Posted on 07/04/2009 9:43:18 AM PDT by MadIsh32
In yesterday's threads, I was clearly overzealous in my criticisms of Ms. Palin
After spending the morning with a bunch of lefty's here in DC, I realize that someone like myself is just playing their game.
While I do not think Ms. Palin should be our nominee in 2012, I will support her from these vicious leftist attacks, which are over the line and unethical.
I do understand why she is stepping down, in particular with the costs of the ethic cases, even though I wish she would not step down.
And even though I don't see her as a future POTUS, her force is undeniable, and I hope she finds the best role that suits her in our movement, namely speaking out against this President and rallying conservatives and our candidates in 2010, 2012 and beyond
And to put my money where my mouth is, I donated 100.00 to SarahPAC today. I encourage all of you to do so as well. If 50 percent of the members here donated 100.00 to her PAC, she'll be able to jump in her future role quite well
Thank you for your thoughtful post. I don’t believe that Sarah Palin is perfect, but when a team is in a rebuilding year, you take what you’ve got. And though not perfect, she has the heart that is missing from almost everybody else. I also can’t overlook that she attracts the right enemies.
Thank you for your individual support of Sarah Palin.
If not her, who? And don't say Huckabee, or I will scream!!!
We need to look around and see who we can put up against the petty messiah. Is there anyone game enough to go up against him? Or are they all weenies?
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The commies fear Sarah for good reason!
She had every right to resign and gave a number of good reasons for doing so.
All the rest is the sound of the commentator class filling air time.
You know ... the vilification of this woman and her principles goes beyond the pale. And to think that many republicans also jumped the shark to try to look so educated on things makes me even sicker. There is not one conservative I would vote for right now for 2012 - but I would vote for her.
Good luck Sarah. We need more men and women like you.
Palin has to remove the millstone of being Governor and do it now if she is going to be a serious contender in 2012. The frivolous ethics lawsuits against her coming from Obama operatives is costing her a fortune, even though she has won 15 out of 15 cases. She can't hold up a salmon without being sued for breaking some ethics rule. She can't leave the State, without being hit with more charges. How is she going to compete with the old Republican horses if she is tied down in Alaska. She can't.
Listen to Levin show archive here.
.. and they really feared Goldwater.
In the words of Nelson Rockefeller's public relations head, Stuart Spencer, "We had to destroy Barry Goldwater as a member of the human race."
The Conservative Revolution: The Movement That Remade America, by Lee Edwards.
I remember and I am still livid over how did tried to destroy Senator Goldwater -- I remember a few columnists asking after the election, "Did we go too far?"
Anybody that can take focus off of the Michael Jackson wake has some real people power. I take her at her word that she wants to do the things she said. She wants to stop the socialization of America, the stifling taxes, and the raging spending.
I will continue to watch the left with the look in their eyes that they are in a swimming pool with a white shark near by. I think it's going to be a great summer!
We don’t agree 100% with any candidate, but someone has turned on the faucet of attack dogs onto a very capable woman. The demoncRATS are terrified of this woman because she has more experience successfully running a multi-billion dollar corporation than the clown occupying the WH & the RATS that are running the govt. She knows how to get things down.
Many Freepers like to think Palin is the next Reagan. The jury is still out on that. For me, I think Palin is the 21st Century version of Barry Goldwater, a failed polarizing presidential candidate in 1964, who inspired a generation of conservative voters. These conservatives helped bring Ronald Reagan 16 years later.
With Palin out making stump speeches and raising money for conservatives, she could motivate Right leaning voters to get involved. It would be something if Palin attended future tea parties.
I take my asshat comment back.
My feelings also. Sara is extremely intelligent and wise.
“And to put my money where my mouth is, I donated 100.00 to SarahPAC today. I encourage all of you to do so as well. If 50 percent of the members here donated 100.00 to her PAC, she’ll be able to jump in her future role quite well.”
Bumping for SarahPAC and The Alaska Fund Trust (defense fund). If you’re not able to give a large donation, just give $5. Whatever you can part with will certainly help!
Me??...I'm disappointed
She’s made the right decision for her, her family and AK. Beyond that, she owes no one anything - and has made no committment to run for anything. I make no assuptions about her next steps, but support her in them.
I hope one of her assignments is the mother of all battles to save our America.
I say that Ms Palin, free from the duties of governor, is critical for the fight to save our free speech. We just got it back about 20 years ago.
The Rat Party and the original traditional, patriotic Democratic Party both have/had the same goal -- silence the majority.
Borrowing from the title of a recent column, "Czarred and Feathered," this is an existential fight against being czarred and fettered.
I hope to hear her regularly on radio. Her own show? (I do not have a TV, I hope she's there also.)
What is being said about her is not much different from what the loonies said about Reagan. He won in a landslide over a far left, over-reaching, foolish, arrogant, self-possessed Democrat who thought he could manage every aspect of our lives.
The nation is already growing weary of all the broken promises, bloated budgets, thuggish behavior and schemes that only put us deeper in debt. Should Sarah run, she will win.
More so in the harsheness of my tone and posts yesterday.
I agree with you on the strategic aspect of this and my dissapointment as well.
However, I won’t constantly bash the woman anymore either
For that alone she has my undying gratitude. ;)
Thanks, MadIsh32. It takes a lot to apologize.
We have to unite to fight the left, not each other. :-)
polarizing!
I guess so when you advocate adhering to the Constitution and the Bill of Right's Tenth Amendment in an era when being for states' rights was deemed racist. I remember. Hell! just being for law and order was racist! "Law'n order" critics mocked you.
I remember Republican Pennsylvania governor Scranton railing about Goldwater and his followers being "purveyors of hate."
I remember the 1964 convention where Rockefeller Republicans tried desperately to get a plank that stopped just short of branding Goldwater and his delegates the Ku Klux Klan.
I remember:
"CBS correspondent Daniel Schorr reported, 'It is now clear that Senator Goldwater's interview with Der Spiegel with its hard line appealing to right-wing elements in Germany was only the start of a move to link up with his opposite numbers in Germany,' with Schorr basing his assertion simply on the fact that Goldwater would be vacationing after the convention at an American military installation that was, coincidentally, in the former Nazi stronghold of Bavaria."
("hard line right-wing elements in Germany." Gee I wonder what Schorr was getting at with those CBS Evening News reports.)
I do not remember there being any mention in the CBS evening news reports about American military installations -- Goldwater was at the time, I believe, a brigadier general in the AF Reserves.
I do not remember but I have read that Walter Cronkite had to apologize for trying to link Goldwater to the JFK assassination.
.. lots more.
I wrote to Bill Scranton a decade ago following the ascension of the GOP to majority power (riding the Conservative crest) and asked him if he wanted to reassess his opinion towards Conservatives and how successful it had proven for the party, and he STILL wouldn’t let go of his bitterness towards Goldwater. These RINOs wanted another (still want) a second liberal party barely indistinguishable from the Democrats. Thanks to them and the states where Conservatives were marginalized within the GOP, those places no longer have a viable Republican party.
Thank you for that!
You have spoken my thoughts exactly...she owes no one anything. Being a punching bag for idiots is not a job anyone wants....
I agree.
She was a punching bag and with no one from her own party defended her.
I just donated to her legal fund.
I’ll support her if she decides to run.
Let's get through the Congressional election first.
“While I do not think Ms. Palin should be our nominee in 2012, I will support her from these vicious leftist attacks, which are over the line and unethical. “
I agree. I just don’t think she can beat Obama.
I became a monthly donor to her PAC last night.
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