Sarah Palin has wrote a book, therefore she is evil and is going to destroy the GOP. 
Well, at least that is what Newsweek wants you to believe. The media was mad when she resigned from Governor of Alaska and didn’t answer their questions. Now she has answered their questions by writing a book, effectively taking money away from the media because they can’t get the ‘exclusive’, they are ticked off again.
Moderate Republicans—yes, they are not yet extinct, though most are in hiding—scoff at Sarah Palin and wish she would go away.
I love it! “Moderate” Republicans! Really? I think he meant to say the Pro-Choice Republicans wish she would go away. However, saying Pro-Choice around Palin is a liberal media taboo now a days. That just brings up the fact that Palin had the audacity to bring a defective child into this world when she should have ripped the child apart in her womb. Woopsies! That’s not something they want the moderate (translation – pro-life) democrats to be thinking about. So, the word game comes into play again and now moderate Republicans are against her – good thing Newsweek told us, we would never have known it among the moderate Republican groups.
With all the big words and fancy poetic writing this author likes to spew he has made a grave mistake – most likely from not understanding the words he is using:
Obama knows the long odds against a right-wing populist winning the presidency, no matter how good she looks in a skirt (or running clothes), brandishing a gun.
Let’s pull out the Websters dictionary and see exactly what he is saying.
Main Entry: 1pop·u·list
2 : a believer in the rights, wisdom, or virtues of the common people
So, the author is saying that Obama doesn’t want a believer in the rights, wisdom or virtues of the common people to win an election. Very telling.
The last statement about looking good in a skirt would be considered sexist if that was said towards a Democratic person, but it’s okay to say it against a
conservative, so we needn’t worry about that.
So, what would be another reason why the media is still married to Obama would be upset about Palin “Going Rogue”:
Since taking office, Obama has so far failed to win the battle for the center. The post-election polls show that the country is, if anything, drifting to the right. Obama needs to win some of those drifters back if he wants to get things done. The Republican right, hellbent on preventing that, aims to crush the last scattered remnants of the old moderate GOP establishment–or any Republican who will work with the opposition.
Translation: The liberal media’s atrocious behavior towards a woman living the feminists American dream was enough for the real moderates to see that the liberal media only wants Democratic feminists living the American dream and when Republican feminists do it they are evil and wrong has made the country to start shifting to the right.
So, now Palin is back in the spot light. Hoorah! We are now going to have fun watching the media get their panties in a bunch (weather or not they look good like that) when Palin’s book continues to rise on the best sellers list. (Psst – that means moderate Republicans must be buying her book even though they want her to go away.)
They have to make her look as un presidential as they can.
Well, she is a problem for a GOP. She may very well win the primary- thats when the activitist base of each party comes out to vote. However, she would lose the general election by a landslide. Numbers were constantly reported of independents jumping from McCain’s campaign after the choice, and of moderate Republicans choosing not to vote or voting Obama. Palin is to the right, the nation is more centrist/center-right. The votes just do not add up in her favor.
Granted, 2012 will be an election against an incumbent, which already gives the GOP low hopes since incumbents win >90% of the time. Throwing Palin in there would insure defeat.
The GOP would be better off with someone like (gulp) Romney as their de-facto leader with a presidential nod. He’s more moderate, has a wider appeal, and has a business background they can push. On top of this he doesn’t have the same opposition Palin faces, nor does he have nearly the negative press Palin would be vulnerable to during a campaign. He has legitimate experience he can put forward, whereas Palin has continued to hurt her own image through quitting as governor of Alaska, putting falsities in her book and then blasting anyone who put out fact checks, and is being further damaged by Levi Johnston coming out with all these “exposes” and “interviews” that have further put Palin in a negative light.
Personally, I’d like to see Palin get the nod. It very well could lead to a split in the party into a Conservative and Moderate party, which in turn may push the same to happen on the Left, and maybe we could have a multiparty system, at least for a short time. Of course American politics always reverts back to a two party system in the end, but it would still be nice.
Dan,
Get your facts correct, the 90% re-election rate is for congress and not the president. Then again considering you get all your facts from the democratic talking points memo what else should I expect.
As for Palin, no she will not win the 2012 primary and I am not even sure she will run again (maybe senate). The “moderates” were not jumping because of Palin and 40% of the country considers itself conservative. Liberals are the minority with 20%.
Dan –
This article is not about Palin running for President so I’m not sure why you went that route and completely ignored the point of the article. However, I’ll be more than happy to comment.
Numbers were constantly reported of independents jumping from McCain’s campaign after the choice, and of moderate Republicans choosing not to vote or voting Obama. Palin is to the right, the nation is more centrist/center-right. The votes just do not add up in her favor.
That is one of my favorite talking points right now. ‘Palin is too far right, therefore she won’t win with moderates and independents…..blah blah blah’. Didn’t seem to stop Obama that he is further to the left than Palin is to the right and that the moderates and independents reportedly jumped ship (that was when the media still like Hillary – once they decided Obama should be elected they stopped reporting that.) and he still got elected. Why does that always seem to slip your minds?
Palin has continued to hurt her own image through quitting as governor of Alaska, putting falsities in her book and then blasting anyone who put out fact checks, and is being further damaged by Levi Johnston coming out with all these “exposes” and “interviews” that have further put Palin in a negative light.
This is more proof of the reaching to make her look bad. Many moderates and Republicans rejoiced when she quit being the Governor – It was the Democrats and liberals that keep saying it made her look bad – when we said it made her look like the ‘rogue’ she claimed to be. It also impressed multiple family groups because she essentially gave up her career to protect her family. Nobel indeed (something many liberals won’t understand).
The New York times put 11 reporters to blast Palin’s book and find falsities. The fact checkers were being very picky – and not too factual themselves. For those that want to read what they found you can go here: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/13/us/politics/AP-US-Palin-Book-Fact-Check.html
However, I will let the left complain that the facts are inaccurate – because it just proves them to be more the hypocrites when they deny all the mis truths in Obama’s books. These mis truths that were found without using 11 highly paid journalists from the NY Times. I’ve wrote several articles on those – and I’m an amateur at best!
http://www.2secondsfaster.com/2008/10/the-lies-of-obama-1/
http://www.2secondsfaster.com/2008/10/the-lies-of-obama-2/
Those are just two of them.
The interviews with the disgrunted Ex boyfriend of Palin’s daughter did nothing with the Republicans. So, the liberals mouths were drooling over it all and failed to notice that while Levi was spouting hatred, the Palin’s were pretty quiet on the matter. For those who are in the conservative circles, this just shows Palin and her family to be above that.
Your arguments that make her “look bad” are from the Democratic talking points. Maybe you should try looking into some of the Republican talking points on the issue. Considering it won’t be the Democrats voting for her anyway.
(On a personal note – I don’t think she will run for President.)
Stu-
Yes, considering how few presidents we’ve had the percentages do not work, and I realized that after I posted, however it does not negate the incumbent advantage. Any incumbent, republican or democrat, is far more likely to win than a challenger.
Not sure why you keep using that talking points line. I may be a registered Democrat for lack of any other party that comes close to what I agree with, but I’m not out there receiving party newsletters, reading huffington post, or even watch CNN for news.
As for polls, America is more to the right than to the left, but I don’t trust those numbers, everyone defines those terms differently and so it does no good to poll on them. For example, a Pew poll found “An August 2008 estimate is that 51% of registered voters, including independents, lean toward the Democratic Party and 38% lean toward the Republican Party,” and yet many of those same voters would likely classify themselves as conservative. Heck, I consider my father a conservative, when he’s more a moderate Republican, and he considers himself the same. Definitions in politics are mushy, which is what leads to all of this subjectivity.
Val-
I brought it up based on the title of the Newsweek article.
Yeah, and he won them back. He was far more effective at campaigning and packaging than any of the other candidates, and thus appealing to more individuals. It didn’t hurt that most independents saw Palin as a choice that showed McCain intended to cater more to the right than to the moderates/independents, and that Palin committed many a gaffe.
I’m sorry, quitting doesn’t make you look “rogue,” it makes you look like either a)you realized it wasnt a healthy situation for you or your family b)you want to hide from the press or c) you can’t do the job and so leave because you don’t want the spotlight on you and show incompetence as it occurs (though thats fairly common across the board of governors)
As for the NYT, I wasn’t referring to them. They are one of many who have found falsehoods in the book, and even those on the right, specifically from McCain’s side, have demonstrated that she outright lied and made incorrect statements. It’s what politicians do, but addressing the fact checks and blasting them for even fact checking or calling them wrong is absurd.
As for being “above that” I highly disagree. I’m still waiting to hear about something in the book, or for a shot at him in an interview. She took a couple of weak shots during the Oprah interview, and I wouldn’t be surprised if more are to come.
Come the general you’re right you’re more unlikely to deal with Democrats, but you will be dealing with moderate Republicans and Independents who have been addressing her more and more like someone who’s on the sideline and should be ignored.
Dan –
I’m sorry, quitting doesn’t make you look “rogue,” it makes you look like either a)you realized it wasnt a healthy situation for you or your family b)you want to hide from the press or c) you can’t do the job and so leave because you don’t want the spotlight on you and show incompetence as it occurs (though thats fairly common across the board of governors)
Unless the press is attacking your children and no one is doing anything about it. and your family is beginning to crumble and fall apart because of the stress that the unnecessary and undeserved attacks have caused. Then, quitting means you are ‘rogue’ because the status quo is to sacrifice a family for a career and she refused to do that. I know that it is difficult for people to understand that standing by your family is the right thing to do, but the people who would vote for her saw this as a positive thing.
and even those on the right, specifically from McCain’s side,
Oh, you mean the very people she criticized and exposed are complaining about the book and claiming she is lying. Imagine that?
but addressing the fact checks and blasting them for even fact checking or calling them wrong is absurd.
Good to know Obama is absurd considering he has done that far more than Palin. That is, if you can provide the “outright lied and made incorrect statements” proof for us to read. She has already answered many of them to the satisfaction of most of her critics.
As for being “above that” I highly disagree. I’m still waiting to hear about something in the book, or for a shot at him in an interview. She took a couple of weak shots during the Oprah interview, and I wouldn’t be surprised if more are to come.
Good to know your still waiting after 1/2 of a year has gone by for her to say something. So, a couple of “weak” shots in your eyes means she isn’t “above” it when she was put on the spot to answer questions? Really? Let’s see, she is angry that the man who knocked up her daughter and left his child so he could go on media tours and she calls him “Ricky Hollywood” is stooping to the level of Levi? She also said that she didn’t want to discuss on national television the things he has been doing and that everyone should leave the relationship between Levi and Bristol be between Levi and Bristol is a bad thing? And the reports have shown that she doens’t Levi bash in her book. Katie Couric bash yes, but Levi no. So, I guess she is above that.
with moderate Republicans and Independents who have been addressing her more and more like someone who’s on the sideline and should be ignored.
That’s interesting, because I’ve seen just the opposite. Like I said in my article it isn’t the ‘moderate’ anythings – its the pro-choice everythings. The moderates who don’t have an opinion on abortion or who are pro-life don’t think that she should leave. It’s the pro-choicers that do. It is funny how abortion has drawn this fine line between Palin haters and Palin lovers……..
I can’t help but to remember that Youtube video of interviews with Obama voters on election day. One lady made a face after she said “Palin” and then she proved her ignorance by not even knowing what Palin’s positions were on anything other that abortion. Kinda sad if you really think about it. Most of the people interviewed were like that.
I heard that Oprah’s show had its largest audience in two years when Sarah was her guest. Also, folks in Michigan lined up for hours on her book tour. NEWSWEEK probably put her on cover to sell magazines. NEWSWEEK needs all the help it can get!
Obama isn’t that far left.
1) no new gun laws
2) nothing new regarding pro choice
3) Only one progressive movement is being put into action. Health care reform.
4) no opinions on gay marriage.
If you go further left. fully automatic assault rifle ban. abortion laws ease up. Decentralization of government. The I don’t really care what gays do amongst themselves policy.
He’s been very much the moderate democrat. He’s not Howard Dean. It’d be like comparing McCain to Ron Paul.
You call Obama far left when he is really in the center left to make far right seem closer to home.