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Sarah Palin, 21st Century "It" Girl
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Jun 15 2009, 06:34 PM
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/06/sarah_palin_the_21st_century_i.html
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The best and the brightest on the left go into politics. The best on the right run their own businesses. So it is no surprise that the left is far more adept, even expert at the art of hardball politics. And they are telling us something profound.
The left is telling us something many feel, many find as a hunch, that Sarah Palin is the most dangerous threat to the Obama administration with no close second. The left is telling us this by their "over the top" attacks. Not just the Letterman assaults, but the constant barrage of grievances filed against her in Alaska. The attacks every day on Palin for no apparent reason -- except that the left seems to see her quite differently from any Republican candidate. A difference of kind, not of degree.
They would never do this to Romney, Huckabee or Newt, at least not to this level. There is a clear reason -- these guys couldn't fill up a high school stadium unless they were giving out free beer.
What is the Sarah difference? Well, it's not the issues, at least that is not all of it. It is the charisma factor. Charisma is not learned, it is innate. One is born with it and no amount of training can inject it. Jack Kennedy had it. So did Reagan. Now Obama. Out of the thousands of politicians who have come and gone over the last generation, not one other person has shown "it."
Money is no longer the life blood of politics. Charisma is. Charisma can raise money overnight; money far beyond what a tired, inarticulate incumbent can raise from rich donors.
When you have "it," the conventional rules no longer apply. Reagan was vilified in 1976 and few thought he could ever be president. No matter how the liberals berated him as a "dumb actor" who made chimp movies and the actor who never got the girl, he just looked the American people in the eye, gave them a dose of common sense and it was over. Carter went on to build low income houses and a life of obscurity punctuated by mischief.
The street fighting, world class, lifelong political experts of the left see "it" and it makes them crazy. They went crazy for Obama; they are going crazy for Palin, although in the other direction.
Palin could fill a stadium if she were reciting a cookbook. But she isn't. She is delivering common sense to an electorate that is becoming ever more jaded every day with the Obama nonsense. Miranda rights for terrorists? $4 trillion deficit?
Look at the blow she delivered with one phrase about "styrofoam columns" and imagine what she can do with the material Obama has recently given her.
Opposing Palin's values has no payoff for the left. They oppose those values for any conservative. They have to destroy her. And that is her power because they can't destroy her.
Whenever she chooses, she will take her first trip to Iowa to campaign for some obscure congressional candidate, and when she does, the liberal media cannot ignore the screaming crowds. And they will not be crowds manufactured by an advance team. They will be fired up mothers, working people who do not want to pay for deadbeats' mortgages, people who are now going to grass roots tea parties.
The television age gives "it," charisma, more power than ever before. Charisma is magnified through television. How else to explain how a 2 year senator few knew could derail Hillary in a few months. How else to explain how an anti-charisma John McCain, someone television does not flatter or magnify, saw his crowds surge when Palin was next to him. Palin, an obscure, unknown governor of our most distant and most unknown state, walked onto the national stage and ignited a burst of energy that may well have taken McCain over the top, until his Queeg-like pausing of his campaign to work on a financial crisis and then vote for a bailout.
The landscape is now quite different. There are tens of millions of people who never voted for Obama, telling their friends "don't blame me." There is a growing number who did vote for Obama who have lost their jobs at car dealerships, who have not found work yet even after the massive spending, and there are those who just say "...this is not the change I had in mind."
Some thought McCain would be the anti-charisma candidate against the charisma candidate and that would work. Now we may be lining up for the common sense charisma campaign against the nonsense charisma.
The left is telling us something and they are the experts. They are telling us not to make Palin the conservative candidate because if we do, it will be humiliating. I agree with them and I take them at their word.
It will be the undoing of Obama, and it may be overwhelming.
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cr726
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Jun 15 2009, 06:59 PM
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If you believe this the GOP truly is a dead party. Palin can barely run her own state at the present time, let her run in 2012. Talk about funny stuff.
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Jun 15 2009, 07:16 PM
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RUN SARAH RUN!
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Jun 15 2009, 07:23 PM
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RUN SARAH RUN!
Thanks for the input. You make this forum a much better place. Don't know what we would do without your contributions to it.
Here's to you, BUSTER.
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cr726
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Jun 15 2009, 07:25 PM
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RUN SARAH RUN!
Thanks for the input. You make this forum a much better place. Don't know what we would do without your contributions to it. Here's to you, BUSTER. Do you think your post does something different?
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Ernie
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Jun 15 2009, 08:00 PM
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Quoting limited to 2 levels deepRUN SARAH RUN!
Do you think your post does something different? Yes I do. Next question, please.
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Dean
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Jun 15 2009, 08:23 PM
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RUN SARAH RUN!
RUN SCARED BUSTER, RUN SCARED!
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Jun 16 2009, 08:34 AM
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/06/sarah_palin_the_21st_century_i.html- Quote:
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The best and the brightest on the left go into politics. The best on the right run their own businesses. So it is no surprise that the left is far more adept, even expert at the art of hardball politics. And they are telling us something profound.
The left is telling us something many feel, many find as a hunch, that Sarah Palin is the most dangerous threat to the Obama administration with no close second. The left is telling us this by their "over the top" attacks. Not just the Letterman assaults, but the constant barrage of grievances filed against her in Alaska. The attacks every day on Palin for no apparent reason -- except that the left seems to see her quite differently from any Republican candidate. A difference of kind, not of degree.
They would never do this to Romney, Huckabee or Newt, at least not to this level. There is a clear reason -- these guys couldn't fill up a high school stadium unless they were giving out free beer.
What is the Sarah difference? Well, it's not the issues, at least that is not all of it. It is the charisma factor. Charisma is not learned, it is innate. One is born with it and no amount of training can inject it. Jack Kennedy had it. So did Reagan. Now Obama. Out of the thousands of politicians who have come and gone over the last generation, not one other person has shown "it."
Money is no longer the life blood of politics. Charisma is. Charisma can raise money overnight; money far beyond what a tired, inarticulate incumbent can raise from rich donors.
When you have "it," the conventional rules no longer apply. Reagan was vilified in 1976 and few thought he could ever be president. No matter how the liberals berated him as a "dumb actor" who made chimp movies and the actor who never got the girl, he just looked the American people in the eye, gave them a dose of common sense and it was over. Carter went on to build low income houses and a life of obscurity punctuated by mischief.
The street fighting, world class, lifelong political experts of the left see "it" and it makes them crazy. They went crazy for Obama; they are going crazy for Palin, although in the other direction.
Palin could fill a stadium if she were reciting a cookbook. But she isn't. She is delivering common sense to an electorate that is becoming ever more jaded every day with the Obama nonsense. Miranda rights for terrorists? $4 trillion deficit?
Look at the blow she delivered with one phrase about "styrofoam columns" and imagine what she can do with the material Obama has recently given her.
Opposing Palin's values has no payoff for the left. They oppose those values for any conservative. They have to destroy her. And that is her power because they can't destroy her.
Whenever she chooses, she will take her first trip to Iowa to campaign for some obscure congressional candidate, and when she does, the liberal media cannot ignore the screaming crowds. And they will not be crowds manufactured by an advance team. They will be fired up mothers, working people who do not want to pay for deadbeats' mortgages, people who are now going to grass roots tea parties.
The television age gives "it," charisma, more power than ever before. Charisma is magnified through television. How else to explain how a 2 year senator few knew could derail Hillary in a few months. How else to explain how an anti-charisma John McCain, someone television does not flatter or magnify, saw his crowds surge when Palin was next to him. Palin, an obscure, unknown governor of our most distant and most unknown state, walked onto the national stage and ignited a burst of energy that may well have taken McCain over the top, until his Queeg-like pausing of his campaign to work on a financial crisis and then vote for a bailout.
The landscape is now quite different. There are tens of millions of people who never voted for Obama, telling their friends "don't blame me." There is a growing number who did vote for Obama who have lost their jobs at car dealerships, who have not found work yet even after the massive spending, and there are those who just say "...this is not the change I had in mind."
Some thought McCain would be the anti-charisma candidate against the charisma candidate and that would work. Now we may be lining up for the common sense charisma campaign against the nonsense charisma.
The left is telling us something and they are the experts. They are telling us not to make Palin the conservative candidate because if we do, it will be humiliating. I agree with them and I take them at their word.
It will be the undoing of Obama, and it may be overwhelming.
sigh....the right just doesn't get it....
how can this author say it isn't about the issues but about Charisma when the right was blasting Obama for being too much of a celebrity..again they miss the boat and instead of standing on principal they decide, well, why not just run a celebrity of our own. What hypocrisy is that? Do they really think people didn't know what Obama's platform was?
How far can a political party get when their main strategy is to tell the majority of American's that they are ignorant?
The problem is, in fact, the issues, the problem is Palin resembles Bush, and no one wants another Bush.
The rights biggest problem is instead of thinking that maybe they have a few things wrong they are under the impression that the majority of Americans who voted for Obama were bamboozled and tricked...
instead of coming up with a game plan they are just confident that people will be as sick of Obama as they were of Bush, which is a ridiculous strategy.
If they go on this "run our own celebrity, raise money, don't change our campaign speeches, stay on message from 2008" they will ensure a second Obama term.
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Jun 16 2009, 09:16 AM
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The Republicans need to redefine their party and move forward based on relevant issues and principles. The party is being steered by puritanical and religious viewpoints which has shifted their base away from the fiscal conservatives that made it so strong. There is an underlying cynical tone to many of the party platforms and a more optimistic perspective needs to be brought to the forefront.
If they choose Sarah Palin as their leader to dig them out of this rut, then so be it. IMO it would be a disastrous strategy.
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Jun 16 2009, 09:12 PM
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The Republicans need to redefine their party and move forward based on relevant issues and principles. The party is being steered by puritanical and religious viewpoints which has shifted their base away from the fiscal conservatives that made it so strong. There is an underlying cynical tone to many of the party platforms and a more optimistic perspective needs to be brought to the forefront.
If they choose Sarah Palin as their leader to dig them out of this rut, then so be it. IMO it would be a disastrous strategy. God bless you.
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Jun 17 2009, 06:35 PM
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If there is measured economic recovery (even if its in spite of O) and we are by and large out of iraq over the next 3 years(which I would think would be the case), it won't matter who the republicans put up in '12. The republicans don't need to abandon the socially conservative issues, but they need to re-prioritize these social issues below the issues of fiscal reponsibility, lower taxes, national defense and a more business friendly environment.
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Jun 17 2009, 07:05 PM
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The Republicans need to redefine their party and move forward based on relevant issues and principles. The party is being steered by puritanical and religious viewpoints which has shifted their base away from the fiscal conservatives that made it so strong. There is an underlying cynical tone to many of the party platforms and a more optimistic perspective needs to be brought to the forefront.
If they choose Sarah Palin as their leader to dig them out of this rut, then so be it. IMO it would be a disastrous strategy. She is not capable of digging them out of it. She IS their base and that is all she appeals to.
McCain chose her in a desperate attempt to curry favor with women who were almost sycophantic Hilary supporters and were at times even more pathetic with the conspiracy theories during the primaries than neo-cons like FJ and Dean and mouth breathing idiots like SD99.
McCain and his advisors made one major miscalculation: Palin's social conservatism completely turned off those women plus it was such an obvious attempt to pander to them it pissed them off. Not to mention that at their core, the Hilary supporters are died in the wool liberal Democrats and the second Hilary endorsed Obama most of them became just as rabid Obama supporters as they had been Hilary supporters.
How do I know this? My mother is one of those women and I had to witness her go through a near mental breakdown over Hilary's demise in the primaries. You should have heard the venom she spewed about Obama at the time, it was only trumped by her anger and cynicism when McCain tapped Palin. Her love for Obama grew from there. After the second debate she called me up and told me how she "finally understood how this country really needs this man to be President."
And my Mom is one of the relatively sane Hilary supporters.
Bottom line is Sarah Palin, because of the history of how she came to national prominence and her socially conservative politics and her not ready for prime time "folksiness," is maybe the one woman in this country who could run for President who wouldn't win a majority of the women's vote.
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Jun 19 2009, 07:38 AM
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The Republicans need to redefine their party and move forward based on relevant issues and principles. The party is being steered by puritanical and religious viewpoints which has shifted their base away from the fiscal conservatives that made it so strong. There is an underlying cynical tone to many of the party platforms and a more optimistic perspective needs to be brought to the forefront.
If they choose Sarah Palin as their leader to dig them out of this rut, then so be it. IMO it would be a disastrous strategy.
She is not capable of digging them out of it. She IS their base and that is all she appeals to. McCain chose her in a desperate attempt to curry favor with women who were almost sycophantic Hilary supporters and were at times even more pathetic with the conspiracy theories during the primaries than neo-cons like FJ and Dean and mouth breathing idiots like SD99. McCain and his advisors made one major miscalculation: Palin's social conservatism completely turned off those women plus it was such an obvious attempt to pander to them it pissed them off. Not to mention that at their core, the Hilary supporters are died in the wool liberal Democrats and the second Hilary endorsed Obama most of them became just as rabid Obama supporters as they had been Hilary supporters. How do I know this? My mother is one of those women and I had to witness her go through a near mental breakdown over Hilary's demise in the primaries. You should have heard the venom she spewed about Obama at the time, it was only trumped by her anger and cynicism when McCain tapped Palin. Her love for Obama grew from there. After the second debate she called me up and told me how she "finally understood how this country really needs this man to be President." And my Mom is one of the relatively sane Hilary supporters. Bottom line is Sarah Palin, because of the history of how she came to national prominence and her socially conservative politics and her not ready for prime time "folksiness," is maybe the one woman in this country who could run for President who wouldn't win a majority of the women's vote. The (crab)apple doesnt fall far from the tree- it's not just stupidity but mental illness that runs in your family, wow, what a surprise. Does Oprah or The View know about your fascinating family history?
What puritanical platform did the GOP run on in 2008? http://www.gop.com/2008Platform/Values.htm?
Its many open primaries led to a consensus pick of a moderate, and he lost.
Bottom line, the GOP will never be your sociopathic ideal of an anti-religious, anti-war, baby-killing, anti-American party...the Democrat party suits your kind just fine
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Jun 19 2009, 08:35 AM
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The (crab)apple doesnt fall far from the tree- it's not just stupidity but mental illness that runs in your family, wow, what a surprise. Does Oprah or The View know about your fascinating family history? What puritanical platform did the GOP run on in 2008? http://www.gop.com/2008Platform/Values.htm? Its many open primaries led to a consensus pick of a moderate, and he lost. Bottom line, the GOP will never be your sociopathic ideal of an anti-religious, anti-war, baby-killing, anti-American party...the Democrat party suits your kind just fine Typical Rightwinger. You call out people for being anti-war yet never served your country, comical. Abortion is a legal procedure in this country, get over it. Anti-religion? Anti-country? You are a prime example of why people can't stand the present GOP. Go back to your cave and pretend Cheney is a good guy and the Iraq war kept the U.S. safer.
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Jun 19 2009, 10:49 AM
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The (crab)apple doesnt fall far from the tree- it's not just stupidity but mental illness that runs in your family, wow, what a surprise. Does Oprah or The View know about your fascinating family history? What puritanical platform did the GOP run on in 2008? http://www.gop.com/2008Platform/Values.htm? Its many open primaries led to a consensus pick of a moderate, and he lost. Bottom line, the GOP will never be your sociopathic ideal of an anti-religious, anti-war, baby-killing, anti-American party...the Democrat party suits your kind just fine Anyone claiming the Repbulican Party has not been running on a puritanical platform designed to appeal to the hard right socially conservative base of the party is either a part of that base or dumb as a tree stump.
Which are you FJ?
Attack me or family like that again and I'll make it my mission in life to get you to expose your closeted homosexuality and cry like a little girl right here on this website.
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Jun 19 2009, 10:49 AM
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Quoting limited to 2 levels deep http://www.gop.com/2008Platform/Values.htm? Its many open primaries led to a consensus pick of a moderate, and he lost. Bottom line, the GOP will never be your sociopathic ideal of an anti-religious, anti-war, baby-killing, anti-American party...the Democrat party suits your kind just fine
Typical Rightwinger. You call out people for being anti-war yet never served your country, comical. Abortion is a legal procedure in this country, get over it. Anti-religion? Anti-country? You are a prime example of why people can't stand the present GOP. Go back to your cave and pretend Cheney is a good guy and the Iraq war kept the U.S. safer. Didn't the FBI just find kiddie porn on FJ's Dad's computer?
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