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.
Go do your own scut work; you’ll remember it if nobody spoon feds you the info.
looks like Twitter lost one of its "stupid people"...
“Go do your own scut work; you’ll remember it if nobody spoon feds you the info.”
I don’t appreciate deflection - it shows weakness in argumentation skills. If you have nothing to add, don’t write anything at all.
A few issues, but the major one is that you don’t know what you’re talking about.
“English please.”
Google it,that’s what I did——how old are you? 12?
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“looks like Twitter lost one of its “stupid people”...”
LOL - I don’t believe nopardons knows what he/she is talking about, I agree.
“Google it,that’s what I did——how old are you? 12?”
Old enough to not speak in gibberish. What does it mean, please? I don’t have time for your games.
What kind of poster, here, doesn't know WHY Sarah resigned and calls her a "quitter"? Not a CONSERVATIVE; that's for sure and certain.
You could have looked it up in the time it took to post your inanity.
“A few issues, but the major one is that you don’t know what you’re talking about.”
You can stop being cryptic and actually write in English. If you have an issue, be a man/woman and write it here. Otherwise quit bothering me. It’s pathetically weird.
“You could have looked it up in the time it took to post your inanity.”
I’e posted nothing insane. You’re writing cryptic things to me and then accusing me of stuff. Can you explain what that means please?
Discussion over.
Your abject lack of debate skills, knowledge, and posting ability are appalling.
nopardons is FR Class of 98.
You're a week old. No one asked for your half-pinions.
“Discussion over.”
There was a discussion here? I still have no idea what you meant with your cryptic writing. Care to explain, at least? Then you can leave this “discussion”...
“You’re a week old. No one asked for your half-pinions.”
You directed your response to both of us, how would I know who you meant it toward?
Okay, we'll now add lack of even a simple vocabulary to your list of things missing!
You’ll find out shortly, retread.
“I don’t “appreciate” supercilious, lazy, stupid n00bs, who play games.
Your abject lack of debate skills, knowledge, and posting ability are appalling”
You called me unintelligent and never explained why, just deflected and disagreed. I’m still waiting to hear your defense of Palin’s quitting halfway through her governorship.
Oh good grief...that poster meant YOU, n00b; not me!
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