What Do Conservatives Think of Palin?

4. September 2008, 12:16 Uhrtgirsch

You hear a lot about “liberals” wailing about the Palin pick. But what do conservative commentators and consultants think, when they think the mic is off?

Not exactly a ringing endorsement, if you ask me.

Seems to me, Gov. Palin is popular with gun nuts, far-right religious conservatives, and pretty much nobody else.

Via ObWi.

12 comments:

  1. glendean, 4. September 2008, 12:22

    This website has been rocking the last few days. It’s awesome.

    Is anybody getting any work done btw :)

     
  2. tgirsch, 4. September 2008, 13:14

    Work? :)

     
  3. serr8d, 4. September 2008, 13:54

    What do conservatives think of Palin?

    “I fear all we have done is awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.”

    -Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

     
  4. serr8d, 4. September 2008, 13:55

    I’m off today. Working on my pool.

    I have more vacation days than I can take in a year (25) so, when I can, I take one.

     
  5. serr8d, 4. September 2008, 13:58

    That resolve, BTW, is to finish off this Obama twerp and his neutered pit bull, come November.

    There’s no telling how many votes Piper picked up for Mom last night…

     
  6. Jeffraham Prestonian, 4. September 2008, 14:00

    That resolve, BTW, is to finish off this Obama twerp

    Really? I thought she was running for Vice Moose Catcher, or somethin’.

    :lol:
    .

     
  7. tgirsch, 4. September 2008, 14:07

    Here’s a picture of Palin expressing her principled opposition to the “bridge to nowhere.”

     
  8. serr8d, 4. September 2008, 15:08

    The “Bridge” was covered at American Thinker’s comprehensive rebuttal post; vs KOS #13 …

    As for Palin’s “deep” connections to the “Bridge to Nowhere”, which both the Obama campaign and the DailyKos (#13) call into question? As another post at DailyKos clearly states: “Palin reported to the crowd in Dayton, Ohio. ‘If our state wanted a bridge, I said, we’d build it ourselves.’”. So she’s in favor of the idea of the bridge, but opposed to the method of funding - a secret earmark bestowed in the middle of the night.

    Her real “sin” in the eyes of the Democrats is that Alaska kept the money for the “Bridge to Nowhere”, but allocated it elsewhere. No Governor in their right mind would refuse a check from Washington of over $300 million that can be used for any project that the state desires - again it would be irresponsible to the state’s residents to send it back.

    The rhetoric from the left on this issue conveniently masks the real issue over earmarks. Earmark opponents are not suggesting that all earmark projects are either bad or unnecessary. They’re objecting to the way the money is surreptitiously inserted into the legislative process - in the dead of night, with no debate over the merits of each item. Individuals like McCain and Palin say go ahead and propose these projects - just do it in a fashion that allows each spending measure to be publicly vetted and debated. Submit such a project as the “Bridge to Nowhere” to the appropriations process. And allow earmarks only in very rare and emergency circumstances.

     
  9. Number 9, 4. September 2008, 15:15

    It so sucks to be a hippie now. Have you ever seen the hippies so worked up?

     
  10. tgirsch, 4. September 2008, 15:23

    Serr8d:

    When, exactly, did Palin “tell Congress no” on the bridge to nowhere? When did she refuse federal money that was being offered for that purpose? If you can’t tell me when, then why should I call her statement anything other than A LIE?

     
  11. serr8d, 4. September 2008, 17:03

    She didn’t refuse the money, trig. That would’ve sucked for her constituents. Remember, she’s Governator of Alaska, and that state comes first. She did what’s best for that State.

    She didn’t like the methodology of earmarks. The late-hour no-debate tactics used to slot money for a congressperp’s home.

    Remember too, earmarks aren’t generated by governors. That particular earmark was Ted freakin’ Steven’s love child.

     
  12. Eva, 16. September 2008, 21:07

    Wonderful video find!

     

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