Charles Krauthammer doesn't like 'liberals' talking about Sarah Palin either

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It's interesting to see establishment republicans complaining about the coverage and attention Sarah Palin is getting. She's fast becoming the most prominent face of the republican party and she threatens to bring the worst they have to offer out into the open in the next presidential election. Even if she manages to lose the republican nomination, she'll likely continue to ride out her popularity with their expansive base of bigots and birthers to the end of the election in an independent bid.

What Palin does to the republican party is to force the candidates to cater to their rabid electorate and to make their lowest common denominators their primary appeal. That's not going to bode well for attracting the independents and others they need to top off their marginal percentage of self-identified republican voters.

Establishment republicans would like nothing more than for the media and 'liberals' to stop highlighting every foolish and despicable word she utters as the embodiment of their party-of-no. Even 'blue blood' Barbara Bush hopes Palin decides to 'stay in Alaska', but Democrats can benefit from her polarizing, yet, high political profile. Nothing the republicans assert in the next two years will be allowed to stand without filtering through the Wassilla Whiner's shrill, demagogic definition from the far-right. Each of their presidential pretenders will be forced to parse their policies and pronouncements to appeal to Palin's pusillanimous posse.

Not even Krauthammer is willing to dismiss her out of hand. On PBS’ Inside Washington this week, Krauthammer complained that liberals were acting as if “the whole of conservatism in America is encapsulated in this one glorious woman . . . in the liberal imagination she is and will always be the only representative of conservatism.”

He's right. I'd go a step further. To most Americans right now, Sarah Palin is the republican party. It's good to see just how much that gets under their skin.


here's Colby King pressing Krauthammer on IW:

COLBY KING, WASHINGTON POST: She is the most significant Republican, conservative around. She brought this your party back from oblivion to this wonderful state that it is in now...

NINA TOTENBERG, NPR: (Laughter)

KING: ...where the nation’s Democrats are quaking in their wake.

KRAUTHAMMER: You see what I mean?

KING: You ought to be proud of her. The elites, the elitists in the Republican Party puts this poor woman from Wasilla down. I think it’s a shame.

KRAUTHAMMER: Perfect evidence of how liberals are obsessed with Sarah Palin.


Perfect.

[lob1]

1. That's right, liberals gave Palin her job at Fox Propaganda.

It's common knowledge.

[gratuitous]

2. Krauthammer fails the lie detector

If the Republicans were really proud of Sister Sarah, laughter from the liberals wouldn't faze them in the least. But Krauthammer gets very defensive, and yaps about liberals being "obsessed" with Palin. You'd think a guy who makes his living writing would know that he wants the word "amused," not "obsessed."

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3. we've been diligent

I think most of us lost our sense of humor a long time ago about her ignorant and racist bleatings and attacks.

[David__77]

4. We need to keep her in the spotlight.

She will absolutely prevent the consolidation of a winning Republican coalition. Republicans are deluded about the meaning of the last election, just as some Democrats were about the two elections before that.

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5. exactly

she's our wedge.

[alphafemale]

6. She gives Karl Rove hives. That's good enough for me.

:rofl:

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7. lol

[applegrove]

8. He said something nice about her choice of where she signs books: in Iowa.

I think he is making nice with her. He should. She's using his bag of tricks.

[otohara]

9. This Poor Woman from Wassilla?

Hardly poor anymore and she's got the attitude to go with the bucks.

[Rex]

10. People that write for a RW rag have 1 braincell

maybe 2 if at least a small portion of the brain is not rotten and still functional. Charles has zero, just repeats whatever he hears.

[onethatcares]

11. can we make charlie use the stairs?

instead of those damn liberal ramps?

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12. heh

:spank:

[PCIntern]

13. I hope you're right but I heard this about Reagan...

sorry, had to say it again...

[immoderate]

14. Funny, that.

In another thread, I mused whether she would run for a second term.

--imm

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15. she can't win

. . . with her only advantage her ability to appeal to the knuckle-draggers who make up the republican base of voters.

Quinnipiac is showing Obama with a 44 to 37 percent advantage over Palin among independent voters. That gap's just going to widen.

[immoderate]

19. In one of the parallel universes she wins. This could be it.

Say Reagan can't happen. Or Bush. Oh no! They (the people) couldn't be that stupid. But new barriers are being broken every day.

The joke is that Obama is Bush Lite (except where he's heavier.) So if TPTB decides that the bilking and pillaging is getting out of hand (like they did with the credit card scams) they'll allow the slower steadier Obama to carry out the master plan.

--imm

[devilgrrl]

16. Charles Krauthammer doesn't like anything.

He's the ultimate misanthrope. And miserable too boot.

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17. Palin rivals him

. . . in her willingness to say any ridiculous thing and stick to it; even with the truth nailed to her forehead. That's saying something for CK.

[XanaDUer]

18. Tough titties, there, Chuckles

nt.