I just read the Anchoress's Thanksgiving Linkaround, which is chock-full of good stuff, especially Jonah Goldberg's The Pope Plays It Right. She has excerpted exactly what I would have, so I'll refrain.
Near the end of her post Elizabeth Scalia says what I've been thinking about Sarah Palin lately:
I think she is risking real overexposure, myself.Her face and voice are everywhere. She engages every critic. I'm getting tired of her the way a consumer gets tired of an over-advertised product or a commercial that plays four times an hour. She's exacerbating my counter-will. Enough already. Remember what familiarity breeds.
Most recent posts here.
Yeah. She should go into hiding, slink away, shoulders slumped. Just shut up when those MSM men and bee-yotches shriek and condemn her ... for being, well, basically an American woman. Because that's just how we like our American women. Unfamiliar and cowardly and knowing their place and not defending themselves and their values.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's the ticket. Because everyone knows a man would behave that way, right?
Or maybe this is just behavior advice that fits Catholic women.
Just in case you didn't feel my sarcasm dripping off every character in this font stream? Stuff it.
You are entering Palin bashing terrority here, you best beware.
ReplyDelete@paul: What's being Catholic got to do with anything? Oh, I get it: two people who suggest that Sarah is overexposing herself are both Catholic! It's like a plot or something.
ReplyDeleteI don't think the over-exposure is all the fault of Gov Palin. Her many enemies on the Left do much of this.
ReplyDelete@Ken & Carol: True enough. And husband points out that those of us who pay lots of attention to political blogs get a heavier dose of Palin news than others. But overexposure is a real risk and would be a bad thing for her should she decide to run in 2012.
ReplyDeleteYou have a point.
ReplyDeleteBut I think now she's being doubly bashed, not just by the PC media but by the GOP establishment--they're trying to knock her out from even running.
She has to fight. And I think she anticipated this by releasing America by Heart now.
Pundette, I totally agree with you. It is starting to feel like she is everywhere.
ReplyDeleteNot every critic needs or deserves a response. I think she would do herself more good if occasionally she would let criticism, specially of the sillier variety, go unanswered.
See Patterico.
ReplyDeleteAnd see Carol's post here.
ReplyDeletePalin's negatives have never been below 50% among independents. They actually have started to rise since July. Why is pointing out this fact called Palin bashing?
ReplyDeleteKeep one very important thing, if Obama gets reelected Obamacare will become impossible to repeal. The tenticles will run too deep into the system to get rid of.
Right. Some people are already getting hooked on some of the Obamacare entitlements and it will pick up in January.
ReplyDeleteThe smear/ridicule job done on Palin has been effective to a very significant degree. I don't know how a person rehabs herself after so many people have made up their minds.
Jill,
ReplyDeleteSarah is on a book tour.
Once the book tour is over, we will probably see a bit less of her.
Palin has had an inordinate amount of press coverage since she first came on the national scene. Given that, there is always going to be a risk that she becomes overexposed. People have different breaking points. I would think that if people who have defended her vehemently in the past have begun to feel she is risking overexposure, the danger is a real one. I think her supporters should be at least open to hearing that concern. Isn't that a common criticism against Obama, he surrounds himself only with people who think he walks on water and can do no wrong? Isolationism is never a good thing no matter which side of the aisle practices it, that is my opinion anyway.
ReplyDeleteThat said, as Anne mentioned above she gets it from both sides which only creates more furor around everything she says. I personally find it a bit tough to take when the Bushes offer no criticism of Obama yet feel it is necessary to tell Sarah to stay in Alaska. Would they do that to Newt or Huckabee? I think not. I think we would be just as likely to lose (if that is their concern) were either of those two nominated so why single Palin out and say she should stay in Alaska. IMO, that was stupid.
I do also get a little satisfaction - scratch that a lot of satisfaction - when the left and the media are quick to assume everything she says is utter garbage only to be proven wrong. It gives me a little tingle when Tingles Matthews, Gawker, Oliver Willis et al end up wearing a lovely shade of egg on their collective faces.
The press is not going to stop with their obsession with all things Palin unless or until it stops paying off for them. They think she is the best hope for Obama's reelection so this is not going away any time soon. The press will overplay their hand so only Palin can decide how to avoid doing the same. I think she would be the kind of person who would want to hear all points of view on how to avoid being consumed by the media. I hope she has people around her who can voice opposition or concern about the media, or anything really, without being afraid they will be blasted to kingdom come for having done so.
Oh my gosh, I am sorry that comment was so long.
ReplyDeleteYa can't win for losing. In 2008 Fred Thompson was criticized for "waiting too long" to enter the fray. Reality is he entered about when the race had started in previous years. His problem is the race started earlier than it ought to and by the time he decided to run most money and allegiances were committed. I've never seen a losing VP candidate from either party hounded like Palin was in the months that followed the 2008 election. If the nutty left had left her alone she would have found herself back in obscurity. However, by constantly attacking her and driving her from office with frivolous ethics complaints they freed her up to openly campaign for Tea Party small government candidates in 2010. I don't know if she is running in 2012, but she has earned a degree of support for all she did this past cycle. Beyond that, she is the only politician I've seen with the strength of character not to just let the media get away with their BS.
ReplyDeleteI've got your back, Jill. Too much Sarah. Oh crap, I'm a Catholic too. CONSPIRACY!
ReplyDeleteOh well, she's not my candidate of choice anyway, Col. Allen West is (but if she won the GOP primary, I'd vote for her, grudgingly).
I'm with you on this one, Jill. And frankly, I'm pretty offended by the attack dog mentality of Sarah supporters who use the same sit down and shut up tactics of the Alinsky squad on the left. Any time you're worried about expressing your true opinion and then have to couch it with reminders that you love her (but), we're in dangerous territory. I think that this chilling effect created by rabid Sarah fans who bash, belittle, and attack anyone (even sincere conservatives) is going to backfire. Big.
ReplyDeleteHey, I'm a Catholic too:)
ReplyDeleteI like Sarah. I don't know if she'll run. I don't know if she'll win.
As far as the rest of the presumed field though the only other one who I think comes close in the guts and moxie to hold up the conservative standard and challenge Obama is Gov. Mitch Daniels.
I like Sarah, too. Maybe I just need to put that record away for a while before I listen to it again. (For you young'uns, "records" are flat round black things we used to spin around on "turntables.")
ReplyDeleteOh my. I thought I was the only one. Love her. Getting tired of her. To me she just does not bring it. Watched her Alaska series. Is it the shrill voice? The too perfect folksiness? The awe shucks spiel is real? Think not. Maybe it is that I am leery of another personality Presidency? Depth please. Dignity and strength. Male or female. Can Sarah bring that? Hmmm?
ReplyDeleteGary
Dignity or strength? Oh Puhleeze. It was Sarah who STARTED the discussion on Health care with her death panel comments. She also forced Obama to reveal his personal support of the World Trade Center Mosque (in contrast to most of America that respects their right to build it, but opposes it). She pointed out the inflationary danger of the QE2 monetary easing. She leads the public discussion towards ISSUES. She is trying to reach out to the non-political blog-obsessed normal Americans and get past the msm filter (the one that makes international headlines of a two-word gaffe that was immediately corrected and then lies about making it a story). Fine, you think she is over-exposed. Stop writing about her!!!
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