… to the message about Palin we’ve been getting the rest of the week, especially from that scathing Vanity Fair profile, and it’s starting to become increasingly difficult as we approach November to tell apart the real Palin from the smear campaigns, or the real Palin from the propaganda. But it also means the entertainment value of all three are increasingly exponentially, and if Palin continues to crank out apolitical and light-hearted moments like this one, she’ll only make it harder for those on the left to continue to find her irritating and noxious.
It must absolutely fry Palin-haters to see how magnanimous she has been through the mud-slinging and especially now that her very word gets someone elected.
The left is absolutely scared sh-tless of this woman.
They should be.
What really scares the left is that she can be incredibly down to earth and simplistic with her common sense and down-homeyness!
Can you see Tipper Gore doing George Soros’s makeup? OK, maybe I can, but that is on a whole other level!!!
She is such a sweetheart! Love her!
Hello Canada. Sarah Palin is wierd, so, as a conservative, I do not see why you people defend her. She is so over-the-top and embarrassing.
L, stop being silly.
I saw this video earlier today and was very touched by it.
I have NO DOUBT though that more than a few on the Left will have no problem making jokes about this and criticizing her for it … somehow, someway.
I think ‘L’ is a false-flag “conservative”. It’s nice to see something other than the rubbish Vanity Fair published – and CNN chose to repeat.
Glen Beck is morphing into a TV ministry. This will only ad to the negative image of the Christian right taking over the GOP.
Glen has to get back to being a political clown with great messages.
He starting to take himself a tad too seriously and I sense a swollen ego about to burst into a full fledged cone head.
I liked him as he was when he first got his break … a sobered up clown who was angry at the socialists and who appealed to the WalMart crowd to some extent.
Hannity is too didactic, predictable and a bit boring. O’Reilly is a bit too much of a radical fence sitter and his ego is stinking up the set a bit too much at times. Greta does a good job. Stossel is the greatest.
Of course all the Fox News Foxes are fabulous. Wherever do they find so many absolutely gorgeous and brilliant lawyerettes who are also conservative. How hot is that?
Well no, I am a an old Alberta Peter Lougheed conservative, and sorry, Sarah is a bit on the edge for my taste. Some of her messages are great, but I hope the US is not insane enough to consider her for president!
Trashing Sarah Palin is now a cottage industry in the Democrat press. Here is a response to the latest lies: http://bigjournalism.com/gloudon/2010/09/03/the-truth-about-that-dishonest-vanity-fair-palin-story-from-one-who-was-there/
L, if you are a Lougheed conservative that would make you a LIBERAL. I guess the L should had said it all…
“Hello Canada. Sarah Palin is wierd, so, as a conservative, I do not see why you people defend her. She is so over-the-top and embarrassing.”
Perhaps Sarah is your first glimpse of a real conservative, no-bullshit woman. I have met a few women who were similar types to Sarah. They are smart, hard working self-reliant realistic women.
They are nothing like the hogs you will find on the left who never stop whining to government for everything from free money for the non-productive to their zit medicine.
Sarah is a Conservative, not a ‘progressive’ Conservative of the variety we must endure here in the Great White North.
If Sarah embarrasses you, then don’t hang out with her.
If she were president, Iran would not be getting nuclear weapons.
Sorry, I’m just not with the Palin thing.
I’d probably like her as a neighbour, shooting pal, or as my kids’ gradeschool teacher.
But POTUS?
No.
Somehow, though it would be crazy for anyone who knows me to call me an elitist, I still believe that the person most responsible for the direction of the more important nation on Earth should be smarter than me, have read more books than me, and seen more of the world than me.
I have to believe that the POTUS is wiser than me, so that when I am asked to do things that I am not sure are the right thing, I have some faith in my leader.
Palin can be a cheerleader, but I don’t think she can be a true leader.
And if the Republicans try that stuff, we are going to have 4 more years of 0bama.
Yes how could a down home girl like Sarah, hold a candle to those beautiful babes on the left like Libby and Lizzy and Hedy. Come on Abe….
OK. Fine. Go ahead. Flame away.
But if I don’t respond it’s not because I can’t. Its because I do need to go to bed… kids have alternate plans and I will be blasting targets from morning until late afternoon tomorrow.
WOOT!
The attacks started as soon as she gave her acceptance speech at the RNC because, like a different bob said at 12:19, Democrats were scared of her. Now that she doesn’t even hold public office they’re still attacking her hysterically and shamelessly because a) she’s an on-the-ground, actual American, one of the great unwashed, and b) she’s utterly courageous, and she refuses to play the usual game, which makes her a massive threat to the big-G gravy train.
Some guy named Wilson Pickett points out here that her historic, game-changing speech at the RNC was, in retrospect, highly prescient, almost like a template for the future Tea Party movement. Here are some of the things she said during her speech – and remember, this was before Obama was elected:
“..what 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…….
• “And take more of your money.
• “To give you more orders from Washington………..
• “And reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world.
• “America needs more energy………..our opponent is against producing it.
• “Government is too big……..he wants to grow it.
• “Congress spends too much money…….he promises more.
She called it perfectly, like she’d seen Obama’s playbook. She didn’t beat around the bush like McCain did, and she’s still talking in the language of workaday Americans; no wonder she’s seen as such a threat.
Abe I think I love you 🙂 I don’t get why people hate this woman, she’s the only politician we have fighting for us and will tell us the truth. If you can’t stand that pioneery kind of woman that’s ok but for God’s sake she tells the truth. If they say she doesn’t they’re lying because not one person has proved her wrong yet.
Ms. Lori’s a piece of work, eh?! Her claims to be a conservative remind me of David Frum … just before he trashes every true conservative he can poke a stick at. Being in America nowadays, Frum is a RINO (Republican in Name Only). Lori therefore would be a CINO ([Canadian] Conservative in Name Only). I have little doubt that she would vote for Ignatieff over Harper any day.
As for Sarah Palin, I have very mixed feelings. When she came to notoriety I started a YouTube channel called “WeLoveSarahPalin”. It’s a silly name to be sure but it clearly aggravated all the right people!
Is Palin the best candidate for the Republicans in 2012? Surely not. But if the choice came down to her vs. Barack Obama, I’d vote for her in a second … that is if I was American … or an illegal immigrant there! 🙂
P.S. The most intriguing Republican combination I’ve read about recently is: Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney … but with Bachmann in the presidential role! I think she’d make a terrific president and he could be giving the role of ferreting out the rampant waste through the federal gov’t.
Tks for this post Kate.
Palin’s speech at the “Restoring Honor” rally was about honor and telling the American people that they still have it,,, only it’s not to be searched for outside themselves but within themselves.
If there was a choice for her as POTUS she would wrap up the military vote. They understand her and respect her. And they have families and friends who talk (probably with disagreements nonetheless). This is one reason the MSM loath her. You can’t buy an individuals honor. The power of Palin tapping into that sense of individual pride and discernment scares the crap out of a leftist.
This clip shows her helping out a decorated military HERO with respect and humility. She didn’t air it,,, Beck did! And for that I’m grateful.
L, Lori, Robert, et-al;
You’re underestimating Palin…
Sarah will never be president, but she does p****s off the right people.
Oh, and Abe, Beck does not advocate any particular religious denomination, even though he says he’s Mormon.
He does have the right to speak his mind, does he not?
You have to listen to the entire context of his message, which is to offer up a theory on how America went wrong.
In any event, his gathering of 200,000 people in Washington last Saturday certainly was far from scary or threatening, would you not agree?
Mike, please don’t group me with Lori Frum!
Mittens gave us Obamacare! He’s so squishy he can’t put the mirror down. Michele is good and she’s a fighter but Palin had to prop her up too. Palin’s been mayor, council person, Gov, she has the experience and most of all she cares about our country and about us. That means more than you know. Palin/West 2012
“Is Palin the best candidate for the Republicans in 2012? Surely not”
Arrogant much?
The problem with the RNC is the same as that of the NDP (Dems). Elitists.
Palin has been vetted by the American People. For all of the ink spilt on her, not to mention all the TV and radio time dedicated to trashing her, she’s still standing.
Not evan Blagovich has been run through such a gauntlet as she has and yet she can send Gibbs into a tailspin with a mere facebook posting.
Can she handle being POTUS? You Betcha!
Let the American People decide who best to represent themselves and their country. Americans are learning a hard lesson right now in letting Elitists do their thinking for them. They have a couple of years yet.(except of course residents in AZ and LA are a bit ahead on that learning curve, in that anyone showing up with a Fed ID badge is probably an asshat)
The very people she scares most are the “I know what YOU need,You don’t”, self appointed game-players without introspection.
If she does make it to POTUS you can still bitch about her and your Volvo over a glass of Chardonnay.
Surely not
Let me see.. hmm Beck & Palin had thier little
gathering and then the AK recount was suddenly cancelled and Joe-who was nominated….WOW that is power!
Beck has a Group of >245 faith leaders, including Muslim,, …Hmm… What does that mean for America?
Sorry, Robert, I should have named “old lori”
To elucidate: Many folks may hear Sarah Palins’ words; and judge her based on the media-interpreted gestalt of the day, yet fail to hear her message, which is clear and simple to understand.
As times get a bit tougher, and people become (in spite of themselves) more politically aware, they look to leadership from someone they can relate to. The elites who have dominated our political leadership for the last few decades no longer resonate. A major “retrenchement” is under way.
I think a significant number of “we, the unwashed masses”, are about to take our lives back. Palin is the epitomy of that movement.
That’s why I say don’t underestimate her. Her power is real, because it is not contrived.
She is even potentially more powerful than Reagan, as she did NOT have the Hollywood background…which is in her favor in this context.
The only question is whether she will be able to resuscitate a drowning America before it is too late…
She puts her money where her mouth is. I am a pro-choice Conservative, but I and millions of Americans saw she was the real thing when she proudly kept her Down’s syndrome baby. I wish there was a down to earth more Libertarian candidate, but we are getting down to crunch time and must go for the person who defends America the best. And someone who was an air force brat, got to love her defence of the military.
Abe: good run down on fox. I largely agree but am reluctant to write off beck and oreilly entirely as they both could change their habits as we approach 2012. They are media survivors of the first order.
L: As has been noted, if you are are lougheed supporter you are a big government liberal – probably to the left of Joe clark.
As for Palin she will be like nectar from the gods for any GOP candidate looking to raise funds but she continues to lack the seriousness and depth on issues compared to the less thrilling Daniels, pawlenty, Gingrich, romney and several other POTUS possibles.
She is now dipping her toe in the waters of iowa – the caucuses are well suited to her. But to really break through and join the ranks of credible POTUS possibles she needs to make a substantial speech the covers both national and foreign issues and have a series of pressers or one on ones that demonstrate she has a firm grasp and understanding of those issues. It is too early for her to do either both because of the timing and I think because she couldn’t pull it off.
Should she not run for POTUS she will continue to be a powerful fundraiser until nov 2012. After that point should as expected a GOP potus be in place she could very quickly fade from the scene – her valuable services then less valuable and her anti-establishment rhetoric less welcome.
Palin does have the unflappable character and firm
philosophical grounding to be a great POTUS – but I and many many others have yet to see evidence of the third critical requirement – a keen intelligence and interest in policy – particularly foreign policy.
If it boils down to a cat fight between Sarah and Hillary,
I can only make one choice.
Yes-
I am a male chauvinistic pig!
“oink-oink” love corn.
Old Lori, have you not seen the ruin brought on by the POTUSs who have all the smarts you don’t – the Rhodes scholars & the well credentialed grads?
I’ll put my money on a road scholar any day of the week. The school of hard knocks produces more raw talent and clear practical thinking people than the ivory tower.
Gord Tulk:
With respect, I dont think you have looked very hard.
I am not sure what you would consider evidence of the issues you require. A serious look at the record provides many instances of intelligence. Palin’s speech in Hong Kong, and some facebook posts showed her grasp of foreign issues.
Here is a person who should have faded into obscurity after the ’08 election, but instead has become a powerhouse in American politics with no help from anyone.
She has withstood a savaging by the MSM and remains a consequential figure.
She has authored a best selling book.
She can send liberals and the MSM into a frothing rage by a dissertaion on facebook.
What is required is LEADERSHIP QUALITIES. This amazing lady has that in spades.
Doing well by doing good. God bless her.
Maybe they should concentrate on where they went wrong electing Omama instead of going stark raving mad every time Sarah Palin appears.
Sure they’re worried about her, why else would they be in such a frenzied state over a person who speaks in plain language and talks about stuff of concern to many Americans?
jann: “If you can’t stand that pioneery kind of woman that’s ok but for God’s sake she tells the truth.”
And that’s what ticks off the Leftards: They can’t stand the truth. They’ve been living in a sea of lies, obfuscation, statistics, and deceit for so long, it disorients them.
Sarah Palin has the effect on Leftards of Dorothy’s pail of water on the Wicked Witch: I’m melting! I’m melting!
The other thing the Leftards can’t stand, seeing as they’ve divided women into two categories — the domestic ones who love their husbands and babies and take care of their own kids and the suited and brief-cased ones who rise to executive positions and MAKE LOTS OF MONEY AND HAVE LOTS OF POWER (you know, the it-takes-a-village-to-raise-a-child-ones?) — is seeing a woman who does it all. That can’t be! they say. Who the hell does Sarah Palin think she is?
Here’s a woman who really does seem to be able to balance the domestic and corporate/political spheres AND SEEMS GENUINELY HAPPY DOING BOTH. I’ve never believed in the Super Woman the rad fems have promoted since the ’60s — you know, the woman who can do it all, have it all, and never flag — but if there is one, Sarah Palin’s HER.
Sarah for POTUS? I’m not sure (hey, she’s still got a few kids at home.) But, as for VP or any high-powered Cabinet position? You betcha!
Sarah Palin is the Real Deal.
I think one of the things the left is angry about is they were the ones who turned Sarah into the mega star she is now. Had they not attacked her so unfairly and so often she would just be another bit player on the Republican ticket. Instead she is THE star of the Republican party. Even people who were disinterested in politics took notice of the abuse heaped apon her and became interested. Whether or not she can become a presidential contender or not is still up in the air. She may be far more valuable to the Republicans just doing what she’s doing now.
If Nancy Pelosi was a racehorse the stewards would be testing her for drugs after every race.
Seldom mentioned by Canada’s repulsive MSM is the fact that Sarah Palin was the most Canada friendly governor of Alaska in memory. Her Canada route gas pipeline decision was the best for the state’s ordinary residents and us but pitted her against very powerful interests in Alaska and the lower 48 who regarded oil and gas as their personal piggy bank.
As Rush said, the Left will tell you who they fear most in politics by their unrelenting, imbecilic, counterproductive, personal attacks. Their strategy is to “wedge” Sarah so the elitists RINO moneybags won’t support her financially.
As far as being smart enough to be president goes. I haven’t heard Sarah say anything stupid or heard Obama say anything smart.
From Vanity Fair smear job on Sarah Palin by Michael Joseph Gross: “Colleagues and acquaintances by the hundreds went on the record to reveal what they knew, for good or ill, about prospective national candidates as diverse as Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Al Gore, and Barack Obama.”
Americans knew “what they knew for good or ill” about the Obamessiah? Uh huh, Mr. Gross, go for THE BIG LIE a few paragraphs in. Everything Americans needed to know about Barry had been sealed up, at the cost of a cool million, to be opened only in 25 years.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/10/sarah-palin-201010?currentPage=all
Have the barf bucket ready.
The arrow has pierced the heart of the Leftard Beast and the tail is thrashing as hard and fast as it can, to take out as many of the enemy as possible. We see it with Palin and in the Avaaz petition. The Leftards are going absolutely ballistic. When the Right is able to get its message out, which the left/lib media has been preventing for 40 years, they know it’s game over. They’ve had a good run, so far, and they can see the end of the road and the end of the gravy train. Oh no!
Gord Tulk,
I largely agree with your assessments; something that doesn’t happen too often on this site that I think so highly of (in spite of my own more inclusive (read: liberal) views).
I’ve been a long time fan of Greta’s; since long before she took a position on the ‘right’ minded media shill of an organization that is FAUX. Though more subtle regarding her own beliefs, she has managed to maintain her integrity.
I disagree on one point, however, I believe that it is Gov Palin’s weakness of character that trumps her apparent lack of either ‘keen intellect’ or interest in understanding relevant issues -that precludes her from serious consideration. The capability for a substantial speech is simply not there because following a teleprompter through such a speech would be veritably impossible.
While the ‘finer’ points of intellect and political awareness may be overcome by the changes in political winds, and the rampant political flailing du jour, quitting her job as Governor will be the weight that sinks her among ‘the unwashed’. And the Republicrats would be well advised to not take a chance on waking a fearful Demican base~
I am a keen follower of U.S. politics, who is a fiscal conservative Canadian. I am not at this time able to predict who will be the main contenders for the Republican party for President. I don’t think the real contest will begin until after Nov. 2010. The jockeying and fund raising abilities of each candidate ( not personal wealth) the $5.00 and $20.00 donations are almost always followed by a committed voter.
2012 will be facinating to watch both the Republican but also Democratic situation to see if there is a chalenger for Obama, or as some speculate he will even run.
For all you boys and girls out there who think this woman is stupid, remember Sara Palin is the one who wrote “Hi Mom!” -on her hand- after all the redneck teleprompter comments in the MSM.
Sarah Palin is playing the Hate America media like a Stradivarius. Every time she appears in public she says some inarguable facts like “Water is wet, the sky is blue, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.” The media then goes insane and trashes her for saying… stuff everybody knows is true!
We all see it happen every time she opens her mouth. She’s making her enemies shoot themselves in the @ss not just once, but repeatedly. Its freakin’ brilliant.
However, I must say that this is beside the point. If America’s choices are Sarah or Barry in 2010, that is a no-brainer. A FLOOR MOP propped in front of a microphone would be better for America than four more years of Barry. A stuffed yak would be better, and better looking too.
Floor mops and stuffed yaks are better because they just sit there and don’t do anything. Doing nothing at all is better than the active destruction of Barry’s minions IMHO.
I think the biggest reason the left dislikes her is they could not destroy her. They started with the usual disdain and eliteism. Didn’t work. Upped the ante and dragged in the kids. Didn’t work. Nothing works. She negates their known universe, they are the people that took tickets for the basketball game while she played.
She steals their influence,questions their judgement and makes them sick with envy. She is just a better person than they are.I think the biggest reason the left dislikes her is they could not destroy her. They started with the usual disdain and elitism. Didn’t work. Upped the ante and dragged in the kids. Didn’t work. Nothing works. She negates their known universe, they are the people that took tickets for the basketball game while she played.
She steals their influence,questions their judgement and makes them sick with envy. She is just a better person than they are. Better than me for sure.
Sorry trouble with spell check. Sure you got the point.
I am with old lori on this one, and according to the polling numbers, so are the american electorate, sarah does NOT poll very high as a POTUS contender, tho that could change
Sarah, like Bush, is of the people
the lefties are above the people, and that will make a big difference in the midterms I feel
A few supplementary notes on the comments above:
I never said Sarah palin wasn’t smart – she is. Very. But she seems at the very least uninterested and at worst ignorant of the policy end of the political pool. Obama too is very smart but his disinterest in foreign affairs is providing conditions internationally for a huge crisis on several fronts.
Palin would likely beat Obama in 2012. Hell I could beat him in 2012 even if I admitted to being born in Newfoundland.
Their are two problems with her candidacy against Obama:
– she’s not the best option for the GOP and America needs the very best next time around for obvious reasons.
– Obama will not run for a second term unless it’s a coronation. The dems will have a fresh candidate – Hillary may not ne the next One. And that could make it a much closer contest.
http://p21chong.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/nancy-pelosi-facelift.jpg
I’d probably like her as a neighbour, shooting pal, or as my kids’ gradeschool teacher.
But POTUS?
No.
Somehow, though it would be crazy for anyone who knows me to call me an elitist, I still believe that the person most responsible for the direction of the more important nation on Earth should be smarter than me, have read more books than me, and seen more of the world than me.
I have to believe that the POTUS is wiser than me, so that when I am asked to do things that I am not sure are the right thing, I have some faith in my leader.
I agree with this whole heartedly. But, the left has been creating and defining the “Elite” for the last 50 years. Are we ever going to see a conservative leader who was educated at Harvard or Yale, which are historically creators or presidents? Any great conservative leader now would have to come from industry, but the leaders of the major corporations all seem to be left wing rent seekers. The conservative world is going to have to look farther afield to find good leadership, because their isn’t any in what we have defined as the elite in the past.
Well, Gord, if Palin is not the best option, please tell me who is the better option.
If you cannot name a better person, then obviously Palin is the best option.
Those kinds of statements are exactly what is wrong with political discourse today.
The “she is not the best” meme has been around forever, but i have yet to hear chapter and verse about a better contender. There is a plethora of evidence showing Palins suitability, and a scarcity of evidence to the contrary,- except for statements backed only by the fact that they are repeated ad nauseum.
Facts and data. Nothing beats it.
L, your $1.5 trillion deficit is embarrassing.
Derek