"Yeah, it’s exactly like Chappaquiddick – except for the dead body at the bottom of the river."Touché.
To date she has not retracted her support for a "two- state solution," which in any event is not a two-state solution that the Palestinians would accept. She told Barbara Walters, "I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israel is, is going to grow. ...And I don't think that the Obama administration has any right to tell Israel that the Jewish settlements cannot expand."Noting Gov. Palin's reputation for "shaking things up," Bellman argues that she, "more than anyone else, is likely to usher in the required paradigm shift."
In the VP debate, she said she would move the US embassy to Jerusalem.
She told AIPAC, "Let there be no doubt: I will always keep the threat of military action on the table to defend our security and our ally Israel."
In a similarly firm tone, she told Charles Gibson, that she would not "second-guess" Israeli military action against Iran.
While many politicians kiss up to the American Jews during elections, Sarah Palin has always exhibited affection and support for the Jewish people and Israel. Her views are supported by 50 million Evangelical Christians who support an undivided Jerusalem and Jewish claims to Judea and Samaria. The latest polls indicate 65% of Americans support Israel.
After decades of trying to reach a two state solution, America should abandon the attempt and pursue a more workable solution such as autonomy only for the Palestinians.
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1. Palin’s hot and can rock a pair of heels, hunting boots, or any garment she dons. And you can tell she knows it and likes it. Most of the ladies on the Left, however, cannot—and we all know how jealous and petty some chicks can be when they’re aesthetically upstaged (cat fight).Boom!
2. They hate Sarah because she’s supposedly anti-intellectual. However, I’d love to see Tina Fey, Katie Couric or Joy Behag go mano a mano with her on any given topic and see who comes off looking like Snooki.
3. The feministas don’t dig SP because she’s had five kids (one of whom has Down’s Syndrome) and has never considered offing any of them in her womb.
4. She believes in the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, and they hate Christians.
5. She’s a conservative, and they hate conservatives.
6. She’s insanely successful, and she did it without curtsying to their wacked weltanschauung.
7. Her husband’s not some prissy, manicured metrosexual man-child but an ass kicking Alaskan.
8. She hunts and fishes. Her motto: Shoot it. Stuff it. Hang it on a wall, baby.
9. She’s unapologetic to all of the above.
10. And finally, they know that if she ever makes it to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue that she’s going to hand the Dems their shriveled BB-sized cojones on a free market platter while the majority of the USA gives her a standing ovation.
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"Usually when one person calls another person 'stupid,' it's because the name-caller views himself or herself as more intelligent than the callee. Evidently, the way Cher throws around the word 'stupid,' the high school dropout clearly considers diva brainpower superior... Evidently, Cher not only feels qualified to identify the intellectually challenged, but the woman in the 'towering 2-foot headpiece made of rooster feathers' also believes she has the adroit ability to spot gifted brilliance in random people. The self-professed politically neutral performer labeled Bush, Palin, and Brewer as 'dumb' and 'stupid,' but recognized President Barack Obama's 'intelligence' and 'spirit' as 'so great' that she predicted America's first black president would be able to do 'more than anyone could possibly do,' whatever that means. Based on Obama's presidential performance thus far, Cher should avoid both punditry and prophecy."- JP
So, as with other spectator Republicans who had absolutely nothing to do with Tuesday's election result, Gersen wants to assign "blame" to Governor Palin for Tuesday's historic Republican sweep. In Gersen's mind, apparently, it's Governor Palin's fault that the enormous victory wasn't bigger than it was.Read Doug's full post. He does a fine job of debunking Gerson's bulls... er, bunk.
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The ruling class in both parties... see Governor Palin and the entire Tea Party movement as an existential threat to their way of doing business. That they should, because their party is coming to an end, and the political earthquake which took place on Tuesday is just the beginning.
*A Rasmussen Reports poll showed Palin with an 82 percent favorability rating, compared to 17 percent who view her unfavorably. Fifty percent of likely voters in the 2012 primary elections for the presidential nomination had a very favorable opinion of the former governor, while eight percent claimed they have a very unfavorable opinion of her.Rasmussen surveyed 1,000 likely GOP primary voters with a margin of sampling error of plus-or-minus three percentage points.
Former Govs. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) and Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) trailed Palin with a favorability of 79 percent apiece. Seventeen percent hold unfavorable opinions of the two.
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The three top contenders for the Republican nomination to challenge Obama in 2012 remain tied when likely primary voters were asked which candidate they would vote for if the primaries were held today.
"What's going on here, folks, is very simple. They want to establish a lie very firmly in the minds of the public that the tea party hurt the Republican Party in these elections. They want to use this to stop Sarah Palin. Republican insiders are trying to figure out now how to stop Sarah Palin... If anybody is an obvious winner here... it would be Palin. Look at the grief and the mockery that she got for putting what the media claimed were targets on 20 Democrat incumbents on her website. Look at the grief that she's got ever since she was named McCain's running mate. Eighteen of those Democrats she targeted lost. That's a pretty amazing and impressive record. Sarah Palin targeted a bunch of Democrats for defeat, and 18 of them lost. That's more than any Republican elites are doing."The New Agenda:
"So we encouraged the most powerful women in the Republican Party to fight for our votes... Palin did, officially launching her 'Mama Grizzlies!' Palin outdid our expectation, endorsing women all over the country."Merv Benson at Prairie Pundit:
"It says something about the conceit of both Richard Cohen and Katie Couric that they both thought the question about what newspapers Palin read was some important insight into her intellect. Palin, on the other hand, thought it was a silly question and later admitted to reading several papers that would have probably satisfied most listeners other than Cohen who she probably does not read. But his comments also convey another conceit of liberalism, i.e., that those who disagree with them are not smart. Even conservatives who don't support Palin have to concede that she is generally right on the issues that most conservatives support. That makes her pretty smart in my book and it is one reason why I would support her if she decides to run."Senator-elect Kelly Ayotte:
"Conservatives in New Hampshire and across the country view Gov. Palin as a leader in the movement to make government smaller and more accountable. Her support made a significant impact in my campaign, and I was honored to have it."AWR Hawkins at Big Hollywood:
"Cher is on record saying of Palin: 'A dumb woman is a dumb woman.' Maybe she wishes she hadn’t said this after watching the November 2nd election results? In those elections the 'dumb' woman and her Tea Party candidates made the 'smart' liberals in DC and Hollywood look pretty stupid... Cher seems to be quite angry. And the more she talks, the more evident it is that she’s fast approaching the outright lunacy we’ve seen in people like Janeane Garofalo: people who let their anger consume them and rule their lives."Da Techguy:
"It’s been the first day I’ve had a chance to watch 'Morning Joe' since Monday... and their advice is compromise, compromise, compromise for the GOP. The exact opposite of Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin and the people who got them elected."Jim Putnam at The Coltons Point Times:
"Almost every day of the week the bastions of the liberal media, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time and Newsweek Magazine, MSNBC, even the Huffington blog run feature stories about Sarah Palin. If they dislike her so much, why? Because Palin draws reader interest more than any other politician in America. Palin is plastered in the liberal media to sell the liberal media, pure and simple."Life in 3D:
"Sarah Palin’s been a favorite of mine since I first read about her and then saw her on the campaign trail. Now though, she has just jumped up to the next level with her choice in shotguns."Bob Lester of KWHL's Bob and Mark show:
"It's no surprise to me that my good friend Sarah Palin would use our show to make such an important announcement [to run for president]. This is another example of Sarah Palin remembering where she comes from. She is Alaska. She isn't enamored with all the big lights and movie stars like so many think she is. She is a hometown girl who has her boots firmly planted on Alaska soil. "That's just her style. She is moose stew and 'bunny' boots much more than she is caviar and glass slippers."Gay Patriot:
"Palin Perfectly Alliterates People Power at Play in 2010 Elections... She gets it..."Andrew Breitbart at Big Journalism:
"The left is afraid of the election of Marco Rubio as Senator [from] Florida in the exact same way as they were afraid of Sarah Palin when she was chosen as the Vice Presidential nominee by John McCain. It has been clear from the beginning that both are ascendant as potential game-changing political stars and need to be destroyed... You thought that the left was scared on Nov. 1, 2010, now imagine an America with a successful Marco Rubio and his beautiful family in the White House."Mr. Guthrie at Redemptive Thoughts:
"At this point, the only viable candidate for the conservative voters who gave the Republicans control of the House of Representatives is Palin... She is the only one I could trust to govern conservatively..."James Burdett:
"I have long thought that Sarah Palin is a cannier operator than her detractors give her credit for. It remains to be seen whether she will pitch for the Republican nomination for 2012 but I think it is highly likely. I also think that she is a better candidate than her Democrat opponents and European detractors reckon on... Sarah Palin, if she goes for the GOP nomination, is going to pick up quite a lot of support... I do know... that she isn’t the clueless hick that she is painted. I suspect if she wants the nomination she has the political nouse to do what is necessary to get it. The fact that she whacked out the ['Together'] video after the midterms suggests to me she wants it."Jonathan Strong at The Daily Caller:
"Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Thursday she objected to a photo of Rep. Michelle Bachmann in the publication Politico by suggesting its use was sexist... Politico changed out the photo for another of Bachmann later in the morning."Spartacus Pundit:
"In an ironic twist of karma, the sleazy, bought-and-paid-for 'seniors' group that threw America under the bus to peddle bogus partisan propaganda for ObamaCare, AARP, has now been forced to announce that it must significantly raise costs for its employees...admittedly, due to ObamaCare... I guess Tea Partiers and Sarah Palin really weren't just a bunch of ignorant fear-mongers posturing for insurance companies. Go figure. Everything liberals told us was a flat-out lie."- JP
"This 'nincompoop' as Noonan referred to her is directly responsible for GOP gains in this election, along with Jim DeMint. It was Palin in particular who kept the Tea Party movement within the Republican Party when she could have taken them third party for her own aggrandizement, and without the Tea Party things would be very different for the GOP today. Governor Palin had the ninja political skills to go from being the defeated VP candidate in one of the most inept campaigns in recent memory to the hottest political ticket in America... and she did it on her own, outside the GOP establishment. I and many others haven't forgotten how Peggy Noonan shilled for Obama during the '08 election and told us how wonderful he was going to be. Palin, on the other hand, had his number from Day One. So who's the 'nincompoop', Peggy Noonan?"- JP
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"Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, embracing former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s ability to galvanize voters, urged the Republican Party establishment to 'chill out.' 'You know, in the words of Bill Clinton, I feel her pain, you know?' Steele said in an interview on 'Political Capital with Al Hunt' airing this weekend on Bloomberg Television. 'My goal -- and I know Sarah’s goal has been -- let’s take the party and put it on the streets.'"Erick Erickson at RedState.com:
"If you want to find out who some of the loudest anti-Palin voices are, in another year or so start checking for House and Senate staffers who have left to work on 2012 campaigns."Jenn Q. Public at NewsReal Blog:
"If you rely on the Reich-wing, Tea-tard propaganda machine for your information, you probably missed the news about the sexually suggestive gift Sarah Palin received from Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio last week: pink panties! But no worries, the unimpeachable left-wing blogosphere will bring you up to speed on all the relevant facts. Er, 'facts'... Add 'pink underwear' to the moonbat mixer, blend until frothy, and BAM!: the sheriff has a creepy panty fetish. Hey, lefties: learn to Read the Freakin’ Google (and not just when it suits your political goals). The oh-so risqué pink undergarments Arpaio hands out as souvenirs are the same ones he’s famous for selling via his charity Web site, PinkUnderwear.com, and they look an awful lot like novelty boxers... But it’s the Tea Party Movement that contains a 'disturbing psychosexual undercurrent'? Oh, if only Tea Party women could be as enlightened as Jesse Taylor and his fellow bloggers on the Left. When will those dumb Tea Party broads get it through their thick, sexually fetishized skulls that Jesse knows what’s best for them. And he only hits because he loves."Newsmax:
"Rush Limbaugh ranks former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in a tie at 8 on a scale of 1 to 10 when asked to rate a list of the leading 2012 Republican presidential candidates, according to a Newsweek report."Marcus Carey at Bluegrass Bulletin:
"I sense a new era dawning where the most powerful seats in the world will be held by women, in a greater majority, than ever before. At the forefront of this newest wave are two women from polar extremes, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton. Palin possesses a disarming leadership quality which is incredibly effective. It is easy for people to underestimate her, and usually they do so at their peril. She appeals to men, both the Neanderthal types as well as the more refined family man types as well. She appeals to some women, but not so much to the Hillary types..."Rudy Giuliani on CNN:
"My guess is yes – she's going to run for president. She sounds to me like somebody who's running for president."Freedom Fighter at Joshuapundit:
"By keeping the Tea Party activists in the GOP instead of creating a third party, Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint and few others have given the Republicans a new lease on life and an opportunity to prove that they can be trusted to govern responsibly, restore fiscal sanity and move the country back on track to the ideas of the Founders. If they pass that test, 2012 will see the Republicans on track to win the presidency and cement even bigger majorities in place.If they do not, the American people will simply abandon them...not just for an election cycle or two but forever."Jennifer at Cubachi:
"According to the New York Post, Sarah and Todd Palin were in New Jersey to check out the New York Jets playing in Giants Stadium as guests of owner Woody Johnson last Sunday. But guess who was watching the game with them? Governor Chris Christie! If this is true, I wonder what these three talked about…"Shannon Bell at Right Pundits:
"You just have to love this narrative being put forth by the left and the Republican establishment that somehow the Republicans failed on Tuesday night. Even better is the flawed narrative that the tea party is to blame. Mort Kondracke, a joke himself, called Sarah Palin a joke in a conference call and said that she and Jim DeMint were to blame for Republican failure to capture the Senate... Kondracke’s premise (as well as [that of] establishment Republicans) is deeply flawed. Republicans took 63 House seats and 6 Senate seats on Tuesday. The numbers could rise depending on the outcome of several undecided elections. A pretty resounding win in my humble opinion, and I submit that the numbers would not have been as large as they were had it not been for the likes of Sarah Palin (the Joke) or Jim DeMint. Even deeper than that, Republicans captured 680 legislative seats on the State level (a surer sign of the Tea Party influence), absolutely remarkable..."John Podhoretz at Commentary Magazine:
"Sarah Palin in National Review... This political formulation is — I use the word advisedly — brilliant."Carl Lindquist at The Great Awakening:
"Now that they have used her to their political benefit, the tables haved turned and the Republican Establishment is beginning to try and force Sarah Palin out of her position of power within the Republican Party... Palin definitely scares the bejeebers out of the Republican 'good-old boys', as she calls them. And for good reason. She represents a political force within the party that is calling for real change... And the Republican Establishment really doesn't want change (small government, for example). Indeed, it is now reverting back to its normative ruling posture, as seen during the eight years of the younger Bush, i.e. talking the talk, but not walking the walk, of small-government conservatism."Dr Matthew Ashton:
"While Goldwater lost by a landslide, one of his biggest supporters, Ronald Reagan, went on to win the Presidency in 1980 in one of the biggest victories in US political history. Reagan was seen as similarly extreme until he won and managed to shift the whole centre ground of American politics. Maybe Palin can do the same."Rachel Wallace at AAUW Dialog:
"I’ve got three cheers for Sarah Palin’s enthusiastic and influential mentoring of women politicians, unprecedented on such a large and public scale. She inspired many women to get up and run for office. Her support for Indian-American Nikki Haley (R-SC) and Latina Susana Martinez (R-NM) helped propel the first women of color to governors’ mansions. As the Republican leadership moves into the House, it’s important that the boys’ club has a few women around, and I trust Palin and some of her friends will make sure that happens."John Hayward at Human Events:
"Sarah Palin did the GOP a lot of favors during this election. She’ll have plenty of markers to call in, if she runs for President... Dismissing Palin as some kind of fringe, 'divisive' figure is transparently foolish. She made a difference for a bounty of good candidates, who will make a difference for America in the years ahead."Fuzzy Slippers at Fuzzy Logic:
"[Obama]'s idea of energy independence is electric cars and cap and tax? Seriously? And he thinks that the republicans will go along with that garbage? They better not. Energy independence is using our own resources, not relying so heavily on foreign oil. But what does he do? He sends billions to Brazil so they can drill, he lets Cuba drill in the Gulf of Mexico, but he stops us from drilling. You know who he should talk to about energy independence? Sarah Palin. Everyone, including lunatic progs who nearly choke on the admission, knows that if there's one thing Sarah Palin knows inside out it's energy and America's natural resources. But he'd sooner meet with Ahmadinejad than Sarah Palin... The man's a disgrace, and nothing he said Wednesday changes that."- JP
The fact is that Mrs. Palin has spied and branded the most relevant, the most inclusive, and the most uplifting theme for the Republicans in the coming contest — the idea of what she calls constitutional conservatism.- JP
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This is an idea for our times, if there ever was one, and it was shrewd of Mrs. Palin to seize on it, as early as she did. It is certainly true that others have gotten the message, and may have gotten it independently of Mrs. Palin.
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The clarity of the idea comes into focus at a time when the Democratic administration is lunging for expanded powers, and she has emerged in a remarkable position. She has written two books. One is a kind of autobiography and declaration of her breakout from what might be called hidebound Republicanism, the other — to be issued this month — a meditation on faith, flag, and country. This sets her up for a third book on the idea of constitutional conservatism. If she goes ahead and writes it, we predict it will have an even greater impact than her first two — and just in time for 2012.
Even if the Alaskan doesn’t turn the idea of constitutional conservatism into a book, Mrs. Palin has marked the idea as her theme. Its great power is that it sets up a methodology for dealing with everything from — to name but a few issues — foreign policy and the war to the dollar, nationalized health care, same gender marriage, taxation, and gun control.
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So let the pundits puzzle over which of Mrs. Palin's candidates prospered and which lost. The better count is which contenders for the national ticket can lay any better claim than Mrs. Palin to an idea as unifying, uplifting, and inclusive as the idea of constitutional conservatism that she has made her platform.
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The “radical” portrait that has been painted of Palin by the left-wing media lives on in many places, particularly in heavily blue states like California and Delaware. I assure you that Palin Derangement Syndrome is alive and well in Manhattan.The author makes the salient observation that even Mediaite, CBS, and NBC, none of which can be described as having a favorable attitude toward the first woman to be both Alask's governor and the GOP's vice presidential candidate, all had to admit that Mama Bear had a great night. and that, Bila says, "just may be one for the books."
Some have argued that even without the “radical” epithet, the fact that Palin is a true conservative—both fiscally and socially—can be a tough sell in heavily blue states. They have opined that her endorsement of Republicans in states where many consider Arnold Schwarzenegger to be conservative, may not have been perceived well by many in those states.
Reality check: Palin’s endorsements aren’t geared toward America’s hard left. They’re meant to rally conservatives, Republicans, and Independents—be they in typically red or blue states. They won’t always yield victory, particularly in America’s deep blue regions, but you just never know. It is noteworthy that her endorsements of Susana Martinez in blue-leaning NM and Kelly Ayotte in blue-leaning NH certainly lent a hand to their successes.
In ordinarily red states and/or districts—and with respect to the GOP primary—there’s no doubt that Palin’s endorsements helped put candidates like Nikki Haley, Rand Paul, and NY–13’s Michael Grimm on the national map, playing a role in their victories.
On another note, Palin has been willing to get behind candidates far from shoo-in status, including the likes of Christine O’Donnell, John Gomez, Sharron Angle, Sean Bielat, John Raese, and Joe Miller. She appears to base her endorsements upon which candidates she believes are standing on principled conservative ground, rather than upon whether or not they’re considered to be “sure winners.” That will undoubtedly yield a results map that features some losses.
Much like her decision to resign from the governorship after facing a slew of bogus, costly ethics charges, Palin’s choice of endorsements doesn’t appear to be based on what will or won’t preserve her political future. Rather, it seems to be based on her principles..."
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“He” was going to save America. “He” was going to make the seas fall. “He” was going to make such music, conjure harmonies so overwhelming that even America’s enemies would come, drawn like animals to Pan’s pipe at once bewitched and converted. The whole success of the Obama administration hinged around the power of the Him.Gov. Palin, says Fernandez, has "in abundance" what is lacking in he Community Organizer In Chief:
The problem was that the skies did not open and only a very few were drawn to what in the end sounded less like piping than tootling. Jonod ends his entire essay with an insight that seems to come too late for the text. Barack Obama the Messiah is dead and the only way Obama can amount to anything is to try to become a decent, competent president. “He’ll never be Barack Obama again, now that he’s been rejected, and the oils of anointment are off of him. But Barack Obama — President Obama — can still be great, even if he has to sing someone else’s song.”
Sarah Palin, on the other hand, never presented herself as anything much. On the contrary, her chief claim to fame was that she was in some way very ordinary, a fact which horrified Richard Cohen... to no end
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Cohen thinks it is all about winning the presidency. Putting a Her in place of the Him. It never occurs to Cohen that Palin might think more in terms of helping her country “win” than in personally occupying the Oval Office. Cohen mocks the idea of serving one’s country. He wrote, “when Chris Wallace asked her about any presidential ambitions, she did not coyly say that she had not given the matter any thought. Instead, she said that if her party needed her, if her country needed her, if the need for her was truly great, then she would... run for president.” Who in Washington’s cynical atmosphere could actually believe that?
Palin has the ability to generate leaders other than herself. That quality was in evidence in the recent campaign when she successfully encouraged others, some of whom had never been in public life before, to throw their hats in the ring and run for office. And many of them won. Writing in the National Review, Palin found satisfaction in the achievements of others. That is the key attribute of a real “community organizer,” while the supposed Alinskyite, who is actually nothing like a classic organizer, was struggling with little apparent success to get beyond his “gift”; to get beyond himself.Quoting Gov. Palin, who wrote, “Anyone with the courage to throw his or her hat in the ring and stand up and be counted always has my respect,” Fernandez observes:
But that would mean rivals. It would mean peers. It might even mean, God forbid, that someone else might be greater than yourself. So you will never hear Barack Obama say anything like this, at least not in earnest. On the contrary, he demonstrated, in the last campaign, a serene willingness to sacrifice every other leader on the altar of the vision — not the modest ambitions, the secret dreams of the common herd, but the unutterable vision vouchsafed to him “through the red soil of Africa.”The blogger concludes:
The real difference between the two competing visions is what question they answer to. For most Democrats the 2012 elections will be about re-electing Barack Obama. For most members of the Tea Party it will be about taking back America.We agree with Sissy Willis that Fernandez' analysis is "perceptive if flawed":
And while Palin might be never be the rockstar Obama is, her vision may be greater.
We predict that over time, as the authentic Palin "brand" becomes better known amongst our fellow Americans, her "numbers" will rise. Presidential candidate or kingmaker, time will tell. Cinnamon Stillwell described the "Palin Effect" way back in September of 2008:Fernandez says that Sarah Palin "might never be the rockstar Obama is," which has some truth in it. Obama has had the benefit of the lamestream media acting as his cheerleaders and shielding him from his own doctrinaire upbringing and radical associations. By way of contrast, they have quite gleefully dug for dirt on her, and even when finding none, have gone so far as to propagate lies and distortions in a two-year crusade, not to simply marginalize her, but to destroy her politically.What her detractors don't seem to realize is that the process of insulting Palin, they are insulting the majority of the country. If being a self-made success story, a working mother, a church-going member of a small-town community and a believer in moderate to conservative political viewpoints disqualifies Palin, what does that say about mainstream America? The inherent condescension at the heart of the anti-Palin campaign is coming across loud and clear, and it may actually be boosting her popularity.
"But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed … when the roar of the crowd fades away … when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot – what exactly is our opponent’s plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he’s done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer is to make government bigger … take more of your money … give you more orders from Washington … and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world. "Not only is her vision indeed greater than that of Obama, as Fernandez pointed out, but it has proven to be remarkably accurate.
"Frank Rusciano, a political-science professor at Rider University, a small liberal-arts college in New Jersey, says Democrats dancing around at the thought of running against Palin may want to recall how the Carter White House in 1980 relished the opportunity to face Ronald Reagan, an aging B-list actor who proved to be the GOP's modern FDR. Taking Palin seriously is the first hurdle a lot of Democrats would have to get over."- JP
"Mama Grizzly Renee Ellmers needs our help securing an honest and fair recount. Please donate here: http://is.gd/gIZAv"Dan Riehl says he's been in touch with the RNC, and they are chipping in but not the NRCC:
"SarahPAC help is on the way for @Renee4Congress recount fund. Will other PACs join us? How about Beltway GOP? http://is.gd/gIZKN"
"Renee Ellmers rightfully slammed the NRCC for lack of support today - via Politico. I've just gotten word from the RNC, they are supporting her recount effort with $10,000. How many balls does the NRCC have to drop before we realize they aren't bad jugglers, they're a bunch of clowns! They didn't spend a dime to get her elected, blowing it on losing causes in NC. Maybe she didn't hire the right consultants? Filed under Corrupt Bastards Club."Come on, Pete Sessions, get with the program!
