Going Rouge
I went looking for a copy of Governor Sarah Palin book “Going Rogue” at the downtown Borders bookstore. I couldn’t find it. It wasn’t because they were sold out, but because I was looking in the fiction section.
More than 1,000 people gathered in Noblesville to see the former Vice-Presidential candidate and get signed copies of her book. I frankly don’t see what the big deal is. When in America did we start rooting for losers and quitters? On top of that take Sarah Palin out of politics, and what do you get? A middle-aged woman, with a Cohen Brothers accent, from the meth capital of Alaska, whose teenage daughter got knocked up by her boyfriend who’s now posing for Playgirl. These people either belong in a trailer park or Jerry Springer; not that there’s much difference.
I’ll even go a step further that if Sarah Palin was less attractive there’s no way she’d get the attention to the level that she does now, at least from a bunch of middle-age men who have some librarian fantasy that they’re holding over from high school.
And please spare the Obama diatribe that is about to follow. I tried reading the President’s book and really couldn’t get past page 46. It was wordy and self-serving, normally qualities I respect, but I had other things to do.
I’m sure Governor Palin will keep making the lecture circuit and speaking tours and make quite a nice bit of change doing it. I fully endorse her getting rich while doing it because the longer she stays on the road, the longer she stays away from politics.
Rico, Melyssa, Think Again, Pascal, Taxpayer you may begin…
November 20th, 2009 at 6:25 am
Abdul..you are way off on this one. I'm really starting to worry about you and your shift in ideology… This blog is going downhill
November 20th, 2009 at 6:29 am
Let me begin by saying: I have three daughters. I hope they can be whatever they want to be. We've raised them to be strong and independent, as well as smart. From day one, they were surrounded by books, including the Good Book, and they were encouraged to be inquisitive.
And, two of my best friends are strong-willed GOP women. We happily debate the issues of the day and learn from one another. At length. With facts. Some debates go on over multiple conversations and weeks.
All of which is why this Palin thing just baffles me. Folks who usually have high standards in the brains department, check their standards at the door when discussing Sarah.
It was a bold McCain move–perhaps the only smart move he made in his campaign. However: She's one-eighth inch thick and twelve miles wide.
I get the far-right neocon beliefs. She's entitled and that viewpoint needs a softer, gentler spokesperson. We're a better country when that viewpoint is brought to the national debate.
But I listened to this woman repeatedly last year, and during her current book tour. I'll give her this: she was unfairly hounded by the media. Her kids should've been off-limits.
But she wasn't qualified to be mayor of Wasilla. Let alone one heartbeat away. The woman lacks basic multi-tasking intellegence. Her history speaks volumes: four colleges in six years, razor-thin views on foreign policy. Most of her answers are 14-second soundbites. I know my view on this portion of her personality, will set me up for some to call me a “liberal elitist” or something akin. I wish it weren't so…I looked hard to find in her conservative views, the kind of intellectually challenging insight I got form Saffire, Buckley and Bob Novak, or continue to get from Emmitt Tyrell. Zippo. There's no “there” there.
I've reserved the book at the library, hoping against hope that her written tome is heftier than her spoken views. I pick it up tomorrow.
But so far, she's done what I thought was impossible–made Dan Quayle look brilliant.
I'll give her one more thing–she can hype a product. Damned fine book launch and tour. A-plus for the biz side on that one.
November 20th, 2009 at 6:31 am
My ideology hasn't shifted. I just have no paitience for Sarah Palin.
November 20th, 2009 at 6:51 am
Opinions are like anal orifaces in that most people have them and are entitled to them. I've read most of Sarah's book as it came in the mail yesterday. When you have read the book you will be considerably less ignorant. Too, you will have a better grounding for your opinion than your past sources of information. Of course, it's hard to figure why a putatively intelligent sorrt would be looking for her book in the fiction section even though her co-author is mentioned (she admits to having help writing her book which is more honest than some other recent folks in the news whose books were written by ghost (s)). Pascal is pleased to be singled out for praise in your opinion piece by being placed with such a group each of which would probably read a book before giving a book review of it.
November 20th, 2009 at 7:01 am
As far as I can see, she has not one redeeming quality, unless you count what my grandfather used to call ” A great set'o gams”. I agree with Think Again. She is entitled to believe in what ever she wants and even make millions on tour talking about it.
But what more evidence do you need that she was unqualified for elected office.
When she quit being Governor of Alaska, this we know is true:
Her party controlled both houses of the legislature
Her party is the dominant party in the state.
Her state had the most stable economy in the union.
Her state industry PAYS people to live there.
According to her publicist, shes the most popular elected official in that state. Sheesh.. it just doesn't get any easier than that!
What kind of person quits that? That is a serous question. What kind of person….. quits that? After that move, regardless of what you think of her ideals, I'd hope any reasonable person would understand how unqualified she is to be dog catcher, much less hold higher office. Set aside her ultra conservative social ideals (which we've seen she can not even instill in her own children), down home folk speak and winking, she clearly has no comprehension of foreign affairs or economic conditioning. Clearly out of step on her social views and by looking at Levi Johnson or her ex brother in law and these days John McCain, needs to work on her people skills. Come on now.. let it go. She is without a doubt a trainwreck.
November 20th, 2009 at 7:14 am
http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/11/sarah-palin-opra... Let me know of your interest in having Sarah on your show. I expect Sarah would do well with your format and your ratings would peak that day. I also ought to note that she was not an unknown quality before saving the McCain campaign. Human Events, a major source of things conservative, had her listed as one of their favorites months before the public had any inkling of her accomplishments. It is a pretty good weekly newspaper having awarded it's Man of the Year to Mike Pence recently. Given the choice she would probably go with Garrison's show, however, your very recent track record of saying ignorant things might be a turn off. Read her book, man up, and let us know how winter crow tastes.
November 20th, 2009 at 7:32 am
The “gams” comment was kinda silly. Her looks don't qualify or disqualify her for important public office. Can't we get away from those kinds of observations? I'd hoped so.
Pascal, I've read “Human Events.” It's a pathetic rag. And not very well-written at that.
For the neocon view, I prefer the WSJ. Or USNWR. Or for sheer humor, I listen to Hannity or OReilly. Can't do Beck any more…he's completely nuts.
But even though I can't hardly stomach Sarah, I gotta admit, that picture of her with Trig on the fornt page this morning was heart-warming. What a cute kid. And kids' emotions can't be dolled-up. He clearly loves momma.
Now, about that name, “Trig,” hmmmm…..sometimes I think mothers are still under the anesthetic when they name kids. He's gotta go life with that name, Sarah.
Trig was my LEAST-favorite subject in high school.
November 20th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Thanks for the written invitation. While I (& more than in the election) would still vote for her & McCain in a heartbeat versus the kamikazie we're riding now, I otherwise wouldn't want her for dogcatcher. Even factoring in a media tilt worthy of the Titanic's angle toward Davey Jones, she's deservedly toast after bailing a governorship mid-term without a big medical reason or something comparable. A caller nailed it in noting she and our President sharing some unpleasant “rock star” qualities, which unfortunately seem integral to most long-term political leadership. Both parties have crazy uncles they have to deal with in upcoming elections.
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely- Lord Acton
November 20th, 2009 at 8:46 am
The WSJ and USNWR is “neo-con?” I really hate how that word has been misued. “Neo” means “new.” The term originated to describe former liberal Demorats who became “new” conservatives because of the interventionist foreign policy pushed by Republicans to fight Communism. For example, see Jeanne Kirkpatrick among a host of others foreing policy gurus from that time frame.. Now people use “neo-conservative” to mean “very conservative.” That's not at all what “neo-conservative” means. I guess I have to give up the fight though. The word is going to be redefined whether I like it or not.
That's not to say some publications are not “neo conservative.” I'm just saying the term is being used too broadly.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:01 am
Cattie factoring in Palin comparisons, also “rationalize” consideration of the President's vacated Senate seat where he was once “present,” critical campaign support from a talk show host, site selection carping that tipped the Olympic vote to the human rights paradise of Rio (!?!), and, in common with everyone familial craziness, from Mom to Dad, one brother's recent tell his side of “all” book, an aunt fighting deportation, etc.; none of which would ever be featured on the Springer Show???
Trailer parks are western hemisphere villages of aluminum huts (rumored to be appalachian inspired); where fellow citizens live & pursue their vision of the American dream.
No one holds the President's good looks against HIM, which inspire doubtfully few “community organizer” fantasies.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:03 am
pogden, I think the problem is that term has evolved. Neo and Con. New conservative. as opposed to Old conservative. Old conservative: fiscally conservative and socially moderate.. See Ronald Regan, Barry Goldwater and my grandparents. New conservative or Neo, fiscally liberal (and somewhat irresponsible) and socially conservative. The definition hasn't changed, just what is new and what is old has.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:12 am
My copy should be in the mailbox today. I cant speak to the book because I have not read it. I like Palin, the book was $9.99, and I had a $100 credit on my Amazon account, so I bought it.
Evidently, even though Abdul has not read the book, he feels free to criticize it. That's typical of liberals.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Thanks for calling me a liberal Melyssa, especially when you know that's not true. That would be like me saying you gave up fighting the revolution because you were run out by the other members of your coalition.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Abdul's a liberal? Must've missed that. Just because Dan Burton thinks he is doesn't make it so.
I've got to agree, for the most part, with TA on this one. She's a darling of the far right, but for what reason I have no idea. She's failed to really tell us where she stands on issues that face the nation, and more than that, solutions that she thinks are worth pursuing. The interview I saw on Hannity was so short on substance. What would she do as President that Obama isn't? She said she'd create jobs rather than lose them.
Whoa, that blew my mind.
She's got a rock star quality to her, yes, I'll grant her that. But what's actually beneath the surface? Maybe in the coming months we'll learn that, but I don't think anyone can answer it at the moment.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:00 am
I didn't say Abdul is a liberal. Inferred his behavior is typical of liberals who often make judgements without knowing the facts, or in this case, reading the book.
I'm looking forward to reading the book. I think I'll take it to a downtown liberal hang out coffee shop and read it there for awhile tomorrow.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Interesting excerise would be to develop a check list of what is what now and would have been the list even 50 years ago. That is, what is it that a conservative believes in, a liberal, a “middle of the range” would have supported–fiscally, socially, etc….
One thing for sure we have raised name calling to interesting places but not likely much different than the time of the development of our nation's constitution.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:36 am
The book is worth reading. I am glad to see Melyssa making the same point about Abdul's ignorance….”judgements without knowing the facts…..” and Sarah's comments about the media are spot on. I'd quote them but why deny the pleasure of learning them firsthand. Reporters used to deal with facts back in the day. I wonder if I could get on her facebook page so as to keep up with unvarnished straight talk? Folks who form their opinions by listening to but the spin of one side are properly known as fools.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Well, I have to say that I differ than a number of others, here. First, I haven't read the book, so I can't speak to it. Secondly, though, I can understand the frustration behind some of the comments to where they are saying, “We don't have any proof that she has a clue of how to be a president!”
You're right. We don't know. She could be a nightmare as an executive much like the rest of our federal government right now…from both parties. And I'm looking for some shred of evidence that she (or anyone else!) has common sense about where we are as a country and how to save us from the financial horror-show that could be on the horizon.
Nevertheless, while t appears that the intent behind some of these comments has been, “strip away the political titles and all that's left is looks”, the tone behind these comments is decidedly sexist. A “librarian fantasy”? A “great set o' gams”? Are you kidding? Politics is, ideally, supposed to be more dignified than reducing a person to their looks, their gender, or their sex appeal. Shame….
It's been noted that she was a popular governor with popular policies in her home state. So, are we now saying that Americans in Alaska must be stupid to have elected her? Considering what people say about Indiana (seen the TV show “The Middle” lately?), aren't we the pot calling the kettle black? It's not like the rest of the country thinks that Indiana is the place to go for intelligent, well-reasoned thought and discussion.
Besides, no one would be taken seriously in saying that Bill Clinton was not a credible person to be elected president. I mean, after all, if you strip away the political titles and popular governorship, all you have left is a womanizing liar with an “aw-shucks” accent, an overly-ambitious, conniving, jilted wife, and a scheming brother-in-law all worthy of a used car dealership in po-dunk Arkansas. Sounds like an episode of Springer there, too….and a bit of a double-standard for those of you complaining about Palin. Did you really hate “Fargo” that much more than you did “Deliverance”?
Abdul, don't you find any credibility in the claim that Palin stepping down saved the state of Alaska from the mounting cost of defending against repeated ethics complaints? I'd like to know how many ethics complaints have been filed against what's left of her administration since she stepped down. After all, if it was about what was ethical, the complaints would still be pouring in at a good rate. But if it was about the person, they'd have significantly slowed or stopped. I honestly haven’t heard much about it since she stepped down.
I know….I might be a hopeless person for hoping that someone…ANYONE…could be as good as they appear to be. But I'm also a person who believes that our government is out of control and verging on absolute power and oligarchy. I'm postponing final judgment on Sarah Palin…but I'm not going to jump to conclusions without more study than seems to have been done here. The issue and my country deserves that much from me.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Abdul? Sorry about inferring you were a liberal. Didn't you vote for Obama?
November 20th, 2009 at 11:05 am
Evidently Palin is becoming the “Rouge Rogue,” since I have seen so many such references recently.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:31 am
I don't get the name 'Trig' either. I do know that most libs would have preferred that she'd killed the child. If she had, she'd be a hero to the left.
And it doesn't surprise me that Abdul doesn't get the attraction to Sarah Palin. (It seems the post was written by a bitchy woman, by the way.) But I guess Abdul's a bit of an enigma, being a conservative who supports the most radically left-wing president this nation could ever see. He's a rare find indeed!
And apparently it's not just the general public who roots for 'losers'. Barry names them to cabinet positions.
November 20th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
I'd recommend Henry's on East. There's something like an anarchist bookstore right next to it. Just off of East and Mass Ave.
November 20th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
There is informed opinion, uninformed opinion, and when discussing Palin's ideas and accomplishments I wonder if Abdul was drinking from the lamestream media? What facts has he upon which to base his above opinion? He started out correctly, looking for the book, and then fell on his face. So, what are the sources of your lame opinion? Have you got C BS on all day? http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29693...
November 20th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Until she writes a policy book, I don't really care. She comes across like more of the same neocon, pro-interventionist, maintain the (majority of) the status quo, government. We need someone revolutionary to start downsizing D.C.; not someone to maintain it.
She just doesn't strike me as someone who has independently studied free market economics, the impact of interventionist blowback, the roots of international terror, the history of big government administrations from Teddy Roosevelt, to Wilson, FDR, Johnson and GWB.
Until she quits playing the part of “nice looking soccer mom Governor from Alaska” and starts to talk about policy points, specifically in ways that deviate significantly from past administrations, she just seems like a “more of the same kind you're used to” Conservative.
I just don't see her getting in office and reducing the power of the Federal Reserve, killing off Carter's mandatory selective service registration, nuking four or five cabinet level departments, reigning in the CIA, ending price supports for the illicit drug trade, slashing the budget, telling the FCC to not muck with the Internet or any number of hundreds of other things that should be done.
We already have one “cult of personality” President, we don't need another.
November 20th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Henry's is exactly where I was thinking of going to read my rogue book. There is a GLBT bookstore next door.
November 20th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Sean, I fully agree. Her rhetoric sounds very similar to GWB in his primary 2000 candidacy. And look what that got us. Two wars without a declaration of war from Congress, funding for those wars circumventing any actual budget and piles on straight to the national debt*, and one of the worst government agencies possibly in history, the TSA which now runs security at airports (a scary thought indeed).
*2.7 trillion by 2017, mostly due to the wars being financed entirely on borrowed money: http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idU...
November 20th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Rico, you are one sick ticket. To think that anyone would favor killing a child, Liberal or otherwise, is insane. You are exactly what's wrong with this country. Perhaps if you NEO CON right wing nut jobs can take time to come off your perch from which you shoot abortion doctors, and spend a bit more time trying to PREVENT unwanted pregnancies you'd find fewer supporting that which you oppose. Its amazing to me that you are the same people who oppose sex ed, responsible parenting classes and raising the minimum wage to a living wage, among other things.. all that would vastly affect the abortion rate. This black and white, right and wrong world you live in is a fantasy. Just because people disagree with you does not make them the horned devils you would like to paint them. You have obviously never had to stand with a woman who has had to make the anguishing decision.
Rather than demonizing liberals, your time would be better spent going out and creating the world you would like to see. Adopt a child or foster a few, deliver food to inner city families, help stock a food pantry, buy some school uniforms for kids or a myriad of other acts of kindness for those less fortunate. But you dont, do you? How do I know? Because people like you never do. You're too busy making horned devils out of the Godless heathens to be bothered. It's always the liberals who are out doing those things..
I'll tell you this.. you may want to take a good hard look in the mirror my friend.. for no one can say they love God when they have such obvious contempt for their fellow man.
November 20th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
As much as I enjoy the back and forth, it's perfectly clear that some of you folks are in need of a life.
November 20th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Wow. I'm just curious. Do you know Rico? And do you know if he favors sex-ed? Do you know what his volunteer activities are? Do you even know he is a Christian or any of the things you say?
Are you saying christians are only conservative and not liberal?
I'm a conservative and I give money to schools and school teachers. I help young women who are single with kids by giving them money sometimes. I do volunteer work.
I'm pro choice and I admire Sarah Palin very much.
Honey, sounds like you are the one stereotyping Rico.
Do you love God? For it sure sounds like you have a great deal of contempt for RICO and others you stereotype along with him.
November 20th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Actually, the libs that are generally only charitable with other people's money. Just look how much Barry and Joe donated to charity. Do I condone shooting abortion doctors? No. Do I lose sleep when someone does? No. Incidentally, it is your president that thought it was okay to allow a baby who survived an abortion to die—not a fetus, but a baby.
And, by the way, how's that minimum wage hike working out for teens in America? It's not. Teen unemployment is at 50%. You libs are consistently wrong on virtually everything.
November 20th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
You forgot to mention…she is hot!
November 20th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Hey, your blog, Chief. Getting off Sarah Palin and the 865th post on smoking sounds great to me.
November 20th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
How do you know that Palin wouldn‘t be a good VP. She has more experience in government than our sitting President.
Who is to say that her being one breath away would be any worst than what we have in brain dead Biden.
I think she would have done just fine considering what we have now.
And besides….she’s hot!
November 20th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Guest I've stood with three women who made that decision. Don't consider for a minute that I was the father. All three came to me years later and told me that they made the wrong choice and that they were sorry that they didn't consider the options.
Few who choose abortion are sure that they made the right choice.
And don't think for a second that Liberals hold title to “Adopt a child or foster a few, deliver food to inner city families, help stock a food pantry, buy some school uniforms for kids or a myriad of other acts of kindness for those less fortunate” conservatives participate also and they usually do it under the radar without expecting an acknowledgment. Your suggesting otherwise is disgusting.
November 20th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Ernie? I might not be remembering right, but I could swear I've heard or seen studies that show that conservatives are far more likely to roll up their sleeves and volunteer than are liberals. I could swear I've also heard that they give more in charitable donations than liberals.
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AND…aren't the liberal democrats the richest politicians per capita? How did they get their money? Capitalism?
November 20th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
I think you overall would agree with me, Ernie, that ideally a qualification to be POTUS shouldn't be “Well at least they don't suck as much like [insert administration here]“.
Unlike many others on both sides of the isle, she wasn't running during the POTUS primary in 08 so we have no idea where she stands on any of the issues. She'd do well to sit down with someone like Newt Gingrich or Karl Rove so she can put forth some actual policy, that is if she's interested in running for POTUS or a spot in the RNC.
Personally, I think just on her rock star quality alone, she could have a job-for-life in the RNC or a conservative think tank of her choice. Anything more, the people wil lneed to know what her politics are besides, well, not Obama.
November 20th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
I think Abdul is pouting that he did not get an interview
November 20th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Abdul? You did try to get an interview, didn't you?
November 20th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
No local media in Grand Rapids, Fort Wayne or Indianapolis were given access to Sarah Palin for interviews.
Not even Abdul !
November 20th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Come to think about it. Obama is POTUS. Did he write a policy book? I suspect we'll see one from Palin before we ever will from Obama. My Palin book did arrive today. I hope to read the whole book this weekend.
Sean? Speaking of books, Ron Heilman sent me the Fair Tax books to give to Carlos May and I handed them off to AJ, his campaign manager, this week. AJ is sharp and says Carlos May should be able to read them over Thanksgiving and let us know if he'll pledge to support the Fair Tax.
November 20th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
from the Indy Channel:
“At least 300 people who waited in line for hours to meet former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in Noblesville left without a signed copy of her book, Borders confirmed Friday.
The former Alaska governor visited the Borders store at Hamilton Town Center Thursday evening as part of a book tour for her new memoir, “Going Rogue.” The store handed out 1,000 wristbands for the event early Thursday, saying those with wristbands would have their books signed, unless “unforeseen circumstances” arose.
But when the event wrapped up at 9 p.m., 300 people were still standing in line. Many supporters said they felt snubbed.
“I’m very disappointed. I think it was very rude. She could have at least apologized, and she didn’t even do that,” said Teresa Hedrick.
“We gave up our entire workday, stayed in the cold. My kids were crying,” said one man. “They went home with my wife. She was out here in the freezing cold all day. I feel like I don’t want to support Sarah.”
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…Still, some fans said they planned to return their copies of “Going Rogue.”
“We bought two books from Borders to have our receipt and our wristband to get it signed,” one woman said. “My books are going back to Borders tomorrow.”Davis said the store would accept returns of the book.
November 20th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
I understand that Obama's book lies dead on the shelves of most libraries. I saw some copies on the 90% off table at a bookstore in Chicago a few weeks back.
November 20th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
and they all seem to be agitated today wilson
November 20th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Your right I do agree with you on this subject.
I don't know what Palin's foreign policy or experience is if any, but… it has to be better than bowing to and kissing the hand of foreign kings.
November 20th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
So Sean who are you suggesting fits all your criteria above that will be running for POTUS in the near future?
November 20th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Mel, I've never met a liberal who didn't put their needs and wants before the needs of those who were truly in need.
I will bet you a dollar to a doughnut that conservatives provide more to the needy than do liberals.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Stone and Sean need to get off their duffs and read the book. Action is policy. Podunk states like Georgia and Arkansas have placed do nothing incompetents in the Presidency (Quickly, write down all the useful things either dolt did in his State). That was easier than writing down all their foreign policy experiences as governors of podunk states. Read Mitch's book should he ever write one and you will see that actions correctly done defeat policy wonks who usually just sit around on their large duffs and jaw. Palin has more executive and administrative experience than the POTUS and the VICE POTUS combined. She isn't brain dead or a congenital liar either. When you list out State governors who actually accomplish things and have very high approval ratings, Mitch and Sarah are in the top tier.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
PASCAL…all new respect for you! Tell it!
November 20th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Hey….isn't Chicago and California broke? Is Alaska broke? Maybe Sarah quitting protected Alaska from being broke from bull&*%# lawsuits.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
No, but he did run a campaign where his policy was, in theory, explained. And any faults for not explaining his policy is his. A VP, especially during the campaign, is there to pretty much agree with the Presidential nominee, so what was said by her in 2008 can't necessarily be applied. See HW Bush's reversal on what he once called “Voodoo economics”.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
For being one of the most Republican states in the union, Alaska wouldn't exist as it does today without the massive amount of support it gets from the federal government.
http://www.stateline.org/live/ViewPage.action?s...
November 20th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Why?
Action is policy? Okay, what actions have shown her policies?
Trying to change the subject and make your pro-Palin and Anti-Democrat rant doesn't exactly help your case. All that shows is you don't like Democrats. It says absoultely nothing about the supposed policies of Palin that I've somehow missed.
I had the honor to meet Daniels back in the late part of the 2000 campaign. I don't agree with him on everything, but I think he's honest and I know where he stands.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Not only does Palin's bizarre dysfunctional family belong in the trailer park, I think her voice is shrill. It is almost the sound of chalk on a blackboard……….let alone that most of what she says is not even true. I loved the scenes from Hamilton County of her supporters booing her and calling her names as her fancy tour bus sped away leaving hundreds of them without the autographed books that they had been promised. It has made the national news.
November 21st, 2009 at 12:08 am
[...] Indiana Barrister posts about the phenomenon that is former vice presidential candidate and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. [...]
November 21st, 2009 at 12:23 am
I turned on the blog.
November 21st, 2009 at 3:33 am
I teach on Thursdays. My students' education is a lot more important than Sarah.
November 21st, 2009 at 7:54 am
So much crap, so little time.
I read two chapters of her book last night; my library reserve copy was ready early. The Glendale librarian told me their 12 copies are coming back quickly with a lot of complaints about “no substance.” I'll withhold judgment on her writing style until finished. But so far the substance is, uh, slight.
Paul–you wondered about neocons and the definitions thereof. I consider the WSJ's editorial page to be just slightly right of neocon…most others do, too. Ditto USNWR, aka the GOP House Organ. They've eschewed the straight-line conservative thinkers, ala Goldwater and his followers, for the neocon rush-to-war testosterone-driven crowd, Cheney, Scooter, the former World Bank head whose name now escapes me who had the ethical compass of a jackal… et al. I read WSJ 3-4 times a week…the Friday WSJ is especially good.
Melyssa, love ya a bunch, but if you think bullshit lawsuits are breaking up America, you need a fact-check. Yeah, I want tort reform too. But 34 states already have medical malpractice caps. Like Indiana. Indiana's has been in place since 1974, under Dr. Bowen as governor. You know, the conservative Republilcan who doubled our sales tax.
I'm with Matthew so far. I'm trying to get some policy tidbits from her book. So far, the book is just like her campaign–a series of 7-14 second soundbites.
The one chance she had to show us how she would govern was screwed up from the get-go. She served half of an elected gubernatorial term. And don't give me that “they hounded her to death so she had to leave” crapolla. How do you think she'd have been hounded as VP? During her term she diminished the budget surplus which is hard to do in a state where mandated oil payments ot citizens damned near float the whole budget. She also carried out petty vendettas against political or personal enemies. Which cost the state plenty, because unlike Indiana, there's a pretty ferocious state ethics complaint process in Alaska. Any citizen can file a complaint–and quite a few did. You can't go around firing your brother-in-law because he's divorcing your family.
She got out because every damned one of those ethical complaints had teeth.
She governed Alaska poorly. Kinda like another GOP “superstar,” Ahh-nold has governed the left coast.
Trickle-down doesn't work if the trickled-on aren't working.
November 21st, 2009 at 8:15 am
Personality only goes so far in politics. Just ask Pence.
November 21st, 2009 at 9:12 am
“Stone and Sean need to get off their duffs and read the book” and TA can spare us book reviews until he (slow reader) has finished the remaining 2/3's of the book and contemplated his prejudices. Although the book does not mention it, I think Sarah majored in journalism. I also think it instructive to dolts that she resigned a job paying $124,000 plus over principle. Sometimes you have to instruct the barely educated that resignation is a different word than quitting-See Cyrus Vance's actions as those of a man having honor. And, for fools note bene, Pascal is a lifetime registered Democrat. Most of the folks in Alaska prisons due to Sarah's efforts were Republicans and it is a long list of legislators and administrators. I'm sure anyone with stones could fill a prison in Indiana with similar crooks.
November 21st, 2009 at 9:35 am
Pascal, your Vance citation surprised me. Attaboy. Add Elliott Richardson to that list. And our own Bill Ruckelshaus…well, kinda.
Slow reader? More like a reading chore. This book is like bamboo under my fingernails. Three more chapters done, in between working on quarterly income taxes…if this woman, or her co-writer, majored in anything remotely resembling writing, they need to get their money back. Wretched writing style. She writes like she talks–pathetic short sound bites that don't seem coherent when viewed together.
But pray tell, what principle was involved in her resignation? Is that hidden in a later chapter of this sophomoric prose? The principle of circling buzzards? I thought conservatives did the tough work, stuck it out…
November 21st, 2009 at 9:46 am
Once again, you provide a whole post but not an actual reason to read the book. Seriously, what person who isn't interested in Palin's personal life journey have to read this book? What reason would someone outside of the choir have to read this?
Palin did major in journalism, but writing as a journalist is different than the writing someone would do for a book. That doesn't mean those trained in journalism can't be good writers in other formats, but in my experience, it's hard to break the habit.
I don't know who you're referring to while talking about her resignation. Neither TA, Sean, or myself have said she quit as governor. The only person who did was Guest and Abdul.
I'm guessing you don't live in Indiana, since Indiana does not have party registration.
November 21st, 2009 at 10:54 am
There's nothing so sacrosanct about public sector gigs (US Senate, Governor, etc.), that people can't leave them in the hands of succession, for other jobs. “Quitters” leave jobs to become: POTUS, CEO's of a private sector companies, Mom, Dad, etc.
Except for a horse or two, few complain when the stall cleaner leaves the stables for another “opportunity.”
Structurally embedded, systemic & rampant corruption, have fouled the “high calling of public service.” Destruction of liberty is nothing less than the destruction of life, of flesh. The smell of manure is far preferable to the gangrene rot of our republic.
The nation's crapitol is full of… “professional” legislators, and look at the results- not. “Professionals,” would guarantee or expand, & not threaten our liberties, right? It's the vomitribe of “professionals” that's given us lawerly, predatorial & dehumanizing tyranny; rather than neighborly government that people recognize as fair.
Originally a four page document, the Constitution was written for EVERY CITIZEN and not one particular profession, has promoted liberty within our republic & throughout the world, for over two hundred years. Criticism of the founders should contextually account for the times unto which they were born, their enlightenment & awareness, that “all men were created equal” would convey genuine debate & purpose, beyond the cultural vagaries of their time. What will we do, in these imperfect times unto which we've been born?
Now, a two-thousand page plus document, which a majority of its proponents have NOT READ, people who abuse the term “representative,” proposes a takeover the world's finest health care system & therefore destruction of our liberty & republic; without our consent. If public sector “professionals” are manufactured at places like Harvard & Yale; where do “they” manufacture enlightenment, or is that just too passe (read: unhip)?
November 21st, 2009 at 11:28 am
Your daughters must be really proud of your treatment of this woman. I still contend that if she was pro-choice, your view (and the view of all lefties) of her would be quite different. How dare she value the life of an unborn child?
And at least she doesn't claim to write a book that she clearly didn't, as our Narcissist in Chief did–twice!
November 22nd, 2009 at 12:05 am
Abdul: This is just not right. We seem to both have the same reaction to Sarah. Expected from me, but you? The Republic party has no room for reason or reality, or did you not get that memo either?
Moderates, such as yourself, are not needed nor wanted in the G.O.P. Please, let's keep the Republic party ideologicaly pure. It is proper protocol to drink the Kool-Aid provided by the party. I see that you haven't. (I think it's grape, try it)
I whole-heartedly support Sarah in her bid to be the face of the Republic party and am looking forward to her 2012 run for the oval office. Hopefully, she will do so on a third-party ticket.
Once again, please do not try to interject rationality into the issue, nor cloud the discussion with facts, it will only make you look sane, and as such, undermine the G.O.P.'s stratergery.
November 22nd, 2009 at 6:03 am
Finished.
The book actually got better, style-wise, as it went. My overall grade would be C-. Slightly below average for such tomes. And I've read most of them–from President Obama's book, to the recently-released Reagan diaries/letters (which were touching and humble).
Yeah, Rico, I am very proud of my daughters, and vice-versa. We've raised strong, independent young women. Two of them view abortion differently than me, one agrees.
Two could vote last year, and both voted for President Obama. The last daughter can vote next year, and she promises me she can't wait to vote against won't Sen. Bayh. My only admonition to her was, to try to find someone to vote “for.” She's working on that.
So, you, see, diversity of opinion can occur…if you allow free-spirited debate and encourage open discussion.
Minds, like doors, don't work when they're closed.
November 22nd, 2009 at 6:04 am
sorry..omit the “wont” above…
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:46 am
“She got out because every damned one of those ethical complaints had teeth.” Having “finished” the book, TA, would you care to man up and confess total error on this quote of yours? Or, are you going to do another memory lapse like you did on Senator Kennedy's No Child Left Behind Act. “In mid December, 2008, Sarah Palin's Wasilla Bible Church was firebombed, causing $1,000,000.00 in damages”.
November 28th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Well, it is a long time past 5 days waiting for a TA retraction but when you are 100% wrong it's difficult to spin an answer? And, when you are a girlie man in costume of intellectual it's tough to confess error? When confronted with the truth and you not in possession of it the honorable thing to do is to just admit error and that you were talking thru your hat. It's not hard to do after you get used to the pursuit of truth as an avocation and you can regain the respect of honest people when you confess to an honest error or even in your case, a dishonest one.
November 29th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Well, it is a long time past 5 days waiting for a TA retraction but when you are 100% wrong it's difficult to spin an answer? And, when you are a girlie man in costume of intellectual it's tough to confess error? When confronted with the truth and you not in possession of it the honorable thing to do is to just admit error and that you were talking thru your hat. It's not hard to do after you get used to the pursuit of truth as an avocation and you can regain the respect of honest people when you confess to an honest error or even in your case, a dishonest one.