Posted on 02/03/2015 12:59:46 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Oh the humanity! Good heavens. Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has a bad day and suddenly out comes this stream of ill-disguised venom going after the woman. She’s a this and a that and “we told you so.” Yada yada yada.
Get the smelling salts! Methinks all this commotion over Sarah Palin is really representative of something else.
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Historian John C. Miller, writing in his 1943 classic Origins of the American Revolution, describes the relationship between the Brits and the Bostonians this way — in a fashion recalled by the momentary travails of Sarah Palin in Iowa.
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The mistake being made about Sarah Palin — it is a mistake all too common for American political elites of both parties — is to dismiss this key characteristic that is at the very core of America itself. The American Revolution is a story of American Originalism — and so too is the story of Sarah Palin.
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Transfer these sentiments to today’s America—and in this case to today’s Republican Party—and it is precisely the reason why so many liberal and GOP elites have such condescending disdain for Governor Palin. They simply cannot abide Sarah Palin because of her appeal to what Miller called back then the “common people”.
It is instructive to note that this is no accidental thing. Years after Sam Adams this treatment would be dished to those the American elites saw as representative of this “rare leveling principle.” American history is filled with names like Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan, all of whom were seen in their day as “levelers” of “persons of the best characters and best estates.” Today this treatment is aimed at Palin, but she’s not alone.......
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You are completely correct. Sarah carried the flag steadily since 2008, when most all the “alpha males” of Conservitism were licking wounds and cowering. The 2010 house gains, the 2012 gains owes lot to her- real men were in short supply
She is a force
American history is filled with names like Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan, all of whom were seen in their day as “levelers” of “persons of the best characters and best estates.”One of these is not like the others.
And they are right.
Sarah Palin’s appeal is (was) and I believe always will be - she is a fighter! But that wonderful, genuine characteristic frightens the GOP-e and terrifies the Left.
Rush Limbaugh (Feb 2, 2015): “The Base Likes Scott Walker Because He Fights Back”
*******BIG SNIP of EIB program - Rush ends with:
“RUSH: Yeah, see, they’re [pundits of all stripes] shocked. They don’t believe it. They can’t believe it. They’re stunned. I guarantee you they’re stunned. And that’s what stuns me. But once again, stop and think of this. Here you have a Republican, and he’s a Republican in good standing. I mean, he’s not one of these Tea Party guys that the establishment’s been trying to wipe out. He has won three elections in four years. The left has thrown everything they have at him just like they’ve thrown it at George W. Bush, like they threw it at Romney, like they have thrown it at McCain, everybody, but Walker beat them.
You would think they would know who he is. You would think that they would not be surprised, after his success in Iowa and Wisconsin, that he would be on the radar. But there is, indeed, shock. There is indeed surprise. This is a Bloomberg Politics Des Moines Register poll taken Monday through Thursday, and it shows Walker leading a wide open Republican race with 15%, but then that doesn’t quite explain it because there’s two questions, really support or almost halfway support.
If you add ‘em up, Walker is at 25. The closest to him is at 23. And that’s Rand Paul. The Republican establishment guys bring up the rear. They’re way at the bottom. I think Jeb Bush is at the bottom, or close to it. It just continues to amaze me that this guy has been invisible. And do you remember even the Republican governors association, I forget the specific details of this, but there were some contretemps between Governor Christie and Scott Walker over money. I think it was that the Republican governors withheld some money from Walker. I forget why. Yeah, during the campaign, yeah, last November, they withheld some money, I forget specifically why, but he and Walker were going back and forth about something.
But nevertheless these people are all shocked. Now you regular listeners to this program are well aware of the Scott Walker story, whether you like him or not. You may not. You may think that what goes on in Wisconsin’s really not a good proving ground and doesn’t matter. But even if that does describe you, you can’t deny that he has demonstrated how to beat back — my God, folks, some of the tactics the left pulled, threatening his family, they threatened him with jail. They tried to criminalize his campaign, not just some of his policies. They had the Wisconsin state legislature walked out of the state in an attempt to stop him implementing his policies after one of his victories. They threw everything, and he’s beat ‘em back. And the fact that he’s still a mystery to these people, it’s a shame.”
I give up. What’s the connection to “Sons of Liberty”?
He may have done some decent things- we’d have no electricity here were it not for the REA
Some would make me a federalist over that, but had it not been for the public works , middle America dust bowl hard red USA wouldn’t be here in private ownership today.
And he had a role in repealing prohibition....
: )
So here I am, after a sabbatical. Scott Walker is my horse who’ll take the 2016 race
Sarah P is the drover who will bring the Tea Party and middle America
God is my witness, and my judge. We know how the story ends, but we must give our last, best shot! God Bless!
:)
Ben Franklin weighed in on that, IIRC
All signs show that Walker wants to roll back Big Government - and not always through the use of federal dictates, but rather by letting the states decide, or local governments; which to me, means putting power back into the hands of the people - they just need to take it back! (Too many people want BIG government to “fix” everything - but asking THEM to do that, is encouraging the GROWTH government.)
“Washington is kind of this top-down, government knows best,” Walker said to an audience of about a half-dozen supporters and more than 50 members of the media who gathered just a block from the White House. “It’s a tired, old approach that hasn’t worked in the past and I don’t think will work in the future. What I see in the states and for the people outside of Washington is a craving for something new, something fresh.”
Walker, who is deep into preparations for an all-but-certain bid for the Oval Office, called for a “transfer of power” from Washington, D.C. to the states. He called the city “68 square miles surrounded by reality,” with six of the 10 richest counties in America, according to the median income. “We need to transfer power, power from our nation’s capital here in Washington back to the cities and states in this country, where the people, where the hardworking people in this country can actually hold their government accountable,” he said.
“That’s what Our American Revival is really about: Transferring that power from Washington back to the people,” he said, referencing the name of his new 527 organization that is laying the groundwork for his presidential bid.”..
http://time.com/3690123/scott-walker-comes-to-washington-to-bash-washington/
“CORONADO, Calif. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, addressing GOP officials gathered here for the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting, launched a fierce broadside Thursday night against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whom he described as as creature of a dysfunctional nation’s capitol.
“She lives in Washington. She works in Washington. She came to Washington through this president and his administration,” Walker said of Clinton, whom he described as the all-but-certain Democratic presidential nominee. “She was in Washington when she was a United States senator. She was in Washington when her husband was president of the United States. You look at everything that people dislike about Washington, and she embodies it.”....
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/scott-walker-hillary-clinton-2016-114314.html
A good reason to move our elected officials home. Let them do business by internet. Keep them close to their constituents, their EMPLOYERS.
Remove them from the corruption that is Wash, DC.
I agree.
There is NO reason for them to be building lives and raising families in D.C. and then purport to be representing the interests of the people “back home.”
There is NO good reason for Congress to be in session as much as they are.
Yep, me and my sentient friends are all there.. We have time to build the case correctly. Scott Walker won’t have to affect anything he hasnt faced already , stateside. From there on out he may need some Patriot assistance
My journey from a liberal Democrat to a conservative Republican was made possible by three things: 9/11, Rush Limbaugh and this web site. I’ve said many times here that you have to fight liberals with facts and logic, a clear sense of history(because as Limbaugh points out, “For liberals history always began five minutes ago’’) and a good verbal left hook( and a real one sometimes) because these people know what they want and are determined to get it. In fact, they may have already succeed by the almost total entrenchment of the entitlement mentality. That is, total dependence on the government and the government in total control. Lyndon Johnson said as much when he passed The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and instituted “The Great Society’’ program a year later, “If this bill passes I’ll have them n-word plural voting Democrat for the next two hundred years’’. He could little have imagined it would go beyond just one racial group.
Good to hear that a national political commentator understands. Wasn’t very sure there was a single one.
If Jeb Bush or some other pro-amnesty, pro-Common Core collaborationist wins the GOP nomination, I would support Sarah Palin or another strong conservative for an independent party candidacy. Jeb Bush and his ilk will not get my vote... and I won’t be sitting home; I’ll be voting or writing in someone.
The Tea party needs to become the Sons of Liberty.
Excellent article.
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