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Hating on Sarah Palin

According to the New Majority, a left wing website designed to cast itself as the new conservative voice, Sarah Palin’s wardrobe is stashed at the RNC in the basement in trash bags and was not given to charity.

The story cites “sources,” but does not mention that the author is probably the source, considering she worked at the RNC.

More so, the story is flat out not true according to multiple people at the RNC.

David Frum followed up the original post with his own in which he wrote

Gov. Palin remains a controversial figure in the Republican party. But the moral of this particular story is not a moral that bears on her. The moral bears on the RNC, an organization whose leaders think that evasion is a solution. It’s time for new leadership at the RNC and at all the highest levels of our party organization.

Of course, that came two paragraphs after writing, “As soon as Gov. Palin returned to the national scene, so too would all the unanswered questions left over from the last campaign.” So is this about her or not?

There are two full stories about Sarah Palin and her wardrobe. Coincidentally, the stories come out the day after Sarah Palin delivers a very well received State of the State speech in Alaska. And some how this is not about continuing a smear on Sarah Palin — someone David Frum actively opposed as an icky conservative during the campaign.

Yeah, right.

But here is the larger point: why the hell is this relevant to anything three months after the campaign? Seriously.

First, the story is not even true.

Second, the person involved is not even a candidate, but remains apparently enough of a threat to leftist members of the GOP that she must continually be kicked.

Third, if you want to say leadership needs to be changed within the RNC, that’s a valid point, but why use a wholly inaccurate story to do so?

There are bigger issues out there that make the same point. The left within the Republican Party has launched a full scale assault against the conservative base. To be sure, the base is conservative. For those of you wanting to replace the party leadership, you should take note that the leftists are even more adamant about it than you and you should consider who exactly they want.

COMMENTS

  • johnCV

    Were they not donated to charity or the new set of American Idol? If not that, then I would like to see the reciept from the recylcing center.

    Just curious – did the DNC not purchase any clothing for the obamas? I can’t believe mrs obama had all of those one shot designer dresses just laying about as left overs from her corporate days.

    Oh and BTW, Frum is a peckerhead (but you knew that already….).

  • http://www.conservatives4palin.com/ Joseph Russo

    They will stop at nothing to smear the Governor and David Frum and his wife (she smeared Palin on the O’Reilly factor and writes for Huffpo http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/01/danielle-crittenden-writes-for-huffpo.html) will lead the charge. The GOP must get rid of these people or we will never win another election in my lifetime and I am 22!

  • TxCon

    why we conservatives waste our time in the Republican party?

  • johnCV

    It’s the choice between something that sucks and something so utterly awful, it forces us to embrace the suck.

    Give me a better option and you can color me gone.

  • E Pluribus Unum

    who is it that the liberal wing of the GOP wants as RNC Chair?

    Pretty sure it ain’t Katon Dawson.

  • Josh Painter

    Each of his round-trips to Hawaii cost $400,000 in campaign donations. Chartered 757s don’t come cheap. But this mode of transportation was his choice. He could have flown commercial or chartered a more reasonably-sized corporate jet for a fraction of the cost of a 757,

    The two trips come to a total of about $800,000 – and no clothes to show for it except maybe a Hawaiian shirt or two.

    - JP

  • SCSoxFan

    be releasing a statement clearing this up? Or will they, as usual, fall down on the job?

  • casel21

    I will not read anything by Frum posted on his website. As Rush says about O, I support Frum but not his ideas. And isn’t the NewMajority is a little presumptuous?

  • zuiko
  • TxCon

    There are enough conservative sin this country to form our own party and render the GOP more useless than it already is. There is no better time to do it than right now.

  • TxCon

    That should read “conservatives in”.

  • davo119

    Surely I’m not the only one who has completely lost interest in anything Frumm, Parker, Noonan, Brooks, et .al. have to say. The cumulative effect of loss of interest is loss of influence. I truly believe they represent a minority in the Republican Party and their collective voice as it increases in pitch declines in volume. The truly disastrous result of what has occurred with the election of Obama will supersede the carping of the fauxcons . Reality will begin to sink in and those seeking personal glory will no longer be a factor. Like the MSM they may have won the battle but they have by no means won the war.

    Regarding Sarah, let them keep talking, She has withstood the worst they could throw at her and she is still very much a contender. Now that they are into the trivial stuff. I’m not at all concerned.

  • Praying

    I know that, you know that, we just haven’t found someone to tell THEM that.

  • Dencal26

    Obama just spent 170 Million Dollars on his coronation and they are concerned with a few dresses and shoes Palin wore?

  • chaney

    The only thing I can think of is that Sarah Palin reminds David Frum of some girl who was mean to him in junior high. As for this “New Majority” entry; it is extremely valuable. With all of the sources of information on the internet, what better service for a new site to provide than to demonstrate early on that it’s not worth reading. Let them join Andrew Sullivan and concoct bizarre conspiracy theories about the Palins. The community of reasonably intelligent, reasonably decent human beings will just ignore them.

  • AHALgal

    There is nothing that Brooks, Frum, Parker, Noonan, and most of the characters that went to the Obama dinner have to say that I’m interested in hearing or reading.

    They don’t get my attention and they sure don’t get my money.

  • AHALgal

    Over the past 5 years, the RNC has been a disaster. They fail to win elections. They fail to bring about positive conservative candidates and support them. They shut out funding to those candidates. And moreover, they’ve turned into a bastion of gossip-mongers and self-serving cash grabbers.

    I’ve cut off funding to them. I’m not alone.

    Of my circle of affluent, conservative friends and family we have cut them off. They won’t start getting our money until they clean house.

    One of the RNC telemarketers called my house just yesterday. I was friendly, but stern. Don’t call me. Don’t call me for money. Stop the sob stories about how the RNC is going to change into a conservative party dedicated to supporting issues and candidates that promote fiscal responsibility and stopping the tidalwave of socialism. I also explained to her that I’m not giving them money until they stop trying to eat their own. She was disappointed and reminded me that the call was being taped. I’m glad it was taped.

    The RNC has a lot of work to do to get me and my posse back in their good graces and this story only exemplifies our issues with their organization.

  • Mike gamecock DeVine
  • http://conservative-and-proud.blogspot.com/ eschristian

    For his fake ice to support his fake theory of man-made global warming – the most stupid hoax ever.

  • http://conservative-and-proud.blogspot.com/ eschristian

    These liberal idiots (both democrats and republicans) are out to get Palin because she has a message that makes sense and threatens their power hungry, greedy, foolish ways.

    SARAH PALIN ROCKS!!! RINO’s are idiots!!!

  • http://conservative-and-proud.blogspot.com/ eschristian

    telemarketers – that is a good name for those calling and calling and begging. Great response to them.

    I am actually conflicted because of all of this – I am a member of my local county GOP and the members there (the majority of them) are all conservative. I have been invited to be a leader in our county party but I am so disgusted with the RNC/D.C. GOP I wonder – should I associate myself with the GOP or not? Should I continue and fight for conservative principles and hope we can send the message??? I truly am pondering these things – I guess I will put it to prayer. Are any of you guys leaders/members of your local GOP? What are your thoughts about this for your situation?

  • http://www.scottbomb.com scottbomb

    It’s no secret that Republicans were not fired up about the nomination of John McCain. I often wonder if many simply stayed home in protest, effectively handing the presidency to Obama in hopes that the party will wise up an nominate a conservative next time around. Sarah Palin came on the scene and energized the base but it wasn’t enough. Many of us who did vote simply held our noses and voted AGAINST Obama instead of voting FOR McCain.

    Had McCain won, would he win a 2nd term? And if he refused a second term, would Palin have much of a chance after 20 years of having a Republican in the White House?

    On the other hand, now that Obama’s in charge and free to screw all kinds of things up with help from his liberal Congress, Palin may end up poised to take him on in 2012 and offer America REAL”hope” and “change” based on conservative principles. I haven’t been very good at predicting the future lately, but I at this point, can’t think of anyone who can command the attention of the Republican party better than Palin.

  • GB221

    .. for conservatives to continue supporting the Republican Party. Support or no support for Sarah Palin can be a simple, clear litmus test for eliminating false conservatives. Sarah Palin can also be the center of attention for refocusing the energies of the conservatives within the GOP. Stopping financial support to the party until the GOP takes a clear and unequivocal position for Sarah Palin is a clear, simple strategy to begin with.

    The party cannot survive without the base. And only if the base is focused, as we have seen it can be when Sarah Palin was energizing it, the party will be prevented from self destroying as is in the danger of doing under the intellectual guidance of the gang of four Palin haters: Brooks, Frum, Noonan, Parker.

  • aesthete

    You may want to ask him.

  • aesthete

    I don’t think that it’s a good idea to coalesce around a given candidate as tightly as that, esp. given that she’s only served for two years, when gas prices were at a high.

    I like most of what I’ve heard about her, but I think we should be wary of becoming a cult-of-personality like group of supporters, a demographic that already comprises a significant minority among Palin supporters, is the best way to accomplish conservative objectives.

  • JHancock

    While Palin is a fantastic person, and would be great for ousting RINO’s and Libertarians from the party, we run the risk of looking like Obamaphiles if we cave in to the cult of personality. Also resting the conservative movement within the party on a single figurehead is dangerous. If she falls then it’s back to liberal appeasing McCain Republicans. Instead, we should support Palin in addition to other outspoken conservatives, and choose whichever one is looking the best in 4 years to be our candidate

  • GB221

    …a defining point, as demonstrated by the visceral responses that happen on either side, lovers and haters. Sarah Palin is where most of the issues that divide the country (but even the party) find a focus for discussion. That is why Palin is a convenient reference; deciding on Sarah Palin forces people to get out of the gray area in which they hide. We need clarity now, not more muddling of positions.

    ‘Support for Palin’ does not mean uncritical commitment to a potential candidate. It means mainly rejection of all the falsity, distortions and dishonesty that has plagued her treatment (and what she stands for) by the left and the RINOs, and a general acceptance of a Reagan-type of conservatism.

  • GB221

    …what I mean by ‘supports’ Sarah Palin, is simply ‘not trying to stop her (in all possible, and often dishonest, ways)’ , as many are doing even in the conservative movement.

  • http://www.erickerickson.org Erick Erickson

    I am an elected Republican in Macon, GA. I’ve been a lawyer for the Republican Party. I am proud to be a Republican.

  • JHancock

    In that case I agree. I think we should let the pit bull run free. I’d be careful of making her too much of a figurehead, but would definitely lend her my support and would do nothing to quiet her. She’s the kid who said out loud that the Emperor has no clothes. Her blunt honesty and tenacious, unapologetic conservatism are good for our party

  • davo119

    Palin is in reality an anti-Obama. Without any of the massive, controlled, political machine that Obama took TWO YEARS to build up, she was able to generate with literally one speech at the convention an enthusiastic following that turned out to see her in the tens of thousands with little to no warning during the campaign.

    Obama is form with little substance. Palin is substance with little form. Everything about her is anathema to the profoundly disturbed left and even came into conflict with the campaign over addressing those issues that define Obama as a radical extremist.

    As a result she is a threat to the entrenched Country Club Republicans who wasted no time in trying to destroy her and even now, continue to malign, disparage and demean her. She united the extreme left and the complacent right into a spasmodic fear driven response. The two together comprise a small part of the electorate and by no means represent any kind of base.

    It’s one thing to grasp desperately at the first person who makes empty promises. It’s quite another to recognize a natural leader.

  • Finrod

    The way we can retake this party is from the bottom up. Think of it this way: our enemies within the party are revealing themselves for who they really are; that lets us oppose them and purge them.

  • Just_Saying

    I am not that thrilled with people like Frum who claim to be conservatie, yet whose wives actively act against the conservative agenda (writing for the Huff? Ick!)

    Let’s dump the GOP and get a completely new Constitutional party based on conservative values.

    Can anyone start a blog, call it conservative, and then denigrate conservative principles and characters? It’s revolting that Frumm can get away with it — I don’t care what his past experience may have been.

    Won’t read Frumm’s blog another time!
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  • JSobieski

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  • woodsman

    with his FredHead material. That’s the medicine we need…

  • AHALgal

    No way. My local GOP involvement is the only hope I have to take the party back from the liberals. However, my donations at a national level have ceased.

    Pray on it and do what you’re led to do.

  • AHALgal

    I’m proud to be a Republican in Georgia. However, I’m done sending money to them nationally so the national party can continue to lose elections, resist supporting conservative candidates, triangulate on voter categorization (i.e. Walmart voters, Nascar dads, etc.) and most importantly eating their own.

    Demanding that corrupt elected officials leave the party is one thing. Lying and trashing honest, solid conservatives in an effort to realign the party as “Diet Liberal” is not.