Nov 22, 2009 11:42am
Reich: Palin Populism v Romney Respectability
EmailSarah Palin’s road show continues to generate discussion on our Roundtable.
Robert Reich said the 2012 race would pit “Palin Populism” against “Romney Respectability”.
Walter Isaacon said Palin’s prolific book tour and impressive sales show that the former vice presidential candidate is "a very clever person, very smart. I'm not sure she's a serious person, and this is not
showing her as a serious person."
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romney is NOT respectable. he is an opportunist flat out. reich should know better.
Posted by: l | November 22, 2009, 12:53 pm 12:53 pm
Romney represents everything that is WRONG with the republican party, I would never vote for the likes of Romney.
Posted by: buckaroobonsai4545 | November 22, 2009, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm
This week’s program was among George’s best. Reich was more objective and less partisan and Liz cheney was great. Good show.
Posted by: hunterandmax | November 22, 2009, 1:44 pm 1:44 pm
I wouldn’t underestimate populism and charisma, Obama had little more to offer and we all know how that turned out.
Posted by: Rob | November 22, 2009, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm
Funny how these folks don’t see Sarah Palin as a “serious” person, but they think the MSM that “exposed” her is. But, then again, what’s more serious than Michelle Obama’s exposed, well toned arms? What’s more serious than coverage of Rod Blagoavich’s wife being on a reality show? What’s more serious than the president of the US having a beer to resolve all the racial issues we face? These, and many others, my friends, are the tough and serious issues of our time. PUUUHHLLEEESSSEEE.
Posted by: Shoe | November 22, 2009, 1:58 pm 1:58 pm
She is threat to the liberals and obama. that is why you see the ap sending 11 reporters to fact check annd see the personal attacks on her. If she wasnt a threat why would she get so much press? Look at this site she has more exposure than their boy obama.
Posted by: Sheila | November 22, 2009, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm
“Sarah Palin’s road show continues to generate discussion on our Roundtable.”
Which is very strange considering how “idiotic” and “irrelevant” liberals claim she is. She’s so irrelvant that ABC News posts at least one story on her on a daily basis.
It’s always easy to spot who liberals fear because they obsess and attack those they fear. And they fear Palin big time.
Posted by: Jenn | November 22, 2009, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm
“…very strange considering how “idiotic” and “irrelevant” liberals claim she is. She’s so irrelvant that ABC News posts at least one story on her on a daily basis…”
Have you looked at what passes for news now-days, there’s a celebrity photo spread and stories about trailer park trash on every front page. And that includes FAUXNews.
With Sarah Palin they get both with one story.
Posted by: OB-Wan222 | November 22, 2009, 2:53 pm 2:53 pm
Liberals fear Palin….give me a break! Liberals welcome Palin as the GOP challenger in 2012 more than anyone else.
I think many have forgotten the simple fact that will crush Palin’s candidacy instantaneously…..She QUIT as governor 2 and a half years into her term. She doesn’t have a chance in hell!
Posted by: Brit inTexas. | November 22, 2009, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm
Definition of “Rogue”
deliberately dishonest; deceitful; scoundrel and the list goes on. Has anyone questioned why Palin chose that title which certainly isn’t very flatering by this definition.
Posted by: Mary | November 22, 2009, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm
SARAH PALIN has at least as much charisma as O’Babble, even without the scowl and wagging finger. Further, she has actual executive experience, high morals, solid patriotism, and a husband who has, I think, always had pride in American.
Posted by: Ron | November 22, 2009, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm
Obama and the Democrat’s will pass the health care bill simply because the public is to ignorant to know what truth is! The public hears one thing they like about the bill and close their eyes to the rest of it. thats how it has always been and always will be.The Democrat’s know that after the bill is passed the public accepts it no matter how much it will cost and no matter if benefits are reduced. The public has a short memory.
Posted by: John Demeter | November 22, 2009, 5:15 pm 5:15 pm
Go with Palin. She’s got those icy eyes, that beauty queen smile, that grating voice, a complete lack of logic, thousands of really emotional fans. In short, she’s the PERFECT right-wing candidate. Romney gives Republicans an undeserved air of respectability. Granted, he looks like an aging Ken doll, but he could still pass as a responsible party. I’m pulling for Sarah as THE perfect candidate to split the right apart at the seams.
Posted by: Cassandra | November 22, 2009, 5:21 pm 5:21 pm
Re: “…she has actual executive experience, high morals, solid patriotism, and a husband who has, I think, always had pride in American.” You mean,apart from that whole Alaska Independence Party secessionist thing. Ignoring the AIP is typical of Palin fans. What they don’t “remember” doesn’t exist.
Posted by: LadyintheDark | November 22, 2009, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm
George Will is a sellout.
Posted by: Max | November 22, 2009, 6:42 pm 6:42 pm
John Demeter: You are so right. The public is so dense they believed every word he said in his campaign and got fooled. And they deserve every once of it. He hasn’t brought the troops back from Iraq, he didn’t change Washington, hired Clinton’s former administration, cannot made decisions on Afghan, will never ever balance the deficit and we need another Bill Clinton to run this country.
Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | November 22, 2009, 7:53 pm 7:53 pm
Brit in Texas: Stepping down as governor as nothing to do with campaigning for president. I think she will do great running against Obama because now the public is getting to know her better than before and this book tour will give people a chance to really make the decision on who they want to run this country. Obama wasn’t a good senator and he isn’t great as a president. I would like to see her run against him. One problem is Acorn who should be closed down. I am positive they discarded voted in the race for the 2008 presidency.
Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | November 22, 2009, 7:59 pm 7:59 pm
The democrats fear Palin because she is getting more popular than Obama and there is a chance she will run for the presidency in 2012. She is drawing lot of people at her book tour and those interviewed said they would vote for her. The are disgusted with Obama stating he has down nothing for the country. People thought they were voting for gold and ended up with brass.
Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | November 22, 2009, 8:03 pm 8:03 pm
“She’s got those icy eyes, that beauty queen smile, that grating voice, a complete lack of logic, thousands of really emotional fans.”
I can always count on liberals who are OBSESSED with Palin for helping me MAKE MY POINT. Emotional fans? Did you ever attend an Obama rally? LOL!
Palin isn’t destroying your liberties and bankrupting you and your children on a daily basis. Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are.
Liberals control all three branches of government and it’s evident to anyone who isn’t brain-dead that they are FAILING MISERABLY.
Posted by: Jenn | November 22, 2009, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm
the democrats welcome palin as a challenger. her connections to the seccesionists and to the religious nuts are more than enough to sink her campaign.
Posted by: peter | November 22, 2009, 9:29 pm 9:29 pm
>>Palin isn’t destroying your liberties and bankrupting you and your children on a daily basis. Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are.>Liberals control all three branches of government and it’s evident to anyone who isn’t brain-dead that they are FAILING MISERABLY.<<
ok here is another demonstration of ignorance, the three branches of gov't are Exec, Legislative, and Judicial. Liberals havent had control of the Supreme Court since the 60s. The House and the Senate are still just one branch of government. and those were repubblican controlled up until two years ago.
Posted by: peter | November 22, 2009, 9:40 pm 9:40 pm
We all hope Sarah runs.
Posted by: Liburals | November 22, 2009, 10:26 pm 10:26 pm
Liberals havent had control of the Supreme Court since the 60s.
peter | Nov 22, 2009 9:40:13 PM
Nonsense! Don’t you remember how the Supreme Court was so active on Gores behalf in 2000?
Posted by: jhw539 | November 22, 2009, 10:34 pm 10:34 pm
Beside criticizing Obama’s China trip is lack of plan and accomplishments, Reich also emphasized the need for much greater stimulus spending. Did Obama ever try to get approval from China’s president Hu to allow him to print more money to rescue the high job loss, partly due to China’s fast growth. Reich recent article on WSJ seems to be in recognition of the status quo that China will be doing manufacturing for us because they like to work hard and save money. Alas.
Posted by: austin | November 23, 2009, 12:26 am 12:26 am
They BOTH suck!
Posted by: jafo | November 23, 2009, 12:42 am 12:42 am
“yawn”
Posted by: sara | November 23, 2009, 6:53 am 6:53 am
Neither will be the right candidate for President.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | November 23, 2009, 10:46 am 10:46 am
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Posted by: PolitiCop | November 23, 2009, 3:00 pm 3:00 pm
I’m buying “Going Rouge – An American Nightmare”. I’ve had it with Sarah Palin. Only in America……2 years ago she was NOONE!!
Posted by: Rich | November 23, 2009, 6:58 pm 6:58 pm
The lefties want Mittens? Confirmation that he is not the candidate we need. Sarah Palin is inevitable. Obama has been a lousy president so far and shows no signs of improving. Obama turning it around and governing as a moderate instead of a left winger is the only hope liberals have for avoiding a Palin presidency. It isn’t going to happen – he is an ideologue.
Fortunately for America, Sarah Palin will be a fine president. I predict she will become even more transformational than Reagan. Elitist from both parties are obsolete.
Posted by: Jenny | November 24, 2009, 12:59 pm 12:59 pm
Palin has awakened a demographic. Romney gave us an example of what will happen with government run health care. The program he got started has been run-a-muck by the politicians. Any good king or emperor inevitably loses his gains for the welfare of the people to successors that corrupt it for their own interest. So is the Massachusetts health care system baggage that Romney would have to bear in the next election? He did open the gate to the concept and it did provide a litmus test of what would happen to national health care. Will we thank him for the warning if the national bill fails to pass or curse him because its failure dashed some hopes?
Posted by: TX_MBell | November 24, 2009, 11:39 pm 11:39 pm
Yea, I can just invison Romney v Palin in a debate. Romney talks about his MARRIED children concevied in MARRIAGE and grandchildren conceived in MARRIAGE, and the success his children enjoy as father’s and he as a grandfather. I can see him talking foreign policy, and econcomics, and what he actually did as a full term gov of a state with more population than Palin could have dreamed of. I can see him discussing his books that don’t need fact checking, or fending off libel lawsuits from those he talked about in his books. Yes, I can see it now. Sarugh winks, shows some leg, yaks about her illeget grandchildren (plural) and her wonderful marriage to a man who she rarely sees (guess that’s her secret?) and the fact that she can see Russia from her back yard.
Posted by: sparks | November 29, 2009, 11:17 am 11:17 am
and that will make her ‘qualifed’.
You all been sniffing that jet fuel from her private jet she takes to her ‘bus’. But beware… she has a problem tossing those that love her, under that same bus as she heads to the airport!
Posted by: sparks | November 29, 2009, 11:18 am 11:18 am
Greetings, the fact that we Democrats continue to contemptuously speak of Sary Palin ONLY goes to underline the outrage within our ranks that someone SO IGNORANT as she could be foisted upon the American Electorate as a “LEADER” by the (R)idiculous (R)ight…
There is a roiling undercurrent of detestation against the television Sports reporter princess Sary Palin that will spark an electoral Tsunami by Democrats of EVERY STRIPE who will rise up at the polls to QUASH Republican efforts to elect a tart WHO QUIT her States Elected Governorship in order to peddle a book she did not write should the (R)ight continue to kiss that idiots dirty brown ring.
Posted by: Zach | November 29, 2009, 1:08 pm 1:08 pm
Jenny how old are you somewhere between 18 and 24 years old? Reagan was only ‘TRANSFORMATIONAL’ for those who said that he was…
The Cold War began in around 46′ 47′ each American President “fought” that icy conflict by counter-actions to what the Soviets were doing, to include Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter & Reagan truly a team effort. From the 1930s and into the 1970s, the Soviet economy had been geared for heavy industry and the military — production with a lot of steel and cement. It was a “command” economy, directed from a central planning commission. Since the from ’66 to ’75 Soviet Economic Growth fell from 5.3% to 2.6% as they began to produce Automobiles, and plastic items for the public, and were showing serious cracks in their Centrally planned Control Economy. Of course these are all details that came as the result of a kind of autopsy on the Soviet Regime by the Russian people because the Eastern European countries within the Soviet Union were hidden behind what the West referred to as the “Iron Curtain” where during those days little information got out at all.
Then in 1982 after the death of Brezhnev when Gorbachev finally gained power he relented to the suffering of the people, and the Soviet Union’s OWN FAILING ECONOMIC position requiring change, and/or reform. Gorbachev realized that the Soviet Union was failing at the same time as Poland was being organized by Lech Walensa a Labor Reform Leader in Poland and the whole Parestroika call. All over the Soviet Union change was being felt while Gorbachev realized that his treasury was dry, and his people are hungry, Gorbachev knew that he was seated atop a powder keg…
What did Reagan do? what any American President would have under those same circumstances HE PILED ON, saying to Gorbachev whom by that time Reagan had a growing affection for, to “tear down that wall.” Transformational in the foreign policy area? NOT REALLY… The Wall didn’t come down until the Bush Administration, so Gorby wasn’t “feeling it” as people say about those who are under the gun.
Economically, well if going from the World’s number ONE Creditor Nation, to the World’s number ONE Debtor Nation is the formulation for transformational transcendence, then I will agree because Reagan was accused during the 1980 campaign by BUSH of advocating for VOODOO ECONOMICS, he then changed his tune once Reagan brought him on as the V.P. nominee. Cut Taxes, Increase spending on the military, BUT to pay for the CUT, Regan sold billions in U.S. Treasury’s overseas running up the National debt which was nearly ZERO when he took office. Transformational, only if you are trying to convince the tail wagging public.
Posted by: Hank | November 29, 2009, 6:03 pm 6:03 pm
Yeah, that is right when Ronald Reagan took office the United States was the #1 creditor nation, and within 8 years the U.S. became the #1 debtor nation.
Posted by: David | November 29, 2009, 6:12 pm 6:12 pm