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PALIN MAINSTREAMS THE BIRTHERS
michael,
You seemed to be ;-)
Actually, all this discussion about 2012 is quite stupid. 2010 is MOST IMPORTANT!
But then, I'm not intelligent like Rick and others. They whine about a litmus test, and then want to drive out most of those who are ACTUALLY attempting to do something because they are too this and too that and too stupid and too angry and too whatever else. Of Course, that is not a litmus test, just BRILLIANT STRATEGY?
A stupid idea I have is you figure out how to marshall the resources available to you and figure out how to win with it. It might not be easy, BUT we are talking about the Intelligent set here, one would think they could figure it out.
Regards,
Comment Posted By the Dragon On 5.12.2009 @ 15:03
michael,
Glad you liked it.
It's always interesting how you almost always default to insult, generally referencing ones intelligence level. I guess that's ALL you got.
Regards,
Comment Posted By the Dragon On 5.12.2009 @ 14:20
Interesting advice from B. Poster & Michael Reynolds.
With ALL the hype about 2012, I had missed the memo that the Iowa & New Hampshire are JUST 6 weeks away. Oops...my mistake, that's more like 108 weeks away.
Let's just consider the Republican Establishment and most of the currently perceived front line candidates as much like General George McClellan of the Army of the Potomac. He supposedly wanted to fight, just couldn't quite find the right situation to actually take the fight to Lee.
Palin, whether she runs or not, is more akin to either Robt E. Lee or George Patton. Both, took advantage of circumstances as they appeared on the ground, and advanced rather than sit in their cave for more fortutious circumstances.
Sarah Palin, warts and all, IS IN THE FIELD, firing, taking return fire and withering, friendly fire AND is still advancing. The only other Republican currently who has even seen the battle is Pawlenty. He seems conflicted, wanting the comfort of the cave, BUT sees that there is a battle to be engaged, and he is following and there.
And don't forget that the army was already assembling before Governor Palin arrived, the Tea Party folks and the townhall folks were preparing the battlefield.
Yes, there are other Republicans attempting to be part of the battle, yet their voice isn't heard. Currently ONLY ONE is being heard, with a pathetic Facebook page and 2 words, the ObamaCare opposition gained traction. Might/Probably have happened anyway, yet no one had the megaphone AND the strategic sense to ATTACK!
Interesting who MUST be destroyed, seemengly the thoughts of many intelligent Republicans and bloggers? Those stupid populist Conservatives the "Cotton Candy Conservatives". The only ones who joined the battle while the "proper" conservatives and Establishment Republicans dithered. Yep, Rick is correct, these folks MUST be put in their place, and let their "Betters" handle things now. They're just bumpkins and hicks.
Rick, I don't think Shut-Up and get out of the bus is going to work.
Regards,
Comment Posted By the Dragon On 5.12.2009 @ 12:23
michael reynolds,
1.) Ask someone from Wisconsin,
2.) Yes, If it's the Oscar Meyer Weiner car...
3.) Maybe? Probably? Or more likely, yes...so what is this being hidden through this little chirade?Regards,
Comment Posted By the Dragon On 4.12.2009 @ 22:01
adnwer=answer
Comment Posted By the Dragon On 4.12.2009 @ 18:41
funny man said:"...Her press conference after resigning as governor? That’s whining." I guess telling facts is whining? OF COURSE, she was STUPID in pushing the "ethics complaints" she got caught up by as part of a major piece of Ethics/corruption Legislation and DID NOT anticipate it's abuse.
Sort of like Rick punching people rhetorically and then whining about being punched back.
"Her interview with Couric? Pathetic." Granted it was a very poor interview. According to John Fund of the Wall Street Journal, the Couric interview's lasted close to 9 hours. IF that's the worst of it not so bad. Also, she admitted her poor performance. I am quite confident that I could do 9 hours of interviews with Stephen Hawking, slice it and dice it to 13 minutes and make it look like he couldn't andwer 2+2, much less be one of the most renown theoretical physicists.
"Self criticism doesn’t seem a strong trait with her (ok, to be fair that’s not widespread in either party)."
Have you read her book? Plenty of self searching, JUST learning and moving forward...not alot of complaining about it. Although you will get agreement from Rick, he got a different version of the book than I did. Rick calls it "Cotton Candy" Conservative.
I am having tee-shirts made "I'm a PROUD "Cotton Candy Conservative". I'll post them.
Regards,
Comment Posted By the Dragon On 4.12.2009 @ 18:39
And her whining declaration that she didn’t go after Obama hard enough on his radical associations fails to mention that the reason McCain dropped it was because nearly 2/3 of voters couldn’t have cared less. It was a losing strategy, period.
I really like the whining thing...I believe Rick has used that in other posts as well. What makes it quite funny is that after castigating Palin for whining, Rick whines about his (his posts) treatment, after he intentionally attempts to offend/insult a segment of readers, and he succeeds. I guess I should give him credit, maybe he knows his "whines".
I, instead, weather willing, in the morning will stop by Sarah Palin's book signing in Fairfax, VA, on my way to our favorite Winery "Grey Ghost Vineyards" in Amissville, Va.
Regards,
Comment Posted By the Dragon On 4.12.2009 @ 17:24
busboy,
Try this answer to your question in #15.
I'll start back 20 years ago when Rush Limbaugh came on the scene. There were many, including myself, who had NEVER heard anyone in the media raise issues and concerns which I/we had personally. Did that mean I agreed with everything that Rush said/says? No, yet he became a spokesman, and quickly found a large following while expressing views in a public way, that we had been expressing and discussing on a micro basis.
Sarah Palin is similar, like 5 or 10% of the population, she DID NOT go to Harvard or Yale. She did things like EARN her way through college. As I did in the early 1970's. In fact I transferred my junior year of college to a state University 3 hrs away where the tuition was $300/semester (for reference gas was 34 cents a gallon). I worked a full-time job and finished my final 2 years in 1 year and summer-school. The "she's a regular person" comes from the fact that she seems to have led a fairly common life like running a business, having a family and following her interests and passions which led her into politics.
I am quite sure that IF I sat down to talk with Todd and Sarah Palin, there would be many common life experiences. I have very sincere doubts there are very many other politicians for whom that can be said (at least not the handful with whom I have been acquainted).
One of the modern Conservative icons, William F. Buckley's said, "I would rather be governed by the first three hundred names in the Boston telephone book than by the Faculty of Harvard University." I think that get's a part of it as well.
I have a lot of clients as an accountant, who have better ideas on HOW to improve the economy then our elected officials, no matter whatever party they belong to.
Regards,
Comment Posted By the Dragon On 4.12.2009 @ 16:30
Rick,
Thanks for the "Update". I hadn't been called a "Nazi" in almost 18 hours and it was ruining my day!
Regards,
Comment Posted By the Dragon On 4.12.2009 @ 15:55
THE GRAHAM-DeMINT AXIS OF THE GOP
B. Poster,
Who cares IF we lose elections? PURGE, PURGE, PURGE...it's those stupid right-wingers who are making us lose!
Time to get back to the philosophy of the GOP when they were in the minority for all but a couple of sessions for 70 odd years. The slogan, "we can manage the Democrat ideas better than the Democrats".
Regards,
Comment Posted By the Dragon On 29.11.2009 @ 15:57
