PalinTracker: Oprah Chat, A Cover Shoot, Huckabee(?), ‘Drill Baby, Drill’ (Updated)
A round-up of activity in the Sarah Palin camp. (Update: Oprah to interview Palin.)
October 12
Seattle-based photographer John Keatley, commissioned by HarperCollins to shoot photos of Sarah Palin for her Going Rogue book cover, spent six days with Palin on location in Alaska.
Pressed for gossip, Keatley told Politico: “I have no interest in pulling a Jill Greenberg and sabotaging anything.” Greenberg is notorious for having accepted a contract for a portrait of Senator John McCain, then using outtakes from the photo shoot to criticize her subject.
The winning shot was taken on the last day of the shoot about 13 miles from the Palin home overlooking Hatcher Pass, a scenic notch in the Talkeetna Mountains — where according to Keatley, Palin seemed more natural and relaxed.
October 13
Rush Limbaugh, appearing on the Today show responding to word association cues:
Sarah Palin: “Misunderstood and underestimated.”
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The Wall Street Journal reports:
Sarah Palin fans can expect to see a new Palin political organization surface as her memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life, hits the shelves next month.
“There will be an announcement about it coming up,” Palin associate Tim Crawford said Wednesday. The New York Post reported this week that Palin’s new group will be called “Stand Up For Our Nation.”
October 16
The latest Gallup survey reports:
Palin became a bit of a sensation after John McCain tapped her as his running mate last August. But over the course of the campaign, her image suffered, going from a 53 percent favorable rating immediately after the 2008 Republican National Convention to 42 percent by the end of the campaign.
Palin’s ratings have not recovered, and her current 40 percent favorable rating is the lowest for her since she became widely known after last year’s Republican convention.
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Palin’s latest op-ed — titled simply “Drill” — appears at National Review Online, arguing (again) for energy independence:
Given that we’re spending billions of stimulus dollars to rebuild our highways, it makes sense to think about what we’ll be driving on them. For years to come, most of what we drive will be powered, at least in part, by diesel fuel or gasoline. To fuel that driving, we need access to oil. The less use we make of our own reserves, the more we will have to import, which leads to a number of harmful consequences. That means we need to drill here and drill now. …
Palin reminds domestic drilling opponents/environmentalists:
Many of the countries we’re forced to import from have few if any environmental-protection laws, and those that do exist often go unenforced. In effect, American environmentalists are preventing responsible development here at home while supporting irresponsible development overseas.
My home state of Alaska shows how it’s possible to be both pro-environment and pro-resource-development. Alaskans would never support anything that endangered our pristine air, clean water, and abundant wildlife (which, among other things, provides many of us with our livelihood). The state’s government has made safeguarding resources a priority.
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Rasmussen shock poll (well, for anyone who isn’t a Huckabee fan, it’s a shocker):
GOP 2012: Huckabee 29 percent, Romney 24 percent, Palin 18 percent
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Walmart and Amazon launched a price war, with Walmart selling November’s 10 most anticipated books for $10 each. Amazon matched Walmart, and was undercut by a dollar. As of the end of the day Friday, both were taking pre-orders for Going Rogue
for $9 each.
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1. David Thomson:Sarah Palin will be a viable presidential candidate in 2012—as long as she studies hard. Palin must dominate her opponents in debates. Life is often not fair. The dummy tag hangs around her neck. She must spend hours everyday reading and studying the issues. Nothing less will get the job done.
Oct 20, 2009 - 12:05 pm 2. Paul -Indiana:“Palin’s ratings have not recovered, and her current 40 percent favorable rating is the lowest for her since she became widely known after last year’s Republican convention.”
Oct 20, 2009 - 12:24 pm 3. baal:===========================================================
Tell me again, please. What is the current rating for the Congress? I think it’s in the low 20%.
Palin is NOT “The One.” The need for a messianic political leader is what got us Obama. We dont need a messiah, we dont need someone who makes us “feel good” about ourselves. We need someone with a zero tolerance policy for deficit spending and who will unequivocally and articulately state their case for this country and the conservative ideology that got such a bad name due to Bush. If we could transplant Fred Thompson’s ideology into Romney’s head, we’d have our guy. Unless Palin got a brain transfusion recently she ain’t got what it takes.
Oct 20, 2009 - 12:50 pm 4. Brian72:Mark your calendars, folks.
Monday, Nov. 16, 2009.
Sarah Palin to appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
This should be interesting!
Oct 20, 2009 - 12:57 pm 5. Laurie:Her ratings will recover as Sarah gets more exposure live, meaning people seeing her live and getting to know her better. She has to recover from all the media bias and smears which those people who do not think for themselves absorbed and believed to be true. How m,any still believe Sarah said she could see Alaska from her porch? I’d say many. Unfortunately, the media and bloggers have spun this one so much that the lesser-learned people don’t know exactly what Sarah said about seeing PART of Russia from a PART of Alaska (not her front porch – and yes, you CAN see PART of Russia from PART of Alaska- some Alaskan and Russian islands in the Bering Strait are 3 miles apart.
Oct 20, 2009 - 1:02 pm 6. David Thomson:“Palin’s ratings have not recovered”
Not a big deal. Sarah Palin has plenty of time to change the minds of reluctant voters. She apparently will soon be a guest on Ophrah Winfrey’s show. This should only help. She must study hard—and everything else will fall into place. There is no reason why Palin cannot be a fairly decent intellectual butt kicker within the next year and a half. The 2012 election will not take place for slightly more than three years from now.
Oct 20, 2009 - 1:06 pm 7. Marc Malone:Kudos to the photographer for exhibiting integrity. What a breath of fresh air. An ordinary American quietly stands up and stands tall.
Oct 20, 2009 - 1:24 pm 8. Marc Malone:33 baal – Just how is Palin not that person you think is needed. She speaks plainly and clearly. She speaks in a way that an average American can relate to. This is so important, because if they don’t relate, their defenses go up.
Her record is clear. She has demonstrated that she holds to her principles. This is the most important thing in the next Prez. Charcter. Principles. Patriotism. She’s definitely is not flip-flop Mitt. She doesn’t use phrases like, “That’s kind of a null-set question.” as Mittens did in a debate. She doesn’t back RomneyCare, or anything like it. She also gets things done, like the pipeline deal.
She also can win, because the base will absolutely turn out in droves for her. The fund-raising will be massive. Her coattails will be very, very long. The Libs will hate her. The establishment Pubs will hate her. These are features, not bugs.
In the next election, if she starts polling strongly, the Indies who are fed up will take another look at her. With the clear contrast, the juxtaposition of the Obama disaster, she will look really, really good to them, too. I can see the campaign slogan, now: Effective Governance.
Oct 20, 2009 - 1:36 pm 9. Poor Citizen:You really think its interesting then you realize that underneath the “different” and the “new” is the same old, same old. Palin’s answer to the devils bargain of oil worship? more drilling….wow, is that ever original…
Now, if she were really new and bold and independant of her oil base…then she would and could embrace more drilling along “with alternatives” …now that would be different and suddenly interesting. And it would really give the left wingers on the environmentalist side to the arguement a run for thier proletariat money. But does Palin have the courage to really lead? Based on “Drill”… I think not.
Oct 20, 2009 - 1:49 pm 10. gracie:Oprah, in the hip pocket of Obama.
She will try to trash Palin.
I dislike Oprah and do not watch her show anymore.
We do need to drill. In the mean time invent/encourage alternative forms of energy. We pay out to Canada, Mexico etc for their oil, we help keep their economy afloat…we have as much or more and we still stiff our people.
So, drill baby drill!!!
we like Palin. Her ratings are above congress .
Oct 20, 2009 - 2:35 pm 11. baal:And the pasty little white guy would have lost by mroe if not for Palin.
8. Marc Malone: If she can do a 180 from her performance during the awful interviews with couric then maybe you’re right, but hoping will not make it so. But those, and that bobby jindal speech after the election were shockingly bad. Truth be told, in the debates she did better against Biden than McCain did against Obama. But we need better than just the ability to deliver lines. We need the ability to speak, at length, without a teleprompter on complex issues. I dont think that she has that ability. Bush was terrible in that department too. And yes, Obama is good at doing just that. He’s not as good as people say, but he is good. So in this regard, when it comes down to the debates, we have to have a player on the field who take him on his turf.
Oct 20, 2009 - 2:38 pm 12. Boogey_man:By 2012 the economy will still be in the crapper, double digit unemployment, rising inflation… basically a re-run of the Carter years.
The bloom will be off the Obama rose. Romney and Huckabee, while nice guys, do not engender the passion that Pailin does. Romney/Huck voters will vote for her if she gets the nod just to vote against Obama. Most importantly I think she will get 50%+ of the folks in the middle just do to her upbeat attitude while Obama will be spending his time trying to justify his actions in the midst of a 4 year recession.
When your team has a 4 year losing season you fire the coach. I sure Obama will be a one term president. Its just a matter of who will replace him.
Oct 20, 2009 - 3:02 pm 13. Charlie Gibson's Hatchet:The Sarah haters just don’t get it.
Nobody with a functioning brain cell cares what the talking head class has to say anymore, since they shed the veneer of impartiality so blantantly in their rush to foist “The One” upon us unwashed fly-over types last year.
So let them prattle on with their drivel, because each syllable that drops from their drooling lips only reinforces the realization that even some liberals are now coming to understand. Namely the slavishly pro-Obama Gibsons and Courics et al of this world are propagandists, not reporters.
Plus, they’re not even that good at the job.
Oct 20, 2009 - 3:23 pm 14. LarryWhitefeather:Gee, Mrs. Palin is going to Oprah who is a supporter of the Obama’s and their closed friend. Be sure that Oprah has an agenda ready for Mrs. Palin. The questions are going to come directly from the Propaganda Fuhrer Akselrod and The Gestapo Office of Rahm(claims to be a Jew). At least Sarah is not a coward and has no inferiority complex like others who don’t even want to go to talk on FOX News.
Oct 20, 2009 - 3:26 pm 15. XiaoMei:11. baal:
Such a gull you are! Do you believe Katie Couric’s edits? How about Charlie Gibson’s false quotes? You admit that Palin is better in live debate. Yes — there are no editors involved. And as for speaking without a teleprompter at length on complex issues, did you not know that her entire acceptance speech at the RNC was delivered not only without a teleprompter, but without a pre-written, prepared text? Go back to it at YouTube and watch it with that in mind.
Get informed, baal. You’ve been drinking some strange koolaid.
Oct 20, 2009 - 3:26 pm 16. gracie:I agree that the bloom will be off the rose come 2012. That is the reason the administration is trying to push through so much so fast. After 2012, they will not be able to…ever after 2010 they may have a difficult time..so now is push time.
the adm dislikes Palin, we all know Obama is dirty and she shines a light on them in her writings.
Oct 20, 2009 - 3:46 pm 17. Now and Then:6. David Thomson:
“There is no reason why Palin cannot be a fairly decent intellectual butt kicker within the next year and a half. ”
She’s forty-effing-five years old. If she ain’t something now, she won’t be it anytime soon. Hey, maybe she could be flautist for the New York Philharmonic if she REALLY put her mind to it. What do you think?
Oct 20, 2009 - 4:16 pm 18. baal:15. XiaoMei:Sure, she did better than McCain…but that’s not saying much. I’ll definitely go watch her acceptance speech since you suggest it.
Oct 20, 2009 - 4:24 pm 19. Gary Ogletree:Now about Couric and Gibson… she walked in there, she sat down and she did the interview. If a person is willing to walk into an ambush on those terms, their judgement is in question.
Many of us disagree with baal, but calling him names is very liberalish. We can do better. Palin was not prepared for the rigged game last year. Now she will be. She didn’t clean house in the Alaska Republican Party, beat two former governors in her race and engineer the biggest energy project in history by being stupid. The biggest smear campaign in history planted a lot of nonsense in people’s heads about Darling Sarah. I suspect that is why her poll numbers are down. I fully expect her to win back people whose first reaction to her was very positive. Then there is the lackluster quality of her Republican rivals and the growing stench in the White House. Palin 2012? You betcha.
Oct 20, 2009 - 4:30 pm 20. XiaoMei:17. Now and Then:
Ronald Reagan did not run in national politics until he was 65, and he was knocked out in the primaries. How’d that turn out?
Oct 20, 2009 - 4:38 pm 21. JR Dogman:FWIW, my prediction:
If she gets the nomination in 2012, Sarah Palin is going to *trounce* The One. Trounce. Destroy. Smash. Believe it.
Sarah Palin is tougher and smarter than a lot of people give her credit for, and she is going to beat the MSM by going around it.
Recall Evan Thomas’s pronouncement in 2004: the MSM coverage of Kerry/Edwards was worth around 15 points in the general election. When other libs went nuts over what he’d said, Thomas reduced it to 5 points. But we know 15 was (and is) right — if anything it might be a conservative estimate.
And that is why guys like David Frum are so completely wrong.
No Democrat President of recent years could have *come close* to winning without the help of the MSM.
Even against McCain, how do you think Obama would have fared without the *insane* help of the MSM?
And the MSM is dying a little bit more every day.
If Palin runs:
* Obama will be facing her as an incumbent with a disastrous record;
* the MSM will be vastly weakened three years from now;
* and team Obama is going to get *extremely* nasty as it fights for survival. They won’t be able to help themselves, and that is going to backfire on them *huge*, particularly with women.
The only reason Sarah Palin scored 18% in that recent poll of GOP likely voters is that she has — very wisely — been keeping a low profile.
The Bottom Line: The more people hear Sarah Palin speak, the more they like her — and the more they agree with what she says, because what she says makes sense.
Oct 20, 2009 - 5:12 pm 22. Now and Then:20. XiaoMei:
Stay with me. . . . Reagan was smart. He didn’t BECOME smart at 45.
Oct 20, 2009 - 6:30 pm 23. baal:15. XiaoMei:I watched that acceptance speech and it was far better than I expected.
Oct 20, 2009 - 7:12 pm 24. Delia:Palin has dealt with a sh*t load of B.S. with dignity and valor.
She’s pretty much had all of the embarrassing crap out of the way and no matter how much the Left wants to re-hash old-snooze, it’s over and done with.
Sarah can be a formidable opponent to B.O., but, she better do it right or not at all.
Oct 20, 2009 - 7:49 pm 25. TennesseeVolunteer:All of the great unwashed in Middle America are ready for someone who is honest, resourceful, has Midwest common sense and is willing to learn. We don’t give a darn what the leftist elitists or the Republican patricians say about Sarah. Maybe she’ll be ready for 2012, maybe she won’t. We’ll decide whether she’s ready, not a bunch of political elitists from either party who have never run a business, never baited their own hook, never rode a horse, never cut their own grass, never drove a nail with a hammer and never had to borrow money to make a payroll. We care not a whit what you say or what you think. We have learned our lessons by doing and have had our noses bloodied a few times by good old fashioned experience…and we’re the better for it. May the best person with common sense, honesty (that eliminates the present administration), faith in God and belief in life win in 2012.
Oct 20, 2009 - 9:01 pm 26. Sallie:Unfortunately Palin had a baptism by fire with the MSM and Obama Adm going after her. She was misled and mistreated by her pathetic political party..
She will be fine.
What ever she does, runs for, recommends, we will seriously conisder.
Plus!!! she’s a heck of a lot $marter than some of you that say she’s dumb.
BECAUSE!!! $he’s raking in million$$$ and you’re on the internet posting gibberish. Go sarah!!!
Oct 20, 2009 - 9:49 pm 27. SeanLA:Oh No!
Not Oprah! Thats a MASSIVE set up! Why go up against the big gun now?? get some support first. Huckabee yes, Hannity definitely. do a thing with Breitbart. I LOVE sarah, she needs big help in the PR dept. BIG help. STAY AWAY from OPRAH!!!! Its suicide
Oct 20, 2009 - 10:01 pm 28. narciso:Smart like giving up the missile defense system in Europe, and getting a pledge of new missiles
Oct 20, 2009 - 10:12 pm 29. stuart williamson:and even a nuclear fresh strike, Smart like negotiating with an illegitimate regime like the mullahs in Iran and having them last as you.
Hiring the most gaffe prone, judgement deprived
VP, hiring a tax cheat as the tax collector, If that’s smart, I’d hate to think what is stupid.
I am not sure why David Thomson is obsessive on Sarah Palin’s need to “study”. Stay up nights reading college texts? Read back issues of Foreign Affairs? Subscribe to he Economist? After all, she did run a state, and from all indications (except for the great intellects like David Letterman) did a highly effective job. She has certified credentials beyond the pay scale of a Chicago Ward Community Organizer.
Barack Obama is a Harvard graduate. We presume that he studied, although he won’t let us see any transcripts, but there is growing evidence that the only things he learned were how to pick apart the Constitution and to apply the precepts of Stalinist Communism.
A good President , like a good Governor or any good manager, will draw cabinet members and advisors of like mind, wise counsellors in the areas in which she is not experienced. I guarantee she won’t need them, or hire them. on the scale of the Red Chairman in the White House.
Oct 21, 2009 - 12:58 am 30. Joe Mudd:Everyone thinks it takes a huge intellect to be
Oct 21, 2009 - 1:49 am 31. vivo:president hell I know I can do the job better than
the current tyrant. imagine having the worlds most
complete intelligence handed to you daily, how hard could that be.
Too bad the communist see’s it and chooses a different path for all of us.
Oprah has never trashed anyone in politics to my recollection, so I expect she’s going to build a lot of hype for the show and then go soft on SP. Palin’s image will be so bland after the show you could use it to ‘Bounce’ your clothes.
Then the MSM will create the next soap opera out of the micrometric details.
Walmart selling her book for $9?
Oct 21, 2009 - 3:02 am 32. davidingeorgia:In a month it’ll be $1
I’m not sure having Palin adopt a cram for an exam strategy would be more useful than just building up an entourage of smart, experienced advisors…people with gov’t experience, but also with a history of being independent thinkers (yes, there are a few of those)…
for instance, getting John Bolton on board as her official (or unofficial) foreign policy advisor and listening intently to everything he tells her would go a long way toward improving her foreign policy image/public perception…he’d probably enjoy being listened to by his boss for a change, too…
that said, I’m not at all convinced she’s even going to run again…I think Palin could handle it just fine, but I rather doubt she’s going to put her family through that mess again. Some psychotics (at major publications) are STILL after her family even at this late date.
Oct 21, 2009 - 5:06 am 33. pelaut:Palin/Bachmann in 2012 with Malkin for State
Oct 21, 2009 - 5:47 am 34. touche:—and I’m a male chauvinist!
Palin is the only politician out there pushing for our own oil. The US is sitting on more oil than all of the middle east. Our politicians will not let us have it, while at the sametime complaining about our depedence on foreign oil, and yet they say Palin is not smart??
Oct 21, 2009 - 6:16 am 35. geokstr:Our own President Zero, say we can not drill offshore, but he gives 2 billion to South America so they can drill for oil. What about nuclear…oh yeah, the brilliant Zero supporters won’t let us have it, only third world hole like Iran and North Korea should have nuclear power… And these same idiots tells us Palin is not smart. The democrat sponsored trash is pilling up way too fast…you keep trying to tell us Palin is dumb….
“9. Poor Citizen:
Now, if she were really new and bold and independant of her oil base…then she would and could embrace more drilling along “with alternatives” …now that would be different and suddenly interesting.”
As usual, PC, you betray your ideology by not even reading her Op-Ed, where she mentions alternative sources as being part of the solution. However, you only get so many words in an article to make your points.
Even if we had alternative sources of energy, you can’t replace the entire panoply of uses that oil serves overnight. In her article, she notes that vehicular use of oil is only 13% of total usage. The other 87% will not be helped by new CAFE standards, and many are just as vital as gasoline.
We need to drill for the interim. It may take 100 years to develop green energy to the point that it can handle our needs without destroying the economy. What do we do until then? Ride bikes? Enviro nuts and other leftists like you will not allow more drilling, or nuclear or even hydroelectric. That is an insane path to national poverty and blackmail by our enemies.
Oct 21, 2009 - 6:41 am 36. narciso:I’m kind of split on this as, as she is the most authentic voice for American conservatism, as we saw in the speech in HK, on her facebook
Oct 21, 2009 - 6:46 am 37. UsaBruce:posts, which have strongly steered the debate against cap n trade and the public option, the defense of the American soldier and small businessman and woman, a fighter against corruption in party establishments, in the Jimmy Stewart/Jeff Smith role, a promoter of
at least more energy security. Consequently, anyone with that charisma, natural empathy
and integrity most be destroyed to teach us a lesson, so we can only have milquetoast would be statesmen like Romney and McCain, or cretinous frauds like Kerry, Dean, and the
current occupant in the White House
I love the replies by people who disparage Sarahs intelligence. They have obviously not taken the time to research her executive record and accomplishments. No, they parrot what the Left stated as the Alinsky attack and destroy tactic that it so obviously was. The so useful idiots, your stupidity amazes me, as it is delivered with such arrogant self esteem for your own perceived, yet non-existent, superior intellect. Research for yourself, if that is not too taxing an exercise.
Oct 21, 2009 - 6:54 am 38. UsaBruce:Here, I’ll remove the thinking part for you, this will make it a lot simpler.http://www.teamsarah.org/profiles/blogs/master-list-of-governor-palins?id=2330231%3ABlogPost%3A1449790&page=2&xgs=1#comments
Oct 21, 2009 - 6:58 am 39. Now and Then:i find the angst here very interesting, now that Palin deigns to leave her cave and actually have a conversation with someone other than Greta Vancistern. You folks are more than a little nervous. Oprah is a very smart person. She’s also very fair. Why would such an interview be a threat to Palin? After all, she’s the second coming, the anointed one, the savior of conservatism. She’ll do fine against that little O-shaped mortal. FEAR NOT, America! Palin is here to right the wrongs and fix the fallacies with some of her down home thnkin and fancy pageant walkin.
Oct 21, 2009 - 7:17 am 40. Anonymous:“” … Rasmussen shock poll (well, for anyone who isn’t a Huckabee fan, it’s a shocker):
GOP (Last Week!): Huckabee 29 percent, Romney 24 percent, Palin 18 percent …. “”
And, given that Huckabee Finn appears ever larger on TV — and ever more often — and that Mrs Palin hasn’t been seen in public for months, if I’d ever been a Hucky fan I’d be preparing myself for the inevitable by as often as possible practicing saying “United States of America’s President and Armed-Forces Commander-In-Chief-Elect Sarah Louise Heath Palin.”
And, for Good Measure: Vice-President-Elect David Pretaeus. (Although Vice-President Elizabeth Cheney also has a nice ring)
PALIN/PETRAEUS/2012!
Oct 21, 2009 - 7:34 am 41. goy:@36. UsaBruce: – … they parrot what the Left stated …
Not so hard to understand, really. The collectivist, morally adolescent, ‘hive’ mind of the left demands this sort of compliance-without-thinking. It’s tied directly to the circular, consensus-driven, appeal-to-majority fallacy through which their entire, socially suicidal ideology is rationalized. A truly emancipated, effective, executive woman who is also a wife, mother and grandmother who is also beautiful, physically active and morally and spiritually grounded pretty much destroys their nihilistic/narcissistic fantasy from the bottom up.
It’s no wonder we see such visceral, mindless, baseless rage directed at Palin from the left. She represents an existential threat to their delusional world view. It’s also no wonder we see similar attacks directed at her from the Socialist-Lite® GOP, given her popularity and record of ignoring partisan concerns when it comes to representing her constituency.
I originally thought McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin for V.P. was inspired. Until I saw how she was abused by him and his campaign, I had actually almost changed my opinion of him. Now it’s becoming clear that his choice was driven by a higher source than his own inspiration. Turns out he really is just a tool after all.
Oct 21, 2009 - 7:48 am 42. Missourian:The poll results are encouraging–looks like people are actually looking at resumés and past performance. Sarah Palin is a breath of fresh air and she was the reason I donated to, volunteered for, and voted for McCain in ‘08. But as far as qualifications for the presidency, she could be characterized as “Huckabee Lite”.
Personally, I hope Palin and Huckabee and other like-minded individuals get together and fix the Republican Party–or make one of their own. Hate to hear them turned into adversaries.
I love what Mike Huckabee is doing right now–supporting good candidates all over the country for 2010. Could we all please just get along–and get busy on what we can do right now/1
Oct 21, 2009 - 8:11 am 43. blotto:n&t: I will continue to point out to posters on site that you made a vile comment about Beck’s child and should not be dignified with anyone’s response. You should have been censored but PJM does not want the hassle. Furthermore, any comments you do make aside from being inane are not yours because you get your talking points from MM or CAP.
Oct 21, 2009 - 8:17 am 44. BBFmail:*THERE IS NOTHING FAIR ABOUT OPRAH. If she had been fair, she would have had Palin on her show while Palin was running for VP. Oprah…pretended to be a cheerleader for woman..but instead, was no more than another Obamatron. I will NOT watch Oprah’s show…even to see Sarah Palin. I am still wishing that Sarah would “JUST SAY NO” to Oprah.
*“Oprah: African Girls Deserve My Charity More than American Girls…
Oprah Winfrey is firing back at critics of her decision to build a $40 million school complex in South Africa – saying she didn’t build it in the U.S. because inner-city kids here don’t appreciate the value of a free education.
“I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn’t there,” the TV talk-show maven says in the current issue of Newsweek.
Is this CRAP??? And what about her “friend” Gail?????
Oct 21, 2009 - 8:52 am 45. narciso:Huck has been on Fox for the better part of a years. he’s one of these who really hasn’t advanced the conservative agenda very much, in fact, when his book came out and afterwards, he made a point of repeating many of the snide digs against the Governor, and chortling at an awards ceremony for Katie Couric. He was one of those who recently was disdainful of the critique of the Copenhagen junket. He’s not particular coherent on the foreign policy front
Oct 21, 2009 - 10:45 am 46. Roland:having been one of the critics of the surge, being skeptical on Afghanistan, having touted it as ‘the good war’. I think the fact that she
hasn’t been able to be more public, in part because of the ethical witchhunt and some other
pressing matters, that really explains polls like that.
Stupid people don’t succeed on the level of Palin’s success. She’s not “stupid.” Is she the answer for our next true, viable Conservative President? We’ll see.
People who call Palin stupid are trying to manipulate the views and beliefs of…well..of people who are stupid enough to buy into that nonsense.
Oct 21, 2009 - 1:05 pm 47. Dwight:Palin remains to me an unknown quantity, but I would not count her out…nor count ON her. The main thing I have against her is that some of her supporters here are so full of “the Communist” talk for Obama.
I still think that Romney is by far the best Republican candidate with a shot at actually beating Obama (if Obama screws up significantly in the eyes of the center, not the yahoos, who already hate him), whether he has flip-flopped on abortion and gay marriage or not. But too many Repubs, evidently don’t like him. The guy proved in Massachusetts that he could win the center. He understands money, that’s for sure.
Huckabee just does not set off any sparks for me, but I suppose that he could pull it together. As Rush said, you need SOMEONE to beat Obama, and so far that person as not emerged.
Oct 21, 2009 - 1:47 pm 48. Missourian:Dwight,
Sorry, I could never back “Say anything to get elected to the highest position money can buy” Romney. Don’t think true conservatives will ever be able to trust the man.
Oct 21, 2009 - 2:14 pm 49. Donna V.:Huckabee is a big government guy who happens to be pro-life. Basically, he’s Carter with a R after his name. Anybody who thinks he’ll do anything to roll the statist tide back is fooling themselves.
I want to vote for a conservative in 2012, not a Preacher in Chief. Huck wouldn’t be much better than bambi.
Oct 21, 2009 - 2:18 pm 50. JR Dogman:“Huckabee is a big government guy who happens to be pro-life. Basically, he’s Carter with a[n] R after his name. Anybody who thinks he’ll do anything to roll the statist tide back is fooling themselves.”
My thoughts exactly. Huckabee’s welcome in the Big Tent, but as GOP standard bearer? No way — if the Beltway GOP poobahs foist Huck on us in lieu of an actual conservative, I’m not donating *one red cent* to the campaign. I’ll send my $ to individual *conservatives* in congress, just like I’m doing now.
I’m sure this will sound crazy to some posting here, but I’d rather lose with a conservative than win with a slow-motion statist/RINO, and leave all the credit for the inevitable disasters to the Democrat Party.
Oct 21, 2009 - 5:26 pm 51. Now and Then:46. Roland:
Stupid people don’t succeed on the level of Palin’s success.”
Oh, Roland . . . Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Kanye West, Sean Hannity . . . the list goes on and on. Success/wealth are no indicator of intelligence (except in my case.)
Oct 21, 2009 - 6:13 pm 52. anna:hey pelosi’s ratings are at 34% in ca! there is a god!!!
j.c. watts for president
Oct 21, 2009 - 6:40 pm 53. JaneLovesJesus:Why do some people care so much what the polls, the pundits, and the left says? We have to cut through that to get to the content of one’s character, and that is where Palin shines. I believe she does have the heart and the guts to lead America.
We (not me, mind you) voted for someone who (supposedly) looks cool and ‘looks’ presidential. How’s that workin’ out for y’all? Don’t let the left’s Ick Factor of Palin dissuade you. If anything, support her more because they are so friggin’ DERANGED over her. And quit caring that she is not cool enough in the eyes of couric, or the NYT, or Oprah, or David Brooks, or whoever’s opinion we are supposed to be swooning over.
Who else is standing up for America? For freedom? For what is right? For our military? Who else has dealt with all the manure they have thrown at her only to bloom?
You know in your heart she stands head and shoulders above the pantywaist politicians out there. Don’t think that putting Palin down is going to make the cool kids like you more. It doesn’t make you smart because you call her dumb. She’s not.
Oct 21, 2009 - 9:29 pm 54. Marc Malone:Baal – Glad you liked the speech. Frank Luntz, the pollster, rated it as one of the greatest speeches. His focus group’s numbers were off the charts.
As far as Oprah, not to worry. Oprah does not dare do a Gibson on Sarah. Too many of her audience just love Sarah. She dare not piss them off. She’ll lose too large a portion of her audience. She learned a bit from last year. She still pals around with Obama, but she dares not mess with Sarah, at least not until an election year. It’d be just foolish.
Oct 22, 2009 - 2:13 am 55. pelaut:Huckabee = Lawrence Welk
Oct 22, 2009 - 5:12 am 56. Anonymous:“21. JR Dogman:…Recall Evan Thomas’s pronouncement in 2004: the MSM coverage of Kerry/Edwards was worth around 15 points in the general election. When other libs went nuts over what he’d said, Thomas reduced it to 5 points. But we know 15 was (and is) right — if anything it might be a conservative estimate.”
Exactly. Which should demonstrate irrefutably why weakening the power of the MSM should be near the top of the conservative agenda for the next three years. They’re guaranteed to try all their tricks again, whether the GOP candidate is Sarah Heath Palin or anyone else.
We’re engaged in Information Age warfare here, friends. Our primary aim must be weakening or destroying the information-processing-and-distribution nodes in the enemy camp. In politics, that means its brain trust and the network that disseminates data and orders on its behalf. Press the MSM against the wall and choke it on its bias, its lies, its misrepresentations and censorship-by-omission. Degrade its power to sway the minds of well-meaning Americans. That’s the tactical key to victory in 2010 and 2012. Isn’t that what the Left has been trying to do to Fox News and conservative talk radio?
Draw the moral!
Oct 22, 2009 - 5:30 am 57. Francis W. Porretto:“21: JR Dogman:…Recall Evan Thomas’s pronouncement in 2004: the MSM coverage of Kerry/Edwards was worth around 15 points in the general election. When other libs went nuts over what he’d said, Thomas reduced it to 5 points. But we know 15 was (and is) right — if anything it might be a conservative estimate.”
Exactly. Which is why reducing the power of the MSM to sway well-meaning Americans is critical to victory in 2010 and 2012.
This is Information Age warfare. The tactical assets vital to this sort of combat are the information-processing and information-distributing systems, yours and your enemy’s. Protect yours; target his. Delegitmize the Obamunist “brain trust.” Choke the MSM by reporting on its relentless lies, distortions, misrepresentations and omissions. We’ve made a good start. Press on!
Oct 22, 2009 - 5:35 am 58. Mike Stergios:A lot of conservatives still seem to be suffering from Media Stockholm Syndrom concerning the Sarahcuda. Most of the perception about her “unpreparedness” comes from TWO heavily-edited MSM interviews and a SNL parody.
Oct 22, 2009 - 10:37 am 59. Now and Then:The intensity of the venom directed at Sarah Palin should clue in thoughtful conservatives that she represents something which deeply terrifies the Left. She represents better than any public figure out there the falsity of the Progressive pose as champion of women, the little guy, and the non-elites.
She may sound like Frances McDormand’s small-town sheriff from FARGO–not a bad image to evoke BTW–but she has the genius of putting pressing current issues like health care and energy policy and the environment in terms which resonate with most people outside the beltway.
I wouldn’t worry too much about her walking into Oprah’s lair. Oprah, for all her PC posturing and ties to Obama, is a very shrewd businesswoman. Booking Sarah helps her ratings. Sarah is equally shrewd, and recognizes that this is an optimal opportunity to talk over the MSM template.
58. Mike Stergios:
“Most of the perception about her “unpreparedness” comes from TWO heavily-edited MSM interviews and a SNL parody.”
Did you see her “I quit” speech? It was the craziest, most disjointed and self-serving goulash of victimhood and rationalizing ever served up to the American public. I look forward to seconds.
Oct 23, 2009 - 6:35 am 60. narciso:No, she resigned because the cost of the abuse of the ethics reform process to her, and her state, was too much. She probably would have held out if
Oct 23, 2009 - 9:29 am 61. Public Freedom:she could have covered her expenses with the legal
defense fund, but a leaked opinion, stigmatizing
that use, made that impossible.
The fact that she stepped down was honorable. Her family and herself were getting more flack from the drive by media than any politician in recent memory and it was affecting her governing of Alaska and she stepped aside. She’s will to step away from power just as much as she’s willing to throw a political punch.
Oct 23, 2009 - 10:16 am 62. Benson:I’m sick to death of people saying “She needs to study hard, blah, blah, blah,”. These people still watch the main stream media, wouldn’t know the truth if it bit them in the a$$ and probably voted for Obama. When McCain picked Palin as his Running mate I did my homework. I didn’t read the lefty blogs or pay any attention to the biased interviews. I found a factual biography about Palin and read it. What she’s done politically and personally is truly an American story about an intelligent, thoughtful woman. I watched her in a debate while running for governor. I watched her TV interviews on Alaska television as governor. I watched her acceptance speech after being elected.
Oct 23, 2009 - 6:19 pm 63. Now and Then:She’s accomplished and is as accomplished as any candidate who ever ran for President. When I hear people say she’s not ready to run for President I know right away they still believe the lies of the left and main stream media and are to lazy to find out the truth. I would never support her in any way as a candidate if I didn’t feel she was not only ready but exactly what this country needs.
62. Benson:
“She’s accomplished and is as accomplished as any candidate who ever ran for President.”
That may be the single dumbest statement I have ever read on PJM. And that is saying something.
Decorated Navy Pilot
Yale graduate
Ambassador to the UN
Chairman of the Republican National Committee
Chief Liaison to China
Director of the CIA
8 years as Vice President Ronald Reagan
What am I saying, you’re right, Bensonmum, that can’t hold a candle to the Runner up for Miss Fishbone who quit her governorship halfway through because she loved her state so much.
Oct 23, 2009 - 10:39 pm