Posted on 08/07/2009 3:31:07 PM PDT by yongin
Amid the countrywide smack downs of various public officials in the form of town hall meetings, the wisdom in Palin’s resignation becomes clearer.
While the Democratic majority, drunk with euphoria over the Sotomayor confirmation and the ensuing havoc her activist agenda will wreck with the constitution, sees the crowds as “angry” and “inauthentic,” there is a real truth to the passion and opposition to the Obama agenda that is felt throughout grassroots America.
These “Brooks Brothers” mobs frighten the ivory tower dwelling liberal ruling class because they are more used to sycophantic adulation from the underlings. Seeing the look of fear on Arlen Specter’s face is enough to warm the heart. Not since his days as a prosecutor during the Civil War has the ancient party-hopper faced so much opposition.
The response is akin to Clinton’s 1990s strategy of “nuts and sluts.” Under the “nuts and sluts” defense, Clinton simply swatted away the various credible accusations of sexual harassment and even rape by simply destroying the character of the accuser, thereby raping them a second time with his smiling, nay leering, wife standing by his side while pontificating of a “vast right wing conspiracies” regarding her husband’s sexual addiction.
Obama, Reid and Pelosi want to demonize (and one day imprison if their movement is lucky enough to reach Stalinist proportions) anyone with a question. They do so at their own peril. Gone are the days of reaching out and listening to your constituents. Now, clearly, they are too stupid to know what is good for them, so talking down and talking trash are the order of the day.
The reality is, however, that these crowds are not your garden variety protesters. That is, they have actual jobs and responsibilities, so they can’t just drop their joint and flock to the latest rally at a moment’s notice. The fact that they are coming out in such huge numbers AND around the country is quite telling of the national mood. Also telling is the lack of fainting sycophants in the Obama audiences compared to one year ago. If you remember correctly, last year at this time we were treated to throngs of idiots fainting and crying over Barry. One lady famously told the world through her sobs that she no longer had to worry about paying for her gas or mortgage because Obama was going to take care of that. To re-live that glorious moment click here.
The very fact that chants of “yes, we can” have faded into “angry mobs” has marked quite a change in the electorate, though admittedly, not the type of change Mr. Obama wanted to bring.
While he was expecting to have a schematic of his face sculpture for Mount Rushmore by now, polls find that after 6 months, Obama’s presidency is actually less popular than George W. Bush’s was at the similar time. That is quite a feat given the fact that Bush was an evil war criminal who stole the election and Obama was a quasi-deity “taking a step down” into the presidency.
The problem is that the Democrats seem as out of control in dealing with this health care mess as say, a car driven by a drunk U.S. Senator that is careening off the side of a bridge into the bay. And similarly, as in that case, only the driver will climb out of the sinking car, leaving his mistress to drown to death at the bottom of the bay. In today’s scenario, the Democrats are that mistress and Teddy Kennedy is still the driver.
So, what do these everyday Americans pushing back against socialist policies tell us? That there is real buyer’s remorse going on. They bought the product because of the fancy packaging, but didn’t read the fine print. They want to “change” it back.
How does this tie in to Sarah Palin? Well, first of all, she made resigning cool again. Her nemesis, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison will be resigning her seat in the fall after something like a century in the senate. Mel Martinez announced today that he will be resigning his senate seat and not returning after the break. Notice, too, that there is no outrage over such resignations. Nobody will question Hutchison’s intelligence or Martinez’s “gravitas” for such a move.
Palin’s resignation was due to frustration over a system that puts power over principle and where status quo is elevated to the top priority. By resigning, but not fading into the background, Sarah Palin can become the embodiment of voter frustration with the governing elites of both parties, who are talking down to America from their thrones in Washington. Her resignation could be a matching of actions and words that is unheard of in political circles these days.
If she plays her cards right, Palin can become the face of the tea parties and the town halls. She can be the Mrs. Smith that will not only bake apple pies, but also go to Washington to drain the swamp.
Unshackled by the commitments and limits of her office, Palin can speak freely for the people.
Palin is also not angry. Despite national rumors of her divorce, Palin simply shrugs it off with a smile and cracks the joke asking, “Divorce him? Have you seen Todd?” as she and Todd stroll the streets of Manhattan planning their next move.
Palin has what Obama does not. It was an essential tool in the arsenal of Reagan. It is the power of humor and optimism. She can field dress the liberal agenda of the Democrats with a smile and a wave. She understands the folks at the tea parties and the town halls because she is one of them. They are not angry. They are protective of their country and willing to stand up to the powers that be if that means defending the founder’s vision of America against an extreme European-style socialist makeover.
In that sense, Palin’s resignation will allow her the ability to walk the walk with the grass roots folks. It will allow her to get her hands dirty in the fight against Obama’s America Version 2.0. In light of this reality, her decision makes more sense now than ever.
As my brother says, “Timing is everything.”
i know there were lots of other people like myself calling it brilliant to get out of office. this why palin in 2012
ROFLMAO!!!!
Is the Senate going to vote on healthcare today?
Congress won’t vote on a healthcare bill until next month.
As far as I am concerned all these rights groups. Gay Blacks Woemen all thes “activists” they are a bunch of PHONEYS.. Just ginned up by the Communist agitators and Democrats. We should not pay any attention to these disruptive thugs. They are just a toublemaking mob. Led by a bunch of rabble rousing troublemakers.
Sarah Barracuda unleashed. If the nit-pickers had only had the sense to leave her relatively undisturbed up there in Alaska, she wold have finished out her term, perhaps gone on to yet another term as Governor or found a voice in the US Senate.
Instead, she has entered their pond, which they thought was their own private suzerainty, and has begun the methodical march to greater and greater national prominence.
There will be blood in the water. And it won’t be Sarah’s.
This article will drive Chrissy Matthews bonkers. I have been wondering why he has been talking her so much lately.
Seems to me she ought to be getting in the front of this parade.
She timed it right. Now she needs to act. If she does it effectively, she will become the leader of a very large movement.
Someone who gets it.
I can't see the dims getting more than 200 votes in the house and 50 in the Senate on any final, joint resolution. Their party is SO wide, both philosophically and geopolitically they can't keep 'em all on the reservation...not with something this historically polarizing.
Quite the effective article. Good info to spread around to the folks who need to see the light...if they’d ever take off those #10 welding shields.
It’s time to take back the country.
I find it amazing that all the victim groups who so loathe the Dead White European Males who founded this nation (and set it on its course to greatness) now want to pay them back by returning to the aristocratism and class warfare of Europe.
She has to wait until polls show Reagan Democrats disgusted with 0.
Which should be next week.
Brilliant!
Thanks
Last week Sarah was the guest speaker at the AK NRA meeting. Earlier this week, Sarah and family visited NYC to speak with Harper Collins about her book deal.
If Citizen Sarah wants to make her resignation sound meaningful, then yes I agree with you. She needs to travel to the lower 48 to rally the commmon folks against the Messiah’s Marxist agenda.
FReepers are so smart. First time I have ever seen this word actually used in a sentence!
I have some High IQ conservative friends that think I am right on the money....
Time will tell.
in before the Palin h8ers
A lot can change over the course of 3 1-2 years in the world of politics but at this point there can be no other candidate for 2012 than Sarah Palin. Romney? Huckabee? That’s yesterday’s news.
I was thinking and praying about this just this morning. The thought that came to me was that Sarah is wise to let “the people” rise up on their own. She believes in “the people” and she is one of us. I suspect that when the time is right, she will join us in this fight and take whatever position of leadership is right and just.
I find this fascinating to watch. Obama, the post-partisan president, has now polarized the country more decisively than I have seen in decades. I think there is going to be a huge political backlash against any one in office. People in office will seem arrogant, corrupt, and power-hungry. Will it take some one out of office to gain the confidence of most Americans? At least it should make for some interesting posts at FR.
We see the same sentiment, yes we are tired of them all...
The best thing she can do right now for both herself and her family is to get out of the news and lay low for a month.
FReepers are so smart. First time I have ever seen this word actually used in a sentence!
I had to look it up, too:
suzerain |ˈsoōzərən; -ˌrān| noun
a sovereign or state having some control over another state that is internally autonomous.
• historical
a feudal overlord.
DERIVATIVES suzerainty |-rəntē; -ˌrāntē| |ˈsuzərənti| |ˈsuzəˈreɪnti| noun
ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from French, apparently from sus ‘above’ (from Latin su(r)sum ‘upward’ ), suggested by souverain ‘sovereign.’
bttt
I have no doubt Sarah could become, if she chooses, the face of the Tea Party...with her pockets jingling all the way to the bank. However, she has taken herself off the table of elective politics.
BTW - I am interestd in seeing how this works out considering the TP oft repeated claim that the movement has no leader/leaders and will remain a nebulous, grass root oriented effort. Will the TP PTB and street organizers who make it work capitulate in the face of the star power Palin brings?
I’m glad she’s out of sight right now.
She is letting him destroy himself.
Guess I have to eat my words, she’s BACK!
And boy is she back!
That excellent point is another reason the GOP and conservatives should have never accepted that Red State moniker. It's just another example of the left trying to cause cognitive disonance in the moderates, centrists and independents who don't know if they're coming or going politically, and they are unaware of all of the left's history of deception.
Two points:
1. The cliche has always been that Social Security is the “third rail” of American politics. I think we’re starting to see that Social Security is a door knob on a winter’s day, compared to health care.
2. I’m surprised the Sarah Palin / Sarah Connor comparison isn’t made more often.
LOL!
“Sarah Barracuda unleashed. If the nit-pickers had only had the sense to leave her relatively undisturbed up there in Alaska, she wold have finished out her term, perhaps gone on to yet another term as Governor or found a voice in the US Senate.”
Yea, I’ve been saying that from the beginning. No doubt the second-string Democrats in Juneau got a phone call from Rahm to the effect of: “you a-holes, you were NOT supposed to drive her from office, that’s the last thing we needed.”
Which should be next week.
Early next week, at that. I've got my money on Tuesday, you?
the infowarrior
Sarah,Todd and the kids are in NY. They are vacationing, doing, in Sarah’s words, ‘kids stuff’, and she has been meeting with her publisher about her book.........I believe it is Harper Collins......
It will be a major event should Sarah be a featured speaker of the DC Tea Party on 9-12-09.
Tea party gatherings love to have “celebrities” at their events. Joe the Plumber attended the July 4th Tea Party in Austin. Boortz, Huckabee, Hannity, and Newt all covered Tea Parties on April 15th.
Sarah would be a two edged sword, unfortunately too many TP’ers only see the one side and will be unprepared for the cut back.
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