Mmm.. I believe so, but the kick is not so much because of showing the idiocy of the statement, but rather, it is like hearing a bugle on the horizon if you are one of the Indians who just got through savaging a group of settlers.. that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach that things are going to get a whole lot tougher soon.
The Republican elites have been trying to talk Sarah out of this race by trashing her and saying it is impossible and this statement small and simple as it is establishes many things all at the same time. First, Glassner is considering a Presidential Campaign. This is huge. Second, that team Palin will be looking for folks who have thus to date considered 2nd rank, oddball or outsider operatives who do not value the old rules and the game as it has been defined thus far.
This doesn't mean that you can't be experienced, but it means you need to be willing to operate in a new world. A world populated by Tea Partiers. Main Stream Republicans try to condescend to the Tea Party but in the end, these folks just plain frighten them. These people are serious about ending the "gravy train" and this is not what the professionals want. They want to do "business as usual" with all of the perks and graft and back scratching and favors and ear marks and donations and patronage that have polluted our system and taken us to the brink of losing our very freedom.
Palin needs folks who are not wedded to maintaining this status quo. Folks like Governor Walker who said he was going to restore fiscal sanity and even do that if it hurts and was unpopular with some of the chattering class. Palin locked GOP corrupt bastards in jail without blinking an eye and there are corrupt bastards in Washington willing to do almost anything to resist a real house cleaning.
But, thats what we need.
You are preaching to the choir... Palin had me a “Lipstick”.
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Yeager said it: The rules are for people who aren't willing to make up their own. (We're talking man's aribtrary rules, and of fashion and seemliness, not God's moral rules). One of the things I'm amazed more people don't see is that Palin has pioneered a new medium that baffles me ... but I'm a 20th century hermit. I wouldn't know an i-pod if I tripped on one. It's a new world. Palin's the first to dive in as a political warrior. She makes Romney look like an old plastic uncle trying to be "hip."
Palin needs folks who are not wedded to maintaining this status quo. Folks like Governor Walker who said he was going to restore fiscal sanity and even do that if it hurts and was unpopular with some of the chattering class. Palin locked GOP corrupt bastards in jail without blinking an eye and there are corrupt bastards in Washington willing to do almost anything to resist a real house cleaning.
That's a point I don't always remember, but if her book is accurate, it's true -- she did get Alaska GOP corrupt wankers tossed and prosecuted. That takes a certain kind of person to do that. A person who kicks ass and takes names.
Personally, on a gut level, I am convinced that the majority of "regular ol' Americans" are prime to connect with Palin in a big way, because Palin is the real thing.
The real thing -- just like a lot of "regular ol' Americans" who also toss the old rules and make new ones in order to stay on the edge. It's a dynamic world; God's rules stay constant, but man's rules are all over the place and a lot of them are destructive.
Palin is willing to break the old rules and move to communicate on a new plane to Americans, and I think there's a lot of evidence that a lot of Americans are yearning for someone who will say, "I stand for the party of 'Get government off our backs, mind its own business, and let us get on with the pursuit and prosperity that's in our bones.'" The GOP should have that "brand" nailed; sadly, decades of RINOs have pissed in the well so much that most Americans figure there's not a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, and it's often hard to argue with them.