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Look, I know most of you will write this off as "another liberal scared of Palin because she has a legitimate chance at the presidency."
Before you make any judgements, let me say a few words.
I'm a pro-life Catholic who believes in social justice.
Now, Sarah Palin makes an excellent pundit. She is great when it comes to repeating the party talking points and criticizing Obama. She's also great at portraying herself as a victim of the media.
But I don't see what she has that actually proves herself worthy of the highest office in the world. Just because you agree with her on some pressing issues doesn't mean she'd make a great president. I agree with my neighbor on almost everything, but I wouldn't vote for him because I think the Office negates a high amount of intellect and leadership quality that I don't find in him. I find even less in Palin.
When someone becomes President, they become President of AMERICA, not the President of REPUBLICAN.
Will she continue to claim that those who are for certain legislation aren't real Americans? That they don't love their country, and hate freedom?
Please, someone tell me what she sees in her over, say, Mitt Romney?
I leave with her words from one of her few interviews she's been in.
Really good questions you pose. I have already established myself as a Palin critic on these forums but I would love to see a no holds barred list of what people truly see in her. It seems quite clear to me that Palin admirers are viciously protective of her and I have never really understood that. Sort of like blind faith. Watching that short video again I marvel at how she mentions she has a vast appreciation for the press. I feel like what we have seen of Palin "relating with the press" over the pass several months shows anything but a "vast appreciation." Why should she appreciate them? The media loves to target her just as she herself, ever savvy with new media, loves to blast her voice and revel in whoever is out there to listen, mostly her following in the Lower 48. Clearly, she was done in Alaska a while ago.
All that said, I do plan to read her book. Glimpsed a few pages and it looks interesting. She does fine for herself staying out of office. The America that loves her, loves her in the role where she is right now.
Bill O'Reilly: Do you believe you're intellectual enough to handle the most powerful office in the world?
Palin: I believe that I am because I have common sense and values....
WHAT? Common Sense? Is that all you need to qualify for the most Powerful position in the world? COMMON sense?
Please, Palin lovers, tell me this is all a joke.
Look, I know most of you will write this off as "another liberal scared of Palin because she has a legitimate chance at the presidency."
Before you make any judgements, let me say a few words.
I'm a pro-life Catholic who believes in social justice.
Now, Sarah Palin makes an excellent pundit. She is great when it comes to repeating the party talking points and criticizing Obama. She's also great at portraying herself as a victim of the media.
But I don't see what she has that actually proves herself worthy of the highest office in the world. Just because you agree with her on some pressing issues doesn't mean she'd make a great president. I agree with my neighbor on almost everything, but I wouldn't vote for him because I think the Office negates a high amount of intellect and leadership quality that I don't find in him. I find even less in Palin.
When someone becomes President, they become President of AMERICA, not the President of REPUBLICAN.
Will she continue to claim that those who are for certain legislation aren't real Americans? That they don't love their country, and hate freedom?
Please, someone tell me what she sees in her over, say, Mitt Romney?
I leave with her words from one of her few interviews she's been in.
I think there's a few reason why her followers are so loyal to her.
1. The far right loves to claim that there's a huge media bias against conservatives. She uses this to her advantage every chance she gets. I don't think this was intentional but after she screwed up her interview with Katie Couric, she saw an opportunity and she ran with it.
2. She knows her audience and plays to them by being unapologetic for her views and unwilling to bakc down.
3. Looks don't hurt. Not to say that many of her followers follow her because she's an attractive woman but it doesn't hurt.
4. She champions herself as a soccer mom that's just like every other conservative mom who cares about the future of their children.
I'm sure that there are others but these are the ones that come to mind. Honestly, I don't think she has a chance to win the Republican nomination because Republicans know she can't win. She seems to have no interest in trying to win over the independents that are required to win the election.
Anyone who has been as shabbily treated by the media as Palin is bound to generate some support, even if it mostly out of sympathy.
By way of contrast, stop and think about Hillary Clinton weeping in a diner because she lost a primary, or blurting out stupidly angry remarks on a diplomatic visit to Africa -- because she had misheard a question related to her husband -- and generally displaying a contnued obliviousness to the rudiments of diplomatic behavior and international relations. When has this shockingly unqualified woman ever faced the kind of mockery and disrespect which is daily directed at Palin? Instead, she is lionized. Puzzling.
The point here is not to claim that Mrs. Palin is more qualified to hold high office than Mrs. Clinton -- it is rather to point out that an obviously inadequate Secretary of State is not held to the same standards as a private citizen who does not even hold office -- perhaps out of misplaced sympathy (because Mrs. Clinton was unable to keep her husband from philandering with other women, while Mrs. Palin, in spite of the enmity and venom directed at her on a daily basis from the media, has been able to keep her marriage and family together?). It should not surprise anyone that some people find this unjust and unfair, and feel some measure of sympathy for Mrs. Palin, who is so cordially despised by people who are themselves perceived by many Americans as hypocritical and incompetent.
she is no different than anyother political figurehead,, to include the current POTUS
I see nothing genuine in him either
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