Is it any wonder that the left which was so effected by Bush Derangement Syndrome would be so susceptible to PDS {Palin Derangement Syndrome}? Although this condition seems to have taken a particularly virulent form. I fear it may be incurable.
It’s worse than that — it’s Palin Madness Syndrome.
That is a great article and good comments too.
I commented on another blog in mid-September 2008, “PDS has already gotten worse in two weeks than BDS did in eight years.”
I like Sarah Palin, she would have done as good a job at VP as Biden. I like her king maker status right now and hope she remains active because she needs more experience.
The attacks against Palin and her family are pretty bad, much worse than any of the attacks against Obama and she handles it pretty well. You don’t see her whining that she is being treated like a dog.
BDS, PDS, and ODS, are just a sign of our partisan political system. I’m not sure if it is anything worse than what politicians have faced in the past but with the internet and cable news, it is in your face a lot more.
I think we are seeing more of a generic middle-class insurgency against an integral political class than a left-right divide.
This is a major truth of it. Eliminating the RINOs is just as important as taking power away from the left. People like Robert Dole and Newt Gingrich think they are entitled to the presidency (not saying they are RINOs, but they were somewhat elitist.)
Wow.. another article written from the “shared-knowledge” point of view.. folks, most people have no idea who Sarah Palin is. Most people have no idea what people say on NPR. and, they don’t care. The writer of this just had their one opportunity to present their own viewpoint and failed – instead they opted to present the opponent’s viewpoint and some obscure pseudo-psychology to explain it.
And how would you know what “most people” know? Have you met “most people”? No, you haven’t — you are simply doing what a lot of people do — extrapolating your own ideas and feelings onto the world at large. Your comment is irrelevant.
I made this remark over at Chicago Boyz. I think that Sarah Palin is “our” Barack Obama — I think they are roughly comparable in terms of their respective charisma with the base, disdain from the opposite base. I think they are both good at “working a friendly crowd”, but neither is all that great when faced with a “serious” (i.e. hostile”) interviewer or questioner, although Mr. Obama may sound more “intelligent” by being more facile at obfuscation or by taking offense at a question.
We need someone on our side (i.e. Libertarian-Conservative-Tea Party Movement) who is a lot smarter than Mr. Obama, especially as a Presidential nominee in 2012. Tim Pawlenty or Chris Christie come to mind.
If we are talking about “purging RINO’s” in order to “take back the government”, what are people’s take on the contest between Mark Neumann and Scott Walker for the Republican nod for Governor — primary election this Tuesday, September 14?
Maybe no one cares about the Wisconsin Governor, but Governors have a hand in redistricting, which has a big effect on who gets sent to Congress. The Wisconsin Governor race is one of the possible “pickups” for Republicans this year, but Rassmussun polls of the two Republicans against the uncontested and presumptive Democrat, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, show only slim leads.
Scott Walker is the Milwaukee County Executive, whom delegates at the Wisconsin Republican State Convention supported by over 2:1, thus giving Mr. Walker the official Republican Party endorsement going in to Tuesday.
Mark Neumann is a self-described “businessman” who was run unsuccessfully for Senate against intrenched incumbents more than once, who has also served a stint in Congress during the years of Republican majority, which ended in 2006. Lacking the Republican Party endorsement, he describes himself as a “Conservative of Wisconsin Governor”, but he is running in the primary, and if he loses, I don’t see any kind of independent run in the cards.
Neumann has, I guess, “gone negative” on Scott Walker by describing “Scott Walker and (presumed Democratic Pary opponent) Tom Barrett as career politicians slinging mud at each other (Republican Walker and Democrat Barrett have traded negative adds with each other, I guess, as the presumptive nominees of their respective parties).
This last week, Scott Walker has violated Reagan’s famous “11th Commandment” (Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican), running TV ads castigating Neumann for a vote in Congress for “the Alaska bridge to nowhere, and a road in Canada”, snarkily calling Mr. Neumann “just like Nancy Pelosi” as they both voted for that highway bill.
Neumann responded earlier in the week with TV ads “I am like Nancy Pelosi, you got to be kidding” without responding directly to the charge that he “is no non-career politician.” Walker kept pressing the attack, with “we are serious about this” in TV ads. Neumann’s “war room” must have caught up, finding a newspaper quote from “back then” of Walker as Milwaukee County Executive, praising that bill as being “good for Milwaukee County.”
I was going to vote for Walker, and his being a “career politician” I saw as a feature, not a bug, because my exposure to Neumann is running against Russ Feingold more than once and losing. But this obnoxious attack on a fellow Republican (if Walker as the Republican Party behind him and is the front-runner, why do this) has me questioning whether Mr. Walker is any good.
Who is in the RINO, who is the Conservative Insurgent, which of these guys is electable, who has Sarah Palin’s endorsement?
This race seems completely absent from the blogospheric radar screen, but it is a close contest that could add another Republican Governor.
Andrea, I did an informal survey before I posted.
On, the other hand, I expect you’re just a tool.
After reading several comparative posts I find this one the best…
Most of the others tout how Walker held the levis to zero, but this one reveals some shenanigans. Beyond that, don’t know what to say.
There is open warfare between republicans in most races, as the entrenched party insiders, who you can identify by the fact that their prior posts were in government, attack the outsiders, who are typically businesspeople. The businesspeople tend to be more libertarian leaning (i.e. socially progressive, fiscally conservative) than the party insiders, who tend to be bible thumpers, of fake or genuine nature.
Here in NH, we have the insider, Kelly Ayotte, former state AG, running to replace Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) who is retiring, against Democrat congressman Paul Hodes (2nd district), and several republican challengers, including two businessmen, Bill Binnie and John Bender, and a conservative christian lawyer, Ovide Lamontagne. Binnie and Bender are both more socially progressive than your normal republican that panders to the christians for votes. The two of them are only a few points behind Ayotte in the polls. Ayotte has the endorsement of the police chiefs association (what I call the de facto fascist party) and has assembled a number of pro-police sportsmen to form an astroturf 2nd amendment group to endorse her and claim she is pro-2nd amendment despite the fact she fought against a state bill to make the Castle Doctrine the law in NH regarding self defense.
Trent, have you read about the New Yorker who was astonished that Richard Nixon was re-elected in 1972? She couldn’t believe that could happen; nobody she knew voted for him.
Tool, retool thyself.
Trent Waddington’s Told Status:
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Andrea, I did an informal survey before I posted.
In Queensland? And there weren’t many who knew Palin? Wow, what a shocker.
One of the commentators there writes:
It’s worse than that — it’s Palin Madness Syndrome.
That is a great article and good comments too.
I commented on another blog in mid-September 2008, “PDS has already gotten worse in two weeks than BDS did in eight years.”
I like Sarah Palin, she would have done as good a job at VP as Biden. I like her king maker status right now and hope she remains active because she needs more experience.
The attacks against Palin and her family are pretty bad, much worse than any of the attacks against Obama and she handles it pretty well. You don’t see her whining that she is being treated like a dog.
BDS, PDS, and ODS, are just a sign of our partisan political system. I’m not sure if it is anything worse than what politicians have faced in the past but with the internet and cable news, it is in your face a lot more.
I think we are seeing more of a generic middle-class insurgency against an integral political class than a left-right divide.
This is a major truth of it. Eliminating the RINOs is just as important as taking power away from the left. People like Robert Dole and Newt Gingrich think they are entitled to the presidency (not saying they are RINOs, but they were somewhat elitist.)
Wow.. another article written from the “shared-knowledge” point of view.. folks, most people have no idea who Sarah Palin is. Most people have no idea what people say on NPR. and, they don’t care. The writer of this just had their one opportunity to present their own viewpoint and failed – instead they opted to present the opponent’s viewpoint and some obscure pseudo-psychology to explain it.
And how would you know what “most people” know? Have you met “most people”? No, you haven’t — you are simply doing what a lot of people do — extrapolating your own ideas and feelings onto the world at large. Your comment is irrelevant.
I made this remark over at Chicago Boyz. I think that Sarah Palin is “our” Barack Obama — I think they are roughly comparable in terms of their respective charisma with the base, disdain from the opposite base. I think they are both good at “working a friendly crowd”, but neither is all that great when faced with a “serious” (i.e. hostile”) interviewer or questioner, although Mr. Obama may sound more “intelligent” by being more facile at obfuscation or by taking offense at a question.
We need someone on our side (i.e. Libertarian-Conservative-Tea Party Movement) who is a lot smarter than Mr. Obama, especially as a Presidential nominee in 2012. Tim Pawlenty or Chris Christie come to mind.
If we are talking about “purging RINO’s” in order to “take back the government”, what are people’s take on the contest between Mark Neumann and Scott Walker for the Republican nod for Governor — primary election this Tuesday, September 14?
Maybe no one cares about the Wisconsin Governor, but Governors have a hand in redistricting, which has a big effect on who gets sent to Congress. The Wisconsin Governor race is one of the possible “pickups” for Republicans this year, but Rassmussun polls of the two Republicans against the uncontested and presumptive Democrat, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, show only slim leads.
Scott Walker is the Milwaukee County Executive, whom delegates at the Wisconsin Republican State Convention supported by over 2:1, thus giving Mr. Walker the official Republican Party endorsement going in to Tuesday.
Mark Neumann is a self-described “businessman” who was run unsuccessfully for Senate against intrenched incumbents more than once, who has also served a stint in Congress during the years of Republican majority, which ended in 2006. Lacking the Republican Party endorsement, he describes himself as a “Conservative of Wisconsin Governor”, but he is running in the primary, and if he loses, I don’t see any kind of independent run in the cards.
Neumann has, I guess, “gone negative” on Scott Walker by describing “Scott Walker and (presumed Democratic Pary opponent) Tom Barrett as career politicians slinging mud at each other (Republican Walker and Democrat Barrett have traded negative adds with each other, I guess, as the presumptive nominees of their respective parties).
This last week, Scott Walker has violated Reagan’s famous “11th Commandment” (Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican), running TV ads castigating Neumann for a vote in Congress for “the Alaska bridge to nowhere, and a road in Canada”, snarkily calling Mr. Neumann “just like Nancy Pelosi” as they both voted for that highway bill.
Neumann responded earlier in the week with TV ads “I am like Nancy Pelosi, you got to be kidding” without responding directly to the charge that he “is no non-career politician.” Walker kept pressing the attack, with “we are serious about this” in TV ads. Neumann’s “war room” must have caught up, finding a newspaper quote from “back then” of Walker as Milwaukee County Executive, praising that bill as being “good for Milwaukee County.”
I was going to vote for Walker, and his being a “career politician” I saw as a feature, not a bug, because my exposure to Neumann is running against Russ Feingold more than once and losing. But this obnoxious attack on a fellow Republican (if Walker as the Republican Party behind him and is the front-runner, why do this) has me questioning whether Mr. Walker is any good.
Who is in the RINO, who is the Conservative Insurgent, which of these guys is electable, who has Sarah Palin’s endorsement?
This race seems completely absent from the blogospheric radar screen, but it is a close contest that could add another Republican Governor.
Andrea, I did an informal survey before I posted.
On, the other hand, I expect you’re just a tool.
After reading several comparative posts I find this one the best…
http://wisconsintruthproject.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/mark-neumann-and-the-scott-walker-cult-of-personality/
Most of the others tout how Walker held the levis to zero, but this one reveals some shenanigans. Beyond that, don’t know what to say.
There is open warfare between republicans in most races, as the entrenched party insiders, who you can identify by the fact that their prior posts were in government, attack the outsiders, who are typically businesspeople. The businesspeople tend to be more libertarian leaning (i.e. socially progressive, fiscally conservative) than the party insiders, who tend to be bible thumpers, of fake or genuine nature.
Here in NH, we have the insider, Kelly Ayotte, former state AG, running to replace Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) who is retiring, against Democrat congressman Paul Hodes (2nd district), and several republican challengers, including two businessmen, Bill Binnie and John Bender, and a conservative christian lawyer, Ovide Lamontagne. Binnie and Bender are both more socially progressive than your normal republican that panders to the christians for votes. The two of them are only a few points behind Ayotte in the polls. Ayotte has the endorsement of the police chiefs association (what I call the de facto fascist party) and has assembled a number of pro-police sportsmen to form an astroturf 2nd amendment group to endorse her and claim she is pro-2nd amendment despite the fact she fought against a state bill to make the Castle Doctrine the law in NH regarding self defense.
Trent, have you read about the New Yorker who was astonished that Richard Nixon was re-elected in 1972? She couldn’t believe that could happen; nobody she knew voted for him.
Tool, retool thyself.
Trent Waddington’s Told Status:
[ ] Not Told, [X] Told
Andrea, I did an informal survey before I posted.
In Queensland? And there weren’t many who knew Palin? Wow, what a shocker.
Wow, Trent, name-calling. You’ve totally convinced me!*
*That you’re a jerk, that is.
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