Country Club Republicans Start The Palin Destruction
November 5th, 2008 at 7:57 pm by Preston Taylor HolmesThere has been a lot of talk about spats between Palin and the McCain powers-that-be as the campaign reached its final lurch towards catastrophic failure.
Now Ace reports that Fox News is joining the chorus of elitist Republicans in attacking Palin to try and discredit and get her out of the way for 2012.
It does not occur to either man to question these anonymous, and quite absurd, claims.
Or to wonder if perhaps these aides are of the Buckley/Parker sort, or if they perhaps have in mind a candidate they prefer in 2012…
Thus even Fox News begins the campaign to irradiate Palin to toxic levels for 2012.
Anyone who has watched McShame operate for the past several years knew that a Palin/McShame mix had the potential to be oil-and-water. She, an actual outside-the-beltway conservative – he, a liberal Republican who has sided with Democrats on key issue after key issue.
I would not be surprised if that is exactly what was going on behind the scenes. The McShame handlers tried to manage the life out of her before the VP debate, and it was obvious in her tentative performance. They tried to dress her up in the wardrobe of a GOP elitist. That didn’t go over with Palin, and it gave the idiots on the left one more thing on which to harp.
I never once forgot how badly McCain sucks. He kept reminding us all along the way. I pulled the lever for Palin, not McCain, and I did so as a last-ditch effort to keep a Marxist out of office. FAIL.
I am fully on board a Palin 2012 campaign should she decide to do so. I want the Palin who shoots wolves from a helicopter for sport. I want the Palin who told the GOP elite to suck it and kicked their corrupt asses in Alaska. She was the only reason this election was as close as it was. It’s time to evict the rest of the RINOs (Lispy Graham, anyone?) and start building a conservative base to take back the GOP.
If the GOP doesn’t find it’s balls over the next two years and start acting like small-government, tax-cutting, budget-slashing, pro-defense warriors and fight back against the Obamaniacs, 2010 will mark the end of the GOP for good. They’ve become lazy, greedy, elitist and stupid. The GOP earned this ass-kicking by trying to appease the Old Media and the rest of the elites and by allowing Bush to spend us into oblivion. This approach has resulted in two straight slaughters.
Like BMac so aptly put it, “show me a good loser and I’ll show you a loser.”
Wake up, losers.
UPDATE:
SHOCK! McCain suddenly in a hurry to help President Hussein with his new agenda.
“There’s a need for the old John McCain, a leader who worked in a bipartisan way,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Wednesday.
The old McCain? I must have missed the new McCain.
MORE: “Scenes from the divorce.”
HEH: Red State launches Operation Leper.
Malkin has Sarah’s response. She handles it with much more class than I would. There’s a reason McCain’s a loser. I think he likes it that way. That’s the definition of liberal Republican.
PETITION: Send Sarah a thank you note.
November 5th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Preach it Brother Holmes! You are right on target.
November 5th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
We need to bury the conpassionate conservatives, neocons, and all the other RINOs and their ilk. I’ll campaign for a conservative but not another big government country clubber.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:11 am
Of course, these are the same people who had their asses handed to them in 2006 and haven’t spent a moment of introspection since then either.
Over 10 Million people who held their nose and voted for Bush could not find a gas mask strong enough to cover the Stink of McCain.
He is not the leader or the future of anything. If anything he is the loyal opposition and a little bit too loyal for my tastes.
Exile time for the Maverick Amateur Hour.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:21 am
Palin should have been on top of the ticket instead of McRage. She was the only one of the four that was the most articulate speaker and creative thinker. After fours years of Biden’s verbal back stapping Obama, that is how Biden got his prima donna reputation in DC, Palin should have an easy time capturing the GOP nomination.
The GOP is real need of real leaders and none are on the horizon, except for Palin. Anyway, SNL will hate to see her go back to Alaska because that is the first time in four years anyone has watched the show and laughed without an applause light. She definitely helped their ratings.
But the Dems are a motley crew of situational ethics without a clue of long-term strategic thinking. For the time being it is playground politics in our nation’s capital, until the emotional hangover effects of the ceremonial groundbreaking event of election night turns into real work of governing. These people are more screwed up than the Republicans. One party is lost in the wilderness, the other is on the wrong path going in the wrong direction.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:31 am
Amen. Great post.
I think we’ll see her again. You know someone’s got it if the media focuses a great deal of time trying to make him or her appear stupid or wicked. (Reagan, Thatcher, G.W., Palin)
November 6th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Good grief; I want a real fiscal conservative, too, but Palin isn’t the way to go. She’s about got the talking points memorized so she’s a bona-fide on the surface, but let’s not delude ourselves. Palin is not a bright woman. We don’t need another dullard like GWB who can talk the talk when given the lines, but won’t actually deliver. Palin said “no thanks” to the bridge-to-nowhere, but for pete’s sake, she took the money anyway, to spend on other less controvercial but still unneeded crap. That was my money and yours. I haven’t yet figured out who needs to get up off the bench, but please, let’s not tie ourselves to the albatross that is Sarah Palin. That would just help to ensure Obama term #2.
November 6th, 2008 at 10:20 am
King Conservative (and I see you already have your elitist bonafides by your regal moniker), I’d like to see your evidence of where Palin is a stupid dullard? Other than what the Old Media has vomited forth, I haven’t seen it, and I’ve followed her fairly closely. And if you think that GWB could “talk the talk”, then your analytical skills are a bit off. A GWB press conference is one of the most excruciating and embarassing demonstrations of oratory failure that you’ll ever see.
You can hop on whatever train you like. I’ll take the albatross. You can rest easy that I have no power within the party, if that makes you feel any better.
November 6th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Who’s your pick?
November 6th, 2008 at 10:21 am
(Asking King Conservative)
November 6th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
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November 6th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Michele, I don’t know who to pick at this point. So many of the usual GOP suspects are big spenders just like their Democrat counterparts.
Preston, let’s take the ‘you can see Russia from Alaska’ comment. The right answer on Palin’s foreign policy credentials would’ve been “Most governors who become President surround themselves with the right advisors so that they can make wise decisions on foreign policy matters. When I’m in office, I would do the same.” Instead, with obvious ego dripping from her words, she talked about being able to see Russia from Alaska. Not only is that amateurish, but moronic. It is but one example of many.
November 7th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
You got one word of this post right…FAIL.
November 8th, 2008 at 10:06 am
“you can see Russia from Alaska’comment” … Sarah Palin never said that. That was from a Saturday Night Live skit with Tina Fey impersonating Palin. The sad factor is once that got repeated into the liberals’ meme as having been said by Palin, it never left, and the McCain campaign never refuted it.
November 9th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Indeed SNL made fun of the comment, but Palin said it first in her interview with Charles Gibson on ABC. Then she repeated it in her interview with Katie Couric. Mind you, neither Gibson nor Couric are rocket scientists. If Palin had much going on, she shoud’ve been able to dispatch them both easily.
From ABC interview with Palin:
Palin: “And, Charlie, you’re in Alaska. We have that very narrow maritime border between the United States, and the 49th state, Alaska, and Russia. They are our next door neighbors.We need to have a good relationship with them. They’re very, very important to us and they are our next door neighbor.
GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions, particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proximity of the state give you?
PALIN: They’re our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.”
From CBS interview with Palin:
“Couric: You’ve cited Alaska’s proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?
Sarah Palin: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and, on our other side, the land-boundary that we have with Canada. It’s funny that a comment like that was kinda made to … I don’t know, you know … reporters.
Couric: Mocked?
Palin: Yeah, mocked, I guess that’s the word, yeah.
Couric: Well, explain to me why that enhances your foreign-policy credentials.
Palin: Well, it certainly does, because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of.”
November 9th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
“King” Conservative, come on back when you have a candidate or two to suggest, because your obvious agenda is to use the same old shit to hack away at Palin. Let us know when you graduate from King Conservative to King Constructive and we’ll listen.
November 9th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Like I said, I’m still looking for a candidate, particularly one who actually understands the conservative principles behind the talking points. If the conservative movement is to recover from where we are, we really shouldn’t tie our wagon to a falling star and spend all our time acticng as apoligists for politicians who don’t know which way is up, much less which way is Right.
You asked for an example of Palin’s dullness. I provided one. Peter suggeted she never said what she said. I demonstrated that she had, at least twice.
I’m looking for a strong conservative leader who can clearly make the case for fiscal conservitism and limited government. All Palin will ever be is a punching bag for liberals. If you want to use the drubbing she’ll get to point out how horrible the liberals are, have at it. I hardly think that’s constructive, though.
November 9th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Obama hasn’t even been sworn into office yet and you are looking for a Republican candidate?! Don’t wish your life away. You probably defended W. to the hilt. We got alot of time and have to see how he does. Plus, being from Chicago I am sure Obama will pick many University of Chicago Friedman economic proteges to staff his economic positions. Right now, it looks more centrist than I would have given him credit for or predicted. Bush put this country and his party in a world of hurt. He treated both like “ladies of the evening.” The best thing that can happen to the GOP is for him to go back to Crawford and never be heard from again. The Democrats could have elected their own Ronald Reagan in Obama or it’s a political version of dancing with the stars. Either way, let him do something before we critize his performance.
Danny L. McDaniel
Lafayette, Indiana
November 9th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
“You probably defended W. to the hilt.”
Come back when you’ve gone through the archives and know what you’re talking about.
November 9th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
I’ll come back anytime I feel like it. You complain like a Democrat. Sadly, that is all you know. You know all the principles but stand for nothing!
November 9th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
I’ll come back anytime I feel like it.
No you won’t Danny. As part of the vast right-wing conspiracy, we have a secret device that will keep you from coming back.
(It will also scan your brainwaves, steal your Skittles, and impregnate your wife)
March 10th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Country Club Republicans have to much to lose financially with a true conservative in the White House. They would rather have big Spending Democrats that they can reap wind-falls from. The think one way and live another. Remember, these are the same people that backed Dole and elder Bush over Reagan in 1980. They weren’t in love with Reagan as much as people think today. Just let the political marketplace do its’ job. With a little help from a Democrat Congress in war with itself and a figure-head President, we’ll be alright in 2012.
Danny L. McDaniel
Lafayette, Indiana