David Broder (on Sarah Palin): "The lady is good."

[CreekDog]

Of course he thinks that. She's smarter than him. :eyes:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/10/AR2010021002451.html

Sarah Palin displays her pitch-perfect populism

By David S. Broder
Thursday, February 11, 2010

"Take Sarah Palin seriously."

"This was not the first time that Palin has impressed me."

"I gave her high marks for her vice presidential acceptance speech in St. Paul."

"What stood out in the eyes of TV-watching pols of both parties was the skill with which she drew a self-portrait that fit not just the wishes of the immediate audience but the mood of a significant slice of the broader electorate."

"Palin's final answer to Wallace showed how perfectly she has come to inhabit that part." (of Populist)

"The lady is good."

[Raine1967]

1. She's not populist.

She is against everything the populist movement is/was for. ESPECIALLY higher wages for the working person. She NEVER mentions wages for the workers in America and that was a KEY point of the populist movement.

I tire of revisionist history from the media.

[karynnj]

19. Populist does not have to have an ideological definition

Wikipedia in an interesting discussion of what "populism" is included this:

"One of the latest definitions of populism comes from Daniele Albertazzi and Duncan McDonnell who, in their volume Twenty-First Century Populism, define populism as "an ideology which pits a virtuous and homogeneous people against a set of elites and dangerous ‘others’ who are together depicted as depriving (or attempting to deprive) the sovereign people of their rights, values, prosperity, identity and voice"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism

Now, the type of populist you refer to is an advocate for the poor and the movements that you would call populist would all be from the left. Like you, that is what I first think of as well.

But, some of the momentum behind Palin does fit the definition above. Just listen to talk radio (small doses are useful), they are demagoguing and rallying people against the "elites", where the "elites" are the intelligentsia on both coasts and the MSM, which they claim is liberal.

It is a mistake to reduce everything toeconomic status. That was why Obama's primary comment at a fund raiser was wrong, even though he survived it. People CAN, SHOULD and often will vote for non-economic values - and we are proud when that happens on our side.

As a Jew, I have always heard the old comment that we earn like Episcopalians, but vote like Puerto Ricans - always said with pride for living our values. In a book discussion group at my synagogue on Norman Podhoretz's Why are Jews Liberals?, the discussion was totally one sided - against the author's contention that Jews were not thinking when they continued to vote for Democrats even though it was against their economic interests. (He also claimed that the Republicans were better for Israel.)

Now, this is the opposite side. These are people ana they are voting what they see as their non-economic interests. They are powerless people speaking against the elites that they think are against them.

What some people have tried to do is to reach the people by trying to show where our values come from and that on some things - like healthcare, environment, and economic fairness - our values are similar to theirs. We need to tag the Republicans with policies that have hurt them.

In 2006 and 2008, we benefited from the anger at where the country was going. The scary thing is that the right seems to now have some success making us the target. (One of the scariest things to me is that they are actually linking the banks and corporations to the Democrats - and not the Republicans.)

[DebbieCDC]

2. Good at reading crib notes on her hand?

So was I in high school biology, but I don't think that qualifies me to be president.

[Monk06]

3. She's a broken Chatty Cathy doll. One pull on the string and she never shuts up.

Thanks to her the US is now a bilingual
country where half the population speaks
both English and Gibberish.

[Cha]

4. I take it seriously that she's a dangerous fucking idiot and

I also take seriously that david broder is impressed by that.

[JamesA1102]

5. Isn't Broder the guy that lied about

Ed Muskie crying back in 1972.

[chieftain]

24. He is. n/t

[KingFlorez]

6. Good for what?

She would be good teaching idiot classes, but since no university offers such a course, she's good for nothing at all.

[Blue Owl]

7. David Broder has left the building.

Repeat: David Broder has left the building.

[GoCubsGo]

14. Broder was never in the building

This sort of stupidity is normal for him.

[OHdem10]

8. Broder, once the admire Dean of the Press Corp has become a

R W Hack.

She is entertaining. Mr Broder, what else is she good at??

I know, do not end a sentence with a preposition. (please
humor me tonight)

[Enrique]

9. he said Hurricane Katrina would be good for Bush

he seems to like disasters.

[tanyev]

10. Uh-oh. He's come down with Rich Lowry Starburst Fever.

[mitchum]

11. The inside of his head is as barren as the outside

[BeyondGeography]

12. Read the comments

Blistering.

[activa8tr]

13. When did David Broder lose his mind? n/t

[GoCubsGo]

15. That assumes he had one in the first place

Having read his work over the years, I am not so sure such a thing ever existed.

[Beer Snob-50]

16. i gotta agree with broder in some demented way

she is tuned in to a very vocal minority in this country. and because they are very vocal, their pov is the one we hear about.

and btw, i am clueless. why are people all in an uproar and why is it a talking point that obama uses a telepromter.

[saltpoint]

17. And do have another bon-bon, Mr. Broder. They're very nutritious.

[joeglow3]

18. Yeah. Good and terrible.

[Phx_Dem]

20. Congratulations Broder! Only 71% of the country disagrees with you!

According to a new poll released by your own newspaper.

[ericgtr]

21. I wrote to his email and linked to that

Talk about drinking the kool aid, this guy is out of his mind.

[MerryBlooms]

22. That picture of her a hoot

similar to the crazed look my cat gets when you dangle his feather wand in front of him.

[laureloak]

23. Good? Or good at it? n/t

[SanchoPanza]

25. David Broder is a fossil.

The guy who defended Nixon years after the rat bastard resigned finds Sarah Palin compelling?

I'm shocked.