PalinTracker: Rebukes Anti-Semitism and Government Fixes, Memoir Hits #1
September 24:
At Facebook, Palin posts her Best Wishes for the Jewish High Holidays, with solemn best wishes for Yom Kippur — the Day of Atonement — which reminds us of our need for forgiveness. She adds a current spin:
A speech was given at the United Nations General Assembly yesterday that was full of hateful anti-Semitic rhetoric. It was a shameful display before a body whose very charter is premised on the need for co-operation and harmony in pursuit of peaceful co-existence between nations. Such talk was especially abhorrent coming as it did during the Jewish High Holidays. The world community must speak with one voice in declaring anti-Semitism and all forms of intolerance and racism utterly unacceptable. There is no place in the community of peace-loving nations for those who traffic in hate or deny the terrible atrocity of the Nazi Holocaust.
In this holy season, we join the Jewish people in the struggle to promote justice, harmony, and peace. May God bless them.
- Sarah Palin
September 27:
Lenny Cacchio at Morning Companion lifts a quote from Palin’s 9/23 Hong Kong speech to contrast two radically divergent worldviews:
“We don’t believe that human nature is perfectible; we’re suspicious of government efforts to fix problems because often what it’s trying to fix is human nature, and that is impossible. It is what it is. But that doesn’t mean that we’re resigned to any negative destiny. Not at all. I believe in striving for the ideal, but in realistic confines of human nature. …
The opposite of a common-sense conservative is a liberalism that holds that there is no human problem that government can’t fix if only the right people are put in charge. Unfortunately, history and common sense are not on its side. We don’t trust utopian promises; we deal with human nature as it is.”
– Sarah Palin
“Those who want to go directly to hell, they can follow capitalism. And those of us who want to build heaven on earth, we will follow socialism.”
– Hugo Chavez
These quotes illustrate the stark contrast between two contradictory worldviews, that of classical conservatism and that of Modernism informed by a heavy dose of the Enlightenment. If you miss Palin’s point, much of the arguments of today’s world, and indeed of the conflicts of the history of Western Civilization, may escape you.
September 28:
Harper Collins announces that Palin’s first book — a 400-page memoir written with the help of Lynn Vincent — will be released four months early, on November 17. According to publisher Jonathan Burnham, the calendar bump is the result of the diligence of the two women, who turned in the manuscript before deadline:
“Governor Palin has been unbelievably conscientious and hands-on at every stage, investing herself deeply and passionately in this project,” Burnham said. “It’s her words, her life, and it’s all there in full and fascinating detail.”
Going Rogue: An American Life will debut with 1.5 million copies. Palin’s title is a reference to a charge made within the McCain camp during the final phase of the 2008 campaign and pushed into public argot by John Dickerson in an October 20 Slate story: “Has Sarah Palin ‘gone rogue’?” Dickerson wrote:
Has Sarah Palin “gone rogue?” … Palin’s disagreements don’t appear to be a part of a larger strategy. So, political insiders have started asking whether Palin is simply undisciplined or is intentionally ignoring the playbook. And if it’s intentional, the question becomes: Is she putting her own political self-interest ahead of her running mate’s?
Left wing media bias and censoring. If you follow the link to this website the UK Guardian Newspaper a staunch left wing moonbat rag. You will see a thread with numerous left wing morons spewing hate and vitriolic abuse at Sarah Palin and criticising her book which NONE of them can have possibly read. So I pointed out that Obama almost certainly did not write his own books either politely and with no swearing and linking to an American Thinker article on the matter. All my posts were deleted but the left wing morons attacks on me were kept on site and they have now barred me from posting. THIS is how the media is in the tank for Obama.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/02/sarah-palin-going-rogue-memoir?commentpage=2&commentposted=1
“and all forms of intolerance and racism utterly unacceptable”
I’m sure she didn’t really mean that. Or she didn’t think about it.
And people were critical of me when I said that it was good that Sarah quit working so that she could travel, take some part time classes, learn about how the world works, and even write a book. Now what do you have to say? She has written a book !! Its good to see her out and about and movin and shakin…
Some disagree with me, but I really believe America needs people like Pulanski, Palin, Limbaugh, Letterman and Van Jones…because if we are all honest..we love the gossip. Now I know you will agree with me on that…
I am eager to read Going Rogue. I expect it will confirm what I, and many others, already believe of Sarah Heath Palin: that she’s an honest woman, sincere in her convictions, and that those convictions are the Reaganite ones we’ve already heard her profess.
I expect further that it will confirm that the McCain for President campaign was so alarmed by Palin’s wild popular appeal that it deliberately muzzled her, thus throwing away its most potent weapon. Too many people were saying how they’d rather Palin were at the top of the ticket than McCain. “Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”
Sarah is not philosophical or sophisticated – she’s no Bill Buckley conservative. But she’s able to speak plainly and with common sense, which features are notably absent from much of the political dialog in these days of billion dollar bailouts and possible government takeover of the health care system. Her poll numbers suggest she won’t be President anytime soon, but she is able to directly connect with a large segment of the conservative populace. I look forward to her book and hope she sells the 1.5 million copy first printing and many more.
Sarah shows more evidence of “having her head screwed on right” than most world leaders.
It is hard to understand why more people do not see what she obviously sees……..Israel needs support RIGHT NOW.
“Her poll numbers suggest she won’t be President anytime soon”
That’s what I said a short time ago—but I have changed my mind. We still have three years before the next presidential election. Sarah Palin is doing some serious studying. I predict that she will blow people away in the debates and media interviews. It would be foolish to underestimate her.
So the NY Post dissed her? Is that a typo, or is the Nelson Rockefeller Country Club GOP already blasting away at her?
Go Sarah! Go Galt!
If only she knew what anti-Semitism meant.
Sarah Palin vs Ann Coulter:
“We don’t believe that human nature is perfectible” – SP
“The Jews need to be perfected” – AC
Who, what, how, but, me, I, I, I,yeah but . . . LIBTARD!
History suggests it was a made up story, as with the apochryphal radio and t.v, gigs, the towel, too many examples to measure. If she is so unpopular, why not give your name and confirm it.
Now as they said, necessity is the mother of invention. She probably would have preferred to be governor of the land she considers ‘god’s
country’ as long as possible. But her enemies
made it increasingly untenable, for her to do so with every spurious ethics complaint. In retrospect, seeing the impact she has made on
the health care and cap n trade debate, they probably wish they hadn’t provoked “Mama
Grizzly” all that much.
Poll numbers this far out from the next Presidential election are meaningless. Wait until her book comes out and spends months and months firmly entrenched at number one on the New York Times list, going through multiple printings even before it becomes a paperback edition, and check the polls then. The libs have already used up all their ammunition on Sarah, and none of it takes. Even the “Sarah is a quitter” meme is losing it’s sting less than three months since her resignation. This woman is an uncontrollable force of nature, and perfectly placed to become a revolutionary leader. And have no doubt. America is moving to a revolutionary situation.
“These quotes illustrate the stark contrast between two contradictory worldviews, that of classical conservatism and that of Modernism informed by a heavy dose of the Enlightenment.”
Rather, I’d say Mrs. Palin represents Classical Liberalism (Smith and Mill would be quite comfortable with her, I think), which is what much of American conservatism is. Chavez, however, carries nothing of the Enlightenment in him.
Tell me, why are conservatives so obsessed with the NYT list?
11. Immanuel Goldstein:
We’ll do that. We’ll keep an eye on her. And on Todd. He’s a real man of his word . . . “I’ll always work on the Slope” he said. Oh, did you hear he just quit his job on the Slope?
Poll numbers be dammed. The lib/lefts hatred of Palin is a sure sign she scares the hell out of them. Confirmation of her elect ability can be determined by how much and how long the pig squeals. Volume and sustained squealing is confirmation she is the right choice.
I’m calling it . . . Beck will conjure up a Million Mom March led by Palin. (Not that Fox will be behind it in anyway.)
2: Matthew: How do you get your stinking nose in every article about Palin? You are one of the first every time. I noticed you are a little subdued in your comments about Sarah – knowing your outright hatred of her. Governor Palin has done an outstanding job at every level of government that she has been elected to. Not only can she think, but she can lead as well. She has the intellectual capacity and managerial skills to handle the Presidency. Unlike many, including conservatives, I do not underestimate her abilities. Her Judo-Christian value places her at the head of the class. Most of our politicians, Democrat or Republican, are amoral at best. You let them near the cookie jar and they end up looking like Charley Rangel with graft all over their face.
What can your Ivy League elitist President from Kenya do? Not much judging from the economy, the violence in our classrooms and the never ending war in Afganisatan.
I guess you won’t’ be getting your free Chicago Olympic tickets from Acorn any time soon.
15. GLASS:
Poll numbers be dammed. The neo/nuts hatred of Obama is a sure sign he scares the hell out of them. Confirmation of his re elect ability can be determined by how much and how long the pig squeals. Volume and sustained squealing is confirmation he is the right choice.
13. Now and Then:
Tell me, why are conservatives so obsessed with the NYT list?
Because we enjoy sticking a finger in the lefties eye.
When you piss off monkeys they fling poo…
She pisses off all the right people….on the right and the left…
The snooty countryclub moderates GOP HATE her…she’s a threat…She’s Reagan in a skirt…
And she makes democrats heads explode….
She connects with “fly over ” country…the establishment cant have that…
The establishment wants to run another moderate even after the McCain debacle….
I hear Powell is available…he can drop out at the last minute and endorse the democrat.
Palin is the only reason McCain didnt face a complete blowout.
She speaks the voice of common sense, we need plentiful energy, support our men and women in uniform, support the democracies, oppose the dictators. Actually build more roads, educate our people in the traditions of this nation, defend the reputation of our institutions, social, economic, political. Somehow McCain, a naval aviator, son and grandson of admirals failed at this.
Just in case you’re wondering what the other 90% of America thinks.
http://alice.bigbig.com/
I quite remember in 1977 while everyone (even Mort Sahl, a staunch supporter) was predicting that the Dottering Old Fool Ronald Reagan could never be president. Even if Nancy did knit a flag during the Republican Convention while the Establishment Republicans were nominating that Big Tent guy with the Wide Appeal Gerry Ford.
Nope, no way!
Reagan was nominated in 1980 in spite of, and without the approval of, Establishment Republicans. Heck, John Anderson was Sooooo upset over his nomination, he ran as an independant.
So, how different is Sarah than Reagan?
jd
@18 N&T: – elect ability can be determined by how much and how long the pig squeals…
You may have something there.
Almost 25% of the posts in this thread are you, scared & squealing.
N&T:
“If only she knew what anti-Semitism meant.”
Well you certainly know, you spew so much of it. You’re the guy who, under another name, said that Jews were the cause of anti-semitism. Now you will nonsensically accuse me of being antisemitic. Not surprising, ypu’re incapable of telling the truth.
24. goy:
Not scared, just disgusted. As for percentages, consider the entire site and its Obama squeals. You were saying?
18. Now and Then:
On this one, you’re right — we’re terrified of what Obama is doing to this country (not for this country, as evidenced by the fruitless and pointless apology tour). Nationalizing 1/7 of our economy, endorsing a cap-and-tax bill that will prolong our recession and do nothing to stop “climate change”, using the NEA for partisan purposes, populating his cabinet with tax cheats and Marxists, the list goes on. Yes, we’re scared.
jd: I have been saying the same thing for 1 YEAR. This situation is SO LIKE REAGAN AFTER CARTER that it’s eerie. Gerald Ford (the Beltway moderate)loses to Jimmah Catah in 1976 –just like John McCain (the Beltway moderate)lost to BHO. Then WHAM! Ronald Reagan tours the country making speeches and writing articles during the Carter years — saying that America is a “Shining City on a Hill”, and that we Americans should be proud of our country being the beacon of hope, against the Communist Countries in the Eastern Block, headed by the U.S.S.R. What happened? Reagan defeats Carter in 1980 and becomes the greatest President of my lifetime. No more Carter “malaise”, and rubbing elbows with dictators and terrorists. Reagan spoke (to the Left’s horror)of the “Evil Empire”, and with help from Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II, the Soviet Union collapsed under it’s own failed policies and ideology.
Fast forward to today. Obama is going around the world apologizing for the USA and cozying up to dictators around the world. Sarah wishes our Jewish friends only the best, during the Jewish “High Holidays”. She also excoriates Obama on Facebook about Universal Healthcare and “Cap and Tax”. Then, the announcement that her book is being released months early — this is just a preview of things to come from “Our Sarah”, as we supporters like to call her. She WILL be our Reagan to Obama’s Jimmah Catah. History does repeat itself — THANK GOD.
Mom in Wisconsin
Well let’s consider he was raised by bohemian parents, abroad in a country where Moslem nationalism like in Indonesia is rather omnipresent. His other influence was Frank Marshall Davis. In college, he settled on the most left wing associates, who were often antizionist, if not anti semitic. Similarly with
Derrick Bell, who bring anti American and bluntly anti Western values. All these attitudes
were cultivated by 20 years in Reverend Wright’s pews and in conversations with the likes of Rashid Khalidi
Sarah probably figured out that McCain/Schmidt gave up after the mortgage meltdown, and McCain stupidly voting for the first TARP bailout which 80-90% of the country was AGAINST.
Sarah didn’t give up and fought to the end, but at the same time was not about to let the losers within the campaign destroy her political future.
McCain’s campaign was a freekin mess and she probably concluded that these idiots did not know what they were doing.
What amazes me about people is that they still don’t know that she reads the heavy hitters: C.S.Lewis, Thomas Sowell, Hayek, etc.
The woman is my age, and we both came of age with Reagan and John Paul II and Thatcher taking on the Soviet Union. We saw that cutting taxes WOULD stimulate GDP growth and thereby increase voluntary charity and later balance the budget.
Anybody who thinks she is uneducated is a fool, and/or just frustrated at the numerous failures of Obama.
She is gonna beat him handily in 2012. You can see it miles away like the smoke from the stack of a ship on the ocean, or a storm in the distance.
As long as O-man continues his hard leftist/marxist pull with Pelosi and Reid, the door is not only open but the buffet is free.
goy, i agree about n&t. scared, sqealing and lying. just par for the leftist course. she’s trying awful hard to spew her nonsense. the other 90% of america, HA, what a joke ! where does she get her information, david letterman ? she must be miserable to not have anything better to do on a saturday morning . . . or maybe she’s getting paid to lurk and spew liberal lies and nonsense ? get a life n&t (or a man !! hahahaha)
Palin said indirectly in her Hong Kong speech that she supports the idea of Sharia law in the U.S.
What she said specifically was that Indonesia was a perfect example of how a democracy and Sharia law can co-exist in beautiful harmony.
To say that she has lost it, is an undestatement
Australia rightly reminds us to keep our eye on Southeast Asia, where Indonesia has proved that Islam and democracy can co-exist. Indonesia has fought extremism inside its own border and is consolidating a multi-ethnic democracy that is home to hundreds of millions of Muslims. Those who say Islam and democracy are incompatible insult our friends in Indonesia.
http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=24718773587
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Sharia Law Overtaking Indonesia
By The Christian Post on February 6th, 2009
By Ethan Cole
Christian Post Reporter
Fri, Feb. 06 2009 08:51 AM EST
Sharia-based laws have been passed in more than half of Indonesia’s provinces with support for such Islamic laws expected to grow as the country heads towards its presidential election in July.
More than 50 regencies in 16 of the 32 provinces in Indonesia have passed laws linked to sharia, or Islamic religious law, according to persecution watchdog group Compass Direct News. A regency in Indonesia is one step lower in terms of administrative division than the provincial government.
http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/02/sharia-law-overtaking-indonesia/
Here are four points you must read, before reading this article:
First, sometimes these ten points quote the Quran or omit it; sometimes they quote the hadith (reports of Muhammad’s words and actions outside of the Quran) or omit it. This is done only to keep down the length of the article. No one should be fooled into believing that these harsh and excessive laws were invented in the fevered imagination of extremists who came long after Muhammad. These harsh and excessive laws come directly from the founder of Islam in his Quran and in his example in the hadith…………..
Detailed commentary on the 10 in article
10. Islam commands that drinkers and gamblers should be whipped.
9. Islam allows husbands to hit their wives even if the husbands merely fear highhandedness in their wives.
8. Islam allows an injured plaintiff to exact legal revenge—physical eye for physical eye.
7. Islam commands that a male and female thief must have a hand cut off.
6. Islam commands that highway robbers should be crucified or mutilated.
5. Islam commands that homosexuals must be executed.
4. Islam orders unmarried fornicators to be whipped and adulterers to be stoned to death.
3. Islam orders death for Muslim and possible death for non—Muslim critics of Muhammad and the Quran and even sharia itself.
2. Islam orders apostates to be killed.
1. Islam commands offensive and aggressive and unjust jihad.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2005/08/top_ten_reasons_why_sharia_is.html
A leading Egyptian scholar has demanded that people caught importing a female virginity-faking device into the country should face the death penalty.
Abdul Mouti Bayoumi said supplying the item was akin to spreading vice in society, a crime punishable by death in Islamic Sharia law.
The device is said to release liquid imitating blood, allowing a female to feign virginity on her wedding night.
There is a stigma about pre-marital sex in conservative Arab societies.
The contraption is seen as a cheap and simple alternative to hymen repair surgery, which is carried out in secret by some clinics in the Middle East.
It is produced in China and has already become available in other parts of the Arab world.
The device is reported to be on sale in Syria for $15.
Professor Bayoumi, a scholar at the prestigious al-Azhar University, said it undermined the moral deterrent of fornication, which he described as a crime and one of the cardinal sins in Islam.
Members of parliament in Egypt have also called for banning import of the item.
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2009/09/death-penalty-for-women-who-fake.html
@26. Now and Then: – Not scared, …
Keep repeating that. In fact, tattoo it on your forehead.
Eventually you’ll actually start to believe it.
#13 “Tell me, why are conservatives so obsessed with the NYT list?”
nat wants to talk about obsession? The troll’s posts are almost 25 percent of the ones on this thread so far. It hates everything written on PM, but can’t stop watching and hating and watching and . . . Mwa ha ha. It can’t stop!
We like Palin. ‘Don’t care why she does what she does, or says what she says. We still like Palin.
Hope her book makes her mi$$ions !!! The more the left goes at her the more middle Americans stand with her. McCain is a weiner and would have been as bad as Obama in different ways.
#18 Thanks for the neo con indorsement, and coming from you I consider that a compliment.
You people just don’t realize that most of us “Neo Con’s” don’t hate Obama, or his family. We don’t maliciously attack his family for his politics, that’s hate. I think he is naive, arrogant, gullible, uninformed, a bit childish and easily led, but I don’t hate the man, or his family. That part you people just don’t understand, head off now over to the Polansky site and support your child molesting brother of the left.
good for S. Palin.
shows how honest work can still suceed even despite so many malcontents trying to destroy and injure her.
Compared to the trash we now have in Washington, Sarah Paylin is a breath of clean fresh air. We despertely need her to change the course we are being provided by Obama and
his Communist crew. Good Grief!!
400 pages??
What could she possibly write about?
Let’s guess just for fun:
Copies of ALL her speeches
Quotes of all things written about her
Fish recipes
Quotes from all her lawsuits and depositions
A long narrative about the 2008 campaign
A long narrative about each member of her family
Hot dog recipes
Appeals for contributions
Her health care plan: death panels
Her international trips: Kuwait & Hong Kong
Lots of pictures
Some blank pages
Enjoy!
Well she couldn’t satisfy the hard rightists in her state either, who insisted on a parental notification bill, a pro life Supreme Court Justice, when the Missouri Plan made it impossible, among other things. She is a feminist for life, which means shocker, birth control is not out of the question. But try reading this portion of her speech, and coax and endorsement of Sharia law:
This war – and that is what it is, a war – is not, as some have said, a clash of civilizations. We are not at war with Islam. This is a war within Islam, where a small minority of violent killers seeks to impose their view on the vast majority of Muslims who want the same things all of us want: economic opportunity, education, and the chance to build a better life for themselves and their families. The reality is that al Qaeda and its affiliates have killed scores of innocent Muslim men, women and children.
The reality is that Muslims from Algeria, Indonesia, Iraq, Afghanistan and many other countries are fighting Al Qaeda and their allies today. But this will be a long war, and it will require far more than just military power to prevail. Just as we did in the Cold War, we will need to use all the tools at our disposal – hard and soft power. Economic development, public diplomacy, educational exchanges, and foreign assistance will be just as important as the instruments of military power.
13. Now and Then:
Tell me, why are you so obsessed in finding out if conservatives are so obsessed with the NYT list? Obsessions, obsessions.
If Sarah is such a loser, why are all you trolls squealing so loudly about her? She should be a non-issue, right? You lefties are sounding more desperate all the time. . .getting even harder to defend the big “o”, isn’t it?
“Israel needs support RIGHT NOW”
How soon we forget;
http://www.gtr5.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Ami_Kadish
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/1387069/US-arrests-200-young-Israelis-in-spying-investigation.html
http://minitoken.com/archives/2009/05/26/thel-weapon-for-the-chinese/
Israel IS NOT an American ally. To claim otherwise is to ignore the evidence. America has supported Israel consistently for the last 40 years. Our reward had been getting stabbed in the back so many times Uncle Sam looks like a pin cushion.
What Israel needs is to find another ally. China or Russia would be good. Only they don’t have anything worth stealing, do they?
Although I am a fan of Sarah Palin, (and registered Republican), it would be difficult to support her as a possible 2012 candidate because she is a mom of young children. As a stay at home mom of three, I am a firm believer that if at all possible it is the mother’s responsibility and duty to stay at home and raise her children. I would call myself a traditionalist.
Young moms look to those who are visible and successful as a road map of what is acceptable behavior and emulate those actions. How is leaving her five children with a nanny while she goes after her political aspirations best for the children?
Can’t the Republican Party find a compelling candidate with adult children to run for 2012?
I look forward to reading Sarah’s book. She is an intriguing woman who has an extraordinary life. It will be exciting to see what she will do in the future.
Now and Then and Vivo not to mention the self confessed antisemitic JEW HATING Arab MOHO are perfect examples of the old axiom ‘empty vessels make the most sound’ so many posts so much nonsense not an original coherent thought in any of their posts an not a braincell between them.
#40 vivo – Seriously? What could she possibly write about? How about her view of the world and her conservative philosophy? How did she come to this way of thinking? Which writers most influenced her? What does she see as solutions? How about the truth about the Progressives on the Right and Left?
Boy, you need to throw out all you know about her. Forget about those dreadful two first interviews. Obviously, there is something about her that is galvanizing people. You can either sneer at all her supporters and think they’re all dumb, or you can see if there is a there, there. Your comment was merely sneering and unworthy.
It is instructive that the left-wing establishment has become so unhinged about Sarah Palin. We are right to think there is something peculiar about this.
Obviously, by now, it’s clear the left is genuinely neurotic, desperate even, over the implications of Sarah Palin, but why? Because she is a Reagan conservative? Okay, besides moderates like John McCain, so are any number of viable figures in the conservative coalition. Recall, the Democrats got nervous when McCain won the Republican nomination, and were confident they could Take Mitt Romney out by the kneecaps. The nomination process favors the base in both parties, especially since the highly partisan post-Clinton experience. McCain was an exception in a challenging cycle for Republicans, but all things being equal, the Republican nominee will be an orthodox conservative more often than not. If the left feared Palin because she is a dedicated conservative that would suggest they believe the electorate is essentially center-right. That line conflicts with the shtick that Palin is “unelectable,” an impression left-wing pundits never pass an opportunity to advance. The left shouldn’t be bashing Palin to the degree they have, unless they truly fear her.
Does the nauseating assertion that she is “stupid” explain liberal hysteria over Palin? Democrats think anyone who doesn’t believe in central planning is stupid. That’s not new. Every significant Republican in the modern era has been smeared with the “ignorance” refrain: Reagan, Quayle, Bush… and now Palin. Something else is a-foot with Palin.
It starts with the fact that Sarah Palin is a woman… and worse, she is a STRONG woman, but still traditional and alluringly feminine. All this makes her a nuclear threat in the general election should she ever get her party’s nomination. The prospect of the first female president being a Republican scares the living sh** out of the Democrats. Just as they feared Colin Powell (before the world knew he was a RINO), Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court, and the Appeals Court nomination of Miguel Estrada. The smartest strategy for the left, if they thought Palin were too conservative and stupid, wouldn’t be to destroy her now, but to wait until she gets the Republican nomination. Then, like with Reagan, smear her as a rightwing fanatic and idiot. But no, the mere spoken words of her name sends the average leftie into the stratosphere…
…so what gives???
What the left fears about Sarah Palin most is that she is a phenomenon; everywhere she goes she gathers large crowds brimming with enthusiasm. Democrats know the Republican Party doesn’t have to pay canvassers to register voters, or rent busses to get the base out, with a candidate like Palin they will turn out in droves. Sarah Palin is a force to be reckoned with, and the left knows it! Every politician in Washington scrambles to get attention, holding press conferences and sending out press releases… but Sarah posts something on Facebook and the world shutters. Who else on the right has that kinda gravitas?
The attacks are not aimed at discrediting her with the public, that strategy is shown to be absurd when she draws so many supporters, or sells a couple million books. The attack strategy is to scare the Republican establishment off of nominating her… to preclude her from getting her parties nomination by transforming her into a “toxic asset.” Should Sarah Palin be the 2012 nominee the left wing of this country will go into “Condition Red, SEVERE Threat” status.
You gotta love that!!
For anyone who has not already seen it:
http://www.pjtv.com/video/Afterburner_with_Bill_Whittle/The_Media%2C_The_Left_and_GOP_Elitists_vs_Sarah_Palin%3A_A_Lesson_on_How_to_Destroy_a_Leader/2235/
Bill at his best…
Palin ,and Beck, have served a great purpose in the US. they have rolled back the curtains on Washington and it’s not pretty. So, naturally the left will do all they can to discredit them. We will support Palin, and Beck, for whatever purpose.
We ordered her book, hope it is #1 for months. She has moxy that is missing in many of our current politicians.
I am so sick of looking at all those ugly faces in politics. Especially the old, worn out ones that have have been paralyzed by botox to disguise their fraudulent reflection of self serving ambitions. Most humorous of all are the NBC, CBS, ABC and their affiliated journalists(?) who resort to slobbering spit and drool to avoid choking on their own biases. FOX is working so hard at fair and balanced, that they have become bi-polar. I especially like the eye glasses that they resort to wearing during interviews to ensure a “look down your nose” posture. It was so obvious that during the Beck/Couric interview, Couric was rattled by Glen Beck’s ability to stay focused. When that interview started, Couric referred to her notes without the need for glasses, but as the interview progressed and Beck’s confidence and composure held, Couric clutched those bad boys like a baby needs a blanky. Have you even seen a more arrogant, despicable use of glasses than Charles Gibson’s during the Sarah Palin interview? It’s definitely time for Sarah’s youth, politics, ambition, guts and straight talk. Grass roots is not only alive and well, but inspired by millions of common folk who truly share a deep love of the United States of America.
51. Carolyn:
“It was so obvious that during the Beck/Couric interview, Couric was rattled by Glen Beck’s ability to stay focused.”
I think you need glasses . . . “What do you mean by white culture?”
Beck didn’t have the balls to answer it. He was squirming like a spit baller in the principal’s office. “No, yeah, no, I’m not gonna, why would I, I never, that’s not what I, no, no, huh?”
Brilliant! Courageous! A leader for our time!
How about you? You wanna take that question? Go ahead. Speak for yourself or speak for Beck. “What do you mean by white culture?”
47. Marc Malone:
“Seriously? What could she possibly write about? . . . Your comment was merely sneering and unworthy.”
I bet you there will be recipes . . .
Maybe she’ll show up at Oprah’s or Rachel Ray.
Late Night maybe? Another SNL?
Why are liberal and Beltway Establishment men and women so afraid of strong, attractive, pioneer type women? Let Sarah get some good press and hear them squeal. Nastily. To whom would YOU trust your life: Sarah Palin or Maureen Dowd? How about if you were being attacked by a criminal with a gun? Who would have your back? Think about it.
gNAT (52)
white culture…mmm…how about Western culture? what do we mean by that? Sophocles, Homer, Aristotle, Plato, Euclid,, Xenophon, Sappho, Archimedes, Lucretius, All of the Old Testament, the New Testament, Ovid, Virgil, Juvenal, Tacitus, Aurelius, Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Michaelangelo, Maimonides, Raphael, Galileo, Newton, Shakespeare, Marvell, Telemann, Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Kant, Hume, Locke, Smith, Johnson, Rembrandt, Leonardo, Gauss, Euler, Austin, Pope, Hobbes, Addison, Mendelsohn, Byron, Keats, Verdi, Wagner, Maxwell, Faraday, Eliot, Arnold, Wordsworth, Madison, Paine, Jefferson, Hamilton, Washington, Adams, Gilbert, Reynolds, Lincoln, Twain, Pitt, Burke, Rousseau, Fulton, Edison, Marx, Bell, Heaviside, Kelvin, Boltzmann, Einstein, TS Eliot, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Chekov, Flaubert, Hugo, Melville, Sargent, Monet, Renoir, Constable, Tolstoy, Kaufman, Marx Brothers…
get the idea?
no…probably not.
The biggest fear around Palin is from conservatives who are afraid she’ll start to talk. Worse yet, that she’ll be interviewed . . . GASP! By somebody other than Greta van Sistern . . . YIKES! There’s a reason she hides behind the words of FaceBook ghostwriters.
“Palin’s bookers are said to be asking for $100,000 per speech, but an industry expert tells Page Six: “The big lecture buyers in the US are paralyzed with fear about booking her, basically because they think she is a blithering idiot.”"
And that from the Rupert Murdoch fire starter, the NY Post. Now, is he lowering expectations, or is it just an unavoidable fact?
They report. You decide.
vivo, aren’t there any forums where some one like you with diminished intellect can play? Your Shakespearean humor is so refreshing and new. I know you snort with pleasure each time you can write something mean about SP but really, don’t you have any friends to play with?
I didn’t watch Couric, most people didn’t
either, by the look of the ratings.They could get better rating with Schieffer or Viera or Logan if they wanted, instead Redstone is just
practically letting the House that Murrow built
burn to the ground. As to what will be in the book, her own recollections of how she came to public service, the challenges she’s faced, the
decision she’s taken. Which have rarely been easy, that in part is what commends her to so many people who see past the paper mache pastiche that the media constructed
And who does she pick to write her book? A white supremacist. She IS a maverick!
http://gawker.com/5371146/sarah-palins-ghostwriter-pals-around-with-racists-and-wackos
Danielle Dunsmore Paddick:
So you would criticize JFK and Obama as well? Or is it that she’s a woman and therefore it’s different? Why in the world would you think the kids would be left with a nanny when she is married to Todd? The grooves your mind runs in seem carved a little deep.
57. inspectorudy:
“vivo, aren’t there any forums where some one like you with diminished intellect can play?”
And you are . . . ?
Maybe I’m here because you and I are compatible: diminished intellects.
” Your Shakespearean humor is so refreshing and new. I know you snort with pleasure each time you can write something mean about SP but really, don’t you have any friends to play with?”
I get the feeling that people like you realize that there is a message in what I say, but refuse to change your viewpoint out of loyalty to your heroes. This is normal. But in the back of your mind it really bothers you. So you attack me. You feel vindicated.
Next.
Yes, in fact it is different Mr. Okie. Obama and JFK are men.
As opposed to Obama’s ghostwriter, wannabe utilities scion, turned trust fund terrorist
Bill Ayers, the man who boasted on wanting to hit the Pentagon, on ironically September 11th,
an associate of Hugo Chavez. Now Vivo and Now and then, like Fidel, and Hugo, they have a hankering for Stalin too, I bet.
Now there are many things that can be said of Lynn Vincent, a Navy wife, a cowriter of bios of like that of General Boykin, slandered by anti military rat like William Arkin, a chronicler of Democratic corruption, but white supremacist is a far stretch, as it is for Robert McCain. But that is the left’s stated
mantra for any opposition
@59. Now and Then: – A white supremacist.
LOL!!! That’s the funniest one I’ve seen all day.
Black Power. Black “Liberation” Theology. Black History Month. La Raza. All “cool” in your blinkered eyes, no doubt. Double Standard much?
“vivo:
400 pages??
What could she possibly write about?”
Well, she was going to release a limited edition iPod with all her speeches on it, but Obama beat her to it. I think that iPod is sitting at the bottom of the Royal junk drawer with the rest of the odd screws, broken shoelaces, and freebie fridge magnets from around the palace.
64. goy:
“Black Power. Black “Liberation” Theology. Black History Month. La Raza. All “cool” in your blinkered eyes, no doubt. Double Standard much?”
You look suspiciously like Ray Bolger, you know, that Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz. Shame on you, Straw Man. You unintentionally divulge your moral adolescence. It’s science! Somebody wrote it down! It’s true! No, really. It has something to do with the five things that define maturity – obfuscation, dissembling, outright lying, denial and, of course, chewing tobacco.
I, for one, admire the courage of Sarah Palin. She is one of the two most savaged people on the planet, as far as the Left and the MSM (they are synonymous, you know) are concerned. The other, of course, is George W. Bush.
Someone mentioned, “What does she have to write about?”
The Narcissist-in-Chief wrote(?) two autobiographies prior to his “entry” into politics. What on earth did HE have to write about?
Although I’m a supporter and a personal friend of Mike Huckabee, I could very well bring myself to support her and vote for her in 2012, if I am convinced that her Reaganesque talk comes from the mind and the heart.
I personally hope that her book contains an intelligent assessment of the past, and her vision of the future, with details.
No more “Hope & Change”, please …
@66. Now and Then: – You look suspiciously like Ray Bolger…
He’s dead. You, and your double standard, are busted.
No need to thank me for clueing you in to your unwitting contradictions. I can point to my sarcasm as proof of the irony involved. You can’t point to anything but your excuse.
It’s not too laaaaaate!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/06/xbox-signed-by-sarah-pali_n_311465.html
How much do you REALLY love her?