Sarah Palin: America’s Sweetheart No More?
Sarah Palin’s standing with the American public has undergone a stunning reversal of fortune, according to two recently released polls.
Just two and a half years ago, Sarah Palin’s star was ascending to the political heavens. A solid 53% of Americans held a favorable opinion of Mrs. Palin, while only 28% had a negative view.
But according to a March 3 Bloomberg News poll, only 28% of Americans now hold a positive view of the former Alaska governor, while a stunning 60% see her in an unfavorable light.
And a March 16 Washington Post-ABC poll found Palin’s negative ratings fell to a nadir of 37% among Republicans and right-leaning independents.
How do we explain this stunning reversal for the immensely ambitious political wunderkind?
Following John McCain’s surprise selection of Palin on August 29, 2008, and her well-received acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, she notched an impressive favorability rating of 53% as a virtual political unknown (all figures I cite are from the Gallup poll, unless otherwise noted).
But as the campaign jolted toward the November election, stories began to circulate about a simmering discord between the McCain and Palin campaign staffs. “She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” complained a top McCain adviser just days before the election. “Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party.”
Following the GOP’s sweeping losses on November 4, Palin’s favorability ratings still registered 48% — a respectable number, considering the predictable miscues of the grueling campaign.
Soon shaking off the post-election blues, Palin’s first move was to establish SarahPAC, which would eventually raise $1 million for conservative candidates around the country. Throughout 2009, Palin’s favorability ratings cruised along in the acceptable low to mid 40s range.
Palin’s heralded book Going Rogue came out on November 17. Even though the autobiography would eventually sell over 2 million copies, it also raised questions about the former candidate’s conservative credentials — even her character.
Going Rogue highlights Palin’s endorsement of the controversial Title IX quota program. It reveals her predilection for gender-baiting clichés like “I’ve been living in a man’s world all my life.”
I know how to explain it. THE POLLS ARE PHONY AND SO ARE AUTHORS WHO WRITE CRAP LIKE THIS.
Just can’t destroy her with the lies and slander, now more lies about her popularity. WE KNOW, she isn’t popular with the libs or republican leadership, BOTH who fear her.
Bloomberg news poll my ass. Where did they poll, HARLEM?
PHONIES.
Go Sarah..
1. ChillyinAlaska “Bloomberg news poll my ass. Where did they poll, HARLEM?”
Priceless. You just cannot make this stuff up.
I doubt this limp-wristed, pencil necked geek is a spokesman for
AMERICA. He surely does not echo my sentiments.
j
just another carey roberts special…bull crap at it’s best
Palin is still well liked, despite these “polls” , she won’t run, why should she? she is a power house exactly where she is on the sidelines helping others. there is an election coming up.
We are allowing the “comedians” of the left to determine which way this country goes.
compared to what we have representing us now.. Palin is Einstein reincarnate..
ChillyinAlaska,
Right on. She is a political and media force to reckon with, if she chooses to run. Even if she doesn’t run she could influence who is chosen, as she did in the recent elections.
The critics claim she lacks gravitas and hasn’t read the necessary thousands of policy books or attended name brand schools. Have scholars ever been fit for leadership? Think of George Will in a gang fight. I’d hope he isn’t watching my back.
Her upbeat attitude and appealing looks can take her a long way. More important is her character exemplied by her pro-life stance, and maintained after she learned she had a child with Down’s syndrome. She is like Horatio who defended a bridge against scores of attackers to buy time for the arrival of Roman reinforcements. She has heart and guts. I haven’t observed indications of strong character in any of the other candidates. They are the usual lickspittles who run for that office, oily operators who have cultivated a knack for positioning themselves. We have had a tedious series of mediocre leaders and there are many too many salivating on the sidelines. We need a leader soon, not a bookworm but a person with nerve. It happens the best man is a woman in 2012 (so far).
If she runs she will have my vote and contributions. Never dismiss a person with character.
THANK YOU, Patrick.
Sarah is a great gal, an American patriot with a lot of horse sense and a rowdy sense of humor. She could mop up the floor with most of her opposition. And this Carey Roberts fellow seems to think that conservative American women need to genuflect to the guys and get back in the kitchen.
And Sarah is a “liberal in disguise”? That’s funny, right there.
Y’all leave our girl alone, you hear?
Perhaps it is the fact that Palin is still fodder for half baked comics to poke fun at on late night TV. Leno just did 4 Palin jokes in a row – about her trip to Israel – and the audience cheered. It’s become “cool” to be against Palin – never mind the reason for it. Those who follow Palin, read the transcripts of her speeches, watch her on You Tube, still know she is – to Donald Trump – more qualified to lead America than Obama.
There are still ignorant people with college degrees who claim they saw her say she could see Russia from her window!!! People with MA degrees!!!
She stopped being governor when 18 ridiculous ethics violations were filed (those who filed them belong to a group)and 150 Freedom Of Info requests were made – all costing the state loads of time, money and focus. Plus she had to pay her own lawyer fees as well – thousands of dollars. She’s taken Obama’s lead and written her own books – and has been vilified for it. Now, we have a movie being made which will continue to destroy her. She is an absolute threat to the Dems. I also wonder if the fact Rahm Emmanuel’s brother is the agent to many TV talk show hosts, stars, etc. also contributes to the jokes about her. Did you see Glee? I didn’t – I refuse to watch left wing tripe even though I once respected the show. I have given up Letterman, Ferguson and now Leno because of their attacks.
Another hit piece on Palin about how her popularity is slipping, and over 170 comments, much more with all the replies included! It is the same on other blogs I read, like Ace of Spades (http://ace.mu.nu/)or Gateway Pundit. Anytime there is anything on Palin the thread goes on for days and into the hundreds on comments. She has the heart, fight, and principles, and the libs are scared spitless she will be elected and return our country to it’s constitution and principles that made us great and prosperous. No more listening to the libs, the econazi’s, and other groups financed by our commie competitors to bring us down. To return us to prosperity and bring our jobs back, we have to return to the principles our founders laid down.
Palin and Bachman in 2012!
chilly
You make some pertinent observations
It is a fact however,
that Popularity,
is a major factor in getting a majority vote
This article is full of bullcrap. Of course, the GOP doesn’t like Sarah, that’s hardly news. McCain didn’t want to win the presidency, so he thought he was choosing an “unknown done-nothing” for his running mate so she would act as a millstone around his neck, giving him a good out. He was horrified to discover not only was Palin very accomplished, but she could campaign circles around him. He was horrified to discover he had picked a real fighter — worse, potentially a fighter of the GOP.
Palin isn’t liked by the GOP, including McCain, because she is a shit-stirrer, and a threat to their “old boy” way of doing business for decades in DC. Either this author is in the back pocket of the established GOP or he sincerely believes the lies the media – and the Republicans – feeds us about Palin: how unpopular she is and how she cannot win in 2012. Guess what? If we vote for her…she can win.
The polls on her are fixed – pollsters either ask questions in a way to elicit the answers they want….or they poll the wrong people…or both. Who are these people they poll, anyway?? I’ve never been polled on Palin or anyone else. The media and the GOP are going to great efforts to exclude Palin in any discussions of potential candidates. She’s like the pink elephant in the room. Instead, they are trying to steer us toward Bachmann. I LOVE Michele Bachmann, but she is my second choice for the nomination because she’s not as experienced as Palin. Bachmann has never run a state nor been a Commander-in-Chief. And, we desperately need someone with energy experience. I don’t want her put ahead of Palin, and that’s what they are trying to do.
O’Reilly put up a poll today: which one do you like best, Bachmann, Romney or Pawlenty? Why didn’t he include Palin in the choices?? Because he’s afraid she would poll higher than the two men, and he knows Bachmann won’t.
Whatever.
These idiotic polls don’t mean anything when it comes to Sarah Palin. She can turn it all around with the drop of the hat. She is however, the only one the media, the left, and the GOP establishment relentlessly attack. It’s no wonder her numbers are bad. Anybody else would be sunk by now. But she’s still very very much alive. She has my support.
To Wes1904: I totally agree with you. It’s almost laughable to hear someone say, “well, I don’t think Palin can stand up to the insults, she’ll crumble under all the crap she would get as the nominee”. If you consider what she’s endured and the fact that every time, she gets right back up, it would be just the opposite. There’s NO ONE who has endured the crap she has and remained standing as she has. She’s the toughest potential candidate I’ve ever seen. Who else has ever endured cruel remarks about their Downs Syndrome baby, and “jokes” about their 14-year old daughter being raped? I mean, she’s had and continues to have viciousness thrown at her. Besides that, she was so scrutinized by the media in 2008 that she has nothing left for the media to “reveal”. And that alone greatly pisses them off.
Pajamas is now joining the pile-on?
Go ahead and delete this comment.
Phuck you.
Lena,
Yours, dear, perfectly captured my thoughts and anger about the author and his pathetic dump of an article. Thank you.
She has been the target of just about everyone but Conservatives, so yeah, her numbers are way down. Propaganda works. People listen to Beltway guys like Krauthammer. These folks are vested in maintaining the status quo which feeds them.
Is she a different person from what she was? No. Has she changed her position on anything? Her values? No.
Her entire life has been put under a microscope, and anything less than stellar (or anything imagined) has been magnified. How would your own life hold up to that kind of scrutiny, propaganda, and… libel?
If you have a bad view of her, you need to re-think. You need to consider that this is as bad as it gets. No one looks good when attacked incessantly like this. Her image is bruised and battered from the constant fighting.
But remember, she was a big part of the Nov ’10 election results. She put folks over the top. The country owes her a great debt, because she kept fighting when others were quelled by the Dem success in the ’08 elections. No one stood up to Obama and Company like her, except Beck.
People better get some perspective, or the lying Media will win again. They do not want “mean” people, but the enemy is using our niceness against us. It is time for some meanness. Gouge some eyes. Barbara Bush a blue-blood? Well, yes, of course. Blood-libel? Well, yes. She gets the blame for doing the dirty work which needs doing. Folks should be thanking her.
For me, Barbara Bush’s stepping (so inappropriately) into the pundit pit said more about the authentic terror Sarah Palin evokes in the hearts of those committed to the status quo than perhaps any other mud slinging we’ve witnessed to date.
Agreed. Well said.
I agree completely. I was shocked when Barbara Bush said Sarah Palin was a beautiful woman but should stay in Alaska. I have defended Bush 43 for years, and was stunned when Barbara threw Sarah Palin under the bus.
You should not have been the least bit surprised. Barbara Bush has never resembled anything conservative. She’s every bit the elitist, New World Order type that her husband is, and she’s a feminist as well.
She’s never been a friend of America.
Great comment Mark. I especially agree that no one, with the exception of Beck, has been as willing to take the measure of Obama.
The author has adopted liberal memes about Palin. He seems incurious as to why her popularity has fallen even though most Americans agree with her values and policies. The relentless attacks seem to have taken their toll (temporarily, I hope). Carey Roberts’ claim that her use of the term blood-libel was a gaffe is at odds with the opinions of many prominent Jews, including Dershowitz. She was indeed blood-libeled and her defense of herself was justified, restrained and well delivered. No fair minded person should find fault with her for defending herself.
As for Barbara Bush, why was Sarah not entitled to respond to an unprovoked attack from that pro abortion gasbag.
I just finished GWB’s new book and he described his mother Barbara as the one person in their family that had a big mouth that got her into trouble. He said that when he drank his troubles came from being just like his mother and having a big mouth. So much for what she had to say! Yeah, let’s all wonder ,if it’s true, why Palin’s popularity has gone down. It’s crap like this idiot writes here that have driven her numbers down. How about her smash hit in India? Think maybe you might have covered that instead of slamming her? Hell no. You leftwing slime ball.
What is a poll?
A poll is a scorecard. It helps the Mainstream Media guage the quality of their disinformation campaigns.
Sorry Carey. This is another nonsensical anti-Palin piece written by some unknown establishment stooge attempting to derail Palin’s possible run for the nomination, the GOP apparatchicks know very well SHE SHALL WIN.
Hence their desperation in employing a second rate scribble to voice their anxiety through the tube of the above incoherent and based on false or deliberately falsified details from the latest episodes of Palin’s life.
The most obvious is the timing of that politically illiterate piece; It appears immediately after Palin’s immensely succesful travel to India and Israel, where she managed to establish her interbational credentials in the most powerful way.
Our friend Crapey can keep foaming himself or herself on the mouth but the expression on the faces of Israeli PM Netanyahu when meeting Palin speaks for itself; No other American public figure would generate such a warm as genuine reaction from him or his wife.
No wonder that such a succesful self-presentation by Palin in both countries rings the deafening warning bells in the ears of her Republican detractors. If she performs like that during the primary (and we know that she shall even better) Palin will tsunami her opponets out of the political scene.
Hence the panic on their side and a new, thousnad and something attempt to smear her.
And to support your shallow “analysis” with some crappy polls is just beyond ridicule.
That strategy of yours is so clear that is is easily discernible even from as far as my own Eunuchalia.
But you are not going to succeed.
P.S: If you think that my retort is harsh, wait for other respondents to come with their opinions.
You shall going to be sorry for having written such a crap…
Oh, come on. Is that all you’ve got? A recitation of all the crap the Left has whined about?
Et tu, Brute?
This is completely NASTY… Sarah Palin is just that Sarah Palin. I have always liked for that, she isn’t there to please either the Republican party or the Democrats. She thinks for herself, and that scares the living daylights out of political pundits and DC elites. If you can’t put someone into a box or a cube, and get them to dance to your music, then you need to get rid of them.
I personally prefer real people getting elected, you know the ones that maybe aren’t perfectly in the image of anything other than … themselves. Come on, what you are putting forward with this article is what brought about the current Obama wonder still voting present for fear of upsetting the polls. He buried everything, no past nothing to nit pick… I am REALLY tired of listening to self righteous pundits telling everyone what to think… all based on fickle polls that shift and turn in the wind. I would hope that Sarah Palin has learned her lessons well and continues to needle the system for a long time, getting people to think for themselves. Not along some political hack’s whims of a perfect society. That to me is the beauty of the Tea party, it wasn’t about left or right politically it was about AMerica and her Constitution: ie what we the people want.
A “mean streak”…”Mama Grizzly”…
Keep grasping…
Your assessment is simplistic, largely ignorant of one of the most intensive and prolonged lib/left mainstream media smear campaigns that I’ve known. If you can’t grasp the significance of just one event, the Arizona shootings and the demonized hatred and blame focused on this woman in Alaska, you’re not qualified in my opinion.
There is a much simpler reason. Sarah Palin is Barak Obama’s mirror image. No legislative history to speak of. Little real executive experience. Although in both cases she ranks better than the POTUS. They are both blank slates that supporters filled in with their dreams.
As the aura of a liberal ‘black’ president unravels in the real world Palin’s supporters more and more come down to earth.
Who would be a better President of the USA? NEITHER!
My sentiments entirely. Palin is a flake; she displays this as a fact just about every time she opens her mouth. Amazing too how so many manage to dismiss the significance of the fact that she quit her job as governor of Alaska. Prez material she simply is not.
At least she had a job to quit. Unlike the current “prez” who is a product of affirmative action.
Sarah Palin quit because frivolous law suits were costing her state too much money. Barack Obama, however, voted present, and then essentially left a vacant seat in order to campaign for a job he said he wasn’t going to campaign for. Empty suit.
You…are utterly stupid and irredeemable.
Continue electing Princeton, Harvard and Yaleie frauds that haven’t one GD clue how 99% of real Americans interact or survive.
Keep electing sheet stained lawyers that speak in a language that 99% of Americans not only find disingenuous but so totally filled with lies that America wants, and needs a modern revolution. The TParty is that…and you “twats” ( thanks Bill Maher you supreme NY, POS, eletist F#g ) and that you need to change your diapers hourly.
I live for the complete separation of America from the East coast and the West coast in order for a semblance of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution to survive.
Thanks to the boy president…the poseur …the fraud…the disciple of Jeremiah Wright and Calypso Louie….thanks to Affirmative Action which guarantees that the least qualified…the least literate…the least educated…..gets the job due to SKIN color….over smarter, better educated people.
AA….is a disaster…and Obama has proven the concept devoid of worth or sanity.
Love your comment about the East and West Coasts, Kareema (and your pen name’s a gas, too)! Thomas Hart Benton’s Sister (Nan, I believe her name was) remarked very pointedly on a long-ago PBS program about the artist, “America is the Middle West. The COASTS are not America. AMERICA is the Middle West.”
Not long ago, friends visiting from the Beltway expressed continual amazement during their stay over the prosperity of the farms, the seasonal and patriotic decorations on even the most humble homesteads, the kindness and contentment of the people. Another visiting friend from CA kept asking me “What are all these flags about?” during his visit. I never thought I’d say it but deeper experiences with folks like these, revealing beliefs and opinions that range from what I would consider “mere” contempt to outright hatred for traditional American cultural and political values have slowly and sadly led me to believe this may be right where we’re headed.
Right on, NO MORE IVY LEAGUE f**kups and thiefs, AND NO MORE BUSH FAMILY MEMBERS. They have done enough to screw our country up, and we just need honest working people like our founders intended. They don’t need to know every little thing, as they will have advisors coming out of their asses helping. All they need is to be HONEST, understand the working families that make America run, and be willing to tell us the TRUTH and LISTEN to us. We have a collective intelligence that far surpasses anything any political machine can come up with and when we get the majority of Americans on board with the plan, prosperity will soon come back.
No RINO’S, NO NEWT,(though he is smart and has some good ideas)he doesn’t have the principles or ethics.
I’ll stake my future on the “BIMBO’S” who I really feel are honest, and have the best interests of the WORKING AMERICANS and our country at heart.
GO SARAH, GO MICHELLE AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU!
I was almost with you up until the comment about quitting the governorship.
To any fair mind, it’s clear that she quit for HONORABLE reasons. She simply could not effectively carry out her duties as governor becacuse of the constant attack lawsuits by the Dem operatives.
She did the RIGHT thing, for the RIGHT reasons.
Herein lies one area where she is completely the opposite of Barack Obama (or any current nationally relevant Democrat) – she is HONEST.
Would I choose her for President? No. She simply doesn’t know enough about what is going on in the world. She has a lot of right ideas, but they are a patchwork, picked up along the way. She does not have a coherent and well-informed world view.
She’d still be better than any Democrat, any day.
ASIDE: How apropos! My spell checker doesn’t understand “Barack”, and suggests “Barabbas” instead! Smart spell checker!
You’re swallowing the MSM/Leftist tripe about Sarah Palin. Here are some of the positions she’s held, and some of her MAJOR legislative accomplishments:
1) Sarah Palin was appointed Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Commission by then Gov. Frank Murkowski. While in that position, she found collusion and corruption between the Alaskan GOP and oil companies. She resigned and then blew the whistle on the corruption. Result: Two people went to jail and the chairman of the Alaskan GOP got fined $12,000.00.
2) After winning a split four-way primary for the GOP Governor’s nomination, Sarah Palin beat a popular Democrat former Governor.
3) The first major piece of legislation was ethics reform. After seeing firsthand the collusion and corruption in the Alaskan government, Sarah Palin pushed for ethics in government. This law was later used by Obama supporters to attempt to ruin her financially.
(More later)
4) ACES was passed, to give profit sharing to the rightful owners of Alaskan public lands — the citizens — in exchange for the oil companies drilling on those lands, according to the Alaskan Constitution.
5) AGIA was brokered by Sarah Palin, which was a private contract between Exxon/Mobile and TransCanada pipeline. The goal is to get clean burning, natural gas down to the Lower 48. It was the LARGEST CONTRACT BETWEEN TWO PRIVATE COMPANIES IN HISTORY. Sarah Palin made that happen.
6) Sarah Palin endorsed dozens of candidates for state and national races in 2010, and 67% of her endorsements were successful.
I’ve only touched on the MAJOR accomplishments of this woman. Let’s not forget her humanitarian aid trips with Samaritan’s Purse, to aid eskimo communities in the outer islands after an earthquake, and also to Haiti with the same group.
Just because you don’t THINK she has accomplished anything, doesn’t mean it is true. Just keep swallowing the major media lie about her. The rest of us informed citizens know differently.
Yes, and some of those endorsements say very bad things about her judgment.
If you had any idea what you are talking about it might be interesting to listen to you. You are so typical of people who’s opinion is formed by crap they have read or heard from the left wing press. Read her book and see how “Little” experience she has. Or see how little executive experience she has had. You can tell by her determination that she fought for every inch she gained in her struggle to get where she is today. No rich daddy or affirmative action for this tiger. She would kick your ass in a heart beat on any intellectual subject that you could name. Most of the “I hate Palin” commenters are trolls or are uneducated on her climb to the top. She did it her way and with truth, honesty and integrity, unlike someone else that resides in the WH.
deegee,
As governor, the frivilous lawsuits manufactured by your brain dead amigos on the left were costing Sarah Palin and her family hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees. Alaska was not picking up the tab.
They sued her right out of office, which is the progressive way, right?
I LOVE SARAH PALIN. Use an indelible marker and write that across your fat, left-wing rear end.
Nothing by Bloomberg or the Post should be presumed to be a fairly run survey of the American opinion–both have a demonstrated partisanship.
Palin has no actual policy misteps in her past which are revelatory of bad principles–this is in contrast to the other candidates. I am certain she can win, the she will do better than any other candidate if she wins, and that she should run a scorched earth campaign to force the Old School GOP into the grave–they are abjectly useless.
More than any other candidate, she is likely to receive my donations of time and money.
Other than Sarah, essentially every person who was a candidate pre-Tea Party is a non-starter for me.
It is plausible we can get to 66 in the Senate and retain the House. Obama staying in the Oval Office will be tolerable if he has no veto, in preference to a non-Tea Party GOP president with the votes to take us over the edge at 5 mph instead of the 95 Obama wants.
The point is not to go over the edge.
I am certain Newt, Romney, and the like will take us over that edge. I’m fairly sure Huckabee and the like don’t know where the edge is.
I am certain Sarah Palin will pull us back from that edge.
Even if shorter coattails only puts us at 52-53 in the Senate.
Incisive, Tom!
That’s well said.
Some “conservatives” have tried to say that Huckabee is a liberal, in the mold of a John McCain or a Graham Lindsay.
That’s so far from the truth that one either has to be stupid or dishonest to make the accusation. (Or a Romney supporter, which necessarily includes one or both of the aforementioned qualities.)
But does he “get it”? No, I don’t think he does. He’s got a more coherent world-view than Sarah, and knows a whale of a lot more, but still, I don’t think he knows who the enemy is.
Still, he’d be quite a bit less bad, or somewhat less bad, than GW, depending on who he picked for his close advisers.
Actually, I think GW would have been a lot less bad if he had not surrounded himself with all of his NWO-loving daddy’s cronies.
“When the former first lady remarked that Palin might prefer to stay in Alaska rather than throw herself in the hurly-burly of national politics, Palin rebuked Mrs. Bush — and her family — as a group of elite “blue bloods.””
Oh please, Palin was on target. The dimunition of the quite patrician Bush’s is required for the country to get back on track–and please recall Bush 41′s amazement at the laser checkout scanner. Bluer bloods are not found without crowns on their heads.
The country club Republicans need to go, and they need to be made to go if they won’t quit grabbing for the reins. They should be content with a government which is not punitive of wealth.
I am no Palin fan, but this article is just plain silly. . . . name calling, whining, and as an old machine shop teacher I knew used to say ” picking s### with the chickens”. . . Find a real reason to dislike Sarah, if you must, but leave the whining to the dimmocrats. I still wonder why we no longer are hearing “Drill, baby, drill!!” from Sarah, or any of the Repubs. . .
Must be the wax in your ears or your just not listening cause we are still saying drill baby drill, drill everywhere there is oil. The whole global warming hoax and “greeeeeeen energy” is a bunch of bulls**t designed to cripple our country while our competitors leap ahead. You can see how serious these democrats are when it’s OK to drill in Brazil, but not the USA! PHONY hypocrits, communist enablers, and America haters.
Carey, I am sure you are a nice person. BUT, I have never read a more tripe laden article that is meant to kindly slip the stiletto into someones gizard. I won’t waste my time refuting many of your simplistic supposed Sarah slips but will leave you with this.
We have a process in America that picks candidates of political party’s called primaries. From those primaries, we will then have a Republican candidate who will hopefully be really Conservative. If Sarah makes it to that selection (which will be an Act of God with so many pundits like yourself against her), then I will proudly vote for her. Telling us who we should not like because of a bunch of rigged polls sways me not at all. The purpose of your article was to kill Sarah “with kind words”.
Sorry Carey, didn’t work. And by the way, a horribly researched article. Stick with your day job.
The premise of the article may be true. At NRO there has been a noticeable blackout on Palin news and commentary. It is clear that the NRO segment of the Republican establishment does not relish the prospect of a Palin candidacy. Ditto PJM with almost clock-work appearance of Palin downplaying commentary. Redstate: another blackout. Plus the widespread expressions of near certainty by the puditocracy that she will not run.
OTOH she continues to publicly express opinions that are closely aligned with the center-right majority: repeal Obamacare, cut spending, expand energy production, etc. Is she an opinion leader or follower? Since she has no flip-flops that I know of then I would pick the former. For some reason that has some competing thought leaders upset? End of story.
The republican establishment, the “country club” republicans who are really the republican arm of the progressive party, believe THEY, the aristocrats should be running this country and the last thing they want is a COMMONER as president. They have also been enriching themselves, family and cronnies off the taxpayer dollars and saw how Sarah exposed the corruption in Alaska, and they sure as hell don’t want her exposing THEM.
Pick an honest person out of the phone book and you will see a better job done as president than ANY of those Ivy league, elitist, country club aristocrats!
The “blood libel” comment wasn’t a gaffe… it was right on the money.
Sarah Palin’s so-called “blood libel gaffe” was no gaffe at all; it was a harsh and terrible truth.
That explains why her numbers are falling. She tells the truth, and too many can’t handle it.
The article also fails to mention the cumulative effect of all the lies leveled about and against her.
A culture of denial and of lies in full bloom now under our walking and talking Big Lie, Obama.
“How do we explain this stunning reversal for the immensely ambitious political wunderkind?”
You’re kidding, right? You probably thought Bush lied about WMDs in Iraq!! You probably thought he was responsible for everything bad that happened during his 8 years’ administration! Well,maybe you didn’t, but you certainly downplay the incredible bias this lady attracts, beginning the day she was announced as McCain’s running mate. You fail to mention the DVD, “Media Malpractice” which thoroughly documents the egregious bias expressed in the election, sending 25+ attorneys to dig up….??? Yet we know virtually nothing about King O’bama. NOTHING! Now, she is responsible for shootings in Arizona, and anything else the MSM decides to puke up. And the old guard just took it, including Bush. Sarah fights back and tells the truth, (e.g. death panels), and doesn’t take this crap sitting down.
I don’t agree the numbers in the polls. As is often the case, the devil is in the details. This woman draws crowds and the attendees fill whatever venue she is at. She is a target for all libs and all RINOs. The only one I can think of who had this similar response was….Reagan. God Bless Sarah.
The way the GOP establishment has treated Palin has convinced me that they are going the way of the Whigs. The country clubbers are an epic fail in an era that demands courage and leadership.
Eh, I think you read too much into her initial popularity– as she and her handlers did. She rode the same tide that Obama did: Anyone But Bush, Conservative Edition. Now that people have had time to examine the cut of her jib, for some she has been found lacking. Not overly surprising, as she was really a conservative blank slate upon which we all tried to project our image of a perfect conservative candidate.
She was bound to lose popularity, if for no other reason than she’s human. Ask Obama about that, if you don’t believe me.
Frankly, she lost me when “Mrs. Rogue” endorsed Rick Perry.
What’s so wrong with Rick Perry? Years ago, he decided to become a Conservative, and unlike some, he actually he has put those principles into action. Yes, I know he’s a good ol’ boy from TX who plays some of the cronyism games, but what do you expect in TX?
Other than that, there is a reason he is TX’s first 4-term Governor and TX is doing so well as compared to the rest of the country. There is a reason TX went Deep Red in the last election. Perry has shown that Conservatism works. May God continue to bless him.
He ain’t perfect, but who is? I’d've endorsed him, too.
That may be– of course, he won only what, 39% of the vote in 2006? He wins because no one runs against him, and his cronies have cronies and if you consider his governing philosophy “conservative” then we are, indeed, lost. He wouldn’t even debate in the last election– because he didn’t have to, and that’s sad for everybody.
Endorsing him was in no way “going rogue.” It was going pathetically mainstream and was predictable.
Of course he did not debate. If you are way ahead, you do not debate. You have nothing to gain and everything to lose. That is just how it is done everywhere. He’d have to be stupid to debate.
Is he a great Conservative? No. Does he play the crony game? Yes. Is it bad? Yes. Is that TX? Well, yes. Good ol’ boys play scratch-my-back games. Would I support him for President? Heck no.
That said, he has been a pretty good Governor for TX overall. Honestly, would you rather have had the Mayor of effin’ Houston win the election? Really?
Palin and Perry have a lot in common. Both are straight shooters, have the courage to tackle problems creatively, and speak up for traditional American values even when those values are ridiculed by leftists. In Perry’s case, the 100% leftist press in Texas fought to prevent his re-election, and local news, even Fox, gave his leftist opponent free publicity. (They also omitted the scandal in Houston involving his opponent.) He won because there are still enough Texas with common sense and individualism to see through the twisted news accounts of everything, including a proposed tax-free replacement for the old worn-out I35 which is a main trucking route from the U.S. to Mexico.
These are tough times because we have gone so far down the socialist road that only courageous leaders can save us. Perry is now under attack because he is doing what he promised last fall, and our bloated education bureaucracy are screaming, rather than asking themselves why our education costs per student doubled in the past 10 years. Palin has had the same treatment by the press; unless you live in Alaska and therefore get royalty checks, you don’t know much about her; ask an Alaskan. If she had any black marks, they would have already been publicized, or have people fogotten the witch hunt of 2008?
I think the writer of this piece really doesn’t like Sarah Palin. From reading it you would think Palin is now hated by everyone with a pulse.
Personally, I have been watching all the candidates for a while and think Palin’s “status” is still pretty high with the people who haven’t hated her from the first day she appeared. Those people, including establishment republicans, will never like her.
I like her and Herman Cain. The others, blah.
Me too. They are the 2 scariest as far as the BS as usual crowd is concerned. Sufficient reason to elect either. Or both. I favor Cain, but will support either one. Otherwise, BLAH, indeed…
INCUMBENTS- the “POLITICALLY CORRECT” ENDANGERED SPECIES!
Governor Palin, with her rather unexceptional, conventionally superficial political views is a media creation-hers and the press. The views she held are perfectly in keeping with her political pedigree-small town mayor and small state Governor, end of story. There is no doubt she is telegenic and politically energetic, but I have yet to see much seriousness or depth beyond the carefully constructed image that is more befitting a media star than a serious national leader. Not that she doesn’t have a place within the conservative movement, but let’s be clear-she’s all hype-a telegenic politician who enjoys the spotlight, likes making easily caricatured pronouncements for pay, and of little serious public accomplishment, intellectually or politically. I see many admirable qualities in Governor Palin as a person, who holds views similar to my own, but to date, she appears to be nothing more than yet another thin political character created out of the confluence of media madness and raging personal ambition. I think we have seen enough of these types of characters and it is time for the conservative political grownups to step forward and call an end to this childishness.
Substitute Odummer for Gov. Palin and then this comment would be as insightful and clever as the poster thinks he is.
“Small state”? By any measure of real value, AK is worth more than quite a few of the rest combined. More common sense, more resources, harder workers, better scenery, better hunting & fishing, better mosquitos (lol), etc.
You wish.
Is Carey Roberts a man or a woman? Does he know how to write or did he pay someone to publish this column? Or is he just a nobody? I think the latter. This piece of excrement writing is not fit for Pajamas Media, which normally does not publish blatant hit pieces. But Carey Roberts analysis is so pathetic, it begs the question, who is so afraid of Sarah Palin? Someone is, to the extent a constant drumbeat of attacks without basis is needed to keep her in her place. I have grown accustomed to seeing the “drive by shooting” articles from the left taking mindless potshots at Sarah. Now, we get them here. I guess the hood is always closer than you think. The saddest aspect of this piece is the contribution of Pajamas Media. It appears to be the driver in this drive by. I had grown to expect more.
I would also note that Palin is a case study in how the liberal media can successfully destroy someone’s reputatin and career.
At least the MSM has certainly been obvious in their attempt to disrail Sarah Palin. During the election run, my high school children teased me about defending Palin. They said the press said something funny about her every day. I said, “At least she’s only running to govern 50 states, not 57 states, like Obama.”
My children looked it up online. That was the first time they saw that Obama said he had campaigned in 57 states, he only had one more to go.
I heard Katie Couric is going to be gone in September. I hope so.
Just another hatchet job to discredit Palin, and this from a so called conservative. The establishment hates her as much as the Dems do.
This Carey Roberts seems to have an axe to grind here
and in their other linked Pajamas Media writings. Why
do you find women so intimidating? Especially strong,
politically equal women? If Boener and the rest of the
Republican establishment had the “balls” that women like
Palin, Bachmann etc. seem to have, we wouldn’t be offered
weak RINOs like Romney, Gingrich, Daniels, Huckabee etc.
as our choices for 2012 and we would take back the Senate
the same way we took back the House in 2010. Man up!
AMEN!
Don’t worry, the Dems accomplished what needed to be accomplished; remove the most viable candidate who could take on Barack Obama. Now we’re stuck with washed out old white guys, thus continuing the meme that the GOP is the party of Christian, conservative white men who are anathema to women and minorities.
And I find it laughable that after two years of a man who spent like a drunken sailor, nationalized healthcare, and took us to war without Congressional approval but with the approval of the UN and Arab League and doesn’t tell us why we’re fighting that we still have no definition of Sarah Palin. Here’s a hint at her definition: She ain’t Barack Obama.
I am not a really a big fan of Palin. I think she is a very decent person and one who has inadvertently become engaged against the Libs in their battle to overwhelm and capture America heart and soul. But that having been said, this is about one thing and one thing only – the ability of the Lib MSM and RINOs who fear her to engage in the scortched-earth politics of personal destruction and then to test the success of their campaign with polling that will be trumpeted from hill to glen, but ONLY if the results are what they want them to be.
One small thing to consider – Have you ever heard any polling organization ask the really important questions 1) WHY do you feel the way you do and 2) where do you get your information? But they won’t ask those questions as a matter of course because they already know the answer. They are engaged in a concerted effort to hide those details so you won’t suspect them complicit in the campaign. No, they get to stand around acting innocent and say “look at these poll results! People obviously don’t like her and for all of the reasons the Libs don’t like her!”. But they are innocent in this like the grinning fox with chicken feathers around its mouth looking at you and saying “why are you looking at me?
We are all supposed to engage in the discussion using the “facts” of the polling as a starting place without ever considering the larger context of the Lib/RINO axis of evil conspiring for their own selfish purposes to destroy a decent – and therefore their mortal enemy – person. There are a great many conservatives who fall into this category: Rush, Clarance Thomas, Newt Gingrich, et al. Please, before allowing the Lib/RINO axis of evil to once again frame and control the public debate, take them head-on. The truth will be their undoing.
Regarding this article: a typical anti-Palin hit piece.
Devoid of substance.
And, all approval ratings ratings really show is how people in the media FEEL about a particular politician.
They hated Truman (a bad president) and Bush II (a good president), and they both eventually wound up with terrible approval ratings, but how good of a job they did as presidents they were didn’t have much to do with their approval ratings.
OTOH, Roosevelt and Kennedy (two Godawful presidents) were loved by the press, thus they always had high approval ratings, especially Kennedy, who the media loved even more than they love Obambi.
Needless to say, Palin is absolutely loathed by the media, and that hurts her approval ratings. Kinda like Ronald Reagan…who, needless to say, “overcame” his poor approval ratings and did a pretty good job as POTUS for two terms.
I don’t think you know what you are talking about. Since you, personally, don’t like her, you are projecting your dislike onto others. I like her because she doesn’t care what others think of her. She knows she doesn’t have to prove herself to anyone. Maybe you should grow some balls so you will have the courage she does. They come in handy every once in awhile.
Since 2008 polls has been saying Palin is unelectable, corrupt and a moron.
Yet, she sells millions of books, has millions of followers, gather crowds wherever she goes. Who are we going to believe?
Don’t be dissappointed if some of us don’t count Palin out just yet.
Ruling-class Republicans have never liked Palin very much. Conservatives like . . . nay, . . love her.
Palin isn’t popular in the northeast. Surprise, surprise!!!
What would happen to “Republicans”were Palin to become President? Well, things would change.
I dis agree; her problems with her ratings really started when the constant harrassment lawsuits forced her to resign as Alaska’s governor, before she had even finsihed her first term. THAT is when many people (especially independents) started thinking of her in negative terms.
I have gone from initially liking Sarah Palin to wanting to like her; to trying to continue to like her; to (now) hoping she doesn’t embarrass herself (further), because I do still fundamentally like her — but as gadfly, not as President.
I wish the trajectory there were a little more favorable, but . . . .
What are you even talking about? The left with the aid of the MSM and the mainstream Republicans decided to take her down. They’ve worked relentlessly day in, day out to excoriate, humiliate, denigrate, misrepresent, etc. etc. Mrs. Palin for the past several years. And they’ve been successful. And yet now, again, you’re calling on her to do something? She’s somehow responsible, again it’s her fault for all this. You guys crack me up. What could she do to satisfy you? So if she reiterates her strongly held beliefs one more time, she’ll get a fair hearing? Yeah right. The hypocrisy would be funny if it weren’t so rank.
Spot on. Excellent post.
It is truly refreshing to know that Sarah speaks her mind. I don’t think she is presidential material but she could be a very good US Secretary of the Interior, or Education, or Energy. I hope the next Republican administration puts her talents to good use.
As usual and a dem dweeb…you have it totally ass backwards. Get help…get educated.
I blame her TV show. That was awful.
Anyway, I haven’t written off voting for Sarah. She may not be a deep-thinker but her heart is in the right place and she has the guts to say the obvious.
You misunderestimate Sarah’s TV show. Do you have any idea how many 20-somethings tuned in to watch it and got a totally different impression of her? It opened their eyes to not just her, but possibly to many other things too. It was brilliant, unconventional politics.
You may not have liked it, but lots of others did. It did quite well. I’m sure it helped the AK tourist industry, too. Not my cup of tea, but I do not begrudge others that particular tea.
In condemning the “cheesiness” of the show, you missed its brilliance.
What are you blaming her TV show for? That would be like criticizing President Reagan for the contents of the TV show “Death Valley Days” and dislike of the product “20 Mule Team Borax”…
She is a freedom-loving Conservative, who speaks her mind… how novel, how refreshing, instead of RINOS who hedge their bets, reach across the aisle and are Leftists Lite…
We know exactly where she stands on the issues, instead of trying to guess, like Obumbles’ State Department…
I still maintain that Mrs. Palin will not run for President of the United States in ’12 or at any other time. Why would she?
Her research will tell her the numbers work against her (including the diminution of income) and what she truly believes in will be less compromised if she stays out of Washington.
Being financially set for life she can simply live it. When the spirit moves her, she can comment/influence from the comfort of her own world.
Seems like her rendition of the American dream.
no more? dream on! 8)
Yeah it could be all that.
Or it could be that the left successfully smeared her as being responsible for the the mass shootings while at the same time the cocktail party “conservatives” like the author inwardly smiled and threw rocks at her from behind.
One or the other I suppose.
I expected this after her tour of India and Israel. She opposed China and favored the Israelis. More anti-Palin articles become inevitable, especially after her remarks at the Western Wall. CNN+Frum ran one too: “Is Palin’s Israel visit alienating friends?” Answer: not any friends Americans would like to have.
Gingo, Gus!
Duh…BINGO!
If one wishes to dissect the downturn in poll numbers for Sarah Palin, all one need do is look to the incessant, brutal, reputation-raping demonization of her and her family from the Left, and the Right’s “Stockholm Syndrome-ish” proclivity to accept the narratives and premises of the Left.
She is perhaps the most formidable conservative opponent against the attempted destruction of the Left at this point in history. She alone has demonstrated the stature and the testicles to face the Left head-on, and for that she has been attacked by a unified Left that would make Saul Alinsky proud.
Instead of conservatives seeing these attacks for what they are – a desperate attempt by the Left to destroy the top weapon in the conservative arsenal – and eschewing those attacks and embracing Palin as the champion of conservative values that history has providentially provided us, we allow the Left to beat us down into submission, seeking a candidate that will not offend the Left; one that will be acceptable enough and non-controversial enough to squeak through the primary process and the demonization process.
As far as I’m concerned, the kind of simpering attitude demonstrated in this article can go to H-E-double-hockey-sticks.
I will support Sarah Palin as long as her behavior and rhetoric merit support, regardless of what Leftists say or do in response. I will not allow THEM to determine who I support.
Until she gives me reason to look elsewhere, I will follow her lead anywhere.
“Instead of conservatives seeing these attacks for what they are – a desperate attempt by the Left to destroy the top weapon in the conservative arsenal – and eschewing those attacks and embracing Palin as the champion of conservative values that history has providentially provided us….”
How incisive, IronDio. And how about this for a little synchronicity. Here’s the quote at the beginning of “Winston Churchill, Walking with Destiny,” the documentary from Moriah Films that opened just a few days ago. (For me there are undeniable parallels between then and now.)
“Precisely at the time where one king arises to pillage our possessions
and destroy us, another shall arise to protect and save us . . .
This is an important lesson for future generations.”
— Nachmanides
13th century Rabbi, physician and biblical commentator
That is indeed a very apt parallel.
I feel like in Sarah Palin, we are being offered our champion, and in our desire to stop the abuses of the Left, we are afraid to embrace her.
In other words, the conservative “culture” is unfortunately populated with many cowards.
I agree so very much with you, Iron! There is a wonderful saying to the effect that of all the virtues, courage is the most important because without it, a person will not exercise any of the other ones when the stakes are high. (Apologies for mangling it but see it as profoundly true.) Sarah Palin has demonstrated that this quality permeates every fiber of her being. She will NEVER cut and run like the hireling!
You might enjoy commenting at my conservative discussion forum Mayberry Lady. Out of respect for the PJM hosts I won’t post a link, but feel free to click on my name and join our discussions!
those are the lamest elitist remarks I have read yet.
this is not what I would call professional journalism. try writing for the Huffington Post.
Ditto. I hear the pay is good over at the HuffPo, too.
glad to see that $800 billion stimulus was used for something
Dear PJM, Since when have you allowed trolls to post hatchet jobs like Ms. (or is it Mr.) Roberts has written? This is the same sleazy kind of “reporting/opining” that caused me to stop reading/watching the MSM. It is precisely this kind of crap in the MSM that accounts for Ms. Palin’s poll numbers.
Lame. Come on Pajamas, you’re way better than this.
This could have been written by any of a thousand Palin detractors out there in the media and blogosphere.
Sarah Palin is out speaking and writing about real issues for real people every week, doing more to promote conservatism and the Tea Party than any of the so-called Presidential front-runners.
Self-styled ‘pundits’ like Ms. Roberts cares far more about the lies and propaganda put forth by the mainstream media than she does about what Sarah Palin is actually talking about; as for instance, what she had to say in her recent Key Note address in India. She and the media ignore that speech because it doesn’t fit their narrative. Her talk and subsequent interview shows that Sarah Palin is not a caricature and does possess a brain.
Satire is sometimes a good thing. Unfortunately sometimes people think it’s real and when that happens, it’s a bad thing.
So much rancor has been raised by the liberal media that even conservatives have been believing it or at least having their doubts. If they had stuck to the truth at least there could be an honest appraisal of her and her opinions and policies. But they have won and she is no longer a viable candidate in my opinion. Too many people believe too many lies. Repeat the lies often enough and it becomes “TRUTH” whether it is actually true or not.
Let me provide those anti-sarah palin republicans!They are;(1)liberal lapdog,status quo,good ol’boy network republicans.Example;Mitch daniels,hayley barbour,newt gingrich&Mike huckabee(2)New world order republicans.Example;The bush family tree.(3)Godless,lawless,Drug,sex,and rock&roll,Libertarians;Example;Donald trump.(4)Just flat out,hardcore liberals in gop drag.Example;(Benedict)arlin spector,And Charlie(Judas iscariot)crist.All of the above,are selective constitutionalist,Who see money(materialism)as their god,and answer to everything!!!All see,mans/womans law and,personal,and popular opinion,as the ultimate atthority.Not the law.Natures law,and natures god,and we are endowed by our creator.Clearly established in the constitution,the declaration of independence,and the bill of rights.This is who,and why,sara palin is constantly vilified,defamed,condemned,and lied about.The same did the same to ronald reagan,and calvin coolidge.and would do to george washington,John adams,thomas jefferson,james madison,and ben franklin.If they were alive today!Jimmy Joe”The Liarfryer”
I question your polls. Both are done by Left to far left sources. Poll questions are everything. Any poll can be loaded to produce the desired results. So a poll by a leftoid group that fears and loathes Sara will show that fear and loathing. The poll that counts will be held in November of 2012.
Conventional wisdom is that the Obomination is such a bad POTUS the whoever runs in ’12 will beat him. I disagree. Mitt won’t get any EV’s in the South. No Republican candidate can win without the South. Huck is a RINO, just look at his record as Gov. Almost as bad as Mitt’s. Sara knows what it will take to win the nomination and the Whit House. She obviously has a plan. The left can’t figure out her plan which scares the beejeezes out of them. So you’all attack her with bogus polls.
Good luck with that!
The biggest problem with Sarah is, she it totally unqualified to be a candidate – for anything! I do admire her tenacity, but she is short on knowledge, wisdom, leadership and character. Her forays into tv programs, paid appearances, displaying family issues in very public forums, and just plain uninformed statements, makes her a laughing stock and fodder for the press. She cashed in on her 15 minutes of fame….as has her daughter, her daughter’s ex, her child. I find it disgusting and certainly inappropriate behavior for someone who imagines themselves the leader of the free world. And, if the heat gets turned up, will she “resign” yet again? It basically boils down to character; sadly Sarah falls short. I think she would be compared as the GOP version of Obama should she chose to run. While I held my nose and voted for McCain (more against Obama) I could not do the same for Ms. Palin.
Dear Allie F:
Right on, baby! Give me 4 more years!
If you actually got the facts on her record,rather than peddling,liberal media talking points!You would come to a different conclusion.Unless of course it’s as i suspect.You only like people who will lie to you,and tell you what you want to hear.Possibly a bill clinton sex offender,groupie,maybe?Or are you one of those abortion worshippers,that believe you will decide when,and who’s life,has a right to exist?Not god!!!
Because McCain was so much more tolerable than Palin, right? Really? What are you, nuts?
Isn’t “Carey” a girl’s name?
don’t ask don’t tell
Better to stifle your self Carey.
For a guy who is supposed to lampoon political correctness you certainly have jumped on the main stream media band wagon. Truth be known I believe there are many (including yourself) male critics of Mrs. Palin in both political parties and had it not been for the one right thing that McCain did during his run for President, Sarah Palin would probably still be Governor of Alaska, to the nations misfortune, and to chauvinist’s delight
We need Sarah Palin to put a boot up the rump of the good ole boy system and embarrass them into doing their conservative jobs. If it weren’t for her there would be no threat such as the Tea Party to the complacency and and continuing corruption in Washington.
I believe you are pissed at her personally for her siding with the Jewish state these past few days, and publicly stating in no uncertain terms that she supports them. What a refreshing announcement what aptly timed declaration prior to any public announcement by her that she is actually going to run for President.
It is about time that the asinine supposedly conservative party throw it’s weight behind Governor Palin or suffer the consequences of another loss to this jerk we now have who calls himself our President. There is no one other than Palin who would do anything different than what we have suffered in the past from previous “good ole boys”, thus prolonging the illusion that everything is going to be alright in Washington without major structural changes across the board. Or maybe thats the real point no one but Palin really wants things different.
As for your most recent polls. I’d like to see the questions that were presented to the respondents. As you certainly know polls can be produced to present the results that one desires every time. Not you most accurate consensus.
Let’s see . . . perhaps two years of MSM media lies and smears may have contributed to people’s negative opinions about her? And then you add the conservative sites that have their own GOP “hopeful” and you get even more bias.
Here is a great cartoon titled, “The Stoning of Sarah Palin,” that shows what she has been up against http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/media-bias-3/
I guess there needs to be a few more rocks added.
Where do most of the likely poll respondents get their information about Palin ? It’s a wonder her numbers have stood up so well against such a relentless broad-based MSM drumbeat of negative press.
The attacks are rarely about her policy preferences and the criticisms seem to exaggerate the significance of mistakes or ambiguities that are considered mundane everyday features of most of the knuckleheaded pols out there. As an example — in this column Carey still calls the “blood libel” remark a gaffe. According to whom ? From my reading she has been exonerated on this overblown accusation. By the way — is Sarah running ?
Would that all potential future candidates get objective scrutiny of who they really are and policies they stand for (versus the petty pulp we so often see). Otherwise we might end up with another president who comes from nowhere and stands for …?
“Carey Roberts probes and lampoons political correctness of all political stripes. His work has been published in The Washington Times, WorldNetDaily, Townhall.com, and LewRockwell.com.”
Who are you probing and lampooning?
“Even Republicans have started to sour on the superstar…”
That is because she has a proven track record of being one of the least corrupt politicians in America. In Alaska, she took on the power boys (straddling both parties) and defeated them, to the significant advantage of Alaska taxpayers. That sort of success unnerves the rinos and big talkers in the party who do nothing, year in and year out, to live up to the small-government promises they make in order to attain office.
With Palin, what you see is what you get. She is ten times the man (as it were) than Obama (or Boehner) will ever be.
The hardcore left was immediately horrified by her entry on the scene. They have subsequently trance-muted that simple horror into incoherent hatred and barely contained rage. Nothing new there. Hence the levels they have willingly stooped to to defame her.
It would be nice if Republicans and Conservatives could stand as one in opposing the smear-campaign that has been waged against Sarah Palin. Is there any other party member who has done more to get Republicans elected than her? How about a little gratitude, if not avid encouragement? But alas, the GOP seems to be over-weighted with chiken**** elites.
Dr. Frank — too true.
I live in the belly of the beast (Manhattan), and the day after she gave her killer acceptance speech at the RNC, the guys in the Madison Avenue advertising firm I worked for said, “Did you see Sarah Palin last night? WE ARE SO SCREWED.” They noted with dismay that she was incredibly charismatic, connected like a power cable to the audience, and was good-looking to boot.
They understand that all the Americans need (the Left being the Anti-Americans) is a CHARISMATIC CHAMPION. This, and this alone, is why they have tried to eviscerate her.
The RINOs’ motive is less clear to me: I’ve never understood them. Are they just hanging onto the back of the Leftoids’ gravy train?
Anyway, I’m glad to see all of you riding to her defense. Keep the faith, fellow citizens and patriots.
….and I hope she retains a firm just like yours to mount her campaign. They obviously get her and are what conservatives need to get the message across as aggressively and unequivocally as possible, night and day, no backing down….relentlessly taking on all detractors, plain language, take no prisoners…….and always with class.
Unfortunately, the old school Right seems to have “taking knives to gunfights” hardwired in their DNA. Until we embrace AND ELECT relative newbies from better stock, (Herman Cain, Allen West, & others) we’re well & truly screwed.
INCUMBENTS- the “POLITICALLY CORRECT” ENDANGERED SPECIES!
If there’s nothing the pundits hate more, it’s being surprised. Palin surprised the hell out of America in 2008, and she continues to do so.
The timing of this piece is a bit suspicious, too. This week Palin surprised (and delighted) her overseas hosts–and in doing so made Obama look like the idiot he is. So the pundits have to go for the jugular again.
Only one thing they hate worse than being surprised, BEING PROVEN WRONG, which is why they are still whining about her after THEY proclaimed her political career was over, AND NOW STILL GOING STRONG!
GO SARAH, CHANGE AND HOPE YOU CAN REALLY BELIEVE IN!
As a conservative, what are my options here. I see they are cleaning up Hillary to make her more palatable(strong woman)as possible alternate to the Democrat in the White House. Why they have even shut Bill up.
Rove and Newt are punditing all over the place. Bunch of has beens. We have Women across this nation who have a voice as never before. Some conservative, some liberal. I’ll take those conservative Women any day.
They are strong and vocal, say what I want to hear. Sara Plain is the leader of my pack. Sara Palin represents me as a Mother, Wife, Daughter, working business and taxpayer and American Patriot. In all my life I have never been represented in the political realm. Sarah Palin does this for me and many like me. All of you look at the character of her attackers. Low quality people, still get a micrphone. Go Sarah!
I’m convinced Obama isn’t running and Hillary is suiting-up as we speak. First, Obama has never had to account for his failings and his first term (which he, himself indicated would be sufficient) is shaping up to be such a disaster many conclude Mickey Mouse could defeat him.
Second, if you watch Sarah’s interview from India, when asked about Hillary Clinton, she looks down while complimenting her – suggesting to me that she already knows THAT’S who the GOP will face next year.
Third, this is Hillary’s last rodeo. Two brass rings await her- first woman president and first ‘couple’ to have served as President. Hillary will run against Obama’s record by diving to the Center, hoping to suck the air out of the room for whoever the conservatives run. Bill and Hill figure if it’s Sarah, Hillary will mop the floor with her. I’m not so sure as I’ve lived in Alaska and grizzlies have quite a reputation. “Proceed at your own risk”. (My meaner side cannot think of two people more deserving of a mauling.)
“Conservatives” are afraid that a 2012 GOP presidential candidate Sarah Palin will lose to Obama. Why? Because such people fear that the on-going propaganda (lie) campaign conducted against her by the Left Establishment has been too effective. Therefore, these “conservatives” are attempting to (ahem) abort a Palin candidacy in the womb.
This author of this piece is either one more “conservative” who is trying to preemptively snuff a Pain candidacy or he is merely one more who has been fooled by the Left’s two and a half year-long disinformation campaign against Palin.
Pleasant surprise to see your name again, baldilocks (Juliette)! You were always one of my very favorite bloggers, but stopped visiting some time ago when you cut way back on posting. Anyway, I see that you are blogging/posting again so I just bookmarked your site.
Oh wow! Thanks.
You’re full of it. Sarah’s got more leadership ability than the rest of the pack; even RINO s fear her. Stop spreading their propaganda.
is this cary roberts or a version of karl rove ? maybe charles sourkrauthammer. no not eloquent to be charles.
get a life
Palin in 2012
I LOVE SARAH PALIN … I have nothing but contempt for cheap shot writers of transparent cowardly trash.
This is a hit piece. I can’t believe such a crappy piece of writing in the form of out of context propaganda intended to mislead people is being posted here. Did PJM just change their name to Huffington Media?
Who on the PJM staff has an axe to grind?
Do you think I am stupid like the millions who turn to the make believe media to see which way the wind blows?
Disgusting.
This isn’t journalism, it is lying.
What a crock.
What would anyone expect from that lot? Semi-conscious, devoid of creativity, craven, unimaginative ruling class weenies!
Sarah Palin is a breath of fresh air that we need in this country after the smell the Obama’s will have left. I am so glad we have a Republican candidate that isn’t afraid to take on all that are afraid of the truth and, the IMPOSTOR in office for what he is, a “FAILURE,” in over his head
It’s truly astonishing the lengths that some will go to in order to try to discredit Sarah Palin. Sure, the left-wing media loons are a given, but what about the folks on the Right who relentlessly brand her as unelectable, unintelligent, unpresidential, and/or unqualified? What is their basis for those assessments? And if she is so darn unelectable—why the need to consistently, near-obsessively attempt to tear her down?
The truth is that Sarah Palin is more than qualified to step up to the plate this 2012 election cycle if she so chooses. And as far as her “electability,” that decision rests with voters, not with those media and establishment voices who are decidedly desperate to shove her off the stage and to shape the 2012 presidential narrative.
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I have gone from initially liking Sarah Palin to wanting to like her; to trying to continue to like her; to (now) hoping she doesn’t embarrass herself (further), because I do still fundamentally like her — but as gadfly, not as President. I wish the trajectory there were a little more favorable, but . . . .”
Well, MJR, seems as if you’ve fallen victim to the very things that we’ve been trying to point out in this thread. If you BELIEVE the stuff the so-called MSM and the GOP establishment-types are saying about her, you can’t help but develop negative feelings towards Gov. Palin. The fact is, like ALL “progressives,” they LIE. It’s NOT ACCIDENTAL either. She represents the single, biggest threat to them on the planet…someone who can REASON for him/herself.
This article is juvenile. Reminds me of Jr. High when we were trying to rip apart the prettiest girl in our class. How can anyone take this tripe seriously? The author should spend his/her time talking about real issues like: why are red-blooded Americans standing by, pretending that we have an actual “President” on capitol Hill? IMPEACH NOW!
Love these hit pieces! Keep ‘em coming, if only to bring out the outraged comments.
But seriously, it’s easy to see why the powers that be from both parties hate SP. They can’t control her. Never have. Never will.
I don’t know if she is Presidential material or even if she will be throwing her hat in that ring. But what I do know is she is refreshingly Real. What you see is what you get. There is no hidden agenda, no fancy political strategy, just simple, heart-felt principles. She easily passes the foxhole test. Oh, and I would vote for her in a second.
DD
Opinions are like a**holes-everybody has one. Who gives a rip about these irrelevant polls especially when Gov. Palin has not even announced a run for President and the first primary is a little less than a year away with the general election being 19 months away. When she goes out and talks to people face to face, it won’t matter a whit about opinions, polls and statistics. But I guess the media has to have something interesting to talk about even if it isn’t honest or objective.
Alas, Mr. Roberts, your article says a lot more about you, most of it unfortunate, than it does about Sarah Palin, of whom it can truly be said, “Eagles don’t flock.” Sarah Palin has the grit as well as the moxie to ignore, or when indicated, defend herself from the likes of you, of whom it can truly be said, “when a pickpocket looks at a holy man, all he can see is his pocket.” Whoever taught you “critical thinking skills” should be summarily fired.
I have gone from being a financial supporter of to someone who has been disappointed at Sarah Palin over the past two years.
But trash articles such as this are making me go back to supporting her again.
Is this the real purpose of writing nonsense like the above pile high dung by C. Roberts?
Her fall has nothing whatsoever to do with her lip-service to women’s equality, & everything to do with her ongoing refusal to follow the GOP party-line, despite evidence of its cost. Losing the historically rock-solid NY-23 election likely still rankles for them, & Palin’s reckless endorsement was instrumental in that loss.
Ignoring warnings of the political blowback, Palin has put her support for the TEA Party (& herself) over expected loyalty to the GOP, & it’s a known fact that Republicans don’t want her in the race – she would only serve to weaken them in 2012, either as a candidate or a contender. Her lack of real knowledge in foreign affairs, economics, the judiciary or government policy in general is not exactly an asset (listen to anything she says & see if you can find any specific content beyond vague platitudes & rhetoric) & as 2008 illustrated, she energizes her opposition more the closer she gets to real power.
Many on the Right said that she might make a viable GOP candidate if she were to spend the time between 2008 & 2012 intensely studying the necessary subjects to be a nominally aware candidate who could hold her own in an interview or a debate – she instead chose to quit her job as Governor, write a book, become a paid public speaker & join FOX as a TV celebrity.
As a right-wing celebrity & TV star, she’s been a total success – her millions attest to that – but as a candidate for POTUS, she’d make Walter Mondale look like JFK. Try to picture her debating Obama without laughing. Now try to imagine John Boehner or Karl Rove watching that debate without weeping.
Yes indeed, I’m imagining that debate, and I’m imagining laughing non-stop…AT THE FRAUD IN THE WH.
I replied in post 78. But I’d like to know, what do you think of Obama? Do you think he’s got a good platform and record to debate on?
Obama is far to the left of the current GOP – & somewhat to the right of Reagan. Reagan made torture officially a crime: Obama has unilaterally given its CIA perps a free pardon. Reagan raised taxes repeatedly: Obama cuts them, even when faced with an epic budget shortfall. One can easily picture Reagan sticking to his free-market principles & leaving the banks to fail: Obama followed through with the Bush-Bernanke bailouts. Very hard to imagine Reagan explicitly authorizing military use of lethal force on Americans abroad, whether they supported his enemies or not: Obama did so, & presumably considers it a good policy.
Obama has a massive record of legislative success – in the face of the most obstructionist Congressional opposition in American history – & a pathetic lack of savvy in terms of capitalizing on it. Bush’s stimulus checks each had his name on them; most Americans don’t even know that Obama has had their payroll taxes slashed. His platform or record are of nominal importance next to his lack of substantial action to reduce high US unemployment. If anything keeps him from a second term, it will be his inaction to get jobless Americans working again.
“somewhat to the right of reagan (?)”
nice and effective way to gimp yourself of any credibility
move along now
nothing to see here
You really exposed yourself there dude! You are so far left the commies are to your right!
Better get back to your job of licking Obama’s nuts!
Hey “jim” you democratic hack. Get off the conservative page and get back to the commie rag you normally comment on. Sarah Palin has done more for America in the last two years then the entire Congress and that Fascist Nut Job you people elected as President combined.
Palin, 2012 Pass it on.
Well well. Somebody got to the writer of this article. GOP establishment who hate palin because she won’t follow their rulles or the reader is starting to believe the left’s smear campaign against Palin. Those who REALLY support Palin know the truth about her because she is about the truth. We stand firm with her and know her enemies right away and know truth from lies. You, sir, are an enemy.
And what, pray tell, have you read of her works? any of her books? And what have you heard her speak on? the economy? foreign policy? I would say she makes our current president look like the kindergarten cop he really is. Please don’t cast aspersions on her without citing examples. Those would be empty comments.
You want an example? Here’s a very recent one:
Purie asks her what she would do with India in regards to Pakistan. “We can’t go back to that hyphenated days of, no we need to and can work together in working with Pakistan, and we have our issues there, too, and in a sense we do, but we need to work with Pakistan, but that’s one of those issues that we need to work on, as we strengthen our allies, there…”
Pray tell, where’s the policy prescription there once you weed out all the filler and platitudes? What are “hyphenated days of”?
I suspect the reason why you and yours are so convinced that Sarah is a genius is that you, like everyone else, can’t tell what the hell it is she’s trying to say. Except unlike everyone else, you assume it’s because she’s smarter than you – which may well be true – not because she’s a blithering fool.
You moron.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India
You don’t even know the basics. India and Pakistan were one country and they partitioned and it created a massive deaths and problems between the 2 countries since. The questions were about the conflict over Kashmir and Palin needed to tread lightly because we rely on Pakistan in our war in Afghanistan.
Oh that Palin is dumb isn’t she?
I can’t help but notice that you either weren’t able or chose not to try to suss out the concrete policy proposal from that word salad.
India-Pakistan was never hyphenated, because Pakistan didn’t exist until partition. And no, I don’t need your little history tutorial on it, having read plenty of history on all of it, as well as lots of writers from both countries. Hey, didya know? Bangladesh was once known as East Pakistan. Thank god they didn’t ask Sarah about that. Because, yeah, that Palin IS dumb.
She didn’t mean that there was a country with a hyphenation in the spelling you mook. She meant that the rift between the countries was deeper now then their common origin.
What’s Bangladesh have to do with anything here Ms. Clear thinker. And the moderator prefaced the question by stating that no US politician ever gave a concrete answer to this. The reason is because Pakistan is our ally in a current war. Palin, here, did no better then Clinton.
The way you make it sound is that she was a moron when in fact she was being political. No foreign dignitary is expected to know the minutia of the visited country. Palin did a great job here. She talked about the Indian trade routes in relation to the founding of America and made a nice bee line to the current free market principles that now join our free countries. She contrasted this with authoritarian China and much more. You heard it. You’re just faking it now because it was GOOD.
What, you never fumble around a bit when you are trying to handle a delicate relationship situation, trying hard not to offend? You just hate that she speaks like a normal American. You think politicians are supposed to be the glib creatures we have always seen with their talking points all prepared.
I’ll translate her for you.
We do have our issues with Pakistan. We both do (India and the US). However, we still are better off working with Pakistan, rather than emphasizing the India-Pakistan split.
I got it just fine. Most importantly, so did the Indians. They liked her just fine. Message received. Definitely got the job done. Dumb ol’ Palin got the job done, and she did it without the entire State department to assist her.
You forget that this a very small operation, just her and a very few people. I think she did just fine. Try comparing apples to apples next time. Keep things in perspective. Check your preconceived expectations at the door. After all, how well would you do in the same position, assuming you could even get in the door?
India and Israel received her warmly. They know that she is quite possibly the next US President, and someone who is on their side and America’s side. Of all our Presidential contenders, whom do you think our friends would prefer to see as President? Is there any doubt?
Also, besides you being fully 100% ignorant of the past India-Pakistan connection, what else in that speech didn’t you get? The moderator seemed to have no trouble understanding Palin. Is there any policy positions that Palin holds that you are not clear on? I think the entire world knows where she stands.
She’s a supply sider who’s for low taxes and less federal regulation and more power in states hands. She believes in a strong military and an unapologetic America. She believes that traditional forms of energy development are a key to invigorating our economy and dis empowering our enemies. She is pro life and encourages the culture of life.
What message is she fumbling? How do I know all her positions if she’s such a bad communicator?
Since the quote you’re relying on appears to be a complete fabrication, your point is moot.
What Palin actually appears to have said:
“We cannot go back to those hyphenated days of India- Pakistan. The de-hyphenation that occured when India was able to start making independent decisions to allow the prosperity that is growing here. Now, we need to and can work together in doing with Pakistan,”
The above quote is all over the papers in India. The source is PTI.
However, if I ever want an example of a Palin-hating doofus making an ass out of herself…I know who to call.
And, I wouldn’t be talking about genius, if I was you. It’s a little above your pay grade, dear heart.
Physician, heal thyself. When talking about genius that is.
I didn’t say I am one; I said that Palin is NOT one.
On the other hand, I didn’t burn through 5 undergrad institutions trying to earn my bachelor’s degree. I suppose that’s because I didn’t have to keep moving to new schools whenever a professor gave me a critique I was too thin-skinned to handle. You know, like Palin and all her followers (and that would include you) are.
As for “complete fabrications”, I gave what was reported as her exact words from her interview/speech. Not my fault that she’s even harder to make heads or tails of than your average tech support call center worker in Bangalore. FWIW, your “corrected” transcription makes her sound every bit as stupid. “Hyphenated days of India-Pakistan”? What rubbish. India was never prohibited by a hyphenated Pakistan from doing anything; the two have been separate countries for 60 years now. Sounds like the “point” Palin was trying to make is that she’s aware that they aren’t the same country. Whoopee! Brownie points for Sarah!
Though I can understand not very bright people being VERY impressed by her grasp of said fact.
I don’t have to heal myself in that respect, becaue I just happen to have a genius level i.q.
That’s why I don’t have to resort to using false quotes to support my positions, unlike some people I can name.
Why do I get the feeling the fact is you are more impressed with your own intelligence, than that Sarah Palin is dumb?
Jennifer:
Your obamacoma notwithstanding, you must have missed the speech he gave when he told us about his visits to our “57″ STATES and that he had ONE more to go, Alaska and Hawaii. Or how about when he gave a speech, a eulogy actually, with teleprompters present, and he called the deceased marine a “corpseman” – 4 times no less. Or how about when he said doctors cut off feet because they want the $50,000 and they could actually just give a pill. Yep. That’s the ticket. A brilliant thinker. And he did it all while speaking AUSTRIAN.
I would refrain from calling the people on this site stupid. Most commenters here could run circles around you, personal attacks also notwithstanding.
That should be, “If I were you…”
To Jim -77
Sounds like you follow SP’s career closely. So you probably know that with all these low “favorable” polls coming out she still is bunched up with the top 3 as the Republican primaries leader. You also know that she has been hosted for the last week by the Indian elite and the Israeli prime minister.
Your right that the debates will be important. What exactly will be the point that Obama “gets” Palin on? Will it be on the importance of green jobs? The success of his Porkulus? His foreign policy doctrine?Ocare? How exactly is Obama gonna embarrass Palin at in that debate?
These polls are absolute proof of the fact that the American people are as easily led around by the nose as that witch burning crowd in Monty Python’s Holy Grail movie. I can deal with liars and cheats and budding tyrants – all those who make up the profession of politics. What I can’t deal with and what gives me the greatest worry for our future is the lemming-like nature of the American people, who apparently can be led to any conclusion that the pied piper media decides on. I don’t have any particular problem with people that dislike or even hate Sarah Palin – AS LONG AS THEY CAN ARTICULATE A REASON OTHER THAN WHAT’S BEEN SPOON FED TO THEM BY THE !@$#@$%@#$ MFM. Harumph.
Not wise enough?
She was wise and compassionate enough not to abort her Down Syndrome baby.
Obama–wise enough to snort coke all through college.
“Obama–wise enough to snort coke all through college.”
That was G. W. Bush, not Obama.
..it was obama . get with it it! one of the few things that got out about his past and you go after bush. classy
I’m not Sarah’s biggest fan, but articles like this are below contempt.
“The autobiography even suggests a mean streak. When then-boyfriend Todd told his friends that Sarah didn’t know how to kiss, Palin’s judgment was as harsh as it was swift: she “learned a lesson about guys that day: even the good ones can act like jerks.”
What sin remains to be revealed? Does she prefer the toilet paper over the roll rather than under? Did she dress her daughter’s in pink? Oh the humanity!!
What a contemptable worm this Carey creture is.
First off, I am a conservative and then a Republican. During the 2008 primary I supported who I thought was “electable” according to the talking heads etc. I supported Romney and then voted for McCain. As a Californian I voted for Arnold. I voted for Bush both times for president. In every case, it seemed like was voting against the Democrat rather than voting for the Republican. Arnold was an utter embarrassment and I was so sorry I voted for him. Bush was a good man, but he was no conservative, he was Democrat lite. He never defended himself or his polices and the MSM had their way with him. In short, Bush was a disappointment his second term. He could have been so much more.
Initially I didn’t have an opinion on Palin either way. As time has gone on, she appears to be the only conservative in the group that most represents what I think politically. Of course that doesn’t make her presidential material except: She has been the only Republican to stand up to the media and happily espouse her conservative views. She has also been the only one to call out the current abomination that is our current president. She also hasn’t been afraid do defend herself when she is attacked by these wacko leftists in the government media complex.
As far as the GOP elitists attacking her goes, they can go to hell. The only faction that cares about the long term health of this country is the Tea Party group. The Tea Partiers seem to consist of everyday Americans who are sick and tired of the country turning into another turd-world s@#t-hole. Palin obviously is not afraid to identify with this group and for that she has my respect.
The only knock on Palin is that she represents herself as a down-to-earth everyday American. I think Americans want to elect someone that is extraordinary, elitist if you will. I think they believe that the job of president is too complex and only someone extraordinary ability can do the job. Well I think people need to get over that because these so called extraordinary elitists (in the Ivy League sense) have ruined the country and its time to take it back.
Actually I think Palin is extraordinary. She has more guts than any of the men that will run and she has more conservative views than all the other men that will run. For a change I would like to vote for someone instead of voting against. If Palin runs I will support her.
Every day she is out of the public eye, she is honing her resume’. Her trip to Israel and India was a resounding success. Much loved and admired by the every day folk in both countries. She asked a direct question about Israel and the need to apologize. It hit a cord and resonated with the people. The Indian people responded to her genuine warmth and personal appeal.
When I see a poll by Bloomberg, ABC, CBS, NBC, or any of the leftist organizations, my suspicion is aroused immediately.
However, her numbers are down and there is a definite correlation between the relentless attacks, hatchet jobs, and downright lies perpetrated and enabled by her critics and enemies on both sides of the aisle.
She is the most feared woman in recent history and not because she is a bad person, a liar, a crook, or malfeasant, but one who tells the truth and dares venture into that sacred arena known as “Establishment Politics”. An arena long occupied and dominated by the chosen ones. Karl Rove, Krauthammer, Matthews, Maddow, and a long list of other increasingly irrelevant pundits and present day soothsayers.
Palin can and will make a dramatic comeback. When she does and if she has an opportunity to debate Obama, don’t expect the same person Charles Gibson condescended to interview and try to trap. Remember, we saw only what ABC wanted us to see, not the entire, unedited interview. Same with Couric.
Palin may not use the elitist version of the english language but she does relay her message in terms the every day American can understand and relate to. And, she has a native understanding of events that escapes Obama and the Washington elite on both sides of the aisle.
Once, I was a critic but have become a staunch supporter. She may not be perfect but she knows it. Obama doesn’t know or acknowledge his imperfections.
Your post, Carey Roberts, says more about you than about Sarah! Where do old RINO’s? To where ever Carey Roberts is.
Well, if this article is an example of the thinking in America then no wonder that Obama was elected president.
Stick to reality TV for you have no idea of how to go it in the real world where acuity of mind and vision to are necessary to see one’s way to success.
This piece is written by a satirist. I have to assume he wrote it as a satire. It prompts many, including me, to write publicly in support of Palin. The writer being a clown is probably deliberately clownish, giving us all or most of us a chance to laugh at the foolishness of the anti-Palinites.
MEOW
You go Sarah. They can’t stop you and it is driving them nuts.
Article is clueless. Sarah’s popularity dropped due to her cable show. Personally I was flabbergasted when I saw a VERY typically pampered princess failing to climb up a not very daunting rock even while a guy above her was hauling her up with all his might. Then she showed in another episode that she is in no way a hunter. Not even a weekend novice.
This was devastating to her because she had heavily pimped herself as the very epitome of ‘Mrs. Outdoors He-woman’. Instead we now knew she was all pol and little else.
I think Sarah could make a fine Congress Critter. Period. She’d be better off getting herself a good talk radio gig and keeping it.
If you think this woman is presidential timber you are not very logical nor informed. If only Rubio was ten years older. ( sigh )
Struggled to climb the rock. Missed first 2 shots with someone else’s rifle. Stick a fork in her. Really? Perhaps, with all she’s been busy doing, she is a bit out of practice. And she did not see the need to edit out the flaws. Another politician would have.
Besides, I bet the 47-yr-old mother of 5 can still outrun your sorry butt.
First Myra Adams, now this. I guess PJM is becomming another RINO Palin-bashing site.
For a much better analysis of what the polls really mean, see this article from Pollinsider:
http://pollinsider.com/2011/03/17/elite%e2%80%99s-way-off-on-palin-electability-part-1-%e2%80%93-the-floor/
Carey Roberts…
If what you write is true, then why bother writing such an article about Mrs. Palin at all? According to your assertions (or aspersions) she is, as you suggest, irrelevant as an American political force. However, something in the tone of your article suggests otherwise. Sarah Palin’s enemies remain scared of her. They fear the scope of her influence. She is only reviled by those (both Democrats and Republicans) who are embarrassed by exposure to the truth regarding their lack of moral terpitude, and their lack of patriotic courage, to ‘say & do’ what needs to be ‘said & done’ in American politics. Sarah Palin has forced the Progressives and the career politicians of both parties to look into the political mirror… and the image they see has not been an ego-pleasing experience for any of them.
As for Grandma Bush… I have little use for her opinions on anything, or anyone. She sat on her well-cushioned ass for most of her adult life… living life large as a Queen of sorts. Espousing no opinions, or keeping to herself whatever worthless opinions she may have held, she did so to best enable her husband (and sons) in building the Bush political dynasty. Within that dynasty she enjoyed life… a very well-kept woman. A woman possessing no apparent personal skills, or marketable human assets in any recognizable form. With Barbara Bush’s era of relevance having passed, she suddenly has this marvelous insight into the relevance other people. What a sad old hag the former first lady has indeed been shown to be at heart. The ’90-something’ Mrs. Bush is seemingly envious of the intelligent, youthful and attractive ’40-something’ Sarah Palin for having the courage to actually speak her own mind, and be her own woman… Something the embittered Mrs. Bush neither could do, nor would do while exploiting her wealthy and glamourous taxpayer-supported lifestyle.
So, to all you Sarah-phobes out there… just keep on writing all those trite Sarah Palin obituaries, hoping she will be declared dead… But beware! You are likely to be surprised by that thick-skinned mama grizzly you have knocked down, but whose tough hide has an uncanny ability to deflect, or absorb, a lot of arrow hits… from your field of inept hunters. Don’t be surprised one day, should you approach her ‘corpse’ to apply a toe-tag, if she suddenly growls at you, rears up tall on hind legs, arms spread, claws retracted, teeth bared and jaws wide open…and she instead eats you all for lunch.
Stop counting Sarah Palin out. The game is still on.
Many people in their comments disagree with your writer, Cary Roberts. Count me too, I certainly disagree with her piece. Sarah Palin has been so mistreated by the media, it is unbelievable. So O.K. you have joined the rest of the MSM. Have you no shame?
GO SARAH!!
I am picturing Rove’s face as he hears something like the following in a presidential debate.
“We can’t go back to that hyphenated days of, no we need to and can work together in working with Pakistan, and we have our issues there, too, and in a sense we do, but we need to work with Pakistan, but that’s one of those issues that we need to work on, as we strengthen our allies, there…” – S. Palin
I like Sarah Palin, because of her spunk. I liked her “Mama Grizzly” comment. But, I don’t think that at this time she is presidential material. One reason is that she has put up with a lot of abuse from the MSM and Democrats. She’s a;so made some gaffs. I would like to see her spend time in the U.S. Senate to get more experience and build her credentials. That is not to say that she would not make a good president at this time, if she surrounds herself with good people. Obviously, I would vote for her if she ran against Obama in 2012. Her problem is how the independents perceive her, because if you lose the election by 1/2%, you still lost. She needs to get credibility with the independents. Some of them are so stupid they thought that Obama’s short time in the Senate actually trumped being Governor of a state. Since when is being an actual leader of a state worse that being one of 100 senators? It’s these kinds of issues that are important to some independents that she must overcome.
Credentials? Really? Is that the problem? She should become a Senator first? Really? Are you mad?!?
Repeat after me:
Natural talent is not skill;
Your family is not a sign of your individual worth;
Credentials are not ability;
Words are not works.
Mrs. Palin has achieved at every level… or over-achieved considering what some folks think of her. I will be happy with a “dumb over-achiever” as President.
Sarah Palin does not read the polls to decide whether or not she will run. As she has said many times she is “prayerfully considering” it.
She is guided by an indomitable faith that has brought her this far, and it is far. She knows that if she is meant to lead us out of the darkness that she will win even though the odds are against her. She has accomplishments that resonate with conservatives and is not afraid to voice her support of Israel. She has a strength that is unmatched by the limp wristed GOP candidates out there now. And when gas hits its peak, SP’s name will be on 65% of the voters lips and that is about all the margin we need.
And by the way, I like it that she a little “mean”.
Donald Trump: “Sarah Palin is more qualified to be president than BHO.”
Even the Donald said it, Roberts (or is this Frummy, or Rovy, or Kramy?).
Yeah , but that’s like saying that someone would be better qualified to quarterback the Steelers than PeeWee Herman.
While it’s obviously true, it’s not saying much.
In the VP debate of 2008, Palin told how she would solve the Israel/Pal conflict. Will Palin be asked if she still holds this anti-Israel, anti Free World view?
Q: How would you solve Israel/Palestinian conflict?
PALIN: A two-state solution is the solution. That needs to be done, and that will be a top agenda item under a McCain-Palin administration. Source: 2008 Vice Presidential debate against Joe Biden Oct 2, 2008. http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Sarah_Palin_Foreign_Policy.htm
A sincere, true ally that seeks Israel’s survival will fight with all their might against surrendering land vital to Israel’s defense-the Biblical, militarily strategic high ground of Judea and Samaria – half of Israel, to Jew-hating, barbaric enemies. Enabling the planned Second Holocaust.
As hated and despised American infidels, WE ARE ALL ISRAELIS.
I don’t care if the “public” likes her or not and I think that’s her opinion, too. She does what SHE wants to do. She’s never fit into anyone’s mold from the beginning. She’s different and the same old, tired, elitest, that’s not the way we do things attitudes don’t work with her. I happen to like her BECAUSE she is out of the box. Not one of those media types or GOP old guard can answer one thing…why does EVERYONE want to know “what did Palin say” on ANY situation! The Tuscon thing…what did Palin say? Libya…what would Palin do? The economy…what did Sarah say? Who is more talked about? Sarah. Who has a highly rated TV show? Sarah. You name me ONE LOSING VP candidate on either side that is STILL being talked about 2 1/2 years after losing? Do you even remember the names of any? Most people barely remember that Lieberman ran with Gore. Or that Bob Dole was even the GOP presidential nominee. So for all those that just hate her SO incredibly much….who is STILL standing?? Sarah is! They have tried for almost 3 years to tear her down and they haven’t been able to. And I know there are a lot of people out there that will answer a poll and say they don’t like her even though they are rooting her on. If she was SOOOOO hated…you wouldn’t hear a word about her. I don’t think there is a media source out there that doesn’t love Sarah Palin. She makes them BIG money! They’ve been trying to tear her down but she is still standing. That woman has guts! You name ONE person that has been through as much press as she has and is still standing.
Paris Hilton has never done anything in her life and she gets a lot of press, too. Though her approval ratings are probably higher than Palin’s.
I’m curious, though, as to when “not killing yourself over criticism” became the sign of “guts”. I can think of a lot of people in the public eye who not only take a lot of criticism but do not spend most of their time whining about it. Palin’s stock-in-trade is her victimhood; if not for the fact that she’s often criticized for not knowing anything, she’d have little opportunity to keep the gravy train rolling with her martyrdom. Typically, we don’t hear a lot out of Palin unless she’s whining about someone being unfair or mean to her. It may be that some of the criticism is mean or unfair; but being the subject of it does not in and of itself render one suitable for elected office.
As for why you continue to hear about her, in spite of her high unpopularity, it’s because no one can resist a train wreck, which is what falls out of her mouth every time she opens it.
So Palin’s appeal to you is that she is a train wreck who is always failing and widely despised. And you come and comment on Palin threads because you want to pile on this loser train wreck. What’s the eventual goal for you Jennifer? Do you need to see her commit suicide or apologize for her wretchedness? I try and get a grasp on Palin hater logic but it always ends up as less logic then just morbid hate.
To Sandra D
Media has two women in the limelight. One is Sarah Palin and the other is Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is trying to enhance her resume as SOS. She has been poor and ineffectual in her post. Snakehead Carter shows up occasionally to make Hillary relevant. So when media pops it on the public with these two women, who would you chose? As we speak Demos are scubbing and cleaning up Hillary to run her again. Don’t think Bill will be helping her alot this time. Enjoyed your post Sandra D.
I will close by saying I am the other Sandra D.
Of course she’s hated. She is smart,plain spoken, successful, good looking, in a solid long term marriage with a handsome supportive man. Palin has a firm moral compass and neither evades nor obfuscates when addressing an issue. In short, she is the antidote to the anti-christ in the White House and his contemptable minions.
So petty to bring up her zinger to Todd.
Why are people so afraid of a woman standing up to her attackers?
I don’t know if Palin is “Presidential material” or not. More to the point, we can never know if someone has the Right Stuff until they get into office, and face the unique pressures that it brings. I do know that she has displayed a much firmer grasp of reality than the present occupant, who has proven to be an unmitigated disaster. I also know that if she is the nominee, I will support her. She has already demonstrated sufficient character and strength to take a chance on her.
I wonder if Carey Roberts was of that ilk of ‘conservative’ who was dazzled by Obama in’08; I wonder who (s)he voted for…
She takes no advice from anyone,” complained a top McCain adviser just days before the election. “Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party.”
I see this as a HUGE plus- the REP party has failed to distinguish itself from DEMS. That she does not kiss their ass is an ASSEt not a libilit
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after the treatementof Hill Pelosi and Sarah by the media nd males only a BLIND person or in your case a person in deep deep denials owuld take issue with “it’s a mans’ world”- becasue look around — most espcially inthe REP party it is!!!!1
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She takes no advice from anyone,” complained a top McCain adviser just days before the election. “Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party.”
I see this as a HUGE plus- the REP party has failed to distinguish itself from DEMS. That she does not kiss their ass is an ASSEt not a libility
after the treatment of Hillary Pelosi and Sarah by the media and males only a BLIND person, or in your case a person in deep deep denial would take issue with “it’s a mans’ world”- because look around — most especially in the REP party it is!!!! many critiquesof women are not political or about their views but their clothes, looks ,parenting, her accent- NO MAN is ever subject to this kind of disrespect-
SARAH is the only candidaTE Who actually says what she thinks, uncensored, not concerned what others think all the time, doesn’t take a reading to get everyone else’s input first- yeah she was the maverick not Mc C. And sheis the kindof REP the USA needs not some RINO, bipartisan compromiser- by history she gets the job done, not just spews words about maybe how they might do things, or same old tired carp that turned R into LOSER
I am so tired of the constant BASH on her since day one- from liberals it is understandable as they despise & fear Christians- but from REPS- pure jealousy or just same old- keep em in the kitchen-
“Then came her “blood libel” gaffe on January 12.”
At the time, Sarah gave the most accurate assessment of the shooting aftermath blamegame that I heard.
I believe one can dismiss the rest of this article as merely yellow trash. The author is published on WND AND Townhall? That can’t be because of content, I’ll wager somebody has deep pockets and an agenda.
I think Sarah Palin would make a good president, maybe a great one, and I think she could beat Obambi, if things break right, but who really knows for sure?
If she makes a run in 2012, I’ll back her, unless something better comes along, and frankly I don’t see anything even close to as good as Palin lurking on the horizon.
OTOH, it’s a long time ’til November 2012, and pretty much anything can happen.
One thing I know for sure, though. She’s well and truly hated by the lefties because THEY believe she’s a real threat to win high office, and if she does, they’re afraid Palin might move to dismantle their precious welfare state and its attendant free handouts.
THat’s where all the blind hatred and rage is coming from.
Want to drive lefties berserk? Make even the slightest move towards cutting off their free ride…and they’ll go absolutely nuts. That’s the only real issue in American politics today, and if you start making noises about limited government or individual responsibility, they’ll flip right out of their gourds…which is exactly what they do when Palin starts holding forth.
It she makes a run in ’12, it’ll be a very contentious affair; and—”Vote early, and vote often.”—they’ll loot at least as many ballot boxes as they feel may be necessary, . . . no, yes, that’ right, she can’t win, . . . Obama and Joe will run, and they’ll be President, . . .
True. They also hate her because she doesn’t condone terminating babies. Just sayin.
I liked Sarah from the beginning and was really rooting her on. But she lost me for 2 big reasons. #1 and unforgivable – she quit her job as Governor of Alaska; and, she did it to cash in and avoid the big decisions she would have to make there. I think she wanted to hit the iron while it was hot and make the money, figuring after a term as governor, she would be mostly forgotten. There were other things as well, the constant playing the victim card. Conservatives don’t play victim, period and I won’t vote for a victim.
She quit. That’s unforgivable? And she did it to cash in? Please allow me to show you how you have not thought this through, assuming you are being honest.
1) She quit.
What would you rather she had done? Should she have clung to her position desperately, like Murkowski or Pelosi? Do you really want someone who has to be pried out of their office while they cling desperately to the doorjambs?
Her office was paralyzed, because the ethics rule was written for a moral people, and the freedom it gave was rapidly abused by the Left. She did the right thing and walked away for the good of the State of AK. It was the noble thing to do.
2) She did it to cash in.
She was being driven to personal bankruptcy. She and Todd made $250k/yr together, and in a few short months, they were $500k in debt because of legal fees… because of the Left’s determination to utterly destroy her by any means necessary.
Would you rather she had just declared personal bankruptcy? Or would you rather she found a way to pay her bills honorably instead of shirking them?
She turned the situation around in a hurry. She turned the tables on her attackers. They should have left her alone. They are used to folks actually surrendering once they get attacked like this. To their rue, she became the greatest force in American politics. Phenomenal.
“It’s not how high you rise. It’s how high you bounce when you fall.”
Now, with what part of her behavior do you still have a problem?
Yes…and no consequences for fraudulent/frivolous accusations, either.
Don’t forget that Barry and Co had 30 (that’s THIRTY) lawyers fly up to Alaska for the purpose of digging up dirt on Sarah.
Did you ever hear of any?
I didn’t either.
While the “bouncing” and rising high, sounds kinda cute, and it sounds reasonable, and it sounds like plain old motivational speaker stock, and it sounds like more of the living your life, or running the nation by cliche, and it sounds like it could be useful sometime, somewhere, I offer for consideration that, as might be applied to Sarah Palin for the instance mentioned, it must yield to the wisdom of common sense, . . .
And as it turns out, Carey Roberts is not a woman; so, . . . there we have it, . . .
I’m not blaming her for her actions. She did what she had to do for her family. I just think if you run for an office, the highest office in the land in a State, that you do your job for the entire term. I also thought her speech when she announced she was leaving was really bad and awkward.
I defend her any time I am on a lefty blog because the attacks against her are ridiculous. It’s just that, when it comes to picking a nominee, I think we need to go in a different direction so that we can win. Remember that any attack on Sarah from friends is going to be 10,000 times worse in a general election.
I’m looking for results and it’s being shown right now that a Republican Congress is not much different than a Dem Congress, just as I suspected. I want us to win the presidency really for 1 big reason – the Supreme Court. Huck, Romney, Palin or any potential Republican nominee will put conservatives on the bench so it’s really just a matter of nominating the most electable.
Saw this posted on FR, so followed the link for full (non) article.
I love the smell of full PDS hatred in the morning, it smells like, “FEAR.”
Well now, lookie, lookie. Uhbama goes to Chile to announce a closer US relationship with them, then just before Uhbama arrives, Chilian President announces a much closer relationship with Iran.
["Chilean President Sebastian Pinera has underscored the necessity for the expansion of Iran-Chile relations in areas of economy and culture, a report says.
The Chilean leader lauded Iran's cultural heritage and arts and the country's position amongst other nations and expressed his administrations' readiness for the enhancement of relations between Tehran and Santiago, IRNA reported on Friday
The two sides further discussed ways to delve into their respective governments' capacities to improve their existing trade and political interchange."]
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/148744.html
Same thing for closer ties between Bazil and Iran. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=brazil+iranian+ties&aq=0&aqi=m1&aql=&oq=brazil+iranrian++ties
ha! the only thing coming to my mind is Sebastian Piñera did it just to cause the biggest possible damage to Obama. Piñera being a right wing politician knows well USA would be the best partner but, I guess, just not with Obomber.
All of which goes very far to explain why the Republicans could well lose the next set of elections.
Sara is happy with her life and that scares the hell out of some people. I really doubt she will run in 2012 But will be a power player instead. And let’s be serious who in their right mind would want the job in the first place
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My favorite part of any Sarah Palin article I read is the comments afterwards. This comment section is about typical for any article critical of Ms. Palin.
Palin has millions of devoted followers. Whenever someone writes an article like this the followers attack anything or anyone they can blame. The polls are biased. It’s all the media’s fault. Obama is scared of Palin. The article’s author is a liberal. The article’s author is a Country Club Republican. The article’s author is a RINO. I haven’t heard anyone blame jet vapour trails yet, but it’s only a matter of time.
I have been arguing and betting (I bet $1 Cdn. on this, I have fifteen takers so far) that Sarah Palin has no interest in running for President in the first place. Why would she? Does she want to take a serious pay cut? Perhaps she wants to see what the media would do if they really wanted to do a hatchet job on her. Does she want to run to lose? Does she want to be President? I say she doesn’t. It’s true that many would like to see her run, but just because people want you to run for office doesn’t mean you’ll actually do it.
So, if I’m right then none of this really matters. Sarah won’t run. But if Sarah Palin won’t run for President who will her supporters turn to?
Two words.
Michele Bachmann.
Donald Trump, he knows how to make money not just spend,spend and spend some more and for what??
Donald Trump knows a lot about bankrupcy too. Read his history. He’s made money. He’s also lost a ton of it.
Michele Bachmann is the real deal. If Palin doesn’t run (and I don’t think she will), Bachmann for President.
Of course if Sarah does run Michele will have to drop out. You betcha!
They are both excellent candidates who would make excellent presidents. Both would wipe up the floor with Barry the pretender. Too bad none of the men seeking the nomination has the balls and backbone to say what they mean and what is needed to be said and fight for what is right.
Here is stunning proof that Governor Palin is unfit for the presidency – an office in which President Obama has performed well above any reasonable hope. It is the most persuasive argument I have thus far
devisedseen that she should vanish and stop bothering us.She maliciously denies what every fool knows, that global warming is — even partially — man-made. That denial is far more damning than her “blood libel” remark: it is clear proof of her anti-male view that men are so powerless that they can’t even assist in the creation of warming; have they no flesh and blood? No body heat? Since all reasonable humans know that global warming is anthropomorphic and are rightly ashamed of it, her statements show her selfish pride in what she considers a uniquely female function. She is also anti-polar bear and anti-beluga whale:
She adheres to her hatred of these poor simple creatures, and others whom she slaughters merely for her twisted pleasure, because she sees herself and other females as uniquely responsible for anthropomorphic global warming and wants full credit for them alone. In her own mendacious way, she is attempting to conceal all of her other antisocial views through this transparent conceit. She will not succeed; truth shall overcome, someday.
Tina Fey for President in 2016!
I took the time, holding my nose tightly, to read your piece of sh*t; and while doing this, I was wondering whether the stench was coming from your armpits or from the dung you spread on this forum.
Either way, go take a shower. And use a lot of soap.
Please see Comment #120. Perhaps you too can figure that it was at least intended as satire. Alas, that was the only comment I could make with respect to the article.
Eh, my post was written as intended satire too; you couldn’t see it?
“…maliciously denies” LOL
The linked article actually says she “doesn’t know”. Also says McCain has been touting AGW at every campaign stop. Of course, now he knows it is bunk, but acts like he held that view all the time.
And in case you haven’t heard, there is NO Global Warming. It was all a scam to get money and power. Yet you stupidly still believe it.
Dear Ms. Carey Roberts: “Is she a have-it-all, do-it-all Super Mom?”. Well, maybe “Yes.”; or, it may be “No.”; but either way, she’s sure done a lot—not the least of which was to have left her AK governorship to good hands at a wisely chosen moment.
Then, insofar as political grist may be of concern, doesn’t that very thing have a lot to do with how she gets her money, . . . baiting confused males? Is it to be supposed that, among other things, a woman might go so far as to have passed through beauty pageants without having internalized something of male psychology?
And so, “Until Mrs. Palin takes steps to reconcile these apparent contradictions, these questions will continue to be grist for the political mill.”.
No. No. No. For one thing—except as she may so choose, to smile a lot—a beautiful woman with a full complement of children and her husband and plenty of money—her residence in a wilderness wonderland—doesn’t actually HAVE’TA do much of anything, else—does she? But, . . . why don’t you know that, . . . to the reformulation of some of your postulates, . . . and upon a larger predicate; for, men and women are not simply equal and opposite—are they?
And instead of shiny pants, worn shoes, and fast food joints, just how many of her commenters would you suppose might prefer to be heard and paid, as their intended “Little Miss Know Nothing” or, “Little Miss Unworthy”, does?
Nor is it merely upon the weakness of suggestive polling that, true opinions apt to change; and for her, she, having been the object of over 20,000 “news” pieces—and no doubt, the lion’s share of those, much to the negative—and yet she maintains, how is it to be gainsaid that, actually, our learned pollsters have fallen headlong into the old rut of attempting to confound quantity—of mire and dirt from their paws—and quality (or, at the very least, staying power) in her?
And for all of this, for those of us who are at some distance of endeavor, do dogs bark at parked cars?
CUDA!!!
She has the Power, Love and the Wisdom of the Holy Spirit!
You go- Sarah- Cuda!
The Anti-Christ will not defeat you!
Cuda!!!
You really can’t be that stupid, she outlined the right path and rationale
on Libya,warned of the danger of QE 2 on food prices, that have set the Middle East on fire, supported Ryan’s roadmap to fiscal reform, chastised those who have settled for a pittance in budget cuts, and you reply with some warmed over Washington Post and Bloomberg polls
The Palins just charmed the First Couple in Israel and wowed a hotsy totsy crowd in India. Yeah, but Sarah’s old news… Ha! Can’t wait for the campaign. Maybe I’ll stop driving truck for a few months to volunteer full time. The survival of the republic is on the line and I want to tell my grandkids I did my part for the last great hope for liberty, the USA. President Palin? You betcha!
She is falling in the polls? Thank goodness!! Please tell me that it means we won’t have a picture and news report of “THE MESSIAH” followed by Miz Palin every time we look at the TV. HE is bad — but she is worse. The Presidency is most definitely above her pay grade! And before you all blast me,I am a Republican,Conservative thru and thru.
That was cool. There weren’t any ant Palin posts so the thread was getting stale so you threw in a rote anti palin post. But I can tell your a great gal and you were just trying to get things rolling again. You don’t really care one way or the other. Cool NCGAL. Keep the thread rolling!
“i am a repub, a conservative through and through…”
if you were a true conservative then you would never call yourself a republican first
i’m calling your bluff
Lol, Dan, I missed the sarcasm, on the first pass,
Some conservatives are so stupid. And we’re a bunch of cowardly fools, you know that Carey? you know why? because when politicians like Palin come along (once in a blue moon that is) who have steel spines, are willing to stand firm for conservative principles, have character, and integrity, we abandon them. We leave them when lefties publish fake polls and tell us they’re dumb, no nothings, tone deaf, blah, blah, blah.
Thanks a lot for playing for the other side.
PJ media, what’s this trash doing here? I don’t agree with everything Palin says and I am all for constructive criticism, but this is not it.
This “article” is a petty piece of crap.
Palin’s popularity has dropped for the same reason Bush’s did – small people, people like you for instance – beat her over the head nonstop for the flimsiest of reasons.
I have a test I use any more with respect to Palin: She is so obviously a good person who loves America. She is so clearly a brave fighter who has been in the arena, fighting for us and being a lone voice in the wilderness, that anyone who joins the bully pack criticizing her is ipso facto a rotten person.
There are lots of rotten people and Y-O-U are on of them.
Go pick on someone your own size!
This is crap from beginning to end.
Why did you feel the need to do a hit piece on her?
Well then, I guess you can stop posting on this woman of no high poll standing. You have succeeded and she cannot recover. There goes all your page views and your reason for living. But hey, it was a fun ride while it lasted. While you enjoy your long earned pat on the back for having helped ensure there would be no Palin presidency, I will be actually waiting for the primaries, and if she happens to be in the primaries, talking to all my family members and making sure they vote for her. That should increase her votes by about 60 right there, of course, I can also use my family to recruit their friends. Die hard liberals will change registration to republican and vote for the sure to lose Palin while easily led other people will go where we give them guidance to be led. That may make her numbers 300 or more higher in the end.
Maybe it has a little something to do with her reality TV rise, and America’s recent acquaintance with the “joys” of a celebrity president?
Nope, probably just rabid liberals.
carey roberts, huh. thanks. yet another media know nothing i can immediately discount by name. will so enjoy it when sarah finally drops the hammer on them. all the whining rino ruling class statists and their acolytes. wait for it…wait for it…
Sarah, unlike George W. Bush, will not accept being the media’s chew toy.
For that alone, I love the woman.
HA! I am usually the one critical of Palin. I happen to think it’s constructive. And if she runs, I will keep a close eye on her and we’ll see how she does.
Now, this article is let’s see….garbage. What your main point? backup? some polls that were probably made up? did you even analyze the group that was polled?
Pajamas media, you can surely do better than this girl author who clearly doesn’t know what a valid poll or argument reads like even if it smacked her in the face.
This article is just embarrassing.
Pajamas Media is getting lamer by the day. First it was Jazz Shaw taking stupidity to new limits. A couple days ago, Mr. Simon wrote a love song to Hillary the foreign policy genius. Now we get this tripe. It sounds like an essay from a tenth grade girl trying to be the class brainiac, without realizing she’s never had an original thought in her life.
I admire Sarah Palin as an extraordinary governor and now political point-man willing to take on the leftist establishment (BTW, she was correct about the blood libel). However, I have doubts about the cohesiveness and completeness of her underlying principles as a social conservative. The following comes to mind…
- She communicated with Tammy Bruce that she believes the repeal of don’t-ask-don’t-tell is good for the military.
- She appeared to legitimize the then-premarital pregnancy of her daughter.
- She seems to want more federal involvement for special-needs children.
- As per the article, some of her views are disquieting in that they appear to support feminism.
- She would legalize illegal aliens instead of tightening immigration laws that would instigate their self-emigration.
Based on further information, I might give her the benefit of the doubt. However, if the above is true, then she is not truly a traditionalist conservative, and I could never support her for any national position.
I tend to agree with you. My concerns, on top of yours, are that she considers islam just another religion (without a deep understanding of and oblivious to the dangers islam poses to the US and the West); her lax attitude towards drug use (pot, at least); her associations with both Tammy Bruce and Rebecca Mansour, in my view both shadowy figures, and not serious individuals to be considered worthy “associates” of a presidential nominee (just as Obama’s associations with shadowy characters); and a feeling that she has a much stronger liberal vain in her than what she has presented to the public after Sept 2008. In fact, her approval ratings (about 80%) in Alaska (indicative of a strong Democratic, liberal support there while Governor) plummetted following her 2008 VP nomination (due to her ‘conservative’ persona presented to the US at large, then) as the liberals in Alaska felt they were sold a bill of goods by her.
This doubt, as to really ‘who is she?’ is what makes me question her more than her seemingly superficial knowledge and understanding of social issues/policies. I moved away from her, not because of the treatment she has received in the corrupt state-run press (which, btw, basically considers her one of their own liberal gone bad – and that’s why they try to ridicule her, not because of her conservative values). This fine point seems to escape her hard core supporters. But it seems to me it doesn’t escape her, and this is the real reason why she’s hesitant to enter the 2012 race waiting to see if she can pull one on the majority of Americans; more precisely, to see whether things will be bad enough for the US over the next few months for enough people to say, well she has all that going against her but she’s still better than the alternatives at the GOP side (and certainly in comparison with O’Bammer).
My expectation is that things won’t be much worse, and that she won’t consequently decide to run. Plus, some good candidates have started to appear already among the GOP crop, and Palin might find conveniently a way out, by ssying so too.
“When the former first lady(Barbara Bush)remarked that Palin might prefer to stay in Alaska rather than throw herself in the hurly-burly of national politics”
…. she revealed her own “New World Order Elitist A$$”, co-partnered with ‘Read My Lips, No New Taxes’ GHWB.
Real Americans are looking for representatives and leaders with sand who aren’t affiliated with secret clubs and back room cronies.
and with this writer on PJM, and others I have read, you are now part of the ‘fair and balanced’ mainstream. It’s easier to find this crap elsewhere. Thanks for nothing.
I’m laughing my a$$ off watching lou $carah scam all you monkeys for yer kids’ lunch money. $he’s a liar and a fraud, lazy too, and has absolutely no intention of running for any office anywhere. Ultimately, when this little factoid s-l-o-w-l-y starts to dawn on y’all, the fallout’s gonna be pure comedy, $carah better have a great hiding place so $he can lay low hoping y’all forget about her. In the meantime enjoy eh ?
coomback,
are you really as stupid as you sound, or is this some sort of humor?
Hey Skippy, Could you translate that into English?
I know how to explain it. THE POLLS ARE PHONY AND SO ARE AUTHORS WHO WRITE CRAP LIKE THIS.
Well said. Besides the “feminist” harpies, the Republican Party apparatchik, at the local, state and national levels are Ms. Palin’s strongest and poisonous enemies. They don’t have their hooks in her and she frightens the shite out of what truly is “an old boys network”. Her popularity and independence scare the bejeesus out of them and this petulant author.
Is that fear I smell or jealousy. Bloomberg get real sh-t for brains.
Now pay attention …. Palin cannot be elected President. If certain elements continue to push her, they risk a certain second Obama term and perhaps losses in the House and Senate. Rule of thumb: the vp candidate in a losing ticket almost never becomes President (not since FDR).
Ridiculous.
Bigoted. Ignorant. Defeatist. Dumb.
Other than that, nice point!
I am amazed that Pajamasmedia would stoop to printing trash like this article. So Roberts think Sarah Palin isn’t popular because of a couple of polls conducted by the Democratic Party’s propaganda arm, commonly known as the “mainstream” media. Considering the savage campaign of smear attacks the MSM has carried out against her it is amazing that anyone who claims to be a conservative believes a single word they say.
Then Roberts goes on to attack her for her book going Rogue, insinuating it raised questions about her character but never saying what those questions were, other than that she supports Title IX. Roberts also repeats the gossip of unnamed McCain insiders.
Then Roberts attacks her for having the gall to defend herself against the brutal smear attacks from the so-called “mainstream” media which she correctly identified as blood libel. Roberts then makes a ridiculous charge that Sarah Palin shouldn’t have defended herself from attack by Barbara Bush, as though being first lady somehow allows people to get get away with gratuitous smear attacks on others. Apparently Roberts thinks Sarah Palin should just act like a punching bag and let the attacks and lies against her go unanswered.
This garbage is the kind of material one would expect to see in Newsweek or the Huffington Post, not a conservative website interested in the truth.
No need really to add to Stevemmn’s critique of the article..
I mentioned on another site, which had a discussion on Frum’s lastest shot at SP, that one sure way to get noticed, or published apparently, is to take a cheap shot at Palin. The left loves you, everyone else at least reads and talks. Taking cheap shots at Palin has become a cottage industry, and pays even when you miss consistentlty.
As for me, I have never heard of this person, Carey Roberts; but, I now know better than to waste precious moments reading anything else with that byline.
BTW, whether she runs or not, she has already performed a service to this country by shining a spotlight on the garbage heap and forcing a bunch of rats into the open.
PALIN POLLS BRING OUT THE TROLLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s obvious that the author of this piece has a personal ax to grind. I’m really surprised that PM provided a forum for it.
I mean, they did read it before publishing it, right?
The right-wing circus continues: first Palin, then Trump, who’s next? 50-Cent for GOP President?
I TOTALLY support Governor Palin and will support her with my time, my efforts and my treasure.
Palin Supporters — Do NOT LISTEN TO THE schmucks on the Left — they know nothing, however they want us to get rid of our best candidate since Honest Abraham.
I’m with you. If she runs, she has my 100% support. SHe is the best person out there, and the best potential leader for America.
She is tough as nails, and is spot on with all of her principles. She is what American Presidents were meant to be – one of us.
She almost, to my mind, has a moral obligation to run at this point. Otherwise, slander wins, Otherwise, effete elitism of the sort this author displays wins.
That’s why these people want to get her out of the race before it starts. They know she is good and that real people, normal people, actually love her and despise the likes of them.
She has my vote with full confidence.
Anyone, and I mean anyone, who does not like Palin has something wrong with them. End of story.
BRAVO, Mike! You’ve said it all!
1. I have thought the same thing as deegee in #12: Palin is the Right’s version of Obama.
2. Like dougx in #107, I ended my support of Palin as a national candidate when she resigned as governor. The excuses made for her do not change my mind.
3. Since I didn’t follow Palin closely thereafter, Carey Roberts’ description of how she’s played the gender card is eye-opening. I’d noticed some of the incidents but hadn’t put the pieces together.
Infatuation with an attractive face, no matter how long it lasts, eventually dies out. That’s the story with her supporters. In her case, that infatuation lasts about two years.
Won’t work bud.
You see Palin is what so many people thought they were getting with Obama. A person who overcame much to rise to leadership.
Except the “hope and change” we get from Sarah Palin is a return to America’s ideals and not the destruction of everything that has made America the envy of the world. She is a person of actual accomplishments unlike the empty suit in the White House.
She is an average American with exceptional talent. The democrats and the media throw mud at her because they are unable to knock her down. They will drown in the back splatter of their own vitriol.
Carey Roberts? you’re a punk. Your article is void of any substance. Go work for Huffington Post or some other media outlet that attacks this woman for no reason what so ever. If the Bushes would be as strong, principled, politically brilliant, and courageous as this woman, we would be in a much better shape and Obama would not be president.
I will remember your name and avoid your articles. PJ media, peace out. Not coming back.
What a bunch of nonsense.
This poll is complete nonsense. All it shows is that they are afraid of running against her and are trying to discredit her.
What kind of conservative would give ABC, Washington Post, or Bloomburg any credibility to begin with?
The Crazies at The Republican Party are trying their darnedest to ram down our throats a hand picked do what they want, not constitutional following candidate such as Mitt should Quit Romney. And the little know nothing following Bills foot steps out of Arkansas, We do not need nor want them.
Anything But a candidate from the same schools in 2012. These others, America better send packing or we will be the ones need a place to go.
Palin freaks out the establishment on both sides because she represents a more independent, grass roots political push in this country. To the establishment Left she is not the correct kind of feminist — she is self-made, pro-life, pro-family and independent of them. To the establishment Republicans she is too grass-roots, showed she would take ‘em down if they were corrupt and independent of them. So she’s been under an unrelenting daily attack since she was tapped by McCain in 2008. I don’t think ANY politician in history, any person, has had this much daily vitriol aimed at her. No wonder she may be down in polling. And people like this “pundit” cherry pick instances and information. For example, he calls her use of the word “blood libel” a gaffe when it was correctly used and even defended by Jewish groups. Why? To keep tearing her down. So far she’s been strong enough to weather it and keep going. She’d probably make a damn fine president.
Cmon. I like her. She has moxie and clarity. Been watching her Israel tour and I like her more.
She means something. She is somehow important beyond celebrity. There is a reason why the world needs Sarah Palin now.
She has ability and confidence to project herself which resonates with many ordinary folks. Sarah has gone beyond argument. She matters because we identify in some ways with her.
She cut through the BS and made one reverberating statement on her trip in Israel.
Why do you keep apologizing?
More profound than anything I have heard on this difficult issue for decades.
She will not be elected to much anymore. Too honest.
#130-A, Sarah being “without a deep understanding” of Islam’s threat, etc.
I must say, you and your buddy’s, (130) almost but not quite, shrewdness of more questioning than tangibles would still be among the most effective for pursuading readers.
Nonetheless, it isn’t a question of what she deserves, but us. I’m not addressing this post from her varied qualifications upto the time she resigned the post, but her background. Christian background to be specific. Her sect to be precise. Dead subject eh? Fools, the integrity hasn’t raised the eyebrow because BO’s 30-attorney witch-hunt, which truly was a dead-end, nor all that has been perpetrated against this woman, but the kind that comes from above. Absolutely, hell, remember? What, ya think they all went back to their holes after crucifying Him. But that’s the point, thats their nature. If you’ve got nothing to wage, your free to roam, but just as they worked through people without faith then, so even today, just as surely it is in some reading this, hate filled reasons snuffing out every last hope for the truth.
So, a very nice try for the stroke PM, but if you play this type of lameness right, will fill the gap for the ravaging upon her posture. Oh, excuse me all carnally inclined, unfortunately, the gap is non-existant for you.
I call bull puckey on this story. Crap… lots of bull crap and I do not believe these polls. When Sarah Palin runs, she will beat all the other Republicans. She will then beat the crap out of Obama. Sarah Palin will be President if she wants to be. Does she? who knows.
Trite, contrived ,sophmoric…..
You could read Stephen Mansfield’s ‘Faith of Sarah Palin’ that describes what really drives her, including her mentors in Pastor Theron Horne and
Paul Riley, but no, waste your time on garbage, that has little relevance.
To Jim -77: You write that Sarah “energizes her opposition more the closer she gets to real power.” Exactly right. That’s what happens whenever one goes after an enemy for real. They fight back. And that’s where guts and smarts and instincts come in to press the attack again and again.
By the way, did anyone catch her remark to Greta van Sustern last night when she said that she needed the support of feminists the way a fish needs a bicycle? Brilliant. She either read or heard the snarky line from one of the arch-feminists of some decades ago that “Women need men the way a fish needs a bicycle,” and she shot it right back at them. That kind of spontaneous thinking from the back brain is part of her gift for coining phrases that stick in the mind, like “death panels” and “blood libel,” which go right to the heart of an issue and are worth more in our struggle than all the punditry and all the policy talk that the elites of every stripe engage in to keep themselves in business and us in the dark.
You think we don’t want Sarah Palin now? You wait until 2012 and you’ll see. Bloomberg’s polls are skewed just like all liberal polls, they poll mostly democrats(reds).
Among every thing else this article ignores, it ignores Sarah Palin’s enormous current political power. Sarah Palin says there are death panels, and those who believe there are no death panels are on the defensive. Her record on supporting candidates who go on to win, is greater than any other pundit, media moxie, or politician. Moreover, she has not alienated the candidates she supported.
Sarah Plain, like anyone else in the political arena, needs to be judged by two criteria. Their political power and their popularity – both their favorable and unfavorable ratings.
The most fickle of the two are favorable/unfavorable ratings. The most substantial and enduring is their political power. There have been political king makers who themselves never held office. There have been king makers who held relatively low office and were enormously influential in the contours and future of their party. Such is political power. And such is Sarah Palin’s political power now.
Will she hold high office? Maybe not. Who knows? If elections were held right now, would a candidate for high office be given a substantial boost if they have Sarah Palin’s endorsement?
The answer, be it yes or no, is independent of her popularity ratings. Here is why – let’s look at the Barbara Bush incident. Barbara Bush said some pretty nasty dismissive things. Barbara Bush was and is still a respected first lady of a respected President. So she get’s a pass. But our Sarah spit right back in her face.
And her popularity rating declined. Meaning what? – Sarah is less powerful? No.People were expressing there instinct, and a correct one, that IF someone were running for high office it would be very advisable to find another way to respond.
True enough. But Sarah Palin is not now running for higher office. Her political power – and the popularity of THAT power – remain as high as ever. Here running for office power will have to wait another day to measure.
Dumb article.
Good grief, Mark V! She’s written umpteen well thought-out policy papers and made her positions clear on any number of issues. Which is far more than any of her supposed opponents have done. Moreover, her positions are always sound, coherent, and common-sense. Which of them did you not understand?
Here’s more from this same author, which ought to tell you a lot about him (see the last 3 articles listed):
http://www.the-spearhead.com/author/careyroberts/
“You might enjoy commenting at my conservative discussion forum Mayberry Lady.”
Thanks for telling me about it, IronDio. I’ll be sure to check it out.
I’m so sick of polls. Who cares. Like Ronald Reagan said the only poll that counts is on election day. Wait until people vote, and then you’ll know.
Sarah Palin is on my list. My list of favorites includes Lt. Col. West, Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump. Maybe Huckabee. I appreciated his long visit in Israel while Palin zipped in and out. I want a strong anti-Islamist President rather than the strangely Islam-loving pretender we have now. Why do I call him a pretender? Because only a “Natural Born” citizen can become President and Obama’s Kenyan father was a British citizen at the time of his birth.
When it comes to pathological narcissists, the Left has Obama, and the Right has Palin. I’m glad conservatives are waking up to it.
Per my #142, I agree with you. I was an early supporter of Palin but now am alienated. Her enduring support on the Right has baffled me.
Obama and Palin embody different attitudes toward America as a civilization. Maybe their respective supporters find that difference more meaningful than the similarities.
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I read an article the other day that said a Presidential candidate “shouldn’t run to the base in the primary, but should already be the base”
Palin is the base
She already has name recognition
She was the VP candidate in the last election
She is a woman, an attractive one, and would be the first woman President if elected
She already has everyone’s attention, no one is going to ignore her
She is polishing her foreign policy cred right now in India and Israel
I don’t care what the polls say right now, if Palin wants the nomination it’s hers!
And what’s more, everyone knows it, that’s why they are all so scared and bad mouthing her, she will upset their cushy status quo, and they all know it.
They hated Reagan as well, so Palin is in good company.
Not being a Republican, I may not be qualified to say that the article above seems as deceitful and mean-spirited as anything one might read on the Huffington site. Whatever one might feel about Ms. Palin’s excessive candor or her intolerance of the usual political BS, she is a genuine article and probably twice the man any of the Republican front runners hope to be. I suspect she has more principles than Boehner, let alone more courage and determination, and she is likely to be more reflective than the rest of the leadership. Would I vote for her? Yes. This year I would, and my support for her will increase as I watch the Clown President rattle his political sword, and the Republicans vomit from fear.
I was admiring her getting things done in Alaska just as Larry Kudlow did well before half of the Washington press Corp knew what state she was from. Bush actually depended on her for more than all but two or three of the other Republican Governors. She pulled off international talks that had she done it from the State Department would have put her as a prime candidate for Secretaru of State. Fishing in the north Pacific, oil and gas deals with Canada, navigation and international aviation with the nations of the Pacific rim were all things that Palin was making smoother and easier. Alaska’s national gaurd provided manning for America’s one land based missle defense installation while she was Governor but she just had to non screw it up. That is beyond the abiliity of most Democratic Governors currently in office.
To bad she ism’t more exotic looking. I think half the country can’t tell the differance when that twit from NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” comes on that it is not Gov. Palin. Of course the Governor has been targeted by every Union and Party thug who is not in jail.
Ho hum. Another attack on the most vital voice on the American political stage today. This author has not yet learned that polls on Sarah’s popularity are not to be trusted because they are polluted with the acid rain of the left’s attack machine as well as the Beltway Republican establishment.
Given that Sarah’s approval ratings for much of her tenure as AK Governor were in the 90% + range, I can see why she scares the status quo folks so much. She got there by kickin’ butt & takin’ names, in behalf of her constituents. Pretty radical stuff. Right now, I believe Herman Cain is our best shot- same reasons as Sarah, but without the baggage, and the idjits won’t see him coming until it’s too late.
INCUMBENTS- the “POLITICALLY CORRECT” ENDANGERED SPECIES!
Palin is the dream candidate the Democrats long for, beautiful, pleasant, accomplished, with an autistic child, and an unwed teen age daughter with a child. She is an true outdoors person and has a real man for a husband, not a beltway girly boy. All the Democrats have is Bill and Hillary. The Democrats will do anything to destroy her. In doing so they tell the world who the Republicans should choose to run.
Thank you for your article I like
Edgar Cayce, a world renowned psychic in the twentieth century, who was also known as, “The Sleeping Prophet” had this to say when asked the question below while in a self induced state of sleep –
Question :
In what form does the Antichrist come, spoken of in Revelation?
Answer:
In the spirit of that opposed to the spirit of truth. The fruits of the spirit of the Christ are love, joy, obedience, long-suffering, brotherly love, kindness. Against such there is no law. The spirit of hate, the Antichrist, is contention, strife, fault-finding, lovers of self, lovers of praise. Those are the Antichrist, and take possession of groups, masses, and show themselves even in the lives of men.
For those who are familiar with English gematria, the system of assigning numbers to letters, if you enter Sarah L. Palin, which is her full name with the middle initial, you will get the numeric value of 666. Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden in English gematria have a numeric value of 660, which is the approximate number of the beast. But only Sarah L. Palin has the numeric value of 666, which is the biblical number of the beast.
For those who don’t understand, Google – English gematria. I have included two separate links to two separate English gematria calculators below for you to see it first hand for yourself. See it and heed its meaning. I had always foreseen this since the 2008 election campaign. Now I proved it for everyone to see.
But wait, what do we have in store for the future? Here it is below so look into these words in the English gematria calculators in the links also —
American beast = 666 ************* Mark of Sarah = 666
Lady of evil = 666 *************** Palin’s U.S. = 666
A martial law = 666 ************** The Palin lie = 666
Anarchy U.S.A. = 666 ************* Sarah’s lies = 666
http://prophecy.landmarkbiblebaptist.net/count.html
http://real-world-news.org/numerics/english-gematria.html
According to Hebrew gematria, the system of assigning numbers to letters, the name Sarah Palin, without the middle initial, also has a numeric value of 666.
The name “Sarah” in Hebrew is spelled:
Sarah = שרה
Shin = 300
Resh = 200
He = 5
The name “Palin” in Hebrew is spelled:
Palin = פאלין
Pe = 80
Aleph = 1
Lamed = 30
Nun = 50
Total = 666
האנטיכריסטוס יעלו בשנת 2012. ראו הוזהרתם.
Edgar Cayce, a world renowned psychic in the twentieth century, who was also known as, “The Sleeping Prophet” had this to say when asked the question below while in a self induced state of sleep –
Question :
In what form does the Antichrist come, spoken of in Revelation?
Answer:
In the spirit of that opposed to the spirit of truth. The fruits of the spirit of the Christ are love, joy, obedience, long-suffering, brotherly love, kindness. Against such there is no law. The spirit of hate, the Antichrist, is contention, strife, fault-finding, lovers of self, lovers of praise. Those are the Antichrist, and take possession of groups, masses, and show themselves even in the lives of men.
More lies, bulls**t and smears
Ignorance is bliss but blindness is a tragedy. Dave is merely bringing light to the world on this matter. Sarah Palin is but only one of two with this mark whom will rise in the political arena in 2012. The other is Michele Bachmann. She also has the mark of 666 in her name in English gematria. These two will be destructive for the future of mankind.
This was one of the dumbest articles I’ve read in a long time. Roberts work looks like it came from a preteeny bopper mag-rag. As far as Mrs. Bush, well, Sarah replied to her. Where’s the rule that say’s that “first ladies” are off limits??? That sure didn’t apply to Laura Bush or Nancy Reagan,nor Barbara herself, when the pundits and press hammered them, did it?
ABC/Washington Post and Bloomburg polls….LO feckin L Sure, they’re fair and balanced.
My own reason for wanting Palin to be president is simple. She has a degree in JOURNALISM !!! Journalists know EVERYTHING !!! From what I’ve observed over the last 45 years is that these people know more about waging war than generals, more about financing than accountants, more about religion than clergymen,more about crime than cops,more about medicine than doctors. The list is endless. We need Sarah. We need a journalist in the White House. I’m sick of those lawyer. community activist types that just rob us blind and screw things up worse.
Dave of comment 168 is right. Using an English gematria calculator online, I have identified his finding plus I have identified the other person with the mark. This is getting scary. I’m sure Dave knows this too.
Here are the results:
Sarah Palin = 594
Sarah L. Palin = 666 BINGO!
Sarah Louise Palin = 1080
Michele Bachmann = 666 BINGO!
Michele M. Bachmann = 744
Michele Marie Bachmann = 942
Now read this disturbing story in the link below:
http://www.borowitzreport.com/2010/04/11/palin-bachmann-seek-two-additional-horsemen/
Here are the info on the 2 beasts of Revelation 13 in Wikipedia below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_(Bible)
“Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.” (Revelation 13:18)
There is a huge misconception that – the number of a MAN – literally meant a MAN.
What the Scripture meant by MAN is A PERSON or A HUMAN.
“Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of A PERSON or A HUMAN; and its number is Six hundred threescore and six.” (Revelation 13:18)
Mankind is also humanity. Mankind is not a race of men.
Dave of comment 168 is right. Using an English gematria calculator online, I have identified his finding plus I have identified the other person with the mark. This is getting scary. I’m sure Dave knows this too.
Here are the results:
Sarah Palin = 594
Sarah L. Palin = 666 BINGO!
Sarah Louise Palin = 1080
Michele Bachmann = 666 BINGO!
Michele M. Bachmann = 744
Michele Marie Bachmann = 942
Now read this disturbing story in the link below:
http://www.borowitzreport.com/2010/04/11/palin-bachmann-seek-two-additional-horsemen/
Here are the info on the 2 beasts of Revelation 13 in Wikipedia below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_(Bible)
“Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.” (Revelation 13:18)
There is a huge misconception that – the number of a MAN – literally meant a MAN.
What the Scripture meant by MAN is A PERSON or A HUMAN.
“Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of A PERSON or A HUMAN; and its number is Six hundred threescore and six.” (Revelation 13:18)
Mankind is also humanity. Mankind is not a race of men.
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