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Andrew Malcolm:
"Palin did not mention it on-air [with Rush], but sources say early next year she's off to Texas to campaign for incumbent GOP Gov. Rick Perry against incumbent GOP Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison for the March 2 gubernatorial primary. Talk about a political duke-out. Perry was very encouraging to Palin in recent years and she endorsed him last February, citing his positions against abortion and the federal financial bailouts. Palin also arranged for Perry and RGA Chair Haley Barbour to acquire several thousand discounted copies of her book, which they'll use as fundraising incentives during this week's annual Republican Governors Assn. meeting near Austin."Marybeth Hicks:
"For Winfrey’s part, it seemed the talk show queen could not help but be as intrigued by the former governor as am I. She may have assumed that the stereotype would be true, but it sure looked as though she was face to face with a formidable woman who wasn’t anything like the lightweight the mainstream media would have us believe her to be... If the appearance was meant to encourage sales of Palin’s book, it worked. I’m going shopping. I hope Mrs. Palin will do what the media has not yet done for me – finally shed some light on who she is and what sort of leader she might be."Mark Milian:
"As entertaining as the Oprah chat was, we also like to watch the comments from fans and haters. Did Oprah go too easy on Palin? Some said, You betcha. But others admitted that Palin is starting to grow on them... ShaunMychal wrote: 'Oprah has the power to make you like ppl....I kinda like Sarah Palin now.' Dlshiloh wrote: 'I am stunned that watching Oprah with Sarah Palin that I couldn't find anything to complain about. Hmm...'"Gayle King:
"She is so darn likeable. She is, you know, and it's no secret I was -- I still am a very strong Barack Obama supporter. I feel very strongly about Barack Obama... so you go in with some feelings about her. But you meet her, and she instantly defuses them... You walk away saying, 'She's okay. She's okay.' [...] There's some people who you disagree with politically who you could go, 'I don't like you either.' But as opposed to her, we may disagree politically, but you can see why people like her."Hillbuzz:
"The MSM will frantically keep trying to destroy her, but in actuality they will only be further damaging themselves. Every hit they take at this woman bounces off of her and strikes them in their own glass jaws. Even Americans who never thought in their lives about voting Republican can see the media’s fully in the tank for the current president and is doing everything it can to be his personal propaganda machine. The attacks on Sarah are coming right from DNC talking points, and all women, regardless of political persuasion, should be disgusted with the DNC for its relentless misogyny directed first at Hillary Clinton and now Sarah Palin. Men who love and support women should be disgusted too."Judi McLeod:
"'Conservative' pundit David Frum, new kid on the block at failing cable giant CNN, has outdone Liberal harpies like Heather Mallick and Rachel Maddow in Trashing Sarah Palin, Round Two. As thousands lined up in Michigan to meet Sarah Palin at a Going Rogue book signing last night, Frum was on News Hour with Jim Lehrer. 'This is a woman who has got into a position of leadership by sending very powerful sexual signals,' Frum told reporter Judy Woodruff... 'There is a thinness of skin, and an anger, and a vindictiveness that is very dangerous,' Frum said. Vindictiveness seems to be a state owned wholly by David Frum... I will own up here to knowing David Frum and his wife Dani Crittenden... Dani’s only woefully out to lunch on Sarah Palin, while her husband David is out in left field."Stacy McCain:
"The governor signifies her self-awareness that she is something of a political and cultural novelty -- a conservative woman who is a viable presidential prospect. She is aware that her good looks are both an asset and a potential liability, and that liberals want to portray her as a trailer-trash airhead, the 'Caribou Barbie,' etc. She gets the joke, and she turns it back against them. Nothing disarms an attack so well as self-deprecating humor. It's like the way Reagan joked about his own extremist reputation: 'The Republican Party needs both its right wing and its far-right wing.'"Andrea Tantaros:
"Palin is deeply threatening to the left... Political strategists fear her because she could effectively help move the traditionally Democratic blue collar vote to the right. Think about it: who could be more unsuccessful in their outreach to this demographic: Joe Biden or Sarah Palin? Palin also has the ability to make the left appear so vile, so rude, and so disgusting by just being herself. She gets them to use the most egregious of insults and acts as a mirror to their soul whenever she appears by getting them to act so appallingly."John Winder:
"The liberal media witch hunt of Sara Palin continues in full force as the Associate Press has assigned a 'hit squad' of several journalists to 'Fact Check' Palin’s new book, Going Rogue... It is becoming increasingly difficult for even the most vile partisans to overlook the bias that is being heaped upon Sarah Palin by the mainstream media."Cassandra:
"Let me see if I have this straight: Double digit inflation** unemployment... Recession. A President paralyzed by indecision... An historic reform of our entire health care system hanging by a thread... But fear not, gentle readers! For in the midst of all these heavy matters, we can rely upon Andrew Sullivan to deeply delve into matters of transporting significance... like the highly suspicious 5th pregnancy of a married woman who isn't holding a political office at the moment and isn't expected to run for anything anytime soon... I think we're all feeling a bit safer today, knowing Sully is on the case."Ed Morrissey:
"In case anyone needed an example of the drawing power and political energy that Sarah Palin wields... Despite freezing temperatures, people gathered by the hundreds early this morning to greet Palin in person at a Grand Rapids bookstore. By 5 am, five hundred people stood outside the Barnes & Noble — and two hours later, the numbers had swelled to 1500... Most authors would be pleased to get 1500 people in total to show up for a book tour. (Heck, most authors would kill to sell 1500 books.) Even the Lord of the Rings openings didn’t attract 1500 fans for a 7 am show. Star Wars didn’t get this kind of response. And if Massachusetts is any indicator, not even Barack Obama can pack a house like this any more. Sarah Palin is a phenomenon, and the release of her book proves it."Joy Tiz:
"The Palin loathing media is fervently trying to engineer a cult following for the former governor by fixing tirelessly on her good looks and ability to draw animated crowds about which Obama can now only reminisce. To focus on her actual record as governor would not further the Left’s mission because she was good at it. Not only did she create a large budget surplus; she also took a crowbar to a thoroughly corrupt old boys’ network. She stood up against her own party to do it. This should serve her well if she runs for president in 2012. She can run as the Dismantlement Candidate. A vote for Palin is a vote to undo all of the crap the Left rammed down our throats for four years... There will be no cult of Palinism. Unlike Obamanutz, conservatives are a tough assortment to lead. Conservatives value personal liberty above all else. This is why cults are invariably dominated by left wing ideologues."Doug Patton:
"Palin actually had the audacity to give birth to a baby with Down Syndrome. As one embarrassed liberal wag put it during last year’s presidential campaign, 'If abortion isn’t for that, what is it for?'... When you hear elitists across the political spectrum vilify conservative women like Palin and Bachmann, know that it is because they fear them. Left wing politicians of either gender represent the politics of the past. Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann represent the future. That makes them dangerous."Jedediah Bila:
"Palin almost immediately establishes herself as someone who reveres the ideals that she cherishes most—her faith, her family, and her liberty—but who also has a pungent distaste for the hypocrisy of the political machine... My personal favorite is her response to John Kerry’s former declaration that if kids don’t study hard, they will wind up in Iraq: 'What a loon, I thought. What an elitist loon' (181). However, the underlying wish that she had been given the chance to speak to the American people more from her own heart, to unleash the confident, daunting spirit she harbors along with the authentic, small-town accent and inner tomboy she’s proud to call her own, can’t help but be brought to life with her uninhibited ruminations."David French:
"Nowhere is... high-minded mediocrity on better display than in the near-universal disdain for Sarah Palin. And today's Inside Higher Ed provides a tremendous gift, a near-perfect example of condescending nothingness masquerading as insight. Called 'Palintology,' the column... begin[s] with a shot at reality TV and then deliver[s] the ultimate insult: that Sarah Palin is like one of 'those people,' you know, a member of the 'middle class' desperate for fame. How her emphasis on her humble roots is any different from John Edwards's 'son of a millworker' schtick, or Joe Biden's emphasis (sometimes false) on his blue-collar ancestry, or even our own prep school- and Ivy League-educated president's emphasis on the challenges of his upbringing is left unexplained. I guess intelligent people should just know that Sarah Palin's emphasis on her 'every(woman)' identity was somehow worthy of contempt."- JP
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