Sounds like an idealogue to me with no aim in furthering the chances of the Republican party.Put your money where your mouth is - quit your job as an editor at the American Thinker - a solid conservative company whose ideas are diametrically opposite yours.

“I am ensconced in this internet backwater where those precious few readers who discern a morsel or two of common sense from my writings come to visit.”

Stupid they are liberal trolls with a bad case of BDS who have no other aim than to take down Republicans and maintain power.

My, my Palin and Moran think bowing is a bad policy.

As I have asked many times, what are the specifics of that burr up your rear end. I suspect it is driven by the fear of Christianity but am not sure.

I don’t fault the Palinites for being angry; sometimes that is a good and useful tool. I fault them for not presenting a constructive avenue.

Specifically- Rod Dreher noted that Palin is a “conflicted populist”- she writes passionately about how Exxon screwed over the people of Alaska, and postures as the people’s champion in bringing the corporation to heel.
yet on the next page, she chirpily claims that Big Business gets a bad rap in society.
Would Palin take on and break up the “too big to fail” banks on Wall Street? Doubtful.
She waxes enthusiastically about freedom, about the need for limited government; does she fear the enlargement of the Executive power, such as warrantless wiretapping, indefinite detentions, the suspension of habeas corpus?
I don’t think so.
For all her populist rhetoric, how would a Palin Administration govern any differently than the GWB Administration? She is surrounded by the same coterie of advisors, and is backed by the same supporters.

This is why I can’t support the Tea Party, because they have this same conflict; they support and are friendly with the very same corporate interests that have worked against the people’s interest; they support the very same enlargement of government power that makes a mockery of “limited government”.

I think you are partially correct, at least at this point in time…11/20/2009. I suspect there is a lot of rage in the country currently.

I submit your take, and that of most of how one defines Sarah Palin, is when/how you were introduced to her. For most it was when she was selected as McCain’s VP choice 14 odd months ago. Which was quickly followed by a public colonoscopy, the magnitude rarely seen in my lifetime.

I had seen her previously, in several inverviews on CNBC related to Energy issues where she was upbeat/optimistic and forward thinking, IMHO of course.

I don’t see that there will be great difficulty (obviously presuming things don’t change for the better in the next year to 18 months) to pivot and channel the current rage into support for a specific comprehensive agenda. Particularly, IF, Obama does not pull a Clinton and moderate his objectives, and the ecomony, particularly unemployment does not improve. Yea, I know, a lot of caveats.

I wouldn’t be surprised IF Sarah Palin’s battle cry coupled taxes and Government spending with Social Security and Medicare reforms as a comprehensive solution to what is ailing the country. I can actually see a large segment of the public being willing to support a comprehensive solution, if things have not improved. I can also see that being a strongly bi-partisan solution, rather than a partisan one. Should my fantasy actually come to pass, I suspect some of her current supporters will be uncomfortable, yet trusting.

I see her more in the Andrew Jackson mold. AND, just for the record I am not saying she is like Andrew Jackson (before the spears fly).

IF one looks back to Sarah Palin’s track record in Alaska, she worked with whomever she needed to get the things, she believed needed to be done. In fact, she got far more done with Democrats than Republicans.

This all assumes she actually decides to run, something I am not sure will happen. I think the likelyhood increases if the economic situation does not improve.

Regards,

And, before you repeat Palin is no Reagan, I am not asserting that she is.

I detested Regean, everything he stood for, or at least how he stood for it pretty much.

But he was governor of the largest state in the union with an economy that rivals most countries. Palin? Puh-lease.

You people are dreaming.

Interesting take.

Seems like you are in a similar place as Frum.

I do have a question for you. Since you seem to want to shed conservatism/republicans of any ignorant fool who might see potential in Palin, Where do you get enough votes to win an election (presuming there could be 2-5 million idiots in the like/support Palin category), also remembering of course, that anyone stupid enough to think that tax cuts might be part of the solution are persona non-grata as well (maybe another 5+ million)? OR is it that you want our votes, but we are only allowed in the back of the bus and required to shut-up?

What did Obama win by? 6/7 million votes? Add 5-10 million voters who don’t qualify because either support for Palin or support of tax cuts, you begin with a deficit of 12-15 million votes, it will be interesting to see how you get anyone elected.

As best I can tell, you are several years younger than me. There are similarities between the reactions and treatment of Ronald Reagan in 1977 and Sarah Palin in 2009 by both the Republican establishment AND the press. Reagan the Cowboy/Warmonger, Sarah Palin the stupid bimbo from Alaska. I remember that period well as I started my grassroots phase in 1975 in Virginia. And, before you repeat Palin is no Reagan, I am not asserting that she is.

Regards,

By subtraction, you get a picture of who she does NOT represent- nonhunters, non-Christians, non-whites.

Being a non-hunting, non-white guy I don’t fit the mob she’s assembling. The rage at the elites (**cough, jews**), it is pretty typical of evangelistic Christians whose only use for Israel is as cannon fodder for the Anti-Christ at the fulfillment of the End Times.