Sarah Palin, the "Amiable Duncess," Continues to Enrage the GOP Establishment
Editor’s Note: NewsReal has previously covered Sarah Palin’s clashes with GOP insiders, the media, and the Left here, here, and here.
As I have said many times before on my blog, the Republican Party and the majority of Republican commentators wish that Sarah Palin would just go away. They don’t like her, period. They share the same sensibility about her as do their Democratic opponents. They think she is unprepared, an intellectual lightweight, a prima donna, and unable to do anything but get 35% of the vote. They view her as a disaster for the party.
So, when Palin endorsed New York State Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, some of the usual suspects came out against her action. I think they had their feelings hurt when she stated that “and best of all, Hoffman is not a member of a political machine”–an obvious dig at the Republican Party. Doesn’t anyone remember anything? Palin herself was not a member of a political machine. She won Alaska by beating the corrupt self dealing Republican political machine. Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman is in a close race in New York District 23 in the Adirondocks region (where coincidentally I am writing this from in Lake Placid, New York, on a long weekend vacation) against liberal Republican Dede Scozzafava and Democrat Bill Owens.
The Republican on the ticket is a classic Susan Collins or (before he became a democrat) Arlen Spector RINO style politician. Dede Scozzafava is known by her party to be liberal leaning. The Republican Party already wants to compromise. Why didn’t they support Hoffman from the outset? Why is Ms. Scozzafava the party’s standard bearer, rather than Hoffman? Newt Gingrich, who I respect, unfortunately speaks for many in the Republican Party when he said “We have to decide which business we are in. If we are in the business about feeling good about ourselves while our country gets crushed then I probably made the wrong decision.” This is the same Gingrich who vehemently opposed TARP a year ago — one week before he supported it.
On her Facebook site Palin states,
“The federal government borrows, spends, and prints too much money, while our national debt hits a record high. Government is growing while the private sector is shrinking, and unemployment is on the rise. Doug Hoffman is committed to ending the reckless spending in Washington, D.C. and the massive increase in the size and scope of the federal government. He is also fully committed to supporting our men and women in uniform as they seek to honorably complete their missions overseas”
Palin is correct about her “political machine” comment. Our “amiable duncess” (the late Democratic insider, Clark Clifford, once called President Reagan an “amiable dunce”) has really infuriated the Republican Party for what they view as a “gratuitous” comment. This will not win her “friends”– now that is — in the Republican Party. Plus she is putting the GOP on notice. She’s throwing her influence around, so to speak. She is trying to force the center of gravity of the party toward her views. What easier way to do this then to endorse a candidate in a dopey run-off election? It is really innocuous when you think about it. It is a warning shot across the bow. Yet she sends the party scurrying like little girls running from some spiders.
I love these people who think she is a moron. She is a political hard-baller with a point of view. The Republican Party fears her. Some despise her. But they have not yet been able to respect her. They better make their call soon. Because Palin ain’t going anywhere. Wait till Oprah starts singing her praises — which will happen.
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Newt Gingrich, who I respect, unfortunately speaks for many in the Republican Party when he said “We have to decide which business we are in. If we are in the business about feeling good about ourselves while our country gets crushed then I probably made the wrong decision.â€
I must say I have LOST respect for Gingrich over the past few years. I acknowledge and admire his intellect, but the man is one of the most narcissistic and worship-seeking individuals on the political scene today. And that’s saying something considering the present occupant of the White House.
It is now, and in retrospect always has been, all about Newt, in his mind. I don’t believe he is motivated primarily by what is in the best interest of this nation. Rather, he seeks primarily praise and adulation, and is apparently blind to the fact that there are many even within the Republican Party who DO NOT view him as a political seer.
President Sarah Palin. Man that’s got a great ring to it!
Palin is principled, courageous, tough, and smart – no wonder she isn’t a good fit for The Stupid Party.
“I love these people who think she is a moron. She is a political hard-baller with a point of view. The Republican Party fears her. Some despise her. But they have not yet been able to respect her. They better make their call soon. Because Palin ain’t going anywhere. Wait till Oprah starts singing her praises — which will happen.” Hear, hear! Thanx for the positive take on Ms. Sarah P herself (tho’ the moniker ‘amiable duncess’ would never be mistaken for adulation!) – and I have to agree that ‘President Sarah Palin’ does have a nice ring to it…
And WHY did Sarah make the far left so crazy.. ?
They didn’t attack her because of her political record…
They didn’t attack her because of the way she communicates with an audience …
They didn’t attack her because of her views on the war…
They didn’t attack her because of her views on the economy…
No..
They attacked her because of the way she threw her personal religious beliefs and moral principals, right in their face, and that made them absolutely freak out…
Hence my theory that we stand a much better chance of getting our country back by leaving religious issues out of the political debate.. at last for the next 2 elections…
By doing that, we take from them one of their most powerful weapons to use against us…..
If we create a platform based on the major issues of national security, and a free & vibrant economy, they literally have nothing but BS lies to throw back at us.. and the American people are beginning to get hip to their lies.
Thankyou Mr. Horowitz and News Real for suporting Mrs. Palin…I am proud to say I stood in line for hourd to vote for SP in spite of the other pitiful person on the ticket in the previous election.
“I love these people who think she is a moron.”
CCWriter, you and I should get together – ’cause you’d love the hell out of me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRkWebP2Q0Y
The GOP is finished. They just haven’t realized it yet. The first paragraph of this story is so correct it brings tears to my eyes. It exposes the so-called conservative insiders as being de facto leftists. Cultural Marxists. Their intellectual capital is merely a pile of worthless rhetorical paper. It wouldn’t buy cab fare, much less restart the mighty engine of American power and confidence.
I do not think Palin is the answer, because she isn’t dynamic enough. In many ways, she is the same old thing in a different package. But she might start to peel away the biggest factions of the conservative movement from the GOP: Christians and fiscal conservatives, patriots. May the GOP soon be left with nothing but the shrivelled little center which can then bloviate itself into well-deserved obscurity.
Michael: Lake Placid? You lucky man.
I have the feeling America does not have a clue who Sarah Palin is, just as America does not know who the President is. We know SP from the run she made with McCain, a disaster, to put it mildly, but I sense she is on a mission to carve her real image. Whether she can do it is another matter. Calling her a dunce would be stupid, for obviously she is not. My gut tells me she will seek political office below The One, attain that goal, and go on from there. If she tries a run for The One in 2012, it will end whatever political aspirations she has.
The sooner we forget about Sarah Palin, the better the GOP will be. She has way too much baggage and is a polarizing figure just like Hillary is. The last straw was her quitting a 4 yr. job after 2 1/2 years. There was no legitimate excuse for that and we need to bring in someone without serious blemishes if we have any hope of defeating Obama, Acorn, and the illegals that will try to vote for him too.
The Republican party leadership are NOT opponents of the Democrat party leadership, they are partners. The Republican party base and independents are the opponents.
The GOP insiders don’t like Sarah, because she tells the truth, she has scruples, which they don’t. They lost all theirs a long time ago. They want to keep their jobs, and do not want anyone pointing out the fact that they no longer represent the conservative population. They serve themselves and some of them are closet progressives. I don’t trust them one bit.
In some ways the Palin phenomenon reminds me of the rise of Barry Goldwater in the early 60s. The eastern Republican establishment — Rockefeller, NY Senator Jacob Javits, PA Senator Hugh Scott, and that coterie — were the counterparts of the current Republican Party movers and shakers. Goldwater was roundly defeated in the ‘64 presidential election, but his manifesto, “Conscience of a Conservative”, percolated through the GOP and began the trend that 16 years later put Ronaldus Maximus in power. It’s far too early to know if Sarah Barracuda can/will duplicate that feat. But, right now, she looks as though she could do so if circumstances break right. She’s crazy like a fox, folks. Quitting her job was a stroke of genius. She writes a book. She makes money. She raises her profile in a different way then as a “defeated candidate”. She can pick and choose the conservative causes and candidates she supports. She builds a base not locked in to any one part of the country. The GOP establishment has no hold on her. Both they and the Dems look silly attacking her at this point, as if they’re trying to nail jello to a wall. What are her plans? Does she have ANY plans at this point? Will she run again for something? No one knows at this point, except Sarah, and maybe not even her. But she’s keeping her profile up, and keeping all her opposition watching, and guessing.
You, GO Girl!
Sarah Palin impressed me more this week by endorsing a third party candidate in New York against the joke of a conservative imposter, Dierdre Scozzafava. This woman represents exactly why the GOP is dying. She’s a post modernist liberal with no ideas beyond the tired old class warfare, tax and spend socialism.
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/palin_new_york_hoffman/2009/10/23/276376.html?s=al&promo_code=8F4E-1
This confirms my suspicion that Palin may have quit the governorship early in order to distance herself from the GOP, and run as a third party. A wise move if she senses – for good reason – that the GOP is being overrun by leftists as many others suspect.
If nothing else, Palin could pull enough votes away from the GOP to cost them the next presidency. That would be a good thing for conservatism in the long run as a backhanded motivator. I think another 4 years of amok Marxism might be all it takes for a third party to become viable. The punishment would be worth it. We need a new Conservative Party to replace the GOP.
The beltway insiders also do not like the way she speaks english.She has an accent that is pure pacific northwest.The check pant Reps.ears can’t take it to them it sounds Hick.
I don’t read left-wing rags either.Why bother with the lying press.
Everybody hates Sarah Palin simply because Sarah Palin realy represents the majority of all Americans. Sarah Palin went to an average University just like so many millions of Americans before and after her. She is not a graduate of an Ivy league school like Yale, Harvard, or Columbia. Ms. Palin is the only woman in the entire USA to have a daughter who had a child without being married. She was raked over the coals for this happening. Likewise someone in the Republican party bought her expensive clothing making her appear somewhat better dressed. The Liberal left went to town on that issue. Finally, her husband is a blue collar worker, who like Ms. Palin enjoys the outdoors, hunting, and fishing. Just like so many millions of Americans, yet the press and even the Republican Party almost destroyed her over these issue. Of course, no one ever says anything over Michelle Obama’s $800 handbags, or $1200 shoes. The bottom line is simple… Ms. Palin is like all of us, and that really scares us. We want a messiah in the White House, not an average citizen. We want an Establishment personality, one with Ivy league credentials, not someone with a good education, but from a mid-western State University. We all voted for someone who cannot even reveal thatr he may have been born in a foreign country, not someone who is as true-blue as Ms. Palin. In short, you cannot vote or support someone who does not fit the image of a God or Goddess. Ms. Palin unfortunately, just looks like you and I. She is the emblem of America. That’s what really scares us the most.
The reasons the GOP insiders didn’t like Sarah Palin had nothing to do with her intelligence. George Bush wasn’t an intellectual by any stretch of the imagination, sounded like a high school drop out when he make extemporaneous speeches, was a legacy grad at yale (ect., i could go on but you get the point) ; yet the insiders adored him. Why? It’s because Bush had the right pedigree. He may be from texas but he is as much of a blue blooded establishment man as David Rockefeller. Sarah Palin by contrast has a a humble working class background and represents the common persons interests in an honest straightforward way. There is no pretense or hypocricy between her stated convictions and who she is. This is why the people in the so called flyover teritory love and trust her so much.
Her working class background is also why many in the GOP even preferred B. H. Obama to Sarah Palin. They give all sorts of reasons but this is all it really is.
About 10 years ago, I heard Rush Limbaugh take a phone call I’ve never forgotten. His attitude spoke volumes about what is really wrong with America’s conservatives. The woman was a teacher who spoke reasonably, sincerely and without hysteria. Her basic point: We’ve already lost America because the left controls the education system.
Rush basically laughed her off. Ridiculed her as being “defeatist” and implied that she was just overworked and underpaid. He was so unkind, I thought, as to imply she wasn’t getting enough sleep at night, and sent her a free mattress. He turned her call into a pitch for the mattress company. He totally blew her off in a very uncharacteristic fashion that I’d never heard from him before.
The main problem with the USA right now is simple:
People like Bill Ayers – yes, that Bill Ayers – are dictating in the schools the future of our country. This man belongs in prison. Not in a cushy taxpayer funded university job, doing curriculum development.
The education system in this country is Marxist, and has been gradually made so for decades. With little or no opposition or even NOTICE by the conservative majority of this country we have allowed the control of our children to pass into the hands of those who would use them to destroy our nation.
We get upset about socialism when it’s overt, but we’ve said nothing about the covert cultural groundwork being laid for generations. We the people have allowed this to happen to our country for a long time. It’s gotten to the point now that I can’t tell the conservatives from the liberals. Even the young libertarians in this country are sounding like Marxists.
We have intellectual urbanite Marxists running this country, under the banner of every political persuasion. Libs, Neocons, Paleocons, Centrists, Moderates, Populists… etc. etc. They live in insulated theoretical worlds that are shaped as a television newsbite culture. They all come out of the same Ivy League factories. They are pretty much cut from the same philosophical cloth. They are all flashy and look good on camera. But where the rubber meets the road, their tires are bald. Completely bald, and leaking badly.
We as citizens don’t understand what needs to be done in an orderly, logical fashion to change things. We are REACTING to the fires instead of attacking the arsonists directly. The arsonists are in the institutions. Mainly in the schools.
The tea parties were a great thing. But what I mostly heard were old people protesting against socialism in the context of demanding protection of their entitlements. Ridiculous.
And they are only a bandaid solution.
ONE: The conservative spirit needs to be redefined once an for all. Starting with the founding intentions. We conservatives have many issues to sort out amongst ourselves. And we need to EXCLUDE the politicians and do it grassroots. Why? Because, the politicians have had their chance. They didn’t want to lead. We need a revolution, not pablum. We need to TELL THEM what we want. Not the other way around.
TWO: The tea party spirit needs to be marshalled and focused by this reinvigorated conservative battle plan for action. It needs to go to the roots of the problem; START WHERE THE MARXISTS STARTED THEIR MARCH LONG AGO.
THREE: We need to DEMAND Consitutional amendments to rid this country of the Marxist threat once and for all. Free market economics needs to be codified into the law of the land. It’s about Freedom. The case can be made. There is NO SEPERATING the issue of liberty from our economic system. It’s time we wised up and said this.
FOUR: Noone has the right to use the Bill of Rights to destroy the Bill of Rights. Freedom to destroy Freedom. This needs to be inserted by Constitutional Amendment. How about an addition to the preamble?
We need to wake up, get up and solve the problem. Let’ quit philosophizing and just DO IT. If we don’t solve this problem with sedition in the schools, we are going to inevitably lose. It’s a guaranteed fact.
Palin speaks for the americans- finally someone who does. The real dunces are those who oppose her-they are the universal morons. They are the old warn out political machine who just wants to blow their own horn-but no one is listening to the noise.
We MUST FIGHT to get our country back! Talk alone won’t do it- fight, fight, fight to get it back like the Founding Fathers intended. The marxists need to get tossed to the side and trampled politically.
It amazes me that no conservative leader appears to be seeing the mass movement embodied in the tea partiers. They are calling out for a leader. They are telling the leader what they want. They are asking the leader to give them a way, a focus, to achieve the dream.
Read the signs. Listen to the catcalls. Listen to what the critics are saying about them in return. And observe how the GOP is ignoring them. Observe the GOP missing an opportunity. Observe how they are NOT leading. The GOP is tired, visionless and old.
Back in the days of quaint nostalgia, my Dad said only half-humorously, “If you bring a girl flowers, you’ll know how she feels about you. You’ll know if its meant to be.”
Well, we’ve been bringing big bouquets of roses to the GOP for a long time. And they’re rotting on the doorstep. It’s time to find somebody else to love.
Yes,Marxists do indeed control US education.
Jonathon makes a very valid observation – indeed, one that should be a pivotal point in what direction the Conservative Movement will be taking over the next several years. We DO need a leader – in fact, Sarah Palin may just be that leader; and if she can’t lead the clueless RINOs and the “moderate” GOPers to right of center, then perhaps a 3rd Party movement may well be in the offing. As much as I detest the current Administration, I will trust Palin to follow her own excellent instincts and NOT jump in the Presidential fray in 2012 prematurely – that is, before she is confident that “the time is RIGHT!” This is an exemplary political figure, a natural leader – and one that we DON’T want to sacrifice prematurely or just to satisfy our anxiety. Her stature will only grow betweeen 2012 and 2016. If she stays true to her principles and character, she will involve herself with only principled initiatives and politicans across the country. She will, indeed, emerge as our True Jeanne d’Arc! We will turn to her for wise decisions and all manner of leadership activities. The big problem, however, is who in hell is even near the horizon now – or in 2012 – to carry the mantle of the GOP? That’s why a third party fielding candidates all over the country in 2010 may be a very wise decision – or not. There is SO much at stake! And I, for one, do NOT want to waste Palin on a losing cause!! We Conservatives certainly have our work cut out for us!!
Those who think Palin cost McCain the election are wrong. The McCain handlers had to stiffle her and put her in a box. She had more personal appeal than McCain. She was inadvertently drawing the glory away from McCain. If they had released her to do her thing, in her own way, we would have seen the intellect, ability, and power this woman has in abundance. After she returned to Alaska the Dems turned on her. She had spoken against Obama. How dare she? She had to be punished, better yet…destroyed. So phoney ethics charges were filed. One after another after another. Alaska does not provide it’s Governor with free council. She was having to hire an attorney at her own expense to fight the bogus charges. It was ruining her family financially and taking time away from her responcibilities as Governor. She did not walk away because she wanted to run from the job. She quit to save her family and give her state a Governor who could do the job without those complications. It will prove to be a blessing. Now she’s free to speak freely and become a powerful voice for conservative ideals. She doesn’t back down, she holds true to her principals and she’s not afraid to attack the issues. There’s something about Sara Plain that you just can’t put your finger on. You either love her or hate her. She certainly doesn’t fit any mold we’ve previously had for an acceptable GOP. I for one am glad. If we’re to get the GOP back on track and save this nation from a Socialist takeover it’s going to take a strong, fearless, straight shooter. Someone like Sara Palin. They may have knocked her down but they haven’t knocked her out. That which doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger. So for those who wish Sara would just go away….GET OVER IT!
I disagree with Swemsom’s opinion that Palin threw her Christian values out there which turned some people off. She admitted she was a Christian but she didn’t make a big deal about it. It was the liberal media who made it a big deal. It seems in this day and age anyone who adheres to the Christian faith is subject to ridicule and abuse.
SP is a godsend to conservative values everywhere. I’m a Canadian who follows US politics closely and a conservative as well (not all Canadians are socialist morons, no really!). I also used to live in the Canadian Territory just to the east of Alaska.
I’ve been following her political career long before 2008. She is as genuine as it gets. When nobody had heard of her, she kicked out corruption and did things most couldn’t or wouldn’t do. She got to work for the people who elected her.
Why she couldn’t or wouldn’t do the same thing in the White House is not even a real question at all. She would and she will. As many commenter’s above have said so well, the GOP leadership is afraid of her because they know damn well she will clean up the corruption. There are a lot of skeletons in a lot of closets in DC. I believe that she would be willing to sacrifice a lot of political capital to ferret-out these skeletons regardless of party affiliation. Fear runs deep in Washington and the ‘gentleman’s agreement’ between senators and congressmen not to expose each others corruption would be worthless with the pit bull letting lose the special prosecutors and justice department with explicit orders to seek and destroy.
Want to fix your country? Elect SP as an independent. 2016 may be too late to turn your country around. By 2012, your country will be flat broke. I also suspect that if BHO’s polling number sink much more he will only ramp-up his agenda further and his goon squad Reid, Pelosi et al will happily accommodate him. 2010 is the time to clean house of those morons and RINO’s as well. Send a message. Start to actively campaign for the true conservative in your district or state. There is little time to lose.
Also a good point, Jonathan. It seems like no modern politicians are willing to stand for something. Lots of empty rhetoric and promises but no action. The current congress and senate are like wild pigs at the trough and, as you say, the Dems and Republicans are becoming one and the same. Hard to tell them apart.
I suspect the reason is they are complacent because the voters have become complacent. The mid-terms should be a good time to send a message. Vote out the incumbent no matter the party affiliation. Send a clear message. The Tea Party demonstrations should have been the wake-up call for all of them. Sadly, many will have dismissed it. At their peril. I’m not sure if Pelosi is up for re-election, but Reid is. Turf him out.
All the RINO’s have to go, and any Dem that voted for stimulus.
I just wish I could vote down there to help out.
Mark;
You’re mostly right about Newt… but at this point, I’d welcome someone in the white house who seeks praise and adulation for doing the RIGHT thing…
IMHO Anyone who can deliver us from BHO deserves a monument on the scale of Washington’s or Lincoln’s..
I used to respect Gingrich. But then I watched the GOP fritter away the majority they used evangelicals and other voters to capture, in favor of “moderation” and back-slapping with our “friends across the aisle.”
Gingrich needs to retire and go away. He and his wife can keep making films and writing books that rehash the same old tired themes that the left ignores and pays no attention to. They make lots of money for him but do nothing to stop the relentless march of Marxism.
Gingrish and his generation are tired, worn out cliches. They have no vision, they have no ideas. Just tired old agendas rooted in an ancient paradigm that is vanishing. I’m convinced that Gingrich doesn’t have a CLUE what the real problem in this country is.
Also.
She has that avoiding the question down pat. I’d do her.
With you on that, Swemson, although I still do not like the eye and the fly. Americans and religion go hand-in-hand, so to speak, and there is nothing wrong with that. But religion for those who want/need it, has its place, and as long as Americans are free to choose and practice their religion, it should not be a major issue in a political scrap. But in all honesty it is, and probably always will be. Wouldn’t it be good if politicians could seek office on the basis of their moral convictions — and savvy, of course — without the peripherals, real and imagined?
Ronald Reagan said, “If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.” That says it all!
Jonathan, I agree that “In many ways, she is the same old thing in a different package.”
Sara Palin is opposed to wasteful spending and too much spending. She’s just going in the same wrong direction, only slower.
What we need are politicians who are opposed to spending period. Then we’ll be headed in the right direction.
But you gotta love ‘er for ticking off backroom Republicans.
Sovereignjim, you hit that baseball out of the park! Good job.
The red thumb pointing down means the left loves you. Good job.
She quit that job after almost a year of groundless non stop investigations and mud raking into her private life, how could she do her job that way? For whatever reason winning the election wasn’t good enough for the Left, they couldn’t simply defeat Sarah Palin at the polls they had to destroy her.
As for the “Republican Insiders” I am convinced that the majority of their contempt comes from the fact that she is not part of the beltway establishment. It also stems from the fact that many of these insiders are attempting to evade responsibility for the losses of 2008 since they pushed McCain for the nomination and ran his campaign into the ground, since Palin is the outsider she’s the perfect scapegoat in their eyes.
So, if Sarah had stayed, the media and the left would have spent the next year and a half creating bogus scandals to investigate, and pillars of morality like David Letterman would have continued to drag her daughters through the mud. The net take away would have been a pile of dirty allegations that didn’t stick, but everyone would remember, and the media would rehash — true or not — as though she had been indicted and convicted on a never-ending loop.
So she walked away from a lose-lose and turned it into a win-win. She can be a conservative voice. She will be quoted on her own terms from her own blog. She can control the message. She can build up the conservative movement with very little effort and virtually without acquiring a mud overcoat. And, her family has some time to adjust and grow up out of the spotlight.
Reagan spent years touring and honing his message before GE audiences and small groups who had the opportunity to hear the man uncensored by the media. She is wise to do something like this, because as people have the chance to see and hear what she is like in person, her genuineness and clarity will grow her recognition and support. There is no downside, unless you just don’t want to find the steel resolve of a conservative in her.
What I really mean by that Inquisitor, is that Palin is cut from the standard cloth of politicians. Perfect uniform. Every word chosen carefully. Parsed to death. Constantly living in dread of the press. Sound bites. Standard safe rhetoric.
What I want to see is someone who shows me just how ANGRY and FED UP she is with corruption and evil. Someone who shows me what George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would be showing me, if they could.
For a political philosophy that supposedly abhors government intrusion into the lives of its citizens, its adherents consistently support the concept that a valid role for government is the promotion of irrationalism. The phrase “IN GOD WE TRUST” is a LIE (supposedly something believers feel should be avoided) because I am a US citizen and I trust in no god or gods. Maybe as an unbeliever/nonbeliever, I am somehow not part of that “WE” that is being referenced. In that case, how about a compromise? How about “IN SOME GOD(S) SOME TRUST”? That way it can be truthful, accurate, and theologically neutral. You’d probably think that phrasing is a little too vague, but then you’d be arguing that the government’s pronouncements on god and god’s existence should be more specific. And that’s EXACTLY why it’s wrong; because there is no choice more *personal* than a person’s decision as to what god or gods deserve/does not deserve faith, belief, or more to the point…trust.
If your faith requires constant government cheerleading to help keep it intact and to promote its acceptance by others, how strong is your faith, really, in the first place?
Exactly. You are totally correct. Moderates just don’t get it, do they?
McCain wasn’t there to win anyway. Or he was picked because he couldn’t. He was just TOO MUCH a perfect opposite to Obama’s Messiah-like perfection. McCain did it for Team Moderate. His last hurrah in the major limelight.
I guess he miscalculated on Palin. She was too popular and his handlers had to trash her.
Just a thought.
I might just take you up on that arctic_front. If we have a thorough cleanup of corruption first then maybe we can have some serious discussion about government intrusion in the economy.
Your analysis is very good, artic. This is why the left went after her with such ferocity.
If Palin runs as a solidly traditional conservative independent, using a grassroots campaign that emphasizes personal contact with the masses and AVOIDS the conventional big dollar mass media controlled circus…
…she could win big in an unprecedented way.
Today’s politicians are as much prisoners and products of the mass media machine as they are manipulators of it. This is why all of them seem like mere haircuts and standard black suits. There is no leadership. No vision. No uniqueness. No passion. Just plain vanilla mouthpieces for some commonly formulated agenda. They tow the party line, and people are now realizing that the GOP and the Dems are merging together as leftists.
And I think that many of them are too stupid to really realize just how vulnerable they are to an attack from outside IF the upstar can turn out the latent conservative majority in the American interior. The American conservative is waiting for a leader to emerge.
There’s a lot of misinformation or misconception about what makes Conservative Christians tick in America.
Really, television paradigms create and define leftist reality down here in the US political realm. People actually believe the general stereotypes created in the media and Hollywood, with various shades and hues of interpretation. Hangers on in every area of endeavor reinforce them. People either tune out the whole sad mess, or they are fully informed by them as liberal activists. The conservatives are gradually losing their grip on what remains of their elemental right to speak and disagree. How far they have fallen from the days when their worldview had power.
America really truly is in the grip of a sort of an evolving mob hysteria. It’s benign right now, relatively, but we’re only a few years away from the pitchforks and midnight parades.
The left defines anyone who tries to live as a Biblical Christian as a right wing extremist. But they don’t do that with Islam. They are very selective about which religious fervor they get disturbed about. Christian Coalition voter guides are a cause for massive alarm and legal activism. Train station bombings and anti-semitist ranting is not.
Like MSM hated Margaret Thatcher, because she was good old middle class, everyday (and intelligent and effective) and not some elitist who would order them what to think.
“The comparatively small amount of attention paid by the political press to the President’s Harvard MBA partially reflects a generalized ignorance of, and hostility toward, the degree itself.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2004/02/gwb_hbs_mba.html
Bush has a Harvard MBA.
Charles Manson was a great and convincing speaker… obviously. Give me stumbling over one’s words or forgetting things because you are so packed with important things to mindless circular rambling (a la Obama).
Looks like the left loves you.
lulz!
You left out murder of abortion doctors and gays.
True. And I shouldn’t have, since they are further examples of Marxist agenda politics. The crimes only matter when the story fits a certain template. But on the flip side, I left out the murders of abortion protestors too.
They don’t love me as much as the guy I directed the comment to. As you can see. Victor’s thumbs down are from conservatives. Mine are from moderates, and I bet all from the same person, or two.