Palin's hand notes & Gibbs shot at women

[BigC]

I was dissapointed in your minimizing the WH press secty's comments about Palin's hand notes.

I'm not a huge Sarah Palin fan but think she'll be an important voice in the conservative movement for years to come. She'll never win national office but will be a Barry Goldwater type voice, a more likeable and reasonable Ann Coulter.

Gibb's smug condescension, echoed by most of the lockstep liberals in the room, masked a shot at women in politics, and in fact women in general. The notes on his hand were about a grocery list, not national or international issues, as if this was what Sarah Palin and all other women should be concerned about.

His comments were infuriating on many levels but this is one most of you missed.

[ArielShaul]

As if anyone would ever elect Gibbs governor of a state or ask him to run for Vice-President... Seriously, Dick Chaney was actually quite formidable and a hard act to follow. The Democrats are afraid that without being the official leader, Sarah could keep the Tea Party just slightly right of center which is the true center of gravity of the American electorate. Far from being crazy, the Tea Party is the first political movement to launch serious primary election challengers that will bring both Republicans and Democrats back from lala land. Far from being radical, the Tea Party repudiates all radical issues and is the cure for Obama's incompatible gang of radicals. The current administration continues to make impossible promises:
1. More stuff for the poor, while consuming less energy and therefore growing the economy too slowly to decrease unemployment;
2. better and cheaper health care for more people, with no actual increase in hospitals, doctors, or nurses;
3. affirming our "alliance" with Israel while undercutting their Knesset and Prime Minister;
4. no middle class tax increases while increasing the budget by over one Trillion Dollars.
The only consistency in the cabinet is their lack of common sense and their arrogant disregard for the real applied mathematicians at the Congressional Budget Office and the Federal Reserve. Many fear that the currency will be debased, but the Fed is a bankers democracy and will protect their own wealth. Others fear large tax increases on the upper middle class, but that is where the Congress and their supporters fall, so that is unlikely. Most likely the interest on our debt will consume so much of the budget that the welfare state will implode, ending welfare for everyone who is not totally disabled. The welfare state was financially unsound anyway, but it is ironic that the left-Democrats are accelerating its collapse. Either the Tea Party will win elections soon, or the left-Democrats will bankrupt their own system and force a return to center-right economics.

[flyphish56]

Ariel---
The above post seems very reasoned and well thought out. I find myself in agreement with one exception. I very much fear that the damage Obama and company will do in thier efforts to "fundimentally change" the country could very easily be enough to make recovery near, if not in fact, impossible.
The American electorate(and here I must include myself) have for too long engaged in popularity politics. We have continually elected "Dr. Feel Good" candidates who promised the undeliverable.
I dearly hope the last few years have been enough to make people realise that they must start to elect people based on who is honest, shares like values and are realistic in what they propose to do if elected. Knee-jerk, golly gee that sounds good votes, without actually researching the viability of the promises made or the cost of keeping them has taken us down a very destructive path. I just wonder if "Joe Sixpack" is willing to do what is nessessary to reverse the trend and force a return to the basic precepts of the constitution.

[ArielShaul]

Warren Buffet, the world's foremost independent stock investor (not a one-company wonder like Bill Gates), told Barack Obama that he could do health care, curtail COs emissions, or expand government. Ignoring Buffet's mathematically sound advice, Obama is doing all three, exploding the deficit while contracting the real (energy-based) economy. You may be correct in that not only will the welfare state and enormous bureaucracy implode for lack of real revenue, it will also bring down our interventionist military and our ability to give aid and influence other countries. It is likely that the US will cease to be a world power when we depend on the largess of China and India, both of which will likely require the US to take a back seat in exchange for their support of our twin deficit. Basically the US needs to become energy and financially independent or cease to be a world power.

[Estil]

I don't get what the problem is with Palin's hand notes. Any public speaking class (I took one in college) will tell you that when giving a speech, you're supposed to have your key ideas/phrases on 3x5 cards so you don't forget what you're speaking about, while at the same time not just reading a whole speech. What Palin did was no different. Yet Obama practically has that silly teleprompter as his security blanket (look on YouTube how he speaks without one, with his uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uhing and you'll see what I mean) and no one in the mainstream media is bothered one little bit.

[Media Rookie]

Sadly, the answer to your question is the left, including the lamestream media of course, cares more for style than substance. Not to mention the double standard the left has when it comes to those that may speak for us on the right.