Posted on 07/17/2011 1:52:01 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The new Sarah Palin documentary, The Undefeated, opened to solid box office numbers this weekend. Oddly, the Atlantic tried to cook up a quick hit piece on the Palin film by sending the hapless Conor Friedersdorf to an unadvertised midnight showing in Orange County on a Thursday night. He proceeded to note at great length that not many people were in the theater.
This story was quickly picked up and run by other media outlets, in an attempt to construct a “flop” narrative, quickly rendered as hollow and irrelevant as an Obama economic prediction.
Friedersdorf, and the others who ran with his story, cannot be stupid enough to think that theater attendance at 12:45 AM on a Thursday night, at an unadvertised screening of a documentary, while one of the year’s most anticipated summer blockbusters was rolling out, could be truly indicative of The Undefeated’s opening weekend performance.
They had to work fast to manufacture this hit, since the eagerness of Palin fans to see The Undefeated was not exactly a secret. Their goal was to pump one more anti-Palin story into the billowing cloud of toxic smog pouring from major media outlets. They did it so that liberal readers who won’t go anywhere near a screening of this movie can high-five each other and chuckle about what a bomb it was, providing the ”reality-based community” with another of its many fables that survive any chance encounter with contradictory evidence.
I want Palin to run because I want a candidate who inspires that kind of desperation in the Left. I want someone who drives them to sit in little circles around their campfires and tell ghost stories.
This might sound harsh, but I also consider the way Palin brings out the knuckle-dragging misogyny of liberals to be a plus. Modern liberalism is an ideology of hatred and envy. Its blood burns hotter as every product of its imagination becomes a titanic failure in the real world. It has nothing left but hatred now. Liberals have sunk so low that they openly value punitive taxation more than avoiding national default. They spend their time looking for targets, not solutions.
Similar levels of shrieking hysteria are directed at the Left’s other class and ideological enemies. The sexist fury they unleash against Palin is a useful reminder of their true nature to voters that should understand what kind of future they are voting for, when they vote for a liberal. Palin has proven she can take the heat.
Some of the other 2012 GOP contenders strike me as the sort who will be very surprised by what crawls out of the media’s Hellraiser puzzle box after they win the nomination… especially the ones that want to run as “moderates.” Sorry, fellas, but nobody to the right of this radical President is going to be anointed as a “moderate” once the general election campaign begins. If you don’t fill out your Tea Party application now, rest assured the press will do it for you next year.
The media has no surprises left for Sarah Palin. She handled their combined onslaught when major news outlets were openly calling her an accessory to murder in the Tucson shootings. Not all of her potential 2012 competitors were quick to stand by her side, but they should have been. If you can’t swiftly and forcefully defend your party’s tireless, highly visible former vice-presidential candidate from such disgusting slander, what kind of Republican are you? I want Palin to run because she’s a candid voice in an age of lies and deceit. Her running mate in 2008, John McCain , buried his own candidacy in a shallow grave by refusing to speak candidly about Barack Obama ’s shady background and penchant for falsehood. Palin did that, and was excoriated as a “bomb thrower” in the media. She was right. Everything she said about Obama was right. We’ve lost trillions of dollars and millions of jobs because not enough voters listened to her.
The debt ceiling debate has given America a long, hard look at the sick and degenerate politics of Democrats. The President of the United States just lied about opinion poll numbers during a major press conference, in a desperate attempt to make himself look like less of an extremist. This came after days of fraudulent threats to default on America’s financial obligations and freeze Social Security checks. Americans don’t need another presidential candidate who wastes our time being excessively deferential to someone who lies to us and threatens us incessantly. We need one who calls him out the way Sarah Palin always has.
Palin has been dead right about a lot of important issues. She outperformed quite a few high-performance economists in her assessment of the Quantitative Easing monetary strategy. She’s always been right about domestic energy production, and it gets more obvious by the day. How does her record of accurate predictions stack up against the President and his wise men over the past two years? Some other candidates can do a pretty good job of dissecting the Obama record. Palin did it in advance.
She walks eagerly into the crossfire to support people like Rep. Paul Ryan, even back when he was still working on his “Ryan Roadmap,” the precursor to his “Path to Prosperity” budget. Few of the other presidential contenders have done as much for the Republican Party, and the conservative movement, as Palin over the last few years. That will count for a lot, when the new President must assemble congressional majorities to pass crucial legislation. I can remember many crucial moments since 2008 when Sarah Palin took a firm position on important issues with a whole lot of empty space around her, where other Republicans should have been standing.
Most importantly of all, I like Palin’s aura of confidence… not just in herself, but in the people of the United States. There is something luminous about the way she expresses it. Her cheerful reverence and affection for ordinary people is both comforting and inspiring. Many candidates give impressive performances. Not all of them seem as impressed by us as Palin does. To Palin, we are “the undefeated.”
The great struggle ahead of us will involve returning liberty to a nation that has lost confidence in its government, years after the government so obviously lost confidence in us. Our enormous national debt means that Washington sees the American people as so feeble that the rest of the world must be induced to fund government programs to take care of us.
It is said that we must indenture our children for generations to come, in order to finance welfare benefits for today’s population of adults, who are helpless in a growing number of areas without government supervision. The bumbling descendants of the Greatest Generation must be told what kind of car to drive, what kind of light bulb to use, which kind of inefficient and overpriced energy should fuel their businesses, and how to handle their health care needs. A stagnant, jobless economy is presented as the “new normal.” Things would be even worse, if the Democrats hadn’t told the future how to spend four trillion dollars of its wealth.
The leader who challenges that dark fantasy must have a great and inspirational belief in the strength and wisdom of the American people. Where the State has failed, free men and women will succeed. Where regulation has failed, enterprise will triumph. The rot of central planning will burn away in the light of private sector risk and investment. It shouldn’t have taken us decades to remember that politicians don’t know squat about running a business… but better late than never.
I want Palin to run because she gets all that, and doesn’t need stare into a mirror before TV interviews and remind herself to believe it. The people who look down their noses at her have an equally low opinion of the public they have failed so utterly. Worship of the State is all about submission. I don’t see anything coming out of the Left that I feel like submitting to any longer.
We the people of the United States stand on the verge of withdrawing our consent from a collapsing system that will curse us with its dying breath. That’s going to take guts. Sarah Palin honestly believes we can do it. So do I. The time for doubting ourselves is over.
Others may be able to turn America around for the better, but there is one person I am absolutely sure can do so and that person is Sarah Palin.
No point even trying to quote anything he said. The whole article was so dead on it’s scary/refreshing. Looks like RR’s favorite magazine gets it.
Other ‘conservative publications’ will bandwagon it soon enough.
Real hope real change!
Just waiting for Sarah.
It’s her race this time
and she’ll run it as
she planned. I’m with her
from start to finish.
Same here. I remember the pride I felt in voting for Ronaldus Magnus. I have that same feeling now. Too young in 90 but did it in Round 2. But this will be my second time voting for Palin ;)
Some (have) called that statement “Palin Worship”. I call it the truth and to hell with the rest. She has what it takes and what the country needs. Her ideals are almost entirely lockstep with the essence of conservative philosophy. How anyone can deny that is beyond me.
8^\
Yea but he’s just getting around to it ;)
I believe Mrs.Palin carries a vision of what this nation
was and can be, that it guides her and gives her the
inner strengh to do what needs be done to deal with
the unchecked growth of socialist entities within
our system of government. I believe she will declare
her position in the coming month, and that a campaign
the likes of which this country has never seen will
take her to office. It will be my proud honor to
do what I can to put her there.
She is bold and courageous. She holds up under fire. She is positive and optimistic. She stands on principle, and her principles are right.
And she has all the right enemies.
I think the biggest fear the msm/left has is that record of hers they are so fond of trashing and laughing at shows that once in office, she acts on her convictions and does not ‘nuance’ her views or policies to fit their template of what a politician is ‘supposed to do’.
Bluntly, she could give a rat’s arse what the detractors think.
The Doublespeak the left uses against her is at a level never seen in the real world - only in Orwell’s 1984.
My fave is when they call her polarizing. Having the courage to act on one’s convictions is by it’s nature “polarizing” if you do not share those convictions.
I dont think pedophiles should be allowed to live. I think NAMBLA would describe that as ‘Polarizing”.
But is that a bad thing? I don’t think so but they sure do. Likewise, with Palin. All her pro-America positions are labeled “polarizing”. But is that a bad thing? To the left it is because their view of America comes colored Soviet Red with no white or blue required.
Rich I ain’t, but what I ‘can’ do to help elect SP and stop the BS, I am going to do.
On a related Fear of Palin note: From a post tonight on the Bill Mahr thread...
As for Mahr and his collection of Mensa rejects, ponder this...
Many have called for violence against SP and her family. Many have taken part in activities with ‘very’ questionable legality in their dealings with other countries’ leaders.
Many have advocated and actively worked toward the suppression and elimination of our rights as Americans and the active and open pursuit of Connunistic goals contrary to the BOR/Constitution, laws and regs that may well cross the legal line as well. All those homes they spent millions on ‘magically’ approved in previously ‘endangered lands.
These ‘well heeled’ folks have their money socked away into many questionable shelters/tax and offshore alike. Just keep following that line of thought and adding up all such ‘questionable’ activities you yourself can think of.
...And suddenly the target of their hatred, the recipient of all their organized campaign of slanderous and libelous behavior, mother of the child they publicly called every name in the book and mother of the same child they said should be post-birth aborted....
Suddenly that woman has the combined power of the CIA, FBI, IRS, EPA/Interior and a ton of other agencies we never think about that’s hers to direct.
I cannot fathom WHY they might be the least bit nervous and try to keep her from office. (/sarcasm.)
Excellent post.
A fine read to go with my first cup of java.
Bookmarked and bumped
Don't forget my favorite: "what kind of toilet we can flush."
most excellent...
Certainly true, but being who she is, she would never use those powers like Obama (and all the other Democrats since Andy Jackson) have. The difference between being a moral person and an immoral person. Palin, once elected, will increase our freedoms, ANY Democrat will decrease them.
BTTT.
A Sarah Palin dictatorship is not what is needed, nor what will ever happen. The beauty of this is that she need only direct the appropriate agencies to do their jobs as is Congressionally and Constitutionally required. Nothing more. If they actually did the jobs they were given and enforced the actual laws we have, the problems I listed would not be occurring.
The thing is, the Left knows this and fears it. They have had the protection of the Dems for so long that they commit whatever acts, illegal or otherwise without fear of paying the piper...Some Dem lib somewhere will ‘fix the ticket.’
They should fear her. She WANTS honest government and agencies doing what they were empowered to do. But if they think she’ll go full on revenge mode, all the better. ;)
OUTSTANDING article PING!!!
Great Article. Palin has been running for 2 years. She WILL declare.
I am saving up.
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