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Generally, I don’t care to get into flame wars with other bloggers.
MERLIN:  What about Mykki Chickenshit?
VENOMOUS:  Exception to the rule.
OZY MCCOOL:  And Michael Crook?
VENOMOUS:  Pussy extraordinaire.  He deserved his  beatdown.
KORRIOTH:  And the dipshit over at Pillage Ain’t Chicken Pot Pie?
K’HADIBAK’H:  And…
VENOMOUS:  Awright, all right  already!!!  I get  it!
CREW:  
Anyway…
But when a blogger keeps playing Johnny One-Note on an issue, and I innocently ask a question to find out what’s going on, bring up a valid point or two – go out of my way to not be combative, in fact…
MERLIN:  WTF?!
KORRIOTH:  Who are you and what have you done with Lord Venomous?
VENOMOUS:  Oh, pipe down.
…and I get a buttload of snark  in return – well, you just know  how that’s gonna set with me.
MERLIN:  Now that’s  more like it.
OZY MCCOOL:  Pass the popcorn, this is gonna be good.
KORRIOTH:  Stewed gagh  for me, if you don’t mind.
Awright.  This all started back in October, when the American Conservatives Union, led by some jerkwad named Little Davey Pants David Keene, offered to back FedEx in a nasty legislative dispute involving the National Labor Relations Board and United Parcel Service.
For a small fee – say, two to three extra-large.  (That’s “million” for those of you at the Church of the SubTarded.)
The initial letter, available here (Adobe Reader required), reads more like an offer to become sort of an advertising agency/marketing firm for FedEx in the dispute.  Phone calls, radio/TV, the whole nine yards.  FedEx, however, already in possession of its own corporate communications department, rightly spurned the offer.
Whereupon Little Davey Pants David Keene promptly signed off on a letter supporting UPS’ position.
Quite the mercenary, isn’t he?
This episode eventually cost former KFI radio host John Ziegler a spot at the Western CPAC convention when Little Davey Pants ol’ Keenie couldn’t be tasked to answer Ziegler’s questioning on the scandal.  And, in part because of this, Sarah Palin opted to bypass the national CPAC convention this year in favor of a lesser-known Tea Partiers’ convention.  For which, she earned the wrath of one Dan Riehl of the Riehl World View  blog (located (for now) on the blogroll).
I’m hearing through sources Sarah Palin is getting $75k to speak at this Tea Party convention. Can anyone confirm that officially? That’s a lot of damned tea. (emphasis added -DV) The only acceptable rationale is this is not a grassroots event, as she claimed she wouldn’t charge tospeak at one of those. Has she ever done that?
I saw via the site they are asking local groups to pony up 10 or 20 bucks an individual to send in their “best” representative. It’ll cost them well over a grand altogether with hotel and such, more in many cases unless they drive.
Like I said, probably just another day in American politics.
Which, presumably, is a slap in the face of Sarah Palin, since most of us consider her to be more than just your average politician.  (And in fact, not even a politician anymore, seeing as she’s no longer in public office.  That, however, is another story for another post.)
Next:  Part II
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Sorry, but, Sarah Palin *IS* “just an average politician”, until she proves otherwise. Unlike a lot of other people, I wasn’t immediately enamored of her as a ‘savior’ of the Republican Party. Now, I’m also not explicitly against her, either. I’m just waiting to see exactly how she differs from the other ‘just an average politician’ the Republicans keep trotting out. So far, I haven’t seen anything remarkably different about her, other than she’s a lot easier on the eyes than most.
It’s not really helping her case that she seems to be exceptionally thin-skinned. “If you don’t like the sight of your own blood, don’t get into politics.” Sen. John McCain (Highest Bidder, AZ) If her squeamishness about political attacks is real, she needs to find another line of work. If it’s feigned, she’s no better than the alternatives. For someone with a (admittedly minor) media background, she seems to not be all that media savvy.
Or until I do, to wit:
The only definition that would support your claim is the fifth one.  (Edit:  Maybe the fourth one, as well – but that’s pretty broad, and doesn’t necessarily exclude people who’ve never held public office, yet work behind the scenes.  I don’t consider policy wonks to be politicians.)  And by that definition, Rush Limbaugh is a politician.
Not this time, sir.
Hm. Let’s see…it’s been less than a year since she was the governor of Alaska (a political office, the last time I checked), and it’s been less than 18 months since she was the vice-presidential candidate (also rumored to be a political office) of the United States of America (a country I’m sure you’ve heard of). So…until a reasonable person would be convinced that she’s actually FINISHED with running for political office, she’s still a politician, and a “just an average politician”, at that.
Is your memory really *that* short?!
There are reasonable people right now  who don’t think she’s running for anything in 2012 – and beyond that, who knows?
Unless you’ve turned clairvoyant or something.
No.  I distinctly remember, as a matter of fact, that she resigned  her position as governor of Alaska, and just recently took a position as a television commentator/analyst.
Now, if you want to call her a former  politician, I can’t argue with that.  But for now, she’s officially a private citizen.  My point holds.
As I made clear in my first post, I am waiting to see what she does. I have made no predictions about what she is going to do, nor will I.
I’ll repeat it again, just so you can have another shot at reading comprehension: Until she proves otherwise, she is “just an average politician”.
If she’s planning on running for anything in 2012 (or any other year, for that matter), then, she’s still a politician, and a just *barely* average one, at that. If she’s NOT planning on running for anything in the foreseeable, and reasonable, future, then, she’s not ‘just an average politician’, because A) she’s not a politician anymore, and B) she’d be an above average politician, because she’s smart enough to stay out of politics. Once again, for the slow-in-reading-comprehension, I am waiting to see what she does in the future to make any judgments! Unlike the (overwhelmingly) vast majority of American voters in general, and Republican voters in specific, I don’t make judgments about a person on what they say, or the image they present. I judge people based on what they DO. And what Sarah Palin has done is act like a just *barely* tolerably average politician. If her behavior changes in the future, I’ll change my assessment of her. In the future.
Except you’ve already made  a judgement, by referring to her as a politician when she no longer fits the criteria, without knowing for certain what her future plans are.
You can call her a former  politician, and as I’ve  made clear, I am unable to argue that specific point.
But she is no longer a politician, average or otherwise.
And, just to dispute your other  point, she was actually very good at what she did.  John-Boy McRINO would have suffered a far more crushing defeat had it not been for her.  One of her few mistakes, in fact, was letting herself get muzzled by McRINO’s boy Stevie
SchittSchmidt, instead of just being herself.  If that made her “average” in your eyes – well, I don’t think I really wanna argue that, either.I don’t dispute that Sarah is a good *person*, but, as a politician, she was/is just *barely* tolerably average. She has no real new ideas, no real set-in-stone-non-negotiable *political* principles, and she didn’t use her political “star power” to full effect.
You’ll get no argument from me that she was responsible for 50-75% of all the votes John McCain (Highest Bidder, AZ) received. Far from it. Sarah was the only reason the race was as close as the landslide it was.
BUT, until she either gets a WHOLE lot better at the “Conservative who happens to be a politician” gig, or abandons politics altogether (again, for the reasonably foreseeable future), she’s just an average politician, and that just barely.
Just because a politician is not in office, nor actively campaigning RIGHT NOW (there aren’t any political offices she could be running for, right now), doesn’t mean they’re not still a politician. Look at the Clintons for proof of that. So, once again, until she proves she’s not a politician, I will reserve judgment on her. For all we know, this Fox News gig is just to get her more exposure in the lower 48. Then again, you could be right, and she took her political ball and went home. Time will tell. I’m not making any judgments until then. As it stands right now, she’s just barely an average politician, who *might* have gotten out of politics before she got walloped in an election. I don’t claim to know what her motives or plans are. That’s why I’m waiting to see what she DOES, not what she’s DOING.
The list of conservative Republicans worth supporting in ANY election is VERY short…and, as of this moment, doesn’t include Sarah Palin’s name, either because she’s no longer in politics (your hypothesis), or because she’s barely average (my observations). Both of us can be correct, or you can be wrong. Stating that she is not a politician based upon 2 weeks of a 24 month (or so) national political career is what is known as an “insufficient sample size”.