Posted on 04/17/2010 9:49:49 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
In 2003, she made a dramatic break with the party leadership, including Gov. Frank Murkowski, over ethics issues. The turn could have left Palin an exile from politics. Instead, it propelled her to a landslide victory over Murkowski. Now, as the Republican nominee up against "old guards" from both parties, Palin is again pitching "fresh ideas."
The main product Palin is selling this year, is Palin herself.
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It was a sharp contrast to her attitude toward the Daily News expressed in a 1993 letter, in which a seething young Wasilla city councilwoman called the paper "dangerously biased" for its coverage of Sen. George Jacko.
"How can you justify your restraint in slamming the Clintons, Kennedys, Marion Barrys and other philandering, chauvinistic left-wingers of the world?" Palin wrote at the time. "Your yellow, liberal rag is so obvious. I pray we will someday have a choice in newspapers again."
In early 2004, Palin announced she was weighing a challenge of Lisa Murkowski for the U.S. Senate. In the end, she announced she was endorsing Murkowski's Republican opponent. She said at the time that her then-14-year-old son had asked her not to run.None of these maverick positions were taken with the goal of setting up a run for governor, she says. When she appeared in ads, she said, she still didn't know whether she might run for lieutenant governor in 2006 or make a run for governor She said publicly that powers inside her own party wanted her "crucified." Her independence captured an insurgent public mood, and by summer she was leading in the polls.
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Still, no national consultants have been brought in to hone Palin's message
"It's the most remarkable campaign I've ever seen," said Babcock. "She's just running as Sarah Palin and talking about what comes up."
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The 2012 election might seem far away, but we need anyone who is thinking of running to come forward soon and throw their hat in the ring. They will also need to be vetted as thoroughly as Sarah, because they are going to be attacked like she was unless they are a mushy rino. It takes a hell of a lot more than a few lame state run media debates to figure out what the candidates stand for. In fact I would like to see the GOP set up their own debates and leave the SRM out of the loop.
I will not vote for any of the 2008 GOP candidates. They were awful, and about as exciting as Alan Greenspan. Sarah was the only bright light that came out of the debacle.
If by "us" you mean the Fringe, no, she definitely does not.
*sighing*
*rolling eyes*
*shaking head*
What do you mean, who is “fringe” ?
I was kidding.
Hey weasel, you were part of the "fringe" not too long ago...
Many more "best of jla" HERE.
Right. There’s still plenty of time for her to nail down her position on borders, and there’s a lot more to Palin than just McSTAIN:
Palin to RNC: Take me off fundraiser( RNC is trying to trade on her name )
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2484320/posts
Sarah Palin: Stall, Baby, Stall!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2484272/posts
Palin regarding Obama and drilling: Behind the rhetoric lie new drilling bans and leasing delays; soon to follow are burdensome new environmental regulations. Instead of “drill, baby, drill,” the more you look into this the more you realize it’s “stall, baby, stall.” [snip]
Palin, Obama spar from a distance
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2490114/posts
Sarah Palin: A Celebration of Hope
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2485093/posts
Tenacious, perky, smart on stage, Sarah Palin is a rousing political personality
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2485025/posts
I particularly like this one:
Sarah Palin: Stall, Baby, Stall!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2484272/posts
Palin regarding Obama and drilling: Behind the rhetoric lie new drilling bans and leasing delays; soon to follow are burdensome new environmental regulations. Instead of “drill, baby, drill,” the more you look into this the more you realize it’s “stall, baby, stall.” [snip]
Right, and in Boston she had a great line about obama’s administration being ‘all Alinsky all of the time’ - I don’t have the exact quote.
Gawdddddd I love that woman.
Ran a quick google.
LIVE THREAD: BOSTON TEA PARTY with SARAH PALIN (coverage starts) 10:00amEDT 9:00amCDT, 7:00amPDT
http://209.157.64.200/focus/news/2492748/posts?page=225
[Posted by a FRiend named Onyx — you are BUSY!]
advertising guy posted:
Sarah just gave the soundbite of the year.
This Administration is all Alinski All the time
Freedom’s Lighthouse: Sarah Palin Speech in Boston:
http://www.freedomslighthouse.com/2010/04/sarah-palin-speech-in-boston-well-keep.html
Palin said the Obama Administration is, “All Alinsky all the time.” She also sent a message to Obama: ...
Google Results ... 531 for sarah palin “all alinsky” “all the time” “fox news”
There is something inherently trustworthy about Sarah, though I don't agree with her endorsement of McCain in the Arizona primary, I'm cognoscente of the need for her to pay back some political dues. McCain, after all, helped make her a national figure by picking her to be on his ticket. Turning her back on him would have been depicted as an insult not only to McCain and also the GOP, and the yellow journalism of the liberal media would have been given more material to attack and diminish her. If she didn't support McCain, she would have been seen as disloyal and a back-stabber.
On the other hand, she has endorsed McCain and campaigned for him early in this election cycle, leaving enough time for JD to make his case and possibly win this thing. We are about 4 months before the Arizona primary, and in a recent poll JD is only 5 points behind McCain. This tells me that JD has a big chance of winning.
As for Sarah, she is never afraid to point out Obama's dangerous policies and she reliably fights for what is right.
People will call you a kook for saying what you just did about God destining people for great things. Lurkers are probably reading this thread and may be thinking it. But in my study of talent through the ages, there is really nothing that can be explained about it except as a ‘gift’.
Palin is doing things that she shouldn’t be able to do. I watched Jon Stewart, who is not a Palin fan, look on with a type of astonishment when Palin made her ‘comedy debut’ on the Tonight Show (Stewart is, of course, an expert at comedy and knows it when he sees it). Most politicians cannot just go up and do something like that. One thing everyone agrees on, from her detractors to her supporters, is that she has incredible talent. How can someone do this after just being mayor and being governor for a couple of years? When Obama was elected, I was extremely depressed because I knew what was going to occur to this once great country. But I watched Palin’s conference she had a few weeks later as governor and a very clear voice in my head said, “It’s going to be all right.”
God loves the fisherman. She is, above all, a fishing-woman. And she still is. But now she fishes men.
Democrats do not have attractive options when becoming president. Democrat presidents have two choices. They can either be who they are and lose re-election. Or they can ‘go to the center’ like Clinton did to win re-election. Neither of these choices are appealing. Ever since FDR, unless a Democrat President runs to the center, they will lose big.
So Democrats are inclined to recreate FDR (and his four terms if they could figure out how). This is what party Democrats are hoping for Obama to be. Obama, of course, is trying to be the anti-Reagan as well. To undo the ‘Reagan Revolution’. (However, this is not going to plan. The ‘Tea Party’ should not be existing. I saw David Axelrod’s ashen face when the Tea Party began. They were hoping to re-align electorate against “Wall Street” and have them praise Obama’s government.) For 2012, Democrats are hoping to recreate the 1936 campaign by getting Republicans to nominate some financial guy (like Romney) and then ignore him completely by running against Bush (Obama will run against Bush in 2012).
But in the rush to make Bush the new Hoover and Obama the new FDR, Democrats forgot something. FDR was the Vice President candidate back in 1920 on a ticket that lost so big to Harding that you have to go all the way back to Monroe to find an election so lopsided. FDR, also, was a navy man and loved the navy. Palin, not Obama, will become the new FDR. And it will be Obama, not Bush, who becomes the new Hoover.
Politicians are obsessed over political re-alignments. With George W. Bush, Karl Rove believed he could re-align the country by turning Bush into a new McKinley. Hispanics would become the new ‘German Immigrants’. But no re-alignment has ever occurred because of some campaign strategy. Karl Rove is overrated as Bush’s election victories were very weak on the national scale. Axelrod also will find that re-alignment will not work the way he wants it too.
The Tea Party very well could cause a re-alignment in American politics (and Palin benefits from this as she is the only candidate out there who can harness the Tea Party). The political class, many of who I have dealt with all my life, are very confused at what is going on. What they do not understand, cannot understand, is that the very notion of ‘citizen’ is in crisis in America.
Does being an American citizen mean anything today? All the woes going on today can be pinned on that one single question. How can American citizenship mean anything...
-When illegal aliens are given the same rights, status, and protections as American citizens.
-When your representatives to Congress ignore your cries to them.
-When voting fraud occurs which is an attack on the Citizen. How would Congress like it if THEY had voting fraud in their chambers?
-When any concern to Obama’s citizenship, both legal as required in the Constitution and in his behavior, is brought up, the Citizen is demonized.
-When a Citizen’s life is destroyed for making a politician look bad (Joe the Plumber).
-When massive debt turns the Citizen into a serf of Financial Feudalism.
When Palin quit her governorship, Karl Rove said that ‘this is not how you become president’. To the Political Class, they believe the Tea Party is anti-Democrat or anti-establishment. To the contrary, the Tea Party is about the Citizen. It is about people acting as Citizens and engaging in the political process.
I remember the sinking feeling in my gut when George W. Bush called the ‘Minute Men’ of citizens who went to the border to patrol it as ‘vigilantes’. To the Political Class, we are not citizens but walking wallets. We are not supposed to act. We are to them as clay is to the potter: something to be manipulated, shaped, and formed. We are not supposed to act but only react. This is what the Tea Party is all about. It is about Americans demanding to be treated as citizens. America did not become great because of its governors or presidents, its congressman or its senators. America became great because of its citizens. American citizenship used to be the envy of the world. Now, the political class doesn’t give a damn.
In history, it has been reflected that high ranking military officers become presidents (well, not anymore). But I put forth that the military service was not why people trusted them with the office of the presidency. A military hero is, first and foremost, a great citizen. People are drawn to put a Great Citizen in office no matter the time.
The Political Class is watching Palin run around, give speeches, post on facebook, go on TV, and they do not really understand what this has to do with a presidential run. At best, they can point to Reagan and think she is just mirroring him. But they didn’t understand Reagan either.
The Big Picture is not about running for an elected office. The Big Picture is about being a good citizen. This means standing on soap boxes, giving speeches, writing pamphlets (the equivalent of today’s Facebook postings), and trying to do better things for your neighbor. Palin’s power comes from her acting like a ‘Great Citizen’. It does not come from her acting like a ‘Great Politician’. Lord knows we have too many ‘Great Politicians’.
We respect the American citizen. Washington has decided that it wants the respect that properly goes to the American citizen. Washington wants credit for every new invention, every new business opened, and the fruits that have come from America.
Respect flows from Washington to the citizen, not the other way around. It is American tradition to educate Washington this lesson. It is time to do so again. In this action, we continue the cause of our ancestors. When future generations look upon us as we look on our predecessors, there can be no greater honor.
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