow a pair and act an adult for once, even if it’s only an act. Everyone here would appreciate it.
Seconded.
17 anniemargret // Nov 17, 2009 at 8:33 pm
MI-GOPer: Sorry you didn’t like my criticism of Palin. But you gave your equally destructive criticism of Biden, no? What’s the difference?
I dislike her and her politics. I’m entitled my opinion, as you are yours. This thread is about Palin and her ambitions, and if she is planning on viewing the White House as a goal, then criticism is fair game.
After all, I read an awful lot of Obama-bashing here, too. Which is the way it is… or are you saying that everyone that adds their voice here must never criticize her?
As far as my being ‘angry’ I am about her. I think she doesn’t really deserve this glorification. Again, that’s my opinion, as you don’t think Obama deserved his. She is a probably a nice person to have around, but I don’t think she has shown the seriousness required for high office . I think a lot of people don’t, including Republicans.
18 lowandslow // Nov 17, 2009 at 8:58 pm
ProfNickD // Nov 17, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Palin has never said anything remotely nonsensical and unreal as that — despite the press patently trying to goad her into doing so.
Oh how quickly we forget.
“Oil and coal? Of course, it’s a fungible commodity and they don’t flag, you know, the molecules, where it’s going and where it’s not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first,” Palin said. “So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it’s Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It’s got to flow into our domestic markets first.”
19 FrankHagan // Nov 17, 2009 at 9:12 pm
I think Palin is a bit of a lightweight, but I like her. I think like most people running as a VP on a losing ticket, she has a future in the GOP as a campaign supporter, helping local candidates, but not as a candidate on a national ticket. I don’t recall any successful campaigns for President of a candidate who lost previously on the bottom of the ticket. Primary voters don’t usually reward losing (ask John Edwards).
Still, I think Ms. Wright is wrong in one respect: Ms. Palin was asked questions that would not be asked of other politicians. The request for a list of periodicals is a peculiar request, and I can’t think of another politician asked that question during the election. There was much focus on why a first term governor is qualified to be in the #2 spot, when the top spot on the opposing ticket was occupied by a man with very little political experience (and no executive branch experience at all).
20 CentristNYer // Nov 17, 2009 at 9:54 pm
MI-GOPer writes: “Please, either take a hike from this site for a longer time or keep the reiterations of DailyKos talking points for the HuffPo or WashPo or KeithOlbermann’s blog, ok?”
This is a perfect example of why the Republican party is looking more like the Taliban than a mature political organization. Anyone who doesn’t drink the Kool-Aid is cast out and dismissed as a RINO — or a libruhl.
Palin is a lightweight and was clearly unqualified to be a heartbeat from the presidency. If saying so aloud and acknowledging that Biden was a superior candidate makes those of us pariahs, so be it. I can’t identify anymore with a party that has become so paranoid and self-delusional.
21 JeninCT // Nov 17, 2009 at 10:56 pm
The interest she generates both negative and positive proves she’s a political force. She’s also extremely confident and seems to have a much thicker skin than Obama, which will make for a very entertaining 2012 if she chooses to run.
22 JeninCT // Nov 17, 2009 at 11:02 pm
“anniemargret // Nov 17, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Yes. Biden is and can be an idiot at times. I agree…He is the V.P. ”
BIDEN was Obama’s first executive decision.
Enough said. And you people are worried about Palin?
23 anniemargret // Nov 17, 2009 at 11:17 pm
JeninCT: I also said of Biden that he has over 30+ distinguished years serving the public good in a variety of capacities in the federal government. Sarah has ….what? She didn’t finish out her term as governor. Big, big difference.
And Obama and Biden won. He’s the VP.
Yes, I am worried about Palin. She has offended half this country with her inane “real America’ remarks and her dangerous demagoguery with ‘death threats.’ I take her remarks seriously. For me, it doesn’t point to someone who can lead, or lead well, or unite this country when we are facing crushing problems both domestically or in our foreign policies.
And no, she does not have a thicker skin… she has a very thin skin…everyone is after her, McCain camp, liberal media, Levi, etc…
But you are right about one thing, Jenin….it will be a very entertaining 2012 if she runs.
24 sinz54 // Nov 17, 2009 at 11:57 pm
anniemargaret:
Until now, I wasn’t even aware that Sarah Palin wanted to be thought of as “perky.” I had hoped she wanted to be thought of this way:
http://heartlandmusings.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/sarah-palin-gun.jpg
25 CentristNYer // Nov 18, 2009 at 12:21 am
@JeninCT:
Someone with a thick skin does not write a score-settling screed like “Going Rogue.” To the contrary, Palin has repeatedly shown herself to be desperately insecure and a pathological grudge-holder on par with Richard Nixon.
26 johnmarzan // Nov 18, 2009 at 6:03 am
let us get one thing straight here. yes, her likability is 70%+ among republicans. but when asked if she is qualified to become president, the number is much much lower…
27 Independent // Nov 18, 2009 at 6:24 am
“Frankly, your (anniemargaret) repetition of the childish, asinine DailyKos, DemocratUnderground or AmericaBlog talking points like “she cut and run. next” is what I remember mostly about your “contribution” here –and I use that term advisedly. Mrs Palin neither deserves your petty scorn nor your childish, asinine reiterations of someone else’s once-clever spin gathered from some Democrat cyber salon. Cripe, you can’t even be original, woman.” –MI-GOP @ 12
yes. she and the other trolls on this site “dedicated to building a new conservativism” (frum’s words, not mine) can’t be original because they’re part of a cabal of people who spread lies and distortions throughout the web hoping that their lies will succeed in tricking people.
anniemargaret, like txanne and oldskool and teabag, are –at heart– liars all and underhanded, disingenuious trolls. they are just expressing their opinion; they are here to distort reality and stop real people interested in constructively rebuilding the conservative movement.
i love how anniemargaret and the other trolls try to make this an issue about “everyone’s entitled to their opinion” –which is right. and you, too, mi-gop, are entitled to your more accurate and truthful opinion of calling them out for what they truly are… and you even provided a clear example of the type of lies anniemargaret and other trolls here spread daily –namely, the one about how americans seem to find mr biden to be a gushingly wonderful, highly experienced man of honor… and you cite a poll that clearly says anniemargaret was lying when she claimed that whopper of lie.
sad pathetic characters like old skool and teabag have been on the net irritating others since al gore “started” the internet –another far left, democrat lie that is often retold in the cyber salons of the democrat underground. but they have been around for a long, long time –before that, they did this nonsense in op ed pages, on call-in radio, etcetera.
what anniemargaret and old skool and teabag have in common is a play from the playbook of former dnc chairman and the ultimate political hack of all time, terry mcauliffe… who was so discredited for his cheap political tricks he lost the race for virginia governor nomination to creigh deeds –creigh deeds, for gosh sake! mr mcauliffe, in fall of 81, announced at a dnc meeting that he was going to build a national network of loyal democrat “fire-eaters” (his words) who would write letters to the editors and call-in to conservative radio shows whenever the republicans and reagan were spreading lies about poor ol’ democrat leaders like fatcat tip oneill… that same network exists today with a new set of boorish, verbally violent, irritating and harassing trolls like anniemargaret and oldskool and teabag.
i agree with mi-gop. i think this site has become an open sewer for people like anniemargaret and teabag to crawl up out of the democrat underground tunnels and troll like a terry mcauliffe wanna-be.
they fashion themselves to be some truth-squad. the truth is, they wouldn’t recognize the truth if it bit them on their sizable, rotund rear quarters.
that’s the real truth and thank you mi-gop for telling it.
by the way, he/she did speak about the topic of this thread –so old skool, teabag and anniemargaret are still telling lies before their last set of lies can even die down… it’s a pattern of addiction for these democrat “fire-eaters” that is oh so hard to break. and he/she (mi-gop) is correct about palin and oprah too.
28 Independent // Nov 18, 2009 at 6:27 am
“As far as my being ‘angry’ I am about her. I think she doesn’t really deserve this glorification” –anniemaragret @ 17.
no one is glorifying mrs palin –in fact, nearly all of the articles on this conservative site have been almost dedicated by the authors in making fun and belittling mrs palin.
another lie from the lying cabal of far left democrat fire-eaters like annie.
29 Independent // Nov 18, 2009 at 6:32 am
“This is a perfect example of why the Republican party is looking more like the Taliban than a mature political organization.” –”centrist ny’er @ 20.
umm, sorry, but you’re clearly no centrist just like teabag is no member of the populist tea bag party movement… i love how the far left democrat trolls can’t even be honest in picking their handles here. what a pathetic group of habitual liars and distorters.
when a far left troll claims that the gop is looking like a taliban wannabe, i know that the world has turned upside down. i thought this was a site for conservatives to chat about how the conservative movement can regain its dominant, majority voice in american politics… not a place for annoying trolls and pests to act like they’re still in an outhouse?
30 JeninCT // Nov 18, 2009 at 6:39 am
“She has offended half this country with her inane “real America’ remarks”
Why are you still whining about that? You must be more thin skinned than Obama!
“And no, she does not have a thicker skin… she has a very thin skin…everyone is after her, McCain camp, liberal media, Levi, etc…”
I disagree, she has a very thick skin. She’s explaining what happened last year, not whining about it. Compare that to Obama, a sitting president who is picking fights with the only news network that isn’t fawning over him and his wife. He acts like a child.
31 Raider1 // Nov 18, 2009 at 7:55 am
Raise your hands if you’ve been governor of a state? (That goes for you too Mr. Obama)
32 CentristNYer // Nov 18, 2009 at 8:02 am
I see that the witch hunt is now in full swing.
Anyone who dares to say that the empress has no clothes is dismissed as a “troll” and a libruhl. Point out Palin’s complete inadequacy as a legislator or that she’s a total fantasist whose book is riddled with inaccuracies and distortions and you’re told that you have to shut up and stop posting.
This thread is becoming a microcosm of today’s Republican party. Check your intellect and common sense at the door.
33 anniemargret // Nov 18, 2009 at 8:39 am
Holy Guacomole, Batman!…..what a firestorm I started!
About to head off to work but I do want to address my critics above. First, you all must decide whether Frum’s site should be completely off-limits to liberals, Democrats, or people like myself, left of center Democrats. If so, then Frum will have to monitor to make sure no one with dissenting opinion is allowed here, or a big banner saying ‘Democrats Need Not Apply” If this is an exclusive club, then so be it…but I would think being inclusive is much better.
In all fairness to me, if you read back through all my blog entries, you will see that I have often agreed with conservatives and Republicans on some issues. I don’t particularly agree that all liberal opinions are the best, either, but likewise, I wouldn’t be a registered Democrat if I agreed more with their views than Republicans. I used to be a Republican (my last vote that way was for Reagan) but I think the party has veered far, far to the right and anyone that has a dissenting opinion is now trashed and burned.
I voted for Obama but I can also disagree with his policy. I don’t have to agree with him on every issue, but I also have respect for the Presidency. I have no need to excoriate any of you with childish and nasty name-calling as some of you see fit to do. Surely as intelligent adults, we can debate whether or not Obama is right or wrong on the issues that is of most concern to America and Americans, or whether or not Palin is.
Jenin: I don’t particularly like that Obama started a fight with Fox News but obviously he and his advisors believed there were political ramifications for his decision. Frankly, I think he would have been better off just going on the show and answer questions. I would have preferred that.
Jenin: I most certainly am ‘thin-skinned’ when Sarah Palin offended half the country. Three quarters of Americans live, work and die in big cities, and many are blue-collar workers, like my parents were.
She implies there are some citizens that are not ‘real Americans.’ That is a serious insult. It shows she is into class and culture warfare, and I have no use for those tactics. I cannot answer to why you, as a New Yorker, as I am, weren’t offended by it, but if you look at the polls, there are thousands that were. It is not an admirable trait to my mind for a politician or for someone aiming (supposedly) to be a ‘leader’ to offend any American due to birth or class or geographic status.
So now “Independent” says this site is a ’sewer’ because there are some here who differ in opinion and actually have some harsh criticism for Palin. I am not into vicious and adolescent name-calling. I am not a troll. I think deeply about the issues and am not using talking points from liberal blogs. I cannot speak for every liberal on this blog, but don’t lump me into some larger category, please.
I dislike Palin for pragmatic reasons, as listed above. She has not proven her case to be taken seriously. When and if she gets in some tough interviewing with hardball questions about national and international policy and gives thoughtful substantive answers and not platitudes, I might change my mind. That has not yet happened.
I want the next President of the US, be he or she a Republican or Democrat, to be articulate and brilliant. I really don’t want him or her to be ‘one of us’, I want him or her to be more intelligent than me or the average person. We are dealing with huge & dangerous issues in the world and this nation, and it requires tact, perseverance, serious dialogue with advocates as well as with people other than yes-men/women. If she can do this, she needs to start showing that soon.
I have pointed out that Sarah Palin ‘cut and ran’ and that comment offended some of you. Perhaps that was to strong an analogy…so I’m sorry. But in all actuality, she did, didn’t she?
I don’t for a moment think she left her governorship because she was afraid of combating false charges against her, yet if she stayed and finished out her term, she would have shown grit. I do think she left because she is simply a smart person and saw that she could make lots of money outside public office. If you think that’s great, so be it. I don’t.
There is no question that women in public office have a much harder time than men. The double standard is alive and well in 2009. That is why women have to be more careful coming off as serious and not blowing kisses and winking. This does not help her image. She certainly has a beautiful family, and I for one, do not like ANY child of any politician to be ridiculed. Children should be protected and particularly those from politician’s families.
Again, there’s a great deal of mud-slinging here against Obama and Biden, which is to be expected on a conservative site. I’m not shocked by it. But I can argue against this mud-slinging without resorting to the the vicious name-calling that goes on here. The question is…can you all do the same?
What do you all want Frums’ site to be? I happen to agree with some of his views, and have respect for him, frankly, as I do Huckabee, and even Gingrich. I can respect these people but not necessarily agree with all their views…. but can’t be all be adults here and just debate the issues? I am beginning to think any criticism of Palin is immediately off-limits…
Why? Is she immune from criticism? Do you supporters understand why many Americans question her ability to lead? I have no interest about her being a ‘great Mom’ simply because there are thousands of great Moms, and that should not be a consideration for high public office. I believe in God too, but to be fair to her, they need to stop asking her about God or her religion. Frankly, religion and belief in God should not be of concern in public office. I am concerned about the issues a commander-in-chief should face.
However, I am interested in why she baits and insults and then says she’s just a nice folksy person from Alaska. This is a bit of conundrum. Is she interested in uniting the country and help us work together on the serious issues facing Americans these days, or does she want to continue to use dangerous hyperbole like ‘death threats’ and scare thousands of people about serious healthcare reform, so she stirs up anger and controversy?
Frankly, I don’t think she will run in 2012. She will spend the next three years as a female Rush Limbaugh and attacking her opponents and making money. But until and when she states unequivocally that she is not running to be the President of the US, she will have have to take the criticism along with the accolades.
34 anniemargret // Nov 18, 2009 at 9:02 am
Independent: “..another lie from the lying cabal of far left democrat fire-eaters like annie.”
And you, Sir, don’t sound a bit like an ‘Independent.”
35 mymy // Nov 18, 2009 at 9:03 am
The strangest part of the interview was Oprah pressing Gov.Palin about having 5 children and being V.P. Gov.Palin felt if a male could have children and be a V.P. why not a woman.Oprahs response was” but they have wives”.What happened to equal rights for women? Why all of a sudden is a father not capable of caring for children?It struck me as odd
36 anniemargret // Nov 18, 2009 at 9:04 am
mymy: Because conservatively most people might agree that mothers are essential to the formation of character in the early years of a child’s life. Of course men can be good parents, too. But the mother-child bond in the early years has been proven to be of great importance.
37 mymy // Nov 18, 2009 at 9:20 am
Gee Annie.Thats not what I’ve been told for years.Funny how all of a sudden Oprah changes her tune.
38 MI-GOPer // Nov 18, 2009 at 9:24 am
anniemargaret whines: “So now “Independent” says this site is a ’sewer’ because there are some here who differ in opinion and actually have some harsh criticism for Palin. I am not into vicious and adolescent name-calling. I am not a troll. I think deeply about the issues and am not using talking points from liberal blogs.”
Bull. The whole talking point of “she quit”, “she cut and ran”, etc that you raised here? It is PURE far Left DailyKos talking points, annie-the-liar. And you aren’t even original in your spinfest… Independent is correct. For all your tsk-tsk’ing and faux-concern about the future of the GOP, you’re a troll on a conservative site that’s supposed to be about rebuilding the conservative movement, the GOP.
You are a troll, just like old skool and teabag and txanne; it’s not namecalling… it’s holding you accountable for your lies and willful distortions. You hide behind a thin veneer of supposed non-partisanship –even claiming at one point to have vote GOP in the past– but still spread the far Left Democrat talking points here like one of Terry McAuliffe’s fire-eaters that Independent reminds us about.
Let’s take your favorite lie of “she quit”; she’s a cut and run gal. With nearly $1m in legal and consulting fees stemming from the “accusations” the far Left and Obama’s Thugs manufactured during the campaign season, former Gov Palin had a choice to make –she could do what most Democrats in that case do, default on her financial obligations and leave her creditors high and dry (see Bill Clinton and SexGate) or she could resign a job she clearly loved and was amazing successful at, make some money, pay off her debts and close the most vulnerable avenue available for the Palin-haters to harm her and her family and her work. It was a win-win. Unlike Obama, Palin didn’t saddle Alaska with a do-nothing, know-nothing, hairplugged vainglorious buffoon for the #2 spot… she had a #2 who could do the job of governing.
So the argument of “she cut and ran” bs from the far Left talking points facility is as manufactured as all the accusations that the Obama Kamp created in the campaign against Palin. Not surprising for the Obama Kamp, the Chicago Thuggery Institute… afterall, we’ve just now learning they faked the story that Obama’s one-time threatening opponent, John Edwards, was a slick pony-boy getting $400 haircuts.
You say it’s just fair criticism.
No, annie-the-liar, it’s political sleaze. And you’re the new FrumForum Queen of Sleaze, sweetie. You can either wear that badge of dishonor or you can amend your ways. We know that sleazebags like teabag and old skool and automaticBS won’t change their way and actually enjoy baiting and irritating the discussion here… what say you, Queen of Sleaze? Stick to the Saul Alinsky Playbook? Keep practicing for Terry McAuliffe’s Cheerleading Corps of Hatchet Gals?
Hey, it’s not name-calling. It’s just fair criticism of a fake and liar like you. The juvenile is the troll who finds solace in flaming a conservative site… that’s you, annie-the-liar.
39 MI-GOPer // Nov 18, 2009 at 9:28 am
our fake “Centrist”NYer writes: “This thread is becoming a microcosm of today’s Republican party.”
No, my fake friend, what this thread and site isn’t is an extension of the far Left’s democrat underground… even if you think it ought to be to satisify your base need to wallow and spread your partisan sleaze. Take teabag, old skool, annie-the-liar and head back down the sewer… climb underneath that bridge of political sleaze and trolldom… because your days of unfettered lying are at an end.
40 sinz54 // Nov 18, 2009 at 9:40 am
ProfNickD:
In 2012, Palin wouldn’t be running against Biden.
She would be running against Obama, and having to debate him one-on-one.
And it would be bloody.
She would look even less knowledgeable than she did in the Couric interview.
“anniemargaret” is right: Palin is a spokesperson for an American rural culture that is fading away, as suburbia becomes the dominant American model. It’s just that much of the GOP base comes from this rural culture that makes her appealing to them. The rest of the nation is not impressed by her.
You notice: We don’t have many Westerns on TV anymore.
41 anniemargret // Nov 18, 2009 at 9:42 am
Mi-Goper:
What a screed. It won’t be worth any more of my time to rebut your characterization of me, obvious it’s useless. Anything I say is automatically under your ‘liar radar.’ It’s patently pointless.
You are certainly the Master of Insult, be proud. Calling me a ‘liar’ should even be beneath your own dignity, but what’s the point…. there is not point….I’m called ‘Hatchet Gal”, “Cheerleading Corp”, and the real humdinger….”Queen of Sleaze”. Unbelievable.
I will make your day, MI-Goper… I will take myself off this blog permanently. I don’t need this type of vicious rhetoric hurled at me.
You ‘won.’
42 sinz54 // Nov 18, 2009 at 9:50 am
The reason why the GOP base (now down to 22% of the voters according to polls) loves Sarah Palin is that she constantly reassures them that they are right and the entire rest of the country is wrong. Most suburban women and female CEOs don’t like her. But the GOP base women love her because of her decision to carry Trig to term. It’s a problem they themselves have to wrestle with: Being pro-life means the possibility of giving birth to babies with severe birth defects–perhaps babies who won’t survive to adulthood. I bet most female CEOs wouldn’t do that. They would have an abortion–quietly.
She even called small-town America “the real America.” Funny. If small-town America were the real America, why did Osama bin Laden decided to bomb New York City instead of Augusta, Montana?
43 CentristNYer // Nov 18, 2009 at 9:56 am
MI-GOPer. Thanks for proving my point. Like today’s GOP, you and many others on this thread can’t handle a dissenting point-of-view or tolerate any actual FACTS that contradict your worshipful opinion of Caribou Barbie. This is why the Republican party — which I joined almost thirty years ago — is unrecognizable to me today. It’s become a sad gathering place for birthers, Christianists and anti-government nuts who prefer truthiness to facts. Your last post couldn’t have illustrated this better.
44 mymy // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:03 am
SINZ so your saying if she had aborted Trig CEOs would have liked her?
45 teabag // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:04 am
I’m going nowhere. I will continue to call BS whenever it arises here, and it’s here on a daily if not hourly basis. People like “Independent” (HA). And Mi-gop the ultimate parody have no idea that freedom of speech is for everyone not just them.
The GOP Rep who described the GOP as the new Taliban just after the election was so right.
46 sinz54 // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:04 am
Independent and anniemargaret:
Annie, PLEASE don’t leave. You try to present a dissenting point of view, sincerely and without theatrics.
Independent: There has to be SOME forum on the Internet where folks of differing points of view–liberals and conservatives and moderates–can debate issues in a civil way without flaming, trolling, personal attacks and put-downs (are you reading me, “ottovbs”?). I’m sick and tired of electronic echo chambers where everybody is on the same page politically, and anyone who attempts to disagree is instantly labeled a “troll” and afterward banned forevermore from posting. I’ve had that done to me–several times–and I didn’t like it! I’m sick of the flaming, the insults, the personal attacks, that substitute for informed discussion.
New Majority leans right of center because the contributors who post articles lean right of center. That doesn’t mean that a sincere liberal who wants to post a dissenting point of view should be intimidated or chased out of here.
Of all the posters here, “rbottoms” comes closest to a troll, because he rarely posts anything but personal attacks on Republicans. He’s actually said he despises Republicans personally–and that’s what drives him.
“anniemargaret” is NOT in that category. Definitely not.
One more point:
I was initially interested in Sarah Palin’s VP candidacy: Self-made woman, popular and successful governor of the largest state in the Union, NRA member. The problems began when she opened her mouth on any issue that involved the Lower 48 or the rest of the world. She doesn’t know much about the Northeast U.S., or Los Angeles County, or the Middle East, or Russia, or radical Islam. (We’re at war, and in any war, the rule is KNOW YOUR ENEMY.)
Sarah Palin is not impressing the rest of us voters with small-town America. By acting as their spokesperson, she’s giving the rest of us an image of small-town PROVINCIALISM in which they are ignorant of the rest of the world.
47 anniemargret // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:13 am
sinz. First, thank you. I feel a little better that at least you don’t think I’m an unmitigated ‘liar and troll.’ We’ve had our debates and differences but I appreciate your comment today.
As I said before, this is a great blog. There are some really brilliant people here, and I like that. In point of fact, I don’t blog at all on Kos or Huffpo. I blog here precisely because I was hoping we could have a gathering of conservatives and liberals who can’t agree to disagree without the vicious personal attacks. I find that idea eminently more useful and purposeful.
It’s really sad that some people here see an enemy everywhere. Or that they cannot conceive that someone could have a moderate viewpoint, agree and disagree, and still be Democrat. It’s much easier to lump everyone together under some larger banner of ‘troll’ no matter how a person tries to be honest.
I don’t know. I would like to stay but I don’t like being called a ‘liar.’ I have not lied about anything… but a person cannot change people’s minds.
Anyway, I will think on it, and just listen for awhile. I need a break ; I got a headache. :0)
48 CentristNYer // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:16 am
anniemargret, please stay. This place needs your voice. If it gets overrun with intolerant, truth-averse right wing fanatics it won’t be any different from World Net Daily or Townhall (i.e, unreadable).
49 MI-GOPer // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:19 am
annie-the-liar promises: “I will make your day, MI-Goper… I will take myself off this blog permanently. I don’t need this type of vicious rhetoric hurled at me. You ‘won.’”
Adios, Queen of Sleaze. Now, let’s see if you can stick with your promise this time… no one is stopping you from posting at the DailyKos or HuffPo or democrat underground… you can still scream your fake concern about the GOP while trying to piss all over Sarah Palin… it’s just that you aren’t welcome in these parts.
Now, live by your word. I know it’s hard for a democrat activist. Try.
50 MI-GOPer // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:23 am
CentristNYer… I’m thinking you and TeaBag and automaticBS and OldSkool should hop on that wagon heading left… annie’s got her gun, you get the bags and load up.
51 sinz54 // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:25 am
mymy:
I don’t know if they would have liked her. Because she did one other thing that they despise: She quit her job as Governor.
I’ve worked for female managers. They were as tough as nails, always trying to prove they could make it in a formerly male-dominated profession. They wouldn’t resign their position before they already had a better job offer lined up elsewhere. They, like anyone else in senior level positions, had been bruised and bloodied by corporate politics. But they wouldn’t quit.
When Sarah Palin resigned her position, she blew it. She can never hope to impress female managers or executives again.
52 sinz54 // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:27 am
MI-GOPer:
Speak for yourself.
I welcome her contributions.
This is one blog where you are not going to harass and bludgeon those who disagree with you into fleeing. I hope “anniemargaret” stands her ground and refuses to leave. I intend to do likewise.
53 sinz54 // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:30 am
teabag:
General George S. Patton once said:
54 anniemargret // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:35 am
centristNY: Thanks….too.
55 PracticalGirl // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:36 am
MyMy makes a great point about the questions Palin has fielded regarding children and higher office. there does, indeed, seem to be a bit of a double standard. She has, however, absolutely traded on her “mom-ness” in an attempt to seem like Everywoman and has been very loud about her children being her priority. So I think its a fair question.
Something I find strange and very revealing- Palin and her supporters have complained bitterly about her perceived mistreatment and out-of-context quoting at the hands of the mainstream media. It was a focus of her late campaigning, even dominated the first day of the RNC convention. She even starred in a documentary with the sole purpose of making the point that the mainstream media screwed her.
Why, then, now that she is in complete control of her media schedule, did she choose FIRST to go to the evil mainstreamers? Of course it’s because she’s still waging a campaign of popularity, this time to sell books, and her choices of interviews reflect this. But she has nobody to blame this time but herself if she doesn’t like the questions, editing or picture choices. Still, the right wing screamers (Ann Coulter, especially) are out shouting at the wind that Palin is again being treated unfairly.
Honestly, Palin may still be culturally relevant but has proven herself to be a willing, one-note victim when it somes to complaints about the media as well as quite vindictive with the contents of her book. She may be polling high in the “likability” category, but is she Presidential material? Nope, but she might be a very successful talk show host.
56 MI-GOPer // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:36 am
sinz54 abjures: “New Majority leans right of center because the contributors who post articles lean right of center. That doesn’t mean that a sincere liberal who wants to post a dissenting point of view should be intimidated or chased out of here.”
Frum’s Forum, sinz54, isn’t about a right of center political policy debate… it’s about rebuilding the conservative movement, reconfiguring the GOP into a winning movement. If you think some of the articles here have been “right of center” –my God, you are waaaaaay out in left field, pal. Literally and politically. This place is about those two goals. Frum has said it over and over.
That isn’t done by tolerating the far Left trollish behavior here that has spoiled and soiled the opportunity for real, meaningful, constructive debate here among those interested in the two primary goals noted above.
As a Ripon Republican, a gay father of three and a Marine, I can tell you that one of the first lessons learned in life is about the value of tribe. Annie-the-liar isn’t part of the tribe; she’s here to irritate and inflame –not discuss and debate with a constructive end in mind. These guys 9the far Left democrat activists) operate like politics is a substitute for the emotions of war or combat.
You don’t see it that way? You can try posting on HuffPo or the democrat underground… you’ll get all the usual lines there you hear coming out of annie-the-liar, TeaBag, automaticBS and OldSkool here. It’s just that their absence from here will allow those who are interested in rebuilding the conservative movement and the GOP to get on with the task without the annoying irritations that annie and her pals have come to represent.
57 MI-GOPer // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:43 am
sinz54 claims: “When Sarah Palin resigned her position, she blew it. She can never hope to impress female managers or executives again.”
More BS. She resigned her job because she was hounded by massive legal and consulting fee bills that were crippling her family and her future. As long as she was governor, she was vulnerable for more legal battles and baseless, unfounded legal actions by the far Left Palin-haters. She resigned to let Alaska move on with its important business of governing. She resigned to meet her obligations and debts to her creditors. She did it because that was the honorable thing to do… and any manager or supervisor of anything above a Wendy’s knows that and will find her decision to be honorable and understandable.
Sometimes sinz54, you spout about as much BS as some of the far Left trolls here. Really, can you man-up for once?
58 MI-GOPer // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:46 am
PracticalGirl opines: “But she has nobody to blame this time but herself if she doesn’t like the questions, editing or picture choices.”
Sorry to burst that partisan bubble, PracticalGirl, but even female liberals like Whoopi and BarbWa claim that the picture pro-Obama Newsweek used for it’s cover was sexist and inappropriate.
Now, what was that about “nobody to blame for.. picture choices”? Thought so.
59 MI-GOPer // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:50 am
teabagged at 45 squeezes out another load: “I’m going nowhere. I will continue to call BS whenever it arises here, and it’s here on a daily if not hourly basis.”
You don’t have much to do then on this site. It seems most people here are calling you out for your BS, teabagged. A little reverse projection on your part won’t fix the reality… you’re the guy spreading the BS with a pitchfork. Or is that just your tail, you devilish little troll?
60 CentristNYer // Nov 18, 2009 at 11:08 am
@MI-GOPer: If anyone who thinks that Palin is unqualified to be president is a “far left winger,” then that means that nearly three quarters of all Americans would bear the label.
You sound like a deeply angry and embittered person. Your invective is so shrill and your insults so nasty and vicious that it really isn’t worth the time to rebut them. You dismiss all objective truth as “lies” and go nuclear against any opinion that dares to undermine your tenuous version of the truth.
I can only hope that you’re not infecting those three kids of yours with such undiluted bile. Seek help.
61 mymy // Nov 18, 2009 at 11:15 am
SINZ you 1st said the CEO disliked her because she didn’t have an abortion.Next you say they hate Gov.Palin because she quit her job.I guess if you are looking for a reason to dislike someone there is always one to be found.I wasn’t impressed with her resignation,but I assume it is better than going bankrupt over legal bills
62 Arch // Nov 18, 2009 at 11:43 am
I hope you stay too, Annie.
63 MI-GOPer // Nov 18, 2009 at 11:56 am
CentristNYer tries a page from AutomaticBS’s playbook and puts the words he wants into other peoples’ mouths with: “MI-GOPer: If anyone who thinks that Palin is unqualified to be president is a “far left winger,” then that means that nearly three quarters of all Americans would bear the label.”
Sorry, troll. I never said that. You can try to sell that pile, but it still will stink at the end of the sale.
64 MI-GOPer // Nov 18, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Now, what was that you were saying about how I spread lies?
Oh, right. This isn’t a fair example of you spreading a bald-faced lie, is it? Let’s not hold Centrist accountable for lying… that’s not fair.
The problem is, Centrist, you can’t rebutt people deconstructing your lies. And what’s with that name? Centrist? You’re like TeaBag… pick a name that is the inverse and use it to greater effect? Did Saul Alinsky teach that one in Bill Ayers’ class? Did he preach it as Rev Wright’s House of Worship?
Centrist, I’ve known centrists… you are no centrist.
65 MI-GOPer // Nov 18, 2009 at 12:05 pm
And can we fianlly lay to rest all the denials of the far Left trolls here who claim “Oh, I don’t post on HuffPo or MoveOn or ACORN-Unites or Democrat Underground…
Here’s BlankHead’s profile from HuffPo.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/users/profile/Balconesfault?action=profile
66 CentristNYer // Nov 18, 2009 at 12:30 pm
You’re really a very sad sack, MI-GOPer. You’re all piss, vinegar and truthiness.
But then I guess it makes sense that you’d be comfortable in the modern day Palin/Beck/teabag/birther GOP.
Best of luck to you with that…
67 Independent // Nov 18, 2009 at 1:43 pm
see, mi-gop? when you tell the truth, the far left calls you a liar. when you prove the truth with citations, the far left trolls here like centristnyer try to isolate you with their fake compassion and try to trash the republicans one more time.
i’m still wondering though why all these clearly left wing democrat activists find it necessary to come over to a blog that’s about rebuilding the gop and conservative movement… isn’t that the first proof that they are trolls?
by the way, centristnyer? you haven’t been here very long… the archives show you began posting on nov 4th… were you someone else before you created the faux-named “centristnyer”?
68 LFC // Nov 18, 2009 at 3:40 pm
MI-GOPer said… More BS. She resigned her job because she was hounded by massive legal and consulting fee bills that were crippling her family and her future.
You mean like the ethics complaint she filed against herself for political reasons, i.e. to block Troopergate?
69 AmericanMuser // Nov 18, 2009 at 10:51 pm
America’s elite and Palin-haters worldwide should not be so quick to dismiss or disregard the future of Sarah Palin. No other national political figure so completely fills Middle America’s vacuum of frustration and hate for the Left and Right as Sarah Palin.
Middle America has been abandoned by the Left and Right, who have saddled it with a $700 billion taxpayer bailout, an unnecessary and costly war, a soaring deficit, and an overall neglect of the pocketbook issues that impact Middle America every day. Where are job creation, quality public education, affordable healthcare, and fiscal responsibility, to name a few?
Middle America is mad as hell at the Left and Right and they just might be willing to roll the dice on someone like Palin, who lacks an Ivy League education, is a working class hockey-mom with a disabled child, and who has blue-collar roots like many of the folks in Middle America. The status quo on the Left and Right have produced nothing material for Middle America, which may toss conventional wisdom into the toilet and throw the lever for Palin, figuring it has nothing to lose, and it may be right.
The Ivy League educated on the Left and Right have delivered little to nothing for Middle America, perhaps precisely because they are out of touch with the issues that someone like Palin understands personally.
However, to say that Palin is a salmon swimming upstream is an understatement. The results of a CBS News survey released Monday indicate that 66 percent of respondents do not want her to run for the White House in 2012. Seventy percent of respondents to a CNN/Opinion Research poll said she is not qualified to be president.
More difficult for Palin is the fact that the trend is not her friend—public opinion is moving in the wrong direction right now.
In the CBS survey, 43 percent of GOP respondents said Palin would have the ability to be an effective president. Only 11 percent of Democrats and 29 percent of independents agreed.
However, there is an opportunity for Palin among independents, where Palin’s rating is 41 percent favorable, and 48 percent unfavorable, according to Gallup.
These numbers are not great, but there is plenty of time if she can move the needle by appealing to Middle America and independents, which is where elections are won or lost.
Clearly, Palin has put the monkey on her back, especially with her resignation from Alaska’s governorship in July, a self-inflicted wound that will be difficult to explain away. However, don’t put it past Palin to put lipstick on this pig and paint herself as a victim of politically motivated and baseless ethics charges that prevented her from successfully serving the people of Alaska, forcing her to do the noble thing and take the bullet by resigning.
We can say what we want about Palin, but no Republican in recent history has created such frenzied excitement across the country as she has. Just take a look at the fervor she stirs as she wheels across Middle America on her book tour.
Perhaps this is a misreading of the tea leaves, but one could argue that she creates a wee bit more excitement than Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee, the two Republican front-runners for president in 2012. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed woman just may be queen.
A. Muser
http://americanmuser.wordpress.com/
70 MI-GOPer // Nov 18, 2009 at 11:15 pm
“Sarah Palin isn’t retreating. She’s reloading.” – Sarah’s Dad.
And from all the subsequent interviews this week, we now know how lame Oprah’s effort really was… I hope Sarah reloads and sights in Oprah, the View and Rachel MadCow. That’s some neat target practice I think would be worth a lot to watch.
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