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Sarah Palin isn't Bush, but her leadership skills are inspired by W

Submitted by Chad on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 10:46am.

BE-ELECTED
by Chad Rubel

Sarah Palin isn't going anywhere. Tina Fey is going to be busy at least until November 4.

No matter how badly the Katie Couric interview went, no matter how many times Fey impersonates Palin, no matter how the late-night jokes go. No matter how far Palin falls in the polls, especially among women. No matter how Troopergate goes, no matter if the alleged affair is true. And no matter how badly the debate goes Thursday night in St. Louis, Palin is sticking around.

Don't believe me? Ask this guy:

"They can complain. I'll rely on the American people. They have responded in a way that is positive. She's brought a kind of excitement that makes you think that campaigns can be an exciting trip," John McCain told ABC's "This Week."

"I'm so excited by the reaction that she has gotten across the country. She knows how to communicate directly with people. ... They respond," McCain added.

What Sen. McCain doesn't realize is that the shine has diminished on her candidacy. Those that didn't know much and didn't initially love her aren't impressed. Those that do love her are the ones showing up for the rallies. Palin has little exposure to people who don't think she's terrific.

Yes, we live in a world where those that really like Palin don't care that she won't answer questions from unassigned reporters, don't care that she has no foreign policy experience, don't care about how she shoots wolves, and don't care that when under pressure, she has a difficult time forming complete sentences.

And yes, we have George W. Bush to thank for all of this.

Those on the left saw how John McCain presented himself Friday night, and were horrified. But the right-wing lapped it up. They like the fact that McCain was mean and forceful.

They like the force and, yes, passion from which Gov. Palin speaks, regardless of what she is saying. Her simplistic style is attractive to the right-wing base. Some have pointed out that Palin is like Bush but with lipstick. It's not so much that this is true, but Palin has been studying Bush. Not in a way such as historians or CSI personnel would, but Palin thinks Bush's brand of leadership is not only acceptable but also the ideal.

Let's look at the timeline: her reign as mayor of Wasilla was from 1996 to 2002, so you can argue that she was Bush and/or Cheney before Bush was Bush and Cheney was Cheney. She will quote from Abraham Lincoln when the line is fed to her by the McCain campaign. But when she speaks honestly, from the heart, she cites Ronald Reagan.

And again, when she feels she can be honest, she speaks highly of Bush and his leadership. She speaks of the idea that Bush's brand of leadership is great and should be continued.

McCain spoke during the debate on Friday night of the ways he is different from Bush. There weren't that many of them, and the differences were minor, including how the Iraq war should have been fought. In the third or fourth layer of McCain, perhaps the 2000 McCain layer, he knows Bush has screwed things up. But the 2008 McCain knows that the base loves what Bush did, and knows his line of "differences" is a concession toward the "liberal" element.

But Palin has no such illusions. She thinks things have been swell in a Bush Administration.

The MSM felt very openly that Reagan was a great president because they liked the way he led, regardless of whether his policies caused short-term and long-term problems for the country. And they have spent the last eight years nodding in approval to the Bush leadership style, not even acknowledging the possibility of the ongoing onslaught of lies and mendacity.

So why shouldn't the Governor of Alaska, when called upon to rise to the second spot on a presidential ticket, think she was ready to give us "Bush leadership"?

Like Bush, Palin hangs out with people with whom she agrees with. She has said, "the Americans I've talked to say..." as her way of "proving" she knows what the people want. But her listening skills aren't that great, though tempered by the fact that people who disagree with her aren't allowed within earshot.

And when Bush didn't know the answers to "hard" questions, he got a free ride. No wonder that Palin might think people asking her the "hard" questions might be sexist. "If she were George W. Bush, she wouldn't get treated this way." And she'd be right.

In 2000, George W. Bush got a free ride, the freest ride any major party presidential candidate has ever had. There was amazing gaps in the knowledge of who this guy was. The MSM's rational for digging furiously into Barack Obama's life and now Sarah Palin's life is that the public didn't know who they are. Well, the standard for Bush was unique: unknown person where there was little concern or curiosity as to who he was.

In that environment, it was logical for McCain and even Palin to think the MSM would roll over for her. Palin didn't get "caught" because the media is sexist. She is getting this treatment because the alternative media is in a position to step up and look into the truth.




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Not so simply put

Submitted by Chad on Tue, 09/30/2008 - 8:55am.

To Simply Put, you say Palin has done "countless interviews." She's done 3, and that includes Sean Hannity. 3 is not countless.

And as for bringing back Chris Rock or Tim Meadows to impersonate Obama, I would agree with that. I have called out SNL for not being able to find a quality person to do the impression. SNL could have had Wyatt Cenac (now on The Daily Show) or someone similar, but they wouldn't pull the trigger.

Saying Palin isn't qualified has nothing to do with her gender. Dan Quayle was lampooned for his inexperience, but at least he had solid Washington experience. He just wasn't too bright. I think Sarah Palin is smarter than Dan Quayle, but not on the issues a VP would face. 

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Come on Chad

Submitted by simply_put on Tue, 09/30/2008 - 10:00pm.

My bad, I shouldn't have used the words "countless interviews", maybe I should have said "appearances", but she has been interviewed MORE THAN 3 times there, Chad. She has been interviewed by Gibson, twice in separate occasions with Couric, over an hour with Hannity, previously with Charlie Rose, Donny Baarns, appeared separately in the Charlie Rose Green Room, and appeared in multiple clips in Alaska (although I couldn't find specific numbers of them, since the web is so biased that it was hard to sift through the "badmouthing" of Palin). Obama may have had at least twice as many interviews, but only one of them on a non-biased network, and HE'S running for Presidency! That is not saying much about Obama.

As for V.P's, I think that it is actually a good thing to have someone who isn't immersed in the Washington bullsh@*. As V.P., there have been those who sat on the sidelines and acted as a showpiece, and those who have been in the heart of the political decision making. Quayle seemed to another one of those who sat in the sidelines, probably because the media crucified him. He was actually a decent guy, but a TERRIBLE speaker. I think leading an entire State, as mayor and governor, making tough decisions that may not necessarily satisfy everyone, balancing the budget, seeing her son go off to war (instead of finding a way with her political clout to keep him safe like most politicians do), and keeping a calm head through all of the political bashing that the media has brought to her feet says a lot of the kind of person that I want to see help to lead this country. And you probably think Biden and Obama (with their dirty ethics) should represent the head of our country?! That's just frightening... I implore you to do some non-biased research on Obama and Biden's political records, personal histories, future ambitions,... and ask yourself if you think that they will be the right choices in order to take us into a prosperous and positive future. If you are truly an open-minded and liberal person that believes in freedom for all voices, then you will take this challenge.

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Open your eyes...

Submitted by simply_put on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 6:21pm.

Fey is the best you got? It's pretty obvious that because SNL has become so poorly biased they are now ridiculously low in ratings! The only thing that they could possibly do is jump on the bandwagon and hire Fey back in order to make fun at the EVER SO POPULAR Governor Palin... That's just sad. Why didn't they hire back Chris Rock or Tim Meadows to poke fun at Obama? Oh, that's right, the far left winged liberals aren't openminded enough to touch that one, because if they did that, they would be called rascist. Meanwhile, no one is seriously calling far left liberals "sexist" for insinuating that she is a beauty queen with no brains...

Did you seriously think that you could get away with your false illusions?

Palin has been in countless interviews, maybe close to Obama! Are you saying that reporters shouldn't make appointments, but should continue to keep shoving mics in people's faces?! Reporters have gotten so disgusting, can you blame her? Also, are you seriously trying to compare her experience as Vice Presidency to Obama? Please do so, they are similar and HE'S TRYING TO BE PRESIDENT, not VICE PRESIDENT! Oh, I take that back, Obama did live in Indonesia until he was 4 (after being born in Hawaii), and studied in Pakistan in college. (DO you really want to bring in the Muslim card?) And SHOOTING WOLVES?!! Come on! Don't distort the truth of her hunting hobby with some distorted Animal Rights movement agenda where nothing should be killed. She wasn't killing wolves with her own gun. In the 80's there was the growing belief that large predators were detrimental to our wildlife, and thus motivated government programs to do so. Now, thankfully, we have learned that they are a necessary part of our ecosystem and have changed those policies...

Just watch her speak. If you actually listened to her, you'd see how well she speaks even under "pressure". She is extremely animated and authentic, and this is what scares most far left politicians. She isn't someone to mess with. She's genuine, with strong convictions, and she gets the job done. If you using Charles Gibson's interview as a reference, did you even notice how he would ask her three or four times to try to get her to say that she "hesitated" when offered the V.P.? Or how many times he asked her the same question over and over again, because she was too smart to hang herself! She was good. He just looked like an idiot.

When you start your articles with lies, how do you expect people to seriously take your point of view? The problem with most far left liberals is that you speak loudly without actually listening to the truth. Liberals are supposed to be the "open-minded" ones and full of such hope, and yet, you can't seem to get past the idea that we are all trying to make this world a better place, not just the liberals and your destructive behavior actually makes it worse!

The State Trooper lied, just watch his interview, his body language tells the truth. I'm surprised that you didn't bring up the rumor that Governor Palin's baby was actually her daughter's baby! Yeah, when the bias media tried to spread that rumor a few months ago and couldn't get the public to turn on her then, now they are trying to spread the rumor that her father may have had sex with her daughter. YOU PEOPLE disgust me. Why am I not hearing about Obama's hatred to white people. Just read his books...

(Below taken from the books written by Barack Hussein Obama )

From Dreams of My Father:'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'

From Dreams of My Father : 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'

From Dreams of My Father:'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'

From Dreams of My Father: 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'

From Dreams of My Father:'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'

And FINALLY the Most Damning one of ALL of them!!!
From Audacity of Hope:'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'

These are his own words... not like the rumors that you far liberals want to spread.

Will you call those who support Palin (and her "simplistic ways") poor folks who "cling to guns or religion or antipathy" like Obama said or backwards people like the far left media portrayed Palin's soon to be son-in-law because he tried to take responsibility for his actions... rather than forcing his sexually active girlfriend to kill her own child! (and whether you believe in our right to abortion or not, I think teenagers should not have the right to choose... women have the experience and wisdom to decide, not teenagers! Making that choice to kill YOUR CHILD is a hard decision, and isn't necessarily the best and only choice, but should not be taken up on the federal level...)

And if you are trying to say that Palin is a pig with lipstick, just say it, then you can take it back like Obama did, even though you know he was trying to correlate Palin with a pig. Watch his video... His body language says it all. He stops right before saying it and shifts uncomfortably. My problem isn't that he said it, as much as that he lied about it later... He says he didn't mean for people to make that connection... Kind of like Clinton and his lies to the American public.

Clinton was a joke as an American President, and made a joke out of us. He is the one that "got the free ride" as a President. He rode off on the solid foundation that Reagan set forth.

Why don't you ask yourself why you call derisive remarks to the way Palin looks as the "truth" while questions of Obama's obvious hatred of certain groups of people is "racist." You think Palin is getting what she deserves? You are wrong. But I don't need to defend her, she can take it!

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Expectations

Submitted by ernieson on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 11:17am.
The greater the expectation, the greater the possibility of disappointment. The less the expectation, the greater the possibility for surprise and upside. Palin's sad performances in interviews thus far only lessen the expectations for a good performance in the VP debate. There is not much to lose and much to gain. For that reason Biden has to be careful, solid and not gaffe out. Any improvement by Palin will be considered great. Any gaffe by Biden will be magnified exponentially. Palin is being intensely coached for this debate and what we will hear will not be Sarah Palin, but what the coaches have pumped into her. She has the difficult task of making the words sound like her own and not sound robotic. It will be interesting.
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