PalinTracker: Zero Hour
November 13
The Los Angeles Times reports on Palin’s new Twitter account (http://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA), but frets that she didn’t do it the way they would have.
Guess it was a slow news day?
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The Wall Street Journal reports Palin will visit Ft. Hood on December 4 as part of her book tour. Previous announcements only gave the specifics of stops up to Thanksgiving, but did include Fort Bragg, NC.
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Palin will be the keynote speaker at the Shasta Cascade Logging Conference in Redding, CA, on February 8 to kick off the weeklong timber industry gathering. Tickets — $74 and $54 — went on sale 11/16 at the Convention Center box office, as reported by the Record-Searchlight.
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Palin posts at Facebook: Obama Administration’s Atrocious Decision
Horrible decision, absolutely horrible. It is devastating for so many of us to hear that the Obama Administration decided that the 9/11 terrorist mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be given a criminal trial in New York. This is an atrocious decision.
Mohammed and his terrorist co-conspirators are responsible for the deaths of more than 3,000 Americans. Thousands of American families have suffered through the loss of loved ones because of the disgusting attacks launched against the United States, and now this trial venue adds insult to injury, in addition to compromising our efforts in the War on Terror. Heaven forbid our allies see this decision as a reason to become less likely to support our efforts in the future.
Read more here.
November 14
First glimpses of the 11/23 Newsweek cover — lifted from a Runner’s World profile — boasting Palin in jogging shorts and the headline “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah?” A trio of smart men weigh in: Evan Thomas, Jon Meachum, and Christopher Hitchens preach to the Newsweek greatly-dwindled choir about why the Republican Party should ditch Sarah, including such sexist observations as Thomas’:
Obama knows the long odds against a right-wing populist winning the presidency, no matter how good she looks in a skirt (or running clothes), brandishing a gun.
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At Politico, Andy Barr describes what could be Sarah Palin’s five book tour goals:
1) Reconnect with her base
2) Payback [the McCain campaign]
3) Stick it to the media
4) Send a message to the establishment
5) Burnish her image as a serious figure
Missing from Barr’s idea bank: Presenting policies — though Palin has clearly used Facebook to bypass the media’s focus on the personal as she deals with the political. No reason to assume Going Rogue won’t do the same.
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Three days before the record-breaking book hits the shelves, the drumbeat of Palin-bashing begins to crescendo. Among the more civilized attacks:
“The Sarah Palin interviews: Shill, baby, shill” Baltimore Sun
“Sarah Palin Going Rogue: The Wit & Wisdom (Or Lack Thereof)” Huffington Post
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November 15
And the attacks aren’t just from the left, as David Brooks — the “conservative” columnist for the New York Times and yet another smart man — uses his TV face time to call Palin “a joke” and insists “Republican primary voters just are not going to elect a talk show host.”
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Palin posts at Facebook: Really? Still Making Things Up?:
The book tour starts this week, and I look forward to it! I’m most looking forward to meeting many of you, shaking your hands, and telling you, “Thanks for loving America.” I’ll give you a scoop here and tell you what’s on the book’s Dedication Page – it’s dedicated to you – Patriots – who love the U.S.A. as much as I do.
Amazingly, but not surprisingly, the AP somehow nabbed a copy of the book before it was released. They’re now erroneously reporting on the book’s contents and are repeating many of the same things they spewed during the campaign and afterwards. We’ve heard 11 writers are engaged in this opposition research, er, “fact checking” research! Imagine that — 11 AP reporters dedicating time and resources to tearing up the book, instead of using the time and resources to “fact check” what’s going on with Sheik Mohammed’s trial, Pelosi’s health care takeover costs, Hasan’s associations, etc. Amazing.
We’ll keep setting the record straight, and we’ll keep reminding some in the media that Americans are very tired of their non-objective reporting.
Read more at Facebook.
If Sarah Palin really was bad for the Republican party shouldn’t these lefties just keep their mouths shut and watch her wreck it?
But they don’t. They try to demonize and destroy her, and their actions speak volumes.
They’re afraid of her.
1. Parabellum: “If Sarah Palin really was bad for the Republican party shouldn’t these lefties just keep their mouths shut and watch her wreck it?”
She’s just too, too irresistible! A political three-dollar-bill like her comes along just once in a generation:
‘I’m most looking forward to meeting many of you, shaking your hands, and telling you, “Thanks for loving America.”’
Palin seems more comfortable with Barbara Walters, who asks, “Do you ever want to be president of the United States?” Palin’s response: “That certainly isn’t on my radar screen right now….”
Sarah Palin rightfully scares the hell out of the Left. She has the ability to mobilize the women of the family. As a practical matter, this means entire families will be dedicated to fighting against the the leftist juggernaut. It will guarantee that conservative candidates will will stomp on their opponents in the red and purple areas of the country. The Democrats and “moderate” Republicans will only survive in the blue ones.
“Donate $100 or more and receive a free signed copy of “Going Rogue”.”
http://www.sarahpac.com/
Although not officially a public servant, Citizen Palin performs an urgent public service by provoking the internal debate of what is the Republican party about, really?
This is not dividing, it’s clarifying, and we certainly need it. You have to prefer fog and mud, a.k.a. you must have something to hide, to hate her.
The intensity of the hate is only an indirect measure of the virulence of the dissembling.
Baba Wawa got to meet her and is impressed. She knows enough not to be nasty with Sarah. It could backfire on her show. It might also have had to do with the Newsweek cover. That just ticked off the women, even those on “The View”. All of them decried the cover. They were clearly upset at the misogyny. Never thought I’d see Whoopi defending Sarah, but that mag did it.
Oprah was a cold B**** to Sarah. No warmth. No graciousness. Purely double-arm’s length. She could barely stand it, but it is sweeps week, so she had to do it. She knew her show would be getting eyeballs. She had to go through with it, but she didn’t have to like it. Sarah was clearly the enemy in her eyes.
But, Sarah doesn’t matter, right? Ha! The Obama supporters are wetting their pants.
Of course Sarah is “confident and appealing”. She’s always appealing, and she’s confident because she’s on the attack right now, following her plan. The Left is on the defensive right now, and they DON’T defend well.
I heard that the audience applause was edited out by O. herself. Typical…
QUOTE David Brooks — the “conservative” columnist for the New York Times and yet another smart man insists “Republican primary voters just are not going to elect a talk show host.”
I guess that means Huckabee should drop out now.
The Women’s Movement has been going on since before this Nation was founded. Fast forwarding to the 1960′s women really began to seek careers rather than family for personal fulfillment. And we were roundly criticized for it. The Glass Ceiling still exists today, and is JUST as pervasive as any form of Discrimination in America. Far more so than any form of Racism that “Holds Back” Black people (Which I don’t buy). Women are held back and underpaid on a far vaster scale than any other minority group, though we make up HALF the population. That should give some scale to the matter.
Now, along comes Sarah Palin, who, if you READ what she writes is tremendously well versed in National, International, and Domestic issues. Across the board. Read what she has to say, don’t bother with the people REPORTING on what she says. Just read it, and compare it to everything Obama writes, and do it with out looking at who wrote or said it. THEN you come up against the realization, Obama is an IDIOT and Sarah is not. This human being is female. That does NOT equate to unintelligent, uninformed, or in any way shape or form to be a lightweight.
Sarah Palin is the culmination of over 2 hundred YEARS of the Women’s Rights Movement. Democrats better fear her, she has the whole weight of the history of the United States and Women’s Rights behind her.
If Obama was a star for being the first person to represent 20% of the population in the White House, then Sarah Palin’s star FAR outshines Obama’s for representing HALF of the United States.
Democrats HAVE to try and destroy her if they can. They know that if Obama had been subjected to the same scrutiny in 2004-5 that he would never have become President, his Father is British, Obama was never a Natural Born Citizen. He is UNQUALIFIED for the office by virtue of his Citizenship at the instant of his Birth. He was Born British because of inheriting his Fathers citizenship.
Democrats know this, and know that if they are to stand any chance against the Juggernaut that is Sarah, they have to destroy her now if they can.
Still not totally sold on Sarah, but that fact that the mere mention of he name causes seizures for lefties and spontaneous tourette’s syndrome among the calcified right makes me like her.
What I want to hear is a serious discussion of policy with a panel of persons who can ask serious, unscripted questions.
I really think its time to start having our potential candidates; Palin, Romney, Huckabee, Pawlenty sit down for some serious questions without a script. I want them all in the same room. I want to see if they can do it. I want to see if they can be civil with each other, and not just drop one liners and sound bytes.
Of course Newsweek is unfair. It is part of NBC, MSNBC Keith-style mentality. However, I think Newsweek magazine cover of Palin in running short also has made many leftist women really mad. Most of the NOW and similar ladies including the Dunn thing, look at themselves and Sara, and get more angry leaving the mirror. In Hollywood, the mansion living- $500k driving- $3k hand bag carrying socialist stars who start carrying about poor after snoring 5 grams cocaine are very upset as well. This picture demonstrates to the world an important fact. The picture said, it doesn’t matter how much you spend on your plastic surgeon even when in your 30s, unless you are a real human you can’t achieve this kind of body. Therefore, Newsweek has made everybody upset and mostly its own supporters. But no matter what, people are not buying the magazine. In addition, rating of NBC / MSNBC stays low no matter how many times Keith make FOX reporters, worse, worser, worsest every night. He just can’t compete with like Bill O, and Hannity. Snap out of Keith.
9. Dianna: “The Women’s Movement has been going on since before this Nation was founded. Fast forwarding to the 1960’s women really began to seek careers rather than family for personal fulfillment. And we were roundly criticized for it. The Glass Ceiling still exists today…”
Women got the right to vote in 1919, and voted in their first national election in 1920. Federal spending in 1921 was four times what it was in 1920 as a result, and some have very convincingly connected the 19th Amendment’s legacy to the Great Depression.
That’s my response to this digresssion…
Palin need not be afraid of the Nazi Media. They’re become a characature of themselves.
Who she needs to pay attention to are people line Newt, David From and the like who can still pretend to be conservatives. She needs to challenge them, and expose them for what they are: RINO Fascists.
I don’t agree with people like Roger Hedgecock who openly believe Sarah Palin is not presidential material, but I am glad he’s saying it the way he is. He’s left himself open for converstion. I think we could use a few more open dissenters like him in the debate over Palin.
Baal
[........but that fact that the mere mention of he name causes seizures for lefties and spontaneous tourette’s syndrome among the calcified right makes me like her.]
That says best. I detect the “right” reaction is just part of a freakout by the profession political caste (Harvard etc) that literal outsider has exposed their callous indifference to the best interests of the nation.
I’ve been a politcal junkie with a wonderful memory for over 50 years now.. and I can say without hesitation that no one.. I repeat NO ONE has “turned me on” in the way that Sarah has.
There is SOMETHING about that woman, and it is more than just her drop-dead gorgeous looks.
Contrary to some on the right (e.g., Peter Wehner; see Commentary Contentions today, 11/18) I really like what I hear from Sarah Palin. She is a no nonsense, down to earth person. She is not going to give windmills that needs subsidies; she’ll give us oil derricks that are profitable, will sate our energy thirst and make us less dependent on those who would like to see us as part of Dar es Salaam. She is not going to bow to the Emperor of Japan and she will meet with the Dalai Lama, becuase I have not doubt, what you hear from Gov. Palin is what you get.
As for Newsweek, and the picture it ran to embarrass Gov. Palin, all I can say is, how the mighty have fallen. When I was in college in the 1960s, Newsweek advertised itself as being able to separate fact from opinion. It really was a news week(ly) the, a mighty at that. Today, it can tell the difference, and some call it, Newspeak, as in the Orwellian, new speak. I think that, though, that spell check didn’t catch the error. They spell it, Newsweek; it should really be, Newsweak.
I got involved politically when Sarah Palin came on board. She just energized me. I am an avid Palin supporter and she is doing real service for our country. I can’t help but take a jab at Oprah. Sarah just looked real and comfortable and together and Oprah reminded me of a big angry toad compared to Oprah. (Sorry Oprah, but when you decided to get political, well pay back can be hell)
Say the Barbara WAWA interview. Play the video w/o the volumne and watch Barbara’s expression when Sarah says she “thinks it looks cheesey.” Loved it. What in the hell can WAWA say to that!
I don’t think there has ever been the kind of vitriol directed to one individual before as is now being hurled at Sarah Palin. It’s both ridiculous and fascinating. I think the elites are attacking her because her very existence and success challenges their core beliefs such as: 1) The idea that an Ivy league education and moving in the right circles is required for political leadership. 2) Women can only be empowered through radical feminism. 3) Anyone who adheres to fundamentalist tradition is loony. 4) Anyone who disagrees with us is ‘stupid’ or ‘a joke’.
One of the truly unique aspects of average Americans is their admiration for self-made, self-reliant, successful people like entrepreneurs and pioneers – Folks disparaged by the old-money Europeans and their American wannabes. I hope Sarah continues her participation in national life, if only to keep the stuffed shirts in drooling convulsions.
“Tomorrow might be different.”
SF writer Mack Reynolds’ stock reply
to those who expected the future to
be the present, except shinier.
We are in for Hard Times, people, and
that will transform politics, including
the characteristics which persuade voters;
After TPTB default on their promises, in
ways that will alienate the middleclass,
and _enrage_ the underclass, after the
dust settles, a person who says: “I know
this is not much, but it is the best I
can do.” and _be_believed_ will get an
amazingly diverse majority of the votes.
Here’s a fantasy for you, given that Hillary said something that nice about Palin.
Hillary, after being called a racist, and effectively screwed out of the nomination with Chicago style politics, and now marginalized as a Secretary of State that the administration ignores and pre-empts whenever possible, has a David Horowitz epiphany about what liberalism and leftism really is, and goes “rogue” on the Democrats.
Palin/Clinton or Clinton/Palin in 2012? Who could stand up against that one?
I like the way that she upsets the status quo of the anti-status quo lefties. The loose-cannon is a marvelous analogy, except that Palin uses hunting scopes. Never seen a scope on a cannon?
It is overdue that someone can speak up about how the nation is doing/failing/ being done in with nary a voice of the loyal opposition making it to the air waves. She has the microphone, the voice, and the agenda to be heard against the MSM.
Oprah had her highest program ratings in two years when Palin appeared on her show. The book stores are expecting thousands for her signings…her book is already #1…
Instead of concentrating on what’s going on in our country with Obama, our security, the war, the ecomony that is in the toilet and China has the flush handle firmly in its grip..they concentrate on one woman…she must be might important..
America loves Palin. There is nothing that the trolls, elite media, left or right wing parties can say that will change that. these people say things to make themselves feel good…no one else. They merely entrench her in our lives..and we like her more everyday!!
On another, related note; When was the last time Newsweek used an old photo previously published in another magazine (Runner’s World) for their cover photo?
I’ll bet you a six pack the answer is ‘never’.
Sarah may make a few mistakes, but I don’t care about them. They will be the mistakes of inexperience only and will be forgiven. What she will not do is bankrupt her country, sell it out to socialism, embarrass America abroad, or destroy national security. Sarah will be a Mama Grizzly where her country and her people are concerned, watch her. People who follow her see truth and trust, and respond with the same. That’s leadership.
I have to agree with bob S at 14. She has a unique kind of charisma. I’d call it the charisma of virtue. People who get her know she would make a great friend, a great employee, a great boss. Great President, you betcha!
My apologies to everyone. I don’t do real well copy-editing, so let me correct the last few sentences of what I said earlier. They should read as follows:
It really was a news week(ly); how the mighty have fallen. Today, it can’t tell the difference, and some call it, Newspeak, as in the Orwellian, new speak. I think, though, that spell check didn’t catch the error. The publisher may spell it, Newsweek; it should really be, Newsweak.
I view the journalism that attempts to discredit Mrs Palin as diahrea of the mouth.
What these people suppose is right or wrong about someone who has the courage to speak out doesn’t mean squat from my perspective. They don’t speak for a working guy like me and never have.
Sarah Palin has and does. She represents me. There sure are few like her.
I’m watching every move Mrs Palin is making and formulating my plans accordingly, keeping my ammo dry and handy, and understand fully these fools who think they know what and who is right for my country are wrong.
My vote is what is right.
No one but me and my God decides this.
I’m left out in the cold and my rightful recourse is self determination. I’m using this freedom to the maximum.
Self determination is what Sarah Palin is doing. Bless her heart.
I believe someone who has dignity and knows her self worth such as Mrs Palin has the fortitude and grit to weather haters and bigots all day long. She has the gift of conviction of faith in something larger than herself. I see grace and humilty.
It is refreshing and informative to have insights revealing the true nature of a class of people who have no idea I exist, care less and are scared witless of power of the people.
It really is a shame there is so much hate.
You know what? Not my problem.
I understand enough to see what is right.
I love my country and people who believe in it.
David Brooks — the “conservative” columnist for the New York Times and yet another smart man — uses his TV face time to call Palin “a joke”
And he supported the greatest joke of all times in 2008.
I simply don’t understand why the ultra-leftist, anti-Americans are so terrified of her. Sure, she’ll do them terrible damage next year, raising money and organizing the American community but why build her up (by trying to tear her down) at every turn? Makes no sense. The contrast between Chimpy the Kenyan and Sarah next year will be unbelievable! The feminist silence and failure to defend Sarah are inexcusable.
The only thing I really regret is that the captive media has to keep her grandson’s father in the spotlight in the hope that he’ll do/say something that makes Sarah look bad and they can trumpet.
“Oprah …focusing on tabloid issues rather than policy questions.”
The little lady hostess of the show is only good for tablod issues. She genulflected a man, and put down a woman as all self-esteemless little ladies would do.
At NRO, Jim Gerachty, like David Frum (on Laura Ingraham) bewails the fact that Palin resigned after only 1 year on the job in Alaska.
However.
Palin had ALREADY served a full FOUR years as Governor, and been RE ELECTED by a gigantic margin. And during her time as EXECUTIVE, she made a deal with the world’s LARGEST oil companies to finally (after 30 years of dithering by previous Alaskan politicians) build that pipeline connecting Alaska to the lower 48.
Also.
In her time as EXECUTIVE, she cleaned up the old boys club (Republicans) that had been running Alaska into the ground with laziness, sloth and graft.
Also.
I saw Sarah Palin’s speech at the Republican Governor’s Assoc meeting after the 2008 election. (Thank you cspan). The governors crowded around her onstage, only allowed her one question, and physically shuffled her off. For some reason, these people HATE her, or are AFRAID of her, or both.
And what was this about McCain’s people undermining her at every turn? You can’t tell me it had nothing to do with McCain and his jealousy for a young, vital, charismatic politician.
I Think this has a lot to do with fear of elites for the hoi polloi. Continetti over at Weekly Standard has a book about this, and compares her to Andrew Jackson and William Jennings Bryan.
As to why she quit when she did, she was spending all of her working time fighting off ‘ethics’ complaints by groundlings; and also, the Democratic Feds were starting to attack the state of Alaska with regulations designed to cripple that state’s (and Palin’s)future, ie designating polar bears as ‘endangered’, thus ensuring that the entire north coast would be off limits to any exploration or development.
and I am sure she saw other nasties coming down the road. So she resigned. Good.!
4. davidt:
“Donate $100 or more and receive a free signed copy of “Going Rogue”.”
http://www.sarahpac.com/
This is a better deal than you may realize, since her autograph would be the only two words she wrote in that book.
Now and Then:
4. davidt:
“Donate $100 or more and receive a free signed copy of “Going Rogue”.”
http://www.sarahpac.com/
This is a better deal than you may realize, since her autograph would be the only two words she wrote in that book.
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Kind of like Ayers writing for Obama, eh… Now and Then?
http://thewhitedsepulchre.blogspot.com/2009/10/barack-obama-william-ayers-dreams-of-my.html
#10
Baal: Good Post, I agree, it is too early to start swooning over Palin for POTUS. She makes me all tingly inside, I have to pinch myself and remember that Obama got elected on hoopla. Palin is more qualified now to be President than Obama, but three years is a ways off, lets not rule out other contenders.
Remember Hillary’s It takes a Village? She didn’t acknowledge her ghost writer, neither did Obama acknowledge his. They claimed the ghosts’ efforts as their own. That’s stealing.
Palin is the only honest “author” of her book.
Hey Now and Then:
Haven’t been very productive or prolific at leaving your smelly little droppings here the last few days, have you? If that gets back to Soros, he might cut your piecework rate and your mom may evict you from her basement.
…#31..please tell us how you know this as a fact????
also, i agree even if she did have someone else write it..so what?? It’s her life her words. Do you think your silly trite criticism holds any weight?
What has it been, a week since Hannity tried to pass off 9/12 footage as the Bachmann crowd?
well . . .
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/18/fox-news-runs-old-palin-c_n_362897.html
Hello?
Yo, troll, you know in your heart you want one of these…
http://tiny.cc/LzwLU
huffandblow post?? certainly you jest!! we won’t even bother to look, you degrade even yourself…huffandblow is a complete joke! you usually put up outdated, irrelevant crap anyway.
huffandblow post?? certainly you jest!! we won’t even bother to look, you degrade even yourself…huffandblow is a complete joke! you usually put up outdated, irrelevant crap anyway. you’re just no fun.
Sarah reminds me of something I learned many years ago during one of my summer jobs. I was working as a day laborer with a bunch of guys who had been doing this work for a long time. We were clearing a big field of under growth in July in Florida. I was working like I would any other time which was constant and hard. These oldere guys took me aside and said “Look, we work here all year long and we work only fast enough to not get fired. We want this job to last so slow down and stop making us look bad”. This is what Sarah is doing to the liberal women. She is successful, a mother, loving wife and an accomplished speaker. She’s got to slow down because she is making them look bad.
Substance WITH style, the nightmare of libs and O-heads who see their Barry Zero, the product of years of organized unionized malconent gimme gimme gimme dreams, melt in the eyes of real people who recognize one of their own. If Barry can be President, then Sarah surely can. The Zero claims middle America, but Sarah GETS it.
I see MOHO/MUSLIM is posting as ANONYMOUS now too but same BS as usual.
Gotta love sweeps week. Palin is effin’ everywhere! Wanna boost your ratings? Get Palin on your show! Wanna lose sweeps week? don’t get Palin on your show. How brilliant was it to release her book and do a book tour during sweeps week? Just effin’ brilliant.
Hour-long appearances on Oprah and (GMA) Baba Wawa; Hannity today, picked up by all the wires; O’Reilly tomorrow. Just huge! Who does a book tour and gets whole hours of top shows? Authors wish they could get whole hours to promote their books.
The book-signings will be insane. Imagine the lines! Streets will become traffic jams as people look for parking. Might as well just shut down parts of town, except, it will be the most business these places will have seen in some time. There won’t be bread, but there will be circuses. I think it’ll be just insane, but perhaps, a happy insane.
One last thought: Beck and O’Reilly are going on tour. Wouldn’t it be a rocking surprise for the folks, if they gave Palin a surprise appearance at one of them? The crowd would explode!
Palin photographer breached contract with sale to Newsweek:
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/18/palin-photographer-breached-contract-with-sale-to-newsweek/
44. Marc Malone:
“Gotta love sweeps week . . . Just effin’ brilliant.”
Wow, talk about gilding the lily. Sweeps week has always been about tits and ass. This is no different.
Let’s see:
Two new posters of Sarah and Trigg – check.
New basketball to play with in parking lot – check.
10 extra copies of “Going Rogue” to pass out at bookstore – check.
C4P shirt signed by Sarah on right sleeve (hopefully she’ll sign the left sleeve too) – check.
sleeping bag – check
drinks/snacks – check
camera – check
AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” in car CD player – check
OK Sarah, BRING IT!!!
47. Sapwolf:
And next week the Jonas Brothers!
Now and Then, I like you.
You’re funny.
One of the earlier comments struck an important chord: the one about Sarah following her own plan, being on the attack. This is not only an excellent explanation for her improved confidence and poise before a hostile interviewer; it’s also an absolutely correct assessment of why she was less comfortable, and less effective, on the campaign trail as John McCain’s running mate.
For Sarah Heath Palin, resigning her governorship was essential to going from reactive to proactive. As Governor, she was forced into a reactive position by the avalanche of attacks, legal, quasi-legal, and informal, that rained upon her from the day of her nomination. As a private citizen who’s “merely” promoting her new book, she makes the rules as she sees fit. She’s under no obligation to do as anyone else prefers, including the kingmakers of the Republican Party.
Ronald Reagan hit his truest and firmest stride after he’d ceased being governor of California, too. There are a lot of lessons in that for people who think the path to great popular influence is exclusively through elective office.
#11 Kourosh: “In addition, rating of NBC / MSNBC stays low no matter how many times Keith make FOX reporters, worse, worser, worsest every night. He just can’t compete with like Bill O, and Hannity.”
Spot on, brother. Doesn’t it seem odd that the low-rated cable shows (Olbermann, Matthews, Maddow) are obsessed with attacking Fox & Sarah? Viewers (other than the sycophantic, leftist diehards) have grown weary of attack journalism; in my opinion, viewers want substance, not attacks on competitors. It’s really quite humorous to watch MSNBC, CNN, CNBC et al attack the one competitor who’s driving the ratings stake through their blessed little leftist bleeding hearts.
#41 Inspectorudy: exactly right. Same thing happens at workplaces with a big union presence, where workers do just enough to get by, and not try to achieve greatness or push productivity levels to new heights. Mediocrity is the goal. Case(s) in point: GM & Chrysler – both headed down the tubes thanks to their commitment to mediocrity, both at the mgmt. & labor levels. Ford has at least returned to profitability, but they’ve still got some work to do.
Sarah is blowing away the liberal competition and they’re doing everything they can to destroy her personally and politically. She connects with the people; she’s genuine & not some pretentious, condescending diva. She has a loving husband & family. She has proven (in stark contrast to what Steinem-esque feminists have been telling women for years) that a woman CAN have a successful career, marriage & family, and that every child is a blessing. And to top it all off, she’s happy on the inside, and that drives liberals absolutely bonkers! Juggling the demands of a career & family, (according to the feminists) is supposed to make you depressed, hate men, want an abortion & be on Prozac. If only she weren’t so unattractive. . . .
I laugh hard everytime I hear a talking head on one of the bottom-of-the-ratings shows (you know who you are Olbermann, Matthews & Maddow) say “she’s not qualified” or “she’s not ready” or “she’s better suited to be a talk-show host” and my first thought is that someone needs to be criminally prosecuted for putting YOU on the air! My second thought is that she has more executive and decision-making experience than Barry.
And finally, the left, especially those who have written books themselves, absolutely cannot stand it that her book sales are through the roof. Can’t you just hear the Matthews, Olbermann & Maddow off-camera conversation:
MATTHEWS: I can’t believe it! My book was ten times better than hers, and hers is a best-seller! Who are these idiots buying her book? I don’t know anyone who bought it!
OLBERMANN: Well, I suspect her book sales numbers are inflated. I bet it’s a bunch of those rich Republicans buying up thousands of copies just to push the numbers up. She certainly won’t appear on my show. (Editor’s note: And your ratings will reflect it, Keith.)
MADDOW: I’d like to get her on my show so I can embarass her. I’ll have my staff dig up a bunch of questions she won’t know the answers to and we’ll just show America what a dumb broad she is. (Editor’s note: Rachel, you can show what a dumb broad she is to all 10 of your viewers, and be sure to use the same staff who advised you that the Constitution doesn’t have a preamble. Oooh. Ouch. Stop it.)
Go Sarah!!
watch the lies, too: on a fox clip about media attacks on Palin, they find a Dem operative who refers to the TWO YEARS AND THEN SHE QUIT meme. Sarah Palin served a COMPLETE TERM AS GOVERNOR OF ALASKA, was re elected with a huge margin, and then resigned after a year and a half because:
she was a lame duck governor, she could not run again; she had finished with her major promises to Alaskans (ie, the Pipeline); she was being nibbled to death by dem ducks with ethics complaints (none of which stuck); and the Feds were revving up attacks on Alaska (eg, proclaiming the Polar Bear as being endangered, a false statement, but which would shut down any further exploration of the northern Alaskan coast).
And get this: the attackers SMILE while they lie!
52. heathermc:
“Sarah Palin served a COMPLETE TERM AS GOVERNOR OF ALASKA, was re elected with a huge margin, and then resigned after a year and a half because . . . ”
THIS is the kind of ignorant nonsense that defines the typical Palin supporter.
52. heathermc:
Sorry, Heather, it’s not true. Sarah Palin did not serve a complete term. However, I do buy her reasoning that there was no hope for her agenda if she stayed on. Resigning for the good of Alaska seemed to be the single best thing to do… all the idiotic Nazi Supported allegations went away pretty fast.
53. Now and Then: show me a better conservative leader than Sarah Palin, and I’ll pay more attention to your snipping little yaps… but since you can’t…
Now and Then has a Palin fetish! Isn’t that cute?
I got to meet her today and shake her hand, how long would it be before you washed yours? Oh I know – girls are yucky – you little freak.
Sorry about that mistake, The reality is (via Wikipedia): “in 2006, running on a clean-government platform, Palin defeated incumbent Governor Frank Murkowski in the Republican gubernatorial primary. Her running mate was State Senator Sean Parnell. She will not be a candidate for re-election as Governor in 2010.
In the November election, Palin was outspent but victorious, defeating former Democratic governor Tony Knowles by a margin of 48.3% to 40.9%.”
Note that she won that election against 2 very well known old timer Alaskan politicians: Murkowski and Knowles. And, before she became the Dem’s favorite target by becoming McCain’s VP pick, her approval rating was 89 to 69%. She knows about the North, folks, and the result of massive Federal power Up Here.
54. wancow:
“Show me a better conservative leader than Sarah Palin, and I’ll pay more attention to your snipping little yaps . . . ”
Honestly? Sarah Palin is the best conservative leader you have? I’d say there are NO good conservative leaders, but if you say that Sarah Palin is everything you look for in a leader, well have at her. I know we will. She’s already slipping on that high wire – took her two days to confuse Iran and Iraq. She’s hanging on by a thread. And she knows it.
Heathermc . . . That wasn’t a mistake you made. It was an accusation. And you based on lies. Lies that somebody told you and you believed. You need to ask yourself, “Why would that person lie to me like that?”
Think about that, and you just might uncover the true motives and nature of the right wing extremist movement that threatens to destory this great nation.
One of the more predictable denigrations of Sarah Heath Palin has moved into high gear. Watch for it, and appreciate its power and significance.
Think of all those motivated people, waiting in cold damp weather, for many hours to have a chance to meet Sarah Palin.
Now and Then would gladly wait for all those hours to NOT meet her. Twisted emotions there. Needs to be on a watch list – negative obsessions betray serious underlying issues.
She’s just a woman with her own opinions – get a life, stay off the internet for a while, take a walk outside, make an appointment with a doctor.
60. HoosierHawk:
“Twisted emotions there. Needs to be on a watch list – negative obsessions betray serious underlying issues.”
Well, based on the negative obsessions of Obama around here, everybody needs to be on a watch list.