Sarah Palin Treated as Political Equal of President?
Even if I did not admire Sarah Palin’s accomplishments as Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and as Governor of Alaska where that charismastic woman did more in short tenure to reform the corrupt politics of that great state than did the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee before he launched his bid for the White House, I would love her for how she gets under some very unhappy people’s very sensitive skin.
So obsessed are they with this good woman that she only need open her mouth for them to criticize her. Or write something innocuous on her palm. They practically wet themselves trying to engage in a speculative divination. And trying to deride her intelligence when she, as many orators do, scribbled notes to herself to remind her of issues she wanted to address, they neglected to pay much attention to what she actually did say.
“The far left,” Jim Hoft opined, “The far left absolutely freaked over this non-issue rather than focus on her brilliant speech“. They prefer to treat her as a circus sideshow that a woman with accomplishments and ideas.
At least, the mainstream media did take note of the speech and so helped elevate the former Governor of the Last Frontier. Indeed, it often seems she gets as much attention as he. And her supposed gaffes get more attention than his actual gaffes.
What does it say when “the losing candidate for Vice President [is] for all intents and purposes, treated as the political equal of the President of the United States“? (Quote via Instapundit.)
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Mainly it says the Left is afraid. Very afraid.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — February 8, 2010 @ 6:51 pm - February 8, 2010
Amazing how one small woman can invoke so much hate from the left. She gives a 45 minute speech, a few words on her hand, no notes, and God forbid a Teleprompter, never screws up and she’s called a light weight. This woman is a GIANT and she scares the shit out of the left, as well she should. I can’t wait till 2012 when I can say “President Elect Palin”.
Comment by John in Dublin CA — February 8, 2010 @ 6:56 pm - February 8, 2010
Remember, Obama needed (or at least He used) 2 Teleprompters the other week to talk to a class of sixth graders.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — February 8, 2010 @ 6:59 pm - February 8, 2010
It means that America still adores celebrity, and prefers simple answers to complex problems.
For every American who loves her there is an American who despises her smarmy, sarcastic style. For every American who thinks for some reason that she should be taken seriously there is an American who remembers her “deer in the bright light of an oncoming train” performances during most of her interviews in the last election. She did not complete her single term of governor of a relatively small (by population) state. Her writing is insipid, her ideas are cliches, and she panders relentlessly to people who believe that if you can put “values,” “family,” and “America” in the same sentence, you deserve to be elected.
In an earlier post, I called her a lightweight. She is, indeed, and the frenzy with which her supporters on this blog rush to find and illuminate her slightest credential merely proves my point. As Malcolm X once said, and I am paraphrasing here, “I always know I’m getting close to the truth when everyone starts to scream.”
Comment by Phil Holmes — February 8, 2010 @ 7:16 pm - February 8, 2010
Do you ever get tired of being wrong?
Comment by Serenity — February 8, 2010 @ 7:42 pm - February 8, 2010
Serenity, you linked to a photo of Obama in a sixth grade classroom… talking… with Teleprompters.’
It says he was talking to the press. Fine, let’s take that at face value. What kind of President needs a Teleprompter to talk to the press? (I hope not one you worship?)
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — February 8, 2010 @ 7:47 pm - February 8, 2010
Also, I’d like to ask from pure curiosity: Is telling people they’re wrong (when actually, you get down to the details and they were at least partly right) one of the steps in your serenity program?
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — February 8, 2010 @ 7:51 pm - February 8, 2010
6th graders – media… same difference…
teleprompter to give some 5 minutes statement and answer some questions is the same as a few words in your palm??
Palin took on the Dem with one hand
LOL
Comment by Katey — February 8, 2010 @ 7:57 pm - February 8, 2010
Palin isn’t Obamas’ equal….she is head and shoulders above him.
Comment by psutopgun — February 8, 2010 @ 8:17 pm - February 8, 2010
You’re changing the subject. You said he needed (or at least used) teleprompters to talk to sixth graders. He didn’t. The post proves he didn’t. He talked to the sixth graders in a room with a green floor, which clearly had no teleprompters in it. He talked to the press in room with a tan floor, clearly not the same room, with both press and teleprompters now visible.
In fact, the post is from a right-winger, lamenting your type for letting my type distract from real issues by raising refuted points for me to knock down with zero effort. Which you’re playing to right now! This topic is about Sarah Palin, why are you letting me make it about you and your refuted claims?
The statement you made earlier, in case you needed to see it again. What part of this is correct? Will you at least admit your error here? You made a post, it was unequivocally wrong. You tried to backpeddle, tried to make it about why Obama needs a teleprompter to talk to the press, while not admitting your original error.
You’re actually doing what you accused me of doing in another post on this blog. Have you no shame?
Comment by Serenity — February 8, 2010 @ 8:27 pm - February 8, 2010
No idea what you’re talking about, champ. And I probably don’t care; I mean, get over yourself.
Nope. First, the subject is “sarah-palin-treated-as-political-equal-of-president” and I’m not the one who changed it; I was adding on to John #2. Second, John #2 brought up the Left’s freak-out over Palin talking from a few very terse notes and that was “the subject” I was responding to. Now *YOU*, Serenity, are trying to change the subject into some meta-subject about me allegedly, supposedly changing the subject from whatever convoluted point you wish it were. In other words, Serenity: You’re actually doing what you accused me of doing in another post on this blog. Have you no shame?
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — February 8, 2010 @ 8:57 pm - February 8, 2010
(Sorry, not “in another post on this blog”; rather, in this very post. I apologize for that error.)
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — February 8, 2010 @ 8:58 pm - February 8, 2010
You really don’t get it, do you Dan. Sarah gets all the buzz because nearly everyone wants her to succeed.
Far-right Republicans who want to find a populist leader love her. All the Republican political professionals, who understand that the Republicans seem to have no leaders on the bench, and whose main fantasy is to latch their wagons to an empty vessel/star – so that maybe someday they can actually run foreign affairs, or domestic affairs, or any of a thousand lesser roles for a clueless leader – they love her too.
And most of all, the opposition love her to death. The greatest fantasy for Democrats is that Sarah is your nominee in 2012. I would go so far as to make a blanket prediction here – if she is your nominee, Obama will do better than Reagan’84, at least in terms of popular vote. So yeah, anything at all that we can possibly do to help her on her way. Yes, even if you guys get tired of her and stop focusing on her, we will bring her back to center stage.
The only ones who are really upset at all the attention Sarah is getting are the sane Republicans who recoil in horror at the prospect of her taking over the party.
Thats the way politics works, guys. Yes, to your great consternation, Dems will run against Bush until that well runs dry. We ran against Newt Gingrich for a decade after he crashed and burned. You guys hold the record though – you are still running against Jimmy Carter 29 years after he left office.
When you have someone on the other side who you know ends up making you look good, you do all you can to keep them in the spotlight.
Putting Sarah up as the Republican counter to Obama is perhaps the smartest purely political move that Dems can make.
Sometimes when you are looking to understand something that you don’t quite get, it is helpful to look to the obvious.
Comment by Tano — February 8, 2010 @ 8:59 pm - February 8, 2010
Oh, and this:
Check your own photo, at your own link.
1) Obama in sixth-grade classroom.
2) Obama had Teleprompters set up in sixth-grade classroom. Because, God knows, He uses them often, probably more often than any President in history.
3) Obama talking to people from said Teleprompters.
4) People being media. Or as Katey pointed out: mental and emotional sixth graders, rather than literal sixth graders.
So, IF we are to judge by your own photo and link, Serenity, I got 3 parts of 4 correct. Can we see you admit that? I mean, if you are supposedly so great at admitting things and all that?
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — February 8, 2010 @ 9:03 pm - February 8, 2010
#4 Phil, yeah we hear the screaming and its all coming from the left. Scream about a few words written on her palm, scream about how she resonates with a whole lot of Americans, scream about how light weight she is, and if that is true, why are you screaming????? Light weight? I’d call a president who can’t speak a coherent english sentence a light weight. I will wait until i can say “President elect Palin” and you should brace yourself, because it is coming.
Comment by John in Dublin CA — February 8, 2010 @ 10:10 pm - February 8, 2010
Serenity,
Don’t waste your time. Andrew Sullivan is more intellectually honest than that one.
Yes, you are correct, Obama did not use teleprompters to address 6th graders, but that one is a pathological liar who will redefine the entire English language, and twist the entire internet inside out trying to save face before he will ever own up to the fact that you were right and he was wrong.
He does it all the time.
Comment by American Elephant — February 8, 2010 @ 10:33 pm - February 8, 2010
The only point that’s worth discussing about this ink-on-the-hand business is one of Republican hypocrisy. As irrationally hysterical as conservatives have been about Obama and the teleprompter for the past year, we all know how different this tune would be if it was the President that was spotted with notes scribbled on his hand. Or would you all be hopping to his defense?
Speaking of Sarah Palin’s general level of intelligence, did anyone else see her tell Chris Wallace that the only way for Obama to salvage his presidency is to ‘play the war card’ and invade Iran? That’s the stupidest thing I’ve heard anyone say so far this year.
And once more, even though I know this will fall on deaf ears – Sarah Palin does not get under our skin, we aren’t afraid of her, she’s not out-witting us, or whatever other fantasy you’d like to believe. Sarah Palin is both a comedy goldmine and a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head of the GOP. You boys go right ahead and continue to elevate her, keep on paying those checks and pumping up that ego, she’ll be primed for one of the most epic flame-outs in the history of politics come 2012. There are stupid people that voted for George Bush twice that think Sarah Palin is too stupid to be President.
Comment by Levi — February 8, 2010 @ 11:32 pm - February 8, 2010
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Levi #17:
The proof in this is that you show up jabbering whenever her name appears.
Sure, you can send out just about anyone in the liberal/progressive movement and draws crowds that would make the Pope tremble with jealousy.
Obviously, you could shut her down in a nano-second.
But
So, the only solution is for the conservatives to knock Sarah Palin off to save themselves.
Knowing that Levi is dedicated to saving conservatism and the GOP we should all light a candle to him for his Mother Teresa level dedication to bringing us truth and light. (Or is it poof and lite ?)
Comment by heliotrope — February 9, 2010 @ 10:29 am - February 9, 2010
Levi #17 offers comedy gold of his own:
There is no measure quite like stupid people who are so stupid they would do stupid stuff twice, but “they think Sarah Palin is too stupid to be President.”
Wow! When people are serial stupid and they identify someone too stupid to vote for, that cements it. Poll the stupid people. The stupid can be counted upon to ferret out the really stupid. Intellectuals cannot differentiate between common stupid and super stupid. That is the job for nuanced stupid specialists who can plumb the depths of stupidity against their own enlightened stupidity.
Jonathan Swift is crying tears of laughter.
Comment by heliotrope — February 9, 2010 @ 10:45 am - February 9, 2010
Whoa, Levi. If you want to talk about hypocrisy, then why aren’t you praising Palin for her greenness? As a Michelle Malkin commentor put it a day or two ago:
Heh
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — February 9, 2010 @ 10:51 am - February 9, 2010
By the way, here is Palin’s speech at the Tea Party convention in case anyone missed it:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/02/025543.php
Listening now. My favorite quote so far:
Yup, “immoral”, she went there
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — February 9, 2010 @ 12:01 pm - February 9, 2010
She summarizes her own platform in 5 points: “Lower taxes, smaller government, transparency, energy independence and strong national security.”
No mention of Jesus and the dinosaurs, yet. (Tano joke) Or of anything that could be construed as anti-gay.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — February 9, 2010 @ 12:16 pm - February 9, 2010
You forgot, ILC; all of those things that you mentioned ARE “antigay”.
Gays and lesbians automatically oppose lower taxes, smaller government, transparency, energy independence, and strong national security — because Palin and the vast majority of Republicans and conservatives support them.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — February 9, 2010 @ 3:31 pm - February 9, 2010
There are in fact a number of gay people who already support Sarah Palin.
My only concern with Sarah’s platform is the lower taxes, and I am speaking as someone with a modest economics degree. Whilst I agree with the aim of lower taxes, I am not sure that it is going to be possible if national debt remains insurmountable.
Thanks to the out of control spending of the Congress under the Obama administration, as well as the last 2 years of the Bush Administration, the USA has a very high national debt. The consequences of this spending for the future is high inflation and high unemployment at the same time. This situation, which defies the logic of Keynesian economics is called stagflation. We had stagflation in the past, and here in Australia that period was prolonged because of the prolific spending of the Whitlam government. Taxes should not be lowered until the debt is under control.
My thoughts on the subject are cautionary only, because we can only wait and see what will happen. It is just that lowering taxation rates, especially income taxes could cause an unwanted expansion in the money supply that would lead to the stagflation.
On the other hand, if Palin was elected and got it right with regard to offshore drilling for oil, which should bring in more dollars, then that tax reduction could take place at a faster pace. What I am saying is that if taxes are not lowered immediately then it is not necessarily a bad thing. On the other hand raising taxes would be a bad thing.
Comment by StraightAussie — February 10, 2010 @ 5:23 am - February 10, 2010
Whilst I refuse to respond to the resident trolls (I think they are the same person), I have to say that Sarah Palin provided the ultimate response to the nonsense, when she allowed her hand to be photographed with “Hi Mom” written on it.
There is nothing wrong with jotting down a couple of points on the hand. There is nothing wrong with having notes or dot points whilst standing at the podium either. However, there is something wrong when someone needs two teleprompters for every single speech that is given. He looks like Mr. Bobblehead… and he has the most annoying voice.
Comment by StraightAussie — February 10, 2010 @ 5:27 am - February 10, 2010
LOL. We on the left HOPE and PRAY this intellectual moron stays in the forefront of the GOP. She has ZERO chance of ever winning a national election.
The only people who will vote for her are already in the fold. She proved she’ll send the independents fleeing.
Five colleges in six years and graduating from that esteemed University of Idaho only reinforces that she doesn’t have the capacity to ever, ever, ever be anything more than AK governor or Faux News Channel’s opinion personality.
So, Yeah, keep that idiot in the spotlight. Please.
Comment by buckeyenutlover — February 10, 2010 @ 10:12 am - February 10, 2010
oh, and it’s going to be a LONG, LONG, LONG decade for your morally repugnant republicans.
Comment by buckeyenutlover — February 10, 2010 @ 10:14 am - February 10, 2010
SA, same here.
But you give the answer, SA, in the next sentence:
In other words: Cut “domestic” or non-defense spending. And don’t even make deep cuts: Simply cut all the spending added after, oh, 2006. That alone would cut several hundreds of billions from the U.S. budget. Can anyone seriously argue that in 2006, after six years of the profligate, free-spending Bush administration, the U.S. wasn’t spending enough?
High inflation and high unemployment go together, when and because the government is discouraging *production* and innovation in the economy. History shows that when the government encourages them – that is, when government sticks to enforcing criminal law, contracts and property rights, and sound money under natural interest rates, and halts all of its other interference with the economy – then to that extent, stagflation ends.
You’re saying that lowering the deficit is a higher priority than lowering taxes, and I agree, but could we please state it more nakedly?
SPENDING MUST BE CUT. Cutting spending is the key to both problems (lower deficit + lower taxes).
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — February 10, 2010 @ 10:42 am - February 10, 2010
Five colleges in six years and graduating from that esteemed University of Idaho only reinforces that she doesn’t have the capacity to ever, ever, ever be anything more than AK governor or Faux News Channel’s opinion personality.
Thank you for making it obvious that you and your Barack Obama consider graduates of public universities to be intellectually inferior.
And also, what we’re seeing is that Barack Obama and his Barack Obama supporters are pointing to current weather and natural events as proof that global warming is real.
I seem to believe our resident trolls like Tano were screaming that that was unscientific last week. Do they and their Barack Obama, all of whom they claim are far smarter than all the rest of us, care to explain why they are repeating and using what they claim to be a fallacy?
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — February 10, 2010 @ 1:08 pm - February 10, 2010