The Dangers of Sarah Palin: "To dismiss her would be a terrible blunder."

[Better Believe It]

The Dangers of Sarah Palin
By Matthew Rothschild
February 8, 2010

I’m not writing her off. No matter how many gaffes she makes, no matter what she writes on her palm, she is not going away.

In fact, she may very well be the Republican nominee in 2012, and if the economy hasn’t recovered by then, there’s an outside chance she could win the White House.

She is already the favorite among Republicans. A Newsmax-Zogby poll of January 28 had her garnering 22.2 percent of Republican voters, compared to Romney’s 19.4 percent, Gingrich’s 12 percent, Huckabee’s 11 percent, and David Petraeus’s 5.4 percent.

She was greeted as royalty at the Tea Party Convention in Tennessee on February 5.

And she articulates and echoes the anger that millions of people across the country are feeling at the giveaways to Wall Street.

“Too often when big government and big business get together and cronyism sets in, well, it benefits insiders, not everyday Americans,” she told the Tea Partiers in a line that resonated.

Barack Obama and many Democrats have been way too timid in going after big business. In fact, the coziness of Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke and Larry Summers with the Wall Street bankers has left Obama wide open for this kind of criticism.

The bank bailout is killing Obama. All Obama could muster in his State of the Union was the comment, “If there's one thing that has unified Democrats and Republicans, it's that we all hated the bank bailout. I hated it. You hated it.”

But Obama voted for the bailout when he was a Senator, and then expanded it when he was President.

It is a cement block tied around his ankles.

People are looking for answers. And Sarah Palin is providing them. They are simplistic answers. They are foolish answers. They are the wrong answers.

But they have an appeal.

And so does she.

To dismiss her would be a terrible blunder.

Please read the full article at:

http://www.progressive.org/wx020810.html

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. Neocon puppet

she doesn't make up her script

[buff2]

2. I'd like to have what this guy is smoking

:smoke:

[Better Believe It]

You read the article and responded in less than 2 minutes!

So you just didn't have enough time to think about and critique the article.

Now's your chance!

I'm listening.

[spanone]

3. she IS an insider....how many folks are making 100,000 per speech?

[Zomby Woof]

4. Fucking idiots

The Republicans ARE the party of big business, and any time Obama even HINTS that he may be a little stricter with them, the teabaggers cry SOCIALISM! But he never goes that far, and meanwhile the teabaggers simultaneously fall for populist rhetoric, while encouraging the candidacy of someone who would be a big business wet dream.

The mind boggles.

[MineralMan]

5. Ms. Palin, I'm very sorry, but we're going to have to dismiss you.

What? You already quit? Very well, then. Please follow this security person and clean out your personal belongings.

[Better Believe It]

7. Just like many dismissed "stupid George" in 2000?

[MineralMan]

9. I certainly did not do that. Sadly, I wish I could have dismissed

another candidate, at least in Florida. That would have had a beneficial effect.

[Better Believe It]

13. Joseph Leiberman who would have become President if Gore died.

That would have been a bummer!

:)

[MineralMan]

15. Al Gore didn't die.

[Better Believe It]

16. He might have died if the Supreme Court had not appointed Bush president!

He could have been murdured or the pressure of the presidency might have taken it's toll. A different history could have resulted in his premature death.

[MineralMan]

17. Nah. The actuarial tables don't lie.

Damn Ralph Nader! Seriously. We have him to thank for 8 years of GW*. I will never forgive him for that. The theft of Florida's election was made possible by the 90,000 votes for Nader. It wouldn't have been possible for the GOOPers to have stolen the election.

No matter how much scorn is heaped on my for that, I will never stop reminding people that Nader gave us George Waste Bush for 8 years. Never. It's not a matter for humor with me.

[Better Believe It]

18. Joseph Leiberman stabbed Gore in the back, 250,00 registered Florida Democrats voted for Bush.

If socialists would have voted for Leiberman/Gore instead of socialist presidential candidates on the ballot in Florida that would have made a difference.

Of course, ignore all of those and a hundred other facts that opened the door to the Supreme Court appointment of Bush.

We need a convenient scapegoat.

I know.

Blame Nader!

[MineralMan]

19. I do blame Nader. Thanks for recognizing that.

You may have a different opinion. I have given you mine.

[Better Believe It]

24. I blame those who actually stole the election and those who failed to run an effective campaign.

[KansDem]

6. Projection...pure projection...

Too often when big government and big business get together and cronyism sets in, well, it benefits insiders, not everyday Americans.

Perhaps the GOP would prefer "small government" and "big business" but they can't shake the perception that they are "The Party of Big Business." If we had an accurate media, they would be pointing out the fact that the bank bailouts were a product of GOP deregulation, lack of GOP oversight, and GOP legislation.

I would hope that Americans would see through the lies and incompetence of Palin and the GOP, but then I remember this stupid pissant 10 years ago...

[Richard D]

8. check this

From theimmoralminority.blogspot.com

Fox is building sarah her own home studio:

I have been hearing this rumor for several months now that there was a studio being built on the Palin property. However up until now I have never been able to confirm it. Consider it confirmed.

However with this information I think we may have the final piece of the Rupert Murdoch/Fox News/Sarah Palin/Teabagger/Presidency puzzle.

See if this makes sense to you.

* Fox News creates "Obama is a socialist" meme
* Fox News uses Glenn Beck to create "grass roots" Teabagger movement.
* Sarah Palin positions herself as queen of Teabagger movement.
* Fox News hires Palin as "commentator".
* Supreme Court makes decision allowing corporations (like News Corp) to give unlimited amounts to pay for political advertising.
* Fox News builds studio on Palin's Wasilla compound.
* Fox forces the GOP to absorb the Teabagger movement, by making them move way to the right. (This is already happening.)
* GOP/Teabaggers nominate Palin.
* Thanks to Supreme Court decision News Corp buys tons of advertising space on Fox News and other media outlets attacking Obama administration and pimping Palin.
* If Palin wins Rupert Murdoch has his very own puppet dictator. If, and when, Palin loses Fox News reports that the elitists stole the election and portrays Palin as a victim (her favorite role) of election fraud which will expand her influence and increase their ratings.
* If they fail to capture White House in 2012 they are guaranteed to put a Fox News created candidate in office by 2016

[Better Believe It]

12. Thanks for the info. Ignore Sarah Palin and the Republican Party at your own peril

[calimary]

20. Agreed. America is dumbing down.

She is unfortunately very appealing to the true knuckle-draggers. And they vote. They'll stand in 20-thousand inches of snow to vote for her. And if we're up against them and THEY'RE the ones who are fired up, and we're disspirited and our Dems remain without backbone, then this November and onward will be very bad.

[Better Believe It]

10. Obama didn't help himself by defending Wall Street CEO bonuses and comparing their pay to

baseball players!

Baseball players, unlike Wall Street crooks, haven't ask for or received government bailouts and they didn't cause the economic crisis.

Not a good analogy at all President Obama.

Perhaps he thought his comment on baseball players pay would play well on Main Street and Wall Street, deflecting criticism of Wall Street bonuses.

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President Obama told Business Week yesterday that he doesn't "begrudge" the CEOs of JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs their multi-million-dollar bonuses.

"I know both those guys; they are very savvy businessmen," Obama said. "I, like most of the American people, don't begrudge people success or wealth. That is part of the free-market system."

"Listen, $17 million is an extraordinary amount of money. Of course, there are some baseball players who are making more than that who don't get to the World Series either. So I'm shocked by that as well."

[marmar]

11. As if we could.....the MSM won't let go of her.

nt

[spin]

23. And in fact the MSN is making her popular by ridiculing her...

She comes across as a regular person not a polished, Harvard educated and very rich member of the elite ruling class.

She's honestly folksy and appeals to many who believe that our government has little interest in the common person but instead is bought and owned by the big corporations.

No, she doesn't and never will shine as the brightest light bulb in the room. Nor does she have to. Ronald Reagan and George W Bush never impressed people as Rhodes scholars. But people voted for Reagan and Bush the Junior.

America loves an underdog. Hell, she even describes herself as a dog, "a pitbull with lipstick".

She might make a formidable candidate but she would also be a disaster as a President. Much depends on the economy. If we have a strong recovery, she will be irrelevant in 2012 and old news in 2016. If we have a weak recovery, she has a chance at winning.

People want serious change in our government. Obama promised that change and so far we seem to have government as usual in Washington. Where's the bipartisanship and the transparency that was promised. Deals are made in locked conference rooms, votes are bought by bribes and bills are pushed to the floor of Congress in the middle of the night without the chance for American citizens to review them and comment. We wanted heathcare reform and instead ended up with a plan that will guarantee profit for the heathcare industry and quite possibly increased costs for the average citizen.

Note: I don't blame this on Obama but rather on Reid and Pelosi. The Republicans also deserve a share of the blame as the party of "NO!". Often a President has a bad first year and recovers to win a second term. Obama was the best campaigner in my lifetime. Now It's time to step up the the bully pulpit and show that he can also be a great leader. If there ever was a time for a President to prove himself as a leader, that time is now.

[Better Believe It]

14. Obama hands Republicans a big, fake "populist" club to attack him with.

According to the Huffington Post:

The National Republican Congressional Committee was quick on the attack, sending the story to reporters under the title: "OBAMA SUDDENLY SCALES BACK ANTI-WALL STREET RHETORIC."

[ROFF]

21. Her biggest problem is the crap that spews from her mouth.

But that could change if her speeches were written for her. Remember her speech at the Republican convention? That was written for her. It made her seem sane.

If she runs in 2012, has no debates and very few selected interviews, people might say "My, hasn't she improved."

Her base is looking so hard for a leader that they are willing to overlook her past and lower their already low standards.

[lumpy]

22. The problem with Palin is that she will be used as a stooge

eventially by the GOP, much the same as George W. was used. I wouldn't put it past the GOP powers that be to use her.

[troubledamerican]

25. Do ANY Democrats learn history?

Hitler was a figure of ridicule in the Weimar Republic. Nazism was treated as buffoonery.

Then Hitler seized power in a runoff where he got no majority vote. (See U.S. Election of 1824, to be repeated in 2012, guaranteed).

Hitler was a failed artist; Stalin was a failed poet; Mussolini was a failed journalist; Kim Jong Il & Saddam Hussein & many dictators fancy themselves as poets & writers.

Palin is a failed sportscaster & wanna-be pundit. Her personality profile is identical to every dictator.

Her "Tea Party Coronation Speech" was pure Evita Peron. You don't know who Evita Peron is? Every word was Evita. "I will live & die for America!"

Stalin (almost rhymes with Palin) was shy to speak publicly, for fear of exposing his Georgia accent -- his home region of Georgia being considered a "hillbilly" albatross. Just like "Caribou Barbie".

Liberals ridicule, just like the Weimar Germans did. Liberals are following Rove's script perfectly.

She needn't engineer her own ascent.