Comments on: Exploding the ’she abandoned her post’ meme

By: Flagstaff

Flagstaff — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:40:27 +0000

By: Flagstaff

Flagstaff — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:33:56 +0000

By: keeper

keeper — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:08:50 +0000

Vice-President and President aren’t exactly comparable but they are the highest offices we have, thus I refereed to them as “the highest offices”. As to my point that they were both not ready for those positions, Palin as VP is not nearly as bad as Obama as President, but neither really deserved to be in those positions anyway imho.

By: mbecker908

mbecker908 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:59:09 +0000

Josh Whitewasher.

By: Tbone

Tbone — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:31:44 +0000

Welcome to my world. Are you sedimentary, metamorphic, or igneous?

And, in your time here you have bullied, bloviated and somewhere along the line started to take your crap seriously. At least I haven’t deceived myself into thinking I can keep up with the serious and talented contributors here.

Bad news sparko, you ain’t and won’t be in their league.

My advantage is that it is really hard to insult a poor dumb rock. OTOH, it is really easy to insult an over inflated egotistic windbag.

Now you will have to excuse me, I have some gravel friends coming over for lunch.

By: gekster

gekster — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:19:03 +0000

Kowalski, Good Night, and God Bless.

By: gekster

gekster — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:15:45 +0000

doing some show?
to much money for politics.

By: discerningconservative

discerningconservative — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:14:55 +0000

when he was elected President. Benjamin A. Smith II replaced him ( link ). He is correct on Bob Dole though ( link ), and that answered my question. I was just looking for precedence, and have now found it. I will recant my “double standard” argument from above, without even looking up the press coverage of it… I am sure that it was nowhere as bad as Gov. Palin’s coverage.

By: Achance

Achance — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:09:37 +0000

to do planning work on TC’s “project.” Just a way for Exxon to get their hands on some of the half billion. The deal with Exxon has nothing to do with Exxon committing to shipping gas or actually participating in construction of the AGIA line.

By: Flagstaff

Flagstaff — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:09:12 +0000

that reminds me why I don’t trust him. But that’s just me.

I kinda wish our guys would save the dirty politics to use on the other guys.

By: gekster

gekster — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:02:41 +0000

probly was a sitting Senator. I don’t know

By: Flagstaff

Flagstaff — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:59:46 +0000

Was Kennedy the first, or did he resign to run?

By: gekster

gekster — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:59:00 +0000

still good points. and insitefull

By: discerningconservative

discerningconservative — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:57:23 +0000

I am not dense… You said that her action is probably unique and went on to state that there was a double standard. How can the judgement of a unique action be considered a double standard? I agree that IF a Dem had done the same thing that it would be judged differently by the media. THEN a double standard would exist. As it stands now, I do not see a double standard on this issue. On a plethora of other issues, yes there is a double standard in media coverage. I just don’t see it on this one.

By: Flagstaff

Flagstaff — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:54:38 +0000

But it’s true that when Medvedev talks, Putin’s lips move.

By: keeper

keeper — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:54:23 +0000

By: Flagstaff

Flagstaff — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:50:40 +0000

I was just answering his question. I forgot to include Dole.

By: Flagstaff

Flagstaff — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:43:59 +0000

or are you just a troll.

If you re-read my comment, without leaving out the transitional parts, you will either understand or you won’t.

By: Outrider

Outrider — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:38:38 +0000

had more executive experience at the national level than Pres. Bush. There are no sure things in politics. In his first year, Clinton tried to nationalize health care and lost. By Nov., 1996, nobody remembered or cared. Suppose Obama decides to abandon socialism and remake himself into a Clinton democrat?

By: Flagstaff

Flagstaff — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:31:26 +0000

because before McCain picked her, I would have been agin’ it. But I found that I liked her a lot better than McCain (of course!) I’m not sure why this has touched a nerve at RedState. One can’t reasonably argue that she is right now ready to be President. Better than Obama, yes, but still not appropriate. Maybe we just like to argue. I hate fuzzy thinking and inaccurate quotes.

Anyway, the angels on the pinhead seems to be revolving around whether she “cut and ran” or made a strategic withdrawal to fight another day. My take is explained in several places, including here and here. (Those links may not go to the right comment–scroll down if necessary.) It seems to me that to cut and run requires that you’re afraid, a la John Murtha and harry Reid. I didn’t hear anything in her announcement to indicate that she was afraid of anything. Her media comment seemed to me just a cherry on top of all the rest, “The ‘hell yeah’ sealed it - and someday I’ll talk about the details of that… I think much of it had to do with the kids seeing their baby brother Trig mocked by some pretty mean-spirited adults recently.”

Although it may have been important, it doesn’t seem to be any more important than anything else mentioned, and in fact it wasn’t put forth as one of the reasons for resigning, just as a reason why the family agreed. She also said “And this political absurdity, the ‘politics of personal destruction’ … Todd and I are looking at more than half a million dollars in legal bills in order to set the record straight.” That was not given as a reason to resign, but as background on the current situation. I don’t read that as whining about “the unfairness of life,” nor did I see any attempt to blame anything on the press.