Posted on 07/03/2009 9:37:28 PM PDT by Al B.
Palin 2012. Hypothetical narrative.
If this is what she runs on — and does it well — then watch the hell out:
I’m Sarah Palin, and I’m running to be Citizen-In-Chief.
I entered politics to change something. I ran to serve my state, the great state of Alaska, and then for the vice-presidency because I care about this country.
I saw first-hand the viciousness and pettiness that have made Americans fed up with politicians, politics as usual, and the destructive personal attacks that also go on far too often. Those sorts of things that public service should never be about.
I thought I could serve my country best by being removed from that environment.
I don’t need a title to bring to Washington the change America really needs: a dose of humility in a federal government that has completely lost touch with its citizens.
So I come to you today as an Alaskan, as a parent of a soldier, and as a mother of five. I am running not as a member of the elite, of the establishment — but of the everyday. I ask to serve you as president because I have shared your experiences and I understand your disgust with the system. What we need today is not a ruler, but a servant. A servant of the people. A servant of America.
I will govern as first among equals, not as your ruler. Not as the Queen of Washington, giving orders that descend from on high. I know firsthand how that culture of selfishness and personal destruction in Washington harms lives. I ask for your support because I share your disgust with the system. And if you will fight with me, if you will put that trust in me to do that — then you can trust me, also, to change it.
Agreed.......the brewing revolution needs a leader who is an outsider.......as a former point guard myself, I will gladly follow her!
I love Sarah, but the Dems are already printing the “Palin=Quitter” bumper-stickers. Count on it.
But then again, politics is a weird critter and anything could happen.
NICELY done!
Thanks Al, your interpretation is my hope.
Ok, I just “viewed” and “heard” Gov. Sarah Palin’s resignation speech. I wanted to see it and hear it wih my own eyes and ears, BECAUSE, I have read (right here on FR) and heard (from ‘conservative’ talk show hosts tonite in Phila) that it was a “rambling” and “incoherent” speech.
Well, I have one simple thing to say.
Anyone who characterizes her speech in that fashion, is ‘WISHING’ nothing but BAD THINGS on that woman. PERIOD!
ZERO only WISHES he could give a speech like that without his OBAMAPROMPTER in front of his nose!
CASE CLOSED!!!
uh...soooo??? And we care why???
Reality check: Sarah Palin just held a news conference and NOBODY came. The “applause” afterwards literally sounded like it wasn’t more than the assembled families of herself and the Lt. Governor and there was no evidence of any audience at all except a couple of TV cameras. President????
“Dems are already printing the “Palin=Quitter” bumper-stickers. Count on it.”
My “SARAH 2012” sticker is staying in the rear window of my PU no matter what anyone says.
Our land will never be healed until people give up there evil ways....
God says, “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV).
Sarah will pray GOD will heal, if people are willing to repent and change....
We care because we’d like to see her elected. If you repeat something often enough, people will believe it. Just ask Obama.
If they haven’t destroyed her yet they never will...somehow the truth comes out no matter how the Barry Show administration tries to stop it...or spin it into an absolute lie
And hopefully one day you can put up a “I helped elect Palin!”
And we are already printing the Bumper Stickers:
ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW!
I hope so too...
I used to believe that, but not so much anymore. The truth may come out, but who hears it? If the truth comes out and only a few people hear it, does it matter? I don’t know.
I think we are going to be hearing/reading that one a lot....
It was held at her HOME. The public was not invited. She was the lead on every newscast, radio or TV all day. She knocked "Jacko" back into the rafters.
If she held a tea party in You-Name-The-State next week, she would draw 20,000 to 40,000.
It's time for Mitt-boy to have a reality check.
In the days prior to Al Gore inventing the internet...lies once uttered were harder to refute...but if you wait and sift enough now...it (truth) will eventually emerge...and become very public....
For the last 6 months I have advanced a theme that Alaskans don’t want to hear, but simply put the greater majority of Sarah’s supporters in the Lower 48 couldn’t give a hoot that Sarah was governor of Alaska or will not be in 3 weeks.
Bottom line: tens of millions of conservative Americans are frightened to death thinking about what Obama is proposing to do to America, its economy and its freedoms.
Quite simply a great many conservatives and Republicans have concluded that Sarah Palin is the only Republican capable of taking down the Messiah. It’s as simple as that.
Now she will have more time to travel in the lower 48. Do you think they will say “Sarah, boy I wish you would have stayed up in Alaska as governor-you are doing such as good job-why waste your time down here?”
I don’t think so.
The left would like to think that could happen...hahahaha!!!
Now one just says "Sarah!", and the other says "Palin". (I blocked out McCain in the small print too.)
I've gotten a few fingers, but get a lot of smiles and waves too.
I wish I still had your optimism. People still believe that Bush stole the election, for Pete’s sake.
If she stands up and says she would use executive orders to repeal the bad laws Obama is signing, I’m all in.
I don't hear that much anymore...remember people have a short attention span...Sarah goes out on the prowl all that and more will be ancient history...
The game is afoot Watson.
She has barely twelve months before the Senate primary election in 2010. I believe she’s made two basic decisions with this event. First, she is running against Lisa Murkowski....who is a 2-star speaker at best and a 2-star campaign player. The primary is the only real election because the democrats can’t offer any substance in November. So Palin has no time to waste in this effort.
Second, forget 2012....Sarah has figured that it’s not worth playing. She will go to DC and play senator until 2016. Then she pulls the same stunt again...resigning...thus allow the Republican governor to select someone to replace her...while she runs for president. For any that oppose her....she will offer the ethical debate that you can’t subtract from your real job and run for office...and at that point...all of the potential senators in DC are automatically suspect for bad ethics if they choose to run against her. It’s a brilliant move.
This is a five-star script move....and worth watching to develop.
It's not optimism at all...it is just a fact that truth is self-evident... you can only run from it so long...it is truth that BO is intent on destroying the America we know and love...and it is also true that Sarah Palin actually cares about this country....all else are details...
“Bottom line: tens of millions of conservative Americans are frightened to death thinking about what Obama is proposing to do to America, its economy and its freedoms.”
We felt that way at election time and Obama still won.
“Quite simply a great many conservatives and Republicans have concluded that Sarah Palin is the only Republican capable of taking down the Messiah.”
I think too many Republicans are more interested in taking down Sarah Palin, but that’s just my opinion.
“Do you think they will say “Sarah, boy I wish you would have stayed up in Alaska as governor-you are doing such as good job-why waste your time down here?”
Depend on who “they” are. I think more than a few of them will be thinking “Go back to Alaska, lady” even as they beg her to endorse them.
Guess I’m just a tad cynical. :)
Yep...stock up on popcorn as this is going to get reaaallly interesting...
That was the plan, man. Hastily called presser, no time to speculate and/or spin. It was ALL the Sarah Show. No one from the press had a clue what was going on. And why would you expect applause from guys holding cameras and mics?
I heard everyone bemoaning the fact that she did this on a Friday before a holiday so it would be buried like bad news.
WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! Devoured the news coverage from the second she stepped up and she will devour it every time she utters a phrase anywhere in the USA! GOD bless her. She is the sanest, most down to earth person I have seen in years and years.
She is a patriot and a hero, and what’s more, she is that most rare of all things, an HONEST POLITICIAN!
True.
Some folks can overcome that though.
Sarah is one of those.
Sarah Palin is destiny, she will not be denied
I loved that, great slogan..
I just love that don't you? The Obama dog and pony show is so predictable...a Carter re-do on steroids...
Very good point and oft overlooked, the MSM means nothing now, Sarah overcomes them all, much to their dismay...
I’m with her if she runs in ‘12. Having said that, she has made a bold and fascinating choice. I bet she’s an awesome poker player.
Okay, call me overly cynical if you like (and you’d be right), but truth in politics is not self-evident.
Even I don’t believe that Obama is intent on destroying the country. He wants power, pure and simple. His policies and power grabs may destroy the country, but that wouldn’t be his intention. It doesn’t make sense to acquire power and then intentionally destroy what gives you the power.
Having said that, I do believe that he is on the path to remaking this country into something the Founding Fathers feared.
I see a different strategy. Prep for 2012 by building a base of support in 2010. She does this by helping other much more conservative candidates get elected and raising money for them. This forces the GOP to push her to the primary candidate position.
It also creates a loyal backing of representatives and possibly Senators that will work with and for her in 2012 because she was able to show she can get the voters to turn out. Lastly, it shifts the power in Washington away from an extreme liberal super majority to just a liberal majority (might even flip the House). This makes it possible for at least a split and possible conservative majority in 2012 which she will need in order to overturn much of the Obamanation’s illegal and socialist laws that he has crammed down our throats.
“True.
Some folks can overcome that though.
Sarah is one of those.
Sarah Palin is destiny, she will not be denied”
Depends on what she does between now and the 2010 elections.
Well said.
Sarah is the ONE to lead this nation.
She is beyond the MSM, much to their chargin.
I wouldn’t like to met her in the texan holdem tourny, thats for sure.
(ok, i’d like any chance to met her!)
The key for Sarah Palin will be the 2010 mid-terms. If she is able to orcestrate a huge victory for the GOP in the House and Senate she will have the world at her feet and ba cinch for the nomination.
Yeah. The press in Alaska is not exactly Palin friendly. No chance for them to dig up distorted crap and throw it at the wall before her statement. It was Beautiful.
I’m ready with my checkbook and my time to get her elected. Whatever it takes.
To remake this country into something it was never intended to be is to destroy it...
Of course, I am prognosticating.
“Of course, I am prognosticating.”
Aren’t we all? LOL
That would be grand. But as long as the candidates she helps and endorse win, that will be seen as a huge victory.
PS- Sarah, please come to NJ!!!!!!
I have seen no evidence whatsoever that Obama loves this country...none....whether you or he admit intention on destruction is academic if one has seething contempt for American exceptionalism...
Agree! I watched her speech twice and I came away feeling pretty good about the future.
“To remake this country into something it was never intended to be is to destroy it...”
Okay, personally, I agree with that. I can almost guarantee you that the other side doesn’t see it that way. They truly (and wrongly) believe that they aren’t destroying the country but are improving it (and acquiring as much power as they can in the process). So, yes, they are wrecking the country, but not intentionally.
Can’t you just picture Trig and Piper on that swing set? Oh yeahhhh.
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