NOBODY DRAWS IT BETTER THAN MICHAEL RAMIREZ at Investors Business Daily. Day in and day out he speaks truth to power, political correctness and idiocy though his fine hit-the-nail-on-the-head editorial drawings. Today, he says elegantly what needs to be said nicely to Sarah Palin: Honey, get your act together and stop coming across like some neophyte politician. We don't need another inexperienced president.....An adult writing on her hand is disconcerting....Buy a notepad. I couldn't agree more with him and the editors at IBD. Sarah can be charming and come across as from outside the beltway without lapsing into sophomoric unprofessionalism. It only gives ammo to her myriad detractors. So I hope she gives up her silly need for this kind of attention-baiting sooner rather than later, if she aspires to be anything other than a short-lived conservative publicity-manipulating celebrity without a notebook. Or a brain. Cause when she pulls stunts like this---as my parents used to chide me---she might win some battles, but will surely lose the WAR.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
IBD Gently Chides Sarah Palin Today
NOBODY DRAWS IT BETTER THAN MICHAEL RAMIREZ at Investors Business Daily. Day in and day out he speaks truth to power, political correctness and idiocy though his fine hit-the-nail-on-the-head editorial drawings. Today, he says elegantly what needs to be said nicely to Sarah Palin: Honey, get your act together and stop coming across like some neophyte politician. We don't need another inexperienced president.....An adult writing on her hand is disconcerting....Buy a notepad. I couldn't agree more with him and the editors at IBD. Sarah can be charming and come across as from outside the beltway without lapsing into sophomoric unprofessionalism. It only gives ammo to her myriad detractors. So I hope she gives up her silly need for this kind of attention-baiting sooner rather than later, if she aspires to be anything other than a short-lived conservative publicity-manipulating celebrity without a notebook. Or a brain. Cause when she pulls stunts like this---as my parents used to chide me---she might win some battles, but will surely lose the WAR.
Well said.
ReplyDeleteI want to like her as a political possibility, but something keeps me from getting on board that train.
However, I do appreciate the way she can drive some people crazy!
Me too, fraydna, I like her ok but not enough to buy my ticket to board yet....
ReplyDeleteActually, Sarah Palin and The Tea Party movement is a GIFT to Democrats. The Tea party is a nearly 100% white conservative christian group that has contributed little to national debate, save for extremist rhetoric (death panels, birth certificate, Obama-Nazi-Socialist, etc), led by a failed Gov that had to be schooled in the most basic high school history by the McCain campaign, and who is polling quite low, even among Republicans. Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement is poised drag the GOP down, or at least fracture it into the 'thinking branch' and the 'white trash know-nothing branch.' Palin is a perfect figurehead for this group.
ReplyDeleteNow we have the Tea Klux Klan, out of the closet with one of it’s leaders Tancredo calling for a return to Jim Crow laws before a cheering 100% white audience in TN. As daughter of GOP Presidential Nominee Meghan McCain stated, the Tea partiers exhibit, “innate racism.”
We’ve all heard the bar-stool version of the Tea Party canard that goes like this: Why should we, self-sufficient small-town whites, pay taxes to support all those welfare queens, food stamp cheats and Medicaid layabouts in the big cities and coastal states? The media’s version, parroted by Palin and other Fox talking heads, commiserates with Americans in the heartland, christened “the average taxpayer,” for unjustly having to subsidize ethnic enclaves that mooch off the national treasury.
FYI – A disproportionately high share of our federal government’s tax income comes from racially diverse, immigrant-rich, urbanized states, including California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts; not from extremely homogeneous, conservative, anti-tax strongholds like Idaho, Montana, Utah, the Dakotas, Wyoming. Many southern states, the bastion of the conservative Tea Klux Klan, get more from the Fed than they give in taxes. Funny, the people who stand the most to gain in healthcare reform are the ones that have been indoctrinated by Fox News to be against it. Yes, you can get people to bite the hand that feeds them. Sad.
Actually, Ellen, most people don't want the hand of government feeding them. And as to the rest, your take on the current political situation is certainly not what I'm reading. To wit:
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February 10, 2010 10:31 AM
By Reid Wilson
For the first time since '02, GOPers lead the Washington Post's generic congressional ballot, giving Dems reason to worry about their electoral prospects this Fall.
48% of registered voters picked the GOP candidate when asked who they would cast a ballot for this year, while 45% said they would choose a Dem. That's the first time a GOP candidate has led among likely or registered voters since Oct. 27, '02, when the GOP sported a 49%-47% lead among likely voters.
Two years ago, just days before the '08 elections when Dems picked up 21 GOP-held seats, Dems led the generic ballot by 10 points among registered voters and by 6 points among likely voters. Voters still trust Dems to do a better job solving problems the country faces, by a 43%-37% margin, but that's well below even the margin by which the public backed Dems in Nov. '09, when they picked Dems by a 47%-31% margin.
A paltry 36% of voters said they would vote to re-elect their own members of Congress, while 56% said they would "look around" for someone new. That's the lowest level of support incumbent members of Congress have had since '97. And just 26% approve of the way Congress is doing its job, up from the 23% who said they like what Congress is doing in Jul. '08 but on par with how Americans felt about the Dem-controlled Congress just before they lost the majority in '94. That year, days before Election Day, only 21% of Americans viewed Congress favorably.
And, like '94 and '06, both years in which the party out of power picked up enough seats to caputre the majority, voters say they are becoming anti-incumbent. 48% now say they are against those who hold office at the moment, 6 points short of the percentage who felt that way in '94 and 5 points short of the mark in '06.
Voters have a 50% favorable/46% unfavorable view of the Dem party, its lowest rating in the same poll since '84, when Ronald Reagan won 49 states in a record-breaking landslide. Voters actually have a worse opinion of GOPers -- only 44% view the party favorably, compared with 52% who see them unfavorably. But the GOP has added 8 points to their popularity since the last time the question was asked, in Jun. '09.
Dems have done their best to characterize the convince their members to make the election a choice between the 2 parties, and voters would still pick Pres. Obama's agenda over the GOP's. A plurality say they trust Obama more than GOPers to handle the economy, health care reform, the federal budget deficit, the threat of terrorism and to create jobs.
But voters overwhelmingly see checks and balances in DC as a good thing. 57% said it is a good thing that GOPers now have 41 seats in the Senate, enough to sustain a filibuster and block controversial nominees and legislation. Just 36% said it was a bad thing the GOP could obstruct legislation.
With all due respect to IBD, my suggestion for a palm note for them would be, "Get sense of humor".
ReplyDelete(Admittedly difficult; if one doesn't already have one, it aint' something you can just run over to WalMart to acquire.)
If she takes advantage of a ridiculous situation, I don't think she's being silly and unprofessional at all.
The people she campaigns against present a target-rich environment of opportunity by being so self-absorbed, narcissistic (is that redundant? :-), and totally devoid of a sense of humor.
Those are true Achilles's heels, that should be exploited for all they are worth.
NEVER underestimate the value of puncturing a stuffed shirt ("There you go again!").
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Very good points, Paul. Here, here and thank you. We all need more of a sense of humor and not take ourselves too seriously.
ReplyDeleteWhat is most interesting about the article you cited was:
ReplyDelete"Voters have a 50% favorable/46% unfavorable view of the Dem party...Voters actually have a worse opinion of GOPers -- only 44% view the party favorably, compared with 52% who see them unfavorably."
So, if this is a 'historic low for Dems' and they are polling higher than the GOP as a party, what does that say about the GOP?
I say run Sarah RUN!!
Ellen said:
ReplyDeleteI say run Sarah RUN!!
Ok, then...
So do I, but for completely opposite reasons.
Be careful what you wish for. :-)
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I want her to run just to drive the Ellens of the world simply nuts....and then she wins!!
ReplyDeleteNew Poll. Washington Post:
ReplyDeleteThere is a growing sense that the former Alaska governor is not qualified to serve as president, with more than seven in 10 Americans now saying she is unqualified, up from 60 percent in a November survey. Even among Republicans, a majority now say Palin lacks the qualifications necessary for the White House.
Despite the disapproval of government, few Americans say they know much about the "tea party" movement, which emerged last year and attracted voters angry at a government they thought was spending recklessly and overstepping its constitutional powers. And the new poll shows that the political standing of former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, who was the keynote speaker last week at the first National Tea Party Convention, has deteriorated significantly. Although Palin is a tea party favorite, her potential as a presidential hopeful takes a severe hit in the survey. Fifty-five percent of Americans have unfavorable views of her, while the percentage holding favorable views has dipped to 37, a new low in Post-ABC polling.
So?
ReplyDeleteEllen your recent comments are again and again off-topic. This is about Sarah Palin and you've made your points. Thank you.
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