Michelle is pregnant or not….we’ll change topics

Sarah is going to continue to make news whether we talk about her or not. Why freeze her out?

I can get on board with a moratorium of all 2012 candidate talk until after the 2010 elections, though.

Fleeting span there was
(IIRC)
when bards freely sang.

If she takes a 6 month hiatus from everything public and just writes her book, spends time with the family and studies the issues it would to wonders for her.

I say this as someone who could never vote for the current version of her in a primary. That said I am not opposed to seeing if she can re-invent herself before 2012, but she won’t be able to do so if she remains in the public eye.

Her supporters aren’t going anywhere and the people who are against her (myself included) will certainly calm down if she just backs off the stage and gets out of our faces for a little while.

A re-invented Sarah Palin would be a great thing for the GOP. My preference is for her to take out Young next year and then to take out Begich in 2014.

Sarah oh Sarah

you are moosehunting awesome

owe owe owe owe stop

gets up the nerve to call the zero’s policies “immoral” I’d be glad to jabber away about them.

In the meantime, GO SARAH GO!

“An early look at the 2012 race for the Republican nomination shows Mitt Romney at 25%, Sarah Palin at 24%, and Mike Huckabee at 22%. Forty percent (40%) of GOP voters say that Palin hurt her chances of winning the nomination by resigning as Alaska’s Governor last week.”

That 40% would be out of the 25% for the born loser Mitt and the 22% for the born crook The Huckster.

Now, I don’t personally care much about Palin except that if you had three simultaneus events anywhere featuring the 3 above, who do you think would draw the biggest crowd?

Yep, that’s was a no brainer.

Now, if the Old Fool had run with Mitt or Mike would he have done better or worse?

Who knows, it would not have been like anyone would have even cared that either of those two proven losers were on the ticket.

Politics is like horse racing. The fastest horse may not always win, but that’s the way to bet.

But I have no problems hearing about SWSNBN, if its in some kind of fundraising situation/campaigning for candidates that I approve of, granted thats prity much any Conservitive Republican candidate. I would also say that it’s a good idea for her to disappear for a while, although I fear the media may not let her, her being such a ratings queen. I would say that I like her but am prudent enough to know that with age comes wisdom and she is still young……..thats enough of that now. 2010 is more important if we are to survive the current head of the executive branchs’ anti freedom ways.

We’ve already seen a diary advocating Romney as our “only choice” for 2012, approximately 1.5 bazillion in favor of Sarah Palin (or in adulation of her timeless wisdom), and one for DeMint in 2012. DeMint, for cryin’ out loud! At this point, speculation on 2012 is pointless mental masturbation. And, while it’s true that most political commentary/philosophizing consists of some variation of that (God knows there’s more than enough evidence to convict me of doing it, from time to time), some of the Palin commentary, for and against (but mostly for) has been gratuitous in indulging that subset of commentary. I’m not sure if I would support a moratorium quite yet, but if things keep getting worse, I don’t see many alternatives (though I’d still like to see if there are any).

I’d recommend, but my browser isn’t letting me

A basic overload of requests to confuse and jam servers.
Or am I wrong It won’t be the first time.
But where did Sahra come in?

A bunch of people go to a website at the same time with multiple hits, and your server, as the one for RS, gets overloaded and gives up untill it is safe.
Thats putting it simply for me. That way I understand.
I was asking if this was happening.
Or did I miss it.

Tell me about the Bots, and how did Mrs. Palin get into this?

even I’m ready to spend a day or too without hearing her mentioned…there are other things happening in the world after all

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

Senate Conservatives Fund House Conservatives Fund Michael Williams for Senate

Marco 2010 Toomey US Senate SarahPAC

…to concentrate on, with one addition:
Being prepared to man the phones as health care comes up, cap and tax in the Senate, the increasingly talked about “second” stimulus (which as Gamecock pointed out in his most recent diary is really about the 5th or 6th one), etc., etc.
If Sarah endorses candidates for 2010, fine. We can talk about it when it happens. I happen to like Sarah, but al the speculation about what when how if she’s going to run is getting old. Talk about when it happens. Right now the Dems ruining our standard of living is the thing, with 2010 the next big thing.

2012 is so 2 and 1/2 years from now.

and the like. I suppose I must be among those with whom you’re troubled, but if you look at my diary history since she was annonced as the VP nominee, I’ve written two more or less opinion diaries about Her, one strictly factual leaning favorable when she was announced and one right after the election in which I set out my reasons for not being a fan. That’s a position in which I’ve been consistent for my whole tenure her; one of my very first diaries was a report on a gubernatorial debate here for the ‘06 election in which I was critical of her shallowness. I’ve also written a couple more that were just event driven. I’ve written lots of comments in response to the various fantastic and counterfactual hagiographies and I’m never reticent to counter some of the fantastic claims based on God knows what.

Actually, I’d be very happy if she’d sit down and shut up, work with her ghost writer- she sure ain’t writing no book herself - complete sentences completely elude her, go to the Lower 48 on a book tour, preferably a long one, and get my State off the front page of the WaPo and NYT. I can’t wait til July 26th. Anyway, no more hagiographies, no more responses, but I ain’t holding my breath.

Why don’t you try it for yourself FIRST? Why not make a bond to yourself that will never mention HER name in 6 months?

The proposing political scientist:

David Hinz

The hypothesis:

HINZ OF RS SHOULD BE NAMED “THE WEAKEST LINK” IF HE EVER MENTIONS “HER” NAME IN HIS 6-MONTH MORATORIUM PERIOD!

The apparatus:

All diaries and comments in RS.

Activities:

David Hinz will never mention “her” name in any diary or comment.

Period of experiment:

July - December 2009.

Goodluck, bro.

If you don’t want to read about it it, don’t click on it.

File that one under “Personal Responsibility”

Which leads to another thought…

If you believe that a topic don’t get enough exposure, write a diary about it.

- JP

I like Sarah Palin. I do not love Sarah Palin. I think she has to stop using the word “there” completely. She just needs to take it out of her vocabulary. She could still use “their” and “they’re,” just not “there.” She also needs to expand her viewpoints beyond the Rep. talking points and get super real with the people. That is her strenght and if she becomes just another sounding board she will lose it. For instance, I read the Time interview and she talked Cap and Trade mostly in terms of the business impact becuase countries like China and India wont be hampered by the tax and business wil flood their way. However, I think SP is a global warming skeptic who doesnt believe our carbon use is causing the earth’s temperature to rise. She should come out strong as a skeptic and be dammed the squishy middle road that only focuses on the negatives of the bil, while failing to addesss that the underlying purpose of the bill is a scam. Same on abortion, same on small government, same on Obama’s marxist tendancies. Come out strong and uncompromising, be the politician that you might not agee with all the time, but that you darn sure know where she stands. That being said -

Sarah Palin is doing something right now that we must do and that we must turn into a movement. That something is dismantling the media. As many bots as possible should be mobilized in this effort, because until the partisan media is taken down, we are fighting with a straightjacket on. The millions and millions of Americans who watch the evening news or even the morning shows and have little or no idea that they are basically viewing an infomercial for the left must be reached, one on one, person to person, and they must be shown the facts that are not being reported. Sarah Palin is the ONLY national political figure to go after the media in such a direct way. We should foster her, cheer her, repeat her - and encourage all SP bots to do the same when it comes to this issue.

Besides all that, I think that the people who are passionate about Sarah Palin are similar to the people who were passionate about Ron Paul at least to the extent that both SP and RP have evidenced that they put principles above politics and thus they campaign as real people versus packaged people. People sense the honesty in this and many are ready for a candiate they can trust versus a candidate who says “all the right things” and makes “all the right moves.” Again, this is a movement that in my opinion should be fostered and not ridiculed. We didn’t have the perfect candidate in RP and we don’t in SP, but we did not have the perfect candidate in Barry Goldwater either - but he opened the door for someone like Ronald Reagan.

“and where they go I’ll follow,
She/he will always be my true love,
my true love, my true love”

Just quoting from the 60’s tune by Peggy March that seems so appropriate…

I get a kick out of reading Josh’s and Gary’s posts about Sarah. But I can also see why they would drive others nuts.

Sarah Palin is going to do what she’s going to do. It’s going to be very interesting to watch. Let’s all just calm down, watch what unfolds and comment as events happen.

We should be focused on stopping Obama’s statist agenda and taking back as much of the House and Senate as we can in 2010.

I “think” that’s also Sarah Palin’s near term plan. Along with her book tour and other appearances.

Let’s leave it alone for a while and see how this all plays out.

Not so much because I think we need a moratorium, but to make the case that those that would like to see less of Sarah should promote their on preferences in the more relevamnt 2010 races.

The problem that I have, and I think it affects many of us here, is that there are just so few Republican ins or hopefuls that can garner even a quarter of the excitement and support that Palin does.

We have one exciting filly among a crowded stable of old nags worthy only of pet food and glue. Maybe this Sarah excitement will teach a few old horses some new tricks… if they don’t die of thirst first.

Are you serious.?You may get tired of reading both sides of the Sarah Palin love/hate affair,so what. Don’t read it. Don’t comment. This site has always had many sides of a particular subject to read and disect as so many here do. And thanks to every single one of you who do. It’s great insight and sometimes just good entertainment.

I say we should all be more tolerant of the writers opinions even if they aren’t as astute as some here believe themselves to be. After all the news cycle is 24/7 and many of us depend on redstate for a diverse take on every subject that is caught in each cycle. truth is some diaries are of no interest to me what so ever and those get skimmed and then on to the next. Who here does not do that?

At first, I bristled at the diary title. Then, I realized that the bots indeed have done the DNCs work. We’re bickering about an election FOUR years away, fercripessake!

The biggest annoyance to me last election cycle was that it was so frikkin’ long! Two years seemed like a million! I don’t even want to experience the cycle that takes four years!

Let’s worry about the 2010 elections then discuss what the playing field looks like at that time.

Perhaps not a moratorium exactly, just a tad bit more sanity and reality in topic discussions. I think, and this is just my opinion, that SWSNBN is thinking the same thing.

An Endorsement from the punk runk wife that wanted Miss Cali, Carrie Prejean, kicked out of Miss America.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,530986,00.html?test=faces

The Bad: Media saturation, tabloid like headlines, Shanna Moekler

The Good: Star power, instant headlines, Shanna Moekler

I’m sure no one around here cares about Moakler, but she is popular and its symbolic of how Palin gets the attention of women, the youth and people in tune with pop culture in way that tradional old white Republicans guys never can.

You can ignore her, but others won’t. And that cedes the story line to those that write them (e.g. hollywood, Perez Hilton, Andrew Sullivan,…)

Liking or even championing a potential candidate does not make one a “bot”. And to so-label Palin supporters is but another way to marginalize.

I don’t like narrow-minded elitism, whether it’s from the left or the right.

YMMV.

Both pro- and anti-bots need to redirect their energy to crucial 2010 races.

Let superfluous diaries and posts die due to lack of comments/recos.