The Palin Effect
Tags: Obamacare, Sarah Palin.
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Crucial to the debate over Obamacare:
For an uneducated, unsophisticated rube and former governor from a backwater state, Sarah Palin sure can drive a debate. With prospects for passage of his sweeping overhaul of the American health care delivery system fading with every speech, President Barack Obama is making it increasingly clear that Palin will be recognized, for good or ill, as perhaps the most prominent single political figure responsible for stopping it in its tracks.
It’s a remarkable story. A failed vice-presidential candidate and resigned governor — unfairly viewed by many as a cruel joke – reached from beyond the political grave her elitist critics prematurely dug for her and her political future to thwart a popular president prematurely regarded by the same elite that shunned her as perhaps the most gifted politician this nation has ever produced. If Sarah Palin were a sitting governor, a failed presidential candidate, or even a state legislator, her influence in the health care debate would not be as unexpected. It is the fact that she is a private citizen, completely out of politics save for a small political action committee, that makes this story unique.
How did she do it? That’s where the story gets even more remarkable.
There were no public appearances or speeches, no glitzy ad campaigns, no publicity tours, no interviews in the mainstream press or any new media outlet. Sarah Plain killed health care reform with a posting on her Facebook page, an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, and an exquisite sense of timing.
“Death Panels” did it – and I know our liberals still yank their hair in frustration…there was no such thing, they assert. After all, you can comb through the whole series of proposals and never find the phrase “death panel” mentioned. And that, to the liberals, is the end of it…its sort of like their assertion that no one is pro-abortion because no one actually says they are pro-abortion. But just as there are pro-abortion people, so were there “death panels” in the health care reform proposals, disguised as various commissions and committees which would oversea what coverage plans were to provide. And Sarah Palin’s phrasing was crucial to turning the debate firmly against Obama and his Democrats.
Now, the Palin might be out of the running for President – the left smeared her as a dunce, much as they once smeared Dan Quayle as a dunce, even though he was vastly smarter than Al Gore; and that smear might stick. Its hard to overcome public prejudices – it can be done, but its hard. The best person at it, ever, was Ronald Reagan. We’ll have to see if Palin can develope Reaganesque ability to re-shape public perceptions. But, be that as it may, Palin has shown why she rose so far and so fast – and still has a shot at the White House in 2012: she’s very, very smart.
And she’s made the left jump to her tune – that, in and of itself, will provide satisfaction when set against the slanders the left has launched against her.
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10 Responses to “The Palin Effect”
Caucus of Corruption
Uh, she didn’t. Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.
In which case credit should ultimately be given to Betsy McCaughey, not Sarah Palin.
Which is something that you, personally, support. Might I remind you that your explanation for why healthcare costs have gone up so much is that Medicare paid for too many things?
Not Nixon? Obviously posterity hasn’t remembered him fondly, but if I recall correctly his political career ended several times before he was finally elected president.
“Death Panels” did it – and I know our liberals still yank their hair in frustration…there was no such thing, they assert. After all, you can comb through the whole series of proposals and never find the phrase “death panel” mentioned.
Well, you can comb through the Constitution as well, and not find “separation of church and state” anywhere…
Sergei,
Yes, the Democrats can still force this thru – it’d be political suicide, because of “death panels” and other things, but they can still do it.
They also said that Reagan wasn’t responsible for the good things he did…but now that the full truth is coming out, what is emerging is that Reagan did it all…had all the ideas, had all the right grasp of practical politics, had all the courage to carry it through in the face of initial public opposition. Palin may very well be the “next Reagan” we’ve been searching for.
As for commissions – there’s a vast difference between writing a policy which is coverage for chronic and catastrophic illness and having a health care plan which allegedly covers everything, but which has a board of government bureaucrats deciding just what “everything” entails.
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It is endlessly amazing what they find in there and what they fail to see in there…
“….you can comb through the Constitution as well, and not find “separation of church and state” anywhere…” much less a “right to privacy”.
OR homosexual “marriage” and “hate” crimes.
Mark
you have to laugh….. W & Sarah = dummies
the empty suit with a one sentence resume = “brilliant”
what ever happened to the “smartest woman in the world” ?
she is cleaning toilets in the WH.
So … Bush was an idiot?
If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of TAX dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan’s holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have appproved?
If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?
If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent”Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?
If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current on their income taxes, would you
have approved?
If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the fourth of May
(Cuatro de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?
If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word advice would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as proof of what a dunce he is?
If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?
If George W. Bush’s administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually
get what happened on 911?
If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how he inept he is on his own and
is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?
If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans , would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue
with claims of racism and incompetence?
If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have
approved?
If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?
So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive?
Can’t think of anything? Don’t worry. He’s done all this in 5 months —
so we’ll have three years and seven months to come up with some answers.
Just so you know, this idea that Ronald Reagan was Jesus Christ’s role model is a little bit creepy. Reagan was a good president. He did not make God envious. He certainly didn’t have “all the ideas”. To cite just two examples, supply-side economics was concocted by Laffer, and the idea of arming the Mujahideen was, believe it or not, originally pushed by Jimmy Carter his Director of Central Intelligence, Stansfield Turner (though this alone would of course not have been enough to destroy the Soviets).
Sarah Palin would still be the Governor of Alaska if not for the religious bigot Mike Huckabee. Huckabee’s hatred of the Mormon religion and Mitt Romney, prompted him to give the W.Va. Republican
primary to John (I’ll reach across the aisle) McCain. This intelligent plain spoken, and yes attractive female makes Hillary Clinton look like a favorite of the “crypt keeper” TV host, and she scares the daylights our of the liberal left, and “good old boy” right.
Mike Hackabee might have won the conservative straw poll, but that is because he has somethat the same appeal as Obama except that he is using his Baptist religion to identify him as a liberal. Not all religions equate with a conservative mind set. But, the religious right can seem to draw the distinction.
Whether or not Sarah Palin is selected as the Republican standard bearer in 2012 or not, she should be made to look as if she will. This will drive the liberals totally nuts. They have failed to destroy her and continued effort to do so will only lead them to make stupid mistakes. Just because the Democrats don’t call their health evaluation panels “Death Panels” dose not mean that they do not fulfill that exact purpose. Sarah called it correctly and the left can’t stand being caught and identified as a threat to seniors. By the way, I am a senior that really appreciates Gov. Palin and want to see h put Obama in her electoral sights
Ooops! I forgot to double check my comments. So Huckabee is somewhat like Obama. He claims to be a conservative. The religious right can’t seem to make the distinction between religion and conservatism. There, that should correct my goofs!