Reasons's Matt Welch has a good take...
Boy, this “Obama Derangement Syndrome” really has gotten out of hand. Why, just this past week the decreasingly popular president has been called a “bald-faced liar,” “an executive who can’t bring himself to lead,” and even an “Uncle Tom.”A Lesson for Conservatives
And that’s just by liberals.
But here's the salient point for conservatives considering who could best lead us out of the desert and into the political promised land:
Yet there are lessons we can all learn from Obama’s lost year. Chief among them is the insight that when you project all your hopes, desires, and even fears onto a Rorschach test of a politician — whether Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, or otherwise — not only are you bound to be disappointed, you might just deserve it, too.Progressives are cracking up, let's not follow it with one of our own. We need to avoid the hero worship and "schoolyard crushes" that blind us to reality. Look at what it did to the libs...
Government officials use force and the threat thereof to impact our lives, not always (or even most of the time) for the better, so it behooves all citizens to get over their schoolyard crushes and figure out just what their objects of political desire plan to do with all that power.
5 comments:
I would be cautious to lump Sarah Palin with the Messiah regarding placing hopes on blank canvas:
Sarah Palin has done - actually accomplished - much of her rhetoric about less government, lower taxes, more freedom of choice, and she is most definitely, demonstrably pro life.
Obama has said lots and lots of things, and accomplished virtually nothing he has said he would do. This guy is about as anti-Palin as one can get without talking about Beelzebub.
I would never lump the two together, what you say is correct.
We do need to drop the schoolboy crushes and hero worship for any candidate. A politician is a tool, not someone to look up to.
Check out this article from Forbes on our debt:
http://tinyurl.com/yjo379j
Hey Silverfiddle,
This Gov. Palin gal has me real intrigued. I share alot of values with her and that is a big spark to get me rolling.
Doing the "Mommie" thing for 14 years has allowed me to see things in two different lights, so, for me, that is another feather in her bonnet.
But God listed out a bunch of virtue concepts that we are to strive for. So I figger patience is a real good cure for shortsightedness. We got time and I want to know how her clock ticks.
Let's see what her disscussing issues tells us about her and I'm listening to a bunch of discussers before I decide it's infatuation or a real eight year love affair.
Thanks for your patience,
jadedfellow
Jaded: I tend more towards your line of thinking on this one.
I think she has been unfairly smeared in the popular media, but I am also taking a wait and see approach.
The lack of foreign policy is probably what gives me the most pause. And, yeah, she was governor of Alaska, but mayor of a major city is a bigger job.
Having said that, I think she's the real deal. She passes the sincerity test because she lives her values, and that counts for a lot.
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