Apr
15
Sarah Palin’s greatest potential weakness: her supporters
April 15, 2010 | 1 Comment
Long-time readers of this blog know that I am generally a fan of Sarah Palin. I think her detractors seriously underestimate her, and do so at their own peril. I am not certain that she would be the candidate that I’d get behind in 2012, but we still have a long way to go on [...]
Apr
9
Not a puppet
April 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
Paul Starobin, writing for the National Journal, has a cover story that debunks the idea that Sarah Palin is a dunce or some sort of puppet. It’s a great read that delves into other historical figures as well, demonstrating that other supposedly easily manipulated dunces (Reagan, Eisenhower, Washington) were nothing of the kind. One of [...]
Feb
3
Andrew Sullivan hits new low
February 3, 2010 | 2 Comments
No, you read that right. Just when you think the psychopath couldn’t get any more deranged, he manages to reach new levels of sheer insanity (the link goes to Ace’s fisk of the nutter). Long story short, Sullivan accuses Palin of mocking her own child, and his source is the incredibly reliable Levi Johnston. Then [...]
Jan
14
More Palin
January 14, 2010 | Comments Off
Erick Erickson, Quin Hilyer, and Dan Riehl all make pretty much the same point I did last week on the unhinged nature of Sarah Palin’s supporters and detractors. All four of us I think would label ourselves as Palin supporters, but we’re disquieted by the intense reaction she and her supporters demonstrate at the slightest [...]
Dec
16
Going Rogue
December 16, 2009 | 8 Comments
It’s probably not a good idea generally to buy a book out of spite, but in some ways that is precisely what I did when I picked up Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue. We had had a meeting at work, and several of my co-workers were amusing themselves with some anti-Palin jibes. So at lunch time [...]
Aug
24
A life’s mission
August 24, 2009 | 5 Comments
Last week, while on vacation in Galveston, I got to hear a bit of the Michael Medved show. He’s not on in DC, so it was nice to get to hear him, especially since I have enjoyed the program the few times I have been able to listen (and of course I have subsequently learned [...]
Jul
22
Noonan disgraces herself
July 22, 2009 | 3 Comments
At first glance, this American Thinker blogpost by Stuart Schwartz seems a bit harsh. I thought it perhaps a bit petty to accuse Peggy Noonan to be acting out of jealousy in her criticisms of Sarah Palin. Then I read the article Schwartz was referring to, and I thought that he didn’t go far enough. [...]
Jul
14
The Margaret Wente Award in Journalistic Non-Excellence
July 14, 2009 | 7 Comments
Every now and then I read an article that is so bereft of any logical or coherent argumentation that I wonder how the person ever got a job in journalism. And every time I think I have reached the bottom of the barrel – that nothing ever written could ever be worse than what I [...]