Palin versus Romney

Anne Wotana Kaye 1

Vital Question: Does Romney know who are the good guys and who are the bad guys in Korea? Anyway, it will soon be hypothetical if China gets its way and Korea is reunified. Also, Palin is so much prettier.

yank

Well, you've picked the correct 2 protagonists, Mr. Blackburn. But I wouldn't go so far as to call an unprincipled, careerist political hack "brainy". Palin will undoubtedly be a kingmaker in this coming election, and she won't be placing a crown on this particular head, you may depend.

Pot Head

David, no coasts in the Palin book tour, just the bit in the middle that successful people flyover.

yank

And I doubt Romney is responding to Palin here, he's just doing what's done. Obama appearing on The View and eschewing press conferences with the chattering class, for example. Might as well plug into the infotainment industry at places of your own choosing, rather than allow the media sanhedrin to presume prepotency. It's the American way.

And it's "mama grizzly", in reference to Ursus arctos horribilis. Palin chose her icon well. Those who cross her will be fated horribly, I suspect.

Scary Biscuits

That's right, Anna WK1, keep up the ad hominem attacks, so that you can ignore the policy issues. Perhaps you're even more of a bird brain than Palin?

Palin is no less knowledgeable about foreign affairs than Clinton or Obama; the difference is they don't suffer sexist attacks. If you read the whole of Palin's comments on Korea, rather than the bit spoon-fed to you by equally lazy hacks, you'd see that she clearly knows the difference between the north and the south.

Palin might not be the best flag bearer for millions of disenfranchised Americans but she is a whole lot better than careerist suits like Obama and Romney, who offer nothing but the status quo in the way politics is conducted whilst the decline in American living standards continues unabated.

TGF UKIP

In 1998 a misspeaking, "misunderestimated" Governor of Texas was being similarly dismissed by the know-it-all media.

When appraising Governor Palin, Washington, N. York and London journalists can be safely ignored.

Jimbob

"Unprincipled, careerist political hack".

Ahem... the guy founded Bain Capital. You may not like his views but he's clearly experienced, knowledgeable and competent - three words that could not be used to describe Palin.

Anne Wotana Kaye 1

Scary Biscuits
November 30th, 2010 4:15pm Report this comment

You are hurling ad hominem attacks at me, old boy or gal. Perhaps the fact that I am responding to you is a sign that I am indeed a bird brain . I am first and foremost a Republican, and would never even consider supporting such people as Clinton or Obama. I respect Palin, and because I think she is pretty is hardly a sexist remark. Sorry if you are of the politically correct persuasion, in which case whatever one says can be thrown back with accusations of various 'sins'.

ollie

Palin would be a disaster for the Republicans. She is the female version of Dubya.

Doesn't really matter - Obama will win 2012 anyway.

Baron

The BBC led the 6 o’clock news with the slip of the tongue, had they listened to the whole interview they may have spotted it was a genuine mistake. Not a word from the Biased Broadcasting Corp. of Palin’s response though. I wonder why.

http://www.facebook.com/notes/sarah-palin/a-thanksgiving-message-to-all-57-states/463364218434

Anne Wotana Kaye 1

ollie
November 30th, 2010 5:18pm
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"Obama will win", please elucidate. Why?

Verity

Scary Biscuits and TGF UKIP - Endorse.

The people who are denigrating the former Governor of the largest state in the Union are the same ones who cheered former Chicago "community organiser" and Tamany Hall scrote who had not a shred of executive experience anywhere, ever, Barak Obama. And whose campaign was organised by the FBI's former No 1 Most Wanted (for terrorism) "Weatherman" William Ayres. Obama's campaign for the presidency was kicked off in the home of Ayres and his former terrorist wife Bernadette Dohrn. Strange that the MSM made little of this - so little, in fact, that they didn't even mention it. Yet Sarah Palin, who will have a Secretary of State when she is President - she won't be conducting foreign policy herself - makes one slip of the lip and they're all over her like a swarm of locusts.

Baron

ollie, sir, if Obama wins in 2012, not only the land of the dream, but also the whole West are fugged. Hopefully, four years of repentance for the sins of yesteryear will be enough to ship the guy out.

whom (or is it who?) you need in the White House doesn’t have to be knowledgeable, but must have affinity with those of the great unwashed who want to keep the dream going.

Dimoto

TGF UKIP - entirely the wrong comparison.
G.W.Bush was well connected in the eastern establishment and came from an important state.

Palin is the modern version of Barry Goldwater, and you sound just like an apologist for Goldwater in 1964.

Verity

Dimoto - Yes indeed, quite an understatement that George W Bush was well-connected in the Eastern establishment, given that his father was President of the United States, and before that, the head of the CIA. And his grandfather was a Massachusetts senator.

Alaska, though, is an important state for the same reason that Texas is an important state. Oil. You fail to mention that Palin was personally involved in the development of the historic pipeline deal between Alaska and Alberta. She didn't just sign the bill. She was involved in it all the way along.

What was Obama ever involved in other than Tamany Hall and the "communities" whose votes he was "organising"? I don't know if he was ever involved in the graveyard community ... you know, where Chicago pols got the deceased to turn out and vote for the incumbent mayor?

yank

There is very little chance Obama can win reelection in 2012. That would require 2 years of extremely competent administration and politicking, skill sets that he just does not possess. That's why folks are coming out of the woodwork to run now, rather than simply marshaling support for 2016. They sense blood in the water, and more of it daily.

And the Left's worst nightmare would be a Palin/Obama matchup. Bad enough that their progressive hero is about to get rejected and thrashed, but if it's the Alaskan fishwife doing the thrashing, their heads will explode.

gregorio

Romney will win the presidency in 2012 , thats the bottom line!!! all the chips are in his favor.Sara Palin is not prepared for this job at this time .. she is cute though...

Santorum

The biggest state in the Union. Goodness she must be good. But didn't she resign under rather odd circumstances?

She's terrifying

byl046

So Romney has been married over 30 years to one woman, never a hint of scandal about anything, anywhere in his life, yet gets labeled "unprincipled", "empty suit' etc. He is clearly a pragmatic CEO. If something doesn't work, change and fix it. In his world if you don't solve problems you get fired and lots of people lose lots of money. There is very little tolerance for failure. Palin is simply a female GOP version of Obama. Heavy on ideology, great popular appeal with little to no real experience in complex problem solving. Mayor of Wasila? Wow... Governor for two years? Big wow... Spare me the popular ideologues.

Verity

Dimoto - I think Ms Palin would be flattered by your comparison. It was Barry Goldwater who said, “I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!”

It should be branded onto the foreheads of David and the Cameronettes. Barry Goldwater was a true conservative and patriot, as is Sarah Palin.

Pity there is no one like her in Britain today.

TGF UKIP

Dimoto, please read my post again.

Ollie, and "Dubya" didn't win in 2000 and 2004?

Victor Southern

Lord help us if these are a sample of what we can expect from the Leader of the Western World.

Murdock

Romney is definitely running. Is Palin? Likely she is not running. Everything that she has done to date is consistent with achieving celebrity and earning a fortune (both in an honorable manner) but much is not consistent with running for President. Moreover, it is getting quite late for her to assemble a staff of Presidential campaign caliber and to start cultivating the party political connections necessary for the Presidential primaries. Conclusion? She does not and never has had any intention of running. However, she must keep the possibility alive publicly, at least through the end of her book sale campaign and through as many episodes as possible of her television show, in order to maximize revenues. Obama fervently wishes to have Palin as his Republican opponent, and all polls show that he is right to do so, but it will not happen.

Verity

Gregorio - a really stupid post. How long did you labour over it?

Dimoto

Verity: Goldwater had his points as a long-serving senator .... but as a presidential candidate ?

Verity

What was wrong with Goldwater as a Presidetial candidate? Too right for you?

porkbelly

The fact that British commentators are treating Palin and Romney as front-runners is proof positive neither of them will win the Republican nomination, much less the presidency. The GOP candidate - and next president - will be culled from the ranks of Republican governors (Pawlenty, Daniels, et al). Someone competent, pragmatic, a bit colorless...an aspirin to sooth the Obama hangover.

Scary Biscuits

Anne WK1, I was indeed making an ad hominem attack on you, to make my point.

I'm not politically correct but whether somebody is pretty or ugly is irrelevant to the merits of their argument and by mentioning looks, you play into the hands of lefties who don't want to talk about policy.

yank

Jimbob
November 30th, 2010 4:47pm

"Unprincipled, careerist political hack".

Ahem... the guy founded Bain Capital. You may not like his views but he's clearly experienced, knowledgeable and competent - three words that could not be used to describe Palin."

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You mean, he and his daddy's money and connections founded Bain Capital. Daddy's friends and money were always a great help to young Mitt. Unlike Palin for example, who did it on her own.

Mitt’s daddy was governor of my state here, Michigan. A solid man, before that he ran American Motors, back when real car guys existed and boot-strapped their way to the top. Then, JFK called him to Washington to serve. Mitt rode those coattails, but is a lefty squish, and proved that in Massachusetts as governor (RomneyCare = ObamaCare), and in running for the US Senate. His actions speak, and you can forget his empty words... on pretty much anything.

And then, he morphed into a “conservative”, and ran for President. What a larf. In the primary, he carpet bombed us here in Michigan with millions in campaign cash, proclaiming himself a “native son” of the state, but we knew better, especially as regards his lies about his history and actions here. He squeaked into a thin win (based upon the urban lefty vote), after all that cash spent, and was exposed as a charlatan in the following primaries. McCain is a lying, corrupt, self-entitled scoundrel, and if Mitt was even a hint of a conservative, he woulda walked all over him. We would have noticed if it was there to be noticed, but he is as I described him: an unprincipled, careerist political hack. I’d supplement that with nepotistic opportunist.

It’s delicious though, that McCain has left as residue Mitt’s tough, savvy, ebulliently-smiled and shapely assassin… La Palin. She bagged a few trophies this cycle, and there's one more coming.

I doubt she’ll be President, but she’ll decide who won’t be President, by mounting the furtive weasel’s carcass into a full body mount in her Fairbanks trophy room.

Anne Wotana Kaye 1

Scary Biscuits
December 1st, 2010 12:07pm

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Anne WK1, I was indeed making an ad hominem attack on you, to make my point.

I'm not politically correct but whether somebody is pretty or ugly is irrelevant to the merits of their argument and by mentioning looks, you play into the hands of lefties who don't want to talk about policy.
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Thank you for explaining why you resort to personal insults to explain your point. Perhaps a little bit of a 'bird brain' in rhetoric?