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Thank You, Sarah Palin

Submitted by gippergal1984 on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 15:30
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You don't have to think Sarah Palin is the next Reagan to strongly disapprove of the way the media, and now McCain's own staff is treating her. I won't elaborate and give the drivel anymore credence than it's already getting, but savvy newswatchers know what I am talking about.

I came across this petition on the Net. www.thepetitionsite.com/1/thank-you-sarah-palin. If it all makes you feel sick to your stomach, regardless of your personal favorite for 2012, please take a moment to sign it.

 

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I agree, but...

Submitted by davidfarrar on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 16:18.

I would be careful about going to that website and filling in all of your personal information, because the site itself may be bogus.

I would suggest you go to your local online newspaper, in the "comment "section, and post your thank you there.

These cookie-cutter "petition" website are simply web devises to get your personal information. Just as a matter of caution, I would never fill out anything on a webpage that did not have at least an "About Us" button on it that when read, you believed it to be true.

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apologies

Submitted by gippergal1984 on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 16:36.

i hope you guys don't get spammed for filling out the petition.

She has my thanks

Submitted by jro on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 16:19.

...because of what she represents inside the party.  To me, she is the poster girl for the inflection point the party is now (finally) facing: what does the future look like?  I struggle with this, because I think she is bad for the party.

First, this entire line of mainstream-liberal-elite-media-treats-me-bad makes her a victim and defeats her credibility.  Blaming pundits is fine, but blaming video footage?  I saw the interviews and it was she who provided those ludicrous answers.  Unfair questions?  She was a candidate for the vice presidency; I sure as hell hope she gets questions, fair & unfair.  It shows me how people respond under stress.  I thought the questions of candidates on both sides during this election were pretty weak, all the way around.  I know my take on Sarah Palin: she talks a good game, but when it gets uncomfortable, she blames someone else.  Some maverick.

The problem this brings to the party is that she's reflective of a line of thinking that assaults logic and intelligence.  I found her approach of equating *basic* intelligence with elitism and pitting patriotism vs. logic the most divisive language I've heard in a long time.  She's credited with "firing up" the base, without respect for the "fire".

Remember her rallies?  Thousands strong, cheering her on.  But there were more than chants of "USA!"  There were also shouts of "traitor" and "terrorist".  She didn't do the yelling, but she had no problem with that behavior, either.  And it sends a bad signal to our neighbors.

It's a well-known business idiom that your customers are your best source of future business.  Everyone slams the starry-eyed Obama supporters, but pissed-off, angry Palin supporters won't sell anyone on the future of the Republican party.  I'm not denying that people aren't pissed-off or angry, just that they're not going to reflect positively on the party.

So the party is at a crossroads.  It's not that our ideals are all wrong (nor are they all right), but the party is broken right now.  Sarah Palin represents a part which is broken, and because of the lack of clarity about leadership and direction, I believe we could continue to spin our wheels due to our desire to latch onto *anything* that seems to have traction.

Sarah Palin's presence is forcing every Republican to consider this issue.  For that, I thank her.

No matter to what degree you

Submitted by gippergal1984 on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 16:35.

No matter to what degree you personally support her, her treatment has been terrible. She hasn't complained about it herself, nor has she personally denigrated the importance of intelligence and awareness of world affairs to American leadership.

...it's those around her who defend her at all costs, even when she comes off staying stupid things. And yes, those people need to examine their rationales for supporting her and if they REALLY want to go down the anti-elitist trail.

I personally agree with Buckley that I'd prefer to be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phonebook than by the faculty at Harvard. That's not about wanting to have idiots in government, it's about philosophy and worldview trumping a degree.

Palin's worldview is inspiring and uplifting. I don't give a rat's behind if she can "define" American exceptionalism to the satisfaction of one particular aide, I know she inherently knows what it is by the way she speaks. That's just one example.

She couldn't afford to parcel herself out slowly to the press like Obama initially did, though, because of the short timetable in between her selection and the election.  Factor in my assumption that her rollout was handled as badly as the other facets of the campaign from the convention onward....

And you have the complete lunacy of the Couric interview.

...and that's why i am a Palin apologist even though she's come under so much fire.

Not so sure

Submitted by jro on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 17:02.

She got some rough treatment, and she could have been managed better, but in the end it's her responsibility.  I disagree that she didn't complain about it.  For the party that takes a stand on personal responsibility, she took very little of it when it came to how she came off in the media.  She took a poor situation and made it worse.

I may need to clarify my terms.  When I say idiot vs. intelligence, I'm leaning more to common sense (as opposed to the Harvard-types who don't live anywhere near my corner of the world.)  I like Buckley's statements as well.

I find her worldview one of those weird combinations.  While at times she seems simple (good), other times she seems a simpleton (bad).  While the simple can be refreshing, the world just is not that simple.  Trying to shoe-horn it into that, as opposed to reading it for what it really is, has been Dubya's approach and has been an abject failure.  I'm very afraid that Palin would be Bush revisited, minus the Yale degree.

 

I suppose I am framing Palin

Submitted by gippergal1984 on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 17:13.

I suppose I am framing Palin completely by what I knew about her before she was picked, not after. I am hoping she gets some time to cool down, reboot, and govern Alaska competently. Before she even considers running for elective office, starts a PAC, anything like that, she needs to keep an eye on that approval rating and shore it up for 2010. Eye on the prize, one thing at a time approach.

...except I doubt the press will "leave her alone" and I do think that the burden of proof is on her to show she's not an idiot. But there are so many ways they discredit her, from the way they transcript her remarks to make her sound dumb to the ridiculous 'gotcha' questions they give her. Some of the questions she answered unacceptably were fair, but I firmly believe that some were not.

Contrast the other direction for me

Submitted by jro on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 19:03.

I knew very little of Palin prior to this campaign, so my experience with her is not on a local level at all.

If she desires a national presence, I hope for her own good she gets some good advisers around her.  She does need some wind-down time, and she needs to gain knowledge about national-level politics.  Not the game, but the actual policies in place.  (Anything to put foreign policy based on geography in the rearview mirror.)

She definitely needs a better rapport with the press.  The interesting thing I'll be watching for, post-election, is how much she stays out of the limelight vs. inserting herself into it.  Some people still believe bad press is better than no press at all, which I think she has in the back of her mind.

But I have a cynical attitude about people who seem to manufacture ways to get their name & picture in the newspaper.  I should give her the benefit of the doubt, but with a resume that includes the Miss Alaska contest, television reporter, and now United States Vice Presidential nominee, let's just say my expectations for her to lay low aren't very high.  She strikes me as someone who's very comfortable in front of a camera, and I'm quite pessimistic about her staying out of it.  Hopefully she proves me wrong.

I agree totally.

Submitted by Big Ben 4 liberty on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 20:38.

I don't know if she can be the nominee in 2012.  But she definitely needs to continue the work she has done as Alaska governor.  If she plays her cards right she can possibly lead the reform-minded conservative movement.  If not that there are always Bobby Jindal and SC governor Mark Sanford.

The petition was set up by

Submitted by T D Williams on Fri, 11/07/2008 - 04:55.

The petition was set up by that old spammer Michelle Malkin.   It has over 10,000 signers now.

Try to get 10,000 signers in one day for any other Republican. (The petition was set up yesterday.)  Those signer numbers (which are sure to double, triple and maybe quadruple) are backed up by the crowds she drew during the campaign.  No other Republican has ever drawn crowds like Sarah Palin--ever.  The people at her rallies were jazzed about conservative principles and about her.

Get used to the fact that Sarah Palin is going to be the go to candidate for most conservatives.  All the mud thrown is turning out to have as much impact as the mud thrown at Ronald Reagan did.  Not even worth noticing.

That's a real shame

Submitted by davidfarrar on Fri, 11/07/2008 - 09:23.

This spammer is now taking advantage of the fact that the RNC has apparently turned its collective back on Gov. Palin and as a result, thousands and thousands of her supports are now being turned into spammer fodder. What a shame. What a pure shame.

To me this proves beyond anything else that our Party leadership is not for the betterment of the Party and the nation, but for themselves and their own agendas.

 

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