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.
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“Oh good grief...that poster meant YOU, n00b; not me!
How do you know that?
What they did to Governor Palin was a dry run for what they're doing to President Trump.
“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?”
I misspelled inane - big whoop. I didn’t realize this was nazi grammar school. Do you have anything better to do with your time than to scold others that’ve done nothing to you?
This one is looking to be ZOTTED and have the VIKING KITTIES descend upon him. The poor thing is obviously just looking for attention.
They're doing the same thing on a national scale to President Trump.
I blame that bitch Nicole Wallace!
“INANE...not “insanity”!”
I misspelled inane - big whoop. I didn’t realize this was nazi grammar school. Do you have anything better to do with your time than to scold others that’ve done nothing to you?
This entire back-and-forth is hysterical.:-)
Slow down, you’ll have a more harmonious outcome.
Ive been married to my high school sweetheart for 24 years, raised three God-fearing American patriots with her. I cannot imagine just calling it quits. But neither of us are national darlings with any priority other than our marriage.
You don't know even recent political history, yet made a very nasty, off topic post about Sarah Palin for NO valid reason and are now just looking for attention. There's a name for posters who do that and it isn't n00b!
“Slow down, you’ll have a more harmonious outcome.”
I don’t appreciate people arguing without having anything to back it up with. They tend to get belligerent and uppity.
I’d be careful posting shit like this considering the source of this “breaking news” comes from a Palin hating, limelight seeking blogger named Craig Medred...............
Calling out a member of the class of ‘98.
I didn’t do that even back in 2000. ;)
“You don’t know even recent political history, yet made a very nasty, off topic post about Sarah Palin for NO valid reason and are now just looking for attention. There’s a name for posters who do that and it isn’t n00b!”
What was off topic when it comes to Sarah Palin? What has she done for the party since she quit her governorship? I said nothing nasty, just factual.
It is FR courtesy to add the nic of the poster being talked about to the reply!
I heard somewhere that Todd Palin was badly injured in an accident recently. Sometimes that can result in a change of direction in life.
The whole family went through the woodchipper in 2008. It’s amazing the damage wasn’t worse and sooner.
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