Speed 3: Chasing Palin
**Written by Doug Powers
To read the Politico article, which is entitled “Sarah Palin’s tour a rolling menace,” you’d think the tour is being directed by Jerry Bruckheimer.
This could even be the script for the preview of “Speed 3: Chasing Palin” — provided Sandra Bullock has one more sequel in her. Here are just a few highlights from the action-packed article:
They speed. They run red lights and stop signs. They make last-second lane changes to get off the highway, sometimes without signaling.
So do the reporters following them.
Journalists in the caravan trailing her “One Nation” tour bus describe the experience as harrowing, a rolling menace careening up the East Coast in hot pursuit of the former Alaska governor who declined to provide any advance itinerary of her tour over six days on the road.
Palin’s two-SUV caravan traveled at 52 miles per hour in a 35 mph zone as it peeled away from the hosts’ neighborhood. Both cars blew through a stop sign about a mile later. They did 70 mph in a 55 mph zone on I-95 — and then, after they got off, without signaling, flew right past a flashing sign informing them they were going 45 mph in a 35 mph zone.
It takes someone like Sarah Palin to get the media to make following a bus sound like Rollerball.
Who knows how melodramatic these stories will sound a few weeks more into Sarah’s lawless rampage across the countryside.
**Written by Doug Powers
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Some VERY good reading for a Sunday afternoon! If you like Herm Cain, you will LOVE this! And by the way, Herm Cain has all the tenacity and NO BS persona that Chris Cristie has, but, unlike Cristie, Herm is a true Conservative.
Dear skeptics and critics
By Herman Cain May 29th, 2011
Wow! I must be causing some people quite a concern as a candidate for the Republican nomination for president. The establishment skeptics are still stuck in the traditional campaign paradigm of immediate name ID, lots of money, and having held a worthy elective office before. The critics are pounding on what they perceive as my weaknesses. And the Democratic National Committee now has me on its radar and is sharpening its blades for a Cain attack.
No one is more emblematic of the Republican establishment than Karl Rove. He has an unmatched political record from his tenure with former president George W. Bush. I greatly respect and admire what he has accomplished in his career.
But I would suggest that he take a few minutes to review my record as a leader in business and as a problem-solver before he dismisses me as the radio talk show guy form Atlanta with not much to offer as a presidential candidate. Mr. Rove’s perspective also suggests that successful business skills are not applicable to changing the “Titanic” course our federal government is on.
People outside the political establishment are starting to recognize that those business skills are applicable. Maybe that’s why Cain is rising in the polls.
One of my favorite political commentators, Charles Krauthammer of Fox News, described my candidacy as entertainment. I enjoy his perspectives because he is usually very thoughtful and often correct in his analysis. Unfortunately, this time he got it wrong. Some people would describe being able to give an informative and inspiring speech as an asset, especially if one is running for president.
Or maybe Mr. Krauthammer was thinking of the announcement rally we held in Atlanta recently, which attracted over 15,000 enthusiastic supporters. Then again, maybe it’s because we do not have the funds or the fundraising network that the more well-known candidates have. And no, my campaign is not broke, as someone on Chris Wallace’s Fox News staff incorrectly concluded from a dormant PAC account.
My presidential campaign account is called Friends of Herman Cain, just in case Mr. Rove, Mr. Krauthammer and Mr. Wallace would like to make a contribution. I’m not mad! We just have temporary differences of opinions.
And to my critics who are scouting for more of my weaknesses to write about, I will give you three you have not discovered yet. I don’t know everything. I don’t pander to groups. And I am terrible at political correctness. Like any candidate, I will make some gaffes and stumble in some interviews with the press.
On the other hand, my strengths include identifying problems, properly framing problems, solving problems, surrounding myself with good and great people, and giving those overly inspiring speeches to engage the people in my common sense solutions process. Oh! I also like to smile, laugh and have fun with people. I think people can handle those qualities in a presidential candidate.Lastly, I’m surprised that the DNC already has me on its political radar screen when not all of the potential candidates have yet to even formally declare their candidacy for the Republican nomination. Maybe the Democrats are taking my candidacy seriously, and if I win the nomination then they will not be laughing.
I realize that the road to the nomination and the White House is long and difficult. I know we will encounter many new challenges along the way, and that many people see my chances as against the odds.
When one considers that I am up against the skeptics, the critics, the establishment, the Democrats, the liberals, gotcha journalism, a liberal-leaning mainstream media, the challenges of raising campaign funds and a host of other candidates seeking the same objectives, my candidacy is against the odds.
But then, that’s been the story of my life and my career.
Maybe my middle name should have been David. He defeated a giant against the odds.
That’s a great line, Happy! We conservatives have a great message. The ability to package it is also important.
On June 5th, 2011 at 12:55 pm, happyscrapper said:
That and corrupt Democrap one party rule in their legislature.
With each new report from the Chasing Sarah story by the LSM, I am more convinced than ever that “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World” out there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMpN_HuwDrg
Way to go, Happy! Now you will have me drooling into next week wishing I could be there.
Happy, since you are the crafty type (me too!) you should make a card, or small poster, with names of the regular posters here, for Michelle and Doug.
Please tell her for me, if you can get near her, how much I admire her and all she has done.
I was only a reader here for years, I learned a lot from her.
Very excited about all the candidates that will attend. Please pass on our spirit to them. Let them know we’re ready for the bloody battle ahead.
I barely know Herman Cain, but everytime I have listened to him I have been impressed.
There are two compelling things about Cain. First, he is a untainted patriot. Second he brings a whole new set of rules. He will change how things get done. Eisenhower had no political experience either. Instead of cronies, he filled his appointments with the best apolitical subject matter experts he could find.
Compare that with how well things have worked with the ideologs with no experience Obama has picked.
That approach is the anti-Obama, anti-establishment approach. As I said compelling. I love Bachman and Palin; but Cain is right there with them.
Yeah and who needs that after eight years of Bill Clinton?
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Now I’ll picture you placing interestingly arranged printed quotes of those posts when the skillet came out into a scrapbook. LOL.
Ditto to Green eyed Lady’s post.
I’ll see if I can do something tasteful with a small sign. Maybe just a “hello” from her posters here and a message. Maybe I can hand it to her if I get close enough. I don’t know what the circumstances are going to be. But I do know that there are 9 breakout sessions and I am assuming some of those people who have blogs will be in charge of them. Breitbart, Mary Katherine Hamm, S.E. Cupp, Ed Morrissey, and of course our Michelle. I really don’t know what to expect!
http://rightonline.com/beta/
Go here to see more about RightOnLine and who will be there.
It will be in two weeks.
I will come back with a full report!
I understand! Sounds great.
Now I’ll picture you placing interestingly arranged printed quotes of those posts when the skillet came out into a scrapbook. LOL.
Funny!
Don’t worry. I’ve introduced myself to many of the big bloggers including Hugh Hefner, John Hinderaker, Mary Katherine Ham and a few others who have all received my into with grace and good humor. Of course, Michelle has been called America’s favorite “rage kewpie” in the past so….
I’d risk it.
correction:
…received my intro …
Fox News Panel Follies
In case anyone missed it, Governor Palin gave an excellent interview on Fox News Sunday this morning. She gave crisp, clear answers to all questions posed to her by Chris Wallace. The topics ranged far and wide from Afghanistan and Libya to energy, the economy, taxes, the debt ceiling, the 2012 election, and Obama’s miserable presidency. Wallace, by no means a conservative, said after the interview that Governor Palin was “a serious candidate for president” and had given a “boffo performance” in the interview. However, after Governor Palin’s interview had concluded, the show quickly went off the tracks when the ”Sunday Panel” talked presidential politics.
“She’s gonna have to be presidential to run, and that is gonna be focusing on policies. And that’s something she’s done less than less of as she’s tried to connect with voters on a personal level. She’s gonna have to talk policy.”
Gotcha. She weighs in on too many policy issues so, obviously, the solution is to talk about them more. Thanks for clearing that up for me. Que the Twighlight Zone theme. Click below to watch…
http://conservatives4palin.com/2011/06/fox-news-panel-follies.html
There’s a main commuter trail along the north shore of Long Island that is one lane in each direction (!)
Drivers do not use gas pedal. With NYT or WSJ spread across steering wheel and coffee cup in hand, they just use the brake pedal – lift and depress, lift and depress.
Not that it isn’t worth repeating, but that’s what I reported near the beginning of this thread. Considering the smirk on Wallace’s face during the interview and how he treated her “Paul Revere” statement as a gaffe, I was surprised when he was the only one on the panel that acknowledged that she is a serious candidate. And despite her boffo interview, the panel spoke as if they didn’t watch it.
There will be no moving these people off of their establishment RINO narrative. These people are obtuse.
Yeah, but I think people are seeing this stuff and getting fed up with it.
I have been for some time now.
They’re not going to go quietly.
Enjoy your trip Happy. No need to thank me for sparing your life the other day, as I had another post for ILMC lined up that would have quite possibly been the coup de grace for you, but I will hold it in abeyance until after you return.
Make sure you give the two Michelles a hug for me and say “Rogue Cheddar says hey!” Give Herman a bro hug for me too.
It doesn’t matter how “boffo” he thinks it is. With the way it was conducted, the rest of the leftist media are still running with the “she screwed up on Paul Revere” meme.
So pathetic.
Happyscrapper, enjoy your trip. Wish I could go too.
*sigh* The ATF is giving guns to the drug cartels and all the Mass Media can report on is more Palin bashing.
They couldn’t leave Sarah alone if they tried – they are obsessed!
I am so jealous happyscrapper! Enjoy your trip, and if able, give Michelle an extra squeeze for me. Also, please thank Andrew Breitbart for all he’s doing to expose those who are trying to destroy our country. His book, Righteous Indignation, was excellent.
I wonder if Michelle will be releasing a follow up to Culture of Corruption. If not, she should.
On June 05, 2011 at 11:19 pm, 1ConcernedMom said:
Our hostess has updated the book in a newer edition at least once.
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/06/05/quotes-of-the-day-706/comment-page-2/#comments
Sarah Palin is the first post-media candidate.
Well, not quite yet, since she isn’t an official candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. And who knows, she may never enter the race. But what she has done with her just-completed bus tour up the East Coast is to show other candidates for president, and Republicans in general, how to deal with the mainstream news media.
Ignore them. Make them work for their stories. Stay focused on your message and ridicule their whining.
A couple of recent polls of likely voting Republicans indicate Palin’s public is enjoying the show. Her popularity has not faded – she is in the top tier with Mitt Romney.
The undisciplined, pampered political media following her on her bus trip up the coast have complained long and loud about how she is not giving them her schedule, holding press avails, and is even giving them the slip on occasional. So detached from reality are they that at least one reporter has complained bitterly that she is putting them in physical danger, and another has claimed she may be breaking federal law – by riding in a bus that sports an American flag.
The mainstream media, long in decline and smarting from its obvious bias in favor of Barack Obama before, during and after his 2008 election as president, has been reduced to playing the role of annoying and unruly children on a long car trip.
“Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?”
No, we are not there yet, Palin’s trip has exclaimed loudly. As she has made clear, her trip won’t end until Obama is defeated in 2012, whether or not she is the one who takes him down. All the while, vast swaths of the American public – at least those who are paying attention – are enjoying her treatment of these pampered Beltway boys and girls.
It’s almost like those reporters are the last ones to learn their industry is fading fast. As long as their editors continue to approve their expense reports for excursions to cover Palin and other such adventures, they may never learn the truth. That truth is, according to my polling and the polling of other national survey organizations, public confidence in the traditional news media is at an all-time low, and trust of these reporters is also near the bottom of the barrel.
Try as they might to derail and distract her, Palin isn’t affected. She has shown this gaggle – who collectively believe they are the ones who should choose the nominees and the president, all for the good of the country – to be nothing more than a moveable feast of media mendacity. When she is done with them, she will toss them aside and communicate directly with her supporters.
This is exactly how Republicans should run their media operations. Those GOPers who have in the past pandered to the media – John McCain springs immediately to mind – ultimately end up taking positions on key issues that are designed to please the media, not conservative voters. Voters fade to the background as invitations to all the best Washington cocktail parties become the priority. What you get from such behavior is a $14.4 trillion debt, gas at $4 per gallon and unemployment heading toward double-digits. What you get is a nation in decline.
Polls show people understand that. Less than one in three Americans now says the country is headed in the right direction. Obama’s job approval, while it has improved slightly in the last month, is still in a very bad place.
But that is all lost on most mainstream political reporters. The efforts to spin the dramatically bad news about the American economy are now so laughable that even the casual observer notices. Reporters have blamed Bush, the Republicans in Congress and this past week even the American unemployed workers for not trying hard enough to find work. But they never blame Obama. Palin has used the weakness of the traditional media to her tremendous advantage.
In the end, the old media will die. When the smoke clears and a new media paradigm prevails, it will be Palin leading the way.
Fritz Wenzel is president of polling firm Wenzel Strategies.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=306937#ixzz1OT9IzRu7
G e L,
Very interesting and I think, absolutely accurate. Thanks ! I do so love to head toward my pillow with a snicker on my mind !
“…. annoying children ….” INDEED !
Green Eyed Lady… enjoyable and informative. Thanks for sharing.
“BOOM, taste my nightstick!”
This issue has a lot of potential.
Sarah proved once again she is smarter than the press. 1, she won’t give an advanced itinerary, so the left can’t rent a mob to greet her which the “journalists” could ballyhoo as proof Americans hate her. Then 2, she correctly cites historical facts regarding Revere which the brilliant “press” immediately ridicule her for despite her being correct, and them being wrong. 3, What she said in the interview with Wallace was exactly what middle class america is feeling. She articulated what we all see happening before our eyes. And biased idiots like Tom Freidman and Austan Goolsby and Nancy Pelosi would like to convince us things are just fine. The old story of the wife walking in on her husband boffing his secretary, and the husband denies it vehemently saying, “who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?”
Actually the more I think about what went wrong in her 2008 campaign, the more it seems to me that for the first time, she wasn’t using her own shrewd political instincts. She was saddled with a bunch of “handlers” who were cast in the GOP mold (emphasis on the “O”) and the fundamental mistake she made was, in the spirit of a true team-player, humbly to accept their clueless coaching. No doubt these were the same people who “handled” Dan Quayle’s famous photo op at the spelling bee. In more than one respect, ahe was flying a Cessna with a dead elephant on its back. No surprise that it crashed and burned.
Now, like the mythological Phoenix, out of the ashes she is once again a rising political star and this time, thank you very much, she’s following her own well-founded instincts. I hope she wins the Republican nomination, whether by running or by being drafted.
I hope this time the GOP follows her lead, like the Vogon Media that is now gagging on her dust.
I hope.
Cain and Bachmann would be tough to beat. I would hate to waste Bachmann as a VP though.
What is Vogon?
I had my computer turned off purposely all weekend, so am only now posting:
Please, please HappyScrapper, please tell Michelle that babiesgrandma is wishing her the very best, and lots of hugs from Colorado.
I’m glad you asked. They are the fictional representation of outdated stagnation in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
BLAH-HA-HA!!!!!
The Lame Scream Media are one sorry bunch of cry-baby-liberals!!!
GO SARAH GO!
I watched the interview. It was a run of the mill political interview. I have no real critiques or praises. Wait, my only critique was that horrible blue background. It was bothersome!
I think the point the panel was making in the quote above is that Sarah says really broad and common-sense things/ideas without a clear definitive policy.
I honestly look forwrad to hearing her ideas on how she’ll make things better in our country. If anything, Obama’s utopia view that won him the election, wasn’t based in political reality. That’s where I want to see Sarah expand on the ‘how.’
There was a Speed 2?
Speed 2: Cruise Control
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HI GREEN_EYED_LADY–#111 AND #123. I also saw the excellent Sarah Palin interview with Chris Wallace. No teleprompter–good straightforward clear answers to the questions.
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And the ‘Cuda’s voice and delivery coaching is paying off big time. Less “screech” in the voice, and a slower delivery. She is one of those people who thinks very quickly and as a result speaks too quickly.
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The ‘Cuda learned a lot in the last 2 1/2 years. She is taking her campaign directly to the American People. And is bypassing the hostile and no longer important American Pravda Media. Her fundraising will be via PAC donations, and Talk Radio, Internet. Fair Fox News TV interviewers like Greta Van Sustern and Chris Wallace will be her traditional media outlets.
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TSUNAMI II coming in November, 2012, Comrade Obama! And to the corrupt Hillary Clinton also if the democrat “super” delegates throw the Good Comrade under the bus when the polls show that my Chihuahua could beat The Messiah due to the high energy costs and high unemployment numbers their failed policies have caused.
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Blaming the evil Booooosh isn’t gonna cut it anymore. When a professional baseball, basketball, or football team can’t stand and deliver–we fire the coach! Ditto for politicians.
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John Bibb
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Hmmm. a prospective politician using common sense to resolve issues. Well, we can’t allow that! We need more acadamians and professors and convoluted intellectual thinkers to chart our path and then provide even more convoluted explanations on the resulting train wreck. Al Gore, Adlai Stevenson, where are you when we need you????
Oh, yes, I forgot: we also need John Kerry’s Nuances
John Fn. Kerry: The trouble with Sarah Palin is that she has no nuance!
Woah Trueliberal! I didn’t even see that! We must be physic!
Palin’s clear definitive policy (as I read it from her interview with Greta Van Sustern)
Lower taxes
Reduced Federal Government
Peace through strength
Any questions?
She must give detailed two thousand page proposals that will have to be passed into law in order to understand, or she’s stupid.
Oh my Lord. Did you see that Fox News posted a photo of Tina Fey on a story about Sarah Palin? Get it together, Fox, sheesh.
http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/fox-news-confuses-sarah-palin-tina-fey-27972
They were obviously hacked by Andrew Breitbart. It was probably a prank.
They are hiring a private investigator as we speak. They have declined a federal investigation.
It’s summer. Somebody putting the story together probably yelled to an intern to get a picture of Sarah Palin. The intern more than likely just grabbed the first image that came up on Google.
Considering what journalism school is cranking out these days, this wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it were deliberate by a Lefty working at Fox. I think it would be pretty hard to ‘accidently’ grab a picture of Tina Fey mocking Sarah Palin.
I have no idea how things work at FoxNews, and I’m not even a fan of Palin, but if someone did it on purpose, that’s pathetic. And if it was an accident, sloppy work really irritates me.
20 years from now, what will people say about Sarah Palin (worst case)?
“She was an inspiration to the country”
What will people say about Tina Fey?
1. “Tina Who?”
2. “Oh, yeah, she did an impersonation of Sarah Palin”.