Republican pundits open fire on Sarah Palin

[BlueJessamine]

Source: Los Angeles Times

Since announcing her resignation, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been pummeled by critics who have called her incoherent, a quitter, a joke and a "political train wreck."

And those were fellow Republicans talking.

Palin has been a polarizing figure from the moment she stepped off the tundra into the bright lights last summer as John McCain's surprise vice presidential running mate. Some of that hostility could be expected, given the hyper-partisanship of today's politics.

What is remarkable is the contempt Palin has engendered within her own party and the fact that so many of her GOP detractors are willing, even eager, to express it publicly -- even with Palin an early front-runner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

Some admit their preference that she stay in Alaska and forget about any national ambitions.


Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-palin-gop13-2009jul13,0,2642211.story

[zbdent]

1. gee ... if she really wanted to get away from all the attacks from the liberal media, then

why doesn't she announce that she's running as a Democrat?

I mean, nobody in the liberal media EVER questions a Democrat on anything, right?

:eyes:

[Soylent Brice]

2. this one is straight from the fundie RWer playbook

the "sacrificial lamb".
makes one wonder if her untimely resignation was to distract from the info about Ensign, Coburn, etc.

[Libertas1776]

3. Rethugs

eating their own...what a pity:sarcasm:

[nc4bo]

4. Looney Mccain is still suggesting that she's got what it takes...

Let's see, Mayor of Wasilla - FAIL + controversy.

Gov. of Alaska - FAIL, QUITTER/WHINER + controversy.

Re:puke:lican Vice Presidential candidate: MASSIVE EPIC FAIL + controversy.

Yet she has excellent Re:puke:lican "values" and has great potential.

Riiiight *wink-wink*.

[liberal N proud]

7. I just can't imagine this country is that delusional idiot was President

:scared:

[nc4bo]

9. It really is the stuff of nightmares to believe they were *that* close.

And more disheartening that so many delusional people bought that ridiculous Armageddon ticket.

[pattmarty]

11. Just take a look at the last 8 yrs and multiply it by 10.

[izquierdista]

5. Has anyone called her stupid?

No, not after the 'C' Student and Mr. 895. Stupid doesn't seem to be a disqualification for Republicans.

[tanyev]

6. I liked this paragraph:

It is more than cruel sport, this picking apart of Alaska's departing chief executive. The sniping reflects a serious split within the Republican Party between its professional ranks and some of its most ardent followers, which threatens not only to undermine Palin's White House ambitions -- if, indeed, she harbors them -- but to complicate the party's search for a way back to power in Washington.

[Alcibiades]

8. These same morans thought she was a great choice 4 McCain

If they had any sense of decency whatsoever, they would turn in their pundit licenses.

[AlbertCat]

14. they would turn in their pundit licenses.

Pundits....pah!


50% of the "news" these days is "News of the future!!" We rarely hear what's going on in Africa or even South America (unless it's simply huge) but hours are spent musing over what or who will be big in the future! Remember? They started asking "Will Hilary Run?" back in 2004!


Here's a GUARANTEE for the future:

It will not be what anyone thinks it will be. Period.

[BadGimp]

10. I just love the sight of a good GOP Circular Firing Squad in the morning...

Schadenfreude anyone?

[Historic NY]

12. Her little mind believes all those investigations would end because she resigned...

I highly doubt it.

[Raschel]

25. I believe she thought the criticisms would end if she resigned.

Good strategy. :rofl:

[question everything]

13. Indeed, I was going to post about this

First, last Sunday, on the ABC show, George Will was saying how he listened to her announcement several times and still could not make sense of it.

And on Saturday, Peggy Noonan really went after her in her WSJ column

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124716984620819351.html

In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn't say what she read because she didn't read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it: It was evidence of her authenticity. She experienced criticism as both partisan and cruel because she could see no truth in any of it. She wasn't thoughtful enough to know she wasn't thoughtful enough. Her presentation up to the end has been scattered, illogical, manipulative and self-referential to the point of self-reverence. "I'm not wired that way," "I'm not a quitter," "I'm standing up for our values." I'm, I'm, I'm.

In another age it might not have been terrible, but here and now it was actually rather horrifying.

McCain-Palin lost. Mrs. Palin has now stepped down, but she continues to poll high among some members of the Republican base, some of whom have taken to telling themselves Palin myths.

"I love her because she's so working-class." - she never was

"She's not Ivy League, that's why her rise has been thwarted!" - Neither Nixon nor Reagan, not Biden went to Ivy League.

"The elites hate her." - The elites made her. It was the elites of the party, the McCain campaign and the conservative media that picked her and pushed her. The base barely knew who she was. It was the elites, from party operatives to public intellectuals, who advanced her and attacked those who said she lacked heft. She is a complete elite confection. She might as well have been a bonbon.

"She makes the Republican Party look inclusive." - She makes the party look stupid, a party of the easily manipulated.

[AlbertCat]

15. Excellent analysis!

She's a used car salesman....a bad one....and the base still bought the lemon!

[CrispyQ]

20. "She might as well have been a bonbon."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Help! I can't stop laughing!!!

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[question everything]

29. Bonbons have rights

I think...

:hi:

[bloomington-lib]

21. There are some craaaazy mother f'ers over there

Here's another article from A.T. on Palin

Sarah Palin loves God. God loves Sarah Palin.

And that is why they hate her...and Him.

And why she -- and He -- will be back.

That love, an essential part of her everyday life, holds out the hope of a return to the nation envisioned by the unapologetically spiritual generation that birthed the U.S. Like Ronald Reagan, of whom it was said that his relationship with God "had a profound affect on how he lived, on what he did, and on those around him," Sarah Palin's spirituality has affected every part of her life, allowing her to clearly recognize the evil that has leached into our political and media culture.

Sarah Palin is both usual and unusual. She is usual in that she is in the mainstream of those who believe in American exceptionalism, the 71 percent who are "very proud" of being American. At the same time, she is unusual in that she views and conducts herself not as a politician -- which she is -- but a citizen who sees public office as an opportunity to serve. Interwoven in all of this is the confidence that comes from knowing that God loves her, up close and personal, an integral part of her Christian faith and central to Judeo-Christian culture.

Sarah Palin is grounded in the divine, which means, in part, that she believes, as did the framers of our constitution, that individuals are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." God gives us our rights, and not Washington, the United Nations, or The New York Times or NBC. She does not need a poll to determine the morality of a political and media culture in which the pursuit of power and wealth on the part of its participants comes first (any doubt, see the recent attempt by the Washington Post to sell access to its newsroom and the Obama administration), in which a political establishment has replaced the national anthem with the soundtrack from Jaws.

God is not done with her. Nor is he done with a nation that has brought freedom and opportunity to hundreds of millions around the world.

I'm not much on prophesying, but I'll take a turn: They'll be back.



http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/god_and_sarah_palin.html

[nc4bo]

23. Hello Sarah, not every American citizen believes in your Xian, War mongerig God

and not every American citizen is a Xian soldier.

Religion has no place in politics.

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

26. The fundies love her

I still see these in OKC. These bumper stickers always seem to be on SUVs.

[InfiniteThoughts]

16. Sarah Palin's Declaration of Independence

Material from American Thinker, a conservative Think tank. I am heading to the medicine cabinet for the pains from :rofl:

==
Sarah Palin, by virtue of her resignation and remarks, has now positioned herself to disrupt the status quo and send much needed shock waves through the entire American political system. It should not be lost on anyone that she made her resignation announcement on the eve of the most important anniversary in American history, the Fourth of July.

There is a fundamental fact that is often overlooked about the Declaration of Independence. It was a declaration of war.

Mrs. Palin has stated her position clearly:

"And so as I thought about this announcement that I wouldn't run for re-election and what it means for Alaska, I thought about how much fun some governors have as lame ducks... travel around the state, to the Lower 48 (maybe), overseas on international trade - as so many politicians do. And then I thought - that's what's wrong - many just accept that lame duck status, hit the road, draw the paycheck, and ‘milk it.' I'm not putting Alaska through that - I promised efficiencies and effectiveness! That's not how I am wired. I am not wired to operate under the same old ‘politics as usual.' I promised that four years ago - and I meant it."

Read more at http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/sarah_palins_declaration_of_in.html
=======

On second thought, maybe the author should have volunteered to write Palin's speech. Would have been more political content & less late-night-material that way!

[maseman]

17. I cannot see any African-Americans or Hispanics

voting for Palin. Couple that with the white dems in the country and she can forget about any hopes of being elected.

[sattahipdeep]

18. Can you say insurance fraud? ...

:hi:

[Jester Messiah]

19. The only explanation I have for the continued presence of SP on the stage...

You get enough retards in a representative democracy, they're eventually going to seek compatible representation.

[gorfle]

22. Can you not wait?

Can you not wait to see who they drag out for the next presidential election? Maybe they'll put Reagan's corpse up for it?

[mitchum]

24. Last week, a poster here suggested a cartoon dog wearing sunglasses

[RufusTFirefly]

27. Publicity = legitimacy

Each article, each comment, no matter how critical, adds to the thin veneer of Palin's political viability.

[applegrove]

28. But cheney and a few other republicans are giving her advice.

[jazzjunkysue]

30. Anyone know what Limppaw and Beck say about the pageant queen?

Just curious. Are they in her ring?