New York Times Barbie Attacks Again
by Andrew BreitbartThis week’s Washington Times column:
What a shock that Maureen Dowd devoted her New York Times column Sunday to attack Sarah Palin. It did not so much criticize Alaska’s governor for prematurely stepping down from her official duties as to finish off what sister snipers Katie Couric and Tina Fey began last fall.
The assassination of Sarah Palin – by media.
For those who didn’t pay attention, Mrs. Palin’s unexpected stratospheric rise as a national political figure threatened the media’s preordained presidency of Barack Obama.
In light of how the Obama machine took down Hillary Clinton, which unsettled many feminists who believed 2008 was their time, many who saw sexism at play – the destruction of an ascendant Republican female icon was an urgent imperative for the Democratic Party.
In conjunction with the laws of political correctness as perfected by the Democratic Media Complex, it would take prominent women to take down an unlikely and unexpected conservative feminist symbol that threatened to steal away Mrs. Clinton’s votes from the Chosen One.
While the vanquished then-senator from New York conspicuously removed herself from this task – going so far as praising Sen. John McCain’s running mate as “a very composed and effective debater” – a trio of media partisans, each with a unique skill set, rose to the task of tearing down Sarah Palin.
Misses Dowd, Couric and Fey – Mr. Obama’s Angels (featuring Joy Behar in the role of “Bosley”) – used a potent mix of mockery, snobbery and vitriol to undermine Mrs. Palin’s feminist bona fides.
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A True Trio of Twittering Tweets.
Civility prevented me from using a different word for tweets.
When did conservatives become such pathetic whiny babies? Fey satirized Palin in the same fashion that SNL cast members and others have been doing for decades. It was funny because it rang true.
That's why we see someone with big ears and a teleprompter on SNL every night, Right?
There was plenty of snobbery by the Republican country club set such as Kathleen Parker and Peg(een) Noonan. They sniffed their patrician noses at her lack of a degree from one of the Seven Sisters colleges.
And we all thank you for that!
Long after the left. As the children of government, sissies such as yourself are incapable of the kind of rugged individualism that made this country great. So you demand that government confiscate from society's producers in order to take care of you and your fellow sissies.
When did liberals become crap flinging, name calling, temper tantrum throwing, blame diverting, mealymouthed, whimps who wouldn't know a LOGICAL argument if if reached up and bit them on the popo? And I'm thinking of Barney Frank here so it may just be one..No wait! Joy Behar is…and then there's HIllary with the all time great political gift of the plastic restart button to Putin who is leading his country down the road to communism AGAIN…then there's O himself who can't handle a little adversity so he kicks some reporters from news agencies who endorsed McCain off the plane just to make room for some more friendly magazines (Jet, Ebony,…) , and then there's Garofalo wishing all conservatives in jail or worse. Oh yeah they're adults alright.
Sarah Palin as Carrie.
Best. Analogy. Ever.
As a high school outcast from a strongly conservative home, this rings so true (though I shudder to think what the pig's blood is going to be, if not Letterman).
Really? Are we talking about the same show? Is there some other "funny" version of SNL in your universe?
All I'm going to say about Palin's departure into obscurity is remember David's retreat into the cave for fear that Saul would kill him. Saul was jealous of David's popularity with the masses. David had to hide for awhile. Similar thing here, me thinks.
They haven't knocked her out. Sarah Palin is getting ready to knock Obama out in 2012. Sarah Palin is leaving her state in good shape. The Alaska Pipeline deal is finalized and Alaska is one of the few states in the black. Unlike other states that are in the toliet like CA, MI, NY, and NJ to name a few.
Sarah Palin can now travel the country making speeches (and money). That will help take care of her family and help pay legal fees fighting the frivilous lawsuits against her. For 2010, Sarah can now support conservative candidates (sorry RINOS) and help take back the House and put a dent in the Democrat majority in the Senate. The people she helps put in office will owe her BIG TIME. They will become her allies in Washington (no thanks to the "blueblood" Republicans trashing her already). This sets her up for 2012.
With Sarah's PAC, rabid grassroots support, and her new allies in Washington she helped put in, she's going to be a Serious Contender in 2012. SARAH PALIN IS THE TOP CONTENDER FOR THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION UNTIL SOMEONE CAN KNOCK HER OFF(I doubt it). That's why She'll continue to get attacked by the LEFT.
"In the pursuit of taking her down, Misses Dowd, Couric and Fey have created the person who burns the liberal media prom down."
We can only hope.
That's right, Andrew. It's always someone else's fault. The fault never lies in the political party or the ideology or the candidate. The fault is never the cause of the defeat.
Sigh. I'm guessing this crap sounds better in the original German.
Those who say that Sarah's resignation as governor was "brilliant" are almost as foolish as those who say it was political suicide. Clearly, it was a tactical retreat of some sort, and retreat is never fun. Whether it was "brilliant" (i.e., necessary) only time will tell. What's certain is that it was NOT political suicide.
Have we learned nothing from Obama's coronation? Neither experience nor character nor consistency is necessary to become POTUS. All you need is popularity; i.e., rock-star status. It is entirely possible that Sarah could still pull it off.
Obviously, the main obstacle is the liberal-fascist media. How they can be defeated I don't know. But can we agree on one thing? Let's stop calling them "biased." Calling the media "biased" against Sarah is like calling Hitler "biased" against the Jews. Let's call them what they are: liberal fascists.
Thank you.
So we can throw all kinds of law suits at a person until they just have no money left. Litigated to bankruptcy. This is how the republic dies, a death of a thousand cuts. We might want to revisit our history, see what our founding fathers envisioned and get rid of the clowns that are now in office. We might want to consider voting on these women with our dollars and ensure their advertisers know they are losing money supporting Dowd, Couric and Fey.
So we can throw all kinds of law suits at a person until they just have no money left. Litigated to bankruptcy. This is how the republic dies, a death of a thousand cuts. We might want to revisit our history, see what our founding fathers envisioned and get rid of the clowns that are now in office. We might want to consider voting on these women with our dollars and ensure their advertisers know they are losing money supporting Dowd, Couric and Fey.
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It's in the same universe where Clark isn't a troll.
You have done well again, Andrew-sensei
Put up or shut up. Please provide an instance where the three pad throwers in question launched anything other than a personal attack on Palin.
Nice analogy! And we all know how that ended for Saul, too
I find it hard to believe that Sarah Palin has decided to crawl into a cave. Those who despise her will continue to despise her and those that like her won't change their minds. Count me in on the latter. Does Maureen Dowd preach to an audience that is anything but the liberal choir?
I found Palin to be a refreshing change – nobody has stirred me since RR like Sarah Palin.
I don't understand her recent action but it wouldn't affect my support for her one bit – if she decides to run. Or maybe like Reagan she will just stay in the political light by (well compensated) speeches and columns for the time being.
The fact that she didn't tell her PAC to cease says something.
"Pad Thrower" has just become my favorite name for liberal women in the media.
'Pad throwers'. Wow! Andrew, please tell your wife that she has absolutely nailed the description of Dowd, Couric and Fey.
Having listened to the filth spewing from those three, it is clear that those 3 harpies used their pads first before tossing them.
I bet you he's a troll there to!
I think conservatives should learn from this. Tired of these Leftist harpies? Sue 'em. Everyone reading this comment with a couple of thousand bucks to spare: sue Maureen Dowd. Just make some bullshit up but actually file the suit. Make her travel to weird places for the court dates. Keep her tense and agitated. And when your suit is thrown out, file another one. And another one. If just 100 conservatives with moderately large bank accounts and good lawyers could take up this cause, we could destroy every single prominent liberal in the country.
Don't complain about their tactics — learn from them.
Maurreen Dowd just showed that she has no journalistic integrity even in form on the opinion page! she is a disgrace to herself and should be ashamed to have come so low in self worth and integrity… and call it journalism. journalist are trying like hell to beat out lawyers in being the worst kind of people that exist!
Palin is a woman in full. And what great sport it is to watch her give the babes in the mainstream media cramps! Yeah, THOSE kind!
Harley, I love how you can completely ignore all the faults of the Left (i.e. Obama worship), then turn around and say Republicans are like Nazi's. It's a nice reminder that even the smarter people on the Left are utterly clueless.
Sarah Palin is remarkable woman who can do what she likes God bless her either way, but as a Flyover American I hope she comes out swinging putting the pad throwers in their place give’em hell Sarah.
Someone from the party of Judeophobia calling Republicans and Conservatives Nazi's……….Wow!
Hello, my name is Sarah Palin…. and I say, when the going gets tough – JUST QUIT.
Maureen and the girls (what is it you guys used to say when there were three girls in a clique…the hot one, the fat one, and the other one?) seem to express territorial defense and jealousy rather than, oh, anything worth discussion or debate. For some odd reason, I am reminded of the national guard escorting a young woman into a school building, while Maureen, Katie, Tina, and entourage, shake their fists and shout nasties.
Aside…is "pad thrower" like "tampon tosser"? Just wondering, because they could get a better fling with a pre-spin.
It actually works for most liberal men to,,,,,,Bonus!
I suspect you are right. She's free from political constraints now! I wouldn't be suprised to see her come out and "Knee Cap" a few lefties in August………………….
Let's call creeps what they are. Katie Couric's husband died of cancer; she got big-time burned by a rick lover that followed. Joy Behar lives with a guy she won't marry for some reason. If Tina Fey has a happy love life, that would be a surprise to me. I remember seeing a "woman seeking man" ad on craigslist once placed by Maureen Dowd. I still have our correspondence. She even wrote a book about her unhappy love life, didn't she? (She's not worth looking up the specifics.)
These women are all EXTREMELY JEALOUS of Sarah Palin, who's been with the same guy, happily, since high school. That's why they hate her. Don't even get me started about some of the others who come after her; I've been around enough to get the dirt on all of them.
But I don't play their dirty, dirty, jealous game.
And they lose in the battle, long before 2012 – and I'll put money that Obama won't even be there.
If you're career can be "destroyed" by a relatively tame SNL ribbing (yeah, they "hated" her so much they INVITED HER TO THE SHOW) and Katie "What? Me Out of My League?" Couric, you are not fit to lead a country.
Andrew Breitbart's wife for Queen of the Day! "Pad-thrower" needs to be a t-shirt.
Well-spoke. Andrew. I looked up the legal bills on all those court cases she won, and — you'd need a PAC to pay the paralegal.
And so much for Conservatives not being able to "take a joke". Show me where even a *criticism* of Prez O — never mind a joke — rates anything less than a "Rascist!" cry.
"Done to death by sland'rous tongues." Shakespeare had it right then , he has it right now.
I can't stand Maureen Dowd!
You should've called Dowd the New York Times Bitter Barbie. Dowd's nastiness has gotten progressively worse through her menopausal years.
MoDo is a dried up crone. One idea nobody has mentioned re:SP's resignation: remember back in post election 2000 how so many people were saying that, had Clinton been thrown out Gore would've won due to the 'power of incumbancy'? How do we know SP isn't killing more than two birds with a single stone? By leaving now she (1) avoids lame-duckism, (2) gets to spend more time with her family, (3) gets to write her book & make $$$, (4) bone up on issues if she is planning to run for national office AND (5) help keep the Alaskan state house in GOP hands by giving the "power of incumancy" to the LT. Gov. Sounds like a win for SP and potentially a win for the GOP & Lt. Gov.
Come on Maureen admit it. You don't like Palin because she makes you look like a mud fence.
For Sarah Palin, the gloves are now off and she will be free to defend herself and to fight back when necessary.
She will win because she is 'in their heads'. They are weak. They are afraid. They can't take it. They will lose. MoDo's column today is a fine example of journalism at it's lowest. To the liberal elites, bring it on!
There are millions of Americans who love, respect Sarah Palin for who she is and what she represents.
A good, decent woman who is as authentic as they come. Someone who works hard and is her own person.
She has served the people of Alaska with integrity and honor. If she decides to serve her country at another date in time, so be it. A wife, mother, daughter and friend who exemplifies the best qualities of character to which many of us strive for, she is a breath of fresh air.
Continued:
With her announcement on Friday, she sent those who despise and wish to vilify her screaming into the night. She beat them to the punch, as they sat around their clambakes on Martha's Vineyard, the Hamptons, pontificating with one another as to the next move. They hate her guts. MoDo is the first of many, out of the box, who will continue the attack.
For the rest of us, time to be patient, yet vigilant as Sarah Palin decides what course she will next take. One last thing, to my fellow travelers at Big Hollywood, keep your heads up, anything Palin will have the trolls out in record numbers. Beware.
"I can see Russian from my house" IS A LIE.
Gutter Liberals call that satire.
Sadly, this post shows a serious lack of understanding regarding politics and the real world. It wasn't just Fey and Couric who have damaged Palin, it was the stories about her faking her pregnancy, that she injured Trig by flying back to Alaska, the jokes about Bristol, accusations of her "using" her children (as if other politicians don't parade their wives and children?), the lies about her religion, Todd's political affiliation, the trooper firing, 15 separate ethics investigations (all dismissed), insults about her intelligence, lies about things she said, name-calling from all very public sources, and dozens of other things that have happened over the last 10 months.
On the other side, Obama's preacher was a racist (and noted anti-semite), he was friends with a former PLO spokesman, another friend was a domestic terrorist, he bought his house with the help of his biggest fundraiser (and convicted felon), he helped the same felon (and other contributors) get huge government contracts for government assisted housing (which ended with a huge scandal where people literally froze to death and many of the buildings were condemned), his wife had a $300,000/yr job that she didn't have to show up to (which was immediately eliminated when she resigned), and the beat goes on…..
No SNL skits about any of it. No questions during interviews. Light questioning about his own limited experience from everyone but one network, a couple of newspapers, and talk radio. I wonder if he would have been "fit to lead" if not for the intentional disinformation and hero worship by the same people who relentlessly attacked Palin and told us all how unqualified she was?
Hi, I'm Sarah Palin. After I get my butt kicked by Mitt Romney in the next GOP primaries, I'll soon be the flute playing, moose shooting, weather bimbo nobody that I DESERVE to be. So saddle up your dinosaurs, my fellow creationists and remember… she who runs today, lives to be a loser another day.
Palin's history is TELEVISION. If she returns as a TALK SHOW HOST she has the potential to be a dominating, influential force. She can fight Obama and the liberal media every day of the week and create a new base of supporters.
Please, please, please let the GOP pick Sarah Palin as their candidate. As a comedian I could not hope for anything funnier. If she is the Republicans' best hope, they are in much deeper doo doo than anyone can possibly imagine.
"No SNL skits about any of it. No questions during interviews. Light questioning about his own limited experience from everyone but one network, a couple of newspapers, and talk radio. I wonder if he would have been "fit to lead" if not for the intentional disinformation and hero worship by the same people who relentlessly attacked Palin and told us all how unqualified she was?"
SNL did Bill Ayers bits at least twice, once during their "rap" number which Palin (the real one) was on-set for ("When I say 'Obama,' you say 'Ayers!") and again in the post-election Obama "I keep it cool" sketch.
Also, are you factoring into your hypothetical situation Obama handling the press attacks as BADLY as she did?
The Common Sense Revolution just started.
It will be unstoppable.
Tread faster friend, the tide is rising.
What press attacks? I'm unaware of a single one outside of the sources I mentioned (and he has publicly gone after Fox and Rush Limbaugh very often, which sounds a lot like a whining child who's too sensitive to being questioned). Your quote about a SINGLE LINE mentioning Ayers verifies what I originally said. Contrast that with multiple "press conferences" with Tina Fey saying really stupid things (which a painfully ignorant percentage of our population actually thought came from Palin, not Fey) and you see how insipid your defense is. How many people hung Obama in effigy publicly (without condemnation from the local government)? Smearing Palin was considered the cool thing to do (one columnist attacked her for not having an abortion), with virtually every rumor found on the blogosphere reprinted in one of the major newspapers at one time or another.
I'm still laughing that you actually tried to say SNL was tough on Obama. Seriously dude, that's embarrassing.
You couldn't handle one iota of the avalanche of hateful crap Sarah Palin has persevered through.
Stick it up your bunghole…
Here we see the importance of hitting the Reply button in the proper place. I believe that tonypal meant to reply to Clark's post. Instead, it appears the he is reply to Andrew's original post and it is taken the wrong way.
"Sigh. I'm guessing this crap sounds better in the original German."
The Hitler rule is now in effect.
By invoking Hitler in your comment, you necessarily lose the argument.
Exactly how does Andrew's post complaining about the vicious treatment of Palin in the media have anything to do with Nazi Germany? That doesn't even make sense.
"Maurreen Dowd just showed that she has no journalistic integrity even in form on the opinion page!"
I think she did that a long time ago.
Hello, my name is AAA…. and I say, when the going gets tough – JUST TROLL CONSERVATIVE WEBSITES AND HOPE NO ONE NOTICES HOW BAD A JOB OBAMA IS DOING.
"So saddle up your dinosaurs, my fellow creationists…"
This is as untrue now as when it was first claimed. You can post it as often as you want on the Internet, but that will never make it true.
You sir, are an idiot.
They're afraid of Sarah, She is everything that they are not. Successful, beautiful and HAPPY.
I know Fey meant it to be a funny and everybody laughed, but the fact is that many many Alaskans easily see Russia from their houses–and they can see us!
"What press attacks? I'm unaware of a single one outside of the sources I mentioned"
Hence use of the word "hypothetical."
I was responding to your ponderance: "I wonder if he would have been "fit to lead" if not for the intentional disinformation and hero worship by the same people who relentlessly attacked Palin and told us all how unqualified she was?" in which you essentially propose a hypothetical situation wherein Obama was 'attacked' as relentlessly as you feel Palin was. As we can both agree that this was not the case in fact, your "wondering" requires a fair amount of conjecture to form a proper conclusion; I merely wish to know if in this imagined scenario Obama would handle the actual questioning as poorly as Palin did, since the HANDLING of press pressure is the fundamental key in these things.
It stopped being satire when people out there started pretending it was the truth.
Looks like my comment got lost in moderation limbo. Here we go again.
Those who say that Sarah's resignation as governor was "brilliant" are almost as foolish as those who say it was political suicide. Clearly, it was a tactical retreat of some sort, and retreat is never fun. Whether it was necessary or prudent only time will tell, but political suicide?
Dude. Has Obama taught us nothing? You don't need experience or character or consistency to become president. You only need popularity. Rock star status. Money and fame. Sarah may very well be able to pull it off at some point.
One more thing. Can we please stop calling the mainstream media "biased"? That's a total misnomer at this point. They're not biased, they're completely one-sided.
I don't know where Palin's house is, but many, many Alaskans on the coast can easily see Russia from their houses, it's closer than Catalina is to Los Angeles–and it's also a geographic fact that they can see us. Yes, the skit was funny & Palin came on SNL like a good sport, but the fact is, if she stood on the shore, she'd see Russia.
I don't know where Palin's house is, but many, many Alaskans on the coast can easily see Russia from their houses, it's closer than Catalina is to Los Angeles–and it's also a geographic fact that they can see us. Yes, the skit was funny & Palin came on SNL like a good sport, but the fact is, if she stood on the shore, she'd see Russia.
It's people like Maureen Dowd and Katie Couric and the rest of the whiny liberal women who made public schools stop having competitive academic and athletic games, because they want all children to feel "special" and, God forbid, no child should suffer from the horrors of low self-esteem because they can't spell or add or hit the ball as well as the next kid. "There are no losers; everyone is a winner!" is their mantra …
And yet, these women slander Sarah Palin on an hourly basis. Why, our children cannot suffer the indignities of getting creamed in a softball game, but it's fine to attack, lie, and spew vitriol at Sarah Palin. As a conservative woman, she doesn't count as having feelings, therefore it is fine to attack her.
Ack, this is just running from my brain to my fingers. I'm SO done with Mo, Couric & Co.
Mitt Romney?
The guy who came third to John McCain and Mike Huckabee in the '08 Republican primaries?
That Mitt Romney? I think not.
I've said this elsewhere – why do they hate Sarah Palin so much?
It's simple – Palin had a far better chance of being VP than Geraldine Ferrarro did. The possibility of the REPUBLICANS getting a woman in the VP slot before THEY did? Impossible. Can't happen.
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Real funny, Patrick, such a clever "comedian"!
Dowd a envious woman same ae as Couric. Fey a has been in show business along come a beautiful woman who is governor of a large state .Mrs Palin has done it all which none of others have. True to husband and family.
. Plus not only is she beautiful but so much more intelligent which caused jealousy . One need not graduate from a fancy college to be successful. And if Sara has decided not to stay in politics all will remember her whereas the others have long been forgotten.
I don't know you might be exhausted by 2012, all the energy you and the other "comics" are spending in not making fun of guy who needs a teleprompter to say good morning to someone. The one thing that will be funny is hearing you and the rest of the liberal weasels howl in agony as she's sworn in.
Apparently, It's just another lefty BIGOT, now taking-off on Andrew's surname…Lefties are not just juvenile, they are true bigots, now totally beyond their traditional liberal "soft bigotry" of low expectations for their "plantation's" constituencies.
Calling Mo any version of Barbie is the only part of the article I didn't agree with. Barbie only works as a slam when the person is attractive. Dowd's inner hag shines through and keeps that from being an accurate description.
Pad thrower sounds more elegant, if a little less descriptive, than "tampon thrower," a term my wife uses. That term is a winner. Mrs. Breitbart nails it.
The following revealing snip from a "fishy" AP analysis may help you to better understand it Bill, despite article's otherwise liberalized eyewash & title ("Alaska observers say Palin had gone fishin' on job"), just posted on Yahoo News
AP Reporter Mark Thiessen writes:
"[Gregg] Erickson, the Juneau political watcher, said the governor's resignation makes sense.
"Politically, I see it as a smart move. With the complete breakdown of her alliance with Democrats that marked her first two years as governor, she has no ability to move her policies forward in legislation. Indeed, her Alaska agenda, the [natural] gas pipeline in particular, is likely to fare much better with her out of the picture," Erickson said…."
Thanks Andrew B, I think you have written a brilliant article that lays out the truth regarding the lowclass Leftist 'Feministas inability to counter what SP represents, causing these little tyrants to go off the rails. They are very afraid of the Silent Majority!
Dom, good analysis on SP's moves, very SunTzu. IMO, SP may have just enacted a paradigm shift that bodes well for her ability to be quite influential in a National Leadership role. She will be a force in 2010 and the leader of the true American majority in 2012. Sarah!
From the essay, Andrew states: "Primarily motivated by a desire to keep abortion "safe, legal and rare," female liberals in the media have carte blanche to do and say anything."
I disagree with the pad throwers' motivation. They care little about safe and nothing about rare, only that abortion stays legal.
Personally, I thought you were too easy on Dowd, Andrew. Anyone who's read her column knows what a vapid, uninformed twit she is.
It just shows how sexist and hypocritical the left can be. As a woman, I did not like how the liberal media treated Hillary. I do NOT like Hillary ONE BIT (she makes my skin crawl) but I dislike blatant sexism even more…and then the perfect picture of this blatant hypocrisy is shown when Palin, a woman who proves the liberal idea of a "feminist" wrong, they begin to "attack" her because of it. They cut her off at the knees instead of praising her for being a mother AND a woman. I hate to break it to them but there are fathers AND men who are politicians and there's one in the White House right now! So don't tell me that the liberal media and many liberals themselves are sexist.
What I heard from even Republicans who didn't want Palin as V.P. was that they were worried about the environment her kids will be raised in at the White House. However they neglect to hold men to that same standard…so what's the difference? (Aside Palin being an attractive female?) Sarah had Todd helping at home and most Male Politicians with kids have their wives and others help.
I guess all I'm saying that if you're going to claim that you're not sexist actually be that way for women of all political parties not just your own.
Good analogy Drei! Now we need a spider to hide her! Stay safe and warm in your hideaway, Sarah. Your time will surely come. Don't push! You know that destiny as often comes upon us as is achieved by us! it took a perfect storm to give us Barry-boy, and you will get your strong East wind, soon enough.
Oh, and Write and write, and write! Not for National Publication, but for Individual Illumination; for Personal Clarity not for Public Justification
Oh! And remember Maimonedes: Do not use three words where you can use two; and do not waste two words where one suffices!
I'm pretty sure Andrew was being sarcastic.
Crawling into a cave is not cowardice, Bill. King David did so to avoid being killed by vastly superior forces; Robert the Bruce did so too! Caves can shelter heroes until it's their time.
In the solitude of the cave this heroine-to-be will ponder, train, learn, inscape and instress! Sarah will become SARAH!
See, she has that strength based on her faith, which tells her that her path and destination are already chosen, yet she needs to add her desire and work to bring it about!
Hello My name is Barry and I taught sarah all she knows about quitting! In fact, if Michelle hadn't kept her thunder thighs wrapped around my back, well, Interruptus is my second name!
I'm happy for her. I hope she is going Galt. I like her a lot and I think she would be great for this country. But a country that allows political enemies to attack children, families, and everything else to silence their oppostion doesn't deserve a woman like Sarah Palin. We are going to get exactly what we deserve while the world falls apart.
It would have been so easy and satisfying for Joseph to simply sleep with Potifar's wife, kill him and then become him; instead Joseph chose to reject her, go to prison for ten years and emerge as the ruler of the world! Remember Joseph's words: "Now I know why I am here!"
"All things are known, and yet Free Will is given", says the great rabbi Akiva. Apply that paradox to Sarah Palin today.
SHE does NOT know what is in store; nevertheless she knows what she wants, she chooses to break the cycle of mundanity, she exercises her Free Will, she waits within her gates…and she leaves the rest in the hands of He who knows all!
In time to come Sarah and we will, I trust, know why she is here!
As a public official, Palin was constrained in the way she could respond to attacks and slanders against her and her family. As a private citizen, she has more time to devote to her own goals and no longer has to fight a Dem party in the State legislature (and ACORN-style groups devoted to creating accusations of 'unethical' behavior). She can write books, go on speaking tours, and can do it bypassing the state media, who she had to address while she was a candidate. Now she can go directly to citizens, without the MSM on her back.
She may run for POTUS in 2012, but even if she does not, she can influence the party and what kind of candidates run for the House and Senate.
The more the left attacks Palin the more I like her.
She pushes their buttons just being herself
LOL
If they hate her that much it must mean she is the right person to lead the consevatives
Personally, if "MoDo" is still slinging flames at Sarah Palin, then that tells me she and her cronies still secretly fear her. As for SNL, I don't know what their ratings are these days, but I personally would have no knowledge of the "skits" featuring Tina Fey if they were not constantly being re-packaged as "news." I guess the same could be said of Katie Couric who seems to get less and less ratings as time goes by. As for "MoDo" isn't the NYT losing circulation every day? Who takes any of them seriously anymore? When we mention Maureen Dowd (if we must,) sneer and curl your lip and roll your eyes just like Norah O'Donnell does when she mentions Rush.
I am hardly willing to write off Sarah Palin. She is charismatic and a solid campaigner. Do I feel Sarah Palin was a little "green" in terms of running on a national ticket? Yes. But that doesn't mean she can't use the next few years to strengthen her credentials and be a viable candidate. Good Lord, as green as she was, she couldn't do any worse than the "rookie" who is in there now. She speaks from the heart; he speaks from a tele-prompter.I say this without even considering the difference in ideology, since I clearly favor Palin over Obama in terms of their respective political philosophy (fee market vs, welfare state.)
Dowdy, twisted Dowd. I smell Jealousy. Palin is everything that Dowd KNOWS that Dowdy, ugly Dowd can never be!
Old Tom (liked reading your post)-
She was MEANT to be a sacrificial lamb for McCain's lack of conservative bona fides but she took on a political force of her own. I think Andrew is trying to say that. The left is still batty over her and Dowd walked right into it! Thanks, Maureen for feuling the flames. Another "inappropriate" comment from David Letterman and she be up and running.
Politics is a wacky game.
Old Tom (liked reading your post)-
She was MEANT to be a sacrificial lamb for McCain's lack of conservative bona fides but she took on a political force of her own. I think Andrew is trying to say that. The left is still batty over her and Dowd walked right into it! Thanks, Maureen for fueling the flames. Another "inappropriate" comment from David Letterman and she be up and running.
Politics is a wacky game.
Andrew, I wouldn't despair about Sarah Palin quitting the Governorship of Alaska.
I found something on Red State that might help bring this thing into perspective.
http://www.redstate.com/gary4205/2009/07/05/sarah...
Just by showing up and speaking publicly, she makes the libtards go nuts.
It's like poking a chained pit bull with a long stick.
The Republican party needs a mover and shaker right now, to clear out the RINOS and reinvigorate the platform.
She might not run for POTUS but she can move us forward.
Dowdy Dowd strikes again…
The venom that some women have against Palin is astonishing and hilarious if you think about it. Again, the people at SNL and all the other mainstream comedians are missing out on real comedy GOLD…
There is something about the nastiness that these women display when discussing Palin that makes me want her to win just to p*ss them off.
Here's a thought. The more the MSM attacks a certain person, the more we should look at that person as someone we should vote for.
This might be a good way for us to Identify who is the best and the brightest. If the communists(MSM et al) hate a certain candidate then that candidate is someone who diametrically opposes them which is what we want in a leader. Sounds reasonable to me.
It is reported on Drudge this AM 7/6/09 that the Palins attorney has promised lawsuits for defamation against the NYT, Washington Post, Huffpo, MSNBC, perhaps the first salvo from Mrs. Palin? Leftist cannot withstand a blistering attack, they thrive in the dark, there’ll be no more hiding in the shadows for the left anymore, they’re fully exposed in all their ‘60s Marxist splendor. This country is inherently conservative and simply needs someone to espouse those real American ideals, perhaps a Reagan in heels?
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