Negative Space: Sarah Palin
- 2012 Campaign Issues; Republicans urge Obama to act on gasoline prices
- New York Times criticizes Obama, airs Republican grievances over gas prices: “Is President Obama’s policy causing an inflationary spiral? Gas prices are a pocketbook issue, and polls show they are a concern across the country, with many saying gas prices have caused a financial hardship and some even calling it a crisis.”
- The other British are coming!
- The press has no schema to understand non-establishment politicians.
- Advice to Sarah Palin From the Know-It-Alls
- A member of the “Know-It-All Syndicate” offers advice to Sarah Palin on how to step down from politics and return to the kitchen.
- The anti-politician
- In 2007, then-governor Sarah Palin turned down federal funds for a pointless Alaskan roads project in hopes that the money could be put to better use by another state, Minnesota, that had just seen a tragic bridge collapse during rush hour.
- Blaming the financial crisis on the reformers
- Change, hope, and unmitigated gall. McCain, Bush, and Palin were right about Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac. Now can we start listening to them on social security?
- Branchflower’s misleading headlines
- The Branchflower investigation appears deliberately misleading so as to provide salacious headlines. It’s a data dump in a non-searchable format pushing conclusions that don’t make sense.
- Caught between the sane and the insane
- Two very smart articles describe hope for the future… everywhere except California.
- Dana Milbank escapes rehab
- Beltway PDS-sufferer last seen in company of Atlantic writer Andrew Sullivan and an invisible moose. At least, we think it was an invisible moose. It may have been a layer of media fact-checking. Neither invisible moose nor mainstream media fact-checkers leave a trace of their passing.
- The endless campaign
- Should we have endless political campaigns? That’s the Barack Obama plan, but is it right for American politics?
- Facebook thinks I’m Sarah Palin’s ghostwriter?
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Facebook Notes are whacked. Now they think I’m editing Sarah Palin’s notes.
- Going Rogue: An American Life
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Unlike politicians who have to fall back on their ancestors for middle-class anecdotes, Palin lived them. In the seventies, her father took them from rural Idaho to greater opportunities in Alaska, but it wasn’t her father who built their family business: it was Todd and Sarah.
- Governor Perry and the role of government
- The Perry Gardasil flap is a very good example of the discussion needed for the role of government; the people trying to divert attention away from Perry’s decision and instead fight an army of strawmen are doing Republicans and independents a disservice.
- If I were running for president…
- I’d make heavy use of short videos, and I’d record everything I did with the media.
- Institutional memory in political campaigns
- Every four years, some conservatives buckle under the press’s lies, and hope that groveling will make the press treat them nice. It never works.
- It is widely believed that the news media is clueless
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I believe that the news media is clueless over the sales records of Sarah Palin’s bestseller “Going Rogue”. Because they’re clueless, they’re flailing about madly for a narrative that fits the book into their uninspired, factless world view.
- June 2: Mitt Romney’s Day
- “Onward my brave Morons! Let this be known forever as Mitt Romney’s Day!”
- The Make-Believe Media’s New Normal
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Whoever wins the election will be the new Sarah Palin. But they’re all acting like John McCain, obliviously unaware that the press might turn on them the moment they win the primary.
- The media’s lies work
- Why do journalists lie? Because they can.
- No free shots
- The time-tested strategy when the establishment needs to take down a reformer are “free shots”: attacks made anonymously so that the “distinguished” candidate can keep clean.
- Nothing to fear but a brokered convention
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The reason someone smart would want a brokered convention is that it’s exciting, and it means media coverage, and even more, it means unfiltered media coverage.
- Palin: make room for successful businesses
- Governor Palin in India says something I’ve been pushing for a long time, especially with regards to our moribund auto industry: when we reward failing companies, we are killing all of the innovative startups that would have arisen in the vacuum of their failure.
- President Obama pokes the bear
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Sometimes you eat the bear; sometimes the bear eats you. Why is President Obama running against his 2008 opponent’s vice-presidential candidate? Why is he lying about her? And why doesn’t he want to discuss real issues?
- The President’s freelancers
- If the president told you that he could get the press gunning for you, would you believe him?
- The press in the bubble, the magazine with the babbling writer
- Is the Atlantic living in a bubble? Will that bubble pop?
- Resistance to media bias is unexpected
- It’s amazing how unprepared the biased media is when people don’t play along with their bias.
- Sarah
- Published while Governor Sarah Palin was just Governor Sarah Palin and not the 2008 Vice Presidential nominee for the Republican Party, this is a fascinating look at the pre-media frenzy governor.
- Sarah Palin’s Gordian Knot: Slicing crony capitalism
- “Real hope isn’t in an individual. It’s not in a politician, certainly… don’t wait for the permanent political class to reform anything for you. They won’t. They can’t. They can’t even take responsibility for their own actions.”
- Tanning bed media returns
- Looks like the tanning bed media are back, so I’ve temporarily moved Conservatives4Palin to the main blogroll.
- Tea Party vs. the news
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What a difference between the traditional news media (Google News) and what people are actually talking about (Memeorandum)!
- That my child may have peace
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If there’s any good thing to come out of Obama’s ascension, it will be a fear of idolatry in politics. I doubt the press will learn the lesson, but it appears that the ordinary barbarian has. Also, Tammy Bruce is right that the call for Sarah Palin as RNC chair is little more than an attempt by the backroom boys to reduce Sarah Palin to a secretarial position.
- This wasteful political bloodsport
- Alaska Governor Sarah Palin resigns—to save Alaskans money, and to save her family from the savage liberal arena. And, most likely, to avoid a lame-duck governorship. Resigning now is clearly the right thing to do if she’s going to run for president; all the more so because even though it’s the right thing to do it also reduces her chances.
- Truly principled politicians don’t split the baby
- Too often in politics, we pretend that the principled act is to cut the baby in half. Governor Sarah Palin refuses that compromise. Her ambitions for success were for the success of reform in Alaska. She did what she needed to do to ensure that those reforms survive.
- Voting for Nobody in New York
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The Republican Party and Doug Hoffman is providing social conservatives with the perfect opportunity to vote for Nobody in New York’s 23rd district.
- What is the purpose of a politician?
- Is the purpose of a politician to hold political office? Or is the purpose of a politician to do right by their constituents?
- Who is the fiscally-sane candidate?
- Which of the Republican candidates is most likely to help turn this country back on the path of fiscal sanity?
- Why I don’t write about people not writing about Sarah Palin
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Yeah, Palin Derangement Syndrome is a real bitch.
- You can’t play an honest media
- Sarah Palin gets credit, when she’s not being accused of being unintelligent, of being smart enough to play the media for fools. But she isn’t: she’s telling everyone what she plans to do, why she did what she did; the media just isn’t listening. Then they write something stupid and the LA Times writes about how well she “played” them.
But you can’t play a media that’s doing its job.
More Information
- Good Intentions Aren’t Enough with Health Care Reform
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The bill prohibits insurance companies from refusing coverage to people with pre-existing conditions and from charging sick people higher premiums. It attempts to offset the costs this will impose on insurance companies by requiring everyone to purchase coverage, which in theory would expand the pool of paying policy holders.
However, the maximum fine for those who refuse to purchase health insurance is $750. The result: many people, especially the young and healthy, will simply not buy coverage, choosing to pay the fine instead. They’ll wait until they’re sick to buy health insurance, confident that insurance companies can’t deny…
- Governor Palin's Speech at the "Restoring America" Tea Party of America Rally in Indianola, Iowa
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“We sent a new class of leaders to D.C., but immediately the permanent political class tried to co-opt them—because the reality is we are governed by a permanent political class, until we change that. They talk endlessly about cutting government spending, and yet they keep spending more. They talk about massive unsustainable debt, and yet they keep incurring more. They spend, they print, they borrow, they spend more, and then they stick us with the bill. Then they pat their own backs, and they claim that they faced and ‘solved’ the debt crisis that they got us in, but when we were humiliated in front of the world with our country’s…”
- Is Sarah Palin Too Dumb to Be President?
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“The 2012 Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting is not very bright. In fact, dumb as a post is a more accurate if blunt assessment… Does this describe Sarah Palin? Yes—if you choose to listen to the Inside-the-Beltway elites. But just in case she doesn’t run for or win the nomination, don’t worry. Whoever the GOP nominates will quickly assume this ‘too dumb to be president’ role—bestowed by many of the same people.”
- Palin Announces No Second Term
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“My choice is to take a stand and effect change - not hit our heads against the wall and watch valuable state time and money, millions of your dollars, go down the drain in this new environment. Rather, we know we can effect positive change outside government at this moment in time, on another scale, and actually make a difference for our priorities - and so we will, for Alaskans and for Americans.”
- Sarah Palin Announces Resignation as Governor, Part 2
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"There is where truly the worthy causes are in this world and that’s where our public resources should be, our public priority. We have time and resources spent on that, not on this superficial, wasteful, political bloodsport."
