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Jeff Jacoby, Winner of Today’s Unintended Irony Award

November 16, 2008 By kbusch 27 Comments

Beginning of opinion on Sarah Palin:

But there can’t be much doubt that Palin has become the brightest star in the GOP firmament. A whopping 91 percent of Republicans have a favorable view of her, according to a recent Rasmussen poll, and she is the runaway favorite when they are asked to rank possible contenders for the party’s 2012 presidential nominee.

Later on, ironically thinking he is talking about the left, he writes:

Well, maybe; partisans and ideologues are good at seeing only what they want to see.

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  1. lightiris says

    November 16, 2008 at 6:05 pm

    Something like 64% of Republicans want Sarah Palin to run in 2012 as well as…

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    p>wait for it…100% of Democrats.

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  2. edgarthearmenian says

    November 16, 2008 at 9:34 pm

    Why are you folks so obsessed with Sarah?  Perhaps because you sense that she represents a real threat to your lefty ideas?  If she is such a loser why do you waste so much time and space on this blog devoted to her?  

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    • mikberg says

      November 16, 2008 at 9:50 pm

      I’m deeply disappointed that people like McCain and Jacoby can’t see how unqualified she is to be President. She is cheerful and charismatic, but has no fund of knowledge.
      Both McCain and Jacoby have not been lockstep with the Conservatives on issues like torture and immigration. Yet,
      they can’t admit that she was a poor choice. Maureen Dowd is no liberal, but she can see that there is nothing there.
      Why can’t Jacoby?

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      • edgarthearmenian says

        November 16, 2008 at 9:57 pm

        “Maureen Dowd is no liberal”–by whose standards?  No one on this blog has ever answered my questions about Biden.  The guy has been wrong about so many things, the most important of which was the placement of short range missiles in Germany during the Cold War to offset the Soviets’ designs.  Why are you so eager to overlook this guy’s shortcomings?  As I have said before Joe is a good bloke, but he is a little short on intellect.  And yet you want to focus on Sarah?  I remind you that I voted for Barack.

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        • mikberg says

          November 18, 2008 at 11:53 pm

          In past elections she was strongly anti Clinton and then Gore. My point was, she doesn’t just support Democrats. But she still ridiculed Palin.

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    • johnk says

      November 16, 2008 at 9:54 pm

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    • kbusch says

      November 16, 2008 at 10:29 pm

      A number of answers, Edgarthearmenian:

      1. Republicans don’t think she is a loser: Rasmussen reports that Republicans believe — despite the overwhelming evidence of polling — that Palin helped the ticket, i.e., that she was a winner. Moreover, she polls far and away as their favorite choice for President for 2012: 64% with Huckabee at #2 with 12%.
      2. For me, Palin crystallizes the Republican escape from evidence. Note that we hear from all sorts of GOPerish quarters that she is oh so smart. She evidently isn’t. She speaks an ungrammatical gibberish and she majored in journalism in college! English is rarely the weak link for Americans who major in journalism. Recently she told interviewers that she wanted to “progress this nation”. She repeated this line. Any written transcript from her is an embarrassment.
      3. Palin’s support especially represents the tendency among Republicans to think that the problem was “not being conservative enough”, i.e., that, behind the door marked “Pure Reaganism”, they’ll find their pony.
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      • edgarthearmenian says

        November 16, 2008 at 10:49 pm

        I couldn’t care less what republicans think about any individual.  I am not one, have never been one, nor do I intend to become a republican.  I do like Sarah, however, because she is a newcomer to the scene and we need fresh people in our politics. I see and hear enough malapropisms everyday not to hold that foible against anyone.  I don’t hold it against poor Joe that he referred to FDR talking to people in 1929 on TV (FDR became president in 1932). I don’t understand how you can support the same people year after year, mostly democrats, who are total screw-ups. How many of these professional democrat pols who are so admired on this blog have come out for true equality on such issues as Proposition 8?  Why do you give them a free pass on selected issues?    

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        • laurel says

          November 16, 2008 at 11:08 pm

          I’m convinced that you just refuse to be happy.

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          • edgarthearmenian says

            November 24, 2008 at 7:38 pm

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            • kbusch says

              November 26, 2008 at 12:32 pm

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              • edgarthearmenian says

                November 26, 2008 at 4:24 pm

                For a lot of non-intellectual reasons:  her smile, her optimistic delivery of political speeches, and, of course, her good looks. If I leave you laughing, please have a nice Thanksgiving Holiday.

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                • kbusch says

                  November 26, 2008 at 4:44 pm

                  It sounds as if you find her entertaining — not as if you are expecting her to be a great president.

                • edgarthearmenian says

                  November 26, 2008 at 4:58 pm

                • kbusch says

                  November 26, 2008 at 5:00 pm

                  If you want her to be President, it’s not as if she is going to slip in unvetted.

                • edgarthearmenian says

                  November 26, 2008 at 5:20 pm

                  I thought that the media and the democrats overdid their “vetting.”  I am truly tired, at my age, of the “same-old, same-old” politicians of both parties who repeat their cliches about each other. It may surprise you to know that I like Obama very much for the same reasons that I like Sarah.

        • petr says

          November 17, 2008 at 9:47 am

          I do like Sarah, however,

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          p>She. is. George W. Bush. Lite.

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          p>

           because she is a newcomer to the scene and we need fresh people in our politics.

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          p>Good heavens, man!  The same can be said about Obama and the whole host of Freshman senators and reps we just elected!!! Fresh faces abound!

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          I see and hear enough malapropisms everyday not to hold that foible against anyone.  

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          p>Quote: “I’ll try to find you some and I’ll bring them to you. “

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          p>That’s not a ‘malapropism’. That’s sheer ignorance.

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          How many of these professional democrat pols who are so admired on this blog have come out for true equality on such issues as Proposition 8?  Why do you give them a free pass on selected issues?      

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          p>Well, see there… that’s where you reveal your (deeply) Republican stripes (prior disclaimers notwithstanding…)   I neither expect, nor want, a pol with whom I agree one hundred percent.  My vote is a result of some serious weighting of candidates.   I disagree with Obama on his FISA vote. I disagreed with Bill Clinton on the Death Penalty.  I disagreed with Carter on de-regulation.  I disagreed with Johnson on the Vietnam war. Etc…

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          p>If I dropped them so readily, on the mere whim of a disagreement or two, I’d have no one to vote for… ’cause, just as I can count the disagreements with Democrats on the one hand, I count the agreements with Republicans on the other… though, I can’t, for the moment, think of any agreement I have with McCain… I thought we agreed upon torture, but he rolled with that one.  And Palin… well, Sarah Palin hasn’t said much of anything of substance so I can’t say I agree or disagree…  

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      • bob-neer says

        November 16, 2008 at 11:50 pm

        Therefore no need to escape from evidence: it supports whatever they have decided.

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        p>How can you deny the basic logic of this position?

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        p>;-)

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      • sean-roche says

        November 18, 2008 at 8:41 am

        Palin is the pony!

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  3. centralmassdad says

    November 17, 2008 at 4:16 pm

    Really.

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    p>Can’t the lefty blogosphere find some other former VP nominee from a losing ticket to pick on?

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    • huh says

      November 17, 2008 at 8:12 pm

      and just as soon as Republican flacks like Jacoby stop writing “gosh, lefties are SO mean” puff pieces.

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      p>Why does it seem you only like justice blind when it’s facing back your way?

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    • david says

      November 17, 2008 at 8:19 pm

      Jacoby started this one, and for reasons unknown, the Globe continues to publish his work.  If the hometown paper is publishing puff pieces on Sarah Palin’s glorious future, it’s unreasonable to expect the local reality-based blog to ignore it.  The Globe still has a lot more readers than we do.

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      • centralmassdad says

        November 18, 2008 at 11:51 am

        The interest in railing against a person who is a candidate for nothing aside, the joke merely referred to the losing VP candidate from 2000.

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        • david says

          November 18, 2008 at 12:53 pm

          Fair enough.  Still, I do think it’s reasonable for us to comment on the latest nonsense from Jacoby, even if he is talking about Sarah Palin.  It’s not like we go rooting around townhall.com to find his stuff — it’s delivered to our doorsteps.

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    • kbusch says

      November 17, 2008 at 9:44 pm

      The novelty of 2008 is listening to Republicans think about how to fix Republicanism. That stretches from Pawlenty and Schwarzenegger thinking about being more pragmatic (sometimes in ways that approach liberalism) all the way to Haley Barbour who thinks that McCain would’ve won if he just attacked more. Right now Palin has enormous support among Republicans. Aside from the giggle factor — and I confess that I cannot help myself, there’s the interesting question of what she represents to the 64% of Republicans who prefer her over Huckabee, Romney, Gingrich, Pawlenty, and Crist.

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      p>Unless the Obama Administration really screws up, Palin’s popularity portends a further contraction of the Republican base to the Deep South, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, and Alaska.

      Realizing how different your cultural preferences are from mine, I can well imagine that you regard the Palin Feeding Frenzy as unseemly. Maybe if I sent you a lava lamp and some bead curtains you’d come to appreciate it more.

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      • centralmassdad says

        November 18, 2008 at 9:14 am

        Your guy won!  Lighten up already and quit whining.

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        p>I was only wondering if you bloggers could find some other VP candidate to pick on, for instance, this guy:

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        p>Ha.  Ha.

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        • kbusch says

          November 18, 2008 at 3:33 pm

          Not even the President-Elect is supposed to joke.

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