{"id":12341,"date":"2009-07-08T07:48:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T12:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12341"},"modified":"2009-07-08T09:06:35","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T14:06:35","slug":"simon-the-sins-of-sarah-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12341","title":{"rendered":"Simon: The sins of Sarah Palin"},"content":{"rendered":"

BooRadley sent me a link to Roger Simon’s hillarious piece yesterday entitled “The Sins of Sarah Palin<\/a>“. I hope Republicans are paying attention to the caricatures they’ve become. Here’s a sample;<\/p>\n

The Republican Party likes to nominate the next guy in line. John McCain in 2008, George W. Bush in 2000 and Bob Dole in 1996 were all the next guys in line. They had \u201cearned\u201d their place in the party hierarchy. (Or, in the case of George W. Bush, his father had earned it for him.)<\/p>\n

Today, it is hard to see who the next guy in line is, but the party mandarins, the pooh-bahs, are agreed on one thing: Sarah Palin ain\u2019t it.<\/p>\n

She is a dumb hick, a nobody from nowhere. She hunts moose with a chainsaw from the back of a snowmobile or something. Just listen to her resignation speech. It was not slick or polished or written by somebody else. She appeared to deliver it off the top of her head as if she were a real person. What a doofus!<\/p>\n

Doesn\u2019t she know that the highest form of political communication today is to exactly regurgitate a speech written for you by a speechwriter who has crafted, vetted and polled every phrase, line and word? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Me? I’m pulling for Governor Palin. Not because she’s particularly electable, not because she’s a woman…but because the Republican Party needs to change. Is Sarah Palin the change we need? She can’t hurt. It’s time we started electing our own candidates instead of asking the media and Democrats who they support first. <\/p>\n

Ronald Reagan was that kind of candidate. When he was defeated in the primaries by Gerald Ford (who the media told us we should run against Jimmy Carter), Reagan kept the pressure on Carter on every issue from the Panama Canal to the Iran hostages to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to the boycott of the Moscow Olympics. He became the Anti-Carter. The media knew Reagan could win against Carter, so they discouraged us from voting for him by using the same tactic they used against Goldwater a decade and a half before – fear.<\/p>\n

I’m not saying that Sarah Palin is the next Ronald Reagan – that remains to be seen, if we give her a shot at trying keeping our minds wide open.<\/p>\n

If you look at Palin’s principles, she’s a conservative right down the line – the kind of candidate that we’d all vote for – if we could get the media and the Democrats to approve of her.<\/p>\n

Um, but they won’t approve. They’d rather write crap like this from Fkstick Kathleen Parker at the Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, getting real, can we stop pretending that Palin is interested in anything other than her own ambition?<\/p>\n

Can we also stop nodding assent every time she says the media are to blame for her self-inflicted wounds? The media invented Sarah Palin. Before the media shined their light on those no-place-like-home slippers, does anyone recall ever wondering what a governor of Alaska was up to? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Show me one line in that paragraph that couldn’t be attributed to Barack Obama just as easily as Palin. But, Fkstick Parker wouldn’t dare pen lines like that about Barack Obama. Who runs our party anyway? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BooRadley sent me a link to Roger Simon’s hillarious piece yesterday entitled “The Sins of Sarah … Simon: The sins of Sarah Palin<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-mccain","category-liberals-suck","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}