Is that the look of a quitter or a woman who knows exaclty what she is doing?
Posted on 07/04/2009 11:44:09 AM PDT by Aria
What happened to Sarah Palin is a political game changer on the national level. It also may be a preview of what every American may face in a few years.
The 18 ethics charges filed since she rose to prominence in Republican circles might be the first time the left has successfully used the Cloward-Piven Strategy to stop an individual politician on the national level.
For those who do not know, the strategy was developed in the late 1960s by two sociologists at Columbia. In a nutshell it seeks to "hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse".
It was implemented in NYC where activists on the left lobbied for new social programs then worked to fill the rosters. By the early 1970s there was one person on welfare for every two working in NYC. This nearly resulted in NYC declaring bankruptcy in 1975, averted only by a federal emergency loan.
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And the public wonders why conservatives tend to stay away from politics. It's an ugly game played by nasty people who know no rules or boundaries.
I'm reminded of the opening lines from The Chronicles of Riddick. To paraphrase...
Usually, evil is confronted by good. Sometimes, evil must be met by a different kind of evil.
Evil prospers when good men do nothing.
Doing the right thing isn't always easy, but it's ALWAYS right!
Now things are getting serious.
Remind me. How many colleges did she “quit”?
I’m wondering Palin’s action is a case of retreat and regroup, or of taking the football and going home.
We’ll see.
And sometimes in a fight, it is necessary to parry.
Palin Parried.
Can’t wait for the thrust.
State level. The national level is now Palin's stage.
Was it just Harvard Kennedy was thrown out of?
Excuse me .. Sarah WON against all the charges.
I don’t see as how the left won anything .. in fact, this harassment by the left has only propelled her into the spotlight and exposed the left for their mean spirtedness.
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The charges were dismissed but the legal costs were there.
‘Getting serious’? Are you serious? ... The democrat party has been run by dead-soul people for so long that the American voters who keep returning these scum to office don’t and cannot discern the deadness in the soul of pols like Waxman, Boxer, Kennedy, Harkin, Reid, Pelosi, Obama, etc. Until Americans stand up to the thuggery of the democrap party and its fifth column enemedia, and openly shame them for their filthiness, ‘serious’ isn’t even on the radar.
He is going to have a bumpy ride
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I don’t assume everyone wants to put themselves and their families through the meat grinder of our politics. Hillary and Bill trained Chelsea as a child to understand nasty things would be said - I thought it sounded like child abuse - but they all knew it was coming and obviously they considered their ambition more important than their daughter’s chance at a normal life. Maybe Sarah doesn’t want to go about it that way. Maybe she’ll be a force but as an independent citizen. I think she can do a lot that way.
We’ll see. Personally, if Sarah were my sister I’d probably tell her to enjoy her family and her life. Who needs the misery. That being said, I really wish she’d go for it to save us from the dirty rats.
I’m so happy to be away from their clutches. These people are going to destroy all that was good in America.
Yes, I knew that!
And .. now that she is not encumbured by the governorship, she can travel the lower states and gather in great sums of money to relieve her of that debt.
In the meantime, she can show the rest of the country her genuine self .. and let people know who she is .. not the characterization of the left.
Remind me of the colleges the Bushes, Clintons, and Obama didn't quit. Could they be Yale and Harvard??? Hmmmm!
Nor do I recall her books saying she "did a little blow when she could afford it."
The liberal media has nothing on her within 150 feet of digging and they hate it! They could dig 1/2 inch and find a whole lot on the 0ne. If they didn’t cover him with that 1/2 inch there would be dirt!
There is no doubt that the Rat party is a criminal enterprise. Destroying people, our economy and our country.
We cannot leave the future to these people..and I will be contributing to and supporting Sarah Palin.
Even if she goes the route of a third party.
As normal the hard left has bite off more than they can chew. Once Palin is free of being attacked with baseless charges, who knows what she can do
Only one more than I did, and I made it to the Ivy League and a graduate degree, and now I make ten times more money than you.
Sarah Palin came from a very humble background. It took her a while, but she earned a college degree by the sweat of her own brow. To me that is far more respectable than a Ted Kennedy skating into and out of Harvard with a C average on the strength of his family name, family money, and the best tutors and exam ringers that money can hire.
I have no patience for people who were able to finish their schooling without interruptions, via affirmative action or family support, but now look down on those who were not so blessed.
-ccm
The state of Alaska should pay the defense costs for all ethics cases that are dismissed without merit. It's not right that the Governor has a $500,000 legal bill just for trying to serve as governor.
There should be some recourse against those who file false charges maliciously.
No you don't. Arrogant of you to think so, though. I went to a trade school after college.
It may be neither. It may be a flanking attack. If the day she steps down, she raises the black flag and declares open political warfare on the nanny government and all of Obama's agenda, then I'm all in.
Is that the look of a quitter or a woman who knows exaclty what she is doing?
loser pays would work
That is one CONFIDENT woman!
I just need to comment that she is so far away just look at that location shot! Come closer Sarah!
There are a lot of teachers who use this method as well. Overloading with impossible demands.
So much for the whole “her speech sounded whiny and petty”...
It was used everywhere. 1960's radio station owners were overloaded with a flood of complaints to the FCC that they were not being fa-a-a-a-a-a-air. Goodbye license.. or (shudder. Ugh!) more Top 40 stations.
The newly emerging art of confrontation was sometimes called mau-mauing.
I believe Tom Wolfe's book Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers illustrates those days.
Mau-mauing is still with us, of course. It's about all the Left has.
Wouldn't it be interesting (and exciting) if Sarah was able to pull together enough people to make a third party really GO? Talk about a dead fish upside the GOP's head...
> Excuse me .. Sarah WON against all the charges.
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> I don’t see as how the left won anything
What the Left won is affirmation of their ability to use the media and the courts to grind down any and all serious conservative challengers financially, emotionally, and physically.
How much time, energy, and treasure do you think you have to manage a family, a state government, speaking engagements, harassment of your family, AND 18 baseless ethics charges in SIX MONTHS!?
I’m astonished she lasted as long as she has.
In my 62 years, I have never, EVER, seen anything like the relentless onslaught rendered against the Palin family, led chiefly by the DemonRAT Left and the Republican RINOs.
I will never forget the RINOs who jumped on the “trash Palin” bandwagon. Such people will NEVER get my support, not in word, nor in dollar. Zer0.
You may be right. Trying to deflect all the bogus charges while running the state is too much for anybody. And as governor, her choices of response are limited. As a private citizen again, she can attack with the ferocity of a pit bull wearing lipstick.
Although I am far from all 62 years, this is really as bad as it gets in all of my experience as well. They yelled racist should we say sexist?
Nasty things like the truth? Far different than making false charges against someone and making them spend $ to legally defend against them IMO.
I am so IN AWE of Our Sarah, and even more so after her speech.
The MSM, with all the garbage it has put out in recent years, has tried to pave the way for those who want to destroy America, by inserting truly repulsive behavior into our culture, and surrounding us with so much filth it almost seems normal. They’ve succeeded in getting the destroyers into power in this country, but there’s one problem they haven’t figured out yet...the destroyers are, by nature, sick people. And sick people can do a lot of damage, yes, but they also have lots of weaknesses that can be exploited.
Sarah is healthy, normal, strong, and,as we’ve already seen, she is one tough fighter. She won’t give up. The VP race was a learning experience for her. She’s ready for the fight. Zero and the creeps he’s fronting for better be scared!
And based on the crap we’ve seen in the dinosaur media the last 24 hours, they are really scared...and they also haven’t figured out yet that the modus operandi that has worked so well for them the last 25-30 years isn’t working anymore.
SARAHCUDA 2012!!!!!!!!
Sometimes, the death penalty is justified.
Did you forget being tossed from U VA Law School for cheating?
That face in the picture tells the story...
Crazy like a foxy fox !!!
YOU GO GIRL!!!
I would love to see the bitch who’s been making all these charges taken down as well.
My friend, this goes WAY beyond sexist.
It isn’t her gender. It’s her ideology that has them so freaked out.
In order to express their anguish, they use schoolyard taunts like little children.
What the Left is doing to Palin is a perpetual lynching based on what she thinks and what she believes.
This treatment is what everybody who does not express the prevailing “Progressive” worldview will get, from now on, because it works. It worked in Mao’s China, too.
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