Posts Tagged ‘palin’

Crazy uncles do much better…

Posted: September 4, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/news
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…If nobody ever hears about them.

11:30 AM EDT

From a Nexis search a few moments ago:

Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the New York Times: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy in the Washington Post: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on NBC Nightly News: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on ABC World News: 0.
Total words about the Van Jones controversy on CBS Evening News: 0.

If you were to receive all your news from any one of these outlets, or even all of them together, and you heard about some sort of controversy involving President Obama’s Special Adviser for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, your response would be, “Huh?”

It’s unfashionable to quote oneself so quickly but it’s worth repeating this paragraph:

All are part of “subgroups” within their groups their opinion and their theories are accepted and unquestioned but when exposed to the general public they become problematic. 30 years ago one might have been able to hide these views, but in the age of the internet and YouTube that just isn’t as easy as it once was. This is why it was so vital to the media to ignore those associations for as long as possible.

I suggest that the well known non-vetting of then Candidate Obama wasn’t due to merely to adulation. I submit it is because the press knew that his positions could not survive vetting to the general public…

…and even worse to them Sarah Palin would be vice president today. What’s journalistic ethics compared to that?

Update: Nice Deb lists some nice questions.

Andrew Sullivan needs to read this article…

Posted: September 3, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…by D. K. Jammal in the Progressive Examiner.

When the Democratic Congress finally passes its Palinized, Obamagutted health care non-reform bill with nothing in it resembling cost control, competition, or anything remotely progressive, the epitaph should read:

“Here lies health care reform: killed by Facebook, buried by Obama.”

By Facebook. By Sarah Palin’s Facebook notes.

You don’t have to agree with Palin’s policies to be wowed by this — or to get a kick out of seeing the misogynist, working class-hating East Coast manchild geeks get their butts handed to them by this PTA mom. This is populism at its most stunning.

Whack job? Depends on your politics.

But lightweight? Ha! Whatever you say, Begala.

See you in 2012, private citizen Palin. Do your thang, babe. Lightweight your way right to the Oval Office.

Via Conservatives4Palin who should be very afraid if people on the left keep figuring it out.

BTW the most important line is the article is this one:

They should have ignored her, as they would do any one they really considered a rube with no credibility and no power.

That’s why the anti-Palin stuff always fails, not because she in unattackable, she is attachable. I think it’s pretty obvious how, but I’m certainly not going to tell them.

It fails because when they try to paint her as irrelevant you can see their palpable fear of her shining through. People without Sullivan’s syndrome can see it and know when they are lying through their teeth.

Presuming some great mistake isn’t make, if Palin is defeated it will be by guys like Jammal who recognize her for what she is and try to counter the argument.

Ann Althouse confirms diagnoisis

Posted: September 3, 2009 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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You know I’ve given up on Andrew Sullivan except for the occasional tease, it is a shame because he is a good writer and once was, well sane.

I presume that Ann Althouse must know him personally, because only someone who likes you personally would care enough to bother to write this critique.

Third, if you want to talk crazy, how crazy is it to want so badly to paint Sarah Palin as crazy? She is your political opponent, Andrew, and you don’t think she’s good enough for high office. It’s not so dramatic. It’s utterly banal. Ironically, Palin draws energy from your overheated hatred. Have you heard she’s about to make $100 million?

Ann you’re a fine woman but you it doesn’t matter, Sullivan’s Syndrome can’t be cured by a single essay if that was so the truthers and the Obama birthers would have been converted long ago.

And I never congratulated you either, may you and your husband be very happy together for many years.

Sarah Palin as the Next Ted Kennedy…

Posted: September 1, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…is the thesis of this American Spectator article:

…it is crystal clear that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has this “head of the table” gene in spades. She is, in a remarkable way, the real heir — make that heiress — to Senator Kennedy. She is charismatic, she has a decided point of view and she is a lightning rod for controversy. Just as Kennedy managed to sink a once sure-thing Supreme Court nomination with his famous Bork speech, Governor Palin has managed to explode Section 1233 of the ObamaCare House bill with her vivid description of “death panels,” severely damaging the President’s entire legislative priority in the process.

He talks about the invisible quality that makes a person THE person no matter where or what they are:

This is what really drives Sarah Palin’s critics nuts. She sits up there in Alaska with Todd and the kids, taps out a few words on her Facebook page — and presto! ObamaCare has a torpedo amidships! Without doubt this causes Palin’s rivals, just as it once did with Churchill’s and Teddy Kennedy’s, to fret and fume if not foam.

I think the left actually understands this in spades. They also know there are no bodies in the Gulf of Alaska to derail her election. That’s why Sullivan’s Syndrome is rampant among them. They know what’s coming, and they know that since she is 45 and in excellent shape that it will be there for the next 20-25 years.

They know that they have to stop her not only in 2012, but in 2016, 2020, 2024 and 2028. In 2028 she will be one year older than Hillary will be in 2012. She will remain a threat in being for decades. They need to sink her now.

Update: David Frum thinks she is a problem. I know 1000 people who think otherwise but what do 120 candidates for office know vs big Dave?

Update 2: BTW Frum is a smart guy and on fiscal matters is pretty conservative, he just happens to be dead wrong about Sarah Palin.

Update 3: The greenroom sees it.

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