OR THIS: 
Posted on 12/21/2009 8:42:21 PM PST by MaxCUA
Fine, maybe she’s not Reagan, although I think there are a lot of parallels, especially given the difference in the times between Reagan running in the 70’s and then winning in 80 and now. Sarah Palin is also a lot like Margaret Thatcher coming from a humble background and shacking up the old boys network.
OR THIS:
Reagan was great - I voted for him twice. A man like him doesn’t seem to come along very often - certainly not often enough for the needs of our Republic.
Sarah Palin has not achieved his personal or political stature at this point. These are different and difficult times, but a person of true priciple and character can still find their way to the forefront, and make a great difference.
I do not know if she is THE person, but I think she has the right combination of honesty, grit, humour, political savvy, and common sense to govern well and govern justly, and I am willing to give her a chance
You may assume too much about her motives.
I suggest...
She resigned because:
democrat-socialist party operatives moved into Alaska for the express purpose of facilitating a never-ending string of baseless, bogus “ethics violations” complaints to be filed and litigated against her, as the sitting Governor.
Some 15 to 20 were filed within a matter of a few months. By Alaska law, each complaint was required to be litigated through a specific, lengthy and eventually costly process. The process would have necessitated her responding in court to each charge in each case...
Rather than have to spend all her time responding...
(exactly one part of what the liberal gambit was intended to force)
instead of Governing and doing the business the state was paying her a salary for, and expending her resources or the state’s resources for litigating each case
(the other major goal of the Lib strategem, besides the appearance of “tainting” her with the sheer volume of complaints)
she took the fight entirely out of that arena.
I consider it a necessary move by comparison to the alternatives.
Had she stayed on, the demisocialists were on pace to file over 100 complaints before she completed her term of office. That amounts to hijacking/abusing the courts, IMO.
Meeting her legal burden of appearances and responses to those shenanigans would have had in court more than at her desk in the Governor’s office.
As it was, she left the Governorship in the hands of a capable and ideologically very similar Lt. Gov, who continues to implement or follow the same policies she initiated. You cannot ask for much more than that.
Had the libs had the opportunity and the legal pathways available to attack Reagan in the same strategic manner , I believe they would have done so.
We can disagree amongst ourselves about why someone is, or is not qualified, or what makes an executive decision better or worse...
But we need to look at this like the enemies of our country (the traitorous democrat-socialist party) look at it.
Their continued hyperreactionary words and actions tell us what we really need to know.
They see a threat in Sarah Palin. An extreme, dangerous-to-them, intolerable, genuine All-American threat, which must be disrespected, mocked ridiculed, and marginalized - or destroyed. Eliminated, one way or another.
They may dislike, or even hate JC Watts, Jim DeMint, Senators Inhofe and Coburn, and certainly Michelle Bachmann.
But they loathe Sarah Palin.
“It’s the charisma, stupid” (no, I am definitely not calling you stupid - I am just mocking the old Slick Willy slogan).
All the others speak up, and speak out against liberal programs, proposals, and policies - and we listen.
Sarah Palin seizes upon a passage of hidden language in a 1400 page “health care” bill, calls it “death panels”...
And DC switchboards light up.
And radio talk show phone callers go ballistic.
And Lib Senators and congresscritters home on summer break find their town meetings to be hornets’ nests instead of softball “stroke sessions”.
And a committee meets in private and removes the language from the proposed bill...(yeah, they re-inserted it later)
Liberals love charisma - when it emanates from one of theirs. Then it is an advantageous tool, to be put to use to calm or quell opposition.
When a conservative like Reagan has it in spades - or Palin...
They hate it. It is, to them, less than a half-step removed from the dreaded cult-of-personality, and must be feared.
Mind numbed robots rise and march behind a spectral Hitler or a Mussolini, or a Hirohito...
Of course it is a double standard, but it is THEIR double standard...
And that makes it all okay.
Nothing to worry about here - move along now...the government will take care of things - we’re protecting you
Sarah Palin is not out simply to “hawk books” nor did she resign over having her feelings hurt -
especially not by the likes of Keith Olbermann (a legend in his own mind, and a graduate of Cornell...Agriculture school...with a BA in communications...).
She is thicker-skinned and far more focused than that, in my opinion. Her selling of books is a great way to:
1) pay down legal debts incurred fighting frivolous ethics complaints, and
2) meet real Americans in small towns and on military bases, see the people face to face, gauge the support for her positions in a non-election year...
I went to a Fred Meyer’s store in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho (population 35,000) 11 days ago to get her autograph in my copy of her book.
Over 1,500 people showed up in 14 degree temperatures to stand in line. Some endured overnight lows of 6 degrees camping out in the parking lot to be near the front of the line.
Those people are not mindless sheep, easily prodded this way and that (NOT that you hinted they were - you did not),
they’re real, hardworking Americans who are sick of the corrupt, freespending hacks in DC, who continue to confiscate earned wealth through excessive taxation, while remaining deaf to the imprecations of the people they supposedly represent.
These people see and hear a genuineness in Sarah Palin - an honest sharing of their concerns that is not well-mirrored elsewhere. They feel like she is definitely “one of them” - the smart, sassy PTA mom they all know, and like, and relate to.
Liberals think they have her sufficiently marginalized and discredited (though that will not stop them from heaping more scorn upon her at any turn).
I believe they are underestimating both Sarah Palin and the level of outrage resident in the American voters.
AAC
How many stadiums has Gary Bauer filled?
Ping to some interesting comments by AmericanArchConservative.
That usually excites me about as much as lady preachers.
But Sarah Palin has it....whatever it is. There is no doubt to me anyhow.
She could be queen far as I'm concerned.
The “what culture war?” social libs here will never get it.
It's off their radar.
Nice summation btw.
“wow did we kiss and make up?”
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LOL! I do not believe you and I were fighting, FRiend! I don’t know your sex (I am a man) so I can’t say about the kiss and make up thing...
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“You have valid points, however Sarah has the kudos to be manup for the GOP, but the GOP has no newnadds...[snip]”
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‘Newnadds’?
Do you mean gonads, perhaps? I do not argue that Sarah deserves huge KUDOS for speaking out for the Conservatives,
I agree that zer0bummer is the Evil prince of all whiner-poseurs (a traitor to the US, even worse!) and Sarah is going to come through things quite well.
I like her, and want to support her, in the event she does declare her candidacy for Pres in 2012.
That is why I drove two hours to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 11 days ago and stood in line to get my copy of her book personally autographed. I was pleased to be able to speak to her, and her husband Todd, and shake hands with both of them as well.
A.A.C.
if you’re a girl, NOW we’ve really kissed and made up.
If you’re a man...
Hey! Duuuude! Fist-bump, we’re kewwwwll - it’s all good!
Thanks for the ping onyx
A unique way that says it all!
if you think she had it hard in Alaska (a red state), wait until she hits the national scene.
I gave her a chance until she resigned...nobody wants a quitter. It will now take many years before she can be viable on the national scene. I don’t even know if she would win if she ran for Senator.
I am not contending that she “had it hard” in Alaska - at least not on a personal level. She enjoyed solid voter support there, and still does.
I merely pointed out:
a very deliberately conceived strategy by the democrats (again, I emphasize - originated, funded, and supported from sources outside the state)...
what its purposes were, and the choices available to Sarah Palin in addressing herself to it.
The demosocialists intent (knowing she could not use state funds, nor a state appointed attorney to defend herself from the spurious charges) was to bankrupt her, and her family.
About that, there was not much choice. Had she continued as Governor, so too would their stream of unfounded ethics violation complaints - and fighting those would simply have cost her more money than she was earning.
The sheer volume of complaints they had filed, and planned to continue filing (come hell or high water, because they had significant financial backing) would have clogged the system, and left her with the choices of:
1) not responding, not attending hearings and being therefore in contempt, or subject to some form of default judgment...or
2) responding, attending all required hearings, working with an attorney reviewing the case files, spending innumerable hours in court, as well as traveling to and from court...all of which would have taken her away from her requisite duties as Governor. It may well have caused her to spend MORE time in court than time spent doing her job, and it would certainly have continued unabated right up until such time as she left office.
In my honest opinion, that construct does not really allow a fair and workable set of options.
It is like working in a store in a state where there are no anti-stalking laws. A wealthy, but sick individual begins “stalking” you, interfering with your ability to do your job (and some of your co-workers’ abilities to do their jobs also) and affecting the business where you work, but always staying just out of reach walking the thin line of what is legal.
The sick individual will not stop, nobody can legally make them stop...
Unless you stop them, by moving away. Someplace out of their orbit, where they either cannot find you, or cannot legally continue to pursue the same type of behaviour that was creating the problems for you and others.
It is an imperfect illustration, but the best I could come up with, spur-of-the-moment.
To have kept going as Governor (even if she had successfully fought all subsequent complaints) could have consumed such time and resources, that it would have invited the accusation that she cared more about her self interest of vindication and maintaining privilege than she did about making sure the people of Alaska were well-served and got their money’s worth out of their Governor.
It also would have provided ample fodder for the media to leeringly argue, “Well, you know she’s just damaged goods. Yeah, sure none of the complaints ever stuck, but so MANY complaints? You know, where there’s smoke there’s fire. She was the Governor - she had the reins of power, and she used them. Her ‘cronies’ made sure it all went her way...”
We know the Leftist media and their double standards: Ignore any/all ACTUAL democratic corruption, and exaggerate any hint of anything to do with the Eeeeevillll GOP.
They attempted to do it to Sarah on the issue of the fired State Trooper. She did not whine, just answered and fought on.
It doesn’t take much imagination to figure those things out.
To call her a quitter is to fail to fully understand that scenario, and to accept the BS media tagline ‘Sarah Palin - gold-plated quitter’.
Stepping out of the Governor’s post and taking the battle to a field of her choosing is not tantamount to quitting.
You are, of course, welcome to have your own opinion, and continue to disagree with mine, but I honestly believe your analysis is fundamentally flawed.
The “nobody wants a quitter” line is cute, but it is shallow and lightweight. Evidently most people either do not regard her as a quitter, or else they simply don’t care about that and they “want” her anyway.
During the 3 plus hours waiting, I chatted with roughly 50 people in line at the Coeur d’Alene book signing event. Not a single one of them had a problem with her stepping down as Gov. They knew the story and knew the score and didn’t blame her a bit.
Their frustration was with the people backing/pursuing the typical democratic litigation strategy of “if you can’t dazzle ‘em with truth, baffle them by clogging the courts with B*ll$hi+”
Her very recent polling numbers belie the contention that it would “take many years” for her to be viable nationally - she has polled within 2 or 3 points of oDumbo, and outpolls other “name brand” national GOP figures, so other than your personal impressions, I don’t know what facts your premises are predicated upon.
It will not take many years for her to be viable. She will NEVER be viable - among Lefties and RINO-lovers. Among many rank-and-file Conservatives, and non-Rockefeller wing Republicans she is viable right now. Another 6 months to 1 year of 0Bambi and she may be viable amongst even RINOs.
Her book has not gone into a print run of 3 million + for no reason.
Maybe you’re a Romneybot, a Huckster, or a Giuliani supporter? No offense if you’re not - it just seems that Sarah’s biggest detractors on FR usually fall into one of those camps.
Talk about nonviable - take those three...
A.A.C.
I’m very afraid that at some point there will be so many detractors of Sarah that the dems will win again in 2010-2012 because of republican/conservative infighting.....
That thought terrifies me....also because if that really happens America will be as close to CIVIL WAR as its ever been.
I'm a woman and an unrepentant sexist myself -- it's the main reason I'm so much against a two-woman (such as Palin-Bachman) ticket. God knows I don't want to see women dominating the White House. I don't even like to see them dominating corporate management, at least not situations I have to deal with. Women are generally perplexing, and may say one thing but mean something else entirely and expect you to "intuit" their true intent; men are generally straight-forward, say what they mean, and mean what they say.
But like you, I regard Palin as the right person -- of the right sex -- at the right time. No matter WHO the man, no matter how legit and conservative, he will be disarmed by the likes of Couric, Oprah, Sawyer, Walters, Mitchell, and other female arbiters of entirely too much public perception of political figures. Men are rendered defenseless in interviews with them by the simple fact that they're male.
Palin was a "gentleman" with Couric in that first interview, but that was then, early days. Palin's sex qualifies her exclusively to play hardball in a way that no man can ever play with the "mean girls" of the MSM. She's the right person, of the right sex, at the right time.
there are plenty of qualified conservatives. Don’t give me this false choice of either Obama and RudyMcRombee....or Palin.
If she’s president, she will get the same deal that she had when she was governor except it will be 100 times worse. She’ll get ethic violation complaints *every* *single* *day* from Pelosi and all those liberal groups. Will she resign from the presidency if those tactics will bog her down? She has to learn from Michelle Bachmann how to fight back (and not just from facebook or Fox News)
Not to worry about Palin's begrudgers on the Right. When the times they'll vote for her and eventually realize how wrong they were about her.
Those who oppose her expose themselves as the RINOS they are - in this sense SHE IS RONALD REAGAN HERE AND NOW!
Considering Sarah clearly explained she stepped down for altruistic reasons as the false ethics charges was costing Alaska taxpayers >$2million and her own family >$500k, the "quitting" comment ALWAYS exposes the liberal troll or RINO supporter (romney, huckster, et al).
She doesn’t need to be.
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