printShe jumped on the opportunity to run on a ticket that supported legalizing 20 million of “God’s children,” John McCain’s misty-eyed moniker for illegal immigrants. While campaigning in 2008, Sarah Palin parroted the McCain position on immigration, still does in many respects.
Now, “Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Sunday that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) has ‘the cojones’ that President Obama ‘does not have’ to take on illegal immigration.”
This is, first, a stupid statement, because untrue: Obama doesn’t lack for political audacity to pass his legislative agenda. This he has proven. Moreover, a lack of courage is more forgivable than an ideological, intentional refusal to allow the enforcement of immigration laws, which is Obama’s stance. BHO is purposefully preventing Arizona from doing the work he doesn’t want done.
That was the position Palin’s running mate held, before he got religion on enforcement and befriended the fabulous Sheriff Paul Babeu from Pinal County.
And for cowardice and cunning on the border look no further than Bush. Palin has had kind words to say about Genghis B.
UPDATE I ** (Aug. 4): (This update was written on the 2th, but did not update, for some reason. Read it.) A COUPLE OF POINTS: The fact that Palin picks winners matters not. The Flo-trained chimp from the Progressive Insurance ads produces winning combination too. What we need to look at is whether Palin picks principled candidates for office. Carly Fiorina and McCain may have been polite picks, but they were no good. She did well to endorse Rand Paul. So Sarah, a feminist by any other name, was calling BHO a metrosexual. Yes, BHO is not manly; he definitely qualifies as androgynous, a quality not many black men have assimilated, other than Don Lemon of CNN. Come to think of it, good for black men: they have certainly retained their secondary male characteristics: deep voices, confident stride, loud laugh, etc. Black men do not sound like the feminine, younger, white boys of the TV commentariat—liberal and conservative—with their high-pitched voices, fussy cadence, and fancy eye-wear. In their defense, a loss of testosterone is, partly, involuntary. Perhaps women like BHO b/c he is so soft and unmanly. But I digress. Myron was right all along about Sarah being political “cotton candy.” She’s a great personality as a mom, hunter, runner, oil and gas ace (expertise she has never “tapped”). But for the rest: nothing much at all.
UPDATE II (Aug. 4) : In my opinion, Nora makes a good point; Palin’s cojones coinage is tacky. But it goes with the Reality-show flavor her personal life is taking, what with the two, on-again; off again dimwit betrothed; and the neighbor she is always huffing about. Her silent steely husband (I like him); I still think he’s behind the laudable secessionist sentiments Sarah has disavowed. The Dude, btw, does not belong to the Party of Dumb Dames.
Sarah is a two edged sword indeed. She’s like a 1000 puund bull trying to sit down at tea and not break the dishes. Her suport of McCain was unfortunate but in the eyes of many inevitable due to his bringing her out of the wilderness. There are lot of questions about Sarah such as her kingmaking efforts of endorsing candidates. Nearly all would be my choice if I were voting in that particular election but it is disturbing, to me at least, that all are women. Maybe the Republicans need more men with cajones. More on Sarah later, I’m sure.
Ah, Sarah Palin, what can you say about her? Another politician that has regard for the American people? Is she really any different than Mr. Obama? I think Mr. Obama said that America was and idea rather than a place.(paraphrasing) How can we be sure that Mrs. Palin doesn’t feel the same way?
I want AZ Governor Jan Brewer to show papers to prove she’s a human being. I think it was FOX that did a show on extraterrestrials that live among us, and Governor Brewer does resemble some alien from a B Movie, “Invasion of the Brain Snatchers”, right? I’ve have my suspicions about people like Jan Brewer, Mitch McConnell and Karl Rove because of their lack of human qualities.
As far as the immigration issue goes… Republicans never made a big deal about immigration enforcement during Bush/Cheney but NOW all conservative hell is breaking loose… even though the Obama Administration is deporting MORE illegal’s than Bush ever did. Maybe we should adopt Ronald Wilson Reagan’s immigration policy (look it up morons)
And funny how I didn’t hear NOT ONE WORD on the Cable News about AZ Gov. Jan Brewer’s connection with the Corrections Corp of America. Not to mention I could stop this immigration problem with one thing… ARREST ALL THOSE conservative business people WHO ARE HIRING THE ILLEGAL WORKERS! Republican Party = Hypocrisy
On 7-28-10 I was watching Republicans on Morning Joe (MSNBC) preach about being ADULTS when it comes to our economic meltdown. I say BS! The real ADULTS are trying to demand accountability from those who got us in this financial mess. Republicans want to shift the burden of responsibility on
American working class, teachers, poor people, unions and immigrants. [I suggest you acquire a rudimentary understanding of economics by reading through the Articles Archive and the Blog Archives under Economy, Debt, Federal Reserve Bank, Inflation.]
I wonder if the spoiled Silver Spoons on Morning Joe knew how much they hurt Democrats, Progressives, Liberals when they didn’t challenge NJ Gov. Christie. NOW all over the internet the Conservative wacko groupies are swooning all over Christie like he was a rock star. Of course, because of these Republican low grade thought processes, the right wing monkeys now consider American working class, teachers, poor people, unions and immigrants the biggest threat to our economy.
What kind of Americans are stupid enough to believe that decent wages, decent working conditions, enforcing again regulation, reforming our broken financial system and broken healthcare are BAD THINGS! Especially letting all those tax breaks for the rich expire (ten years is enough!) [While you’re at it, look over the same sites recommended above to learn about the proper scope of a constitutional government, the kind the Founders bequeathed to us] so the rich can again pay their fair share. When the Republicans were running things they started two wars they did not want to finish, set us up for financial system failure and took tax dollars away from grade schools to give BP tax breaks/subsidies (Corporate Welfare). DON’T BELIEVE ME, CHECK IT OUT FOR YOURSELVES! consciousmc.blogspot.com
The cajones is a great remark because it isn’t really about whether Obama has guts on the issue of illegal immigration, as you correctly pointed out. It’s about warming up the country to the idea that Obama is essentially a eunuch. Only Sarah Palin can do this. And if the gross effect of denigrating Obama’s holy ’08 aura is to move 5% of his voters off of him, then I’m all for Palin commenting on huevos or the lack thereof of male pols.
It’s apparent to me that Palin said many things during her August-November romance with Sen. McCain. She was being a team player. Does it mean she doesn’t have first principles? I get the feeling she’s still learning.
By the way, Sarah Palin hasn’t been playing kingmaker for female candidates exclusively. And it’s worth noting that, while democrat candidates are running away from CaptainAmerica, the MammaBear is 24-5 in contests where she endorsed someone (I read that somewhere).
For the other commenter: Let’s not start drawing equivalencies between candidates just because they happen to be politicians. Palin, no matter what I may think of her, is not the same as Obama. Michelle Bachmann, Nikki Haley, Rand Paul articulate a different idea of the role of government in our lives compared to Obama. Period.
(1) PALIN – she is intellectual cotton candy to constitutional libertarians – sweet tasting but completely empty calories. The she gets treated like some oracle of wisdom from Mt. Sinai just shows how debased our media and popular culture has declined. She is a CONSERVATIVE Republican with a talent for gathering attention.
(2) SPO101 seems COMPLETELY IGNORANT of Ilana Mercer who has consistently raked idiotic and hypocritical Republicans (deservedly) over the coals for as long as I can certainly remember. As for “decent wages” for all being a “bad thing” – YES – because they must be earned. It would be nice to have a minimum wage of $ 50 / hour if some benevolent Martians were going to foot the bill – until then, a free people should take responsibility for their own lives. Any other philosophy winds up in a combination of tyranny and/or
bankruptcy.
We can lambast the Republicans all we want to. The Democrats too. But the fact remains illegal immigration is a situation serious enough to adversely affect our total way of life. Urban legends about taxing the rich and the effect of the Bush tax cuts and whatever Jan Brewer did before don’t mean squat. We’ve got a serious situation and at least some people are trying to get it sorted out. All of you wise and learned observers of the passing parade seem to have the attitude that if a situation was caused or advanced by stupidity or corruption or political wrong doings all that is required is writing clever opinions. I feel we should fight it out, get the problem solved and then worry about how it happened. Of course with a significant part of the country, including the government, supporting the criminal situation this problem solving is problematic at best.
SPO101, got out of kindergarten,(writes like a 18 year old Liberal boy- ie judges by looks) wandered into a Libertarian website and thought he/she was on a Republican site. If he had read the article, he would have noted that it was about Palin and was critical of her and other Republicans. If anything, the writer should have been in agreement with your take on ‘Palin’ but was just another mud throwing attack so popular these days. I doubt if SPO101 is even interested in economics or the tax structure of the country to understand anything. If this is another example of what this country is coming to, I’m packing my bags for Belize.
Obama has the cajones when he wants to do something that supports his statist ideology. Clearly he does not want to enforce he border.
As I’ve stated before, Sarah Palin can be depended upon to do what is necessary to keep herself in power (she was quick to associate herself with the TP when it was gaining traction). What principles she has (if any) are so amorphous that voters have no real reason to trust her.
That being said, if I have to suffer Sarah’s presence on the political stage, I would prefer that we use her for our ends rather than vice versa. If the immigration debate goes where I think it will, Palin will go to bat for the winning side: the restrictionists. She is very charismatic and seems to strike a chord with working-class Americans, those most directly effected by the southern invasion. She can be very useful so long as she is kept in line.
I have long had mixed feelings about Sarah Palin. I would agree with those who have pointed out how viciously she has been attacked by the liberal media, simply for being a pro-life, white, conservative woman, as opposed to a Hillary-style left-wing hack.
Her political ambition, on the other hand, concerns me. She is a woman with young children, yet she seems willing to push them aside to seek out all this political pomp and glory. Her abandoning her governorship of Alaska also does not reflect well upon her or abilities. She clearly does not have her priorities in order. Nor does she seem to articulate a consistent and coherent political philosophy by which to judge her. Instead she seems to be content with all the usual Republican talking points about “small government”, “low taxes”, and a “strong national defense” without actually bothering to explain what these mean.
Now if it came to it, I could plug my nose and vote for her if she was the candidate against Obama in 2012, but she has a long way to go before I would actually consider her a figure I trust and respect.
The political essence of the statement aside, on a purely emotional level, a woman who publicly uses male genitalia as a metaphor for a man’s way of doing something has lost my respect.
Why focus on the perceived contradictions of Palin? Isn’t there sufficient leftist hypocrisy, lies, inconsistencies, subterfuge etc. to fill the next thousand blog entries or so?
And why toss out the denigration, as in “a stupid statement”? Can’t you just disagree with Palin and leave it at that?
Ok. Nora, your “argument” seems awfully lacking in intellectual maturity and appears supported by emotion not fact. Can you please expand on your rationale for disrespecting Sarah Palin regarding her use of the said metaphor involving “male genitalia”? Is it that it is a poor representation of “political audacity” as our beloved and ingenious host indicates or is it something more substantive that bothers you?