Yes, but I repeat: she (unfairly) has been trashed and once trashed, no prospects beyond that of heroine to the rabid right.

As far as "mediocre educational credentials" goes - I'm not seeing them as a bug but a feature. I'm looking at how the current crop of Columbia and Harvard folks are screwing things up - and it's clear their academic 'success' was unleavened with anything resembling real-world experience.

Theory is great when it comes to politics, but you'd better have actual practice and experience to fall back on when the theory and reality collide. Because reality ALWAYS beats theory.

And that's one of the things that always puzzled me about the hate directed towards Palin. "Oh, she was just a mayor and a state governer - nothing important like a community organizer!" Your Clancy excerpt hits it.

"So, what's the angle if there isn't an angle?"

Play it straight for a change, and see what it gets us. I for one am pretty tired of trying to figure out the angles and dangles of the Beltway buffoons - I think Palin could clean up a lot of the mess there that's been long overdue for removal.

Sarah has a "decided lack of ego" in inverse proportion to the number of times per speech Sarah pauses to smell her upper lip.

Picture FDR, chin raised, but without the cigarette holder. That's Sarah's chosen iconography of herself.

One of the best summations of the Palin phenomina I've read. Great post and double thanks from Deeeeeeep South Texas where Democrats reign supreme but where some conservatives are building strength.

Nice writeup Jay.

After 4 years of witnessing the dems and Obama running this country into the ground, trying to transform it into some multi-cultural "paradise", moderate voters might well find Palins' common sense and love of country rather attractive.

Obama wants to transform the country. Obama and those behind him loathe it as it stands. The apologies never end, the lies never stop, the corruption never ends.

Without realizing it, they just might be creating the opening for someone like Palin. We can only hope.

bryanD

Shut up bushDerangement! You are so funny when Your jealous!

Excellent summation. The reason so many people can't figure out what you have figured out (to simply listen to what she is saying) is that they are so used to hearing only lies and obfuscations. You know, typical politician-speak.

"All you have to do is listen to her."
Sometimes that would be nice.
Some people develop a pre-conceived image of a person based on a political ideology. This has a tendency to shut down the auditory sensing system and can lead to neurotic behavior. Taken to an extreme this can lead to psychotic behavior as with the case of David Letterman.

And it would have also been nice if more people had been paying attention to what Obama was saying in his campaign. It works both ways.

"Yes, but I repeat: she (unfairly) has been trashed ..."

Yeah, and your never ending criticisms have been purely constructive and well meaning. Pffft.

"And it would have also been nice if more "people had been paying attention to what Obama was saying in his campaign. It works both ways"

Yeah.. Just what the hell was He sayin anyways? Socialism for America?

"Taken to an extreme this can lead to psychotic behavior as with the case of David Letterman"

No, He just forgot the ankle bracelet was tracking His predatory ass.

It was funny how people were saying that show "The American President" was supposedly trying to get people ready for Hillary even though the character in the show was extremely conservative in comparison.

I think it might be a better fit for our favorite Alaskan.

Don'tcha know?

Good take. Thompson(emeritus) and Bachman made hay also. TPaw, not so much, Romney, goose egg.

"I do know we could do worse."

We seem to be waiting for the Great White(Male) hope to emerge from the shadows having, invisibly, made all the right moves, paid the endorsement bills, seized the op-ed zeitgeist, stabbed the bolsheviks with the viral meme, built the 'party', established foreign gravitas, etc.

Ohmygod! ITS CUDA! It was her all along!

"she (unfairly) has been trashed and once trashed, no prospects beyond that of heroine to the rabid right"

All you heroes belongs us. Satan go home.

Picture FDR, chin raised, but without the cigarette holder. That's Obama's chosen iconography of himself.

914 re: 10
I hope I did not mislead you into thinking Obama got a raw deal by people not listening to him. I think he benefited well and captured more votes because people did not listen to his "Socialism for America" rantings. If anyone had put a critical ear to him and analyzed what he said he would have not received the support he did.
Not listening worked well for Obama and is short changing Palin.
that Ob

Sarah Palin has appeal because she is one of "us." She represents the common person, that made good. She earned her jobs as mayor and govenor. They were not purchased by her husband or her father. She regularly fought her own party to pass legislation that was for the common Alaskan, not just special interest groups. Her common education is what the vast majority of americans have. We graduated from community colleges, state universites, etc that nobody really heard of. Many of us changed schools and majores because of realities of having to go where the scholoraships were, or the jobs were to get us through school. Palin represents Free America and fly-over country better than any other "republican" in the public eye.

bryanD
Shut up bushDerangement! You are so funny when Your jealous!
6. Posted by 914

Riiight. Heads up: Cheney, Libby, Feith and Co. awarded each other statuettes for the machismo. The Right rightly winces.

Embarrassing Israeli spy sting this last week. Neocons swallow tongues.

George Bush tries to remember to forget and succeeds...in remembering...d'OH!

P.S. Health care reform bill to pass in November, as I predicted. Right wing opponents strive mightily to pretend they never drew no stinkin' lines in no stinkin' sand!

Cheerio!

bryanD:

Cheerio? You have got to be kidding! No one outside their mommy's basement or Leftistan uses that kind of language when discussing the common man's ability to rise to a new level of self reliance and exceptionalism. You must be wondering if HC is ever passed why will the results you wish for never be realized.

(the key is in you top drawer...you can leave the basement any time you have the courage.)

I was one of two engineers hired at a computer firm. I graduated from a state college and the other engineer was from the elitest of the Ivy League.

Wow was that a revelation, as I took on all the work that she couldn't figure out how to do. She went to the Ivy League but they grade on a huge curve. She regularly got 37% or below on her tests, but passed her classes. She got the diploma, but I received a real education.

Sarah Palin got an actual education. I wouldn't hire an Ivy League grad to clean toilets.

Pffft

and in that I'm supposed to find a rebutatal to my claim that Palin is damaged goods and can not win a national election?

Palin is New Coke, victims of botched rollouts, and with a public perception so bad and engrained it doesn't matter how loudly their small band of loyal aficionados proclaim that they're really better than the junk being pushed on us.

And yes, I did like the taste of New Coke...

"...and in that I'm supposed to find a rebutatal to my claim that Palin is damaged goods and can not win a national election?"

The rebuttal part (if you were willing to comprehend) is that your opinion about Palin is well known. One can't even mention her name without your unique and savvy criticisms of just about anything related to her. My point is that you've over saturated threads with your negative opinion of Palin. Every time you start in about her again all I can think is, "Oh crap, here he goes again." The mere mention of her sends you rifling through your brain for something critical to say. It's actually boring now. Hence: pffft.

s strum - "and in that I'm supposed to find a rebutatal to my claim that Palin is damaged goods and can not win a national election?"
Political history is not your strong suit.

Reagan, damaged goods, Nixon, damaged goods are but two of dozens thought to be politically dead.

But weren't

Picture FDR, chin raised, but without the cigarette holder. That's Sarah's chosen iconography of herself.

It's someone else's trademark pose, even more extreme and even more obnoxiously smug than Roosevelt's pose. Not a pretty picture at all.

The Palin damaged goods meme. Ok.

But what you fail to see is that she is ordinary America, and we are damaged goods too. We're damaged because we've been assaulted by a tyrannical federal government drunk on its own power, and ever willing to undermine, slander, and destroy its own citizens.

People now are seeing a natural alliance between Sarah and the Tea Parties.

But I'll take that a step farther... Sarah INSPIRED the Tea Parties. People saw how she was trashed. They saw how John McCain and other so-called Republicans lapped up the bailout hogwash.

Sarah is inseparable from the grassroots movement sweeping into power in the next two election cycles.

You may call us the rabid right ... I prefer to just call us the rabidly right.

"Not a pretty picture at all."

Strongly reminiscent of Il Duce.

"Palin is New Coke, ...it doesn't matter how loudly their small band of loyal aficionados proclaim that they're...better than the junk being pushed on us."

Curious, an implicit admission that our political class is lacking but never a recommendation, only derogation of one particular person.

Effete if genuine perfectionism, like a deluded if devoted mommy(object of affection unknown), or(as a number propose) an obsessed troll?

Like the song Don Schlitz wrote:

You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.

Simple Sarah knows when to stand her ground and when to retreat and knows that it isn't in the cards she has been dealt but how to play them.

Makes her one extraordinary woman.

New Coke was invented in labratories by very smart people, and marketed by other smart people, probably quite a few with Ivy League degrees.

Old Coke was preferred by the vast majority of Americans.

RINO = New Coke
Sarah = Old Coke

"Cheerio? You have got to be kidding! No one outside their mommy's"...Texas Tom

Oh, hell! I've paid for sex in 22 countries so shut the fudge up, "Texas".

"Exceptionally" yours, et cetra, et cetra

bryanD,

So the only way you can get a woman to touch you is to pay for it.... After reading your insulting posts around here that doesn't surprise me at all.

Oh, hell! I've paid for sex in 22 countries.

Man, you sub yourself out to medical schools as a disease farm to show folks what not to do or what?

Kenny - maybe he left a "been" out somewhere - it makes more sense that way.

bryanD,

#16 and life to go...

Im not right wing Bryan. Im a conservative free soul with a few liberal twists. Nice try at labeling though.

Actually BryanyunP,

Me and U and a dog named boo have a lot in common. We both dont support higher taxes. We both dont like rino's like the one in the oval office now. And we both love Sarah "gorgeous" Palin.

Im so glad We had this time together. Bonding is so important among bloggers~!

Oh, hell! I've paid for sex in 22 countries so shut the fudge up, "Texas".

That's about the only way anyone would sleep with you. Surprisingly, you would admit it.

I suppose you will give us a list of those 22 countries now...please, if "Thailand" is on there, just keep that info to yourself.

So the only way you can get a woman to touch you is to pay for it...

Kenny, you shouldn't assume it is a woman...

"Oh, hell! I've paid for sex in 22 countries so shut the fudge up, "Texas"."

Ive never paid for it even in this one Country.

What stinks in Thailand, stays in bryanD

Kenny, you shouldn't assume it is a woman...

Or even human, come to think of it...

Hey, the Japanese have a LOT of things that'd fit that bill!

"" .... a top White House political operative and a very, very prominent journalist (think Karl Rove and Bob Woodward ... ""

Bob Woodward is a "prominent 'journalist?'"

Yair.

Right on.

As Michael Jackson is a prominent heterosexual and José Feliciano has a good eye for the ladies.

And Bill Gates', Henry Ford's, Winston Leonard Spencer Jerome Churchill's, Thomas Alva Edison's and Richard Branson's lack of academic "qualifications" condemned every one of them to a lifetime in the the dunce's chair.

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"I suppose you will give us a list of those 22 countries now...please, if "Thailand" is on there, just keep that info to yourself."
34. Posted by James Cloninger
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Hey! I was talking Texan to Texas Tom!
The real answer is 7 that can be stretched to 10, i.e. Yugoslavia, 1978- Slovenia, Croatia, more recently, and West Germany, 1978, and Germany (east), Leipzig, Berlin, etc.

The others are Holland, Mexico, Okinawa, Philippines, S. Korea, Romania. Those are the cash sites.

I have connections in England, Scotland, Ulster, and Denmark. Iceland was a swinger republic, no introductions necessary, just show up at Reykjavik Square at midnight. Actually, the Brits require no connections, either. Very wild skinny girls who like to get wasted on whatever you got. An under-rated area for sure.

Thailand? Didn't like girls yet.

PS. I am not a slut!

Oyster, you ignorant ***. I like Palin. I voted for her (in order, against Obama, for Palin, for McCain). But liking her and thinking that she has no future beyond heroine of the right wing are not mutually exclusive.

When a poll (accepting for the sake of argument that it is accurate) reports that 71% of the public has a negative opinion of her, that is way too high a hurdle to overcome. It's Quayle redux.

Steve, I hope that's not your way of showing you "like" someone. I suppose then I might feel flattered that you've called me an "ignorant ***". (I thought the "***" would stand for slut, thinking that perhaps you're hearkening back to the old Saturday Night Live days. But then slut has four letters. So, please don't elaborate further. Allow me to continue to bask in the glow of your flattery.)

I gotta tell ya. The way you talk about her, "like" never entered my mind.

I think you might be wrong about her. While I'm one who thinks she's not ready to hold the reins, I think she has enormous potential.