jimmydanger wrote:
Test the nation, Sarah Palin, and run for president
BY LEONARD PITTS JR.
McCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
No, I want you to run because I believe a Palin candidacy would force upon this country a desperately needed moment of truth. It would require us to decide finally what kind of America we want to be.
Hmm.... Interesting that the Obama election didn't DECIDE that for us, isn't it? Why is that? It's interesting that people make what seems to them, a strong point, and somehow miss how that very statement becomes like a mirror, shining back on something they didn't intend originally.
I think the statement has some merit, but the author misses the point, that her candidacy WOULD DECIDE and DEFINE what kind of America we would want.... ONE WITHOUT WASHINGTON ELITIST INSIDER POLITICIANS!
jimmydanger wrote:
Mrs. Palin, you are an avatar of the shameless hypocrisy and cognitive disconnection that have driven our politics for the last decade, a process of stupidification creeping like kudzu over our national life.
Wrong again. She is an "avatar" of the DISENCHANTMENT and ANGER that regular Americans have with Washington D.C.'s CAREER POLITICIANS!
Even Democratic Senator Bayh retired this week, when polls show him up 20 points against any challengers. He "KNOWS" that his seat will be filled by a Republican, and not only will the Democrats have lost their Filibuster Proof Majority (which they did with Brown's defeat in Massachusetts) but will likely now, also lose their Democratic majority... PERIOD!
He "KNOWS" his retirement will hand the Senate to the Republicans. Why does he do it? Because he is a fiscal conservative, who is UPSET and SHAMED at what the Democrats are doing. Unprecedented debt, and STILL they refuse to sign legislation that had bipartisan support, of NOT RAISING THE DEBT CEILING! The Democrats have increased the national debt beyond comprehension, to historic levels, and this is still NOT ENOUGH for them! They want to raise the limits FURTHER, so they can borrow even MORE!
jimmydanger wrote:
As Exhibit A, consider your speech at a so-called Tea Party event, wherein you dismissed the president as a "charismatic guy with a TelePrompTer." Bad enough you imply that TelePrompTer use is the mark of an insubstantial man, even though you and every other major politician use them. But what made the comment truly jaw-dropping is that even as you spoke, you had penned on your left palm, clearly visible, a series of crib notes.
They weren't "crib notes". They were merely a few "talking points". I have spoken publicly on many occasions, and when you can speak at length on a given subject, it is VERY easy to dwell too long a certain topic, and then run out of time to get all your topics in.
To compare a list of 3 or 4 "titles" to depending on a teleprompter for every single word of your talk, is shallow, unintelligent and DISHONEST!
The problem people have with Obama's teleprompter, is that HE WILL NOT speak without one. Not even to the class of 6th graders that he spoke to recently. When you need to TRAVEL with a teleprompter, and you need to have a teleprompter to address 6th GRADERS.... It gives the impression, you don't know enough about what you are speaking about, and also that it is not coming from your heart and personal beliefs. When you really know about something, and particular, when you are speaking on things you really believe in... you have a plethora of information. You should be able to speak intelligently and passionately, just as easily, as some here discuss the pros and cons of tube amps.
Every President uses teleprompters... but most of them, use them sparingly... for the most lengthy and important of public addresses. Not for speaking to a group of 6th graders.
jimmydanger wrote:
See, ultimately what you represent is not conservatism.
What a joke. It is her staunch conservatism that draws the party ideologues to her. She was recently compared to Pat Buchanan, for God's sake! You don't get more conservative than that.
How does someone professing the defense of intellectualism, go on to make such an intellectually FALSE and DISHONEST statement such as that?
Palin certainly doesn't dumb down the Republican party, but she seems to have an uncanny ability to make complete IDIOTS out of the opposition! I hear some of the most incoherent, false and dribbling accusations of her from the liberal Democrats. It's as if the mention of her name alone, mystically performs some type of lobotomy on the brains of otherwise coherent people.
jimmydanger wrote:
No, you represent the latest iteration of an anti-intellectualism that periodically rises in the American character. There is, historically and persistently, a belief in us that y'all just can't trust nobody who acts too smart or talks too good
Let's insult the entire South while we're at it?
LMAO!
Just hand her the golden ticket now. Dumbasses like this, will ensure a Palin victory, or some other "every man" victory, as President one day very soon. You cannot insult an entire section of the nation itself, basically deriding them as unintelligent hillbillies, and expect you are doing your party any favors. Wasn't Bill Clinton from the South? Jimmy Carter? These are HIGHLY INTELLIGENT men... both Democracts, both from the South, and BOTH with thick accents, who wouldn't think a second thought, about throwing in a "Ya'll" once in a while.
Keep feeding the anger that's out there, Mr. Pitts!
You will insure your party not only loses the Senate and House, but the Presidency as well. And possibly for a good while to come, when the economy turns around under "THEIR" leadership. Cause if things start going well again under THEIR leadership, America will keep them employed as long as is allowed.
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