Letter to The Washington Post re Palin
canadizzy wrote:
Dear Ms. Parker,
I'm not an American with a vote but I would vote for Palin without hesitation and without reservation. She’s fresh and painfully honest about her inability to toe the line and learn the language. She has her own language and her own agenda. She is unaffected by the likes of Cheney, Gingrich and McCain, who have the demonstrated power to blackball her.. If one of her Republican commanders would have recognized the value of a Palin to them, they would have smiled benignly and laughed along with everyone else including a tremendous crowd of fans that she accumulated. I judge her to be a stranger in the Promised Land, a Type B personality amongst a lot of Type capital A's and a master of being down to Earth. She speaks the language of the people and has shunned political rhetoric in favour of street, American English. The comedians of SNL recognized her value to their show and ran with it.
There's no doubt in my mind that she is a master at getting sympathy and votes from hard working, tax burdened citizens, a group not often touched by Republicans. As you said, she rivaled Obama for air time and newspaper space and fund raising and no wonder. Her attitude and aptitude attracts the common man and striving to be independent woman, not the bankers, administrators, brokers or insurers making all those bucks and hoarding all that gold. All McCain would have had to do was to lose his school teaching, fathering, preaching and moralizing attitude toward her and sat back and won the presidency. That's what I said last year and I'm saying it this year. Let her be and she'll win against Obama, easily. Try and make her into a Republican animal and she'll balk and refuse to participate. The Republicans would do well to get in line behind her instead of standing in front of her, impeding her successes and putting her in a protective pen.. At present, the old boys club of Republicans are going to be annihilated unless they see the writing on the wall. A fatherly, priestly, moralizing leader is not what the Americans require today. They need a free spirit and an honest, plain-talking one to lead them to the Promised Land and to a fulfillment of the American Dream for everyone.
Sarah Palin has the first historic Republican groundswell of admiring Americans for her spunk and honest values. She could win it all with very little help from her fellow Republicans. She’s not as smart as Thomas Jefferson, JFK or Bill Clinton, but she has the stuff of which Ben Franklin and Jimmy Carter was made and she seems to have more fun.
Thank you for listening and thank you for allowing me to post my comments directly under yours. Your reporting was excellent and I appreciate your candid observations. Best personal regards.
Sincerely,
Izzy Sommers, MD, retired, Welland, Canada.
6/10/2009 2:39:35 PM
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Sarah Palin still isn't ready for the Big Game Hunt of national politics.
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By Kathleen Parker
Dear Ms. Parker,
I'm not an American with a vote but I would vote for Palin without hesitation and without reservation. She’s fresh and painfully honest about her inability to toe the line and learn the language. She has her own language and her own agenda. She is unaffected by the likes of Cheney, Gingrich and McCain, who have the demonstrated power to blackball her.. If one of her Republican commanders would have recognized the value of a Palin to them, they would have smiled benignly and laughed along with everyone else including a tremendous crowd of fans that she accumulated. I judge her to be a stranger in the Promised Land, a Type B personality amongst a lot of Type capital A's and a master of being down to Earth. She speaks the language of the people and has shunned political rhetoric in favour of street, American English. The comedians of SNL recognized her value to their show and ran with it.
There's no doubt in my mind that she is a master at getting sympathy and votes from hard working, tax burdened citizens, a group not often touched by Republicans. As you said, she rivaled Obama for air time and newspaper space and fund raising and no wonder. Her attitude and aptitude attracts the common man and striving to be independent woman, not the bankers, administrators, brokers or insurers making all those bucks and hoarding all that gold. All McCain would have had to do was to lose his school teaching, fathering, preaching and moralizing attitude toward her and sat back and won the presidency. That's what I said last year and I'm saying it this year. Let her be and she'll win against Obama, easily. Try and make her into a Republican animal and she'll balk and refuse to participate. The Republicans would do well to get in line behind her instead of standing in front of her, impeding her successes and putting her in a protective pen.. At present, the old boys club of Republicans are going to be annihilated unless they see the writing on the wall. A fatherly, priestly, moralizing leader is not what the Americans require today. They need a free spirit and an honest, plain-talking one to lead them to the Promised Land and to a fulfillment of the American Dream for everyone.
Sarah Palin has the first historic Republican groundswell of admiring Americans for her spunk and honest values. She could win it all with very little help from her fellow Republicans. She’s not as smart as Thomas Jefferson, JFK or Bill Clinton, but she has the stuff of which Ben Franklin and Jimmy Carter was made and she seems to have more fun.
Thank you for listening and thank you for allowing me to post my comments directly under yours. Your reporting was excellent and I appreciate your candid observations. Best personal regards.
Sincerely,
Izzy Sommers, MD, retired, Welland, Canada.
6/10/2009 2:39:35 PM
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