Posted on 09/06/2011 7:50:54 AM PDT by Gargantua
I spend a good deal of time on the FreeRepublic website, America’s premier gathering place for conservative activists. A healthy cross-section of America’s modern day “Minutemen” bivouac here regularly to share and discuss the daily news items which most greatly affect our constitutional Republic.
We were just discussing Sarah Palin’s newest Facebook message regarding Jimmy Hoffa’s disgusting profanity yesterday where he addressed union members with this distinctly un-American reference to The TEA Party: “Let’s take these sons of bitches out!”
It wasn’t that long ago that Democrats including president Obama were calling for a more civil form of discourse throughout our land. What a difference a few weeks makes.
If we weren’t already aware that Liberalism is a mental infirmity, it might cause you to wonder just how many of our “very concerned and compassionate” liberal friends will come out against Mr. Hoffa’s clear call to violence. Well, we know he likely will not be reprimanded by Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D – CA), who recently said, “The TEA Party can go straight to hell! In fact, I’m gonna help ‘em!” How very tolerant and thoughtful… then again, what else should one expect of our brightest and most elite academic congnoscenti, eh?
A couple months ago in my article “Forewarned is Forearmed” I predicted that the all-out assault on The TEA Party was coming, and that the churlish ugliness was going to be appoplectic, historic and unprecedented. Liberal progressives are so predictable, it would be funny if it weren’t so tragic.
One of the Freepers with whom I was discussing Sarah’s current Facebook message made the comment that, once again, Gov. Palin was the first to respond to the ugliness, in this case, from Mr. Hoffa. Here is his comment, and my reply.
FREEPER: “Governor Palin beats the entire d__n GOP to the punch…again.”
A.J.: You’re right… and you’re not. Five will get you ten that most if not all of her “running mates” for the GOP nod won’t touch this with a ten-foot-pole.
Palin alone is the first-responder, the special-ops, human tactical weapon who sprints toward the greatest threat to engage and destroy it, instead of away from the fight… to cower in safety.
She would be the first, except that there won’t be a second. As usual, she stands alone, in the breach, defending all that is good, and worth cherishing, from all that is vile, corrupt and anathema to every single American ideal.
Allow me to qualify that: She stands alone among those who would seek the highest office in the land, but she also stands at the head of the greatest army ever assembled in the history of mankind. The TEA Party represents Sarah Palin’s fighting force, and we outnumber virtually every standing army on earth combined.
Those who would stand against us should proceed advisedly and with justifiable caution. It is our very way of life, and the secure futures of our children for which we gather on this battlefield of ideas. This battle, waged in the hearts and minds of men and women across this great land, will prove that the more the truth of this struggle and its implications are made known to the masses, the larger our numbers will swell.
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It deserves to be said, and simply cannot be overstated—Sarah Palin and her supporters are among the most viciously assailed individuals in the pantheon of American political discourse. As Andrew Breitbart states so eloquently in the movie “The Undefeated”:
“All one has to do to gain immediate acceptance in Washington DC or New York is to disparage Sarah Palin.” Your credentials as a card-carrying member in good standing of the progressive intelligentsia are immediately established merely by attacking this fine, patriotic, God-fearing woman.
By the same token, all one need do is to express their support for Sarah Palin and they are immediately branded a lunatic; a Kool-Aid drinker; a slobbering partisan, when the fact is that Sarah Palin actually is the single and sole guard at the gate, and the only one most deserving of our lauditory approbado. There is no one else from among those who seek the GOP nomination willing to jump into this fray.
If the other candidates honestly believe that staying out of this fight is somehow going to make them look or seem more presidential, they are sadly mistaken. What America needs right now are more people who not only want to be president, but who actually have the guts (actually spelled with a capital “N”) to face down this despicable, amoral thugocracy.
Luckily what America needs right now America has right now. And we find it in only one place, and in only one person. That she inspires those who still cherish what is right and what is good in this fallen world is not a fault, and it’s nothing to be derided or ridiculed. Within the last century these were still precepts which most Americans held dear. That we, in this devolved and putrefacted day and age still have someone like her to seize the helm and steer this ship of state back onto a course with a heading of individual responsibility, prosperity, and liberty is quite remarkable.
Even this, however, pales in comparison to Palin herself. Then again, so do they all.
ok, we’ll see.
you might be right.
i tend to think that there are a lot of good people who are her supporters who are going to be let down, big time....and that makes me sad.
yes, many of her supporters, especially here are FR, are condescending, cocky and just mean. but many of them are also good down to earth folks who mean only good for America. and I feel bad that there is a very real possibility that those good folks are going to be let down.
maybe not, though.
we will see, soon enough.....4, 5...maybe 6 weeks at the outside.
Agreed. So many claim that they are sick of conventional politicians, and then proceed to criticize Sarah’s non-conventional style. Well, which is it?
I hear your passion, my FRiend. Hoffa has done one useful thing. He rang the alarm bell. See my post #43 for similar thoughts on a “Daughters of Liberty” concept seen in my mind to be Prov. 31 women.
Bingo!
Bottom line: Ever see the pic on the web where it’s a dark room, the guy is sitting bloodshot-eyed at the computer had his wife is trying to get him to bed. The caption reads “I CAN’T LEAVE NOW!!! SOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET!!!
That’s the thing. People agree with Palin by and large but can’t let go the fact that they were PUBLICLY wrong about her. And their pride threatens to undermine the candidate they agree with because they will not eat crow. They will sabotage themselves rather than type on FR and elsewhere “I was wrong.”
Yes, I agree those avenues are still very valuable. I suggested the others because they allow us to contact those outside our normal circles, too. See my post #43 for other ideas. We all have a great circle of influence, if we take the time to map it out. Great job, Sam, in keeping the issues in the front! Keep up the good work, FRiend!
Nice!
Too often, it seems that some develop a personal and emotional dislike of a candidate, and then look to find something, however irrational, to use as a justification to support that conception.
If you (general comment) thinnk about it, we all do it to one degree or another. Right here on FR, how many of us have gone into the late hours arguing some piece of minutia solely so “we win” the argument, even when we know the other guy/woman makes good points. That same ‘pride’ is the source of the flame wars on the Palin threads and others.
And look at what happens. Take the Bachmann/Rollins issue. Many of us fought ‘to the death’ over her hiring RiINO Rollins, calling it a mistake that would doom her and an active shot at her by the establishment to disrupt her candidacy. She was doing well, then suddenly, she Gaffed non stop, faltered and now miraculously, Rollins, his work here done, steps down, leaving her in dire political straits.
Those same Freepers who went at us tooth and nail are now nowhere to be found on the Palin threads as their PRIDE at having been wrong, will not allow them to admit it or ‘type the words.’
They are mostly good people that Palin needs to win. Many are our online friends. But they won’t admit it and (que Clinton era quote) move on. So the attacks will (eventually) continue, but now it will be spun as “Palin’s fault.
Just watch. It’ll happen. And PRIDE is the reason.
Inspiring post. Thank you.
It is my guess that this will be one of the ugliest campaign seasons in history. There’s simply too much at stake this time around. This is only the beginning, I fear.
Sarah Palin *is* TEA PARTY, so she answered the call at 4:50AM this morning.
Still waiting on others.
GOP-E covers elites and establishment. Nice catch-all.
I have no doubt in my mind that it will devolve into a Mexican election complete with violence and military intervention. The Libs will not go back to a Republican President/control.
As for inter-party warfare, the RINO wing will not give up their hold on power. It will have to be basically torn from them. They will go at Palin and any other Conservative with tactics just short of what the libs will pull. This one is for all the marbles. People have been killed, maimed etc. for far less then the prize being played for here. This isn’t just an election, it’s something on par with a revolution since one political philosophy will be utterly devastated by the ultimate outcome.
I say that in honesty and in genuinely fear for the lives of those willing to go up against the entrenched system, intent on changing it. But Our Founders risked the same. There is nothing new under the sun.
Exactly right.
Oh look, they started in earnest....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2774387/posts?page=2
Not to be irritating, but America is lost without God, Palin is just a Christian, speaking as a Christian and holding up Judea-Christian Ideals. While she is wonderful, she is not the answer, America repenting and returning to a Nation under God is the answer. She is just leading the way.
It Sure is funny that the only person that has been told not to run is Sarah Palin, Not Perry, not Romney, not McCain last time.
No one in the history in American politics has been told not to run as much as this women.
Why, because as Rush says, they will tell you who they are most afraid of,
Outstanding post Norm! Bump that!
And when you ask them why Palin and not Romney et all, you get to listen to verbal gymnastics that would win a Gold Medal in the Olympics. Anything but what they really MEAN.
Which is that “We don’t want Conservatives that will take away our power/bennies and stop the great Lib/Gay/Atheistic/communistic agenda from using incrementalisn to erode the resistance of you idiots that we have been using to great success for the last couple decades. 4-8 years of a real conservative in power would reverse that and we might not ever get back in power.”
Just to be clear, the “America is lost without Palin” was not my sentiment...I agree with you (and with God).
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