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The Way Ahead — One Possible Future
Picking up on the earlier comment thread re T.P.M.B (always forget that ‘M’)’s “Star Trek: The Next Generation” banalities, tonight we offer instead a concise, substantive rumination by Douglas Macgregor in AFJ. MacGregor’s a retired Army colonel, thorn in the side of the Army’s status quo and a decorated Persian Gulf War combat veteran. Many [...]
News Alert – Senators Object To Butt Kissing Without A Cheque, When Caught (Updated)
Apparently sycophantic manipulation is ‘troubling’ when there are no bundles of campaign contributions attached. Is anyone really shocked the military would try to manipulate Metropole perceptions of a failing war at the periphery? Really? Update: St. David Petraeus will look into it all. Nothing to see, move along. A brief statement issued by the military [...]
Getting Away From It All
Here’s a hope that everyone enjoys the weekend. That you, Dear Reader, can tune out the media led fixation on the ankle biters downtown. It’s an unholy brew. A rootless media seeks any form of self-generating narrative for lazy producing, story selection, Nielsens and click throughs. And the Movement? It follows centuries of Counter Enlightenment [...]
Obama’s Inauguration 2013: Sometimes A Little Is Enough
Watching Obama move through ritual and choreographed set pieces yesterday, one couldn’t help but imagine it had things gone otherwise in November. That mercy alone validates another 4 years of tactical placeholding. That’s not to say Obama’s post-November actions reek of the same political ineptitude and disengagement that marked his tepid first term. He’s beginning [...]
The Palinista-tea party view of Obama:
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Echoing “Comment”, above. Already Hope’n'Change looks set for a second term, in a win by default. (He’s done barely a thing to really earn it.) Palin can only make things worse for Republicans. Everything I’ve seen says that outside of her Bizarro Land cult, her “popularity” drops every time she opens her mouth. She’s a lightweight and a quitter and a celebrity, and she doesn’t have the brains to try to outgrow that.
And now it’s time to throw “Bulworth” in the Netflix queue again….
We think Palin will resist the idea of running – prefer to demagogue from the lucrative sidelin – But we think she will let emotion defeat her and will end up running, despite herself -
Inquire, you’ve said it spot on. And it is as you note, there’s also the irony. Although spoke with a senior Fox News personality/Republican operative who disdains Palin as well who believes Palin’s goal is to be an Oprah-like behind the scenes Queen qua King Maker.
IMO – if Palin gets the nom – Obama would probably outdo LBJ in ’64 — It would truly make the GOP the party of anger and low info conspiracy types -
Palin seem to becoming more of a dips*** every day. Her “RELOAD” comment puts her beyond the pale and the liberal media would never let a Dem pol get away with something like that – but they excuse her because they think she is a frosty redneck and doesn’t know better.
I hate to stoke the Palin fires, but it’s hard to argue with Sullivan in this piece where he takes on David Brooks. I too have advocated a strong line of intentionally neglecting her as the most effective weapon against Palin’s attention-powered ways (to quote the Simpons, ‘Just don’t look’ and the adver-monsters die).
But perhaps Sullivan is right. Ironically, if he is, then trying to refute or scrutinize her only gives her more power and does nothing to affect the ‘anti-reality’ crowd who will be yea or nay based on their gut and not what cogent arguments appear.
The most sobering phrase:
All this media hogging and money grabbing is simply fueling the fire for any desired self-funded run at any office she chooses.
I would like to know what herr Doktor thinks of this latest mutation.