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The Palindrone Continues

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With few exceptions, political rhetoric in America is (and has always been) pretty thin soup. Even before the sound bite era, politicians rarely shone in speaking and writing-even with talented ghosts doing most of the heavy work. That’s why I’m impressed at how articulate the four senatorial candidates have been. Cavil if you will at personality quirks and waffling on issues, the level of discourse has been impressive.  Contrast the Sarah book tour. Yesterday she was on with Rush and Chris Kelly over at HuffPost has the hilarious result:

Unemployment?

   But those commonsense solutions there, especially with the cutting taxes on the job creators? That’s not even being discussed.

Healthcare reform?

   Not when there are commonsense solutions to meeting health care challenges in our country… So lots of commonsense solutions that need to be plugged in before ever considering federal government taking it over.

The 2010 elections?

   It’s all about Americans who are hurting right now and what those solutions are that are so obvious, so commonsense that need to be plugged in.

The recent special congressional election in New York State?

   They are seeking commonsense, conservative solutions to all the challenges that we’re facing. I’m glad to see this.

Independent voters?



   Todd’s not a Republican and yet he’s got more commonsense conservatism than a whole lot of Republicans that I know… But in answer to your question, I don’t think that the third party movement will be what’s necessary to usher in some commonsense conservative ideals… In Alaska, about 70% of Alaskans are independent. So that’s my base. That’s where I am from and that’s been my training ground, is just implementing commonsense conservative solutions.



The Future of the Republican Party?



   Let’s go back to what Reagan did in the early eighties and stay committed to those commonsense free market principles that worked.

The overall message of her book?

   It was just a lot of hard work and it was a lot of very commonsense measures that I undertook politically and practically speaking, and the book is about that, and hopefully people will read it and enjoy it and learn something from it.

Do we see a pattern here?  Imagine if Martha, Alan, Mike, or Steve said anything faintly similar. It’d be curtains. Even Tony Galluccio un-sober does better than this. Jack E. Robinson, maybe not so much.

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  1. Link courtesy Palin fan EdgarTheArmenian:

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    It is her mastery of the lament that explained former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s appeal last year, and now her knack for self-pity is on full display in her book, “Going Rogue.” This is the memoir as prolonged, keening wail, larded with petty vindictiveness. With an impressive attention to detail, Ms. Palin settles every score, answers every criticism; locates a scapegoat for every foul-up, and fastens an insult on every critic, down to the last obscure Palin-doubter back in Alaska.

  2. Republicans (note: not conservatives) don’t buy books to read them.  They buy books to put them on a shelf and say MAN, LOOK HOW MANY BOOKS I HAVE.  I’M AN INTELLECTUAL.

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    p>It’s like the liberal who collects anti-george bush books so they can look at their shelf and say LOOK, GEORGE BUSH IS STUPID!  ALL MY BOOKS SAY SO HAHAHAHAHA.

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    p>The day and age where books were tough to produce and distribute, and therefore necessitated some sort of value beyond being a paperweight has long past.  

  3. Steve Benen at Political Animal   is usually a paragon of good taste, but he obviously can’t restrain himself on this one:

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    I can think of plenty of politicians who are genuinely, unambiguously dumb. I’ve even met a few, and marveled at how they were able to attain any kind of political responsibilities, given their limited intellectual prowess. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen a politician as conspicuously unintelligent as Sarah Palin gain national prominence. She represents the very worst American politics has to offer, and the embarrassment she brings to the political system is severe.

  4. she doesn’t know how to say it in typical political rhetoric. I think she is very smart, and believes strongly in her ideals. In her heart, she does want to make the country a better place.

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    p>I’m not saying I’d want her to be vice-president or president. What I am saying is that I can appreciate her as a motivated, strong, success-seeking individual. Is she different?  Yes, she is. Is that a bad thing?  I don’t think so.

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    p>I give her a tremendous amount of credit for being able to rise above the constant ridicule in order to carry on with whatever it is she is hoping to achieve in her life.

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  5. I think she’s a narcissistic pathological liar.  That’s pretty much the only lens one needs when it comes to Ms. Palin.  

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    p>Oh, I really do hope she and Glenn Beck decide to run as a ticket in 2012.  I really, really do.  

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