Posted on 07/02/2011 8:39:06 AM PDT by onyx
The country is running out of time. We’re broke, nationally, and as the spendthrifts in Washington, D.C. try to discover new and increasingly dishonest, disguised methods by which to hide the scope of the impending disaster, we should be considering what it means for we, the people.
There can be no doubt that they are driving us to complete and unrecoverable collapse. I can describe to you what I believe their motives to be, but that doesn’t change the reality, and I’d rather focus on what we can do about it. Time is getting short. It’s possible that there will be no elections in 2012, because we may have collapsed into chaos and anarchy. If hyperinflation strikes, as some now believe it will, the country is over as we have known it.
Let’s imagine, for the sake of argument, that we can stave off complete collapse at least long enough to hold the 2012 elections. What should be our electoral goal, as a people? We must first stop the hemorrhaging and apply a tourniquet to this nation’s deep, spurting, arterial wounds. That tide of blood, the lifeblood of our economy, and our future, cannot be stemmed by band-aids and a series of well-meaning but undisciplined politicians. We need a determined practitioner who is willing to crack the chest and do the serious, nation-saving surgery. As it stands, there is only one Republican under consideration who fits that description: Sarah Palin.
My own farm is slowly failing. While part of it is the drought, and part of it is the stupidity of the Texas legislature, and its unwillingness to put Texas horsemen on par with those in neighboring states, but more importantly, it is the general economy. The price of fuel, the shrinking value of the dollar, and the general lack of disposable income nationwide is killing the horse industry in Texas. Nobody buys horses when they’re choosing between fuel for their vehicle, and food for their table. Soon, at my farm, it may be a choice between feeding horses and eating them.
Barack Obama is gutting this country, and he’s doing it by intention and malice aforethought. There can be no more claim that he is accomplishing this all due merely to gross incompetence. I don’t think it’s possible to be that incompetent. Even a blind pig finds an acorn occasionally. This guy doesn’t seem to notice a truckload of them. He sees them, but he evinces the willingness, the naked determination, to ignore them.
There’s not much desire on the GOP side to do anything better, or at least no willingness to fight to press these issues. Boehner and Cantor may be ‘really good guys,’ but that’s not enough. We need fighters. We need warriors. We need somebody to realize that the person whose ass needs kicking is the guy boasting about being the guy who says he will “decide whose ass to kick.”
We cannot compromise or otherwise weasel our way out of this mess. There is no short-cut back to prosperity. It’s going to take daring, disciplined leadership. It’s going to take a leader that can look to all the people in the country and say, approximately: “You, the people, must lead us out of this mess, and it starts with a commitment to what is right, rather than what is easy.” Too few of our politicians are willing to get tough in the name of the country and its future.
This is why I am betting the farm on Sarah Palin. Her shortened term as Governor of Alaska stands as empirical evidence that she knows how to lead, is willing to confront difficult problems, combat the media, fight entrenched interests, and rally the people to demonstrate the better angels of their nature.
I will support Sarah Palin, if only she will run, and I am holding on, a little longer, with all I can, for the future of my country, and the future of my farm, in the hope that she will shortly answer the call.
Sarah will answer that well I am sure, ....but just off the top of my head..Romney puts his finger in the wind..is he pro life for this election cycle?
On Michele....She is not willing to say that subsidies for ethanol are the wrong way to go ...The kind of people that one hires says something about a person..Ed Rollins
Un like me, Sarah is very eloquent, so I am sure she will find the right words. She certainly is not going to say she is better than someone (not in those words)
MB is I this and I that..I have done this..I have done that...no very humble.
Sometimes, it seems like Palin’s supporters have their own strain of PDS.
LOL. You are way too sweet and kind. Thank you for your confidence, but I’m just like you. I have my faith in Governor Sarah Palin.
Sarah will answer that well I am sure, ....but just off the top of my head..Romney puts his finger in the wind..is he pro life for this election cycle?
On Michele....She is not willing to say that subsidies for ethanol are the wrong way to go ...The kind of people that one hires says something about a person..Ed Rollins
Un like me, Sarah is very eloquent, so I am sure she will find the right words. She certainly is not going to say she is better than someone (not in those words)
MB is I this and I that..I have done this..I have done that...no very humble.
Aren't you the poster who sits on Bachmann threads and yells "smear" and "liar" for every criticism of Bachmann?
I see you have a few criticisms of Palin. Shall we all yell "smear" and call you a liar?
You might try using Dr. Jack Wheeler, PHD. He also lives in Virginia. That should help with your search. There are also articles posted here written by Dr. Jack Wheeler...you can do a search here also. When John Wheeler was killed [I knew it wasn’t Jack Wheeler], however he let all of us know it wasn’t him.
FoG,
Yep, RINOsSuck appears to be just another RINO/Socialist troll attempting to denigrate our strongest conservative - Sarah.
The trolls are so transparent and so easy to spot.
I think it’s been here before.
Think she will impose a nation wide Oil windfall profits tax?
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Knows how to lead???? Confront difficult problems?????
Palin(™) ran away.
I have a recurring dream that I am tuned to one of the alphabet channels (I don’t have TV) on election night when a network anchor, choking back tears, in a lost-little-boy voice says “Our prediction is that Palin will win the state of Illinois, which will give her enough electoral votes to be the next President.”
What would you have Palin do? The Alaska state constitution states that the mineral resources of Alaska belong to the people of Alaska. Period.
Governor Palin tried to put more of the profits from those resources into the hands of their proper owners — the people of Alaska — per her state’s constitution.
Prior to that, the oil companies were taking a bandit’s share of those profits.
Now, the lesser beings who inevitably creep into positions of power when greatness creates a vacuum, are looking to resurrect the old status quo.
You’re not going to find perfection in any political candidate, no matter how hard you look. They all operate in an imperfect world, and most reflect those imperfections in their character faults. In Sarah Palin, we at least have someone who has striven throughout her life to make the best possible choice in every adverse situation.
She is committed to the ideals this country was founded upon, and has not just talked the talk, but walked the walk, during her 20 years of public service. She has proved on more than one occasion that she will do what’s right, despite the risk of political fallout to herself.
That’s courage, and it’s precisely what this country needs in its next president, if we’re to survive as a nation.
Not raise taxes on oil companies.
Republicans in the state are desperately trying to reverse the tax increase because it is harming oil production and the economy.
Corporate tax increases are always detrimental.
You know, you've been repeating that liberal talking point on FR for months and months now, even though dozens (perhaps hundreds?) of posters have given you the facts about it.
Some (like me) have done so, many times, yet you persist.
At this point, there's nothing left for me to conclude, except that you're working for the other side. There is just no way that any responsible conservative possesses the sort of unbridled hatred that you do, for someone who is arguably the finest patriot of our time.
...and read the fine print, some of that went to the Alaskan coffers. Do you understand how liberal that post sounds?
We have given Perry 10 years to fix the illegal alien problem. I can honestly say there are parts of Houston I will not venture into due to a brazen “anti-gringo” attitude I see. Perry has lost control.
oops wrong thread.
btw...facts are neither liberal nor conservative...they are not talking points...they are simply facts. You don't have to like them but you can't change them.
Not raise taxes on oil companies.
You're dodging the question. She was between a rock and a hard place. Intention vs counter-intention.
How was she to help the people of her state receive a more equitable share of the profits from their resources, and not take something from the oil producers?
This is why I said that you shouldn't look for perfection in a politician. They operate in an imperfect environment, and sometimes make decisions that are by default, unpopular with some segment of the population.
We should always look at what their motivations are, in making critical decisions. Who is best served by that decision? Was the decision made to correct a real problem, and did it intend to serve the greater good? Did that decision align with the precepts and foundations of our common understandings and agreements (i.e., our constitution)?
Try to see what I'm driving at here. In my view, Palin made a decision that had a clear downside to a powerful economic player in her state, and that decision was made with no small risk to her, politically.
As I see it, she tried to do what she thought was right for the people of her state, and I admire that immensely.
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