The Child Is Triumphant. We survey the damage, give you the raw data and insight on Palin’s foibles, the ultra-tight Minnesota senate race, and what is going on in people’s heads.
All this tempered with hopefulness drawn from the wisdom of our founders and the ever watchful hand of providence. Prepare for a general sense of well being to grab hold of you and bring you from the dank despair foisted upon you by Tuesday’s results.
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I really feel sorry for those people who voted for Barack Obama. They are going to be hit with a dose of reality: it has already hit wall street. Rush Limbaugh states that this is the worst post-election drop the market has ever taken, and the NY Times take? “Stocks slumped on Thursday, extending their losses to a second day, amid a poor outlook for the retail and automobile industries and worries about the state of the labor market.”
You’d think that the election had nothing to do with it at all.
On the note of Sarah Palin, I think Carl Cameron should take a hike. Seriously, you have an anonymous tip that isn’t supposed to be shared until after the election? That Sarah Palin didn’t know Africa was a continent? How can that be called responsible journalism, or responsible anything really.
I admit she makes a great scapegoat: she has been controversial. She has shown just how cannibalistic the republican party has become, if what happened to G.W. didn’t provide any insight. But really, give me a break. She didn’t know what countries were in North America? The only thing stupider than that is believing anyone would think it was true.
Mega Honkers Goose,
This is a must listen! I enjoyed your summation of the election enormously. Great job…but…I believe you got it wrong on Sarah Palin and here’s why.
Your frustration with her post convention interviews is understandable, but misdirected.
The collective ire of moral conservatives should be lodged with the old republican guard; that adulterous suitor who shows up each political season with pledges of faithfulness, but delivers nothing more then a one night stand.
Palin was amazing at the convention and she should have hit the neophyte trail under the protective glow emanating from there. Instead, the good ol’ boys wist her away to be inoculated with a tired old message no one wanted to hear, while foes from within and without, armed themselves, and the media hastily removed their illfitting gloves. Gaffs that would have been overlooked early in the euphoria of her nomination later became lethal barbs promulagated by a host of ruthless enemies.
We’ll have to wait and see, but the criticism we hear so much of now, reminds me a lot of what we heard years ago (from the same apparatchiks)about a former light weight wannabe from Hollywood, Ronald Reagan.
Some really good points do you gentleman advance. Thanks for listening and employing your intellectual gifts to form opinions
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Marshall – I identify with your inclination to mistrust reports that don’t have their sources named. I do think it’s a mistake to do as you suggest and throw the bloke out with all he has to say. He’s a respected reporter, and this isn’t the Clinton News Network or PMSNBC he works for either. What’s the angle? Why does he risk his reputation by going on national TV if he wasn’t really told these things? He knows who he works for and knows these are things his audience doesn’t want to hear. But still, I’ll admit this is a he said / she said situation. If even a smidgen of the Cameron report is fact, then I do not think that this is Republican cannibalism we’re witnessing, at least not in the way you mean. Put another way, if we’re digesting Sarah, I don’t think it’s a mistake.
Merle! – You’ve had much more experience working for the social issues that Republicans have dropped the ball on, so I won’t attempt to assail that position. While I’m with you on the inanity of bringing her out so rarely and placing so much import on those few interviews, I do think Governor Palin bears some of the responsibility for her comportment since she was chosen by McCain. She bungled the interviews she did have badly, specifically speaking of Rose and Couric. She was certainly compelling and eloquent in her convention address, and there is no question she has great charisma and positions we can embrace. To be fair, no one is perfect or should be expected to be so. But I really believe we have more qualified and better prepared conservatives to be president.
If you are correct and Sarah Palin eventually equals Ronaldus Magnus, then I will mirthfully admit myself a fool
. I do hope that you are right.
Thanks also for the kind words about enjoying the listening experience!