To be as predictable as the mainstream media would be, well, boring; Sarah Palin’s book is coming out in a matter of days and the media blitz to discredit her…..again, has already begun. Newsweek’s cover of Sarah Palin is a nice picture, but the words that accompany it are what grab your attention.
The Sarah Palin Newsweek cover exclaims, “How Do You Solve A Problem Like Sarah? She’s bad news for the GOP-and for everybody else too”. Seriously? Does anybody still read Newsweek outside of a visit to the dentist office?
Basically what the Newsweek article says is that she (Palin) is singlehandedly responsible for the woes of Senator Lindsey Graham and GOP moderates who would otherwise work with the Obama Administration but won’t for fear of a backlash from Palin supporters.
Look, first of all Lindsey Graham has nobody to blame for his problems but Lindsey Graham. Enough said on that. It sounds to me like Newsweek is describing Palin supporters as just your average run of the mill conservative. Any type of watered down conservatism that has tried to assert itself has been met with stiff opposition in the last 11 months.
Maybe we have Sarah Palin to thank for that, or maybe it’s mostly the horrid socialist policies of the Obama Administration and the big government democrats that have stirred conservatives. Either way, it’s absolutely amazing to see how the mainstream media and all of Sarah Palin’s enemies are reacting to her book.
The Newsweek cover of Sarah Palin is just the beginning, we’ve already seen a touch from the AP trying to discredit her claims, as well as McCain’s campaign head Steve Schmidt. This book will be dissected like no other. Prepare for the onslaught.
November 18th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
She’s HOT – OOO LALALALA!
November 18th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Once again the Dems have shown the people who they are afraid of the most.If Sara Palin is such a bad choice,or a hinderance,or as Newsweek says it in their headline cover,a problem,why are they going all out ,by the way,that picture is a you betcha good one,that picture is an example of America in its best of times,a healthy,vibrant,illustration of our
country when it was looking good,strong and knew where it wanted to go,and had a idea,which what made America what it is today,great hopes and great ideas,how to get
there,unlike the great ship that is America at this dark hour,a lumbering,staggering, behemoh,that is in sore need of a rudderholder.In my insight,Sara Palin is the person who can handle the rugged job of steering this ship back towards the course that all real Americans want the ship to be on,towards the great path to the Americian Way of life that I have come to know and love and will do all that I can to support in all of her endevauers in the coming days……………………………………
November 18th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Dan,
I don’t presently have a blog. I’m working on getting the right Wordpress template so I can have more of an online magazine format.
Insofar as conservatives go, Marco Rubio, I believe, is going to make some real noise if he pays his dues, learns how to play the big room, and isn’t seduced by the gold ring.
Bobby Jindal has been kicked to the curb but the guy may be the brightest politician in America. He was a Rhodes Scholar and has a rapier-like wit and is as fast on his feet with the quick comeback as Letterman.
Michelle Bachman eats nails for breakfast.
Then, of course, there are the current heavyweights: Palin, Romney, and Huckerbee.
The right’s real stealth bomber, however, is Roger Ailes–the current president of Fox news and the man who resurrected Richard Nixon from the politically dead, taught Ronald Reagan the ropes that helped him turn the tables on Walter Mondale in the debates, and orchestrated Bush 41’s come-from-behind spanking of Michael Dukakis.
Ailes has clearly “gone dark” and is working on rehabilitating Sarah Palin’s image. How do I know this?
Glen Beck is still working for FoxNews after suggesting the President was a racist causing major sponsors to bail. That would not be the case if either Murdoch or Ailes were not high on Beck who just happens to be Palin’s biggest cheerleader.
Did you catch the subtle tweaks Palin gave her answers to Sean Hannity earlier tonight. She named a few news sources she reads and got a second chance to cite Exxon Shipping Co. et. al. v. Baker et. al when asked if she knew of any Supreme Court Rulings.
Palin’s whiffing on Couric’s boneheaded question would suggest Palin is calling it as it was when she admits she found Couric so irritating she basically threw a temper tantrum. How could the sitting governor of Alaska not know of the SCOTUS ruling decided on June 25, 2008, particularly when the court held that Exxon would be hit with punitive damages to native Alaskans to the tune of $500,000,000.
That’s like believing Rudy Guiliani wasn’t aware of the outcome of John Gotti’s trial.
Hopefully, Palin, as did Nixon, has realized the fast track to being a contender is being a team player who (at least outwardly) suffers fools patiently.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
It’s hysterical to watch the loyal wingnuts try to defend Palin. She’s the most charismatic Right Winger they’ve had to represent them in a long time, so they are desperately eager to love her. “uglydawg7″ even called her “real.” (As in, OOOOOO, she’s sooooo REEEEALLLLL!)
But, to coin a phrase recently popularized by one of her bedfellows: SHE LIES! Sure, there have been lots of the smaller lies (like the circumstances surrounding the birth of Trig), but there have been much bigger lies, like repeatedly crediting REAGAN with the “longest peacetime economic expansion” in American history. In fact, it was Clinton. Look it up. (Oh yeah, but you can’t trust the LIBERAL MEDIA to get a fact like that right…better go to FOX “News” for my factcheck since that’s my only source for information! We all know that REALITY has a well-known liberal bias!)
She’s an intellectual lightweight the likes of which we haven’t seen since Dan Quayle–and that’s of course why she’s fodder for TV comedy. Yet John Carpenter (above) cites a bunch of irrelevant things said by critics of business leaders, artists and the like who later turned out to be successful. As if that somehow proved Palin was a pioneer of some great new idea. So now Palin is on par with Bill Gates, the Beatles, and Louis Pasteur??? Wow, this guy’s deftness at deductive reasoning is unsurpassed! LOL!
Derek (above) tries to support someone else’s (entirely reasonable, IMHO) claim that Palin’s conservative base mostly hates gays, immigrants, minorities and Muslim’s. “docholliday” in response says, “nobody likes the gays,” thereby supporting Derek’s point. LOL.
“Kwaite,” in a somewhat confusing diatribe makes the assertion that “there are already laws in place to protect gay people with the same rights imbued to all citizens [sic]“. What I think she means is that gays already have the same rights as everyone else, which is patently false. For starters, they don’t have the 1,138 federal rights that accompany civil (folks, note that I wrote CIVIL, not religious) marriage (among them, property, bereavement, taxation and inheritance rights).
Someone wrote: “liberals are scared of Palin”. I don’t think it’s just liberals; I think many people are terrified at the prospect of Palin having any leadership role at the federal level. I’m just sayin’.
Which brings us back to the Newsweek cover. Newsweek got it right, but apparently many of the loyal readers of this blog are wildly out-of-touch…which is what happens when you only listen to windbags, liars and egotists like Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Rush Limbaugh.
November 18th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
You may be laughing, Mike, but it’s the inane, sophomoric chortling that we all remember hearing in the cafeteria from members of the math club who found perverse amusement in the
school’s All-State quarterback walking arm in arm with the best looking girl in the county.
I think we get it.
You look at your life and you see Willy Loman. Sarah Palin is your “Ben”. You don’t understand how she’s pulled it off.
“Attention must be paid.”, right Mike? It should be you. You should have the book deal. People should be camping out all night in young Autumn outside a Barnes and Nobel in Michigan to read about your life.
That’s what it all comes down to Mike. Self loathing. Any way you slice it, what you consider to be righteous indignation and contempt for Palin is a sickness. You’ve become Captain Ahab. She’s the White Whale that robs you of your sleep and with somewhat less eloquence compels you to say,
“. . . from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.”
Here’s some free advice: wherever you go, keep a bottle of aspirin–325mg tablets (non-enteric)–with you. The kind of anger you’re choking on (seething and I’m guessing, chronic) makes you three times more likely to have a heart attack or sudden cardiac death.
You can reduce that risk by taking one 81-mg tablet every day.
Remember: non-enteric. Take two, chew them, and DON’T lie down, if, for instance, something Palin or idiots like me say or do that makes you feel a sudden tightening in your chest. Minutes count.
Have you had an EKG recently or an Echocardiogram? You might consider it. But stay away from PSA testing. Don’t go there. You get a small spike in the antigen, they’ll want a biopsy,
the fear snowballs, you opt for a Da Vinci Robotic Prostatectomy, and for the rest of your life
you’ll never again see a picture of Sarah Palin or in your case, Nancy Pelosi, and get an erection.
I hope your open-minded enough to realize I may have saved your life.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Mike, no wonder you’re confused. We’re debating hate crimes legislation extended to gays. Not marriage rights, civil or religious. Let me help clear up your confusion with another diatribe..
The bill is unconstitutional because it violates the 10th Amendment by granting the Federal Government authority over local and state government in prosecuting hate crimes. It violates the 14th Amendment by granting certain groups special protected status, as well the double jeopardy clause of the 5th amendment. This Bill does not provide equal protection to all Americans and is therefore unconstitutional.
I don’t suppose that you believe the law should treat certain groups differently?
It grants special rights to certain groups. Oopponents of the hate crimes legislation have charged that the bill violates the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution by making an individual’s thought regarding certain groups as much a factor as the nature of his act in prosecuting a crime.
“All persons born or naturalized in the US…are citizens…nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person…the equal protection of the laws.” The motivation is irrelevant.
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 states “all persons shall have the same rights…to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws…”
When we legislate different rights and results for different groups, regardless of good intentions, we are heading down a slippery slope.
I agree that dochollidays comments were ugly but they do not represent all Sarah Palin supporters or me. It only proves that docholliday is an idiot. Point not supported. LOL
November 19th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
I hate using other peoples lines, but Rush’s old standby sure does fit in this case…
Mike Z has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the term “a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance” certainly applies to most liberals.
Sure, he’s educated enough to construct a coherent sentence with proper punctuation.(I only wish I had the same grammatical expertise.) However, the lack of anything but provable facts, the misrepresentation other peoples ideas, the lack of understanding of concepts like “Cause and affect”, prove the points mentioned above that Liberalism is a religious belief system.
I am astounded at the twisted logic needed to give Clinton credit for “the longest peacetime economic expansion” in American history. There is no need for we conservatives to blindly believe Fox News that Regan was responsible for this… we lived and observed during this time period. We WATCHED Clinton try to overreach during his first two years with his attempted take over of healthcare, the almost immediate breaking of his “middle class tax cut” campaign promise, his initial decision to stop welfare reform, and a myriad of policy decisions that most of the country knew would have increased government spending and destroy our economy.
The Gingrich lead retaking of bother houses of congress based on conservative principles was what saved Clinton and allowed you to be able to make your preposterous claim that he caused the economic expansion. I don’t believe they went far enough, but at least they turned the tide, for a while, from double digit government spending expansion.
After the GOP takeover, and the Lewinsky scandal, I don’t remember very many things that Clinton did actually do that would affect the economy in anyway.
Only two come to mind…
1. Good for the economy: He found it politically necessary to agree to pass welfare reform, that would help to reduce the welfare rolls, and get people weened off the government teet… (I knew he didn’t want to do this because he blocked it when it came up the first time.)
2. Bad for the economy: His justice department helped Novell(I believe) sue Microsoft as a Monopoly supplier of operating systems… even though Apple had one, IBM had many, Unix existed, etc. I remember that the dot com bubble burst on the exact day that his Judge ruled that Microsoft WAS a Monopoly. (I could be wrong on the specifics of who sued Microsoft, but I SAW the outcome of his policy of attacking the private company of Microsoft.)
The only thing they should have been sued for was Anti-Trust Predatory business practices… not being a Monopoly… When that happened the market decided it was too risky to be in the Tech sector if the government could arbitrarily change the rules, and everyone started selling, which eventually forced many people out of work… great job Clinton!
I don’t believe you can site a single Clinton policy (that was not forced on him by the GOP Congress) that would provide a net benefit to the economy.
You liberals fail to understand that conservatives to not blindly follow people because we believe in them. We SUPPORT people who agree with OUR OWN ideas about personal freedom, property rights, lightly regulated free markets, the rule of law, and religious freedoms. I’m sure I’ve missed some, but nobody is perfect.
We come to these conclusions based on OUR OWN observations, not because some Pravda like state run media feeds us what we want to hear.
You say:
“Someone wrote: “liberals are scared of Palin”. I don’t think it’s just liberals; I think many people are terrified at the prospect of Palin having any leadership role at the federal level. I’m just sayin’.”
I’m positive that person thinks that liberals are afraid of Palin because of Liberals reaction to Palin, not because of anything Palin said or did.
Even in this example, you state your theory, and only back it up with, “I’m just sayin’”… no actual observations of what she did or what other people say she did.
Saying Palin/conservatives, et al, hate minorities, gays, etc., without giving site-able examples is either lazy analysis or some deep-seated religious belief on your part.
By your writing ability, I can tell you are not a stupid person, so I can only observe and deduct that your faith in the liberal religion is what drives you. (notice caused and effect, not just undocumented, believe-based conclusion.)
Please open your eyes you glittering jewel.
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