Sarah Palin, Right Again
Back in 2007, presidential candidate Barack Obama suggested that he'd violate the sovereignty of Pakistan in order to fight terrorism.
His opponent, John McCain, scoffed. From the 2008 Time Capsule:
During Friday's debate, Obama criticized the Bush administration for sending billions of dollars in aid to Pakistan without ridding the border region of terrorists.
"If the United States has al Qaeda, bin Laden, top-level lieutenants in our sights, and Pakistan is unable or unwilling to act, then we should take them out," Obama added.
McCain fired back hard, arguing that newly elected Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari has had his "hands full" and suggesting that Obama's tough talk was na?ve.
"You don't say that out loud," McCain said. "If you have to do things, you have to do things, and you work with the Pakistani government."
And then a kerfuffle erupted. It was that rogue Sarah Palin. She disagreed with her running mate. Again, from the time capsule:
Palin's apparent disagreement with McCain's position on Pakistan came as the Alaska governor was picking up a couple of cheesesteaks at Tony Luke's in South Philadelphia. She was approached by a man wearing a Temple University t-shirt, who later identified himself as Michael Rovito.
"How about the Pakistan situation?" Rovito asked. "What's your thoughts about that."
"In Pakistan?" Palin responded.
"What's going on over there, like Waziristian?"
"It's working with Zardari to make sure that we're all working together to stop the guys from coming in over the border," Palin said. "And we'll go from there."
"Waziristan is blowing up," Rovito replied.
"Yeah, it is," Palin said. "And the economy there is blowing up, too."
"So we do cross-border, like from Afghanistan to Pakistan, you think?" Rovito asked.
"If that's what we have to do stop the terrorists from coming any further in, absolutely, we should," Palin said.
I especially love the cheesesteak detail. She's right, she's clear, she's decisive, and she's carrying a couple of cheesesteaks.
I know I've been tough on her, but you have to give her credit: she was right and McCain was wrong.
(Hat tip, by the way, to the very witty and incisive Ben Domenech, who can be found here and here.)
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Dec '10
Re: Sarah Palin, Right Again
Funny how Sarah Palin is right much more often than John McCain or Barack Obama, or Ben Bernanke, or Tim Geithner....
Jun '10
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She's often spot on. Thanks, Rob, for giving her some credit.
Mar '11
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Yes, it's amazing how someone so stupid is right, so often.
Pity the lamesteam media did such a good job of persuading even some otherwise-sensible Republicans that she is stupid and un-electable, because she is too, umm, polarizing - i.e. she disagrees with Mr Obama and turns off the Rino squishes.
Jul '10
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David Williamson:
Pity the lamesteam media did such a good job of persuading even some otherwise-sensible Republicans that she is stupid and un-electable
What? We can't think for ourselves? I don't pay any attention to the mainstream media...no magazines, newspapers, television. I'm really tired of people assuming that those of us who have reservations about Palin are dupes. I've seen enough of her to make up my own mind, thank you.
Jul '10
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I'm not convinced she's finished yet and she's pretty likely to get my vote in the primary if she runs--though a lot of that has to do with New York being late enough in the game that it really won't matter much who I vote for in the primary. At this point in 2007, McCain's candidacy was a joke and Obama was 30 points below Clinton, so...anything could happen. The woman definitely hits her mark an awful lot, that's for sure.
Jan '11
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I think Sarah would make a great President probably because she thinks like I do. She has checked a fierce opposition at every turn and is the most vetted person on earth. She was wounded early because McCain didn't protect her, He thought the MSM's were his buds. She got the treatment because she was single handedly kicking O's Behiid until the crash.
As "drill baby drill" gets more important so will Sarah. She is smarter than she was concerning the press and this time there will be no rescue from the economy for O.B. I can't wait to see Katie's face Election Eve along with the other folks that would say anything to keep Sarah from her Destiny. So let it be written. So let it be done.
Anyway that is my dream scenario (watching Nixon win in 1968 I know anything can happen in Pres politics). At this point it is as good a scenario as anybody else's and I have the benefit of backing a true Conservative. If not Mitch Daniels will do.
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Dec '10
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John France: Anyway that is my dream scenario (watching Nixon win in 1968 I know anything can happen in Pres politics). At this point it is as good a scenario as anybody else's and I have the benefit of backing a true Conservative. If not Mitch Daniels will do.
. · May 4 at 11:53am
Sadly, Mitch Daniels is making Hamlet look like a paragon of decisiveness:
"His ambivalence about running seems real. 'I encouraged four different people to run,' he says, and failed. (He wouldn’t name them but Haley Barbour appears to have been one of them.) At one point he used the words 'if I talk myself into this' when discussing a run of his own. Why might he run? “I believe the country’s at a very perilous point arithmetically. And I haven’t yet—still hope to—seen anyone else step up to it. . . . So far my brethren have been a little hesitant.'”
Ummm... "arithmetically"? We're in twenty different kinds of peril, and arithmetic is hardly the root cause of them.
Aug '10
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Rob Long, rehabilitating Sarah Palin. Wow.
Dec '10
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"Instugator
Rob Long, rehabilitating Sarah Palin. Wow".
I, too, felt a disturbance in the force. I thought it was a headache, so I took some aspirin. Then I saw this post.
Mar '11
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Kenneth
What? We can't think for ourselves? I don't pay any attention to the mainstream media...no magazines, newspapers, television. I'm really tired of people assuming that those of us who have reservations about Palin are dupes. I've seen enough of her to make up my own mind, thank you. · May 4 at 10:41am
Needless to say, I wasn't referring to you, Kenneth, nor the Ricochet Sarah Palin fan club. I was trying to explain why Sarah Palin's poll numbers are so low. You might be right about her shortcomings (of which I can see none - lol).
BTW, she is right again on Bin Laden's photos.
Edited on May 4, 2011 at 4:10pmMar '11
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Stuart Creque
Sadly, Mitch Daniels is making Hamlet look like a paragon of decisiveness:
Yeah, just what we want - another indecisive President. Why anyone would prefer Mitch Daniels over Sarah Palin is totally beyond me ;-)
Edited on May 4, 2011 at 4:20pmDec '10
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David Williamson
Yeah, just what we want - another indecisive President. Why anyone would prefer Mitch Daniels over Sarah Palin is totally beyond me ;-) · May 4 at 4:14pm
Edited on May 04 at 04:20 pm
Mitch Daniels has a lot to recommend him. Sarah Palin, in my humble opinion, has a lot more.
Jan '11
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Is there any issue about which Sarah Palin isn't right?
Kind of leads to a certain conclusion, doesn't it?
Re: Sarah Palin, Right Again
CJRun: "Instugator
Rob Long, rehabilitating Sarah Palin. Wow".
I, too, felt a disturbance in the force. I thought it was a headache, so I took some aspirin. Then I saw this post. · May 4 at 3:03pm
I know what you mean. I felt weird writing it. But then, sometimes the truth is weird.
Mar '11
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Freesmith: Is there any issue about which Sarah Palin isn't right?
Kind of leads to a certain conclusion, doesn't it? · May 4 at 7:12pm
Which is?
Sep '10
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I, too, felt a disturbance in the force.
I assumed it was the Chipotle's I had yesterday that didn't agree with me.
Jan '11
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David Williamson
Freesmith: Is there any issue about which Sarah Palin isn't right?
Kind of leads to a certain conclusion, doesn't it? · May 4 at 7:12pm
Which is? · May 5 at 12:38am
Palin for President, 2012.
Mar '11
Re: Sarah Palin, Right Again
The nomination is hers if she wants it. It's both comical and sad that conservative pundits leave her out of the mix when discussing potential primary candidates.
Denial.