The Right Scoop- http://twitter.com/potuspalin Potus Palin
Dana is backing Romney and quite frankly she’s been full of passive aggressive snark towards Sarah. I don’t think you should be asking if you could see Sarah as President – you should be asking if you would prefer Obama to remain President for four more years after 2012. If the answer to that is no then back Sarah 100% all the time. If your answer is Yes well then no more needs to be said.
I find it amazing just how weak-kneed so called conservatives are. A bit of enemy fire and you’re willing to sacrifice your best warrior so that you can eat the scraps off of your masters tables. If you guys fought even half as hard as Sarah does then you would see this Dana toad, and her ilk, for what they are.
- Extremely Right
Mitt Romney. Can the conservatives possibly find a weaker candidate? Sarah is common sense and honesty. Apparently you need to be a lying weasel to appease the base.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=770715455 Daniel Tumser
Common Sense – An appeal to common belief. A term simultaneously subjective to both the speaker and the audience, making it the perfect political buzz word.
The phrase “common sense solutions” instantly gives me the impression that very little of substance will be said, only plays at sound bite appeal. Rarely, it seems, is that impression proven wrong.
Neither seems like a strong candidate to me, Romney is not personable, two-faced, and a mormon (so scary!). Palin is dancing on the line of too personable often comes across to me as simply gunning for sound bites.
I’m not the “base” though, or a Republican, so my opinion matters little and I’m automatically to be distrusted.
- Anonymous
I am Republican base. And I agree with you.
Her “common sense conservative” quip is getting very old.
She is looking for some sound bite that she thinks will carry her into the White House.
But she always ends up simply sounding snarky.
Her last one from her Alaska show that had a logging theme…. “Conservationists wrote me hate mail all the time. They wrote them with their little pencils on their little pads of paper. They never realized where pencils and papers come from. Come on people. They are made from trees!!! ”
This sounds like an argument that my 12 year old daughter would make for speech class.
Ugh
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=770715455 Daniel Tumser
Oh jeez, I hadn’t heard that one cause I haven’t watched her show. That’s just painful.
- Anonymous
Here is the link to the video.
Warning it is VERY painful to listen to. Remove all sharp objects from your reach before hitting PLAY.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/27/sarah-palin-bats-conservationists_n_801571.html
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=770715455 Daniel Tumser
I’m not a masochist, I can’t even subject myself to Fox & Friends anymore. At this point I already have 0 faith in voting’s efficacy in changing anything for the better and every day I find myself more and more vehemently opposed to democratic processes as barbaric mob direction of individuals’ free decisions.
Presently I don’t think there are going to be any candidates of any party worth my reluctant indirect endorsement of the system.
- Anonymous
Let’s not follow the example of the left by getting caught up in the romance and adoration of an attractive, unqualified candidate. We have to fix the damage created by this Marxist dufus, not add to it. Sarah, while likable (I guess) would be another failed example of an Affirmative Action POTUS.
It’s time for a POTUS that can fix the economy, stupid. Mitt Romney is the guy. Anyone that calls him a two-faced flip-flopper needs to hold the same standard for Huckabee, Palin, or any other candidate. They’re politicians for crying out loud. At the end of the day, I want a POTUS that worries less about social morality/justice (the left seems to focus on that, to their own peril) and focuses more on revitalizing the economy, and strengthening the military.
As for his Mormonism, you may not like it, but it doesn’t really matter. All religions other than yours are bogus.
To paraphrase George Costanza, “It’s time to do the opposite of what conventional wisdom says”. Elect a guy who’s personality may lack, but his seriousness is apparent. Elect a guy with the economic chops to fix a problem someone else exacerbated. Elect a guy who isn’t embarrassed of America’s legacy, but rather proud of it.
P.S., I know I sound like a fanboy, but truth be told, I’d rather Chris Christie be running. Since he’s not, Mitt’s my choice.
- Diamondback
I cast a vote for Romney in the Colorado Caucus prior to the 2009 election and would have supported him over McCain.
The only thing I’ve really got against Romney is his MA Health
Care debacle and I fear he’s too much of an elitist establishment type and too “progressive”. So I wouldn’t cast another vote for him.My philosophy has changed since then and unless there is a solid conservative candidate, I will not vote in the 2012 election. I will NOT back a RINO or establishment type candidate and will opt to sit out the election and deal with whatever happens (it will be the first time in my adult life I will not have voted).
I would rather have a plumber/eletrician/carpenter etc. occupying the Oval Office than another establishment/RINO/progressive elitist.
I’m not so sure it wouldn’t be better in the long run for America to let Obama get reelected. After his last two “lame duck” years and all the communist crap he’ll push on us knowing there’s nothing we can do during his last two years, maybe the rest of America will wake up, stand up and actually DO SOMETHING to stop the “fundamental transformation of the greatest country on Earth.”
So far I’ve not seen any evidence that Americans have the courage to make the necessary changes to save this country as the “last beacon for hope and freedom in the World.”
- Diamondback
I cast a vote for Romney in the Colorado Caucus prior to the 2009 election and would have supported him over McCain.
The only thing I’ve really got against Romney is his MA Health
Care debacle and I fear he’s too much of an elitist establishment type and too “progressive”. So I wouldn’t cast another vote for him.My philosophy has changed since then and unless there is a solid conservative candidate, I will not vote in the 2012 election. I will NOT back a RINO or establishment type candidate and will opt to sit out the election and deal with whatever happens (it will be the first time in my adult life I will not have voted).
I would rather have a plumber/eletrician/carpenter etc. occupying the Oval Office than another establishment/RINO/progressive elitist.
I’m not so sure it wouldn’t be better in the long run for America to let Obama get reelected. After his last two “lame duck” years and all the communist crap he’ll push on us knowing there’s nothing we can do during his last two years, maybe the rest of America will wake up, stand up and actually DO SOMETHING to stop the “fundamental transformation of the greatest country on Earth.”
So far I’ve not seen any evidence that Americans have the courage to make the necessary changes to save this country as the “last beacon for hope and freedom in the World.”
- Diamondback
I cast a vote for Romney in the Colorado Caucus prior to the 2009 election and would have supported him over McCain.
The only thing I’ve really got against Romney is his MA Health
Care debacle and I fear he’s too much of an elitist establishment type and too “progressive”. So I wouldn’t cast another vote for him.My philosophy has changed since then and unless there is a solid conservative candidate, I will not vote in the 2012 election. I will NOT back a RINO or establishment type candidate and will opt to sit out the election and deal with whatever happens (it will be the first time in my adult life I will not have voted).
I would rather have a plumber/eletrician/carpenter etc. occupying the Oval Office than another establishment/RINO/progressive elitist.
I’m not so sure it wouldn’t be better in the long run for America to let Obama get reelected. After his last two “lame duck” years and all the communist crap he’ll push on us knowing there’s nothing we can do during his last two years, maybe the rest of America will wake up, stand up and actually DO SOMETHING to stop the “fundamental transformation of the greatest country on Earth.”
So far I’ve not seen any evidence that Americans have the courage to make the necessary changes to save this country as the “last beacon for hope and freedom in the World.”
- Anonymous
Good post. I am not on board with Romney and may never be.
But yes, we cannot fall for the same mistake of electing an empty suit, on in Palin’s case, an empty dress.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Barstad/100001669970555 Jim Barstad
Yet these elite pundits wonder why the RNC isn’t taking in any money after trying to steer us to RINO candidates, and hanging the true Conservatives out to dry. I think that We the People are getting dam tired of voting for the lesser of two evils, and sending our money directly to the Conservative candidates. Just Sayin.
- Anonymous
A bit of enemy fire and you’re willing to sacrifice your best warrior
Sarah Palin’s problem is not that she gets enemy fire. All of our candidates will get enemy fire.
The problem is that she draws enemy fire by saying and doing stupid things. She is like the soldier next to you who cannot stop wearing HUNTER ORANGE into combat.
- http://twitter.com/potuspalin Potus Palin
Dana is backing Romney and quite frankly she’s been full of passive aggressive snark towards Sarah. I don’t think you should be asking if you could see Sarah as President – you should be asking if you would prefer Obama to remain President for four more years after 2012. If the answer to that is no then back Sarah 100% all the time. If your answer is Yes well then no more needs to be said.
I find it amazing just how weak-kneed so called conservatives are. A bit of enemy fire and you’re willing to sacrifice your best warrior so that you can eat the scraps off of your masters tables. If you guys fought even half as hard as Sarah does then you would see this Dana toad, and her ilk, for what they are.
- guest
On a personal note, I sound quite different when talking to my friends and family than when I write technically-oriented emails at work. Having a casual voice and a formal, professional voice sounds normal to me.
- Mzhovda
EXACTLY GUEST!!
Obama sounds much differently when he is asked non-screened questions without a teleprompter than with a teleprompter. Have any of you heard Gov. Palin give a fantastic speech without a teleprompter?? She fields questions really well.
- Mzhovda
Echoing the thoughts of Dr. Gina Loudon,
I voted for Gov. Palin with A GUY ON THE TICKET IN HIS 70′S!! I AM DAMN SURE SHE IS QUALIFIED!!!!OVER SO MANY WHO VOTED FOR THE ALINSKI DISCIPLE!!! BROKAW IS NOW ASKING FOR 2 MORE YEARS OF ON THE JOB TRAINING FOR OBAMA!!!
- Shane2813
The Leftist Trolls are out again. How special.
- http://www.therightscoop.com/ therightscoop
who are you referring to?
- Shane2813
The guests on Fox.
- Anonymous
It is amazing to see how thin skinned the Palin supporters are.
You all thrive on criticism from the left. But what will you do when conservative leaders start backing other candidates?
Are you going to say EVERY conservative leader who does not get on the Palin train is a leftist troll?
Brent Bozell likes Pence. He says Pence is “Palin, except with gravitas.”
Is Bozell a leftist troll?
Some of you people really need to grow up.
- Alborn
I like and respect Sarah Palin but I would not want to have to vote for her in 2012. To win against Obama in 2012 we conservatives will need some of the centrist to vote Republican because none of the left democrats will come our way and Sarah is too devisive right now. If she gets the nomination I will vote for her because I cannot vote for someone who lies like O does. I do not understand how he can be liked when he talks down American citizens every chance he gets. This man is teaching his daughters to dislike the very country that he now is supposed to lead. How can people like a man like that. I for one cannot seperate the man from what he says. And this man hates what made the this country exceptional and lied about his past to get elected.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Barstad/100001669970555 Jim Barstad
I’m tired of Compromising my principles for the lesser of two evils, of all the candidates that are hinting at running right now I’ll vote for Gov Sarah Palin.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=197402182 Chuck Norton
Agreed – how I talk and how I write changes depending on the subject and seriousness of the issue. How can a communications pro like Dana NOT understand that. Dana was making a cheap shot and I am very disappointed in her right now.
- Anonymous
Dana specifically said that Palin has problems because she writes a “serious” op ed one day and is hanging around Kate Gosselin the next.
Imagine if Romney/Newt/Huck was doing reality TV shows with David Hasselhof…
Or if Hillary was set to announce her 2012 candidacy while she was guest starring on the Kardashian reality show…
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=770715455 Daniel Tumser
The Kardashian example would probably end up getting Hillary a large portion of my idiot generation, sadly.
Newt already can’t be taken seriously because of his nonsense like sitting on the couch with Pelosi, doing a school tour with Al Sharpton, and pandering his message to specific groups regardless of what he says on air.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=770715455 Daniel Tumser
People seem to knock any questioning of Palin at all, even when it’s their opinion and they are asked for it.
Considering that there is no nominee yet, suspicions of Romney being ordained by the GOP big wigs aside, it seems perfectly appropriate for someone to criticize Palin and support Romney. The fact that she’s an admitted establishment touting insider mouthpiece just makes it all the more understandable.
It’s not a matter of Palin OR Obama, as someone characterized, until she’s the nominee, IF she’s the nominee. I would prefer a person’s honest perspective to a disingenuous expression of support.
All that said, her criticisms seem forced and empty , because as people above said, there are always several versions/sides to an individual. I speak much differently than I write, and my manner is different depending who I speak to, that’s HUMAN. I can guarantee you Dana Perino speaks differently with her friends and family than she does on Fox News Sunday.
Her criticisms are even more unfounded if you consider her support of Romney, the man who seems to have the Washington Monument stuck up his rear in every public appearance. Authenticity is not Romney’s forte.
- Gboyz
Sarah’s great and I love her. But there’s stronger candidates that conservatives can elect. We need a sure win in 2012
- http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/UHJDAI4CEPUCHCHSJNBHNGUWUU Jimt10000
In a Wall Street Journal editorial the editors noted the degree of sophistication Governor Palin is bringing to the table as she attempts to focus the nation’s attention on the disastrous repercussions which must result from a further inflating of the currency. Specifically, she referred to QE2, the Fed’s plan to pump another $600 billion to as much as $1 trillion into the economy via the purchase of U.S. government securities. Paul Gigot, editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page, discusses the editorial and Governor Palin in the video below
http://online.wsj.com/video/opinion-journal-palin-vs-bernanke/6A8B3973-6069-464E-B48B-4D4564C96DE5.html - Diamondback
Yea, WHO?
- Anonymous
Exactly!! name just ONE with even part of the excitement of our Sarah! No wonder they try to get rid of her.
- hrh
This is the epitome of lazy comments.
You CANNOT say there are “stronger candidates” without naming any.
That is the coward’s way to appear to be an intellectual. Kinda’ like Obama.
Who are these stronger candidates and why, based on their records and their impact on the last 2 years, are they stronger?
- Mzhovda
Gboyz,
If you think Sarah shouldn’t run, then the upcoming Republican primaries will be as exciting….as exciting as Fred Thompson coming out of retierment from doing those “Reverse Mortage Ads”.
- Anonymous
Some people follow this philosophy: Since Obama is dumb, it doesn’t matter if we nominate a dumb candidate. We are bound to win.
But I don’t agree.
Dumb and snarky will not beat Obama.
- http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/UHJDAI4CEPUCHCHSJNBHNGUWUU Jimt10000
Sarah Palin scooped the corrupt media in August, 2009 with a series of Facebook statements warning that the Obama administration intended to ration health care. Now, sixteen months later, we learn that since Obama won’t be able to achieve rationing by legislative means (since the next House of Representatives with its Republican majority, would never go along with it) , it will do so through regulation.
An editorial in New York Sun credits the New York Times with confirming Gov. Palin’s warnings:“The question that that we find ourselves thinking about is how was Mrs. Palin able to see this issue when others weren’t. Is she just smarter than the editors and the Congress? Or does she just have more life experience? Is it that her religion gives her a framework for learning all this stuff? Or is it that her sensitivity was heightened by making of her own decision to bring Trig into the world? Or is it something about the Alaskan spirit?
Our own conclusion is that it doesn’t matter. It’s enough that she was just ahead of the others, and the point is one to mark. She has become, at a relatively young age and by whatever means, a savvy woman. We noticed it, say, when she suggested the best way to handle the question of the West Bank settlements was to let the Israelis decide, a policy the administration is now following. We noticed it when she went to Hong Kong and warned about the collapse in the value of the dollar and spoke of the importance of gold.”
More here:
http://www.nysun.com/editorials/sarah-palin-scoop-artist/87175/ - http://twitter.com/gothicreader JW
What about the comment Juan Williams said about SP that she can’t compete with Urkel intellectually?
In my own opinion I don’t think SP should run. Not that she doesn’t qualifies, but I believe she’s best in stirring up the base and getting the folks out there involved. She should keep doing what she does best, which is making the left crazy and making money at the same time!
- hrh
Oh sure, JW, let the girls cheer! Sisk boom bah! Go boys, go!
Pretty girls should cheerlead for the serious boys on the field. Rah! Rah! Rah!
Shhhh, just don’t mention that she has shown greater courage than ANY of the boys currently in the field. Just shussh up about that …
- http://twitter.com/gothicreader JW
Sorry to disappoint, but I’m a woman. If my previous message conveyed to mock Sarah for being a woman, I apologize. That wasn’t my intent.
First and foremost, I’m realistic and if we want to get our country back we must find someone who meets the criteria for POTUS. I’m not saying Sarah wouldn’t fit this role; what I’m saying is that the election would be more focused on everything about her and her family, and not the real issues that our country is facing today and what can be done to fix it. When that 3am call comes in, how will Sarah handle the call would be something that will be questioned. Look what happen with Christine O’Donnell.
Remember, that most folks from either party line will vote for their party – however, independents are the ones who decide. They may have voted in droves this past November and allowed the Republicans to take the house back, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they will give the keys to the White House to the Republicans.
I’m realistic and look at things in the long term.
- Anonymous
Seriously????
If you have to play the gender card to win the conservative vote, how good is your candidate.
(And if we dislike Obama, we are racists. Right?)
- Hmstrtch
First and foremost you should keep in mind that Juan Williams is a stone cold bigot, incapable of thinking objectively whenever race factors into his opinions. That’s not to say he’s evil – just hopelessly and permenetly stuck on stupid.
- http://twitter.com/gothicreader JW
I would disagree that he is a bigot.
Next time you listen to him, look and listen closely. Tell me he isn’t just playing up to what he is supposed to be – a Liberal.
A lot of his opinions are hyperbole and just playing up to the viewers.
- Anonymous
As others have already pointed out, Dana Perino has a dog in this fight. She’s also biased for two other reasons beyond her Romney support. She’s a woman and she’s a Fox New contributor. Never, ever, underestimate the length and sharpness of the claws when it comes to the pounce. Women like Perino see Palin as the pretty upstart they have to put back in her place. Even though Palin is 8 years older than Perino they are basically competitors in the Fox News food chain. Yeah, that makes no sense at all, but that’s how women think.
Criticism of Palin is not the problem. I support Palin and will vote for her if she runs. I have no problem with legit criticism. The reality show was a clear mistake. Not just for any election run, but for her overall reputation. We get it. She loves Alaska. Great. Now shut up and let the really interesting characters talk already.
Criticism like Perino gave was not legitimate. As someone else said, it was a cheap shot. Accusing Palin of not writing her own op eds and then throwing in the disingenuous “everybody does it” was a classic cheap shot. Palin can’t win no matter what she does with this crowd because they’ve got every angle covered. That’s the kind of criticism that gets us fans in a lather. We’re not defending Palin, we’re exposing the Palin critics for what they are and THAT they cannot stand. So they attack us because it amuses them and brings in lots of comments, which is the point.
Every conservative blog I’ve been to this morning has the Juan Williams clip. Juan Williams. The hack liberal jerk who sites liberal drivel by rote. Yeah, he’s a great judge of intellectual ability, ain’t he?
- Diamondback
I never understood why FOX “saved” Juan from NPR in the first place! I’m really sick of hearing him, Morris, Bechtel ad nauseum and the same old, same old crowd ALL THE TIME on FOX. I’m almost at the point of just canceling cable. It’s nothing but the same old, same old over and over and over.
- hrh
No, the Alaska show was not a mistake. Just because you think it was a mistake does not make it so.
She promised Alaskans she would continue to promote and fight for Alaska. She’s fulfilling that promise.
Your criticism is illegitimate. See? I can make declamatory statements that are really my opinions, just like you do.
Your big giveaway is the use of the word “clear.” Alternatively, people start sentences with “clearly.”
Whenever one sees or hears that from someone, you know a purely personal opinion is soon to follow. “Clear, clearly” is code for, “I don’t have anything to back up this statement other than my own opinion, so I’m going to just state outright that my opinion is ‘clearly” the fact.”
- Anonymous
Fine. In my opinion, the reality show is clearly a mistake.
Happy now?
- Anonymous
I think it boosted her. She is already different so why not do an appealing reality show?!
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_75KZISUJUJYMGZTW37GSANDXUA Greg Hanson
“…Dana Perino, former press secretary to George W. Bush…” says it all. Perino and Rove are cogs in the Bush machine which supported Kay Baily Hutchison for governor in TX, and backed several other candidates in the mid-terms who lost to Palin supported candidates. Both Rove and Perino have been slamming Palin for months now, so this story is really not surprising, nor is it new. The Bush machine supports Romney, and if he implodes, they’ll support someone else, and continue to attack Palin.
For several years I worked for a government agency, and it involved a lot of formal writing, but I never talked that way, so Perino’s argument is just one more grasping at straws moment, and a really dumb one at that.
- Is_Sense_Common
Perino has never proclaimed to be a Palin supporter. She’s definitely more of a “coffee drinker” (rather than Tea). She has her points & she’s easy on the eye. I am concerned about us Conservatives devouring each other over style rather than substance. The Lefties are hateful to anyone who disagrees with any portion of their agenda & end up alienating a LOT of folks. Let’s be sure that we keep our discourse productive…
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Barstad/100001669970555 Jim Barstad
I don’t see any indication of Conservatives trying to cannibalize each other, but then again I don’t consider these elitist rino pundits true Conservatives.
- Goldni007
I was about to say the same thing Daniel said. I write TOTALLY different than I speak (I surprise my wife). When I have time to weigh my words it makes a HUGE difference. Because when I am in conversation with you, my Mr. Hyde side may blurt out. This is not the case with alot of people. Charles Krauthammer for instance talks EXACTLY like he writes and vice versa. On the other hand Mark Levin writes like Shakespear compared to his radio show. (not dissing his show but wow his written prose is remarkable as compared to his rhetoric.)
Dana knows better. I like her but she is one of those quasi conservative leftovers from the W admin.
- http://twitter.com/JoshuaLKahn Joshua Kahn
Dana Perino is like one notch above Nicole Wallace. Her tenure as press secretary was underwhelming, and her best FOX TV role is news reader.
- Anonymous
The Rino’s and the New Progressive Wing of the Democrat Party are the target, NOT Sarah Palin. A new team will be on the field 1/5/11 and it will be there job to keep Obama and his Socialist/Marxist staff in check. Most of the so called Republican front runners need to talk to Micheal Vick for rebranding strategy before dog-eats-dog. Sarah Palin is a consistant brand you can trust.
RS and all Scoopers, Hope you all had a Merry Christmas and wish you a great and prosperous 2011.
- Johnschaffran
I guess common sense conservatives don’t appeal to people like Perino. This country is toast anyway. There are only hand full of true conservatives such as Palin, DeMint and Jindal and they are often rediculed. It is a shame!
- Anonymous
I guess common sense conservatives don’t appeal to people like Perino. …. Palin, DeMint and Jindal and they are often rediculed.
“Rediculed”???
Therein lies Palin’s problem.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_53YAPDXSTIGEDINDXF46CAB7ZY voted against carter
Hey Dana,
Mitt WILL LOSE to Sarah. Get use to it. Unless the ticket is PALIN-ROMNEY.
And Disclosure, I AM from MI. Mitt’s other strong state.
Just say’n
- Anonymous
I don’t know how many people have to say it in the nicest ways possible over and over, but maybe someone who isn’t a ‘blue blood’ or a man will be listened to openly by Palin about this–If she wants to be president, she should act like it.
Going on reality shows, twittering sentence fragments and especially quitting your first term as Governor are not conducive to presidential aspirations. Maybe she’s waiting until after she announces her candidacy to start acting presidential, maybe there’s enough time to convince people besides the die hard Palin fans that she’s presidential material; but she has to get off the path she’s on now.
- http://twitter.com/JoshuaLKahn Joshua Kahn
Like Regime Leader did?
- http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/UHJDAI4CEPUCHCHSJNBHNGUWUU Jimt10000
Sarah didn’t “quit”; she reloaded in order to fight for what is right on a fairer battlefield.
She promised to keep the frivolous anti-Palin law suits away from the Alaskan people ( saving tax money and time) and to be more effective on the stump ( supporting candidates , fundraising, etc)
Sarah Palin was truthful on both accounts!In an article Sarah Palin said:
“I said, ‘Enough. Political adversaries and their political friends in the media will not destroy my State, my administration, nor my family. Enough.’ I knew if I didn’t play their game any longer, they could not win. I would not retreat, I would instead reload, and I would fight for what is right from a different plane.”Sarah Palin resigned because she recognized the cost that the frivolous ethics complaints were having on her state , and she saw how much of her staff’s time and her own time were forced to deal with those issues. She wasn’t able to effectively fulfill her role as Governor, so she passed the reins onto someone who didn’t have to be concerned that if he sneezed in the Lower 48, an ethics complaint would be thrown at him.
Sarah Palin’s entire administration was paralyzed by those frivolous complaints, only an idiot wouldn’t be able to see or admit that.She saw that if she stayed on as Governor it would continue to cost the state millions of dollars in wasted time and resources to defend against false and maliciously ethics complaints and doom it to gridlock.
Sarah had to step down for the better of her state and it was the honorable thing to do.She promised that she would “effect positive change outside of Government”, and she has most definitely done that.
Sarah Palin told us all why she resigned when she resigned. If some people still don’t get it, well, that’s their problem
- Anonymous
Sorry but your story is not going to sell.
Palin quit. Period.
Guess what? Clinton has legal problems with large legal bills. So did Bush. So did Cheney. So does Obama.
But they didn’t quit. She did.
- Anonymous
Wait, does everyone thing that she actually writes those op-eds?
- http://twitter.com/akaLeppod Lance H
Sarah is just too unconventional for the political elite and may prove so for the average voter as well. Personally, if it’s Palin vs Obama in 2012 it will be an easy vote. in 08 I voted against Obama, in 2012 I will gladly vote for Palin. None of the talking heads (left or right) are going to speak for “tea party” Americans who will also gladly vote for Sarah Palin. I like Sarah. If only Obama had received a smidgen of the scrutiny she continues to endure on a regular basis. She’d be Vice President right now. And the irreversible damage that has been done to this country would have been avoided.
- http://geopolicy.wordpress.com Tony
Hey Dana…. Ummmm SHUT UP!!
- http://community.livejournal.com/black_avenger_1/profile Virus-X
Yeah, and Perino is so authentic.
Its amazing. Bush was the epitome of class. He doesn’t run his mouth, he’s not blindly critical and he’s not a malignant narcissist (like the Dalai Obama), and yet so many of his staffers and advisors are some of the biggest tallywhackers on the planet. Perino should be turning her resume over to Obama; I’m sure he’d find some use for her. (Useful idiot that she is.)
- Anonymous
I do see those things that some are saying about Sarah, with her being over sold and incessantly talked and written about, that old adage comes to mind, “Familiarity Breeds Contempt” eventually! But she is different and walks to the beat of her own drum, I love that. It seems there is a new political dance evolving in America, regular folk are trotting into the arena without any elitist grooming and this is dangerous, if any “Sarah Palin” makes it and turns things around for this country it is the beginning of the end for the elite. The lie will start to crumble about the need for IVY LEAGUE & MONEY and then starts the individual saying “yes I can” and middle America saying right back at whoever it is “we believe you can”. I think this is the spark she holds for others, someone had to kick this dance off and it was her. I believe this might just be the beginning of many more unpolished regulars to come and lay down their lives. Every so often this same thing happens, from nowhere someone comes to lead the people back to themselves and gets us believing again.
- http://www.facebook.com/KSand837 Kelly Sanders
Sarah’s biggest problem is leaving the governorship early. That is why my husband will not support her. I am a big fan but I do not think she should run. However, I am sick and tired of the GOP putting forth cookie cutter Republicans or Progressives! No to Mitt Romney! Jim DeMint or Chris Christie is who I am looking for or at least their closest equivalent.
- Anonymous
Stating the obvious for blinded Sarah fans, if she’s the nominee, you will lose every single Independent voter. Even those “I” voters who went with Obama originally and are dishenchanted with him won’t vote for her. She’s that polarizing. She’s the right’s version of Hillary. The truth hurts, I know.
- Anonymous
Dana is correct. Palin has problems.
When she writes an Op Ed in USA Today, she looks inauthentic.
But when she is palling around on reality shows with Kate Gosselin, she doesn’t.
- Hmstrtch
Dear Miss Perino, Sarah Palin’s authenticity is not in doubt in my mind. However yours is, so I think you should come clean-what’s the REAL nature of that bee in your bonnet?
- Anonymous
She is probably going to have another candidate that she endorses or that she prefers.
Duh!
You have made your choice. Why couldn’t or shouldn’t she be able to do the same thing?
You Palin people sometimes sound like it is the height of heresy for conservatives to back someone other than Palin.
- Peter
I love the SP haters. She threatens you and that is why you hate her. She is smart, quick, accomplished and on top of all that (this is for the females that hate her) beautiful. She has more executive experience than Obama, and during the election she had more than the other 3 (McCain, BHO, Bidden) combined. She is on TLC, FB, Twitter, Fox News, ect., because she is using every outlet she can to get her message out. It is obviously working because everybody is talking about her. We know why the left hates her and is always attacking her. So why is the right doing it? Why is people like Dana Perino’s opinion so valuable? Who is she anyway? We wouldn’t know who she is if Tony Snow hadn’t resigned. Dana P. comes across to me as someone who thinks more of herself than she should and of course if she bashes SP than the left media might like her and she might get to go on their shows as well. DP wants to come across as this high brow, intellectual type but I don’t see it. Stuart Varney himself called her part of the establishment on Hannity. Who else in the Republican Party is out there regularly putting out statements, doing interviews, and battling in the arena of ideas as much or more than SP. Name me someone else who is fighting for this Country politically, or phylisophically more than SP. One more thing so am I to understand Dana Perino correctly when she talks about SP camping with Kate hates her 8 and putting out thoughtful statements, that both can’t be done simultaneously? Well maybe Dana can’t but obviously SP can.
- Peter
I love the SP haters. She threatens you and that is why you hate her. She is smart, quick, accomplished and on top of all that (this is for the females that hate her) beautiful. She has more executive experience than Obama, and during the election she had more than the other 3 (McCain, BHO, Bidden) combined. She is on TLC, FB, Twitter, Fox News, ect., because she is using every outlet she can to get her message out. It is obviously working because everybody is talking about her. We know why the left hates her and is always attacking her. So why is the right doing it? Why is people like Dana Perino’s opinion so valuable? Who is she anyway? We wouldn’t know who she is if Tony Snow hadn’t resigned. Dana P. comes across to me as someone who thinks more of herself than she should and of course if she bashes SP than the left media might like her and she might get to go on their shows as well. DP wants to come across as this high brow, intellectual type but I don’t see it. Stuart Varney himself called her part of the establishment on Hannity. Who else in the Republican Party is out there regularly putting out statements, doing interviews, and battling in the arena of ideas as much or more than SP. Name me someone else who is fighting for this Country politically, or phylisophically more than SP. One more thing so am I to understand Dana Perino correctly when she talks about SP camping with Kate hates her 8 and putting out thoughtful statements, that both can’t be done simultaneously? Well maybe Dana can’t but obviously SP can.
- Anonymous
If Republicans made a list of GOP leaders who were “battling in the arena of ideas” and “fighting for this country philosophically” I don’t believe any of them would include Sarah Palin.
Dana is correct. Sarah’s slumming is going to hurt her.
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Sarah Palin get battered from the left????
Everytime there is a book pummeling her, it has been written by Republicans that worked with her.From McCain staffers to former Palin lackeys,
Sarah Palin certainly gets hammered from the Left on a regular basis, often times because of their severe case of PDS. But this morning Dana Perino, former press secretary to George W. Bush, said that there seems to be a disconnect between Palin’s op-eds and her twitter and tv show, that it doesn’t sound like her in the op-ed vs the way she tweets and talks on the show. She’s not knocking Palin, but simply questioning whether this ‘authenticity disconnect’ that she sees will become a problem for Palin if she runs for President:
Sarah Palin has certainly put herself in the lime light an awful lot in the last two years, even to the point of over saturation. I will admit it is a bit harder for me to see the lady who camps with Kate Gosselin becoming President of the United States, but even so I don’t question her authenticity because I believe I know who she is and what she stands for in terms of America and its greatness. Whether or not that translates to everyone else remains to be seen and there is an awful lot of time between now and 2012, if she even decides to run.
Thanks to Ian at Real Clear Politics for sharing this clip with the Right Scoop!
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Common Sense – An appeal to common belief. A term simultaneously subjective to both the speaker and the audience, making it the perfect political buzz word.
The phrase “common sense solutions” instantly gives me the impression that very little of substance will be said, only plays at sound bite appeal. Rarely, it seems, is that impression proven wrong.
Neither seems like a strong candidate to me, Romney is not personable, two-faced, and a mormon (so scary!). Palin is dancing on the line of too personable often comes across to me as simply gunning for sound bites.
I’m not the “base” though, or a Republican, so my opinion matters little and I’m automatically to be distrusted.
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