More Quote of the Day Honorable Mentions, Part 15

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Anthropogenic Global Warming Hysteria Edition...

Declan McCullagh:

"If you had any doubt that a global warming scandal once confined to an obscure British university has hit the U.S. political system squarely in the nose, read former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's op-ed piece in The Washington Post."

Red-Hot Right:

"Her title sums up beautifully what the Copenhagen conference is all about: Politics. Extremely well-written, factual, Sarah's article goes straight to the heart of the matter and shows that she's totally up on the real science, not the bulls**t being spewed by the highpriest Algore of the church of global warming alarmists."

Johanna Neuman:

"Now the [Washington Post] is taking heat for giving [Sarah Palin] a national platform -- for the second time in five months -- from which to opine... Op ed pages are supposed to be a forum for debating the issues of the day. So maybe the real grievance here is that critics don't think Palin should have a seat at the table."

Peter Glover:

"Sarah gets my vote for preferring integrity and truth to speculation and ideological social engineering on the back of a manufactured case."

Jim Putnam:

"When the liberal media complains about the hostile and downright nasty political environment in current politics they must be talking about the Al Gores of the world and their juvenile, even mean spirited attacks on people like Sarah Palin who are just trying to defend the people with no voice in Washington."

Ethel C. Fenig:

"While religious climate elitists gather in Copenhagen worrying about 'global warming' as they contribute to it by jetting in on their multiple carbon spewing planes and whisked around the city and the European continent on their numerous carbon spewing limousines, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin (R) calmly sets forth the facts in an editorial in today's Washington Post."

Noel Sheppard:

"Did you know that if you don't believe man is responsible for global warming you're a prehistoric cavedweller completely unaware of what's going on in the world? So said MSNBC's Chris Matthews... Washington Post's Eugene Robinson... and the Financial Times' Chrystia Freeland... Add it all up and 'Hardball' viewers were treated to quite a Palin hatefest."

Vocal Minority:

"The problem, of course, is that if all these prominent scientists from all these respectable institutions agree to this supposed air-tight scientific data, their conclusions mean nothing due to the rigging of this data at the University of East Anglia that was discovered a few weeks ago. Leshner—like Al Gore and the entire mainstream media—arrogantly dismisses the discovery of the hacked emails showing this. A group of politically-motivated scientists over a period of more than a decade have been caught manufacturing a climate change catastrophe and 'scientists' like Leshner have the audacity to pretend it doesn’t mean anything. Yet it’s 'deniers' like Sarah Palin who shouldn’t be trusted?"

Dan Riehl:

"Over at The Plum Line, Greg Sargent - among others on the Left - feels dispirited. Tune in tomorrow when they all go back to telling us how Sarah Palin is irrelevant. Or, how they'd like nothing better than to see her emerge as she's only a silly joke. It looks as though the Left isn't in on the joke, even though some are determined to play it on themselves. I suspect still others know precisely what's going on, hence the effort to silence or marginalize her as best they can. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be working very well!"

Suzanne Fields:

"To fair-minded critics and political analysts, Sarah Palin is remarkable. She may be a shooting star in a sky otherwise empty of shooting stars, but my, what a bright light the lady makes. Some of the sound accompanying the light is the noise of grinding liberal teeth, which alone is reward enough for conservatives."

Hillbuzz:

"Because every attack the Left launches connects us more emotionally to the Palins…we, too, have been under constant attack from the Left since 2007. The DNC has no idea the damage the Left has done to the Democrat Party. Daily Kos and HuffPo are now the face of things, and what an ugly hateful face it is. We honestly can’t relate to these people anymore — not people who think it’s funny or fair game to hope a little baby gets hit by some of the things they are trying to throw at his mother."

CK MacLeod:

"Not that Palin has put herself forward as a bomb-thrower or negativist: She has clearly and repeatedly enunciated the outlines of a positive program – energy independence, national security, fiscal restraint, small government, local control. With the exception of the first point (as observed, energy was in effect a side issue for Reagan), the platform is pure Reaganism."

The Anchoress:

"As Camille Paglia said – Palin is a natural. Which is one reason why -for some- she must be destroyed. As we saw in the last election, marketing and PR can certainly persuade. But if people have a choice between slick-but-cool enigma, or a something warm and safe, they’ll take warm and safe, every time. That’s the other reason Palin must be destroyed."

Eamonn Fitzgerald:

"Last year, Sarah Palin was attacked unmercifully by a corrupt and dishonest press. Last year, Barack Obama got 53 percent of the vote, with the total, unquestioning backing of the same corrupt and obsequious press, but now he's slipping in the polls and Palin is rising. She's also topping the bestseller lists."

Don Surber:

"The people who like Palin like her in part because she is the underdog. The more garbage liberals pile on her, the bigger her smile is and the more her fans love her. Such loyalty and popularity are a problem for Republicans? Pardon me while I laugh... I fully understand the reservations.... But right now there is no Republican in her league."

- JP