By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Sarah Palin is "going rogue." That's the big story among the Washington media elite on Saturday. But here's the other part of the story.
As Palin aides drop hints that she's distancing herself from John McCain, they also are positioning Palin to become the GOP standard bearer.
It makes sense, scary as it sounds.
If McCain loses, he's of course no longer the GOP leader.
Others he defeated in the 2008 primaries -- especially Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney -- could battle to take over leadership of the Republican Party.
But neither one of them comes close to matching Palin's star power, certainly with the large conservative wing of the GOP.
As the Politico Web site put it Saturday:
"Some see her as a charismatic, hawkish conservative leader with the potential, still unrealized, to cross over to attract moderate voters."
So what's that mean? Another battle is ahead for the soul of the Republican Party, as the conservatives fight the more moderate factions to see who's going to be on the ticket in 2012.
At this point, the moderate faction has one big hope:
That the McCain-Palin ticket goes down in flames so badly on Nov. 4 that the conservative political leaders lose a lot of credibility with millions of GOP voters.
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Southern smiles and world peace,
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Hey mainstream,
I just saw your Paris-Palin Moose-ilini comment...that truly cracked me up.
A year later, and it is still funny. Keep up the good work and come by sometime and have a mint julep or some green tea with me.
Southern smiles and world peace (that would be a world with out Sarah Palin),
Sharon
~The Baby Boomer Queen~
AKA/BBQ
The sad thing is that Paris Palin won't get the irony of the name Moose-ilini, because she more than likely has never heard of Mussolini, or if she has, she would guess him to be a famous opera star.
How pathetic.
Anon Sources..
Anonymous sources is plain laziness by the media and cowardice by the one talking. Or its passing on inaccurate and erroneous information to a more than willing media flunky. Incompetence, laziness, dishonesty, etc.
Sarah Palin
The first two lines of Yael's commentary tell all you need to know:
"Sarah Palin is "going rogue." That's the big story among the Washington media elite on Saturday. But here's the other part of the story.
As Palin aides drop hints that she's distancing herself from John McCain, they also are positioning Palin to become the GOP standard bearer.
It makes sense, scary as it sounds."
Note particularly: "media elite", "scary as it sounds". Another so-called newsperson who worships at the altar of 'The Obama'.
What makes you more uncomfortable, the fact she does not bow to "the media elite", or simply the 'R' after her name?
I know the answer to this one
It doesn't. It uses anonymous sources all the time, no matter the perceived agenda. Your premise is faulty.
pray tell, why?
Why does the mainstream media use annonymous sources as foundations for stories ONLY when the stories support the left leaning agendas that they foster?
Peski
I have shown you sites that have DEBUNKED it and that Newsweek article says so as well.
Like I said, I can only assume you read stuff on blogs and take it as fact. Then repeat it. Either way, you have NOT shown any proof of the 'kill him' storyline. And this is a pro-Obama site, and NO ONE else has come up with any proof either.
As of this point, it was all made up by a couple of Obama supporters who work in newspapers (as if there isn't enough of them).
Interface, still accusing people of being paid trolls. Pot, meet kettle.
Joinamerica gets all "In The Ghetto"
Joinamerica is my new favorite blogger. Not because I agree with any of the paid messages distributed on behalf of the GOP but rather because most of them are laughable. I forward them to friends and don't have to add anything for them to get the joke. On another thread, he/she talks about hearing the cries of desperate people in Chicago's ghettos. The idea of a Palin/McCain supporter presuming to understand anything beyond their gated communities is funny enough but wow, the ghetto. Next thing you know, joinamerica will be dropping a little Spanish and claiming insights into the barrio. Man, I can almost hear Elvis singing "In the Ghetto" right now ... keep blogging, joinamerica, because if I could pick my opponent in a debate I'd pick you and wouldn't even bother to get a decent night's sleep or eat a sensible breakfast.
BabyBoomerQueen, BBQ
Anybody with these initials is alright by me.
I think the governor has some serious work to do before she'd ever be a viable contender for much of anything. Right now I doubt she could get herself re-elected as governor but she has a couple of years if she can manage to stay out of any more trouble. Maybe, if Ted Stevens gets convicted they can put a place holder in his senate seat until she reinvents herself. She'll need at least a few years (or terms) in the senate before she could overcome the damage she's done to herself. Newt Gingrich has re-emerged as a senior statesman if he can do it anybody can.