Governor Palin is showing real leadership in these interviews. She is articulating a robust conservative message and Rush is very impressed by her. If Rush officially jumps on board and promotes and endorses her candidacy, I don’t see her losing the 2012 primary.
If book sales are any indication, can you imagine what Governor Palin’s fundraising war chest for the 2012 Presidential campaign will look like? It will dwarf Obama’s cash.
Thank you Mr. Lorelli for sharing these interviews (I heard the radio one this afternoon.) It is nice to know that a few people around here still promote Conservatism instead of turning into exploding loose cannons.
“It’s to bad she wasn’t interviewed on Halloween like O’reilly. She could have come dressed as Barbie!” Yeah, and Mr. Romney could dress like a caveman.
Governor Palin is showing her Presidential timber in these interviews. Reading Going Rogue: An American Life as I type – great read so far, very substanative as Rush has said.
R42008 is even more obsessed with Palin than Andrew Sullivan. The media co-dependency of her zealous supporters and fierce detractors is a little creepy.
Sarah Palin is a pleasant surprise for those of us who had hoped that Senator McCain would pick a principled and authentic conservative pro-life leader. Sarah Palin is both principled and authentic. As a Governor, she also brings an important balance of understanding of the critical domestic issues that is needed and that the Democrats have ignored with their ticket. Governor Palin is smart, authentic, tough, and a dynamic choice…
What’s your source regarding Mike and Todd not being friendly? Mike has spoke highly of Sarah on his show many times. He’s even publicly invited her to be on to promote her book when he gets back from his own book tour.
#21,
She’s Palinite’s version of Obama. No Experience, Good talker! ‘We love What She SAYS! WE LOVE HOW SHE US FEEL! SHE’S WHAT AMERICA NEEDS! Why do you like her? IT DOESN’T MATTER! WE JUST LIKE HER!
What office? Congresswoman? I think she’ll be much more valuable supporting REPUBLICAN candidates to help take back the seats we lost (and more) in 2008. Don’t you? : )
There were two things I found interesting. First, she’s branding herself with the term “commonsense conservatism,” which she’ll have to fill with ideas. I find the concept in itself more compelling than “compassionate conservatism” or similar Bushisms.
Second, while some find it grating, there’s a certain amount of hidden potential in giving blowback to major media. I think the last general campaign made quite a folks feel needlessly derided and insulted by national media who misrepresented them and their concerns.
This negative campaign in the media continued and even increased in stridency after the elections, with establishment media’s outright cynicism, disrespect, and derision of the concerns of Tea Party protesters and attendees of the summer’s health care “town halls.” There was even that one CNN reporter in the field who started preaching to a Tea Party protester about how disrespectful he was of all the good things the government he disagreed with.
People who were so derided for having earnest concerns about the explosion of government, I’d suppose, might feel that they can understand what it was like to suffer the negative prejudice in the media that Palin complains about. They’re likely to feel a certain deep affinity for a candidate who knows what they’ve been through.
“I was hoping one of her MORE INTELLIGENT handlers would read the post and start printing signs, “Palin in 2010?” Well, 2010 shall be a great year as Pro-Palinite candidates help the GOP take back the house and the Palinites will have the balance of power in the Congress.
As a first time poster on this site, long time reader I am in shock of the negativity to Sarah Palin from some on this site. I personally like her, do I want her to be President, no, but the lack of respect and just being rude on some people is heartbreaking. Personally, I am for Mitt Romney, however, those attacking Mrs. Palin in the name of Mitt are completely out of touch with what Mitt Romney is trying to do. We must unite our party to fight runaway government and all some can do is attack her. Give me a break.
Well, BOSMAN, I fully agree with #34. I’ve been here since the very early days of this site, and I highly doubt any amount of time will change my tune.
I have met majority of the candidates, one of the pluses of my position that I was in in college. After Mitt and Huck, Sarah Palin is one of the best people that this party could hope to have. Do I agree with her on every issue, no. But I do respect her. I think this party is much better served with all the candidates helping us in 2010, then let the election of 2012 begin, however, not once will you see this Republican attack another candidate.
#37,
no body should have to change their ‘TUNE’, everyone, sings the ‘TUNE’ of their candidate, but having come here a week ago, I notice a certain ‘TONE’ being expressed toward my candidate and have chosen to reciprocate with a similar ‘TONE’!
“but having come here a week ago, I notice a certain ‘TONE’ being expressed toward my candidate” Gee, one week; we Palinites had to put with your camp for a lot longer than that. Who is doing the reciprocating?
From what I saw of the Winfrey interview I thought both Oprah and Sarah did a nice job. Both were polite and engaging. But I thought ‘Babba WaWas’ simply had some pre-cooked digs that Sarah handled very well. Barbara’s approach if she were interviewing her own boring self would be like this. – “Ba Ba many say your age is the catalyst for your advanced stages of journalistic dementia. Others say you peaked out when the original Saturday Night Live crew first made fun of you 30 years before Tina Fay did Sarah. Why do you think they would say that?” As far as Rush went let’s face it: Sarah had home court advantage and Rush tossed nothing but soft balls. I am glad that people are moved by Mrs. Palin and that she can get Mr. Limbagh excited about some substantive points that other republicans already articulated over two years ago.
“GRAND RAPIDS — Mike Huckabee famously plays bass guitar on the campaign trail, but he says fellow former governor — and potential 2012 presidential candidate — Sarah Palin is the Republican Party’s rock star.
“I’m delighted she’s coming, because the more conservative voices that we can get on the stage right now, the better,” he said Tuesday after signing more than 500 copies of his new book “A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories that Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit” in about an hour …
“The message is loud and clear that people want fiscal responsibility, a different approach to debt and spending, and I’m delighted that she’s going to be adding to the chorus of voices that are saying that. I have a great admiration for her. She’s a rock star in our party.”
Huckabee won five primaries and three caucuses in finishing runner-up to U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for the GOP’s presidentinal nomination in 2008.
He said he is not ruling out another presidential bid, but added it is way too early to commit — despite leading in a recent USA Today poll.
Huckabee said the GOP gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia this month, marked by dramatic swings in independent voters toward Republicans, are encouraging.
But he said the focus needs to be on the 2010 mid-term elections, and once the dust settles he can make a decision about 2012.
The party needs to take a hard look at what happened when it was in control of Congress, and learn from the beating it took in 2008, Huckabee said.”
Huckabee/Pawlenty, OK, it appears that he said god things too. There are not quite as many loose cannon Huckabeeites as there are loose cannon Romneyites, but there are a few Huckabee sites out there that are not very nice and I am not pleased with them. However, it appears to be true that when the Romney camp is in a hole they dig deeper. At least the Huckabeeites have stopped digging.
As much as I would love to see Demint as VP, I think his time passed. Going to need a younger VP than that for Mitt. Maybe Jindal. I’d say Thune or even Pence – but I don’t think either is southern enough for him.
I don’t think he would want the Presidency anyway. He’s not a Speech savy kind of guy. i think he would run with his pal as VP though! Maybe by 2020, there will be more mature candidates; i.e., Palin, Jindal, ?…!
Ohio Joe you attack Romney supporters as being “X” and then if they respond you use that as evidence that they are “x”. I really do like much about Mitt Romney so in response to your negative attacks I simply want to compliment you and yours as having proficient typing skills and some very nice shoes.
Um, no. “Romnets” sounds like a troupe of middle-aged drag queens in feather boas, fishnets, and pasties. Mittwits was always my favorite moniker for the Romney besotted oompa-loompas who caper and cavort on this lonely site.
Since you’ve become a full fledged Palin Supporter, you’re not only putting Romney down, you’re also putting his supporters down, what do you think Romney supporters should do… I can see a day here on Race4 that the Romney supporters will be gone from here.
Rachel Maddow discusses statements by former McCain campaign staffer Nicolle Wallace to The Rachel Maddow Show about Sarah Palin’s new book with Ana Marie Cox of Air America Radio. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/34005238#34005238
“The whole notion there was a conversation where I tried to cajole her into a conversation with Katie [Couric] is fiction…. I am not someone who throws around the word ’self-esteem.’ It is a fictional description. Katie Couric was selected because we did evening anchors…. I did not advocate an interview for anyone I am friends with.”
On preparation and expectations for the Couric interview:
“We set up this interview on the day of the U.N. General Assembly, with a walk-and-talk in front of the U.N. It was never made as two working gals. It’s either rationalization or justification or fiction. That was supposed to be to highlight her foreign policy savvy [in the context of] the U.N. General Assembly. The picture is in front of the U.N. to highlight her expertise and readiness to be Vice President — it wasn’t about two working gals.”
On her overall reaction to Palin’s book:
“I think she has probably a legitimate complaint that things could have been better conceived and executed. A book about that would have been painful but not entirely unfair. What she gets wrong is this personalization that [Steve] Schmidt and I were these lone villains — and that took place entirely in her imagination. Just like the Obama and Clinton campaigns, we were consensus driven…. I think she fixated on me from very early on. She hated me from the beginning. I try not to take it personally, the fact is that she wrote a book based on fabrications. She gave a brilliant convention speech — other interviews that inspired support. But this book is a bizarre fixation on things that everyone else has moved on from.”
# 58: Sorry, the Mac advisors had their chance to scream and yell about Palin while hiding behind total anonymity.
Palin slapped them under her own by-line — inasmuch as she did. In all her interviews she accepted primary responsibility.
It’s the McCain staffers, in the 399th iteration of a fly-by-nite campaign strategy, who are out of line and exceptionally self-serving in all their “open” criticisms, now that they’ve been named.
The more these losers keep it going, the less likely they are ever to find work as campaign consultants — especially thanks to their willingness to talk endlessly “out of shop” about the pols they were once expected to sell.
The scale of their unprofessionalism is unprecedented. It would be like having an advertising company that — rather than being criticized by a manufacturer after a failed marketing campaign — decided to talk trash about their former client!
The scale of idiocy in these former McCain staffers clearly indicates why they should start honing other skills and seeking other lines of work. Their absolute incompetence boggles the mind.
So why were the questions about her reading habits, and Supreme
Court decisions,(it’s called research, look into it) and social issues, instead about Pakistan, Russia, Iraq et al.
If the was the caliber of the communications and other staff, no wonder the Bush administration
was in trouble, in the last few years.
Fox News’ Napolitano: Palin doesn’t possess “the mental capacity to be President … she is a goofball”
From the November 17 edition of Fox News Radio’s Brian & The Judge http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200911170026
Fox News’ Kilmeade and Napolitano slam Palin for “sexist” criticism of Couric interview
From the November 17 edition of Fox News Radio’s Brian & The Judge http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200911170021
In her new memoir, “Going Rogue,” Palin accuses two national reporters of trying to corner her young daughter Piper on the street in Juneau for an interview several months after the presidential campaign ended – a charge both the journalists and a former Palin campaign aide reject.
Palin writes in her book that after the race ended, “members of the national press continued to hang out in Alaska sniffing for tabloid stuff.”
“In one early press conference we noticed that our local reporters were flanked by a couple of reporters from the Lower 48 who’d been hanging out around Juneau in search of material for their own Sarah Palin book,” Palin writes. “We never shut our doors to anyone, so people of all kinds attended these press availabilities. But glancing along the side wall, I recognized these particular folks as the same ones who had cornered Piper on her walk home from Harborview Elementary School and talked to her for who knows how long about who knows what.”
According to Palin, Piper returned home and told her mother: “Mom, remember those reporters who came on the campaign plane with us? You know, the ones Nicolle [Wallace] said didn’t like us very much? They just interviewed me on the sidewalk.” Palin adds after the incident, Piper was no longer allowed to walk to or from school by herself.
The journalists in question – Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe, authors of the newly-published book “Sarah from Alaska” – deny Palin’s characterization. Both traveled with Palin on her campaign plane throughout her 2008 vice presidential bid, and the precocious Palin daughter frequently visited with the press corps and became friendly with them, a fact Palin boasts about in her memoir.
Conroy and Walshe said in a statement Tuesday that in the course of reporting for their book, they conducted 190 interviews, including sit-downs with Palin’s parents and her husband Todd.
“We did not, however, interview Piper Palin, nor did we corner her on her way home from school,” Conroy and Walshe told CNN in a statement. “Contrary to Governor Palin’s recollection of having seen us both at a press conference, Scott has never attended a press conference in Alaska.”
Wallace, who advised Palin on media strategy during the campaign but fell out favor with the candidate, also rejected Palin’s version of the story. She said it would have been impossible for Piper to have used her by name in a discussion about the campaign reporters in question, because Wallace never spoke to Piper about them.
“I have never met Shushannah and Scott and had never seen Shushannah until I saw her on TV yesterday,” Wallace said in an e-mail to CNN. “Couldn’t have picked either of them out of a line up and never heard their names or had any idea who they were until after the campaign ended.”
Conroy and Walshe tell their version of the story in their book, which was released earlier this month. On happening to bump into the reporters in Juneau, they write, Piper “seemed excited to chat briefly with us about her return to Alaska.” An hour later, they received an angry phone call from Palin’s deputy press secretary, Sharon Leighow, accusing them of “cornering Piper at her bus stop for comment.”
“We don’t appreciate you being here, and we don’t appreciate you stalking the governor as you have been,” Leighow said, according to the authors.
Since you’ve become a full fledged Palin Supporter, you’re not only putting Romney down, you’re also putting his supporters down, what do you think Romney supporters should do… I can see a day here on Race4 that the Romney supporters will be gone from here.” Oh, your camp turn nasty the moment I became a Palinite? Among other things you give me too much credit and frankly have a short memory. At least the Romney camp did not start until after Mrs. Palin became VP candidate. A few (not many) Huckabeeites started before most Americans have even heard of her.
I started getting real nasty a few months ago after a few elements in our party declared war on Conservatism.
62 – so the reporters dispute that they ever interviewed Piper yet they said they had a nice conversation with her on the sidewalk? So they spoke to her but not in an interview type of situation but they did include it in their book?!?!
So McCain staffers have called Palin a diva, a whackjob, and a nacisisist. They also say she has a problem telling the truth.
I have to ask myself, why would they say these things? Obviously, there is a natural tendency to want to blame someone else for McCain’s loss, but that just doesn’t explain it very well, to my mind. I don’t think any of them have blamed Palin specifically for the loss, anyway. Most/all of them have said that they knew McCain would not be able to win after the economy tanked.
Why then, go after Palin – especially to the degree they have? What purpose did it serve, and why would they go to such a degree of fabrication – if it is all fabricated?
There’s no logical reason for them to ‘make stuff up’ about Palin. Apparently, the problems behind the scene with Palin were a real issue, and a real frustration. They had to deal with her personally, and they all seem to be on the same page.
I know there’s always 2 sides to every story. But for me, knowing the things I’ve seen Palin do publicly, you can make the case that she is most definitely a diva, narcissistic, and even a little bit of a whackjob.
And why would Palin put things in the book that she KNOWS can be proven false? Sorry, but liars tend to do that. They don’t realize their lies can be easily found out.
“And why would Palin put things in the book that she KNOWS can be proven false? Sorry, but liars tend to do that. They don’t realize their lies can be easily found out.” Sorry to be a bugger, but could you share with us what Mrs. Palin failed to tell the truth about? C4P has already proven the AP false.
#58 Thanks for posting. I especially liked “Palin’s extremely long shot at the nomination”. The writer astutely points out that Huckabee embraced the media with a Reaganesque charm, while Palin takes an adversarial approach. I find the former more appealing. This is probably the biggest turn-off when it comes to Palin. She doesn’t seem to know when to pick her battles. A Palin presidency would be even more polarizing than the Obama presidency, if that’s even possible. Don’t think we need that.
“If Rush officially jumps on board and promotes and endorses her candidacy, I don’t see her losing the 2012 primary.”
Quite the opposite. We have to nominate a candidate that has enough courage to stand up to Rush and denounce the harm he is doing to the party.
How can we present to the American people that our presidential candiate can stand up to the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, and the North Koreana; if he cannot stand up to a radio talk show host or worse yet takes his marching orders from Rush.?
72 – your evidence is lacking – you are still using other people’s word over Palin’s. When you have actual evidence that proves she is lying then lets talk but a blurb from some staffer who is maybe quoting Schmidt doesn’t consist of proof. C’mon…you know that.
According to Palin, her lawyer sent her a bill for the time it took, for him to gather the information the campaign requested about her during the vetting process.
“How can we present to the American people that our presidential candiate can stand up to the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, and the North Koreana; if he cannot stand up to a radio talk show host or worse yet takes his marching orders from Rush.?” What about standing up to Queen Dede?
November 17th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Thanks for posting Kristofer. Two really good interviews.
November 17th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Governor Palin is showing real leadership in these interviews. She is articulating a robust conservative message and Rush is very impressed by her. If Rush officially jumps on board and promotes and endorses her candidacy, I don’t see her losing the 2012 primary.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
#2.
You are assuming that she is running in 2012.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
2. Rush jumped a long time ago. Probably not going to get any more official.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
#3,
All signs point to yes.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
If book sales are any indication, can you imagine what Governor Palin’s fundraising war chest for the 2012 Presidential campaign will look like? It will dwarf Obama’s cash.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Thank you Mr. Lorelli for sharing these interviews (I heard the radio one this afternoon.) It is nice to know that a few people around here still promote Conservatism instead of turning into exploding loose cannons.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
She’s definitely running for President… but not necessarily in ‘12.
My guess is ‘20. Time is on her side to run later…
November 17th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Palin in 2010!
if she’s smart!
November 17th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Palin in 2020!
if she’s smart!
November 17th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Yeah. Like calling Erick of redstate.com a “race pimp.”
November 17th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
For what office, Bosman?
November 17th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Rush doesn’t always support the one who actually wins the nomination.
Didn’t he promote Romney last time?
Why is he switching to Palin?
I’m confused…
November 17th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
What do you guys think about these interviews?
November 17th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
#12,
2020 for the BIG ENCHILADA!
After 2 terms of Romney, She’ll know how to run a country. Although DeMINT might have something to say about that!
ROMNEY / DeMINT in 2012!
November 17th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
14,
Informative, NO!
ENTERTAINING, YES!
November 17th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
http://pragmatictory.blogspot.com/2009/11/rudy-giuliani-v-sarah-palin.html
She is even winning in the great White North.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
It’s to bad she wasn’t interviewed on Halloween like O’reilly. She could have come dressed as Barbie!
November 17th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
“It’s to bad she wasn’t interviewed on Halloween like O’reilly. She could have come dressed as Barbie!” Yeah, and Mr. Romney could dress like a caveman.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Governor Palin is showing her Presidential timber in these interviews. Reading Going Rogue: An American Life as I type – great read so far, very substanative as Rush has said.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
R42008 is even more obsessed with Palin than Andrew Sullivan. The media co-dependency of her zealous supporters and fierce detractors is a little creepy.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Sarah Palin
by Mike Huckabee
Sarah Palin is a pleasant surprise for those of us who had hoped that Senator McCain would pick a principled and authentic conservative pro-life leader. Sarah Palin is both principled and authentic. As a Governor, she also brings an important balance of understanding of the critical domestic issues that is needed and that the Democrats have ignored with their ticket. Governor Palin is smart, authentic, tough, and a dynamic choice…
Mike Huckabee
November 17th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Ohio Joe, my friend -
What’s your source regarding Mike and Todd not being friendly? Mike has spoke highly of Sarah on his show many times. He’s even publicly invited her to be on to promote her book when he gets back from his own book tour.
???
November 17th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Huckabee/Pawlenty, I answered you on the other thread.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
#21,
She’s Palinite’s version of Obama. No Experience, Good talker! ‘We love What She SAYS! WE LOVE HOW SHE US FEEL! SHE’S WHAT AMERICA NEEDS! Why do you like her? IT DOESN’T MATTER! WE JUST LIKE HER!
SOUND FAMILIAR!!!
Pass the Kool-Aid Please!
ROMNEY / DeMINT in 2012!
November 17th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
“WE LOVE HOW SHE US FEEL!” Huh?
November 17th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Bosman, you also mentioned Palin in 2010…
What office? Congresswoman? I think she’ll be much more valuable supporting REPUBLICAN candidates to help take back the seats we lost (and more) in 2008. Don’t you? : )
November 17th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Thanks, Ohio Joe
November 17th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
There were two things I found interesting. First, she’s branding herself with the term “commonsense conservatism,” which she’ll have to fill with ideas. I find the concept in itself more compelling than “compassionate conservatism” or similar Bushisms.
Second, while some find it grating, there’s a certain amount of hidden potential in giving blowback to major media. I think the last general campaign made quite a folks feel needlessly derided and insulted by national media who misrepresented them and their concerns.
This negative campaign in the media continued and even increased in stridency after the elections, with establishment media’s outright cynicism, disrespect, and derision of the concerns of Tea Party protesters and attendees of the summer’s health care “town halls.” There was even that one CNN reporter in the field who started preaching to a Tea Party protester about how disrespectful he was of all the good things the government he disagreed with.
People who were so derided for having earnest concerns about the explosion of government, I’d suppose, might feel that they can understand what it was like to suffer the negative prejudice in the media that Palin complains about. They’re likely to feel a certain deep affinity for a candidate who knows what they’ve been through.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
I was hoping one of her MORE INTELLIGENT handlers would read the post and start printing signs, “Palin in 2010″
November 17th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
#27,
Yah, if you can pull her away from her Facebook page and Tweeting! She’ll need to use some SHOE LEATHER!
November 17th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
“I was hoping one of her MORE INTELLIGENT handlers would read the post and start printing signs, “Palin in 2010?” Well, 2010 shall be a great year as Pro-Palinite candidates help the GOP take back the house and the Palinites will have the balance of power in the Congress.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
“I’m glad she’s getting the props — I know I’m not nearly as attractive,” he said with a guileless grin. -Mike
Ohio Joe, what’s wrong with THAT?
Don’t become paranoid like some of the more radical Romney supporters here.
Not you TOO, Joe
November 17th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
As a first time poster on this site, long time reader I am in shock of the negativity to Sarah Palin from some on this site. I personally like her, do I want her to be President, no, but the lack of respect and just being rude on some people is heartbreaking. Personally, I am for Mitt Romney, however, those attacking Mrs. Palin in the name of Mitt are completely out of touch with what Mitt Romney is trying to do. We must unite our party to fight runaway government and all some can do is attack her. Give me a break.
November 17th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Romney/Barbour 2012,
Well said, my friend. : )
November 17th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
#34,
STICK AROUND!
Time will change your tone!
November 17th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Well, BOSMAN, I fully agree with #34. I’ve been here since the very early days of this site, and I highly doubt any amount of time will change my tune.
November 17th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
I have met majority of the candidates, one of the pluses of my position that I was in in college. After Mitt and Huck, Sarah Palin is one of the best people that this party could hope to have. Do I agree with her on every issue, no. But I do respect her. I think this party is much better served with all the candidates helping us in 2010, then let the election of 2012 begin, however, not once will you see this Republican attack another candidate.
November 17th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
#37,
no body should have to change their ‘TUNE’, everyone, sings the ‘TUNE’ of their candidate, but having come here a week ago, I notice a certain ‘TONE’ being expressed toward my candidate and have chosen to reciprocate with a similar ‘TONE’!
November 17th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
The contest will be which party can out do the other when it comes to charisma sans qualifications.
November 17th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
“but having come here a week ago, I notice a certain ‘TONE’ being expressed toward my candidate” Gee, one week; we Palinites had to put with your camp for a lot longer than that. Who is doing the reciprocating?
November 17th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
From what I saw of the Winfrey interview I thought both Oprah and Sarah did a nice job. Both were polite and engaging. But I thought ‘Babba WaWas’ simply had some pre-cooked digs that Sarah handled very well. Barbara’s approach if she were interviewing her own boring self would be like this. – “Ba Ba many say your age is the catalyst for your advanced stages of journalistic dementia. Others say you peaked out when the original Saturday Night Live crew first made fun of you 30 years before Tina Fay did Sarah. Why do you think they would say that?” As far as Rush went let’s face it: Sarah had home court advantage and Rush tossed nothing but soft balls. I am glad that people are moved by Mrs. Palin and that she can get Mr. Limbagh excited about some substantive points that other republicans already articulated over two years ago.
November 17th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
“GRAND RAPIDS — Mike Huckabee famously plays bass guitar on the campaign trail, but he says fellow former governor — and potential 2012 presidential candidate — Sarah Palin is the Republican Party’s rock star.
“I’m delighted she’s coming, because the more conservative voices that we can get on the stage right now, the better,” he said Tuesday after signing more than 500 copies of his new book “A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories that Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit” in about an hour …
“The message is loud and clear that people want fiscal responsibility, a different approach to debt and spending, and I’m delighted that she’s going to be adding to the chorus of voices that are saying that. I have a great admiration for her. She’s a rock star in our party.”
Huckabee won five primaries and three caucuses in finishing runner-up to U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for the GOP’s presidentinal nomination in 2008.
He said he is not ruling out another presidential bid, but added it is way too early to commit — despite leading in a recent USA Today poll.
Huckabee said the GOP gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia this month, marked by dramatic swings in independent voters toward Republicans, are encouraging.
But he said the focus needs to be on the 2010 mid-term elections, and once the dust settles he can make a decision about 2012.
The party needs to take a hard look at what happened when it was in control of Congress, and learn from the beating it took in 2008, Huckabee said.”
November 17th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
it might not be fair, but her cadance and way of speaking bug me to no end. and i’m not alone.
November 17th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Huckabee/Pawlenty, OK, it appears that he said god things too. There are not quite as many loose cannon Huckabeeites as there are loose cannon Romneyites, but there are a few Huckabee sites out there that are not very nice and I am not pleased with them. However, it appears to be true that when the Romney camp is in a hole they dig deeper. At least the Huckabeeites have stopped digging.
November 17th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
#41,
I agree! You reciprocate with TONE equal to the TONE expressed toward YOUR candidate. I can’t speak for the past, I’m living in the Present!
November 17th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
#41
Please refer to Romney supporters as ROMNETS. Romneyites, just doesn’t do it!
ROMNEY / DeMINT in 2012!
ROMNETS for Romney!
November 17th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
As much as I would love to see Demint as VP, I think his time passed. Going to need a younger VP than that for Mitt. Maybe Jindal. I’d say Thune or even Pence – but I don’t think either is southern enough for him.
November 17th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
#48,
I’m not sure, but I think DeMint is 57/58. Is 3/4 years younger than Romney. He could be Romney’s HEAVY!
November 17th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Thats still Demint closing in on 70 were he to run after eight years of Romney…
November 17th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
I don’t think he would want the Presidency anyway. He’s not a Speech savy kind of guy. i think he would run with his pal as VP though! Maybe by 2020, there will be more mature candidates; i.e., Palin, Jindal, ?…!
November 17th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
350,
i’m kind of tired of YOUTHFUL candidates anyway (OBAMA)!
November 17th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Ohio Joe you attack Romney supporters as being “X” and then if they respond you use that as evidence that they are “x”. I really do like much about Mitt Romney so in response to your negative attacks I simply want to compliment you and yours as having proficient typing skills and some very nice shoes.
November 17th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Sweet! More identity politics!
It’s the Liberal Elites vs. Hardworking Conservatives! Epic dumb-**** identity politics matchup of the century!!!
November 17th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Um, no. “Romnets” sounds like a troupe of middle-aged drag queens in feather boas, fishnets, and pasties. Mittwits was always my favorite moniker for the Romney besotted oompa-loompas who caper and cavort on this lonely site.
November 17th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
OHIOJOE;
Since you’ve become a full fledged Palin Supporter, you’re not only putting Romney down, you’re also putting his supporters down, what do you think Romney supporters should do… I can see a day here on Race4 that the Romney supporters will be gone from here.
November 17th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
FTW!
November 17th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
McCain adviser: Palin’s book is fiction
Depictions ‘took place entirely in her imagination,’ says Wallace
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34002562/ns/politics-more_politics/
Rachel Maddow discusses statements by former McCain campaign staffer Nicolle Wallace to The Rachel Maddow Show about Sarah Palin’s new book with Ana Marie Cox of Air America Radio.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/34005238#34005238
Statements by Nicolle Wallace
Former McCain adviser responds to charges in Sarah Palin’s new book
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34005388/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/
Sarah Palin ‘great asset,’ will stump soon for Perry
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/11/sarah-palin-great-asset-will-s.html
The Second Coming of Sarah Palin
http://www.spectator.co.uk/alexmassie/5543206/the-second-coming-of-sarah-palin.thtml
Sarah Palin is Mitt Romney’s Useful Idiot
http://www.spectator.co.uk/alexmassie/5546721/how-sarah-palin-could-help-the-gop-in-2012.thtml
Palin’s Extremely Long Shot At The Nomination
http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2009/11/16/palins-extremely-long-shot-at-the-nomination/
A Conservative Woman Asks: How Seriously Should We Take Sarah Palin?
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/11/17/a-conservative-woman-asks-how-seriously-should-we-take-sarah-pa/
November 17th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
# 58: Sorry, the Mac advisors had their chance to scream and yell about Palin while hiding behind total anonymity.
Palin slapped them under her own by-line — inasmuch as she did. In all her interviews she accepted primary responsibility.
It’s the McCain staffers, in the 399th iteration of a fly-by-nite campaign strategy, who are out of line and exceptionally self-serving in all their “open” criticisms, now that they’ve been named.
The more these losers keep it going, the less likely they are ever to find work as campaign consultants — especially thanks to their willingness to talk endlessly “out of shop” about the pols they were once expected to sell.
The scale of their unprofessionalism is unprecedented. It would be like having an advertising company that — rather than being criticized by a manufacturer after a failed marketing campaign — decided to talk trash about their former client!
The scale of idiocy in these former McCain staffers clearly indicates why they should start honing other skills and seeking other lines of work. Their absolute incompetence boggles the mind.
November 17th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
So why were the questions about her reading habits, and Supreme
Court decisions,(it’s called research, look into it) and social issues, instead about Pakistan, Russia, Iraq et al.
If the was the caliber of the communications and other staff, no wonder the Bush administration
was in trouble, in the last few years.
November 18th, 2009 at 12:16 am
Fox News’ Napolitano: Palin doesn’t possess “the mental capacity to be President … she is a goofball”
From the November 17 edition of Fox News Radio’s Brian & The Judge
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200911170026
Fox News’ Kilmeade and Napolitano slam Palin for “sexist” criticism of Couric interview
From the November 17 edition of Fox News Radio’s Brian & The Judge
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200911170021
November 18th, 2009 at 1:28 am
Reporters, former aide dispute claim about Palin daughter
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/11/17/reporters-former-aide-dispute-claim-about-palin-daughter/?eref=politicalflipper
November 18th, 2009 at 2:49 am
Palin was much better with Barbara.
November 18th, 2009 at 5:10 am
“OHIOJOE;
Since you’ve become a full fledged Palin Supporter, you’re not only putting Romney down, you’re also putting his supporters down, what do you think Romney supporters should do… I can see a day here on Race4 that the Romney supporters will be gone from here.” Oh, your camp turn nasty the moment I became a Palinite? Among other things you give me too much credit and frankly have a short memory. At least the Romney camp did not start until after Mrs. Palin became VP candidate. A few (not many) Huckabeeites started before most Americans have even heard of her.
I started getting real nasty a few months ago after a few elements in our party declared war on Conservatism.
November 18th, 2009 at 6:38 am
#34, #37
See #55
#55 dotan,
Thanks for the input. I’ll be sure to refer all questions about Drag Queens to you. You seem to have Personal Knowledge!
November 18th, 2009 at 9:03 am
62 – so the reporters dispute that they ever interviewed Piper yet they said they had a nice conversation with her on the sidewalk? So they spoke to her but not in an interview type of situation but they did include it in their book?!?!
November 18th, 2009 at 9:05 am
59 – it pretty obvious, to me anyway, that Wallace and Schmidt were definitely the ones leaking false info about Palin the day after the election.
November 18th, 2009 at 10:20 am
So McCain staffers have called Palin a diva, a whackjob, and a nacisisist. They also say she has a problem telling the truth.
I have to ask myself, why would they say these things? Obviously, there is a natural tendency to want to blame someone else for McCain’s loss, but that just doesn’t explain it very well, to my mind. I don’t think any of them have blamed Palin specifically for the loss, anyway. Most/all of them have said that they knew McCain would not be able to win after the economy tanked.
Why then, go after Palin – especially to the degree they have? What purpose did it serve, and why would they go to such a degree of fabrication – if it is all fabricated?
There’s no logical reason for them to ‘make stuff up’ about Palin. Apparently, the problems behind the scene with Palin were a real issue, and a real frustration. They had to deal with her personally, and they all seem to be on the same page.
I know there’s always 2 sides to every story. But for me, knowing the things I’ve seen Palin do publicly, you can make the case that she is most definitely a diva, narcissistic, and even a little bit of a whackjob.
And why would Palin put things in the book that she KNOWS can be proven false? Sorry, but liars tend to do that. They don’t realize their lies can be easily found out.
November 18th, 2009 at 10:36 am
“And why would Palin put things in the book that she KNOWS can be proven false? Sorry, but liars tend to do that. They don’t realize their lies can be easily found out.” Sorry to be a bugger, but could you share with us what Mrs. Palin failed to tell the truth about? C4P has already proven the AP false.
November 18th, 2009 at 11:48 am
#58 Thanks for posting. I especially liked “Palin’s extremely long shot at the nomination”. The writer astutely points out that Huckabee embraced the media with a Reaganesque charm, while Palin takes an adversarial approach. I find the former more appealing. This is probably the biggest turn-off when it comes to Palin. She doesn’t seem to know when to pick her battles. A Palin presidency would be even more polarizing than the Obama presidency, if that’s even possible. Don’t think we need that.
November 18th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
“If Rush officially jumps on board and promotes and endorses her candidacy, I don’t see her losing the 2012 primary.”
Quite the opposite. We have to nominate a candidate that has enough courage to stand up to Rush and denounce the harm he is doing to the party.
How can we present to the American people that our presidential candiate can stand up to the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, and the North Koreana; if he cannot stand up to a radio talk show host or worse yet takes his marching orders from Rush.?
November 18th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
69. For one, the fact that the McCain campaign did not charger Palin for vetting as she claimed in the book.
They sent a bill for the lawyers fees for the work they were required to do defending her on Troopergate.
There’s others. The AP list was lame, I’m not talking about those.
November 18th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
72 – your evidence is lacking – you are still using other people’s word over Palin’s. When you have actual evidence that proves she is lying then lets talk but a blurb from some staffer who is maybe quoting Schmidt doesn’t consist of proof. C’mon…you know that.
November 18th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
According to Palin, her lawyer sent her a bill for the time it took, for him to gather the information the campaign requested about her during the vetting process.
November 18th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Fact-checking new claims in the Sarah Palin book
http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/nov/17/fact-checking-new-claims-palin-book/
Release of ‘Rogue’ prompts reflections on Palin
SARAH’S-EYE VIEW: Supporters, critics dissect the ex-governor’s autobiography.
http://www.adn.com/palin/story/1017454.html
November 18th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
“How can we present to the American people that our presidential candiate can stand up to the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, and the North Koreana; if he cannot stand up to a radio talk show host or worse yet takes his marching orders from Rush.?” What about standing up to Queen Dede?
November 18th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
So we are supposed to believe a truth-o-meter that is half wrong about cap and tax? Who shall we believe next Daily KOS?