Comments on: The Palin Fantasy http://www.frumforum.com/the-palin-fantasy Building a conservatism that can win again Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:50:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: The Palin Qualifications « Doctor Zero http://www.frumforum.com/the-palin-fantasy/comment-page-3#comment-80829 The Palin Qualifications « Doctor Zero Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:59:53 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=15531#comment-80829 [...] until he got tired of people laughing at him, David Frum published an essay called “The Palin Fantasy” over the weekend. Even as the House of Representatives was preparing to pass the most [...] [...] until he got tired of people laughing at him, David Frum published an essay called “The Palin Fantasy” over the weekend. Even as the House of Representatives was preparing to pass the most [...]

]]> By: Liz Lemon In ‘12! « Around The Sphere http://www.frumforum.com/the-palin-fantasy/comment-page-3#comment-72539 Liz Lemon In ‘12! « Around The Sphere Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:45:49 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=15531#comment-72539 [...] David Frum at The Frum Forum: Matthew Continetti has a piece in this weekend’s Weekly Standard hailing Sarah Palin as the ideal leader of a new populist uprising. One obvious objection to his thesis: The populist Sarah is in fact one of the most unpopular figures in American life. [...] [...] David Frum at The Frum Forum: Matthew Continetti has a piece in this weekend’s Weekly Standard hailing Sarah Palin as the ideal leader of a new populist uprising. One obvious objection to his thesis: The populist Sarah is in fact one of the most unpopular figures in American life. [...]

]]> By: Weekend link dump for November 15 – Off the Kuff http://www.frumforum.com/the-palin-fantasy/comment-page-3#comment-72256 Weekend link dump for November 15 – Off the Kuff Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:28:25 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=15531#comment-72256 [...] The Palin fantasy. [...] [...] The Palin fantasy. [...]

]]> By: CarbonDate http://www.frumforum.com/the-palin-fantasy/comment-page-3#comment-71978 CarbonDate Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:05:01 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=15531#comment-71978 PalinDoctrine said: "Obama says we’re not a Christian nation, despite 85% of the country that would call themselves at least marginally Christian." It's actually 76%. It was 86% in 1990. Obama is acknowledging a demographic reality: we are becoming an increasingly diverse nation. It would behoove the Republican party to acknowledge that as well, or they risk becoming increasingly marginalized in each subsequent election. They can't win being the party for white Christians, anymore. PalinDoctrine said: “Obama says we’re not a Christian nation, despite 85% of the country that would call themselves at least marginally Christian.”

It’s actually 76%. It was 86% in 1990. Obama is acknowledging a demographic reality: we are becoming an increasingly diverse nation. It would behoove the Republican party to acknowledge that as well, or they risk becoming increasingly marginalized in each subsequent election. They can’t win being the party for white Christians, anymore.

]]> By: jakester http://www.frumforum.com/the-palin-fantasy/comment-page-3#comment-71850 jakester Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:47:47 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=15531#comment-71850 Palin Doctrine you need to get out more and talk to other people so you can get some feedback that is based in reality, not your wishful thinking and childish "hero" worship, Palin Doctrine
you need to get out more and talk to other people so you can get some feedback that is based in reality, not your wishful thinking and childish “hero” worship,

]]> By: jakester http://www.frumforum.com/the-palin-fantasy/comment-page-3#comment-71849 jakester Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:43:48 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=15531#comment-71849 jeffpeterson you act as if lies about death panels is something positive. But I guess integrity and wisdom aren't prized virtues in your little town. Maybe if people opposed to this monster bill had kept the debate centered in reality, they might have gone further than whipping up a bunch of yobs to march and sob with "Obama = Hitler" signs. jeffpeterson
you act as if lies about death panels is something positive. But I guess integrity and wisdom aren’t prized virtues in your little town. Maybe if people opposed to this monster bill had kept the debate centered in reality, they might have gone further than whipping up a bunch of yobs to march and sob with “Obama = Hitler” signs.

]]> By: jakester http://www.frumforum.com/the-palin-fantasy/comment-page-3#comment-71848 jakester Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:13:52 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=15531#comment-71848 Palin is the creation of the dumbed down and crude talk radio universe, which by default speaks for all conservatives as well as for the GOP, given the stooge who supposedly heads the GOP now. Any sensitive intelligent person, not the total crackpots or brainwashed fundamentalists who dominate that medium, is appalled at her crude, stupid crass populism. Blaming the media, MSM, for her reputation is the crassest and most contemptible excuse for her lack of insight and intelligence that I've heard in decades. But she is merely the tail end of a trend when you let the least qualified and least trustworthy members of a movement decide on a general course. After all, Rush Limbaugh himself declared that Palin's critics are God' enemies. If that is the way the GOP wants to play ball they will lose, since thanks to the crass enrollment of God and Religion into personal and political aggrandizement of the last 20 years, people are now becoming less faithful and less concerned what the Elmer Gantrys have to say. Palin is an idiot, and her fellow idiotarians seem to believe that the negative reaction she elicits from all but the deluded is proof of her validity because annoying "liberals" is the ultimate validation of their nonsensical nonthinking in their little world. Palin is the creation of the dumbed down and crude talk radio universe, which by default speaks for all conservatives as well as for the GOP, given the stooge who supposedly heads the GOP now. Any sensitive intelligent person, not the total crackpots or brainwashed fundamentalists who dominate that medium, is appalled at her crude, stupid crass populism. Blaming the media, MSM, for her reputation is the crassest and most contemptible excuse for her lack of insight and intelligence that I’ve heard in decades. But she is merely the tail end of a trend when you let the least qualified and least trustworthy members of a movement decide on a general course. After all, Rush Limbaugh himself declared that Palin’s critics are God’ enemies. If that is the way the GOP wants to play ball they will lose, since thanks to the crass enrollment of God and Religion into personal and political aggrandizement of the last 20 years, people are now becoming less faithful and less concerned what the Elmer Gantrys have to say.
Palin is an idiot, and her fellow idiotarians seem to believe that the negative reaction she elicits from all but the deluded is proof of her validity because annoying “liberals” is the ultimate validation of their nonsensical nonthinking in their little world.

]]> By: CNN’s Candy Crowley Scarfes Down Two Dozen Krispy Kremes, 1-1/2 LBS of Bacon And A Canned Ham On Tuesday’s American Morning http://www.frumforum.com/the-palin-fantasy/comment-page-3#comment-71762 CNN’s Candy Crowley Scarfes Down Two Dozen Krispy Kremes, 1-1/2 LBS of Bacon And A Canned Ham On Tuesday’s American Morning Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:01:54 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=15531#comment-71762 [...] fueled by celebrity- lucrative, but not necessarily good.” The former Bush speechwriter and Palin critic would go on to compare her to current governor of California: “Americans tend not to elect [...] [...] fueled by celebrity- lucrative, but not necessarily good.” The former Bush speechwriter and Palin critic would go on to compare her to current governor of California: “Americans tend not to elect [...]

]]> By: Palin Defenders | Conservative American http://www.frumforum.com/the-palin-fantasy/comment-page-3#comment-71746 Palin Defenders | Conservative American Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:35:30 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=15531#comment-71746 [...] time the attacks come from David Frum as he complains about a story at the Weekly Standard about Sarah Palin’s populist [...] [...] time the attacks come from David Frum as he complains about a story at the Weekly Standard about Sarah Palin’s populist [...]

]]> By: gojirademonstah http://www.frumforum.com/the-palin-fantasy/comment-page-3#comment-71725 gojirademonstah Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:18:27 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=15531#comment-71725 I call it " Addie's Rule": the intelligence of a post is inversely proportionate to the number of exclamation points it contains. I call it ” Addie’s Rule”: the intelligence of a post is inversely proportionate to the number of exclamation points it contains.

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