Hardly the ink was dry from our last front page piece, “Sarah Palin – Lost In The Election Fog”, where we conveyed our dismay that Sarah was advocating the dreadful continuation of the Republican debates and the mud slinging between Republicans – that she calls with the euphemism “hardening of the steel” – than the prominent Democratic propaganda sheet of The New York Times publishes an editorial titled, “Don’t Stop the Debates”. They seem hard press to contain their glee about the bloodshed and ravages these are causing and they are all in for the continuation of the mud slinging that is going on among Republican candidates. They said, “The long series of debates are an open window onto the failed policies and dubious values of the Republican Party.”
That Sarah Palin and the New York Times agree on something so strategically important for the coming election needs to be scrutinized and discerned. Sarah Palin is advocating the continuation of this destructive process for too obvious a reason. The horse that she is backing has fallen behind and its only chance of recovery is if these debates and acrimony continue – even if the “hardening of the steel” becomes the “burial by excrement”. If in the process the Republican candidate – whomever it finally arrives to the election – becomes so weak that President Obama will get easily elected, she apparently doesn’t care.
She should come clean, endorse Gingrich officially, and campaign hard and openly without pretending that she speaks for true conservatives in all issues
We are not condemning Sarah Palin for taking sides – it is obviously her prerogative – but we propose that she should come clean, endorse Gingrich officially, and campaign hard and openly without pretending that she speaks for true conservatives in all issues that Mr. Gingrich embraces. Sarah needs to free herself from pretending that capitalism, individualism, free enterprise, anti-establishment, and fiscal prudence, are her ultimate and unequivocal goals when these contravene Speaker Gingrich campaign actions. If in the future Mr. Gingrich deviates from conservative principles of free trade and free enterprise during the campaign, as he has done already in the Bain Capital case, Sarah would be under no obligation to defend capitalism, and her rationalizations of the issues would be understood for what they are – an obligation to defend her candidate. After all, it would still be his platform, not Sarah’s. As it is, when Newt’s worst instincts get the better of him – as they have and they will again – like accusing his opponent of being against “holocaust survivors”, Sarah, in her independent commentator’s role, has no option but to condemn. We are still waiting on this one!
At least the NYT is sincere about its motives
In her present double-agent role, Sarah claims to speak for the Tea Party’s anti-establishment position, while rooting for the most establishment of all candidates – Newt Gingrich. If the former Speaker of the House, Congressman, and Washington K Street resident, does not qualify as establishment, we would await with trepidation Sarah’s definition of it. We are not arguing against Sarah or against Gingrich. Newt has many qualities, not least of which are a promising tax reform proposal with a good potential to instill growth in the economy; an immigration policy that is quite realistic and pragmatic; and different proposals to attack and control the growth of entitlements, especially those of Medicare and Medicaid. There would be no shame if Sarah helps to propagate his positives without pretensions, or having to engage in the rationalization and defense of some of his candidate populist positions. After all, as we pointed out in “The Creation of the Conservative-Populist”, Gingrich has discovered the strategic persona of the new populist Republican taken directly from the Democratic book of ‘How to Win Elections’.
But it is time that Sarah Palin changes her pretension of ‘unbiased’ commentator at Fox News and join the official campaign of Newt Gingrich.
Are you certain she’s a Gingrich backer?
Well, CT, you be the judge:
Todd Palin endorsed Gingrich.
Sarah said North Carolinians should vote for Newt, when he was ahead.
She also said that Floridians should vote for Newt, when he was behind.
She made excuses when Newt went desperado in attacking free enterprise on the Bain Capital issue.
She talks anti-establishment, but would vote for the most establishment candidate.
She deplores the negativity of the campaign, but wants it to continue. It is just a coincidence that Gingrich is not the one leading.
She says that the most important thing is to defeat Obama, but wants you to vote for the man with the highest negative ratings and with the worst Poll results in direct head-to-head against Obama.
She is a treasure trove of contradictions.
You tell me.
I would rather they go though the fire now and learn how to deal with the scrutiny, than get blindsided by BO. Honestly, I don’t care at all for the two front runners, they seem like John McCain part two to me.
Trestin, there is much to the idea of going through the fire before Obama unloads it later, just as long as the survivor doesn’t come out charred.
There is a difference between McCain and the two leading contenders. McCain could not talk himself out of a paper bag. Both, Romney and Gingrich are educated in economics and most other subjects, and they are more fluid in their rhetoric. They can take it to Obama better than McCain.
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I’m sorry but I dont’ agree with your post. I get emails from Sarah regularly and she recently wrote one of how disgusted she was at this. She beleives in good, clean, debate that allows us to be able to make our own decisions. So I’m not on the same page as you are in regards to Sarah. Sorry.
No need to be sorry, Dominique. We value your opinion at any rate.
Perhaps we would agree if the debate would take place within the parameters you mention, “good” and “clean”. But it hasn’t. The proof is that as the debates progressed into their nasty venue, the poll numbers of President Obama steadily climbed.
We have an extended analysis of Sarah Palin actions in this campaign in our piece “Sarah Palin: When Success Can Be A Failure” of a couple of days ago at our own site Robbing America Chronicle in case you are interested.
Just give it to us the way you see it.