"He was Frank Murkowski, the sitting governor of Alaska and a towering figure in the 49th state. She was a 'hockey mom' and the former mayor of a small, working-class town who vowed to stick it to the 'good ol’ boys.'... Today, having lost her bid for Congress after years out of the spotlight, Ms. Palin is a much diminished force. She was, in many ways, undone by the same political currents she rode to national prominence.... Along the way, she helped redefine the outer limits of what a politician could say as she made dark insinuations about Barack Obama’s background and false claims about government 'death panels' that could deny health care to seniors and people with disabilities. Now, a generation of Republican stars follows the template she helped create.... But as the next generation rose up, Ms. Palin’s brand of politics no longer seemed as novel or as outrageous. Next to Mr. Trump’s lies about a huge conspiracy to deny him a second term, or Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s casual allusions to political violence, Ms. Palin’s provocations more than a decade ago can seem almost quaint...."
Writes Jeremy W. Peters, in "Sarah Palin Loses as the Party She Helped Transform Moves Past Her/The former Alaska governor, once the standard-bearer of the G.O.P.’s dog-whistling, no-apologies culture, was no match for the same forces she rode to national prominence" (NYT).
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Palin lost because she had quit as Governor, hadn’t lived in Alaska for years and she had gone Hollywood. She was just another carpetbagging celebrity. That’s why Walker might lose. Many people take the residency issue seriously. It hurt Dr. Oz.
Can Leftists even think about politics without lapsing into the dog whistle canard? Such shoddy, stale thinking.
As someone mentioned here once, it's funny how they clearly hear the ones allegedly intended for deplorables.
"false claims" - are they paying attention to what is happening in Canada and Europe with health care management? Think it can't happen here?
"false claims" - are they paying attention to what is happening in Canada and Europe with health care management? Think it can't happen here?
If 11,000 voters chose Begich as their first choice and indicated no second choice, how many votes did he get in the second round (assuming Palin was the lowest)? Ranked choice voting is a game changer with unknown rules, but let's write a political Palin obituary.
The dog whistles only the Democrats seem to hear.
See that, NYT was right all along. They're the patriots.
Happy Thanksgiving, prof!
I am grateful for your unceasing advocacy of free speech.
The text referenced in this post is a damnable, deliberate mix of flagrant lies. Democrats have embraced this total, wild lying as a strategy for at least the past decade. It’s a strategy of deliberate psychological brutalization.
"Dog-whistle" is, the the truest manifestation of the first rule of propaganda: always accuse the other side of what it is that you are doing"; it's a 'dog-whistle' in itself. It means "We can't say it out loud, but this person is a racist who wants to take us back to 1955!" It's a baseless smear.
Sure, Dave Begley. Residency.
That's why they vote for Murkowski.
Were you asleep during the last decade?
Agree with David Begley, but Palin still might have narrowly won if Alaska didn't have ranked choice voting. It's designed to give unpopular candidates an edge.
Nobody in Georgia has or is talking about where Herschel Walker has been living. They know he is a Georgia boy from the sticks (Whether good or bad).
The people of alaska voted their doom with this sham rank choice
… false claims about government 'death panels' that could deny health care to seniors and people with disabilities
Except they aren’t false. The Times is gaslighting it’s gullible readers and no doubt most of them fall for it.
Lost to ranked voting.
The selected part of the article is nothing but mindless wish casting. Predictions are hard, especially about stuff in the future. But easier and more accurate than analyzing election results.
Now talk about how ranked choice manipulation, er...voting, is returning Lisa Murkowski to the Senate. Lisa was Mitch McConnell's choice. Kelly Tshibaka was the GOP rank and file choice.
Not only does the rank and file GOP have to compete against Democrats and their race-fixing procedures such as month long voting, mass mail-in balloting, harvesting of ballots, and shutting down election tabulators, but they have to also compete against the Establishment GOPers who refuse to step aside and leave.
We should just ignore Alaska until Murkowski retires or dies. Stop trying to primary her. It's not working
Palin lost to an Alaska lawfare campaign. Sue/investigate/special counsel them out of existence, with the acquiescence and apporoval of McConnell and the eGop. The same playbook is being used on Trump and all Trump reporters. That is why there is no Republican uproar about the J6 political prisoners, the 6:00 am raids of trump supporters and the Gen Flynn persecution.
It will be interesting to see if it will be used on DeSantis if he becomes potus, since he is becoming the eGop choice. It will be attempted but the eGop might find a backbone to support their boy.
So now it is normal for elections to take two weeks and a complete loss of interest to complete. Great for corruption.
Seeing as begich sr was the beneficiary of ghe bogus indictment it doesnt surprise me.
Wasn’t she sued like 3861 times and bankrupted as a result?
dark insinuations about Barack Obama’s background
Palin participated in a political controversy about whether Obama was a natural-born citizen -- a requirement imposed by the US Constitution.
Within that controversy, one particular issue was whether the US Government should provide to the electorate its best evidence -- the long-form birth certificate. Obama's supporters argued that minimal evidence -- the short-form certificate -- sufficed and that the best evidence could be withheld from the electorate.
Ultimately, Obama himself agreed to provide his long-form birth certificate -- to provide the US Government's best evidence.
Thus, Obama himself established a good precedent that, in all future Presidential elections, the US Government should provide to the public its best evidence -- not merely minimal evidence -- when there is an issue about whether a Presidential candidate indeed is "a natural-born citizen".
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The New York Times should be ashamed of itself for falsely characterizing this issue as "dark insinuations about Barack Obama's background". The characterization is so blatantly false that I say it is a deliberate lie.
Shouting Thomas said,
"Happy Thanksgiving, prof!
I am grateful for your unceasing advocacy of free speech. "
Hear, hear.
May you all have a happy thanksgiving.
Yeah Palin's loss has absolutely nothing to do with the insane changes to Alaska's voting laws. The fact that she would have won this election under the original rules is ignored.
Many people take the residency issue seriously.
Tell that to Hillary.
Ranked Choice voting - is another leftwing scheme.
It will be interesting to see if it will be used on DeSantis if he becomes potus, since he is becoming the eGop choice. It will be attempted but the eGop might find a backbone to support their boy.
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Desantis won't win.
Sarah Palin catalyzed a change in American journalism from which, judging by the text excerpted here, it has not even begun to recover.
NYT… arbiters of truth?
Pull the other one…
Ranked Choice Voting is a Scheme.
How did Alaska allow that in the door?
"no match for the same forces she rode to national prominence"
Actually, she was no match for the same forces that thwarted her and her fellow deplorables all along. Progs rule, GOPe makes common cause.
"... false claims about government 'death panels' that could deny health care to seniors and people with disabilities."
Evidently NYT journalists are still ignorant about the nuances of socialized medicine and the proposals of Obama advisor Dr. Zeke Emanuel. Both include "death panels."
In New Zealand, some years back, we watched an elderly man die after a government panel ruled that the district's dialysis machines, in high demand, were to be reserved for younger patients. It was not the only such case. Health care in NZ was not "socialized," but it was closely regulated by the government.
"Dog-whistling" in the headline is a signal to loyal readers that this is what one expects from the Times.
I guess that makes it a "dog whistle."
The idea behind "dog-whistling" is that hidden, dark themes are conveyed in innocent sounding language. But what if those dark themes are mostly in the minds of those who point out the "dog whistles" to the rest of us? Sometimes "law and order" is just about ... law and order. Also, was Palin really "dog-whistling"? Or was she just saying what she thought and being too outspoken and blunt?
Wait, Mr. Wibble, DeSantis is the GOPe choice? So are all Republicans who like another candidate over Trump GOPe now?
Asking for a friend.
Murkowski's team got the election law changed to "ranked choice" and that was successful in electing two people who did not even get a majority of votes.
Odd that the author doesn't compare any of the Republicans' more outre ideas with Hillary Clinton's actual, proven, really real, conspiracy against a sitting president. She tried to get him impeached, and took up a lot of his presidency, with the false dossier her ratfuckers - including the heads of the CIA and FBI - created from whole cloth and publicized via planned leaks to the press.
If you look at the practical factors involved and the Dunham-Obamas' resources, that trip to Kenya was always hard to believe. The tape of Obama's "grandmother" (who was one of his grandfather's other wives) doesn't really confirm the story that was based on it. It's more of a confused muddle with the "Anabaptist Bishop" interviewer trying to put words into her mouth.
The birth certificate controversy served Obama's opponents as a publicity and fund-raising tool. It appealed to people who already felt he was foreign and alien. It also served Obama as a way to paint his critics as loonies, and as we've seen, even if he released his birth certificate when first asked, it wouldn't have convinced all the skeptics.
That said, there were a lot of things about Obama's background that were and are unknown and unexplored, something that encouraged speculation and rumors. On the other hand, I do appreciate that Obama wasn't always going on about his family and younger days and making up stories about all that.
Murkowski is notable for having appointed his daughter, Lisa Murkowski, to replace him in the U.S. Senate after he resigned his Senate seat to become governor of Alaska.
Nice trick. "Towering figures" can get away with stuff like that.
Mike Sylwester said...
when there is an issue about whether a Presidential candidate indeed is "a natural-born citizen".
That issue was raised against Palin's own running mate, McCain, wasn't it?
dark insinuations about Barack Obama’s background.
See Andrew Sullivan on Palin's son.
false claims about government 'death panels' that could deny health care to seniors and people with disabilities.
See Canada.
Next to Mr. Trump’s lies about a huge conspiracy to deny him a second term.
See Time Magazine.
Ahhh, Sarah Plain’s brand of snake oil: Obama birth certificate, health care death panels, in corrupt charlatans and denial of fact, demonization of the media, all seem quaint compared to where the GOP is now.
All hail the plastic cow that wrote the cult manual. A template on how to manipulate the paranoid, misinformed and poorly educated;the modern GOP base.
Of course Sarah Palin’s political demise is due to the dark machinations of Democratic and Republican elites. It can’t possibly have anything to do with headlines like “Sarah Palin's family involved in drunken fight at snowmobile party” and “Sarah Palin's son arrested for domestic violence after fist-fight with father over handgun.”
"False claims", "without proof", "without evidence"---the New York Times (along with the rest of the MSM) bag of tricks grows old.
If you disagree with the NYT's prevailing ideology, you are just a nasty liar.
Sod off Grey Lady!
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Wasn’t she sued like 3861 times and bankrupted as a result?
Yes, that is why she resigned from the governorship. Lawfare that is the go too tactic now. There is a reason that Soros pushed for fascist attorney generals. The republicans had best wake up.
My assumption is that Obama was born in the US, but that the story surrounding his birth was always bullshit. His mom got knocked up, and the family paid Obama Sr. to play her fiance for a few months until he left for Harvard, at which point she went to live with relatives on the mainland. She was supposed to give up the baby, but instead chose to keep it.
"false claims about government death panels"
Well...they use the general population of the United States as experimental lab rats for the mRNA shots. They violated the Nuremburg Codes while doing so. Now they cover the vaccine injuries while people are dying and they continue to push in on children. Some really evil stuff.
Oh. And lets not forget the purposeful COVID contamination of the elderly in nursing homes by blue state governors. Helped pad the COVID numbers for political gain, and cleaned a lot of old folks off the Medicare rolls to save money.
Sarah Palin was right. Death Panels will be here someday too. But first, they need to block out the sun to save us all from "global warming".
He was Frank Murkowski, the sitting governor of Alaska and a towering figure in the 49th state.
Tell a lie often enough and it takes hold. Stevens, Young, and Murkowski were our Congressmen for decades. Stevens, aka Mr. Pork, was the towering figure. Young was well thought of but not worshipped like Stevens. Murkowski was not well liked but you don't want to upset the bacon train. He won the Governorship because Alaska was deep red and his opponent was a nothingburger. It was a thank you for all the pork as much as anything. By the end of his term he was very unpopular. He was deep in the pocket of big oil and had decreased the state’s oil revenues by increasing big oil royalties, and he was an entitled asshole (See: The Governor's personal plane). The last few days of his election against Palin when it was obvious he was going to lose he ran what I think of as the most pathetic political ad ever. His voice in near tears he promised to do better next time and change his ways. It's something you'd have to hear to appreciate how bad it was, and how pathetic the man really was. Murkowski was not "a towering figure" at any point in his career. His daughter is a chip off the old block.
And now I would like to confess to a sin that has bothered me for years. When Lisa was running for re-election she lost the Rep primary to Joe somebody or other who was a flake at best, so she ran as an independent. I had a million dollar client who invited me to a meet and greet for Murkowski and I donated $1k. It's a shame I've never gotten over, and at the time it made me feel a little dirty. I never met Frank personally, but in the short time I spent with Lisa the attitude of entitlement was clear as a bell. She truly thinks of herself as above the little people, just like her dad did. But she took my $ without so much as a thank you anyway.
So when the columnist refers to Frank Murkowski as a towering figure you can discount anything else he has to say.
And no, I don't know why she keeps getting re-elected. I'd vote for a drunken bum on 4th Street before I'd give her the time of day, and most long time Alaskans that aren't Dems that I know feel the same way.
It can’t possibly have anything to do with headlines like “Sarah Palin's family involved in drunken fight at snowmobile party” and “Sarah Palin's son arrested for domestic violence after fist-fight with father over handgun.”
She WAS the most proudly ignorant politician of all time until the MAGAts took over the party.
White trash cultural guru is how she positioned herself. These headlines actually help solidy her bona fides with the rubes she appealed to.
Thanks John McCain!
What's so newsworthy about this NY Times article? Palin won way back when because the voters were sick and tired of the corruption in Alaska. So what did the Politicos up in Alaska do? They changed the voting rules to "rank choice" because it guaranteed Murkowski's election. But the NY Times does not even go there? Classic garbage from a once great news organization now caught up in High School shenanigan type reporting.
NYT spins handmade tales and brays with conflation, through projection.
"false claims about government death panels"
Planned parent/hood in several Democrat districts, the State's ethical religious sanction (i.e. one-child delegated) of the wicked solution. Schumer laments that our civilization is not viable. Meanwhile, Medicare/Medicaid/Obamacares is 80% unfunded, and the principal forcing of progressive prices ("redistributive change") and availability.
Death Panels will be here someday too. But first, they need to block out the sun to save us all from "global warming".
Whether Planned Parenthood or planned parent/hood, human rites are NOW performed for social, redistributive, clinical, political, and fair weather causes.
need to block out the sun to save us all from "global warming"
Also, the renewable/intermittent/unreliable Green blight upon land and sea... first you go green, then Green, then Blue, then blue for environmentalist sanctioned sociopolitical myth... another one.
She WAS the most proudly ignorant politician of all time until the MAGAts took over the party.
White trash cultural guru is how she positioned herself. These headlines actually help solidy her bona fides with the rubes she appealed to.
Isn't it amusing to see ignoramuses like this hag pretending they are so much more intelligent than those on the right?
Then they always have empty profiles on Blogger.
Is it too much to hope Mr. Peter's ultimate fate is decided by one of those death panels Palin was wrong about?
The RINOs in Wyoming are pushing for ranked choice voting because a very conservative guy won the primary for Secretary of State and ran unopposed in the general election. He campaigned, and won, on election integrity. Oh, the horrors!
Actually, Sarah Palin lost because she didn’t have a good strategy for dealing with the ranked choice system. To win she had to finish with the proverbial “50% + 1” or else finish in the top two and be the 2nd choice of the vast majority of the 3rd place finisher’s voters (this is slightly oversimplified, but close enough for politics). However I have been advised that she ran as hard against Begich as against Peltola, so more than enough Begich voters chose Peltola 2nd to hand the race to the Democrat.
Lisa Murkowski openly courted Democrat voters, correctly expecting that being the 2nd choice of Democrat voters would win the election for her.
Well, I see here *you're not* boycotting NYT, but is your ratio favoring WaPo?
P.S. I read the Palin article earlier. I'd still like to know exactly how ranked choice voting disadvantaged those with the most name recognition and statewide political experience, ahem, Sarah Palin.
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