"Palin Won, Obama Zero" Edition...
Douglas V. Gibbs:
"This is a case of liberal professor-taught college students who are incapable of thinking independently, so they jump on the 'hate Palin' bandwagon of the liberal left, and freak out that Palin was invited to be a speaker. To cover their tracks that ideology is the real reason they came up with a ridiculous story that they just want Palin to 'reveal' her fee for speaking, when in the end Palin would bring a lot of money to the campus by speaking there. The same campus has had radical leftists speak before without incident, and it is glaringly clear that the students of Stanislaus, fueled by the teachings of leftists professors, reject Palin as a speaker primarily because of her conservative beliefs."Matthew Continetti:
"Critics will criticize. Democrats will attack. But Palin may have found her niche as the cult figure who mobilizes conservatives and conservative-leaning independents to the barricades. And as she's said, she doesn't need an office to progress this movement. Lucky for her, it's also extremely lucrative."Being An American Mom:
"Overall her story comes across as truthful, earnest, passionate, and again, inspiring. While two weeks ago I was saying I didn't think she had a prayer in 2012 as a Republican Presidential candidate, I can now say I would probably support her. She is common sense, down to earth, strong and clear values, direct, and honest. This is the type of person we need more of in this world, especially leading our cities, states, and country. I don't believe you need to possess a Harvard degree or be a Rhodes scholar to be the President of the United States. I do think you need strong convictions, a hardy work ethic, honesty and bravery. Sarah fits this description."Big Pink:
"Palin appeared with Michelle Bachman, guns blazing. Tim Pawlenty was there too, but not many cared. Palin obviously mocked Obama by praising those who love their freedom and 'patriots who love their country'. Palin mocked Obama by praising those 'proudly clinging to your guns and religion'. Palin praised Michelle Bachman and hockey moms too. The crowd of 11,000 loved the sisterhood on stage. But the story was the almost 100% crowd of women. Palin also noted, with a pride that should bring a chill to the hardened hearts of Obama Dimocrats, the role of women as the majority force and majority leadership of the Tea Party movement."Erin Haust:
"While many of the media outlets will publish quotes from Bachmann and Palin taken out of context and try to ridicule them, while bloggers will write feverishly about the silly face Palin made or attempt to discredit her intelligence, and while unflattering photos will no doubt spread like wildfire, there are 11,000 people who experienced an uplifting, proud and patriotic day first hand. They came out in numbers. They came with friends and family. They came to celebrate America and support Congresswoman Michele Bachmann who has proven her drive to restore this country to its deserved glory. This wasn't your typical Tea Party event. This was a Republican Party-sponsored rally to kick off Bachmann's campaign."Dan Riehl:
"Palin... and Coulter... may be who the actual fighters in the GOP are today. And... the typical sheep-like establishment politicians who have been leading the party to ruin for over a decade... fear change because they might not retain control of everything. I suspect Palin and Coulter are less afraid of the type of let-it-fly mentality it is going to take to get the GOP on track and energized for 2010 and 2012. We need more fight and less go along."Mark Finkelstein:
"Appearing on The Early Show... [Bob] Schieffer saw Palin’s resignation as Alaska governor as too big of a political obstacle in the primaries... My two cents say Palin might not run, but that her resignation won’t be a big factor in making her decision. By the time the primaries roll around, her resignation will be ancient political history, and she will have four years of a record of fighting for Republican issues and candidates to run on. Any opponent who tries to play the resignation card on her would wind up looking pretty petty and unpleasant."Richard Ivory:
"If Palin... can win over skeptical Independents (something that she has a history of doing) then she can win the Presidency. It will take some time but make no doubt if Obama and Bush can be elected then Sarah Palin can also be elected. I understand the skeptics, but this is America folks, and anything is possible! Sarah Palin is not the idiot that liberals and recently some Conservatives would have you believe. She is deeply intelligent and incredibly capable... Her story, if it is to be written, will be written by her, not by pundits in DC or by Vanity Fair. Prime Minister Winston Churchill once said about those questioning his own legacy: 'History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.' One can only suspect that Palin agrees whole heartedly."Dennis Wyatt:
"The 'open-mouth-and-unload-character-assassination-rhetoric-first' approach before even bothering to listen to the other side or engage in a reasonable discourse is getting out of hand. Sarah Palin’s pending appearance June 25 at the California State University, Stanislaus in Turlock is a prime example. People have been hyperventilating about the choice of Palin, outraged that she commands speaker fees - which are being covered by a non-profit foundation that helps support the university... Painting Palin as a wacko serves no purpose except to fan the flames of animosity and to make those professors who are joining in the howling seem to be judgmental and closed minded which isn’t exactly what you expect at a higher institution of learning. Palin isn’t an idiot. Like her or not, she is a high profile figure in a political movement. Her views are just as legitimate to espouse as those by Angela Davis who definitely has been allowed access to podiums at state university campuses even after she twice ran as vice president of the United States on the Communist Party USA ticket."Rush Limbaugh:
"George Stephanopoulos asked President Obama what he thought of Sarah Palin's comments about his new nuclear policy. And Stephanopoulos is catching heat from other people in Government-Controlled Media. 'Why would you ask the president about anything Sarah Palin said?' Because apparently Obama looked petty in the way he answered it... So she's getting the best of this... Palin is exactly right. How do you learn about nukes as a community organizer? ... Now, say what you want about Sarah Palin, sounds to me like she knows what she's talking about there. And I guarantee you that the regime does not take to this well at all."C. Brooks Kurtz:
"Gov. Palin is among the few adults in the room with a big ol’ megaphone responding to Pres. Obama, a man who would bow to a potted plant if his handlers believed it would help whatever constitutes his notion of global popularity. Bowing is an act of implied respect and explicit submission when unrequited, and cross-culturally, it projects weakness. Politics aside, Pres. Obama is a weak leader, and he projects it everywhere he goes. With every appearance and utterance, Gov. Palin is strengthening her foothold in the soil of smart power. Her speech today at the SRLC continued a running theme she’s mined, one with wealthy results: Pres. Obama is a weak man, and he is with every action domestic and foreign, economic and political, weakening a strong nation."Jim Putnam:
"Sounding more like a South Side Chicago bully who has been put down by a girl, President Obama once again lost his presidential cool and blasted Sarah Palin for questioning what he considers to be good for the nation... Unfortunately for Obama, this lady just won't go away and each time she speaks up there are thousands of people cheering her on and a national television audience fueled by both sides of the media, the liberal haters and conservative lovers. Sarah invited Obama to a tea party and he should have stayed away."Mark Whittington:
"Advantage... Sarah Palin in the third strike so far in the Palin/Obama nuclear war... Sarah Palin is clearly enjoying her renewed place in the spotlight, thanks to the President of the United States calling her out. It may be that President Obama has underestimated the hockey mom from Alaska's ability to hit back and may wish now he had just been quiet about her qualifications on nuclear policy."Infidel Bloggers Alliance:
"To paraphrase the REAL dispute, Obama announces he will not retaliate with nukes against a WMD attack on the USA if the attacker has no nukes (thus hoping to influence nations not to seek nukes), and BTW we have a new agreement with Russia. Palin responds by saying this policy is asking to be hit in the chin, and Obama PERSONALLY ASNWERS by calling her an inexperienced dimwit who knows jack, and he'll take Robert Gates' advice any day. PS the same Gates who thinks 183 F-22's really can replace across the next 25 years, 751 F-15's... This plays PERFECTLY for Palin, and if you can't figure out why, you are one of the elite..."Al Fin:
"Palin's critics are virtually always missing the crux of their own arguments -- and getting it wrong. Some of these critics were born stupid and will always be stupid. But a lot of the brighter critics who go bonkers on Palin are clearly letting their emotions get in the way of their thinking. And others -- on both left and right -- who go insane at the mention of Sarah-cuda simply lack enough insight into their own reflexive bigotry to ever penetrate to the essence. Still others -- such as the matronly right-wing intellectuals who sputter and spit at the thought of the former Alaska governor, are simply jealous of the cold-weather huntress' ability to seemingly live a life full of challenges and pain -- and still focus on the simple pleasures of children, family, and a huge, beautiful outdoors."Dane Naughton:
"Leave it to Gov. Sarah Palin to break any perceived notion [of feminism]. Earlier this week, to a clamoring crowd of thousands, Palin noted that it was 'mostly women' who were leading the growing tea party movement and that... 'Someone better tell Washington that [the] pink elephant is on the move, and 2010 is shaping up to be the year that conservative women get together and help take back this country.' She alluded to women a couple more times in her endorsement speech of, ironically another woman, Michele Bachmann, who which Sarah said was 'leading the stampede!' of women... And today, she criticized Obama for his lack of support of [those in] Iran who are 'fighting for freedom and women’s rights.' Is she revising the feminist movement? Making it more inclusive and opening it up to women of differencing political views? She’s certainly in the off sets of doing so, and it might be just what she needs to put her over the edge."Joshuapundit:
"It was Sarah Palin who first perceived the vast amount of discontent with the status quo among her fellow Americans with business as usual as done in Washington that later coalesced into the Tea Party Movement. And she locked on to that energy like...well a barracuda. Even better, she was smart enough to do it in a way that preserved her independence and to do it outside the GOP establishment. Even more potent is the gifts she's been given by her worst enemies. From the minute she accepted the Republican nomination, the Obama [forces] and the Angry Left mobilized every operative, media ally and dirty trick they could muster to not only destroy her politically but to destroy her and her family personally... Targeting her crystallized the opposition to Obama around her and simply made her an even bigger star than she already was, because people viscerally perceived how frightened the Left is of this woman simply by the obscene and personal hatred they kept throwing at her and her family. And the more they throw, the bigger audience Sarah Palin gets, the broader her smile and the more headlines she generates."Pierre Legrand:
"Sarah Palin would be a tremendous President. Not because she is some kind of walking wiki of government facts and figures but because she is one of us. I happen to believe that more than anything we need a person as President who will go in there and say ‘Oh My Gosh what the hell are you folks doing here?’ I don’t need another technocrat running around spewing facts and figures at me about this or that program. I don’t give a good [expletive] about that, what I want is someone with honor and morals to get up there and YELL STOP! She has to do EXACTLY what Reagan did and talk over the heads of the News Media…or the enemy as Andrew Breibart calls them. No one is better equipped to do that than Sarah Palin." (h/t: Don Surber)Lame Cherry:
"I by God's Grace, am naming this one the Sarah Palin Doctrine... What needs to be understood is Americans do not have to wait until 2010 or 2012 to effect change. These 50 states are where the power rests with the people, and these 50 states can undo all the draconian Marxism Obama and Pelosi are foisting upon the American People. To outline this in... Uncap and Free Trade, the Palin Doctrine, there must be not just the Party of Hell No, but the leadership of Party of Help America, as Gov. Palin fully understands as the counter of Obama's helping hisself to American money... The states hold literally all rights which are not granted in the few pages of the Articles and Amendments to the Constitution of these United States. In that as Mr. Obama is on the Al Gore route of deeming cows as endangering the environment and wiping classic 1966 Mustangs off the road as being a threat to environment for being old, it is time for the states to uncap Mr. Obama's caps and free the trade which Mr. Obama is capping."Noel Sheppard:
"Tina Fey hosted NBC's "Saturday Night Live" last evening, and as expected, reprised her role as former Alaska governor Sarah Palin... All things considered, with everything that has happened in America since Fey last impersonated Palin, it was really [Fey] and her writers that seemed woefully unprepared."- JP
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