Palin Unlikely to Get “Coveted” New York Times Endorsement
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The same endorsement that ushered John Kerry, Al Gore, Michael Dukakis and Walter Mondale into the White House is unlikely to be bestowed on the mean, vindictive and intimidating Governor of Alaska.
At least that’s what I gather from this New York Times Page One expose that can best be described as a transcription of grievances from the 20% of Alaskans who were either fired by or don’t approve of Sarah Palin. Objective sources, clearly.
You have to work very hard to take a Governor with such high approval ratings and puke out the garbage in this piece. As Tom Smith sums up, you learn:
– Upon getting elected, Palin fires people who have held jobs for years (“professionals”) and puts in people she has known for years, often going back to her high school days. Why a reform-minded politician would do this in a notoriously corrupt state is, of course, baffling.
– Palin bears grudges and takes them personally. This is a rare fault in politicians and not to be endured. The Clintons, for example, have set a fine example in letting bygones be bygones.
– Palin is an evangelical Christian who went so far as to inquire about taking the inoffensive book “Daddy’s Roommate” out of the public library.
– Todd Palin called somebody and let them know he and his wife were unhappy that he had hired somebody or other who had broken up with somebody or other over something. This one made a deep impression on me I will not soon forget.
– Sarah Palin when she was mayor put pressure on the town council to fire the town attorney, whom she did not like, possibly because he was not pro-development enough. I earnestly pray this is not true.
– Sarah Palin often uses lots of notes when she speaks, even going so far as to use tabs and different colors of notecards. This is just so unbelievably tacky and small town I am considering killing myself.
– Not only Governor Palin but members of her staff sometimes use their personal email accounts to do public business. This charge is perhaps the most deeply shocking of all. Then, these same officials have sometimes resisted turning over their personal emails on public business to their opponents in political disputes.
Whoa Nelly! John McCain led us to believe this was “Saint Sarah” not “Sarah Barracuda.” We’ve been had. We’ve been took. We’ve been HOODWINKED, BAMBOOZLED, led astray, run amok.
Just think how bad off we’d be if she had her political career launched by an unrepentant domestic terrorist, or was married by, had her children baptized by and had a spiritual mentor who damns America (among other transgressions), or financed her political rise and own home from a slumlord and convicted felon, or handed out federal earmarks to her husband’s employer.
Then I’d really worry about what’s really behind the glitz and glamor that is Barack Ob . . . errr, I mean Sarah Barracuda.
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29 Responses to “Palin Unlikely to Get “Coveted” New York Times Endorsement”
Caucus of Corruption
You guys love to say that she has an overall approval rating of 60% odd, but that’s only when you take into account her biggest fans.
Among all voters:
39% very favorable
17% somewhat favorable
14% somewhat unfavorable
26% very unfavorable
However, when you take the Conservative voters out of the picture, you get a lot different picture:
20% very favorable
15% somewhat favorable
26% somewhat unfavorable
35% very unfavorable
3% not sure
Source: Rasmussen
Don’t forget that as VP pick she’s being judged by the whole country, not just conservative fans, and her approval ratings there are much, much lower.
When you talk of organizations deciding whether to endorse her, they’re likely going to be closer to the lower figure than the upper one.
Deleted – off topic.
Arctic,
And if you could just figure out a way to get us conservatives to stay home, you’ll have it made…
The article gave a picture of Palin you don’t want to hear, so your response is not surprising.
What’s particularly interesting is that all of the attacks we hear from you guys about Obama are innuendo surrounding people he has some connection to (a pastor, a professor, or a neighbor), but when you hear directly about how Palin actually governed, ie like the leader of a high school clique, you have nothing to add but mock surprise.
Here’s a hint: don’t link to unflattering articles of your opponent. Anyone not already firmly in the wingnut camp won’t find your flippant write-offs convincing.
With a little more time the NYT will become another joke like the MSNBC……they have lost lots of readers and advertising in the past 4 years…..
The malaise and left leaning culture in that place will ensure their speedy spiral into irrelevancy.
>>>What’s particularly interesting is that all of the attacks we hear from you guys about Obama are innuendo surrounding people he has some connection to (a pastor, a professor, or a neighbor)
“innuendo” are you seriously that misinformed…or another ObamaZombie?
are you deliberately not wanting to read the facts about Obamas associations?
Is this what the ‘Group of 30 with pockets full of cash’ found? This is the best they could do? I heard a lot of “she put a high-school friend in blah blah position” but what I didn’t hear was how they failed in that position. Did they do their job? I would probably want to surround myself with people I trust as well if my intention was to shake the house down. I think if this is the worst they find we are in good shape. It just smells of desperation to me.
I love this quote from a commentor at another site:
anothier site? moveon.org…why dont you tell it like it is….idiot!!
and in reality…do you really think telling half truths while making stupid innuendo’s deserves to be repeated…oh…obviously you do….
thanks bungleman
bongoman,
It’s a shame that that comment doesn’t really reflect any of the reasons why people think that way about him.
What’s the name of the psychological tactic of claiming someone opposes something for a frivolous and easily debunkable reason instead of the actual, more solid argument? I forget.
The only IF that matters is:
If you’re McCain/Palin, you’ll be elected to be President and VP.
If you’re Obama/Biden, you wont.
Our liberals seem to forget that this is a year in which all they had to do was show up with a pulse and a sensible platform, and they would have won in a landslide.
They failed on both accounts. They have nominated the most inexperienced, unelectable candidate in our nations history and then arrogantly tried to shove their defeatest, socialist policies down the American throats.
McCain now leads in most polls in September and historically, that means that McCain will win easily in November.
anyone can distort the truth…but that doesnt mean that the resultant claim is still true…yet the MSM has be campaigning for Obama by consistant and constant slurs against the reputation of an honest American…
the people behind this are not journalists….they are not politicians…they are goosip columnists and over-rated writters whose only crown to success is that they hold a job on a newpaper staff that does not promote professional journalism….and nothing more…its not the duty of journalists to promote lies and gossip…so the times actual standing in the profession stands right next to the enquirer….
Hey I like cows too! This is the type of “old boy network” hypocrisy she’s shown over and over now.
McCain/Palin = Bush/Cheney.
Change? More B.S. Rhetoric.
It’s not even comical anymore. It’s repulsive.
bongo,
The following is an article on what voters think. Not some leftist commentator that sings to the choir. Start consoling yourself now or November will be a tough month for you.
Eighty percent say McCain, with nearly three decades in Congress, has the right experience to be president. Just 46 percent say Obama, now in his fourth year in the Senate, is experienced enough.
Fully 47 percent say Obama lacks the proper experience — an even worse reading than the 36 percent who had the same criticism about McCain running mate Sarah Palin, serving her second year as Alaska governor after being a small-town mayor
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080912/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_ap_poll
kevincovet:
interesting post
us orbital observers have great respect
for the passion from both sides that resides in this black hole blog
but you seem to be working yourself up to such a freakazoid frenzy
that no matter who gets elected?
there’s going to be 47% of america who will be suicidal.
should be good revenue for big pharma and psychoanalyst types
It’s not even comical anymore. It’s repulsive. – welly
Wellington darling,
It’s pretty hard to take your drivel seriously when I have yet to see you comment on the following.
At least 17 senators and 11 members of the House have children, spouses or other close relatives who lobby or work as consultants, most in Washington, according to lobbyist reports, financial-disclosure forms and other state and federal records. Many are paid by clients who count on the related lawmaker for support.
But Harry Reid is in a class by himself. One of his sons and his son-in-law lobby in Washington for companies, trade groups and municipalities seeking Reid’s help in the Senate. A second son has lobbied in Nevada for some of those same interests, and a third has represented a couple of them as a litigator.
In the last four years alone, their firms have collected more than $2 million in lobbying fees from special interests that were represented by the kids and helped by the senator in Washington.
Also the Alaska Dept. of Agriculture was not appointed by the Governor.
http://www.nasda.org/cms/7195/9474/8783.aspx
there’s going to be 47% of america who will be suicidal – bags
That’s the best news I’ve heard all day. They wont be missed.
wellington
>>>Change? More B.S. Rhetoric.>>>
clinton BJ’s in the oval office
oBOMBa BJ’s in limo
both cocain users
both black?
WHAT CHANGE?
sounds like clinton 3
repulsive? look into the mirror asshat!
what do YOU say about
this……….
>>>>> Gary Fields and Jonathan Kaufman, Wall Street Journal, September 10, 2008
An anxious murmur is rising among black voters as the presidential race tightens: What if Sen. Barack Obama loses?
Black talk-show hosts and black-themed Web sites are being flooded with callers and bloggers reflecting a nervousness—and anger—over the campaign. Monday night, Bev Smith, a nationally syndicated black talk-show host in Pittsburgh, devoted her entire three-hour show to the question: “If Obama doesn’t win, what will you think?”
“My audience is upset,” she said. “Some people said they would be so angry it would be reminiscent of the [1960s] riots—that is how despondent they would be.”
Warren Ballentine, a nationally syndicated black talk-radio-show host, added: “Once Sarah Palin was picked and African-Americans saw the Republicans ignited again, they got worried. We are scared now.”
Black nervousness could help Sen. Obama, the first African-American to head the Democratic—or any major party—ticket, by boosting black turnout in November. But if Sen. Obama loses, “African-Americans could be disappointed to the point of not engaging in the process anymore,” or consider forming a third political party, said Richard McIntire, communications director for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
{snip} The latest Wall Street Journal poll shows 88% of blacks backing Sen. Obama. Black voter registration has surged.
{snip}
“If he loses, it will shake the very ground that we stand on mentally as far as what we need to be to succeed,” said Robert Gordon, a 48-year-old engineering surveyor from Dallas. “From day one, we’ve been told to be a certain way, to be neat, intellectual, speak clearly. He is the symbol of what we were told to be by our parents and by society as a whole. If this doesn’t work, what does that do to our psyche? What do I tell my sons? No matter what the hell we do, it doesn’t matter? We can only assimilate so far.”
{snip}
Melvin Thomas, a professor at North Carolina State University and past president of the Association of Black Sociologists, said black response to the election likely will depend on “how African-Americans will see a vote against Mr. Obama. What does the racial distribution of that vote look like? If the answer for African-Americans to the question of why Obama lost is race, an Obama loss will have the potential to deepen the racial cut.”>>>>
This is also one of my favorites.
Several days ago, Newsmax.com disclosed that in February, shortly after his mother became the first woman speaker, Paul Pelosi Jr., was hired by InfoUSA for $180,000 a year as its vice president for Strategic Planning. Pelosi also kept his other full-time day job as a mortgage loan officer for Countrywide Loans in California. And, unlike all of the other InfoUSA employees, he did not report to work at the company’s headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska.
Or this:
Hunter Biden, 38, described as a lawyer in the biography of his father distributed yesterday by the Obama campaign, lobbied for clients that paid his firm at least $380,000 in the first six months of this year, federal records show.
I think welly is right. It’s not just comical, it’s repulsive
Who cares about the NYT’s endorsement? Not me. Not Minnesotans …
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/president/28353589.html?elr=KArks:DCiUBcy7hUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU
Most of my family lives in Minnesota. The buzz on the street is McCain could win that state in November. :-)
A debate Obama cannot win
Mr. Obama’s “new kind of politics” – which was based on telling the truth, being a principled politician and treating one’s opponents fairly – collapsed once he secured the nomination in June. He reversed course with dizzying speed on NAFTA, FISA, public financing of campaigns, whether the D.C. gun ban was constitutional, meeting with rogue leaders without preconditions and the unity of Jerusalem. He even qualified his Iraq policy by stating it would be “refined” according to “conditions on the ground.” Most recently, in light of the economic downturn, Mr. Obama stated he might reconsider implementing the tax increases in his economic plan.
http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/sep/14/a-debate-obama-cannot-win/
My comments were not off topic. I discussed the various points of the article.
neo47
two questions?
we’re in astronomical agreement with kids on the political payroll from both sides
most recently…mccain’s son and silver state bank
????
and secondly
what happens if you’re part of the 47%
???
hope you dont’ end it all ?
bags,
I am hardly that much affected by politicians as you are, or those on the left side of the aisle seem to be. Lefties appear to be unable to tie their shoes without government help.
Conservatives will simply go back to work, pay taxes, raise their families and live to fight another day. And win I might add.
neoleftalicious
us gas giant goofballs aren’t affected as much by politicos as you think
as much as amazed by the observations
we try to observe and not absorb
verything
it seems the bfvcorecrew however
is very absorbed and affected widdit
to keep you out of the 47%
i hope you win your fight
I have zero doubt bags. We will win, and win convincingly.
Thanks for your concern.
neovic
we noticed
you had no radarian retort
on mccain’s kid????
Deleted – off topic.
well
This is what Rove said about this affirmative action cocain user
>>>>Rove: Obama’s the Guy at the Country Club Holding a Martini Making Snide Comments About Everyone Else
June 23, 2008 1:36 PM
ABC News’ Christianne Klein reports that at a breakfast with Republican insiders at the Capitol Hill Club this morning, former White House senior aide Karl Rove referred to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, as “coolly arrogant.”
“Even if you never met him, you know this guy,” Rove said, per Christianne Klein. “He’s the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.” >>>
>>>Friday, March 9, 2007 8:13 a.m. EST
Karl Rove Calls Obama the ‘A-Word’
Only two months after a rival to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama did it, presidential adviser Karl Rove used the “a-word” Thursday when describing the U.S. senator from Illinois: articulate.
“He’s charismatic, he’s articulate, he’s a very strong figure on the national stage,” Rove told a crowd at an event planned by the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service.
“But something tells me that people are going to say (they want) experience and depth. As a result it’s going to be, ‘Can he live up to the standards?”‘ >>>