GOP Strategist Schools Matthews: Palin's Resumé Just As Strong As Obama's Was
By Noel Sheppard | November 03, 2010 | 23:15
For the second time in three weeks, a Republican strategist has taught MSNBC's Chris Matthews a lesson about how former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's qualifications for president are just as strong as Barack Obama's when he ran back in 2008.
This time the GOPer educating the "Hardball" host was Todd Harris (video follows with transcript and commentary):
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Let`s go to Rudy, guys, because he always runs as a secular Republican. He would be the perfect sort of bete noir (ph) for this. So, let`s take a look at Rudy Giuliani, what he said today. He`s back in the money. I`m not sure what Rudy is doing these days, but he`s always talking around Republican nomination fights without being in one.
Let`s listen.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
RUDY GIULIANI (R), FORMER NYC MAYOR: Let her run. If she`s as bad as you think, she will lose. If she can really -- if she can really make her case, she will -- she will win.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG, CO-HOST, "THE VIEW": So, do you think she actually has a case?
GIULIANI: Yes, sure she does.
GOLDBERG: I would like to know what it is.
GIULIANI: I don`t want to get you all, you know, down on me. But the reality is, she`s got a hell of a lot more qualifications than Barack Obama did when he ran for president.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MATTHEWS: What do you think of that? Do you make that case, Todd, that hell of a lot better qualifications than President Obama when he ran for president two years ago?
TODD HARRIS, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Look --
MATTHEWS: You accept that?
HARRIS: Regardless of what anyone thinks of Palin or Obama, if you`re just looking at her resume now and his resume when he started running, they`re not that dissimilar.
MATTHEWS: Yes, he wrote a book and she had showed no evidence of having read one. There is a difference in I.Q. here. I don`t mean an I.Q., but sort of knowledge. And knowledge is relevant, isn`t it Todd? Or is it irrelevant now?
Do the Republicans now contend that being an absolute know-nothing at some qualification for the presidency, if you can prove you don`t know anything, had never been to New York, have never read any magazines, at least not glossy ones, does that sort of automatically establish you as credible, is that the new standard?
HARRIS: Well, first of all, the question was about experience. It wasn`t about whether you`d been to New York or not. And I don`t think that the people who are frustrated with the direction of the country really care one way or the other whether a candidate, you know --
MATTHEWS: Has ever read anything.
HARRIS: -- has read the right books, you know, that people on the East Coast think --
MATTHEWS: You`re are playing this game, too.
STEVE MCMAHON, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Todd --
MATTHEWS: The right books, you are playing this same game. You are like -- never mind. This is the game. This is the French fries game George W. taught you guys, make fun of anybody that might know a second language, make fun of anybody that did well in school.
HARRIS: Hold on. No. No. That`s absurd.
MATTHEWS: Of course it s.
HARRIS: No, I`m not making fun of any of those people. What I`m saying is, on a question of experience, her resume and Barack Obama`s resume when he started running are not dissimilar.
MATTHEWS: Right.
HARRIS: So, you know, you can argue whether you think one is smarter than the other or one had written a book, one is not, but on the pure question of elected experience, you know, they are not that far apart.
MATTHEWS: You know, I just love this fact. Let`s get in the airplane with a guy that has never flown a plane. Let`s get in with a doctor that has never done an operation. Let`s go -- geez, the standards right now --
Wait a minute! I thought this was about intellectual capacity and not experience. Why the change, Mr. Matthews?
This flip-flop was even more hypocritical given how little actual experience Obama had when he tossed his named into the presidential ring in February 2007.
As for getting on an airplane with a guy that's never flown before, with unemployment skyrocketing under Obama's watch, and him just suffering one of the biggest midterm election defeats in history, it quite appears the junior senator from Illinois conned millions of Americans into believing he was a much-heralded fighter pilot. But I digress:
(CROSSTALK)
HARRIS: Chris, if the American people put such a premium on experience and John McCain would have beaten Barack Obama because he had a hell of a lot more governing experience than Obama did. There are -- there are things that are more important for the average voter.
MATTHEWS: Yes, except he flipped so many times, I didn`t know where he stood.
So which is it, Mr. Matthews? Is it IQ that counts, experience, or being consistent on the issues?
In the end, with folks like Matthews, it's all about the letter after a candidate's name for if it's an "R," the MSNBCer is always going to rationalize exactly why the Democrat is far more qualified.
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When are they going to get rid of this idiot?
Submitted by Texndoc on Wed, 11/03/2010 - 11:32pm.
"....make fun of anybody that might know a second language, make fun of anybody that did well in school."
Make fun of anybody elected Governor of Alaska, Tingles.......
He is getting so stale and I've seen this same conversation led by him 10-20 times. And he gets the same answer every time. BTW, one of the pleasures of last night was seeing Toomey win Pennsylvania on the "adult" news channel and flipping to MSNBC to see it called there - I know that is the one race Tingles wanted the most out of any of them, since he had once flirted that that would be his name announced.
Palin would actually have more experience under her belt....
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 11/03/2010 - 11:44pm.
but right now I think she's a long way from ready.
She's impressive, but I don't want to see this country elect another president simply on the basis of charisma. If she's serious about running, I hope she spends the next 18 months learning and absorbing everything she can about domestic and foreign affairs, and develops a clear policy strategy.
We can't afford another president whose platform is simply "hope and change" (in ANY form!)
Matthews is the quintessential liberal hypocrite:
MATTHEWS: You know, I just love this fact. Let`s get in the airplane with a guy that has never flown a plane. Let`s get in with a doctor that has never done an operation. Let`s go -- geez, the standards right now --
Right, Chris, that's exactly how Obama got elected!
I disagree with the
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 11/03/2010 - 11:49pm.
I disagree with the Leghumper.............I think Palin was (and still is) infinitly more qualified, in just about any area, than Boy Blunder. Barry was a mediocre vacant State Senator and a mediocre US Senator who spent basically his whole 'career' getting ready for, or running, for the Presidency. And I'm willing to bet that he was a crappy community organizer too, whatever the hell that is!!!
However, I agree with you about Palin.........at this point, I don't want her to be running - not that I don't like her or agree with her or whatever - but the MSM and the libs still seem to be able to have enough influence over voters that don't do their homework that they will just ramp up their attacke on her, and create more mayhem, division, and misinformation. She seems to be their main target, because they are relentless and resentless in their hatred of her...........and, whether we like it or not, it rubs off on a lot of people. I've heard people say 'she's an idiot', or something similiar...........and when I ask them why - they can't really give me a reason, other than 'she's an idiot'!!! But.........we ARE up against that type of mentality.
If the voters dont do their
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 3:12am.
If the voters dont do their homework then they deserve who they elect. As far as the LSM demonizing Palin, they will demonize any R canditate so it doesn't matter. At least we know Palin can dish it out, unlike McCain.
You're right,
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 4:20am.
You're right, Dan.........but, as you know..........a LOT of voters DON'T do their homework. Hell, look at what's happening now!!! You've got all these people - MSM included - who are somehow 'discovering' what you and me and a LOT of others like us........knew prior to 2008!!! That's all I'm trying to get at with Palin. As far as the McCain Mutiny goes........yeah, forget it!!!!
Barry was a mediocre vacant
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 8:03am.
Barry was a mediocre vacant State Senator and a mediocre US Senator who spent basically his whole 'career' getting ready for, or running, for the Presidency.You're absolutely right on that score.
And people who plan that many years ahead, to get there (Al Gore, call your office!), always arouse suspicion in me. Hell, Obama even admits he joined a church to be more effective as a community organizer.
Palin, however, may be now laying some groundwork of her own. Read this column by Pat Buchanan, which, BTW, he wrote way back in June of this year (these are primary battles he's talking about).
What's the Mama Grizzly Up To?
It would be interesting to check out how many of those who Palin endorsed in the primaries went on to win in the general.
Justin Quinn of USConservatives put it this way:
If just half of her endorsees earn victories in November, Palin will find herself with some powerful allies in Congress come 2012.
i have more confidence in the
Submitted by sometimesright on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 12:46pm.
i have more confidence in the first 20 people of the phonebook than i do in a career liberal, rino and even republican do nothing politician. Palin strikes me as genuine. what you see is what you get. i can't say that about most.
I don't think Chrissy learned
Submitted by mattm on Wed, 11/03/2010 - 11:40pm.
I don't think Chrissy learned anything.
"..he wrote a book." Yeah, he and his ghostwriter. Sarah wrote two books. Going Rogue and America By Heart. So, just what the hell are you talking about, Thrill-boy?
"...ever having read one." That's just typical libtard arrogance. They said the same thing about Reagan, who wrote prolifically .* One thing she doesn't read much is a teleprompter.
"...know a second language." Bush speaks Spanish.
"...never flown a plane..." Obama never presided over a state - Palin did.
*Even the reviewer says "Ronald Reagan is a puzzle: How, many wonder, could he know so little and accomplish so much?" This question exemplifies the arrogance and ignorance of the lefties who constantly disparage the intelligence of those against whom they have no intelligent arguments.
And don't you love this?
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 12:00am.
she "showed no evidence of ever having read [a book]
Really Chrissie? How does one show evidence of having read "a" book?
And more crapola about Obama's amazing IQ!!
Matthews has no idea what it is, but he is sure it's WAY higher than Palin's. As Michael Beschloss said to Imus.....Obama's IQ is "off the charts"
Just like Al Gore was WAY smarter than that yokel Bush! In spite of the fact that Bush had an MBA from Harvard, and Gore, well, he had an undergraduate degree, and then he went to Divinity school and didn't finish, and went to law school and didn't finish.....
mother of belt..!!!
Submitted by gfrrman on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 12:44am.
and D'bag in charge, who I consider, Teleprompter BOY is intelligent? See his "press conference" today WITHOUT the teleprompter? Totally pathetic, un-presidential, angry and childish..as usual. The pos is LOST without the t-prompter. And Sarah Palin is an idiot?
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy"...Winston Churchill
Boy Barry's IQ is 'off the
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 11:58am.
Boy Barry's IQ is 'off the charts'???? Who knew??? What kind of charts.......the Farenhiet thermometer??? Third-grade multiplication charts??? Tell me!!! This guy has NEVER impressed me as having anything more than a mediocre intelligence, and very low common sense...................he's just a very thoroughly brainwashed puppet, trying to keep the facade and the scam going for as long as he (and his handlers) can. And his handlers have to cringe everytime he opens his dumb mouth without his trusty teleprompter, because then we get to see what a dope he really is!!!
I just read an article by a guy who supposedly went to Columbia with Boy Blunder. The article had some interesting stuff, but the guy states that Obama is 'brilliant, and know exactly what he's doing'. Well, I disagree with the first part - but I know a lot of words have been redefined lately, including 'brilliant' - but I'd have to say that the second part of the statement is probably true, to a point, excpet that it wasn't Boy Barry who came up with the information or strategy to do 'know exactly what he's doing'............
Palin has the ability and
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 8:23am.
Palin has the ability and skill to speak extemporaneously while Obama clearly does not.
Good Points mattm
Submitted by stratman on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 1:34pm.
"...never flown a plane..." Obama never presided over a state - Palin did. McCain flew jets. Tingles constantly shifts the premise because his argument fails when examined. Rapidly changing premises keeps his antagonist playing catch-up and gives the false patina of authoritative fact to his BS. Tingles is skilled in deflection and putting his interviewee off balance. You have to stay on one subject at a time despite Chrissie's shifting sands and get him to acknowledge his errors, or at least get your point across. Don't let Matthews make charges and not answer them on your terms. Redirect Matthews back to the first unanswered accusation until you have stated your case. The Republican in this interview did a decent job.Where are my
Submitted by stratman on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 1:45pm.
Where are my paragraphs???
Why does NB's go to the last comment on the page when I post my comment?
This software SUCKS in so many ways.
30K for this? Somebody's got some 'splaining to do.
Obama was qualified why...?
Submitted by NeoKong on Wed, 11/03/2010 - 11:46pm.
Because he reads ? So Matthews wants to claim that college grad Palin never read anything. What an idiot.
Palin was a sitting governor but somehow Matthews wants to overlook that. Obama was just a state rep who was a senator for five months before he ran. Also Palin wrote a book that people actually bought and read. Has Obama ever written a best seller....? She will flatten Obama if she runs and Matthews knows it.
I believe Matthews and others
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 8:26am.
I believe Matthews and others in the MSM and Democrat Party fear Palin and that's why they are following the Saul Alinsky playbook and attempting to demonize her at every turn. I also believe that a good majority of those same libs feel that Hillary Clinton will be the Democrat candidate for POTUS in 2012 not Obama. But those libs won't publicly state that yet.
WOW
Submitted by jimbo297 on Wed, 11/03/2010 - 11:46pm.
Chris must be uber-pi***d about his smack-down last night (Jon Stewart's moment of Zen tonite, by the way). How are Chris' comments anywhere near objective or balanced? "Never read a book?" seriously? He almost makes a sane point, stacking accomplishments up on each side--he wrote a book,,,she--and then the petulent little turd just can't help but resort to schoolyard insults. And then he descends into a really dark place..."never read a glossy magazine?"
He's warped. I think Chris Matthews is a closet gay bully
I'm having a hard time
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 11/03/2010 - 11:51pm.
I'm having a hard time imagining the 'bully' part.......unless you consider spitting and interupting to be 'bullying'.................but I think you're right about the rest.
He tries to be an
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 8:29am.
He tries to be an intellectual bully but is constantly slapped down by conservatives. He's like a wee yappy doggy who thinks he's a big, bad bulldog but when a real big, bad bulldog confronts him, he runs away yapping...but doesn't learn his lesson and when the real big, bad bulldog leaves, he's right back yapping away overinflating his self-worth.
That's a pretty good analogy,
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 12:19pm.
That's a pretty good analogy, boom. I don't particularly like those little 'ankle snapper' type of dogs, especially the yappy ones!!! I always have the urge to give them a good hard soccer kick through the goalposts of life!!!
Oh.....for anyone from PETA..............I love dogs and other animals!!!
Hey, Mathews wrote a book.
Submitted by Apache on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 12:10am.
Hey, Mathews wrote a book. Speaking of Stewart, how did Tingle like Stewart's opinion of his book?
Remember Howard Dean?
Submitted by jimbo297 on Wed, 11/03/2010 - 11:58pm.
How is it that he was qualified to be president?
I really like Palin's outlook on 2012--I heard her say that she'll be happy to run if no one else is going to, but right now she's focusing on supporting these smaller campaigns around the country. You gotta figure she played a HUGE role in last night's wins...
Shouldn't the headline
Submitted by troglodyt on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 12:02am.
Shouldn't the headline contain "weak" instead of "strong". I mean just to be consistent with the narrative.
troglodyt, The narrative
Submitted by hydrodynDM on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 1:11am.
troglodyt,
The narrative consisted of Harris contrasting Palin's experience with Obama's in a defense of Palin.
Obama's experience is obviously viewed as a strong point by Matthews.
So it's the correct word.
self-righteous libs
Submitted by Apache on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 12:07am.
When will the left stop insisting that they are the smartest in the room and actually make some attempt to prove it?
Abe Lincoln. Both democrats and republicans love to claim him. He is considered a great leader right? His education was a few months in a 1-teacher school. How damn hard is it really? You only need to be a super brain if you are trying to pass off BS to the American people and keep them from catching on. I don't know if anyone noticed, but Obama couldn't do it. So super brain he is not. I get so tired of these brain dead pundits who have tons of video of their own gaffs suddenly getting on their perch and deciding who has a brain and who doesn't. The real super brains are smart enough not to enter politics or to even go on Thrill's show. They are in the private sector. The Tea Party has enough brain power to understand that. They want the Freudian projectionists in the MSM and the left wing moonbats to stop crippling the economy by pretending they are the ones with the answers and the lock on brain power. Two years out in the sunlight where they can't hide behind a president of the other party prove they don't know their head from their ass.
And while I'm on a little bit of a rant, I'm also tired of people using their caricature of Fox as an excuse for MSNBC to behave as polar opposites of that caricature. In a way they are saying they understand that MSNBC is a mess but it's a mess for a good cause in their view? It's like a democrat running as the opposite of Palin by being the opposite of Tina Fey. I don't think it would work. Maybe MSNBC needs to give Fox and their viewers some small amount of credit before they try to think of a way to compete. MessNBC is so over the top now that it beats the Daily Show for comedy. Don't get me wrong, I don't want them to change. It's comedy gold.
Apache
Submitted by well99 on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 1:24am.
You have to understand Chrissie and co-herd of sheep dont have the common sense of a rock.They think they are superior but wouldnt know which end of a hammer to grasp.The truth is they have delusions of being more intelligent but are mental midgets.
"When will the left stop
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 8:34am.
They can't stop...they've deluded themselves for so long they believe their own delusions.
The whole IQ thing...
Submitted by UltraC on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 2:08pm.
... is irrelevant. No president in the history of the U.S. has ever made all the decisions all on his own. That's why the president has advisors. It is an unrealistic expectation for any one person to be an expert on the wide range of issues he or she may encounter in a leadership position.
I start rolling my eyes whenever someone starts giving me their academic resume as an indicator for the strength of his/her argument. It's a textbook indicator of his/her underlying insecurity.
Second Language?
Submitted by DeclinesToState on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 12:08am.
I can't find any Austrian classes and I reside in the state that is represented by the 57th star on the US flag..... Matth-lose condescends then acts like someone is going to a dark place by calling him on it. Obama is an intellectual only to the simple minded, name calling, journo-listers of the press corps (pronounced corpse)......
How about a new twist on a
Submitted by Dotcoman on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 12:30am.
How about a new twist on a reality series like Dual Survival, only this time it's Tingles and Bathtub boy trying to survive Alaska?
Jeez Dot.................with
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 12:34am.
Jeez Dot.................with those two latent/blatent metrosexuals...........don't EVEN pique my imagination in that direction!!!!
It would be a short show
Submitted by panzerakc on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 11:23am.
Those two would be grizzly grub before the plane that brought them in got off the ground.
Now you're insulting the food
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 12:22pm.
Now you're insulting the food tastes of grizzlies!!! The bears would probably leave them for the jackals, hyenas, and coyotes................and vultures and buzzards.
You guys are going at this
Submitted by Van Halen on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 12:43am.
You guys are going at this all wrong!
Let Matthews rant! Encourage him! I swear to God if I were high up in the ranks of the GOP I would have huddled with about 20 other high ups and planned to all call into MSNBC looking for interviews with Matthews. Matthews would of course take the bait to interview us all over a period of time - maybe a few days. But the trick would be just to hammer him with GOP talking points over and over and over. Look at him melting down now. He's almost there. If he gets just one little nudge too many now he's going to run his mouth over the line and say something that's going to explode in MSNBC's collective faces.
KEEP THE PRESSURE UP ON THIS GUY! HE'S CRACKING!!
Matthews is a goldmine waiting to be mined
Submitted by JakeMo on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 1:24am.
You called that right.
This guy is easily goaded. He's always just one bad day away from blowing his top.
His Achilles heel is women. If we inundated him with GOP women versed in conservative talking points, we could get him to go off on a sexist rant that would make Mel Gibson sound like a choirboy.
An idea inspired by the movie
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 8:39am.
An idea inspired by the movie "A Clockwork Orange":
Restrain Matthews, Olbermann, and Schultz, prop their eyes open and force them to watch video and/or audio of Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Ronald Reagan.
Have Vegas give odd on who wins, places and shows in the race for absolute meltdown.
Then put the meltdowns on YouTube with appropriate background music. "Crazytrain" by Ozzy Osbourne perhaps?
He's not "waiting to be
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 8:40am.
He's not "waiting to be mined."
He IS mined, on a daily basis, here at NB.
However, in the lode of his idiocy, the ore never runs out.
Poor Chrissy. His flame is
Submitted by Captain Repus on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 12:58am.
Poor Chrissy. His flame is going up in flames. I noticed last night that for the first time his hands were not under the desk whenever he mentioned Obammy and he didn't have fluids dripping from his mouth duiring his hate-filled attacks on attractive women. His wife must be so so proud of him.
Let's distill this discussion down to it's key elements:
Submitted by JakeMo on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 1:32am.
Matthews: Palin is so stupid, she doesn't even know how to read. Does she know how to read?
Harris: She doesn't read liberal elitist trash.
Matthews: Oh, I get it. You're going to make this a personal attack on liberals instead of a reasoned intelligent argument like I was making.
Great post.
Submitted by Texndoc on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 1:39am.
Let's mark this day as day one. Day one Tingles ASKED A GUEST about Palin's "qualifications" and insulted and mocked her before he got the answer he wasn't going to listen to anyway. By day 30 he would have done the same segment 15 or 20 times.
Good one, JakeMo---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 1:48am.
You made me laugh out loud.
MD
Obama is better educated than
Submitted by deerjerkydave on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 2:25am.
Obama is better educated than Palin, but she had more governing experience.
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"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite. -James MadisonAnd "better educated" is
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 8:40am.
And "better educated" is even debatable. After all, Barry's transcripts haven't been made public.
you could be right!
Submitted by Injest on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 3:54am.
jimbo297 He's warped. I think Chris Matthews is a closet gay bully
Hum? I think he's a drunk with a wet brain, however you could be right!
Huh?
Submitted by GeneralAl on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 5:50am.
"Obama is better educated than Palin, but she had more governing experience."
All we Know about about South Side Scheister is that he went to Harvard. We don't know his grades, heck, he could have been the janitor there for four years! In the Illinois state senate, they used to send him to get coffee for the Democrat Party bosses. He's full of more bull than Palin though!
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
Tingleboy Matthews...
Submitted by Iron Tigers Vet on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 6:29am.
same liberal BS = irrelevancy.
When doesn't this clown get schooled. He's weak, pathetic and now at the back of the short bus along witht he rest of the cohorts on pMSNBC and making room for CNN.
Now put your helmets on, no licking the windows and buckle up for the ride to 2012. Next stop... The White House!!
Elvis has left the building! Thank you, thank you very much!
Judging by his knowledge
Submitted by HockeyKid on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 8:17am.
of the issues and candidates, it's clear to me that there is no evidence Matthews has ever read a book. Oprah's Book List, maybe, but not an actual book.
What's your evidence, Thriller? The vast majority of the American public knows you're just a preening dolt with a substandard IQ. Yes, I meant IQ.
BTW, don't let MO catch you tryin' to move in on her "man". She'd make both of you look like the pansies you are.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
In terms of intellectualism,
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 8:41am.
In terms of intellectualism, Matthews rides the short bus.
I've never seen the media
Submitted by Thoreau on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 8:21am.
I've never seen the media insult somebody so bad that wasn't even running for or in political office. She's like the MSM kryptonite. A healthy woman that has a family with special needs and works for a living.
Not to get all socialist on you, I'm just saying a foreign born communist spawn of islam versus a mother working her ass off for her kids, one with down's syndrome, is like night and day.
And secondly, being a Governor of a State is the highest office in the "United States of America". Assuming you understand the States created the Federal Government. If Obama actually ran a State rather than voted present to 2 years, then this would be a competition. But it ain't. Palin has more experience hands down. Bush had more experience hands down. That's just a fact.
America is not and never will be like Barry Hussein Soetoro. He's everything this Country is fighting against.
America is not and never will
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 8:43am.
But socialist Europe and the old Soviet Union are more like BHO.Wow! Matthews actually said,
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 8:20am.
Wow! Matthews actually said, "Yes, he wrote a book and she had showed no evidence of having read one."
[Which his smear against Palin is absolutely false. BTW, the word is Obama's book was actually ghost written.]
And then moments later Matthews opined, "This is the French fries game George W. taught you guys, make fun of anybody that might know a second language, make fun of anybody that did well in school."
Matthews has no business lecturing others of making fun of people when he just did it moments earlier.
What a douchebag.
And I don't use that term often or lightly.
Matthews, like most political and media libs, fears Palin.
First, I'll have to check
Submitted by Smartypants on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 8:51am.
First, I'll have to check back on my high school civics text book, because I do not recall a trip to New York being required to run for the presidency. Heck, nowadays I'd say having never been there is a strong qualificiation.
Second, I saw most of GW Bush's speeches and press conferences, as well as his sit down interviews. I do not remember him ever encouraging anybody to "make fun of anybody that might know a second language..." or that "did well in school". This is obviously something that exists only in the minds of drones like Matthews.
Third, and most important, why are Governor Palins' qualifications for the presidency so important right now, on the heels of an astounding loss by Obama and his party? Is this topic even relevant for a supposed news talk show? Palin isn't running and hasn't run for anything since 2008 and Barack Obama's agenda has just been rejected wholeheartedly by the American public, other than in the most liberal enclaves in the country. Perhaps Chrissy is feeling a little insecure with who he picked as his prom date.
Third, and most important,
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 8:59am.
Simple. They are already looking ahead to the 2012 POTUS election and are ramping up their attacks on all conservatives whom they feel may have a chance for the Republican nomination. Palin just is currently at the top of their Saul Alinsky demonization hit list.
What! your full of it Beuke
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 9:11am.
and are ramping up their attacks on all conservatives
They cant possably ramp up their attacks,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, can they?
Palin's Resumé Just As Strong As Obama's was...
Submitted by onewiseguy on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 9:55am.
....no it wasn't.
Her resume was 10 times stronger than Obama's was.
For as long as I've been
Submitted by Smartypants on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 10:12am.
For as long as I've been alive and paying attention, Republican candidates for office are regularly questioned as to their qualifications by the media. This goes back to Reagan, GHW Bush, GW Bush, etc. Democrats are very rarely questioned as to their qualifications. If you have a "D" after your name, you are qualified to hold office at any level. I cannot recall the last time any Democrat candidate for the presidency was dinged for being unqualified (or even underqualified) for the job.
The 2008 election cycle was absurd. We had the candidate for president on the Democrats ticket with barely a couple of years of national political experience and a background that was full of relationships with some shady characters, and there was never a question made as to his qualificaitions for the job. We had a VICE-PRESIDENTIAL candidate on the Republican side who had held an executive office for years, and with pretty good results, and it was that person whose background and experience was put under a microscope.
Run Barry run, Barry run
Submitted by Tomorama on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 10:22am.
Palin....
Ran a business
Ran a city
Ran a state
Obama ran his mouth (with a binkyprompter).
Ya, Chrissy, the qualifications are the same.
He also ran our economy into
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 12:25pm.
He also ran our economy into the ground..........
Barry Obama failure
Submitted by dmaley1714 on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 10:31am.
Every where he has been is worse than when he started
Chicago district -worse than when he got there
Illinois - worse than when he became Senator
USA- worse than when he took over
He has not improved any of these areas,where are the results of metric based improvement in the lives of the voters?
But that's the "Chicago
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 12:30pm.
But that's the "Chicago Way"(tm)!
Why??
Submitted by Patriot II on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 10:39am.
Is this piece of excrement still on tv????
Can liberals be any more
Submitted by humanzee on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 10:55am.
Can liberals be any more shallow? Obama is casted to be president by powerful entities just like a pop singer for a boy band.. Having a book ghost-written is now a qualification to be president?
Reading left slanting magazines like Time and Newsweek is a requirement?
Being able to regurgitate the ideas of long dead liberals and socialists a requirement to be president?
Why isn't math a requirement to be president? Why do we put people without math backgrounds in charge of balancing the budget or fixing the economy. Instead we have people who majored in basket weaving and then went into law because they aced their basket weaving tests. They the hire people they can't understand and we're stuck with economists and accountants running numbers through the liberal logic of a politicians mind or sucking up to their idiot boss and cooking the books.
What about critical thinking skills? Why not elect people with backgrounds in problem solving?
Obama is a trained LAWYER. He wasn't training in a job relating to solving problems. It's job the specializes is shifting BLAME somewhere else. They are the type of people you hire when you did something wrong and don't want to go to prison.
Hot damn, Matthews reminds me why I sometimes hate people like him. It's the pettiness, the shallowness. Gotta wear the right clothes, listen to the right music, own the right gadgets, hang out with the right people or you're a LOSER! It's allow about the facade.
Obama can't see America
Submitted by Gary Hall on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 11:14am.
So what if Sarah Palin can see* Russia from Alaska..
Obama simply can't see America.
(;~/ gary
* - Yes, I know she never said that.
what a buffon. matthews can't
Submitted by sometimesright on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 11:31am.
what a buffon. matthews can't help but interject his own CONSTANT and biased slander when it comes to Palin and she's not even running for anything. he may ask a semi-legitimate question but then follows up with an insult. hard to believe he, maddow and those other "progressives" were on an msnbc panel to "monitor" the elections. that's like having Iran head a panel for judeo-christian tolerance.
Correct me if I'm wrong but
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 11:57am.
Isn't the President's job to manage the nation's projects?
If so, the best manager I ever had was a man that had zero experience in the area he managed.
What he did was to put the correct people in charge of the project and backed them 100%.
He never threw anyone under the bus when some aspect of the project failed or was delivered late.
A great manager knows what is required to reach the goal(s) of the project and who is not so arrogant that he cannot hear the voices of his customers (the citizens of the country in our case).
Could Chrissie Even Sit Down...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 1:30pm.
...after the A$$ kicking that Michelle Bachman laid on him Tuesday night?
Chris Matthews: Liberal Arrogance
Submitted by boscokraft on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 2:55pm.
Im surprised that Republicans havent devised a response to this elitist arrogance. You shouldnt be President unless you've been to New York City? You shouldnt be President unless you've read books approved by Chris Matthews?
How about this: Chris, Character is relevent to the American people. Americans are sick of your elitist arrogance. The President is supposed to be a citizen. We rejected the idea of having a King 250 years ago. and I wouldnt get on a plane Obama was piloting. Leadership and character. Sarah Palin has it. Obama doesnt.
Palin 2012, still the frontrunner.
Submitted by vote24 on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 3:41pm.
The primary qualification I prefer is common sense. Anyone who has served as a Governor, Senator, U.S. Representative, Mayor of a substantial city, held a high Military rank, or been a major force in a major industry or business, is in my opinion sufficiently qualified to run for President. That is how I have always felt. What LSM is saying is unless you are sufficiently embroiled in the corruption of Washington, or indoctrinated in the University flavor of modern communism, you are not qualified. The media really screwed the pooch on Obama, when they should have done some basic investigating. That is the moment they exposed themselves as Democrat activists and not journalists at all.