1. Oldschool, you post crap like this and then act all indignant when we call you what you have become, a water boy for the left. Man up and and just admit you are a leftist now.
2. I don’t remember any of this left wing scaredy-cat talk when Obama was running from debating McCain in a town hall format without his precious teleprompter.
3. I couldn’t care less what Frum thinks.
Three things:
1. I don’t think this is crap. I’ve been accused of using only “leftist” opinions. David Frum is no leftist, and the NRO is not a leftist website. How about you man up and just admit that there are actual conservative Republicans who hold different opinions?
When is Obama going to have all those debate he said he would be glad to have anytime anywhere? He’s got two months to have about 3, that’s usual. Better get cracking.
There is some truth in what Frum stated about the Bush administration. They chose silence at every turn and that hurt them a great deal.
Early on I understood, but as time went on I got pi$$ed off. A balance should have been struck between taking the high road/not lowering themselves to the level of the scum-sucking socialists, and promoting and defending policy. It didnt happen and they alienated a great many who would and could have done much of their bidding for them.
I dont however, see how that relates to the issue of the McCain camp refusing to subject Gov. Palin to the drooling fools that make up the bulk of the media. They have a message to put out. It is of the utmost importance that they present a consistently clear message and do whatever it takes to not allow it to get sidetracked or derailed.
Patience! It will become clear to all that she can skillfully address anything and everything throw at her with her telepromtor tied behind her back!
OK, time to put this latest desperate lie to bed. h/t to Captain Ed at Hot Air, who received a copy of the Saturday schedule for McCain and Palin. Read it and weep:
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Colorado and New Mexico
10:00am Media Interview
10:30am Satellite into AARP Convention
11:30am Media Interview
12:30pm MT “The Road to Victory Rally”
Colorado Springs, CO
1:45pm MT Depart Colorado
2:50pm MT Arrive NM
3:30pm MT Media Interviews
7:00pm MT “The Road to Victory Rally”
Albuquerque Convention Center
That’s three (3) media ops in one day. As we say here in NH, that’s not too shabby.
I think we will hear more from her at and after the debate with Biden. Then she will be able to take her case to the American voter directly. The press wont have the luxury of editing her comments with all of us listening.
They will however try and spin them,and that wont come easily because it’s the Voters that make the choice. That task wont be left in the MSM hands any longer.
What is funny here is the way that the left is almost maniacal about Palin. Given all the frenzy about her, it is hard to believe that she was only selected by McCain eight days ago. In the meantime she has had her family savagely attacked, her record viciously distorted, her religion spat upon and at the same time gave a speech that upset the race for President that no could have anticipated. Not a bad week. Yet the libbies keep wanting to drive the narrative about her, never mind that they are looking more and more like Wile E. Coyote to Palin’s Roadrunner.
So keep it up libies! Palin can take what you dish out with style and grace and at the same time make you look like a pack of fools. Incidentally, have you guys considered what this is doing to your candidate’s professed image as a candidate promoting a new kind of politics? More and more it looks like he is resorting to the Chicago gutter politics that he claims to abhor.
McCain/Palin is staying on a message of reform and your guy is way off of his. The wheels are not off his campaign yet, but somebody better be looking for a tire iron.
1. I don’t think this is crap. I’ve been accused of using only “leftist” opinions. David Frum is no leftist, and the NRO is not a leftist website. How about you man up and just admit that there are actual conservative Republicans who hold different opinions?
2. You have the memory of a goldfish.
3. Obviously.
1. Regardless of the source, it’s still anti Republican, which is all you post.
2. Then perhaps you can refresh my “goldfish” memory where a leftist here criticized Obama for dodging town hall debates with McCain?
1. I don’t think this is crap. I’ve been accused of using only “leftist” opinions. David Frum is no leftist, and the NRO is not a leftist website. How about you man up and just admit that there are actual conservative Republicans who hold different opinions?
2. You have the memory of a goldfish.
3. Obviously.
1. Regardless of the source, it’s still anti Republican, which is all you post.
2. Then perhaps you can refresh my “goldfish” memory where a leftist here criticized Obama for dodging town hall debates with McCain?
I value executive skill more than most conservatives do I think. Some NRO readers seem to imagine it’s just a matter of having the right convictions and sticking by them. I think it is way more complicated than that. A good executive requires convictions yes. And backbone agreed. But a good executive needs a solid floor of background knowledge so that he / she can sift sense from nonsense in policy proposals. A good executive must be willing to listen to a wide range of views, including some that are not immediately acceptable. A good executive must have a sense of timing: avoiding the equal evils of haste and procrastination. A good executive must have the power to explain and defend his / her actions to a wide variety of audiences, from the largest to the most specialized.
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We are talking about a particular set of decision-making skills - and there is NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER that Palin possesses them. Worse, from my point of view, is the assumption that because she is a conservative Christian that she therefore has intelligent conservative views on every other subject, from what to do with Fannie Mae to what to do about Iran. That’s a greater leap of faith than I can make.
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George W. Bush had very slight executive experience before becoming president. His views were not well known. He won the nomination exactly in the same way that Palin has won the hearts of so many conservatives: by sending cultural cues to convince them that he was one of them, understood them, sympathized with them. So that made everything else irrelevant in 2000 - as it seems again to be doing in 2008. I do credit George W. Bush with great feats of leadership. In particular, I think his refusal to quit Iraq in 2005-2006 when everybody was urging him to, his insistence on fighting through to success, will be seen as a triumph of strength and conviction that saved the US from potential disaster. But he lacked other important aspects of leadership which is how we got into the mess from which he needed to rescue the country and himself.
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Again let me stress: I am not denying that Sarah Palin may have great skills. She may well. I am insisting that neither you, nor I, nor John McCain has any valid reason to believe that she does. This is not an argument about the attributes she lacks. It’s an argument about the information we lack. I am pleading with my fellow conservatives: Please demand more and better knowledge before you commit yourselves to a political leader.
I value executive skill more than most conservatives do I think. Some NRO readers seem to imagine it’s just a matter of having the right convictions and sticking by them. I think it is way more complicated than that. A good executive requires convictions yes. And backbone agreed. But a good executive needs a solid floor of background knowledge so that he / she can sift sense from nonsense in policy proposals. A good executive must be willing to listen to a wide range of views, including some that are not immediately acceptable. A good executive must have a sense of timing: avoiding the equal evils of haste and procrastination. A good executive must have the power to explain and defend his / her actions to a wide variety of audiences, from the largest to the most specialized.
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We are talking about a particular set of decision-making skills - and there is NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER that Palin possesses them. Worse, from my point of view, is the assumption that because she is a conservative Christian that she therefore has intelligent conservative views on every other subject, from what to do with Fannie Mae to what to do about Iran. That’s a greater leap of faith than I can make.
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George W. Bush had very slight executive experience before becoming president. His views were not well known. He won the nomination exactly in the same way that Palin has won the hearts of so many conservatives: by sending cultural cues to convince them that he was one of them, understood them, sympathized with them. So that made everything else irrelevant in 2000 - as it seems again to be doing in 2008. I do credit George W. Bush with great feats of leadership. In particular, I think his refusal to quit Iraq in 2005-2006 when everybody was urging him to, his insistence on fighting through to success, will be seen as a triumph of strength and conviction that saved the US from potential disaster. But he lacked other important aspects of leadership which is how we got into the mess from which he needed to rescue the country and himself.
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Again let me stress: I am not denying that Sarah Palin may have great skills. She may well. I am insisting that neither you, nor I, nor John McCain has any valid reason to believe that she does. This is not an argument about the attributes she lacks. It’s an argument about the information we lack. I am pleading with my fellow conservatives: Please demand more and better knowledge before you commit yourselves to a political leader.
This is too simple a tactic. WHEN YOU HAVE NO FACTS NO INFORMATION TO BASE A DECISION ON AND ESPECIALLY NO DIRT ON YOUR ENEMY THE ANSWER IS CREATE DOUBT!!!
You can’t come up with a single point use DOUBT. Doubt is the only thing you have not facts and no proof of anything.
This is the weakest attack yet. But OLD SCHOOL is all too willing to buy in. Conservative my A$$ your a troll.
I value executive skill more than most conservatives do I think. Some NRO readers seem to imagine it’s just a matter of having the right convictions and sticking by them. I think it is way more complicated than that. A good executive requires convictions yes. And backbone agreed. But a good executive needs a solid floor of background knowledge so that he / she can sift sense from nonsense in policy proposals. A good executive must be willing to listen to a wide range of views, including some that are not immediately acceptable. A good executive must have a sense of timing: avoiding the equal evils of haste and procrastination. A good executive must have the power to explain and defend his / her actions to a wide variety of audiences, from the largest to the most specialized.
Which party’s candidates have the most executive experience?
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We are talking about a particular set of decision-making skills - and there is NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER that Palin possesses them.
“No Evidence”???PUUUHHHHHHLEEEEEEEAAAAASE!! How about her dealings with BIG OIL???
Worse, from my point of view, is the assumption that because she is a conservative Christian that she therefore has intelligent conservative views on every other subject, from what to do with Fannie Mae to what to do about Iran. That’s a greater leap of faith than I can make.
Who has this assumption other than the left and elitists???
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George W. Bush had very slight executive experience before becoming president. His views were not well known. He won the nomination exactly in the same way that Palin has won the hearts of so many conservatives: by sending cultural cues to convince them that he was one of them, understood them, sympathized with them. So that made everything else irrelevant in 2000 - as it seems again to be doing in 2008.
Cultural cues??? The 1st and 2nd Amendments are ‘cultural cues’?
I do credit George W. Bush with great feats of leadership. In particular, I think his refusal to quit Iraq in 2005-2006 when everybody was urging him to, his insistence on fighting through to success, will be seen as a triumph of strength and conviction that saved the US from potential disaster. But he lacked other important aspects of leadership which is how we got into the mess from which he needed to rescue the country and himself.
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Again let me stress: I am not denying that Sarah Palin may have great skills. She may well. I am insisting that neither you, nor I, nor John McCain has any valid reason to believe that she does.
So close your eyes and intellect to her accomplishments as a state governor because Alaska has such a small population and is insignificant to the security of the lower 48 because it is sooooo lacking in anything that the rest of the country needs. This is not an argument about the attributes she lacks. It’s an argument about the information we lack. I am pleading with my fellow conservatives: Please demand more and better knowledge before you commit yourselves to a political leader. This is the only statement of the blog that has any merit. Obviously, the American public has done more research than Frum; and the American public is demanding more which is precisely why she is garnering so much attention. media is doing their ever-hatin’ best to assassinate her.
A bit of an ‘elitist bent isn’t it??? Of course it is a ‘blog entry’ and not a regular column, it was posted at 0900 this AM, maybe not enough coffee yet, maybe was still in non-conservative ‘jammies’ and just hadn’t put on the ‘conservative’ hat yet.
