Comments on: SARAH PHOBIA

By: David from Kentucky

David from Kentucky — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:49:53 +0000

I’m still a registered Republican, but I can’t bring myself to associate any longer with what the party has become. I know a lot of ordinary rank and file conservatives that see the current behavior as more than a little crazy. Where are the classical conservatives like William Buckley, people who saw that protecting the social fabric and order was important, people who were proud of being educated and articulate? They must be in hiding, because the people that are publicly representing the Republican party today act like frothing-at-the mouth insurrectionists.

By: Tom from Colorado

Tom from Colorado — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:27:30 +0000

Catron,

The two minutes hate has been an established feature of right wing talk radio for years, only it’s been lengthened. It’s called The Rush Limbaugh Show. (If you don’t believe me, turn it on and turn the volume down until you can’t hear the words, only the tone. All that’s left is hate.)

By: Karl Quick

Karl Quick — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:26:46 +0000

Sarah is not a Republican at heart. She is very much “everywoman” who lives out in the middle of the country, raises her children, joins the PTA and becomes frustrated by the bureaucracy and the absurd politics… and demands honesty.

I doubt she has a chance at the nomination, though she very well may become the founder of a new party made up of the majority of us who consider ourselves totally disgusted with both the Republicans AND the Democrats.

Party politics in this country has evolved a clump of idiots that think party is more important than honesty and humility.

We see through them and will no longer vote for them. For a while, we’ll be forced to vote against whoever is in power until both parties are too weak to keep us down. Then we will be able to field citizens who put country first.

If this is “radical talk” from your perspective, then you obviously don’t understand the history of this country and reveal youself as a party slave. We feel sorry for you. Prepare to lose.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:26:01 +0000

My parents ditched the GOP this year. When asked about their opinion of where that party was headed? “Scary, it’s just gotten so extreme.”

By: John

John — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:58:21 +0000

Kevin, bear with me for just a second here. Let’s assume a context other than the political arena (if that’s at all possible in this hyper-politicized, partisan-ized world). Let’s assume you’re, I don’t know, a businessman or the head of a major foundation of some sort, and you’ve got a serious, complicated, adult-world problem that requires you seriously to contemplate a variety of complex, interrelated issues and personalities, and that demands that you be able to sort through it all in a responsible, organized, coherent, articulate way, and then PERFORM in such a fashion that the matter gets resolved in the most efficient and productive way possible under the circumstances. It’s just you and two advisors in the room, and you’ve got to start making real decisions, and taking real actions now, or this very real and serious problem is going to start getting worse. The two advisors are Barack Obama and Sarah Palin, with no agenda other than to give you the very best input they are capable of. If you are honestly going to tell me that you would turn, at a time of great urgency, to the likes of Sarah Palin rather than Barack Obama, for measured, calm, intelligent, well-informed, dispassionate, serious advice and counsel about a serious problem, well . . . I can’t help you. I do know that if that was an example of your judgment under pressure, and you were my employee . . . I’d fire you.

By: evenu

evenu — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:48:11 +0000

There are certainly many on the right who are capable; who take the business of governing the nation seriously; and who have responsible policy prescriptions for these trying times. But, alas, it appears all of them have been cowed by the current mania in the GOP that celebrates ignorance, that believes a simple “No!” uttered loud enough is an apposite counter proposal. GOP is so scared of Obama that they are determined to oppose his administration at all costs. Be damn the country! … Some program, eh!

Still: I’m optimistic. If the GOP wants to nominate a Right-wing Mondale, who are we to deny them the pleasure?

By: Charles Sarno

Charles Sarno — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:06:44 +0000

@ Catron #3 That was a pretty mindless response to the other more substantive posts. Perhaps you should be the one rereading 1984.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:18:33 +0000

Matt,

What the heck is a “True Blue American” and who is qualified to make that determination? This is not a country built on badges of “American” heritage. This is a country built on a legal process. (That’s what the constitution represents.)

The current occupant of the office is just as “American” as Sarah Palin and he was put there by a majority of Americans in a legal election. If you want to take “your” country back, run a worthy candidate capable of persuading the majority of our democracy that his or her policies and character are superior to Mr. Obama’s. Also, while you may believe the policies of the current administration are destroying this country, you are only deluding (and marginalizing) yourself by claiming that the Democrats’ “goal” is to destroy the nation. In fact, they just have a different view about how to improve the country.

By: MJ

MJ — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:58:58 +0000

Just because a book is a “bestseller” doesn’t make it good.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:56:20 +0000

John, I feel your pain, except for me it goes like this:

“Really? Barack Obama? You want to see Barack Obama become the single most important and powerful person on the planet? You want to put your future and the well-being of the country in the hands of Barack Obama from Chicago, Illinois?”

Good thing he was elected, though. He’s become Jimmy Carter quicker than even Carter did. If the remainder of his term is as bad as these first few months, it will have been well worth the inevitable small-government revolution at the polls in 2012, Palin as the nominee or otherwise.