More Rendell Hot Mic Comments!!! Palin 'Not A Genius' But Has 'Very Good Political Instincts'

Sara Palin is only a failure in the minds of those silly liberals who fear a strong woman. It has nothing to do with her politics, except that it isn't their failed politics.

Other than a vague apprehension that we'll look up and see her aiming at us from a helicoptor, I don't know of any Liberals who are "afraid" of Sarah Palin.

What election results have you folks been looking at? She was so polarizing and inept that she scared the bejesus out of Independents and Moderate Republicans and helped Obama carry the suburbs.

Liberals would love to see Sarah Palin be the 2012 nominee.

The MSM destroyed Palin???? I think she did a great job on her own. Just listen to her answers to questions like the ALaska budget. It was nothing more then sound bites. Not details, specifics, anything. I have never heard a answer from her that was anything but soundbites.

Now, listen to any of Obama's answers over the last few weeks. Thoughtful, detailed, substanitive.

It is not even close or fair to compare the two. I thank Great God above for not allowing her to govern. I know by 2012, she will have failed her state badly because she is overmatched.

JamesJ wrote “No one knows Obamas College, Law school grades, his SATs, etc. But everyone assumes he's soooo intelligent because he reads a teleprompter well and spews warmed over Marxism”

Yeah James, Obama only graduated from Harvard magna cum laude. If he were truly intelligent he would have graduated summa cum laude. What a dope.

KySlugBug,

Thanks for your agreeable foreshortened encomium.

Palin will be a political leader in the national scene, and she has shown to be a smart and likable popular leader rather than a fraud like BHO. Media knows it and that is why they are after her.

No one knows Obamas College, Law school grades, his SATs, etc. But everyone assumes he's soooo intelligent because he reads a teleprompter well and spews warmed over Marxism

APPOLOGIES TO W3bgrrl -

Hey - Grey Matter - do YOU have a job? Or is your only talent spewing crap?

No wonder your name is Grey Matter! It's pretty DIM up top!

Hey, W3bgrrl - do you have a job? Or is your only talent sitting at the computer spewing crap??

Sarah Palin is so much more than the press and libs see through their biased political smokescreen. I'm middle of the road but try to see both sides so I can form an honest opinion for myself. The libs I love and have worked with for the most part live by their preconceived ideas of liberal bias. They watch the same tv, listen to the same politicians, read the same newspapers and usually don't step out of their comfort zone to try to understand "the other side." I honestly think the rest of us out there who are politically aware, do try to see both sides. Wish there were more of us.
Sarah Palin has potential, we'll see how far she goes with it over time. But she is NOT stupid.

Sarah has qualities that can not be learned at Harvard. Liberals are both concerned about her and hopeful for her to be the GOP nominee in 2012. Concerned because she excites the people they hate. Hopeful because they see an easy target for demonization and mockery. She will get you my pretty.

'Libs are afraid of Sarah because she's only an inch deep'.

Didn't ya'll just elect Barack Obama, 1st-Term US Senator, as President? Tell me his policy on... ANYTHING. And I can show you at least twice when he's 'nuanced' it to suit a different audience.

And they talk about the incredible speeches Big-O gives. Or rather, reads. Yes, he's got a great voice, but the contents of most of his speeches are pretty shallow. 2 parts change + 1 part hope + 1 part whatever the current audience wants to hear.

Geesh, these Democrats are getting as paranoid over Gov. Palin, as they were over GWB!

The Democrats should start investigating Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, as well as Schumer....leave Sarah alone, she has not harmed our economy like the above have!

"Why is the left sooo frightened of lil' old Sara?"

Because she's about an inch deep. She may have done fine in Alaska, but America needs some intelligent, thoughtful leadership for a change and Sarah doesn't meet either of those requirements any more than my teenager would.

In case you hadn't noticed what a disaster Bush has been, the last thing we need is another 5-watt bulb in Washington. Please run her for the GOP nomination in 2012, though!!

To Norm Crosby,
I completely and totally agree and disagree with everything you wrote. It will take days, maybe weeks, before I know for sure.
Either way, well done. Norm would be proud of your contribution!

wamplerg wrote, "Has any other governor sent rebates or has the approval rate that she has?"

Yes and yes. Alaskans have been receiving those rebates under other Alaskan governors since 1982. And Bobby Jindal has a higher approval rating than Sarah Palin.

Why are so many people intimidated by Sarah Palin including a lot of the posters here and Ed Rendell? The people of Alaska CHOSE her to be their governor and she has returned a rebate to each of them. Has any other governor sent rebates or has the approval rate that she has? Now to Mr. Rendell...she IS a govenor and this was a meeting of the governors of the USA, right? Duh?

Grey,

Your question answers itself if you understand the meaning of words. "How is it Orwellian to pay college students for volunteer work."

Well, gee, because "volunteer work" is uncompensated.

So if you pay someone to do work it is not longer "volunteer work." It is employment. And what will happen to all the work that needs to be done which does not compensate at a ridiculously over-inflated level of $40/hour? Do you think a college student is going to take a $12-15/hour job working around campus if he can work 100 hours at ACORN and earn $4,000?

Grey, since you value intelligence perhaps you should start taking a critical look at some of the policies Obama supports without being so emotional. When you support policies like paying $40/hour to college students for political action with arguments like, "do you know how many people can't afford college????????" you are removing the intellect and inserting emotional propaganda into the debate.

I'm not sure if you realize how ironic you're being by stating that you oppose someone because you believe her to be a moron and yet you argue in support of Obama's $40/hour plan using pure emotion.

Funny, but sad at the same time.

Billy, I agree utterly. Sara superficially hangs on the countenance of her energy of being without deliberate delegation of menial profundities. Once the pulchritude of monarchical plagiarisms suffices, the final collapse of the laity commences. Sara positively transforms her corporeal position to and fro repetitively.

Sarah, on the other hand, possesses also a fundament besieged by earth-toned proboscides following the laissez-faire false-folksiness plundered by the vacuous platitudes expounded by the epitome of the neo-illiterati never before witnessed by the body politic. The orbital occlusions as a result of voluntary spasmodic contractions peppering the offal also spewed forth brought projectile regurgitations of intellection. Also plaguing the seraph (Sarahph) of false piety is the want of neural wirings necessary for even moderately medial mental modulations. Hexagonal collegiate endeavors in a plethora of pentagonally matriculated timelines never impeded the elite, i.e. her betters. Unknowingly praised contumely by the basest of the base, Sarah’s pseudo-English rumblings were succored by the entirety of the multitudes entranced by her coat of arms procured at Bloomingdales. Thanks but no thanks my fundus.

Grey Matter,

In reference to your use of the word, "disseminate," you disseminate lies about Sarah Palin when you repeat the myth that she was not aware Africa is a continent.

Sarah Palin is not an utter moron.

What is true here is that in order to diminish her, you lie about her and call her a moron and ridicule her. But you excuse utterly moronic statements by Biden which demonstrate him to be a greasy salesman who says anything just to appear like he knows something. The FDR statement is one example. His bloviating on the middle east in the VP debates are another. His words to supporters about the world testing Obama within 6 months is another. The list goes on and on. The man is not only ill-informed, he can't keep his mouth shut.

As Mark Twain said, "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

You and Joe Biden and even Obama with his Orwellian definition of volunteerism could meditate on the meaning of that awhile.