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A Natural Patton: How Palin Nearly Saved McCain

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Posted by tipper 2008-11-15 04:21|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Georgie is my favorite General, but it does seem a shame to put Petreaus second...

Posted by Bobby 2008-11-15 06:26|| 2008-11-15 06:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Bobby, I'll buy Palin as Patton. But she's no Petraeus, not by a long shot.

Posted by lotp 2008-11-15 07:51|| 2008-11-15 07:51|| Front Page Top

#3 As Patton said (allegedly quoting Frederick the Great):

L'audace, L'audace, Toujour L'audace.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-11-15 08:03|| 2008-11-15 08:03|| Front Page Top

#4 "The woman, in my opinion, is a natural Patton. A fighter to the core."

Good Lord. She couldnt even cut Joe Biden off at the knees in their debate. Christallfridaystalk about low hanging fruit. Hes been wrong on nearly every foreign policy decision from the Cold War to Iraq. Give her a green-screen and a gig with the Weather Channel.

Posted by DepotGuy 2008-11-15 11:55|| 2008-11-15 11:55|| Front Page Top

#5 She was leashed during the debate, depotguy.

Posted by lotp 2008-11-15 12:53|| 2008-11-15 12:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Not to mention that, as Mr. Wife said (Mr. Wife was a member of the debate club in high school), Senator Biden always has complete control of his facts, even if he has to make them up. Did the honourable senator say even one true thing that evening? The problem is, that to effectively debate a liar, one actually has to have complete mastery of even the minutest details of every subject mentioned, and Governor Palin hadn't time enough to get to complete mastery in the few weeks she was part of the McCain campaign. Under the circumstances, DepotGuy, that she earnt from Mr. Wife the opprobrium of an almost-tie is quite impressive indeed -- especially given that Mr. Wife still doesn't like her.

Posted by trailing wife 2008-11-15 13:29|| 2008-11-15 13:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Good Lord. She couldnt even cut Joe Biden off at the knees in their debate.

You tell 'em, you foreign-policy genius!

Posted by Pappy 2008-11-15 14:27|| 2008-11-15 14:27|| Front Page Top

#8 L'audace, L'audace, Toujour L'audace.

Old Spook this wasn't from Fredic the Great but from Saadi Carnot who was the war minister during the worst days of revolution. He was key on the overthrowing of Robespierre and put ijn place the system who detected talented soldersa made them officers while detecting talented officers and making generals of them. Massena, Lannes, Davout, Bonaparte were some of the products.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-11-15 18:06|| 2008-11-15 18:06|| Front Page Top

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