Shockingly, she doesn’t sound at all like the doltish snowbilly Christhumper so many — including many on the “sophisticated” right — desperately want her to sound like.
Instead, she sounds like what she is: an effective voice for championing the message of smaller government, fiscal responsibility, and American exceptionalism.
And yes, she’s not for everyone. But to my cynical ear, I must say she sounds remarkably earnest and forthright, a female quasi-Reagan with a soccer mom’s gumchewing twang.
No wonder so many people of a certain polished bent hate her like they might a serial puppy killer.
who you calling polished
She has the right instincts and the right enemies, she has been fighting the local, state, and now national machines, for the better part of two decades now
I’m taken with the fact that the hillbuzz guy seems to like her so much. Despite his being gay. And a Hillary supporter.
Because I was told that the gays don’t really see team liberty as the future.
Sarah Palin’s only gay thing I know of was when she expressed regret that she had been advised to sign some law about domestic partnerships – or benefits… I think it might just been about extending benefits to domestic partners of state workers – and she said she’d be supportive if people wanted to make a referendum and vote on it later so they could take the benefits away. But for the most part it’s not really part of her ouvre since she bailed on the governorship I don’t think.
also she has a super bff what’s some sort of lesbian
I hadn’t listened to her interviewed in a while. And frankly, she sounded very on her game. Nothing seemed forced. All very conversational.
She’s getting better.
I knew a few long-time Democrats who were taken aback by the speed and viciousness of the Left’s two-minute hate on Sarah Palin. I think there is a slowly dawning awareness that it’s no longer the party of FDR, JFK, or even – God help us – Jimmy Carter, but the party of a bunch of really creepy New Left dirtbags.
ok yay she’s getting better but that’s a far cry from being prepared to be president and it would be a kindness I think if she were to renounce any designs on the presidency of our beleaguered and viciously divided little country
me personally I would take it as a kindness
leighton sounds like she’s on top of her game too and plus also she has … verve
As crazy as it seems, it isn’t really about you, happy.
no I imagine it’s not but I want some reason to hope for a better tomorrow for my little country and Sarah Palin don’t do dat for me
Mitch do dat for me
Mr. Ryan do dat for me
Sarah mostly just makes me want to look into what that new New Zealand etf is all about and whether it’s “tax-efficient.”
It was in keeping with the Alaskan state constitution , little detail you missed there, She didn’t feel there was a such an exception with the US constitution, that’s why she endorsed Prop, 8 and 4. Although in retrospect, she probably thinks it was a mistake, and not only because they burned her church down and hung her in effigy in West Hollywood. She’s a fiscal conservative first, although in the unique atmosphere from which she arises, one had to tinker with the tax code, to fix what Murkowski Sr. had broken. I think she probably realizes that the ethics code she spearheaded, was
so flexible that it lends itself to be abused.
I’m more partial to Blake Lively, IMHO.
If Sarah gets nominated you can take your ball and go home. To nishi’s house. Where you can play techno music and get all super ironic.
Anyway, I’m out. I’m going to go watch one of the crap movies that Netflix makes available for download.
It’s all I have.
An excellent interview from someone who, pace the “sophisticated” right, is more than qualified to serve as this nation’s chief executive if the voters so desire.
The hate she inspires from those on the left at least is understandable, but the same coming from David Frum, Kathleen Parker, et al. is more difficult to fathom at first glance, until one adds the issue of class to the equation. Looked at through Angelo Codevilla’s Ruling Class vs. Country Class rubric, the invective directed at her from the self-styled “responsible” conservatives becomes clearer. They really do think they own conservatism/classical liberalism and the Republican Party.
I think if she wants the nomination it’s hers.
that’s where we are as a little country god help us.
I watched one of those last night – The Package starring Gene Hackman and Tommy Lee Jones. Could’ve been better.
oh… Jeff on the Netflix if you want a decent crap movie that’s free look for “The Burrowers” – it was kinda nicely done really
Seems like an interesting film, feets
I was really impressed with the performances and how they made the budget work and I like the part about the coconut cake
Sarah Palin is quite genuine and she has endured and prevailed over the most vicious and vile hatred by the Left. She has become more polished and well versed on the issues. My theory: She scares the hell out of them b/c these morons in DC have risen to power through connection, an almost incestuous nature of the ruling class. So a politician who rose to power on her own and by challenging her own party is an incredible THREAT!!!! Way to go Gov Palin, thank you or all the support of the candidates in this current election cycle – she would be a great RNV Chair.
Governor Palin would do far more good as the head of the RNC than as a candidate for President.
The Package starring…Tommy Lee
Jones.Old school Baywatch episodes aside, Pamela Anderson actually still looked pretty good in that one.
Also, Netflix has Layercake for free. Crazy good flick if you’ve never seen it.
Happy, you mention Mitch, Daniels I presume. So did David Brooks. Brooks said he believes Daniels will be the Republican candidate, and I find that curious.
Brooks is not helping is he
hah his ginormous brain will easily overpower Brookth’s puny one
I continue to sit quietly and observe Palin, trying to make decisions about her status, capabilities and presence. I was impressed with her running of the state of Alaska, especially her willingness to stand up to the oil companies to get the best deal for the citizens of her state. the way she left the governership was a disappointment from a media savvy aspect; her decision to treat it like any other press conference left me cold and confused.
That interview above is one of her best and does indicate that she is growing into her role, whatever that may be. She was never in my “No F%$king Way” list (which includes Romney and Huckabee) but in the “let’s wait and see” crib sheet. Her concentration on and actual implementation of conservative Fiscal Policy was always a plus and all of my reserve was based upon her ability to rise in presence to the level of a national candidate.
I’m not past the reserve yet and I agree with ‘feets about Daniels and Ryan (although I see Ryan as an ideal VP candidate) but she’s making progress and I do admire her fearlessness in speaking her mind and recognize that her hickly accent shuts off the brains of simpler folk unwilling to listen past the twang.
Watching and listening.
Well, we’ll just have to see who gets my vote should she oppose The President of the United States, Barack Obama, mister.
Attractive, accomplished, self-made, powerful women make me very uncomfortable due to my own short-comings. I tend to mask this by spewing bile like Pavlov’s Dog whenever her name comes up in conversation.
I believe that this makes me ready to fill in for Sanchez at CNN.
Maybe so,D.U.A.U for … whatever. If you are replacing Sanchez, we’ll need several full color proofs … of your hair.
High Def., please. Wear a tie and spray the crap out of your locks.
What Sarah and all of us are fighting against…
“The four surviving leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge have been indicted for genocide by a UN-backed Cambodian tribunal.
City Journal’s Guy Sorman makes a point that cannot be made often enough: The Khmer Rouge did not slaughter one and a half million of their countrymen because the United States provoked them to do it. They did not do it because of their distinct Khmer history. They did it because they were communists, and that’s what communists do.
What the Khmer Rouge brought to Cambodia was in fact real Communism. There was no radical distinction, either conceptually or concretely, between the rule of the Khmer Rouge and that of Stalinism, Maoism, Castroism, or the North Korean regime. All Communist regimes follow strangely similar trajectories, barely colored by local traditions. In every case, these regimes seek to make a blank slate of the past and to forge a new humanity. In every case, the “rich,” intellectuals, and skeptics wind up exterminated. The Khmer Rouge rounded up urban and rural populations in agricultural communities based on precedents both Russian (the Kolkhozy) and Chinese (the popular communes), and they acted for the same ideological reasons and with the same result: famine. There is no such thing as real Communism without massacre, torture, concentration camps, gulags, or laogai. And if there has never been any such thing, then we must conclude that there could be no other outcome: Communist ideology leads necessarily to mass violence, because the masses do not want real Communism. This is as true in the rice fields of Cambodia as in the plains of Ukraine or under Cuban palms.”
That’s sort of a funny way to describe her veto of a bill that would have eliminated benefits for domestic partners of those in the employ of the state. You know the cheese is slipping off your cracker when…
There are other possibilities. Don’t forget this guy.
Sort of related but not really: Greta van Susteren thoroughly demolishes Gloria Allred. It isn’t very often that Greta is must see TV (this may be a first, actually) but this is a world class evisceration on a richly deserving subject.
The coming bad news? A little over the top but he has a point.
I fear that Brookie’s kiss is one of death.
Why does she never admit that Alaska is the biggest socialist state in the US? They could not survive without the high taxes they receive from the oil and gas industries, plus the incredible amount of money they get from the federal government. They tax the oil companies and then write nice checks to every resident, old, young, working, not. If that isn’t ‘spreading the wealth,’ I do not know what is.
As for Joe Miller, I’d love for him to win and start refusing all that evil federal money. Maybe Alaska would have to finally tax their residents and pay for their own lifestyle. Good luck with that. And Palin dares to complain about a ‘liberal mindset?’ Come on, what about the conservative mindset that lies about the health care bill, lies about Democrats, and proclaims that only the right has the answers. Only the right is worth listening to. Only Queen Sarah has the magic wand that will fix America. As far as I can see, conservatives are against abortion, for war, and against any social program that will help those single moms and their children. Let’s make sure every single baby is born, but after that, they are on their own for food, shelter, health care, education, and finding the American dream.
“Sally” is a rather confused individual.
No, Abe — or, well, yes, but Sally is merely regurgitating one of the main leftoid “talking points” from the last election. As is usual with a really effective lie, it contains a kernel of truth: Alaska gets a ton of tax revenue, and uses it to support the lives of its residents. At midnight, in a driving rain, a sufficiently myopic person a few thousand yards away might see that as “socialist”.
Regards,
Ric
“Sally”
As far as I can see, conservatives are against abortion, for war, and against any social program that will help those single moms and their children. Let’s make sure every single baby is born, but after that, they are on their own for food, shelter, health care, education, and finding the American dream.
Do you ever have an independent, examined thought? Or is regurgitating the Leftcult slander is all you are capable of?
Well, that’s it. Sally has convinced me. Because it only took one more rote recitation of leftist claptrap, a brilliant reading of the Obama/Kennedy/dem talking points to break the proverbial camel back. Thanks for shining the beacon of truth in these dark halls. Where do I vote for team d?
AK owns its natural resources and can decide how much to charge in lease fees, and how those fees/taxes will be structured. Then it can decide how it wants to spend that revenue on its citizens.
It’s always awkward when a leftist criticizes Alaska as a welfare state. If you reply “fine, turn off the federal dollars” they will say “why do you hate Native American’s?”
Joe Heller would be proud.
Alaska does get a ton and a half of federal funding too — but when the federal government owns 98% (or whatever) of all the land in the state, somebody owes Alaska sump’n.
I was still living in California when the last big federal land grab in Alaska took place, and even then I wasn’t sure I liked the idea of my tax dollars being used to turn an entire state into one huge national park/refuge/reservation, 97% of which I’d never be able toi visit even if I did live up there. But now my federal taxes also go to pay off the constituencies in Alaska that kept electing the three guys who helped Elmer Fed grab all that land (two of whom are no longer in office, unless you figure Princess Lisa is a continuation of her father — which, well…).
Now, the business about who owns natural resources in Alaska, and why the system is set up as it is, is a long and interesting story — but I’ll just leave it at this: in the mid-1950s when Alaska’s state constitution was being drafted, Ronald Reagan was still a Democrat and even the anti-communists were all convinced Communism would triumph.
Darleen,
leftcultists like Sally refuse to understand that their policies are directly responsible for the unwed mother problem we have in the USA. Sally thinks conservatives are mean, because we object to paying for women to have more babies out of wedlock.
Leftists like Sally think we need to “educate” unwed mothers about safe sex while continuing to offer more and more freebies. “For the children” is the watchword, because, heaven forbid anyone should grow up in poverty.
The shareholder relationship with Big Oil is in the Alaska constitution dating back to its admission to the union. It has nothing to do with Palin. And it should be obvious even to a left wing regurgitating chimp like Sally that a geographically isolated state in a harsh climate where the federal government controls almost all the land is not going to bear a lot of similarity to the lower 48. There are obvious limitations on economic growth in the state and it’s really rather irrelevant when Palin’s philosophical inclinations with regard to governance are pretty fucking well established.
*shrug*
In effect, all the citizens of Alaska are shareholders in Alaska, Inc., which charges for access to natural resources and distributes the profits as dividends.
It’s rent-seeking, to be sure, but it’s capitalist rent-seeking.
Regards,
Ric
Abe, Sally does not even believe what she is saying, she is just saying it to be contrarian and because she fears Sarah Palin.
How would Sarah be as President? A lot better than Barack Obama. But the issue is whether she can get elected President and beat Obama. Because Obama has to go.
Ric,
And, all of the businesses in Alaska are welcome to leave if the tax structure is too onerous.
Stuff like that tends to escape liberals though.
Evidently, businesses exploiting natural resources in Alaska are held there against their will. Hostages, if you will.
It’s not entrepreneurial capitalism though. That’s my problem wit
When I know someone doesn’t particularly like a specific politician but they still don’t fall for false or misleading arguments against them, I’m more likely to trust that person’s future comments. There is an external value to intellectual integrity.
Just a random thought.
Personally I don’t want Sarah to run for President because I think she’ll have to do what most good Presidents do, stop being partisan and govern. Obama has never let go of his deepseated hatred of anyone/anything non-Left and never left the campaign behind. It is obvious he is bored with the actual governing of the country allowing Pelosi and Reid free reign and running his end of it with oodles of unvetted “czars” to carry out his agenda unchecked.
Palin is an inspiring voice and champion of small government and the principles that must be embraced by individuals to make small government effective. I want her to keep being that.
/2 cents
Perhaps someone should note that Jeff posted a link to an eleven minute video at 9:46 p.m.
It is odd that the man could be bored with something he has never done, isn’t it?
I agree Darleen, Palin’s better outside government than in it. And frankly, she is making money, she has definite influence, and she is getting revenge the bestway by living well.
Well, no, ak4mc, but at least it’s smart rent-seeking. Alaska provides straightforward permitting procedures, uses the money to build infrastructure to support the businesses they tax, and runs interference with other Governmental entities to smooth the path. They are rewarded with additional tax revenue, both directly from Big Oil and indirectly from the entrepreneurial enterprises that feast on the bonanza.
Smart, capitalist-oriented rent-seekers are good landlords who keep the building in good shape and the services operating smoothly; they can charge high rents because they return value for the money. Socialist-oriented rent-seekers are slumlords determined to squeeze the last nickel out and return as little as possible; cf. Peter(?) Orszag, who merely proposed that people be allowed to keep the money for a little while so they could build more to tax later, and got hectored out of the Administration and denounced as “loving Teh Rich” for it.
Regards,
Ric
O please please please please please! And thank you Jesus.
Joe, your MarketWatch link @34 was an incoherent read, because the author, Farrell, was responding in a lash-out and slash gloomy-doomy sort of way to this excellent essay by Pete Morici, one written in better nuance, but it obviously scared the sit-down shit out of poor Farrell (who used ‘teabagger’ twice, no, three times without flinching or wiping). Morici…
Excellent points.
From that, poor old Farrell predicts a ‘2nd American Revolution’ that comes in ‘stages’…
Seems both of ’em are together on the one important prediction: there’s really no sane way out of this, and, left unsaid, There Will Be Blood.
And then I will drink your milkshake!
Oh, that would be delightful.
Mrs Thatcher, sane.
Erm, Darleen and others, Palin governed as a fiscal conservative. She continually lowered the budget and earmark requests each of her 3 years in government. http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/06/governor-palins-budgets-pointing-out.html
She also governed bi-partisanly on major bills, such as ACES and AGIA, Alaska’s Clear and Equitable Share tax structure and Alaska’s Gasline Inducement Act. I believe the latter was a 59 to 1 vote in the legislature.
It was only when Obama’s thugs descended into the AK Dem Party and reached out to the Troopers Union the day after she was announced that the Dems ginned up the reassignment of Monegan Big Scandal and refused to work with her at all during their third legislative session together.
So to say that she wouldn’t govern bipartisanly defies her record.
HRH, I don’t think they’re saying she can’t govern bipartisanly — I think what they’re saying is they think she’ll be more effective over the next several years if she stays on the soapbox instead.
I’m on the fence about that myself. After all, Reagan managed to find plenty of time to get on the soapbox during eight years as President.
God, I hate my fucking ISP.
serr8d, I was not accepting that author’s premise, other than he may be right about both parties not getting a grasp on the problem Personally, I do not see a complete collapse of the U.S. economy. I see a collapse of the wellfare state. I see social security and medicare getting draconian cuts, because there is no other choice. Either that or a few years runaway stagflation.
But a collapse of the American economy forever? I doubt that.
And I agree, let Robert Gibbs run the DNC. Or should I say D
NMC.Oh yes.
Palin would be a decent president. Is she Ronald Reagan? Probably not, but she is definitely not stupid and has fairly decent instincts.
But she probably cannot win (this cycle). She has high negatives which she would have to overcome. And she did not finish her term as Governor. In time she might be able to do it. Obama is damaged, but he is going to be hard to beat.
Obama is such a disaster we have to get a decent fiscal conservative who can beat him.
And she did not finish her term as Governor.
Obama never finished a term in office, did he? He certainly didn’t finish his term in the Senate.
Oh, but Palin left office because she was facing legal bills from phoney “ethics” complaints that amounted to two or three times her annual salary, and couldn’t get any actual work done because of the time she was spending on the crap complaints.
Ya know, I hear that Washington fellow was a quitter, too. He could have been elected president over and over until he died, but gave up after two elections. What a mistake he was, too.
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