Thank you so much, Lloyd Marcus!
I admit I was really looking forward to Palin throwing her hat into the ring, but it didn’t particularly upset me when she declined. The environment was clearly just too impossible. Between the truly unhinged bloodlust of the media and the totally backstabbing GOP-E, conspiring with each other, it would have been a suicide-run. I fully believe she wanted to run, and was trying to figure/navigate a way to do so as an “outsider,” and on the cheap, without utilizing the corrupt professional political consultant class. But there wasn’t enough of a groundswell of support, even by the supposed tea-party folks. And then Perry jumped in, probably closing the last tiny crack in the door. Add the concern about putting her young children and family again through the vicious attacks and smears.
Indeed, just looking back on the grotesque way the 2012 election unfolded, it seems all the more clear to me that she made a wise decision. The timing was exactly right for Palin’s common-sense conservative/reformer message, but sometimes you’re massively outgunned, and need to remain a guerilla fighter. And wait and be savvy enough for just the right moment.
Who is the “Judas on our side” who betrayed her? The author doesn’t say, and utterly he fails to make the case that she was “betrayed.”
As a politician, she is damaged goods - as a Rush Limbaugh-like media figure, however, she retains the ability to do immense damage to the Left. If she is going to emerge from her "exile", that is the first direction she should take.
Kudos to Lloyd Marcus, but he errs in assuming that the GOP is on the same side as conservatives—It is not.
Sarahcuda scared the republicans because she wasn’t afraid to take them out if they screwed up.
Sadly conservatives (and republicans who care), are left without a national voice to challenge the lib agenda. They are left without a rallying point. All the crazy things the libs say on the national platform, are left unanswered/unchallenged.
Yeah, thanks to McCain’s own staff they gave her questions to prepare for those interviews that they knew were not going to be asked. They WANTED her to look stupid because when she came out on the stage that night at the convention, and a huge chunk of America realized what a treasure she was, they had to cut her off at the knees. They have NOT STOPPED since. They continually boast and brag about how they put her in her place. They should be exiled from the republican party, themselves.
McCain should’ve fired them all immediately. There was no excuse for what they did. And they continue the spiel that she is an idiot. I will never forgive McCain for the way he treated Palin by not standing up to his staff and defending the one person who actually gave him his best chance to win. And, in spite of the poor treatment, she is fiercely loyal.
And for those on this site who demean her, stating that because she quit the governorship she is a quitter...just exactly what will it take for you to understand the depths of hatred the left went after her with filing HUNDREDS of frivolous lawsuits, not because there was any merit in them, but because they knew it would bankrupt her family and cause her to be so wrapped up in it that she could no longer do her job. What about that do you NOT understand? Have you NEVER had a job that you had to suck it up over something bad so you can go forward? (Try training for nursing in NY state, passing state boards, then going to the south to work a few years later. I was harassed, they threw away my cap with my 18K gold pin, stole and destroyed all kinds of other things, said things about me to patients in my hearing, etc. all because I was a yankee!) I had to leave a couple jobs for my own sanity. I totally understand. This is only one of the things I’ve endured. There are more. At what point does one realize that there is no way forward in the climate that had been made against her, not to mention that the judges were NOT throwing these frivolous cases out, but letting them go forward...possibly because she overthrew their standard-bearer, one who was entrenched in the politics of that state and thought he owned it. The family has never forgiven her...wonder if they didn’t have a hand in some of the cases? Hopefully, you get the point. Nothing good for the state was going to come out of her staying in office. That, I am certain took a lot of prayer before making the decision. That was a bold step that not many would be willing to make, thinking it would hurt them politically. She took the risk. Think of Todd Akin, who said a totally stupid remark, then refused to step down. I think I admire Sarah Palin a WHOLE LOT MORE!
The elitist republicans are the ones that are hurting the party. If Palin were to run, Rove and his ilk would attack her and her family. Maybe she needs to get a post as Secretary of State??
The elitist republicans are the ones that are hurting the party. If Palin were to run, Rove and his ilk would attack her and her family. Maybe she needs to get a post as Secretary of State??
I remember when Mitt was getting the smack down 24/7. Mitt’s boys were asking for the rank-and-file to help defend him.
Sorry Mitt/GOPe. After what you did to Sarah (08 and Giffords shooting) you can just swing in the wind like a dead duck on a barbed wire fence.
We may “forgive” but we don’t forget.
God Bless you Lloyd for a perfect summary of Sarah Palin, and the situation. You deserve major kudos for this.
I have lived in Alaska for over 20 years, most of it in the Wasilla area, and those that arose as a popular choice were infiltrated by the FBI and derailed. Joe Miller had the same person an FBI agent masquerading as his bodyguard and creating a negative image which contributed to Joe Miller losing to Murkowski, the same agent that infiltrated a Fairbanks militia and coerced them into suggested threats against judges and state Troopers, effectively killing that militia group.
Sarah Palin had undermining operatives in her group as well.
They continuously found ways to make her appear as an idiot, a piece of white trash.
But we know what to look for now, we have a figurative UV eyeball on new people, they glow and stand out in a crowd.
We see you now.
BTTT
If you haven’t seen this thread already, you may enjoy reading some of the comments posted here.
The elitist republicans are the ones that are hurting the party. If Palin were to run, Rove and his ilk would attack her and her family. I could be wrong but I think Palin is moving on with her life. I don’t think she will enter the political arena again.
She’s absolutely the very best.
God bless and keep her and her precious family.
