Palin not qualified? Fearful Rod is at it again

Here's his post for Sunday, July 5

http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2009/07/huckabee-the-palin-dragonsl...

Huckabee: The Palin dragonslayer?
Sunday July 5, 2009
Categories: Republicans
Steve Waldman says that if Sarah Palin is planning a 2012 run for the GOP presidential nomination, only Mike Huckabee can stop her from locking up the religious conservative base.

That sounds about right to me. Strangely enough, the fact that people who are non-religious like Mike Huckabee (vs. Palin, who gives them fits), may actually hurt him with religious conservatives in the GOP. I am reminded of the twin evangelists who used to preach in front of the LSU Student Union -- anyone who was at LSU in the mid-to-late 1980s will remember those guys -- who seemed to measure their own success by how much everybody else despised them. It was bizarre. I was no serious Christian back then, but I couldn't for the life of me understand what those boys hoped to achieve. It was as if they were inspired by the contempt of the crowd.

Similarly with Palin, it's as if any criticism of her is not only dismissed as based entirely on elite prejudice, but is also seen as validating her legitimacy. It's bizarre. Of course there really are elites who are driven berserk by Palin, and who do have an inexplicable obsession with tearing this woman down. Nevertheless, she's not suited for the presidency, and I am a religious conservative who cannot see voting for her, despite initially being impressed by her (and infuriated by those who stopped at nothing to tear her down). Making the right enemies is politically useful, but it's not a qualification for the presidency. Even so, unless Bobby Jindal or Mike Huckabee choose to run in 2012 -- and I think it would be foolish for Jindal to do so at this point -- it's hard to see who's going to carry the social and religious conservative banner.
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My comments:

Well, Rod... Your insistence that Palin isn't viable as president, pretty much seals it for me. I've not been a particular advocate of her being president, but, sometimes, you just have to know people by who their enemies are. Given the caliber of Palin's enemies... She is not just qualified, but would be the most outstandingly good president in history.

From the whiney elites, to the desperate lefties, to the liars in the media, all of whom just explode in completely unprovoked rage at her... That's all I need to know. They are all the most incompetent, useless, ignorant, and stupid people on the planet. What they hate HAS to be good, and not just "good", but a whole universe of "good" beyond their petty and mindless drivel.

And yeah, I'm pretty much anti-elite. You see, we've listened to them for... well... That's how we've all but destroyed the country. Reckless taxation, regulation, spending, laws, incomprehensibly stupid foreign policy... All flows from the "elites" in DC. Every day I meet people with better judgement, more capability, more competence than these people have shown in DC in, well, more than my lifetime.

Frankly, give me some farmers, loggers, miners, ranchers, mechanics, nurses, doctors, plumbers, fishermen, cowboys and a couple of teachers tossed in just for the color, and put them in office. They could actually get things back on track. I mean, they do that kind of stuff every day. They're actually COMPETENT. Not just blowhards.

I can't imagine how you say Palin is unqualified. Look what every pol you advocate is saying and doing. More of the abject mindless stupidity flowing out of Congress and the White House. Our currency is collapsing and they're borrowing trillions at ever higher rates. A half million to a million a month are losing jobs, and they vote to enact a massive tax.

Honduras follows its Constitution, which absolutely prevents anyone from being another Chavez and just taking over... and our government turns on them with fury.

Iran is ever so close to toppling the regime of tyrants and thugs and our "leadership" can't bring itself to give the people a hand. Not even symbolically.

Our tax burden has all but killed any chance of job creation. Yet, raising taxes and massive mandates on employers is being "sold" as "fixing our economy". We're going to fund "health care" by taxing "health care". 10 year olds shriek in merriment at the stupidity of the concept. Tell them that these "taxes" will "reduce the cost" of health care, and they wet their pants laughing, as if it were some alternate reality funnier than any comedy or cartoon ever seen.

Dave Ramsey holds a town hall for hope, and explains to the people how to be financially sensible in a weak economy. It takes him 10 minutes to fully explain what needs to happen and why. Yet, the "elite" in Washington can't grasp it. But us ordinary schmucks can.

Oh, and so can Palin.

So, when you say that she's not qualified to be president, and not "presidential" material, the only thing it can mean, is that she's not dumb enough.

Because, by George, I'm better and more capable of being a GOOD president and making GOOD decisions than EVERY Democrat and 99% of the GOP who's considered the run. Stuff they can't seem to grasp, that's simple and easy to understand is just so frustrating. Maybe it's becuase they chose to live an echo chamber, where intelligent thought never intrudes, and all they hear is the droning of the "elites" with thier mindless and worthless theories.

We, the ordinary and competent people, who run businesses, run our own lives, and conduct the real work of the country, making every aspect of it actually work - unlike the obstructionists in DC who can do nothing but harm us - are sick and tired of the nonsense. Oh, yeah, we're aware of the incompetents among us, but they've always been there. We're just not quite sure how, in the last 200 years, they went from being the village idiots we indulgently cared for, to the government that now demands we obey them, and let them run large segments of our lives for us.

Frankly, the inmates are running the asylum. And I don't care if you call them the "elites" or the "experienced" or the "proven" or whatever. All I know, is that they HAVE GOT TO GO. My apologies to the posters here who actually think we have a competent administration. I can only feel sorry for how you're going to feel when you finally recognize the truth.

So, when you say that Palin's not qualified... Who is? If that answer includes ANY insider in DC... BZZZZT!!!! stupid answer. They are the sum total of all that's wrong.

Not only is Palin distinctly qualified for presidency, we need a lot more like her. You know, people who ran their own lives with sense and sensibility and when arriving in DC would govern the same.

Now, if you want to argue something different... that Palin can't get elected, because she's not a great campaigner... Well, that's not so certain. Better than McCain.

I see blog after blog, column after column, lamenting the fact that there seems to be no sensible politicians to champion for office. Duhh. Read that 50 times and maybe the truth will start to sink in. There aren't. The whole political environment has become toxic. It is time to reach outside it. And you're going to have to suffer the indignity of having common men govern. Frankly, our lives depend on it happening and happening REAL soon.

So, while they might not make fantastic policy speeches, and they might not write harvardesque papers on your favorite social and cultural topics... We really don't need any of those right now. We just need people who can make some basic decisions that make an iota of sense. Because right now, not a single elite seems capable of ANYTHING remotely resembling sense.