Sarah Palin Threatening to the Left

September 3rd, 2008 By: Michael van der Galien | Tags:
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Andrea Tantaros says she is; in more ways than the radical left can imagine. Not just because she has great appeal, and should be able to energize both the conservative base and others, but also because the left attacks her on issues Americans may actually sympathize with her.

Then again, Tantaros is a Republican strategist. As such, her views cannot be considered objective, making it reasonably easy for members of the progressive blogosphere and others who disagree with her to dismiss her article as ‘Karl Rove-like propaganda.’

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  1. phin
    September 3rd, 2008 at 04:55
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    Sorry, I screwed that up.  Let me repost…

    Then, they are things like this:

    I ran into anti-Real ID activist Bill Scannell, "the man who helped kill CAPPS II," and asked him what intelligence he can give us about Sarah Palin, governor of the state he’s lived in for the past several years. Scannell is a Democrat, a long-time acquaintance of mine, and as such should be taken with a few grains of salt.
    He called Palin "a poster child for the Evangelical Right," but said that "frankly most Alaskans don’t even care" about that stuff, and at any rate, a McCain/Palin White House wouldn’t deliver whatever it is the Religious Right wants. More excerpts from our conversation:
    Q: So libertarian-minded people should be fine with that, right?

    A: Let me tell you all the nice things about Sarah Palin: Sarah Palin has been a pretty freaking awesome governor. She came in saying that the entire system was corrupt, and that Republicans were evil, and she was going to just mix everything up and get us a gas pipeline and end of story. And she got to power, she was elected overwhelmingly by independents, beat Tony Knowles, who had been governor before.

    The Republicans hate her. If you go and talk to the Alaska delegation here, they despise her.

    Q: Really?

    A: Hate her. Oh my god! This whole thing about her retarded son really being her daughter’s was started by Lyda Green, who is president of the senate, a Republican. [...]

    She gave a two-finger salute to Conoco Phllips and Exxon Mobile, raised their taxes on their oil, put in place a transparent way to bid for the seed money and the licenses to finally, finally, put in a natural gas pipeline in Alaska. And it was won by a Canadian company. And she went to the mat and made it happen. She has been systematically pulling the drilling licenses of Conoco Phillips and Exxon Mobile for areas that they haven’t touched. I mean, they’ve been hoarding reserves, and she says, you know, use it or lose it, and she has been sending the attorney general time after time to revoke these things. It’s absolutely fascinating.

    It’s always easy going after the opposing party.  It takes a lot more guts and courage to go after your own.

  2. Interested
    September 3rd, 2008 at 06:27
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    Palin may appeal to the Republican base but she does not appeal to Independents. How do I know?  I am one.

    Your writing (if not a canned one) does not convey what you claim.  She does appeal to me as an Independent.

  3. Kevin H
    September 3rd, 2008 at 07:29
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    I certainly think it’s true. The current round of attacks against Palin are a pretty sure fire way to make people sympathize with Palin. I’m not so sure that sympathy = votes, but it probably doesn’t hurt.

    If dems were smart they would say "the choice of Palin confirms that this isn’t an election about experience or how many years the candiates have been in the political spotlight, but an election about vision. The American people know that on <insert talking point here> McCain and Palin have a depressing lack of vision" and just leave it at that. It takes the two bigest character attacks on Obama (that he’s unexperienced and the people don’t ‘know’ him well enough) and turns down the volume.

  4. Rudi666
    September 3rd, 2008 at 17:17
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    Maybe someone should read phins linked post, he takes it out of context by selective pasting. These are interesting:

    Q: Do you have any sense, I mean, Alaska governors [are] not going deal with privacy issues to any degree at all, but…A: Oh, she did! So, Real ID, I was involved with Senator Bill Wielechowski getting an anti-Real ID measure passed in Alaska this session, so this just happened in April. And she did not sign the bill, but she allowed it to become law. She said the only reason why she didn’t sign the bill was that she thought that there were some things that may possibly be Real ID-compliant that would be just best practices, would be affected if she signed the no-money-for-Real ID. So she wanted to leave some legal room. Basically, she kind of pussed out on the whole issue. But, she believes that Real ID is the Mark of the Beast. She has said this to someone I personally know. [...]Q: I was just talking to someone who claimed to have knowledge of Alaska to some degree, and they say where Sarah Palin comes from it’s the equivalent of Humboldt or Chico in California, like, of course, you know, she’d have a Girls Gone Wild phase, and smoking pot. Is this just wishcasting, or what can you tell us about her geographical background?A: So the Mat-Su Valley, you know, Matanuska-Susitna Valley, otherwise known as Upper Wingnuttia, is full of right-wing libertarian militia fundamendalist Christian gun-toting, pot-growing dope-heads.Q: Awesome.A: Yeah. If Jerry Falwell rolled his own, you would have the Mat-Su Valley. I live in South Anchorage, and my raspberry plants, courtesy of 22 hours of daylight in the summer, grow eight and a half foot high. That’s a raspberry bush. Can you imagine what a single pot plant would turn into? [...]Q: Do you think the scandals are going to continue to unfold, or have we reached the end of it?A: Oh yeah. I mean, my personal prediction is that I give her two weeks. McCain did zero vetting. They’re now plowing through the microfiche of the Mat-Su Frontiersman, the newspaper down at the local library. The Daily News got their pee-pee slapped by Editor & Publisher for doing zero actual reporting, because everyone loves Sarah. And look — I love her so much that I’m really looking forward to having her back in 63 days. [...]She is what McCain would like to be: She really is a maverick. In two years she stuck it to the two largest oil corporations in the United States of America. That’s pretty fucking impressive, you know, that she has antagonized her party to the point that they despise her. And her ratings are still in the 80s.

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