Posted on 09/09/2019 2:54:33 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Monitoring Governor Palin’s pre-ascent to the national political scene was one of the stories that prompted my joining FR while in college. I remember Free Republic being one of the few places online (along with Glenn Beck’s show, to his credit) to profile the rising star governor: her successes navigating Alaska’s international corporate oil scene, her carrying a Down Syndrome baby to term, and before anybody in the media or even GOP establishment knew who she was — her qualifications as a viable for runningmate for John McCain. I stayed up all night before the day of the announcement, praying she would be the one.
Fast forward a few years and I attended a special screening of a film entitled “The Undefeated” - a documentary breaking down the media and establishment elite’s (including GOP) unhinged distortion and takedown of Sarah Palin and their continued onslaught against her legacy. It was directed by none other than the little known...Steve Bannon.
The ultimate thesis of the film being that as a working class American, as a Christian, a woman and mother, as a highly charismatic and skilled politician with a formidable record of executive accomplishment — Palin embodied a volatile convergence of the very forces in our country, which pose not only a political threat to the entrenched power structures of our society, but existential and cultural.
And it was with this insight and understanding by which Steve Bannon helped guide our current President to electoral victory in 2016.
I see a lot of posts at the moment trying to rationalize away the divorce and speculate on the Palins’ personal lives...Some observations may be valid — but these discussions miss the point — which is, that her fate (and that of her family) is what awaits *anybody* who dares challenge the establishment especially on that scale. (At least in term of what the establishment intends!) - We are not even told about the extent to which the media and other facets from both political parties worked night and day to drive her out of office, stoke fear in her family and her community (like the Wasilla church burning), how frivolous lawsuits bankrupted her financially, etc...
If you watch video footage of the sprightly, shrewd, and calmly eloquent Palin in the early 2000s at things like the AK gubernatorial debates and things, one can see just how much of a spiritual and psychological toll all that’s unfolded since had had on her.
This is what the media wants for Trump and his family too...but luckily our president has the financial and other buffers by which to withstand the attacks, which will likely come even after he leaves office...And in the meantime of course they will do everything in their power to drive him out even during a second term.
In the meantime the wolves will attack the emerging leaders of the conservative movement and NOTHING is off limits: families (children!) , homes, jobs, etc...And it’s incumbent on everyone to just...be aware. And to view all this in proper context.
VK Lee - my exact thoughts - a Joan of Arc.
IF it is true it is a sad thing
People ought to leave them alone
“I love Sarah Palin.”
I don’t - she served half a term as governor. I know a quitter when I see one.
High school sweethearts and 31 years leaves me not surprised. But my guess is he will pick another strong woman, because he is the weak one, and find himself in the same situation. Kind of like the abused woman that goes from abuser to abuser.
You need to find a site more suited to you; you don't belong here.
She’s available. Get in line behind me and Laz.
-PJ
Exactly so!
Being married 31 years does not foreclose the fact that people can change in different ways and become incompatible over time. The spark can die and it's not that much fun anymore.
My wife and I have been married for 45 years. There is no divorce on the horizon. But after being with someone for that length of time, people can become tired of each other. They become bored. Or indifferent. Or incompatible over time.
This couple's marital problems are really nobody's business but their own. They should be afforded some privacy.
Sarah Palin was a breath of fresh air when she came on the national scene as McCain's running mate. I hated McCain but held my nose and voted for him solely because of Palin. Unfortunately, she couldn't overcome his many personal negatives.
I wish Sarah Palin (and Todd) well. I suspect she may show up again in politics in the future. I would vote for her as the first woman president any day.
Me too!
“Obviously, n00b, you have NO idea why she did that and you’re not intelligent to find out.”
Do you? I don’t appreciate your tone ma’am.
My "TONE"? Oh now THAT'S funny; you are blessed with the ability to HEAR me?
Well dear little n00b, who sounds like some damned retread, you may "not appreciate" till the cows come how; it will av ail you nothing but your own bile rising.
“Well dear little n00b, who sounds like some damned retread, you may “not appreciate” till the cows come how; it will av ail you nothing but your own bile rising.”
You were not a n00b once too?
“Obviously, n00b, you have NO idea why she did that and you’re not intelligent to find out.”
What, pray tell, was the reason she left her governorship halfway through her term?
Calling the Democrats, the Left and their Media "Nazis" is slandering the actual Nazis...
“EABODADIAF”
English please.
I saw in one of your earlier posts, that you claimed that you have lurked here for a very long time ( how many years is a "long time" to you? ), but obviously haven't learned anything from doing do.
“I saw in one of your earlier posts, that you claimed that you have lurked here for a very long time ( how many years is a “long time” to you? ), but obviously haven’t learned anything from doing do.”
Roughly a decade. What is your issue with me?
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