Tale of the Tape: Obama vs. Palin
On December 4, 2009, pollster Matt Towery predicted that President Barack Obama’s approval ratings would drop to somewhere in the mid-40s by mid-2010. To his surprise, it took only a few days. By the second week of December, Obama’s approval had faded to 47 percent in a Gallup poll. The number of Americans who approve of the president’s job performance has gone as low as 41 percent, and he fares even worse among independent voters. All of this despite incessant drum-beating on his behalf by the MSM.
At the same time, Sarah Palin — whose favorability rating in some polls went as low as 39 percent in July when she resigned as Alaska’s governor — is currently at 46 percent in a recent AP-GfK poll, even though the MSM has treated her to a barrage of disparagement perhaps unequaled in American political history. Yet among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, Palin is viewed favorably by 80 percent — a higher rating than any other potential GOP presidential candidate. And 63 percent of everyday Americans say their views are more like Palin’s than Obama’s.
At first glance, Mrs. Palin and President Obama have many things in common. They are both physically attractive, mid-40s young, and have attractive spouses and families to which they are openly devoted. Both have strong leadership qualities and are dynamic speakers, arguably the two best on the political scene in recent years. In addition, they share to some degree an outsider’s perspective on American politics, hailing as they do from the states most recently added to the union, the only states which are not part of the continental U.S. Scratch beneath their personable surfaces, though, and they represent polar opposite visions of what leadership in this country should look like.
Obama presents as a victim; Palin a victor.
Dragged from pillar to post by an unstable mother and finally dumped on his grandparents, the young Barry Obama seems to have formed the habit of feeling sorry for himself early on. By the age of 12 or 13, as he tells us in his book, he ” … found solace in a sense of grievance and animosity against my [white] mother’s race.” He was mentored by Communist and sexual deviant Frank Marshall Davis through his teen years, and in college consistently chose to associate with radicals and Marxists. As a disciple of Saul Alinsky, he worked as a community organizer nurturing a sense of victimhood among the poor and disadvantaged. For 20 years he was a member of a church which taught black liberation theology, a cult which portrays black people as downtrodden and oppressed. He has built his career on appealing to those who prefer to consider themselves victims in this life.
Sarah Heath Palin, on the other hand, grew up in a lower-middle-class family in the demanding, near-frontier environment of Alaska, where she learned a can-do attitude early in life. She led her high-school basketball team to a state championship while playing on a broken ankle. As a young wife and mother she worked with her husband on his salmon-fishing boat in all kinds of weather. Since being selected as the 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate, she has endured personal attacks and vilification unprecedented in living memory. Far from being a victim, she chooses to display courage, grace, optimism, and what can only be described as a joyous spirit.
Palin is gracious, Obama is a churl.
Sarah Palin makes a point of being publicly gracious, even praising Obama’s speech at the Nobel award ceremony.
Mr. Obama can be gracious when he wants to be — usually to enemies of our country. But while in Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, he snubbed his host, the king of Norway, just as he had snubbed the Dalai Lama and some of our most faithful allies. He has given “gifts” to the queen and prime minister of Great Britain, our closest ally, that were nothing more than thinly veiled insults. And he has few kind words to say about his predecessor, George W. Bush, whom he still attempts to blame for most of our nation’s problems.
Obama has campaigning ability, Palin has executive ability.
Getting himself elected to the nation’s highest office on a wave of nebulous “hope and change” was no small accomplishment. Though after nearly two years as “chief executive” he is still campaigning, which is not surprising — it’s the only thing he knows how to do. He had zero executive experience before entering the oval office, and has continued to pass the buck on governing. Which is not necessarily a bad thing, since the voters soundly rejected his agenda in the 2010 mid-term elections. (However, he continues to protest that the voters did not reject his agenda – they just failed to understand it.)
Certainly no slouch as a campaigner herself, Governor Palin has also proven to be an effective administrator, establishing a stellar record all the way from her home town mayor’s office to the Alaska governor’s office, where she earned an incredible 80-plus percent approval rating from her fellow citizens.
Obama has more foreign affairs experience than Palin, but that’s not a plus for him.
Surprisingly, it is not common for presidents to enter office with foreign affairs experience. In fact, the only one to do so since 1974 was George H.W. Bush, who had been U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, chief liaison to China under President Ford, and director of the CIA. How much foreign policy experience did Jimmy Carter have? Ronald Reagan? Bill Clinton? George W. Bush?
Prior to becoming president, Barack Obama had no foreign affairs experience, unless you count a brief visit to Pakistan when he was 20 years old. During his time in office, Obama’s foreign affairs experience has consisted of alienating our allies and kowtowing to our enemies. On balance, a net minus.
Palin does not claim foreign affairs experience. However, she claims two principles which are clearly the antidote to Obama’s bowing to foreign rulers: she knows that America must be strong in order to be safe, and she knows that we must develop our own resources and end our dependence on foreign oil in order to be strong.
Nicely stated contrast. If Palin had eight years experience as governor rather than two years my guess is that she could walk into the presidency.
Unfortunately, Charles Krauthammer predicts that Obama will be re-elected; if he is America’s new home will be the dustbin of history and rightfully so. Clearly the Obama presidency constitutes the greatest threat to the republic since the Civil War. Quite an accomplishment for a single narcissistic professional victim (then again look what a demented Austrian wallpaper hanger accomplished).
Krauthammer is so desparate to torpedo Palin, he’s willing to back 0bama. This is no surprise since Krauthammer is an extreme liberal, having served in the Carter administration, and being a speechwriter for Mondale. He is no conservative by any means. He knows that his main pick for 2012, Romney, isn’t going anywhere because of RomneyCare, and his fallback picks, Daniels, and Huckabee, are likewise, not going anywhere, but Huck’s main value is in the primaries, where he may syphon off enough votes to deny Palin the nomination. To him, it is Anyone But Palin.
I disagree with Charles over Palin, but the idea that he’s an “extreme liberal” is just laughable, as reading any of his columns at the Washington Post or National Review or The Weekly Standard will show. For example, does an “extreme liberal” defend and advocate the use of waterboarding? See: http://is.gd/j1w3Z
People like “gah” contribute little to intelligent discourse. Krauthammer is not “desperate” to do anything, especially “torpedo Palin.” This is projection. gah, please grow up.
Krauthammer Is Only A Fiscal Conservative He’s An Elitist Liberal On Everything Else Go Back Just Over A Year Ago When Obama Invited All His Groupie Republican Pundents To A Whitehouse Gala Krauthammer Was Slobbering Obssessive Over The Genius Of Barack Obama.As Was Newt Gingrich,Bill O’Reilly,Karl Rove,Mitch Daniels,Hayley Barbour,Mitt Romney,And Especially Mike Huck-A-Bee Who Still Declares Barack Obama,And Bill Clinton The Greatest Political Minds Of Our Time.Both Society Predators,Both Habitual Liars,And Both Suffered The Greatest Political Losses At One Time Than Any In History.Both Are More Comfortable Cozying Up To Dictators,Than The Majority Of God,Family,And Country Americans.Both Are Professional Con Men Passed Off As Economic Genius.Bill Clintons Greatest Claim To Fame Was As A Sex Offender,And Perjurer.Providing 1OO’S Of Millions Of Dollars To Hamas,Hezzbollah,Plus Nuclear Reactors To North Korea.And We Can’t Forget His Propaganda Warfare Political Media Collaborated War,Against That Wakko In Waco That Backfired,Burning Alive Innocent Children.Yet Those Like Mike Huck-A-Bee,Krauthammer,Karl Rove,And The Rest Of These Elitist Leftist Groupies,See As Genius,And Rush Limbaugh,Ann Coulter,Sean Hannity,Mark Levinn,Glen Beck,Jim Demint,Mike Pence,Sarah Palin,The Tea Party,And Especially Orthodox Bible Believing,Right To Bear Arms,And We Are Endowed By Our Creator Americans,Especially Christians,As Radical Extremist.In Their Own Words.Not Just Mine.All Back Door Trojan Horses For The Left,And The New World OrderBy Way Of Phony Why Can’t We All Just Get Along Comprimise,On Behalf Of The Borg Collective.Jimmy Joe/”The Liarfryer”
We really do have to sort out the language. Obama has stretched his administration all the way to Pol Pot comunists On that scale Charle is close to the center but
Tcobb is absolutely right. The Left sees Palin as being another Ronald Reagan. They need to stomp her out now. We are headed into a technological/economic shift in the next twenty years called the convergance, the Singularity or the third wave depending who is discussing it but they all add up to a time that could restore the progressives to power or wipe them out.
If they can get a weak sister like Romney the progressives can win and Amerca goes third world. If Palin wins we start building moon cities and Muslim parents start worring about their daughters taking up marksmanship to be more like President Palin.
Maybe Krauthammer’s prediction about Obama’s getting reelected will backfire on him, since such a prediction ought to rally extra action to push the illegal officeholder farther from that unthinkable result. But if it should happen, this country is out of hope and should be consigned to the dustbin. Good people were lost in the Flood, too. Conservatives, keep acquainting the country with details of the real Obama and what such behavior has been proven to cause over the history of time.
We need to actively work to be sure Obama does not ge reelected. I agree, if he’s reelected, our country is doomed. He and his will feel they can do anything.
The Kraut is DC all the way. Best bet for the country is to ignore everything coming from DC ie print media, TV commentators, opinion journalists etc. Sure their are some who manage to hit 60% reliablity but its not worth the effort.
The best way to look at Gov Palin is she has been VETTED, she’s an AMERICAN, she is NOT DC. People like her at 63%. Consider that since NO blacks (13%) do not do liberals (14%)how much more does she need to win?
Forget privious runners, events passed them up long ago.
You never know for sure, but I think Sarah Palin would make a very good president, maybe a great president. The only problem with her is that she might be a little too young for the job right now.
As for Barack Obama…he’s clownshoes.
Never in the history of this country has their been a good Democrat president…and he ain’t no exception.
Just one man’s opinion but I would have to classify Harry S Truman as a good Democrat president. But then again, would Harry align himself with the modern Democrat party? Not likely.
I think we’ll have to agree to disagree on this subject, on both counts:
How good a president Mr. Truman was and whether or not he would feel at home in the Democrat Party of today.
He was a stone cold socialist, and would fit in well with today’s Democrat Party. At least that’s my estimation.
Trumand eviscerated the military causing thousands to die in Korea. He tried to eradicate the Marine Corps for Christs sake! As a person he was allright, as a president he was marginal at best…
Did you know that John F. Kennedy was younger than Sarah Palin when he became president? And with no executive experience at all? Maybe you are trying to say she is a woman. Right?
JFK doesn’t really count, since he was from the magical Kennedy clan. Plus he died too soon for us to know what kind of president he might have been.
Yeah, he was young, immature…and a Godawful president. One of the worst.
If he had not been murdered Kennedy would have been a 1 term President who was rated as a failure.
Dave, even though she’s 2-1/2 years younger that Teh Won, she daily demonstrates a better grasp of issues and the will to deal with them, than our current Resident-in-Chief at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Ad, everyone who understands history has a better grasp of issues than the Messiah, come to think my cat has a better grasp of the countries problems than Obama.
Sarah speaks the language Of true constitutional conservatism,Family Values,Individual,And religious freedom.Whatever She Doesn’t Understand She Will Surround Herself With True Constitutional Scholors,And Foreign Policy Experts.Unlike The Last 4 Presidents,That surrounded themselves with socialist,marxistCommunist,Union thugs,Larasa,C.A.I.R,Black panther,N.O.W.Pink,George soros,Foreign Influence/Money,And new world order U.N.Loyalist.She Will Go After the Elitist establishment republican good ol’boy,and Good Ol’ feminist network,As well as the Chairman Mao Se Tung Wanna Be Democrats.
You’ve contrasted Palin and Obama very well and it would seem Palin would be a shoo-in in a race against Obama. Unfortunately, there are many ‘respectable’ women, e.g. Ms. Noonan and Mrs. Bush, who have that back-biting gene so common in women, and then there are many women who believe that the office of POTUS should be held by a man, and only a man.
So, good luck to Sarah Palin. She’ll need it.
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huh
Agreed.
Instead of criticizing his typing style why not criticize his remarks which happen to be ludicrous.
Jimmy Joe,
Your post, not using proper spacing, paragraphing, unproper capitalizing, etc. is act of .. terrorism.
Clean up your act or never post here again.
I’m the premiere Palinista in Ohio and I never hold much against people and cut them quite a bit of slack, but you can do much better.
Just some ‘constructive’ criticism.
Wow a entire comment line full of anti free speech Elitist Computer geeks,And Potheads Living On Obama Care.Why am I Not Surprised Whats A Matter Does Truth Offend.Read The Rules Keep On Topic Of Website.But again too much to ask from habitual angry liberal control freaks.
In the 2010 mid-terms, the republicans got 49 percent of the female vote, and the dems got 48 percent. This is the first time since they started tracking the female vote in 1982, that republicans have gotten more female votes then the dems. The dems usually enjoy about a 15 point lead on the republicans. I won’t attribute all the shift to Palin, but since she is the most highly visible republican, I would have to give her a big part of the credit for that shift.
I don’t think Sarah is ready to run, She is having too much fun doing what she’s doing..She is in a powerful position exactly where she is, influencing the base, making money and having a good life.. To me her biggest contribution has been opening our eyes to what the hell is happening to our country and the people doing it.
So far she has called a spade a spade and helped women empower themselves again..
The MSM keeps Palin’s name in the news as a smoke screen.
It is something to talk about, make fun of, have comedy skits about..Now..Huckabee, Ronmey etc are not as much fun,,not so much to make fun of. The liberal women are fools, so is NOW, they’re hurting women in general.
.Republican women are a disgrace, absolute disgrace. They do not need to support Palin, but quit the crap. Barbara needs her hairy tongue glued to her nose, and megan mccain..what can be said about her…She is just trying to make a name for herself on the back of someone that actually helped her father not make a complete fool of himself. A sillysillysilly little rich girl.
In my conservative mind, Krauthammer is not a respectable man in many ways,and hardly the last word in w hat is going on with conservatives. He is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
SEE #1 GAH on Krauthammer
Another anti-Palin concern troll.
Look, the numbers are there. Unless Obama pulls to the middle and gets at least a decent bounce in the economy and better news out of Afghanistan, Palin will defeat him because she will take back the close eastern states plus one. The numbers now actually favor her to beat Obama.
Sarah’s big challenge will be the GOP Primary.
If Huck does not run, Sarah should win it handily. If Huck foolishly runs, she can still win, but the vote could be split with socons and the Establishment favorite could win like Romney or Daniels.
I agree Palin’s biggest hurdle will be the GOP and in getting the nomination. There are many good old boy Repubs who do not want a reformer, even from their own party, who may threaten their own place at the public trough. If Palin can manage to get the nomination, she will beat Obama. I think Obama has revealed himself to be the anti-American, and we’ve had such an overdose of liberalism that any GOP candidate can beat him. It is so difficult for his supporters to admit who and what he is, to admit he is not what they thought he was. Once they finally admit that, he will not get them back, no matter what the state of the union is.
Right along with Karl Rove and Michael Steele. They both contributed heavily to democrat wins in several races by not supporting the candidates selected by the voters.
I heartily agree with Bob, Dave & Patrick in that Mrs. Palin is a winner and admire her attitude and drive that have so much changed our perception of what a politician can accomplish. I don’t know that I would vote for her for POTUS in ’12 because we don’t know who will be running, but I certainly wouldn’t rule it out either.
What I would really like to see is another good republican winning the race in ’12 and appointing her to a really high profile, demanding and responsible position in his administration. Thus giving her the exposure and platform to exhibit her skills nationwide and, at the same time, giving the American public the opportunity to see who she really is – and not the perceived and distorted view exhibited by the MSM.
Is she the best the Republican party can offer in the next few election cycles? I don’t know … but she is certainly among the front runners, and a far, far better choice than 95% of the politicians I can think of right now.
Compared to Obama in almost any category, she makes him look like an ill-informed, stubborn and petulant schoolboy who is constantly honing his ‘bullying’ tactics when he should be studying.
I agree. Appoint Sarah to run the Dept of Energy.
“Every nation has the government it deserves”, Joseph de Maistre (1753 – 1821)
Obama sits in the Whitehouse because the people of the United States of America rejected God.
That is the same reason they vilify Sarah Palin and it is more than enough justification for the rest of the World to say, “America; a Great Nation No More.”
In my nearly three score and ten years on Earth I have never seen our country more down in the dumps and depressed at Christmas time than it is now. Nor has there been a time where it is virtually impossible to see the future with any optimism.
There’s only one figure on the Right to compare with Sarah Heath Palin: Chris Christie of New Jersey. One or the other of these two will become president of the United States no later than 2016 — and the political elite, and the talking heads that so reliably dismiss Palin as a flash in the pan unsuitable for national office, will be furious either way.
Democrat or Republican, nothing matters quite as much to our political elite as maintaining its hegemony over federal office. They like the current state of affairs; it’s of their making and serves their interests. Their statements of ideological affiliation are nothing more than veneers over their pseudo-aristocratic bent. We would see the same sort of reaction against any genuinely decent, genuinely conservative “outsider” — Tom Coburn and Marco Rubio come to mind — as has been shown to Sarah Heath Palin.
Agree completely with your assessment of the superstars on the right, Chris Christie, Sarah Palin, and Marco Rubio. Paul Ryan would be a terrific VP since I don’t think he can be persuaded to run for the highest office yet.
Sarah Palin is a winner, if she and Obama were judged by the same standards–results–she’d be where she is and he’d still be running for Congress in Illinois. And to compare their looks? She’s phenomenal looking and he fits bonny kate’s (#15) description of him.
Francis,
While I love My Christie in NJ, don’t let his outspoken campaign against the NEA(which I love) blind you to a couple disturbing stances of his.
He supports a cap and trade scheme and is an old time Republican who supported Mike Castle-seen what that jerk has been up to the past week?
No, IMO our two rising stars are Col West and Sen elect Rubio-like Sarah they constantly speak of American Exceptionalism-I get goose bumps listening to them profess their love of this country.
Col West especially would strike the kind of fear into our enemies while our current Presiden Toothpick elicits chuckles.
If Rubio had some more experience at the national level, he would be the prohibitive favorite. Not trying to insult Palin, but Rubio’s ability to articulate the conservative vision, on all fronts, is head and shoulders above all of the rest. Gingrich is the closest, and in some ways superior, but he has a large and loud ‘anti-base’ among conservatives that is going to be a major major roadblock if he decides to run.
The ability to clearly and calmly explain why conservatism always has and always will work is the single most important skill that a candidate can possess.
I agree, except about the date. Make it 2020.
I am appalled at all the names thrown into the ring here…haven’t we had enough untried, unvetted people to learn yet? Lets see there was powel & rice, how did they turn out. Christie backed a socialist over a conservative for senate. Who’s Rubio? Does anyone know? West is probably the best of the newbies but needs for vetting & experience.
So who are we left with?….Hmmm. I’d say a female govornor.
Yeh, he’s the former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, a proud first generation American, who through his parents knows the difference between freedom and serfdom. Everything he has accomplished has been through his own merits and hard work, just like most Americans used to do it. He ran a campaign and won an office nobody thought he could win, without disclosing the divorce records of his opponent. Than he went on to become one of the best spokepeople for Conservatism.
What’s your problem?
How about Palin/DeMint for 2012? He knows the wily ways of the RNC, as well as the governing houses.
That’s what I had been saying for some time. I have backed off of that, since he would probably be much more valuable in the U.S. Senate. I’m certainly not opposed to it.
Christie is working hard to prevent the state budget from going out of whack in NJ.
However, he is NOT a conservative and NOT a constitutionalist.
He is popular now because of his standing up to the teachers union with his videos.
He has no business representing the GOP for the Presidency.
However, he would be a dynamite head of the Justice Dept. in a Palin administration.
The Tiger of Trenton would be great in that role.
John Bolton for President.
Your comparison between Governor Palin and the illegal squatting in our white house was well done. But, afterall, Governor Palin truly loves America and American exceptionalism. She supports Israel. She supports our allies. She holds great respect for our Military. The illegal? He obviously hates our military, our country, Israel and is a socialist/marxist. Really, there is no comparison.
Judy for VP.
I love someone who just says it.
Sarah Palin is stellar! If America elects her as President, America will be one lucky country. She understands the 10th Amendment. She doesn’t like corrupt practices. AND. She loves the USA. This last is so important. Keep in mind: your leader must love your country, and your country’s citizens. Obama doesn’t.
Wonderful article, very clear and thoughful. I truly enjoyed it.
I liked Sarah Palin before, but didn’t consider her Presidential Material. A Leader yes but but not President. After reading your article I have reconsidered my stance on Gov. Palin. We really could do lots worse (and have done! *coughBARACKOBAMAcough*)
Our (I always Choke when I say this!) Commander in Chief is a Joke. One that the American people made themselves. Never was, never will be Presidential material. I DIDN’T Vote for him and I must say that my support for Sen. McCain was rather pro-forma.
I think the GOP Primaries were sabotaged and they deliberately chose the WORST candidate in a lacking field.
I don’t think they were sabotaged, I think that both McCain’s nomination and Obama’s victory can be chalked up to one overriding factor – The unceasing, relentless, and staggeringly vituperative campaign against George W. Bush, and the conservatism in general that he (was seen, at least, to have) stood for. This campaign went on for eight plus years, and was, in hindsight, breathtaking in its scope and relentlessness.
How many Americans, polled in say, 2006, would agree that “The Iraq War is lost?” When it wasn’t? That Bush lied about WMD? When he didn’t. That Katrina was entirely Bush fault, and the mayor and governor, and entire political culture of Louisiana, f’r criminy sakes, were all innocent lambs of Bush’s incompetence or hatred of black people? How many minor mis-steps and malapropisms were mocked mercilessly during late-night, while Mr. Austrian speaking, 57 states, Navy Corpse-Man, Ipod-to-the-Queen, Chicago Olympics gets a pass at every single one of an unceasing series of boneheaded statements or moves?
Right now, the Media-Academia-Culture axis of evil is like a boxer, whose rising FOX/GOP/Internet/Tea Party opponent has landed some hard and serious blows. The MACxis is reeling and wounded, but still standing, still fighting, and still dangerous and determined, and believe me, will continue to wage a similar campaign against Sarah Palin with every single ounce of gunpowder, every single solitary reservist, with every single Home Guard solier and 12-year-old cadet being sent to the front, every single kitchen sink, bar none. The MACxis will fight her with every ounce of strength they have left to muster…. two man enter – one man leave. Count on it. And it will be hideously ugly.
They are on the ropes, but let not one of us ever again underestimate what the MACxis did in 2008, and what they will endeavor to do again… and again…
Unfortunately for a movement based on the ideal that politics and the state should only be a small part of out lives, this titanic struggle may never, ever, ever end, in our lifetimes or our children’s.
No choice. Gear up.
Just curious: WHY would they do that?
Because they really really want power. They get off on control.
As the Gov of Alaska, Palin was the Commander-in-Chief of the Alaska National Guard. Another area where Obama was lacking as the ’08 candidate.
There is no comparison between those two.
The simple truth is that Sarah Palin is MILLION times better quallified both professionally and morally than Barack Obama.
The tragedy is that a large chunk of the US population, ignorant, uninformed and confused expects her to be TEN MILLION times more quallified than Obama in order to win its reluctant acceptation as an American President.
If she doesn’t win the nomination, America will have to wait another generation before the new political personality of Palin’s stature emerges.
Even such fantastic guys like Pence, Thune, Pawlenty are only a mere shadows of Palin and none of them have her strategic mind or political instinct.
There is no doubt, though that there is a concentrated effort on both sides of American politics to prevent Palin even from running.
The ridiculous, unmanly, ungenetlemany jabs and baseless critcism directed towards her by Krauthammer, Rove, Romney, Huckabee, Noonan or Parker are the best proof of that.
This anti-Palin campaign intensifies (in particular from the GOP’s nomenklatura) as the moment of announcement in respect to the Presidential run approaches.
It is possible, of course that Palin even if she represents the best possible quallities, won’t win.
The American political klimate is largely similar to that here in Australia. Australian voter displays almost identical level of confusion and ignorance; absolutely breathtaking!
That makes almost impossible for the local conservative Liberal Party
to win election even in the face of barbaric cretinism, criminal wastefulness, outright theft and blatant drive to destroy Australia as a democracy by the Australian Labor Party.
No matter how highly quallified and honest the leader of the Liberal Party is.
Unfortunately, Palin has no other option but to run and win. She is simply destined to fight to the end of her life. The American communo-fascists will neither forget nor forgive her for what she has done to expose their criminalty and craziness.
They will destroy her and her family the very moment she will retreat into a political obscurity.
On the other side, America owes her and her family eternal protection.
I know what I’m writing about as I have my best years wasted while living under the boot and whip of communism in Poland.
Red mafia NEVER forgives!
Thank you for your testament. I’ve known many who had their lives ruined by the gangster rule of Communist states, and they convey your same message.
Americans have no common sense left after three generations of the press and the teachers parroting the Soviet disinformation from the 30s and through the postwar decades. They are mouth breathing robots when it comes to the philosophies of ethics and politics.
Krauthammer is right. Palin can’t win the presidency against the roar of the MSM, the academia and the ignorant masses. She can however run as VP and later succeed a strong Reaganesque candidate, but he doesn’t exist.
And anyway, neither could stand against the added contrary winds of the Candy-butt Country Club Republican Party good old boys like Howdy Doody McConnel, Crybaby Beaner and their M Street limp-wristed staffies.
“Bob from Virginia” got it right. The dustbin of history calls.
Krauthammer is wrong wrong wrong.
Palin ONLY has to defeat Obama, who is way more polarizing than she is.
Right now, in Ohio, Obama’s approval is about 39-40%. His approval in the following battleground states is lower than the national approval rate because the numbers are propped up due to irrelevant blue state numbers which have NO bearing on the election.
Sarah would win Indiana, Ohio, and North Carolina. My friends in Virginia tell me Obama has lost the indies, and if Sarah puts West or Rubio on the ticket, she’ll get the one more state she needs from the following: WI, IA, NH, CO, NV, NM.
If Pennsylvania with the new GOP strength passes legislation to make PA a split/proportional state like Nebraska and Maine, then Sarah has already won it and just needs to campaign hard to basically win the votes that are there against Obama.
The numbers DON’T lie. The polls mostly DO lie, although they can show trends.
Does anybody think that a Palin/West or Palin/Rubio ticket does not defeat Obama/Biden in 2012 if unemployment is still at 9.8% and we are still bogged down in Afghanistan with no light at the end of the tunnel?
Either of those tickets will be dynamite and a crusade of common-sense constitutional conservatism and restore the republic.
Why do you think the LSM is trying to convince GOP and Indies that she cannot beat Obama? Because they know she WILL.
Listen to Rush Limbaugh. He says they will tell you who they fear can defeat Obama, and who is also a solid conservative.
West/Palin sounds very agreeable, just not do-able in a nation of idiots.
As much as I respect Mr. Krauthammer – I disagree with his thoughts on Obama’s re-election. That would be a gross dereliction of the common sense of the American people.
There has been an awakening, thank God; and there is a clear move towards First Principles and a reformation is under way. Obama has shown us how NOT to govern and has been intrumental in the very real ‘chastisement’ of ‘business as usual’ in Washington D.C. and the corruption that has strangled us as a country. There has been more open dialogue regarding government, deadly ideologies and anti-freedom policies than there has been in my lifetime; and there have been examples in living color from around the world of the destructive politics of the Left.
2011 promises to be a very positive beginning for us all…and when the change of guard comes in 2012; there will be someone; maybe Sarah, that will lead the charge into a great future for the U.S.A. I believe that a woman president, that has the confidence to surround herself with top notch advisors, can and will be elected in 2012…as long as they are firm adherents of constitutional principles and have strong moral character.
I also disagree with Krauthammer. He was wrong about the Town Hells and Tea Parties of summer 2009 (and admitted it in the fall). He’s a principled and astute man, but he doesn’t seem to be able to get to calculate popular sentiment.
Maybe Sarah is “not ready,” but we don’t have the luxury of picking a perfect candidate now. Another quality, which David Jenkins omitted, is Sarah’s humility (vs. Obama’s arrogance). She’d be smart enough to appoint tough, experienced advisors and to defer to them.
Oh how many times we have heard that Palin “isn’t ready,” that she “isn’t qualified.” Well, Truman was playing poker when he was told FDR was dead; and there was some sort of Bomb out there; and then there was that meeting with Stalin and Churchill…
And as for “unqualified.” Unlike Noonan, etc., I know that a person becomes ‘qualified’ to be President of the US by being ELECTED by the citizenry, and winning most of the Electoral College votes. Really. I am a Canadian, I have never lived or worked in NY or Washington, I am not a Harvard/Yale grad, and I know all this.
Actually, I am fast concluding that most of the ‘beltway punditry’ are just ‘not ready’, and are ‘not qualified.’
America got the President they wanted…in a big way.
So quit playing the victim, and start looking forward to another six years of a man who will use the unions and blacks to get re-elected. I
Fools, one and all.
OH?
Watch Sarah Palin and her husband Todd, both ex-union, go after the union vote in Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Iowa and get a little bit more of it compared to McCain.
Bingo! She gets it. She connects to the upper mid-west voters as no other.
She only needs to move 3-4% of the pro-Obama union vote back, the Reagan Dems and she wins these states.
I’ve talked to postal workers here in Ohio, and other union members, and several like her over Obama. Union members know that without business, they ultimately have no work/jobs and no paycheck.
Of all of the GOP prospects, Sarah could be the best at reaching the union Dems and get a few of them to vote for her.
“Obama’s view of life and the world is informed by the writings of Karl Marx and his disciple Saul Alinsky.”
This is NOT NEWS!!! Most people who bothered to read up on Obama during the 2008 election already knew this. What frustrates me is that the main stream media obviously knew this too, but refused to broadcast this to its audience (which is why ratings for the main stream media are plummeting as we speak). By contrast, Palin was nothing but open and honest (now there’s a word you don’t hear much in politics these days) when she was running for VICE president, NOT president. Yet the main stream media couldn’t wait to crucify her. And they did. Not only her but her whole family as well. And the main stream media went along and encouraged the whole thing.
And why? Because the main stream media couldn’t wait to have a Marxist/Socialist in the White House. They knew full well what Obama was and what he represented and that’s exactly what they got. So now the main stream media is backing off now that they’re seeing what a total fool this guy is and how badly he’s doing in the opinion polls. But now the main stream media is stuck with him and they have to make him a success regardless of the costs, or else they look like fools.
Palin scares the hell out of the main stream media becaue she makes no bones about the fact that you get what you see. Her views are out in the open and she makes no bones about what she believes in. That kind of honesty these days is refreshing to say the least. Does she have enough experience to be President? Well, nobody seemed to care about asking this question to Obama when he was running. In fact, she had MORE experience running for VICE president than Obama had running for PRESIDENT, yet the main stream media never seemed to mention that.
Would Palin make a good president? I honestly don’t know. I do know she would probably do better than Obama simply because she believes in the free market system and in energy independence, two things that Obama hates. She’s enough of a realist to know that you achieve energy independence through developing our own natural resources, such as off shore oil drilling, drilling in Alaska, and using more nuclear energy. Obama is still stuck on wind mills and solar panels, two ideas that have gone NOWHERE since he’s become president and which are going to go nowhere because they are NO GOOD in providing large amounts of energy for big urban areas. In short, Palin is a realist, Obama simply wants to promote a far-left agenda even though it has been proven, time and again, that it does not work. That’s the central difference between a Marxist/Socialist and a free-market Republican.
Will people vote for Palin? Well, how’s that “Hope and Change” working out for you now?
“Would Palin make a good president? I honestly don’t know. I do know she would probably do better than Obama simply because she believes in the free market system and in energy independence, two things that Obama hates.”
Your question highlights an issue that doesn’t get much analysis. What should a good president be like? Plenty of people on these boards confuse the position of the US in the world with the qualities that its presidents should have. The president is said to be the “most powerful” person in the world when that is clearly not true. There are many other people with far more direct, personal power and influence. The problem is that once that notion is accepted, anybody whose personal characteristics do not match the concept “powerful” is deemed inadequate.
Ask business what qualities make a good leader. It isn’t power or the projection of power but the ability to inspire, to understand the organization and to focus on the goals that advance it, to listen, to maintain that vision when the going gets rough.
The current political crisis is about who is powerful – the people or the rulers. Those with the megaphone worship rulers and deny the sovereignty of the people, exactly the opposite of what America is all about. The American people don’t need a saviour. They need a leader who believes in them. Find that person and you have found your president.
Of course, she would be a very good President! In fact, she would be an excelent President.
She was fantastic Governeur of Alaska when she was much younger and less experienced than today.
She will be one of the greatest US Presidents ever.
Ditto LibertyShip 46.Except You Didn’t Mention Where They Got Their Influence;Example Rules For Radicals Was Dedicated To,And In Honor Of;”Lucifer”The God Of Liberalism.Jimmy Joe”The Liarfryer”
Two kinds of people call Sarah Palin stupid: liars who hate her, and fools who believe them.
Thats Right Carl Sesar.All Of Liberals Debates Requires Insults,And Name Calling,False Rumors,And Outright Lies.Which Are The Refuge Of Those With A Weak Argument.Jimmy Joe”The Liarfryer”
Libertyship46, you summed up my thoughts beautifully. Thanks. And thanks to the author of the article.
He’s physically attractive? This scrawny, asexual guy with blue lips?
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I think he looks like a cross between a rat and a donkey. attractive??? he walks like a prissie little man and well, I won’t go on..I think I am also appalled by his speech and mannerisms not to mention his lack of love for our republic.
Don’t forget out there…we are a REPUBLIC!!!! I think most of our political leaders have forgotten, overlooked this point. A Republic..
The _Old_ Republic of Star Wars, with Obama in the role
of Jar-Jar Binks,the only CongressCritter naive enough
to vote the Evil Empire into power.
Correction: purple lips.
Other than that, I agree (not that “physically attractive” is the only attribute a president must have, of course, else Sarah would win, hands down, no competition).
When he really laughs with that S***-eating grin, he looks like the Joker.
I wish there would have been a Sarah Palin’s Alaska show where the current POS would have been as a guest instead of Kate Gosselin.
I think the piece is a bit overdone. Examples: Van Jones ostensibly resigned because it was revealed he had signed a “truther” petition; Anita Dunn had already announced plans to leave the WH when the audio praising Mao surfaced.
The point I wish to make is that inaccurate hit pieces from “our” side really don’t help Sarah Palin much IMO and I say that as an ardent Palin supporter.
God bless her. I think she will run if the only choices available are Romney or Newt (or Huckabee?) but she is too gracious to say it.
This is doubtful: “Palin’s worldview is informed by the Bible…” Maybe Pat Robertson types would claim that, but I regard it as overreach. For example, what does living in a lower middle class family have exclusively to do with the Bible?
I am a fan of the Bible, but I would never say that kind of thing. Let it suffice to say that she has a lot of common sense and is not over-credentialed like BHO, does not look down on “the old neighborhood,” and understands America.
You’re correct regarding the “bible worldview” meme. The left throws this one around as loosely as they do accusations of racism.
If an opponent of the left happens to use a mainstream idiom like “heaven help us” in an on the record conversation, the opponent is immediately branded as being more-fundamentalist/to-the-right-of the pope.
Sorry, but as a self-identified agnostic, even I can’t buy the meme that being a member of a non-denominational christian church qualifies somebody as an instant theocrat.
I’ve lived and worked around enough “born agains, promise keepers, new faithers, evangelizers, …” to know the type/mentality, and Palin just isn’t one of them.
She doesn’t inject religion into conversations, but when quizzed on the subject, she doesn’t answer as a card-carrying atheist as the left would prefer, or even as a card-carrying “christian,” but rather, as somebody with the same reasonable perspective on religion as the average Americans that make up three-quarters of the population. If anything, the choice of a non-denominational church puts her in a more moderate position than the majority of Americans.
She may not already have the foreign-policy chops of a career diplomat, but I guarantee that if she was to sit down across a kitchen table, or better yet a campfire, and talk face-to-face with any rational world leader, she’d make more progress in less time than the last several administrations.
Forget camping with Kate & Eight. How about Sarah and Todd going Caribou hunting with Vlad and Mrs. Putin? Or better yet, have the two couples in a pro-am iron-dog race across the winter ice of the Bering Strait.
After reading Sarah’s second book, “America by Heart”, I have concluded she is the most properly grounded politician at the national level.
She understands perfectly the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of the minimal amount of virtue needed to keep our country a free republic without a theocracy.
Read her books and voluminous writings, speeches, interviews.
Her understanding is perfect on that issues. That is why she does not push her religion down the throat of the voters, while not being hostile to the open practice of religion.
Link to “AP-GfK Poll” on Palin broken?
Never underestimate the ability of the American electorate to be irrational!
The U.S. Kook Media has been on vacation since that skinny punk in the White House started his campaign. They’ll be rested up for a complete and relentless assault on the values Americans and Conservatives hold dear for the next election, and possibly into the next presidential term. That is the only time this corrupt media empire will get off it’s butt and do the job it was intended to do.
The American Kook Media is nothing more than a Union of disgruntled juveniles, that stage a ‘walk out’ on their duties and responsibilities when they are supposed to be performing like ‘professionals’.
If Republicans and Constitutional Conservatives get empowered, you can bet the Kook Media will start looking more ‘professional’, and ignore any and all egregious and criminal behavior of the Democrats and their Party.
If America did go completely Communist, how does these Kook Journalists think they will survive? Only a Kook thinks they would.
Vision, schmision. One thing about political news coverage that I’ve always considered, ever since I was a kid, to be eye-rollingly stupid is how the difference between politicians is suppose to be all about ideology. Vote for candidate James Jackson because he stands for lowering taxes and traditional values or vote for Jackson James because he’s for social responsibility and equal rights. But what if everything out of James Jackson’s mouth is idiotic and clueless, while Jackson James likes the ladies a little too much and doesn’t seem to believe in much oversight in government spending? Is it really about ideology? More imporantly, at a given moment there are usually a host of problems and issues that need to be dealt with completely outside of ideology: a war here, bad infrastructure there, wasteful & corrupt spending in this agency here, gross incompetence in this department there, and so on.
Bush’s dismal legacy isn’t just about his lying-ass, BS “preemptive” invasion of Iraq or even his overseeing the worst financial collapse in several decades — there’s also how the entire federal system took a major hit through gross mismanagement during his terms: from the creation of DHS, which has so far has been a joke, to the gutting & outsourcing of key functions of the military and intel agencies. 90% of being a good leader involves just being able to take of the unexciting and boring day-to-day operations that nevertheless keep the country humming along. Anyone can have a vision, but it takes intelligence, knowledge, skill, and drive to get actually things done right.
“to get actually things done right.”
A frequent codephrase for socialism.
What we need to “get done” is to get the marxists out of government, shrink non-military government to less than 50% of today’s size, and return to the founding principles that made the country great in the first place.
None of that has to do with competance. All of it has to do with vision.
If Sarah Palin couldn’t tie her shoes without getting confused, she would still be an infinitely better leader than Barack Obama, who is the idiot figurehead of an ideology that has failed over and over again….every time it has ever been tried. Marxism is against human nature. It can’t succeed. Ever.
You’re right about one thing, Bush didn’t have the cojones to fight the Democrats hard enough to rein in the disastrous “give homes to the poor, Fannie & Freddie will handle their debt” program the Dems pushed from the early Clinton years through…well, now, I think. He didn’t fight Chuckie Schumer’s efforts to bring down IndyMac by advertising (in the NYT) that they were in trouble, causing a run on that bank (and its failure) and the psychological damage that did to banks and bank depositors across the country. (If Chuckie had done that during the Great Depression, he would have been jailed.)
Such a shame it was so much easier for the Dems to bring down the banking system and the American economy than it has been for them to talk it back up. But it worked out well for them, as the ignorant voters bought “hope and change” and chose the most liberal man in politics to further the Dem agenda.
We won. You lost.
The trailer trash attitude of the affirmative action hire in the White House (and her worthless husband) guarantees that you will be out of power for at least half a generation.
Wonderful article, comparing Sarah Palin and Barack Obama. To those like Charles Krauthammer, who say she can’t beat Obama in the general election, I say…LET HER RUN IN THE PRIMARIES AND SEE IF SHE CAN BEAT THE OTHER CANDIDATES FIRST! Then, when she does, Krauthammer will have to rethink his negative comments.
There simply is NO ONE else out there, who is conservative, charismatic, AND experienced with EXECUTIVE experience (those who doubt me, just look up her record as Governor of Alaska. It may have been cut short because of haters that wanted to ruin her financially, but it IS A STELLAR RECORD.)on the Republican side. Sarah Palin is the ONLY candidate who can beat Obama and his corruption.
Obama vs Palin? NEITHER!
Sorry but if Obama runs for a second term and Palin wins the primary, you WILL vote and support Palin, because to do otherwise by helping Obama is unthinkable.
If Sarah Palin starts winning primaries, she will carry a historic momentum to huge to overcome. That momentum will take her to the White House!
For a better understanding, taking a huge step backward is required. Two forces will be facing-off in 2012- goodness and evil. Obama is a soldier of darkness and his administration has blackened the skies, dampened spirits, and caused a whithering of souls not unlike plants struggling for light so dim as to be unable to support life. Sarah Palin is just the opposite.
Our founders took great pains to construct a system capable of weathering many storms, yet two hundred years later, the clouds rolled in, just the same. Not that long ago, one could see them on the horizon. They’re here now and may fundamentally change this nation if new light isn’t forthcoming soon.
In 2008, our gaze was directed to Alaska long enough to see something shimmering that we were instructed not to look at by our betters among the ‘ruling’ class. The last thing a revolution taking place at this stage needs, is another Gold Rush stampede- especially since we all know our fortunes lie in the lush acres around Cambridge and college campuses in general.
Storms come, and storms go. How long this one lasts will depend on us. What will the damage be when it’s over? How many homes lifted off their foundations and strewn over the landscape, how many trees knocked flat by this administration? We’ll see soon enough when the light returns, the power is back on, and we’re ready to get back to work putting those two elements of our success- freedom and liberty- on the front burner where they should have been all along. (My chef has been instructed to take the Nanny state and political correctness [which lead to tyranny], wrap them in a socialist garbage bag, and toss them all in a dumpster.)
I’ve always like Sarah, but have been sceptical about her electability; but her recent endorsement of Paul Ryan’s Roadmap has enhanced her appeal to me. a) it’s the right thing to do to get the necessary dialogue started about what this country has to do with it’s out-of-control spending, b) since she is the only major figure to do so and since she will be skewered for it, it was an extremely couragous act that she didn’t have to do, and c) it makes clear where she stands economically.
She has set herself apart from the pack by that one action. What now are the other contendors going to say in debates? They are going to seem extremely ‘political’ as they weasel word around the Roadmap.
From the perpective of getting the nomination, it was a brilliant move.
Barry Obama is a nobody, a wanna be dictator who uses people and when he’s done tosses them aside like so much trash. Sarah Palin is a woman of strength and conviction, of morals and a sense of right and wrong, compassion and strength. She would be a true leader of the country if she would run for President but the hatred for her is so real, so visceral and so deeply felt by the insane nut roots on the left that her life and the lives of her family members would be in danger. Some day, most likely when I no longer walk the earth, the history of this generation will be written and Barry Obama will be know to history as the worst and most divisive president the country has ever seen.
“…families to which they are openly devoted.”
For what it’s worth, I find that quality to be Mr. Obama’s most appealing attribute.
His relationship with his family makes me like him. Being a good family man cuts A LOT of ice with me.
That’s about the only thing I like about him, though.
Because BO has been (and remains) a card-carrying member of a gay club in Chicago for many years, I suspect Michelle is a beard. As we know nothing of BO, we also no nothing of Michelle. Anyone ever seen a photo of her pregnant? Anyone ever seen a photo of the daughters as babies or toddlers? I’m suspicious they are not his. As much as progressives lie and omit facts, even about BO’s background in order to get him elected, I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole family image and unit is manufactured.
I had a political science professor in college–admittedly it wasn’t an Ivy League school and in fact it was a rather obscure public institution–who said that it made sense to consider a candidate’s personality and character because, for example, no one elected JFK to handle the Cuban missile crisis since no one could have known it was going to happen. (He didn’t handle it as well as we thought at the time, but that’s another story.)
He also pointed out that every president relies on a wide circle of advisers and it was important to know who the candidate would assemble as advisers, both formal and informal.
Based on that, Sarah Palin looks quite good. If that now-proverbial three a.m. call came in to President Palin we have a pretty good idea what her instincts would be and who she’d have advising her. We already know Obama’s instincts and who he has to advise him and as pointed out above in both the article and comments, he has some very questionable ones.
During the campaign I got an e-mail missive from J Street saying Palin was bad for the Jews because apparently a Jew for Jesus had spoken at her church; no indication that she had anything to do with the invitation or had attended the talk. I stand next to few people in my disdain for that group but I thought it interesting that it was legitimate to bring up someone who came to Palin’s church but it was racist to mention the rather raw racism (and anti-Semitism) from the church Obama attended for two decades.
Of course, a lot of the left’s contempt for Palin is plain, old-fashioned class bias. This exhibition from people who claim to support average Americans is surprising only to people who haven’t paid attention to what the left is really about.
I watch people at these Christmas open houses when I tell them I watch Palin’s Alaska. They stick their noses up and giver that cringed look. Then I know that I can hit them with other bits of trivia like; do you know what was in the Financial Reform Act? Do you know what our company is doing (from an increased cost standpoint) to prepare for Health Care? How many pork projects are in the Omnibus Spending Bill? The answers I get are DUH, I don’t know. Yes they are highly educated and clueless but they know Tina Fey’s impersonation of Palin. Yes, INSANITY and STUPIDITY are rampant among voters and the people they elect.
Right on;
2012 will be the defining moment in the U.S history. Will America accept BHO vision of declining superpower or Palin’s optimistic view of a just, self reliance, self assure, compassionate, generous nation.
Thanks to BHO, Finally after 100 years the left showed its true colors.
I’m confident at the end the American public will side with Palin.
Great article. I’d vote for Palin in a heart beat. But it’s not up to us only. naive independents and some libertarians bought Obama’s lie in 2008 getting him into the white house. these are the same people who believe that partisanship is what’s really wrong with America. some are now donning the “no labels” title. they virtually ignored everything that reeked Anti Americanism in his past and present. So they’re either going to correct their mistake and come out in droves for Palin or whomever else would be the front runner in 12.
Sarah Palin’s middle and maiden names, Louise and Heath. Both names hailing from our French and English founders.
Barack Obama’s middle name, Hussein, hails from the middle east, the most prominent name of Shite Muslim leader, is the most prominent name among Arab Muslims, was the last name of the president who went swinging in the wind after we took over his country.
enough said.
I can never understand how people say that 0bama is a great speaker, he can’t say more than a few words by himself. Whenever he gives anything approaching the level of a speech, he has to have it delivered to him word for word by a teleprompter. Given the fact that he always stops dead in his tracks if his teleprompter goofs up, tells me that he does not write any of his own speeches, probably doesn’t have much of a hand in writing them, doesn’t practice before hand, and doesn’t even know enough about the topic he is speaking on to continue without the teleprompter. Remember his famous speech in which he pronounced corpsman, Corpse man 3 times. He is nothing but a media creation, and a bad one at that, more of a clown than anything else.
Chauncey Gardener?
one thing palin has in common with obama is her DIVISIVENESS.
p.s. dig around. you’ll find she is NOT doing well with independents right now. AT ALL.
Focus on indies in the battleground states, not the blue states. Ignore ALL blue state voters because their vote is irrelevant.
Understand the electoral landscape first.
And to those indies, do what I do, educate them on Sarah’s record and how she is better on the issues than Obama with the American people.
Every indy I have encountered in Ohio who had reservations about Sarah being ready told me when pressed they would vote for her over Obama.
She only has to beat Obama in the battleground states.
One thing that I have learned in 69 years is that you cannot judge some one’s ability by the education they have received. Or how old they are. If you look at Palin and read her book “Going Rogue” you will see an optimistic no nonsense workaholic. When she is given a task or sees something that she thinks needs attention she attacks it with nothing but victory in mind. She has done this in EVERYTHING she has done in life. She uses her skills as a positive force for good to accomplish all of these things. She never had the backing of a party or a gang from Chicago to help her. She did it by herself and with the help from people who could see what a positive force she was. A lot of people talk about her not having enough experience but what’s more important is the work ethic she has. She HAD to resign as govenor because of the Alaskan civil law suit laws. The Demorats knew this and would have ruined her ability to govern. She has learned that trust is the most important trait an assistant must have will choose wisely. Please do not listen to the DC crowd. They have known no one like her in their lifetimes.
Palin is a force of nature with sex appeal. The current occupant of the Oval Office has zero sex appeal. I think people will vote for someone who makes them feel healthy and lusty.
except for Chris Matthews,,,,,
While you’re right that Palin is considered polarizing, this in only true in the sense that Dems love to demonize their opponents as racists and Hitler wannabee’s. What moniker they’ll slap onto Palin should she choose to run for the Presidency is unknown but it’ll be a good one I’m sure; the Left will simply have to search the history books for a female who sought to commit genocide.
Obama found further “solace” for his own racism in Trinity Church, 2 decades worth of solace in a church that could easily be named “Our Lady Of Grievance and Animosity”.
Obama is the first President in our nation’s history who emphatically does not like the story of our country and has set about to fix that story. Unfortunately, the fight has been over for almost a half century and so he’ll simply act like racism and oppression are as alive and well as ever and be the happy recipient of his “post racial” America in the form of racism 2.0 and the lingering effects of white privilege; a good trick since the average American has not a clue as how to benefit from the privilege of being white unless one translates this into simply not being a trouble making and complaining idiot. Considering Obama’s crowd, it is not surprising if simply not committing crimes out of all proportion to the numbers in ones culture would be interpreted as “privilege”.
Obama is the way he is because he is a construct and amalgam of every Leftist stereotype there is, built out of thoughts of imperialism, anti-colonialism, Che Guevarra, white injustice and the whole unthinking raggedy band of brothers who never met a minority cause they didn’t like, unless one happened to be gay.
As a whole, Obama’s sense of justice really extends only to black folks and muslims and goes down from there in an exact relation to skin tones like Ansel Adams zone system. Last on the list to be considered are white folks. Unfortunately for Obama and his people whoever those people are, those white racist and clueless imperialists are the ones wholly responsible for American exceptionalism and every damn bit of tech and infrastructure of any kind in his daily life.
Were we to buy into Obama’s fantasy of life, it would be something which involved riding to work on a bicycle with square wheels and copper spokes. The Left lives and breathes a political environment that is mid-19th century and they don’t look to be getting any new clocks soon. They will when America has 100 million Latinos and explosions all over the place from immigrants and foreigners who hate America and each other, like France in the 70s and 80s, but much worse. Welcome to the airport where the exceptionalist’s are mere baggage handlers, subservient to the Third World and their goals which are in fact, non-existent since they only involve bitching about the past and having a flat screen TV.
He had zero executive experience before entering the oval office, and has continued to pass the buck on governing.
Not quite right. He served as Chairman of the Chicago branch of the Annenberg Foundation, on appointment by Bill Ayers. But instead of aiming its funding at its intended improvements to education, he passed $160 million of those bucks into the war chests of his far-left ‘community organizing’ cronies. By such ‘organizing’ standards, he attained one huge executive success (to the future detriment of democratic politics in Chicago) – and by the same standards, his staggering squandering of our grandchildren’s future earnings for the last two years has been another.
It’s been said by others far more eloquent than I but it bears repeating. Mr. Obama has had no “life.” He was almost literally been brought up in a test tube until his entry into politics. A product of private schools, the Ivy Leagure and backroom Chicago politics; his experiences have almost no connection with those “working men and women” the Democrats are always claiming to represent. .
I am no huge fan of Sarah Palin but she actually has led a life outside of academics and politics. She has held a job, she has raised children, and she has had to deal with day-to-day human beings. Interestingly she bears more of a relationship to Harry S. Truman than any Democrat who comes to mind today.
This is something that Democrats increasingly cannot understand and seemingly cannot forgive. For the Left, leaders can ONLY be drawn from the precincts of elite universities and those who have demonstrated a lifelong obsession with politics. Sarah Palin is “The Other” – The enemy who is so alien that comprehension is impossible.
I adore Palin. I could easily be construed (rightfully) as one of her ‘fans’.
What I don’t want to be is one of her ‘constituents’.
The day we parlay a presidential candidate into a full-on “reality-tv-show’ dipsh*t is the day we lose all credibility as conservatives.
Fame whoring is not what Ronnie did. He was a handsome actor first and a politician later…not visa versa.
WTF is wrong with you Palin loons? How dare we mock the people who voted for BHO if we are so willing to mindlessly spoon-feed ourselves bloated helpings of PALIN?
HELLO?
(Answer here):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQFEY9RIRJA&feature=fvw
You obviously have no idea who the true Sarah Palin is. Hell, you have not even begun to try.
Read her books, watch her speeches, read all of her numerous columns. Study her true record as governor:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/35447297/Governor-Palin-s-Accomplishments
Then come back here to the discussion. Otherwise, you just told everybody on here you are lazy and stupid and ignorant.
Do your homework on the candidates if you want to join an honest factual discussion.
My first entry into the 2012 presidential race bumper sticker contest is:
Christie-Palin 2012
If only to watch
liberal heads explode.
Not a bad team but if you really want to get under the liberals skin. Let`s have a Palin, Bachmann ticket, that would inflame the liberals. Either one would be a better choice than Obama or just about any democrat and most other republicans! It would be worth it just to see Kieth Olbermann explode on tv!
This is to easy Obama is a lying corrupt organizer, without a teleprompter can not hold a decent conversation! Sarah Palin a strong and intelligent leader! One hates America and the other loves America.
1. Regarding Obama, you have overlooked his deep Muslim roots. Recall that his favorite Marxist Professor at Pomona said that Obama has the intellectual architecture of a Muslim. In the Western world, reality determines power. In the Muslim world, power determines reality. This is why the intellectual architecture of Marxism and Islam easily go together.
2. I am sure Obama is devoted to his kids, but I am not so sure about his devotion to his wife. Michelle seems to wear the pants in the family, and it is said that they have had marital trouble. It is likely that the swishy fellow is a reluctant sexual partner for Michelle.
3. I love Palin, but she is getting a lot of annoying exposure, especially on Fox. Her voice begins to rise to a high pitch, she talks too fast, and she says pretty much the same thing in interview after interview. She needs to show up and compete in the primaries with other Republicans in serious debates that move beyond sound bites.
The next president has to shake up the bureauracry BIG TIME.
Over the decades, lifetime unelected unaccountable unremovable paper pushers have accumulated incredible power over our lives. They are a cancer that eats away at the country even when conservatism is in power.
The first thing that needs to happen is that government unions have to be legislated out of existance. Second, all bureaucrats several layers deep in the system who resist policies by the new government have to be fired, so that they cannot re-infest the system at a later point. Third, compensation has to be adjusted to be no more than private economy equivalents. Fourth, the entire civil service system needs to be changed so that incompetants can be fired.
That will take leadership that is diametrically opposite to the capabilities of our little narcissist in chief.
proreason, I concur on all fronts. it’s gonna take some stones to carry out but 1-2 of those projects per administration. Sadly.
I do my part and go to UPS to ship items. Sure it’s more expensive, but at least I’m not throwing away both taxes and the money in my pocket to a company that’s $8 billion in the hole and STILL hiring.. gotta love the USPS.
Re: the bureaucracy.
I’d like to see the entire bureaucracy fired and then forced to compete… ie: be reinterviewed… for rehiring into a smaller (much smaller) and responsible bureaucracy. It’d really shake things up and the deep-cover communists would be outed.
Hey, a guy can dream, right?
Another excellent post by you, proreason.
Btw, I almost always agree with your posts here and they resonate with me in a very positive way. I just wanted to send you some kudos and appreciation for posts well done and greatly felt. You honor me by being honorable.
Yes, the next president will have to have all of his/her nuts/bolts aligned. We can’t afford another doofus with a purdy face. Thems the facts.
Thanks Delia. Much appreciated.
Very nice concept. But you, or me, will never see anything, even close, it in our lifetime. But, I’m quite sure, that if you expand on these ideas, to the tune of about 300 pages, and come up with an impressive title, you could make a good seller.
To proreason, your concept is fine in with are next leader has to do. My question to you who will be the dictator to do this job? Unless we can get the rights back to the state level, our totalitarian government will never let that happen with out blood shed!
Affirmative to states rights. We should go back to the original concept of the Founding Fathers. The expansion of the federal government is one of the fundamental problems that has to be corrected, not just to improve our lives, but to even allow this country to continue. Big government breeds corruption and dictatorial politicians and co-conspirator bureaucrats. Even a tiny federal bureau has vastly more power than the largest corporations, and government seems to attract authoritarian personalities.
All of that is why I think the bureaucracy needs to be slashed to the bone, and the monetary rewards for being in government set at levels below private industry. We don’t pay cops 6-figure salaries for a reason…it isn’t necessary. The same should be true for all bureaucrats. Their lust for power would attract them to government at half the levl of compensation.
(note: for support functions, what I just said is probably not true. There is no reason that government IT professionals or accountants should make any less than private industry, provided that they meet competancy criteria and work as hard as private industry people do.)
I don’t believe West is a good nominee.
While I greatly respect Colonel West’s military service, the same service record where there are some discrepancies can come back and bite him.
Not to mention he thinks he can go into the CBC and ‘clean house’ – riiiight.
Again, SC’s Jim DeMint, albeit very Conservative stands by his convictions. Much to the chagrin of his Republican counterparts. If the past couple decades has taught us, ‘Liberal’ thought is societal suicide whereas ‘Moderate’ leanings ALWAYS leads to Liberalism.
DeMint’s running mate, JC Watts. Successful businessman, wrote a book- GHOST-WRITER FREE, successful athlete, Conservative, not only turned down the CBC invite but called out Jesse jackson and Al Sharpton for what they are, not a career politician, etc.,
Merry Christmas/ Happy Hanukkah everyone..
The article does illustrate that ‘leadership’, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Since we haven’t had any leadership in Washington for about 4 years, it’s easy to go with the flow of popularity. If you base your vote on sound bites, tweets, and headlines, you will never elect a leader.
The Left sees Palin as being another Ronald Reagan. They need to stomp her out now, as they see it. Back in the day, they never really thought that “Ronald Ray-Gun,” as they called him, could ever win the Presidency. That was a bitter mistake for the Left. Their favorite country, the USSR, imploded on his watch.
They don’t intend to repeat that mistake again. The country club Republicans have often been nothing much more than useful idiots for the Left, afraid to take a stand for principals if it means they won’t be invited to Democratic Senator Snodgrass’s Christmas party.
The fact that she has leadership qualities but is unconnected to the political social structure of Washington DC frightens them and threatens them. Her election might very well mean the end of the world as they know it. I, for one, would like to indeed see the end of the world as they know it.
For Delia and all those who disparage the TV show “Sarah Palin’s Alaska”. Consider all the phonies and liars who dot the political landscape. John Edwards whose storybook marriage was a sham. Mark Sanford who want hiking and somehow ended up in Argentina with his mistress. JFK whose personal life was not at all like the media portrayed it. I could go on and on. By inviting the media to tag along with her and her family Palin is demonstrating that she is not a phony, what you see is what you get, and her relationship with her husband and children is not a media fantasy. That is a good thing
It’s probably worth pointing out that anyone who ISN’T completely enamored with sarah palin thinks this whole thread is a load of unadulterated rubbish.
17. noahp wrote:
“I think the piece is a bit overdone. Examples: Van Jones ostensibly resigned because it was revealed he had signed a “truther” petition; Anita Dunn had already announced plans to leave the WH when the audio praising Mao surfaced.
The point I wish to make is that inaccurate hit pieces from “our” side really don’t help Sarah Palin much IMO and I say that as an ardent Palin supporter.”
Go back and read my article, noahp. I didn’t say Van Jones resigned “because” it came to light that he was a communist, I said he resigned “when” it came to light. Likewise Anita Dunn. I didn’t say these revelations were causative, but they are indeed interesting coincidences of timing.
As for styling my article a “hit piece,” how so? What did I say about Obama that isn’t factual and already well known to anyone who cares to examine the man and his record?
As for #18. X Contra, who says, “This is doubtful: “Palin’s worldview is informed by the Bible…”
X Contra, any knowledgeable evangelical easily recognizes Palin’s worldview as being Biblically-based. She doesn’t have “values” (mealy-mouthed word!), she has principles. And those principles are drawn directly from the Bible. That’s why she doesn’t change every time the wind shifts. Values can be changed like old clothes, but principles are permanent. Well spoke Russell Kirk when he called leftists “Enemies of the Permanent Things.”
The original title of my article, before the editors did their thing, was “Paling by Comparison.”
The dictionary defines paling as a verb meaning to fade, to become pale, or to seem weaker or less important. Since Obama has expressed lifelong disdain for his mother’s race, we’ll be kind and not define him as “becoming pale,” although it can certainly be said that in other senses he seems to be fading. But we’ll take “to seem weaker or less important” as our operative definition for paling. The citizens of this country are drawing their own conclusions, and emulating Governor Sarah’s well-known propensity for dropping final gs, it is safe to say that Barack Obama is palin’ by comparison.
You betcha!
50. Matthew
“It’s probably worth pointing out that anyone who ISN’T completely enamored with sarah palin thinks this whole thread is a load of unadulterated rubbish.”
Sorry to leave you out of my response, Matthew. It would be most kind of you to unadulterate (or should I say adulterate?) my rubbish by explaining exactly how the points I made in my article are untrue. I await your critique.
Kind regards,
Dave Jenkins
50. Matthew
“It’s probably worth pointing out that anyone who ISN’T completely enamored with sarah palin thinks this whole thread is a load of unadulterated rubbish.”
“Sorry to leave you out of my response, Matthew. It would be most kind of you to unadulterate (or should I say adulterate?) my rubbish by explaining exactly how the points I made in my article are untrue. I await your critique.”
Sure.
The first part of your post, about the opinion polls, leaves out one very important question: What the heck is sarah palin approved of for DOING? She’s got high approval numbers as a highly-paid partisan political speaker. Is that it? Try to keep in mind that alaska – that state that gave her all that executive experience – just ignored her advice and took the hard road to elect a write-in opponent of her endorsed candidate. And not only that, alaska’s preferred pick was the daughter of the very same unpopular governor that palin deposed in the first place. That’s a pretty clear repudiation of palin’s legacy in alaska. I’d say they don’t like her very much, on the whole. The rest of the country has no direct experience of her governance – they’re responding to her image (which conservatives like to call “character”). You might be aware that for weeks I’ve been asking commenters here to spell out what they expect sarah palin to do if elected. I’m not getting a lot of answers. She’s a zero-sized target – a constructed, manicured, scripted and catered image. Of COURSE she’s polling well.
“Obama presents as a victim; Palin a victor.”
That’s actually quite funny. My recollection after the last election was that nothing was ever palin’s fault. She was endlessly being persecuted by nefarious groups who were out to get her – even among her own party. She quit her job as governor so she could make a packet on the talk circuit, then blamed it on everyone else being mean. When she interviews badly, it’s the “lamestream media”‘s fault. Palin has made much mileage from painting herself as the victim, and don’t the fans just love it – look up any of the mass-produced-outrage campaigns against anyone who tells a joke at her expense.
“Palin is gracious, Obama is a churl.”
Palin. Gracious. You can’t be serious. Re-read my previous response, then add to that palin’s sniping at her opponents from safely behind the twitter-wall. She bristles with resentment at criticism from established conservatives. That “queen bee of the mean girls” comment didn’t come from a vacuum.
As for obama’s activities, I’ll just gently point out that foreign relations doesn’t just happen. Nothing is unscripted. I very much doubt that the recipients of obama’s gifts saw them they way you want to, and the only person who can say of the norwegian monarch felt snubbed was the norwegian monarch – a right-wing online tabloid poll (which is where that rumor started) hardly stands up as credible intel.
“Obama has more foreign affairs experience than Palin, but that’s not a plus for him.”
Hmm. From what she’s said, I’m not convinced that palin even grasps the basics. She would do well to brush up on some realism, and stop pandering to an insecure american ego with open-ended fantasy exceptionalism. Obama is trying to address some of the tough problems – the ones that can’t be solved just by stomping and threatening people. The US is 5% of the world’s population. Consider that. Bush already demonstrated the limits of bellicosity.
And palin’s claim to pursue “energy independence” is pure mythology. Unless you’re proposing to ban oil exports, the US will still be paying the world price for energy, and the middle-east will still be awash in petro-dollars. It WILL shift a bit more revenue into the pockets of US governments … but I’m sure that’s not the aspect she wants to emphasise.
“Palin is spotless, Obama is corrupt.”
It just doesn’t matter how much that stuff is debunked, does it?
“Palin loves America, Obama apologizes for America.”
Does she? Or does she just love “real america”? Because those are two quite different things.
“Palin is polarizing, Obama is radioactive.”
That’s a matter of opinion. It’s a part hard to judge palin on her legislative agenda because she hasn’t had one yet. I think you’re going find that palin is a bit more radioactive than you think. She’s already managing to get herself offside with an increasingly large slice of the conservative establishment through simple carelessness. And we’ll find out how radioactive obama is at the next election. Right now, he’s still wearing the costs of his predecessor’s lack of vigilance, and the costs of actually pursuing reforms.
“Palin is happy, Obama, not so much.”
Again, that’s just entirely your opinion, and it’s purely image-based. Palin comes across as pretty darn grouchy at times, and obama actually has a job to do. Don’t confuse “just getting on with it” with being unhappy.
“Palin’s world view is Christian; Obama’s is Marxist.”
Marxist. Right. I’m going to have to ask you to explain what you mean by marxist, because I’m not seeing it. One throw-away comment about “spreading the wealth around” doesn’t make anyone a bolshevik.
Amen, Dave.
Sarah’s greatest strength going into 2012 will be that she has ALREADY weathered the worst that the MSM (and GOP “moderates”) can throw at her.
The woman is Kryptonite to the Left. Mention her name and watch the heads explode. She is anti-matter for the Progressive Universe, threatening by her very existence to make it implode.
Her enemies recognize what the condescending Cognizenti of her own party fail to see. In 2012, she will be President if she chooses to be.
You wish; The KOOK U.S. Media has NUKULER power. That’s a completely unique atom of their own.
Wow, Michael, talk about rubbish! I meant for you to give me facts, not the usual leftist talking points. I did find one fact in your screed: Murkowski apparently won the vote in her write-in campaign. Whether or not that’s a rejection of Palin is not established. She was greatly helped by her fellow RINOs in the Senate, who refused to strip her of her committee positions as they should have done, and by her campaign’s ability to make much of some minor issues in Miller’s record.
Fact: At the time Palin was tapped by McCain, she was polling nearly 90% favorable as Alaska’s governor. She had a specific agenda as governor, which she was carrying out very successfully. Being the GOP VP nominee made her a target for people such as yourself, and after an avalanche of frivolous lawsuits and FOI requests made it impossible to do the people’s business, she stepped down so that Lt. Gov. Parnell could continue her legislative agenda. Which he has done, and successfully.
Fact: Sarah Palin has set forth her positions on a great number of issues. They are consistent, constitutional, and, in the opinion of such people as the editors of the Wall Street Journal and Investor’s Business Daily, substantive. If you want to know what she would do as president, read them. You can find most or all of them on a site such as Conservatives for Palin.
Fact: Obama apparently did insult the British. It’s unheard of for the head of state of a country’s major ally not be be invited to a royal wedding.
They don’t pay me enough for these articles to spend any more time dealing with trolls, but here’s one more fact: Obama is a Marxist, and it’s very well documented. I recommend Stanley Krutz’ book “Radical in Chief.”
Why is that people always call me michael? No – really. It happens a lot. It’s clearly not because I look like one, because you can’t see me (I hope). Weird.
Anyhey:
You asked me to explain why I said …
… by pointing out things you said that were untrue. I did that. The problem (which was implied by my original comment) is that a lot of your evidence doesn’t have to be interpreted the way that you’d prefer. I actually DO think the things that I wrote – as do a lot of other people, not all of whom are “liberals”. I actually think you’re going to regret it if palin is placed in the top job.
It IS ok for us to just agree to disagree, you know. You can’t actually prove me wrong, because your basic thesis is just a matter of opinion.
“I recommend Stanley Krutz’ book “Radical in Chief.””
Do you guys read ANYTHING that isn’t hyper-partisan and designed entirely to confirm your worst biases?
It’s no wonder you don’t appear to know what marxist means. You’ve probably got it confused with “democracy” or something.
Palin attended and presented at the 2008 Arctic Circle Parliamentarian Conference which hosted reps from @ 20 different countries. The topics discussed included energy, global warming, diseases of the Arctic Circle, and another one I’ve forgotten. The list of participants was on line and I was impressed with the number of countries involved. These were worker bees – not leaders who do nothing. Alaska celebrated its 50 year anniversary – again on line – and you can see Palin welcome reps from @ 10 different nations who attended. Don’t tell me she has no foreign power experience. I loved her quip to the rep from Russia – she reminded him that indeed citizens from Russia can see citizens from Alaska across the water. I also like the fact that she went to Kuait in 2007 – way before Obama took his cruise – at our expense – and she went to see the wounded soldiers in Germany – that Obama canceled so he could work out at the Ritz Carlton, have publicity picures taken, and then have an interview with CNN. Palin was at the hospital July 26, 2007, and the picture is available on the military site. How sad that these facts have been ignored by so many. But – then – Palin had experience – Obama none. I bet the crazies who hit Palin with 18 ethics violations and 150 freedom of Info requests – reasons for her leaving the office – are now sorry that they did. She has become so much more than she could have finishing out the 1 and 1/2 year of her term. I think she would have prefered to finish – that seems to be who she is.
Matthew, I apologize for the name switch. I have a grandson and two close friends named Michael, so that name always comes readily to my mind. (If that excuse doesn’t work, I’ll plead incipient Alzheimer’s.)
Is Obama a Marxist? Read the principles of Marxism and then tell me which ones Obama doesn’t agree with, either by word or by practice. As for Kurtz’s book, you may call it hyper-partisan (which really only means it is damaging to your side), but it is very carefully researched and every assertion is backed up by abundant evidence.
You Betcha Sarah Palin has worked hard all her life. That’s why she has a better understanding and therefore compassion for America and the American people. Obama by contrast has never done a day’s work, in fact his true background is little known and has been hidden as much as possible.
I’m not sure if Palin is the right choice for the Presidency, but its obvious now Obama wasn’t.
My choice for President would have been an ardent patriot, someone who loves this country dearly, understands world politics, American culture and ideals, and who would fiercely defend us…Dick Cheney!
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