Palin PING!
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Posted on 04/22/2009 2:10:05 PM PDT by SolidWood
I have referred to 'boxing the compass' as Obama's approach of assailing Sarah Palin from all possible directions and from various quarters. BTC refers to naming the 32 points of a compass in clockwise order. With that in mind here are IMHO the 32 approaches that Obama and Axelrod and their allies in the MSM, the nutroots, amongst the media pundits, in academia, and the entertainment industry will relentlessly employ to torpedo Sarah Palin's potential Presidential run in 2012. They are listed in no particular order of importance or priority:
1)The use of anklebiters and left-wing bloggers in their attempt to first rattle her and then unnerve her
The more time that Sarah has to devote to a legal defense fund and to deal with mattters extraneous to campaigning or getting her message out the hope is the less focused she will become.
2)To frustrate and exasperate her intentions and agenda
This deals directly with her agenda in Alaska and the desire to undermine her at every opportunity. Witness what has happened in the past two months in Juneau. The goal is to dishearten Sarah and to reveal to her that the task of trying to become POTUS in 2012 is too arduous and perhaps insurmountable, that there are too many forces lined up against her for her to gain enough traction.
3)To bait Sarah into an unforced error
The goal is for Sarah to get so angry that she decides to strike back and says something that becomes politically permanently damaging or that can be misconstrued as permanently damaging.
4)To frighten or terrorize Sarah
Remember Obama and his cohorts are from a thug culture that has strong ties to the principles outlined in Rules For Radicals by Alinsky. I'll let the reader interpret what I mean.
5)To pigeonhole or classify her politically speaking
The Left wants to portray Sarah as a 'fire and brimstone' pro-life intolerant bogeyman out of the mainstream and pre-empt her from establishing her libertarian credentials.
6)To mischaracterize her personality, intelligence, capabilities, talents etc so as to badly reflect on how she is perceived by voters and brand her as eternally unqualified to be POTUS.
Quite simply, the first prerequisite to decide whether to vote for someone is to determine whether he or she can do the job.
7)if #6 doesn't work at least to relegate Sarah to a candidate whose worthiness 'the jury is still out on or the category of a 'second stringer'
In other words, should you stay with a proven commodity, Obama or do you want to turn your country over to someone who you are still dubious about?
8)Marginalizing Sarah by diminishing her credibility
For those in Rio Linda, this means driving Sarah's supporters, potential supporters and money away from her to by implying that Sarah is not a major player, that she has no chance of being the GOP standardbearer in 2012, or that she has absolutely no chance of defeating Obama in 2012.
9)along with #8 the use of statistics, polls, graphs, political history to demonstrate why Sarah is 'unelectable'
This is the specious use of 'supposed facts' to prove an opinion.
10)by demonizing Sarah to make her appear to be evil or have evil intentions
Obamatrons already regard Sarah as evil. However there are a number of Obama voters who might consider voting for Sarah in 2012 if they felt Sarah was innocuous, gracious or non-threatening.
11)Assassinate her character and crucify her
This is part of #10 but goes a lot further delving into every aspect of her political and personal life in regards to decisions she made and calling into question her judgment and motives at the time and being very petty and malicious while doing so.
12)Draining the swamp
Mao coined this phrase to assert his belief that if the enemy was not allowed to call upon the comfort or support of sympathizers it would be easier to defeat. Obama's goal is to deny Sarah support and to isolate her from agencies that might come to her aid and assist her. I'll leave it up to the reader how Obama and his allies would accomplish this.
13)erect a 'straw man' that can be easily refuted and make Sarah appear misguided
For example Obama could claim that Sarah believes in a capitalist system where there is no regulation whatsover and then slam the GOP and Sarah for Bush's incompetence that led to the financial meltdown.
There are a countless number of straw men that can be conjured up. This why Sarah needs a team around her who understand the potential in this area and who can refute every single one as they are brought up to the arena of ideas.
14)Exploit the inconsistency and expose the hypocrisy
When you utter thousands of words in speeches you are bound to contradict yourself eventually. What the Left will endeavor to do is to convert these apparent contradictions into episodes of lies, flip-flops, and damning examples of personal hypocrisy.
For example many on the Left wanted to seize on the thought that because Sarah, for a fleeting moment considered 'making Trig go away' that this automatically made her a hypocrite.
15)Cite the establishment of a legal defense fund as proof of wrongdoing by Sarah
Why do you need a legal defense fund if you have not done anything wrong?
16)Attribute McCain's words to her or cite her positions in the campaign that run counter to 'Reagan conservative' philosophy
Of course, the Left will never cite the primary axiom of Presidential politics for VP candidates is that they must support the message of the ticket, regardless of how he or she personally feels.
17)Consistently repeating moments on TV or radio which were less than flattering to Sarah
The 'turkey' episode and 'I don't know what I read' epsiode will be repeated thousands of times in 2012 to make Sarah appear foolish
18)along with #17 to consistently mock and caricature Sarah amongst late-night comedians and SNL
This is to convince apolitical types who only get their news from this source to discount Sarah as a worthy candidate and label her a bimbo or a moron.
19)to discredit Sarah through the choice of who is advising her
As we still don't know yet who that will be it would be hard for me now to tell you what Obama's plans are but suffice it to say he will develop some.
20)to honeycomb Sarah's organization with spies or fifth columnists to undermine its efficiecy and effectiveness
This is self-explanatory.
21)To accuse Sarah from being out of step with the 'new world order'
This is a deliberate attempt for the Left to hang on to the eastern elitists who still call themselves Republicans and who reject the founding documents, American rugged individualism, cowboy diplomacy, and American exceptionalism.
22)To build up Sarah's potential GOP Presidential opponents to the detriment of Sarah
Nothing could be sweeter for Obama and his merry men and women than to bleed some of Sarah's conservative support away from her into Huckabee's, Romney's or Sanford's camp.
23)The use of tabloid rumors about Sarah, Todd or her family
These stories are not only meant to titillate but are an attempt to accuse Sarah of having skeletons in the closet and thus question her honesty and sincerity.
Of course, the Messiah doesn't have any himself, does he?
24)The use and distortion of the English language to depict Sarah in the worst possible light or to cause her to retract what she said
During the 2008 campaign a Leftie tried to accuse Sarah of racism because of her focus on and sarcasm directed to community organizers.
25)Disinformation and propaganda
This is of the same magnitude as exhibited by Goebbels in Nazi Germany. It is completely orchestrated, always has a set purpose in mind and targeted on a 24/7 basis towards diminishing and destroying Sarah
26)The insinuation that Sarah cannot do her job as POTUS and take care of children at the same time-that you cannot mix kids with business or bring your kids to work with you
Read the second entry by Ugafish and you'll get the gist of this argument
27)Consistently convince GOP turncoats or fifth columnists to sell Sarah out on TV and why Sarah should not represent the GOP.
Meghan McCain appears to be the gift for Obama that just keeps on giving.
John Feehery is a close second.
28)Have academics and media pundits continually slam Sarah for supposed political miscalculations or being a lightweight
David Gergen, Ed Rollins, Jeffrey Toobin, Katrina van der Heuvel, Margaret Carlson, Gloria Borger all have Sarah's best interests at heart, don't they?
29)Deny Sarah the recognition or credibility that she deserves or is entitled to
Taiwan has been a viable entity since 1949, but since 1971 when Red China entered the UN it has not been allowed re-entry. The world acts like Taiwan does not exist.
And Obama's goal is to deny Sarah legitimization. That was the main reason he stopped Hillary Clinton from appearing with Sarah in front of the UN at the end of September 2008 to protest Iran and Ahmadinejad's presence at the UN.
Obama wants to make it appear that he doesn't recognize Sarah, while all the dirty work is done sub rosa or perpetrated by his nefarious allies.
30)Accuse Sarah's supporters of being aligned to white, racist militia groups or being right-wing extremists
By inference, the attempt is to make out that Sarah is a right-wing unhinged lunatic herself as well and anti-American.
31)Accuse or imply that Sarah wants to impose a Christian theocracy on America and throw women who have abortions and doctors who perform them in jail
This is a traditional tactic perpetrated by the Left to scare the bejesus out of young women voters and to keep them voting Democratic
32)Saturation bombing
This is part and parcel of the first 31 strategies but overall a strategy to destroy the victim regardless of collateral damage.
Obama is not into taking prisoners or giving a sucker an even break. What he is all about is pre-emptive strikes, unrelenting pressure, the insidious erosion of an opponent's credibility, and administering the knockout punch while the opponent has both hands tied behind your back.
There are probably more than the 32 strategies than Obama and Axelrod will employ but to those unfamiliar with the inner workings of politics I think this is a good starting point.
It's obvious that everything we hear and see in the MSM, Democrats and from certain "Republicans", are part of a broad strategy to stop Sarah Palin on her way to the White House.
I think the 'rats and RINOS are using more ressources and dedication into the War on Sarah than in the War on Terror.
All Palin supporters (and those not sure yet) should keep this in mind when being confronted with anti-Palin agitprop and seeds of doubt that are spread on purpose by folks with an agenda.
Palin PING!
Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.
Does that bode well?
Call it a Conservative Badge of Honor.
Those are the kinds of things that the left does when it wants to destroy good people. They are very skilled at it.
She needs a legal defense fund because she doesn't want to go bankrupt and have her family impoverished. How egoistic of her!
She could have used taxpayers' money against politically motivated frivolous charges, but this lady has integrity and rejected to use taxpayers' money to defend herself.
If she did that, FR would be filled with enough anti-Palin vitriol to melt the server into a puddle of slag.
It is my way of continually saying - More of us should have voted for Sarah and we would not be in the mess we are today.
Clearly the Obama machine has decided that Sarah Palin is the candidate they would least like to run against in 2012.
Obviously, you are a troll implementing Tactic #15 from the list. /SARCASM
She needs a defense fund because of all the trumped up charges brought by libtards trying to thwart her because they’re scared sh*tless of her because she’s so awesome!
The Left is neither "liberal", nor "progressive". They are authoritarian, collectivist and regressive. They hijacked good names.
Also if folks get the impression that "Libertarians" are only about drugs and kookiness, they are wrong. The current "Libertarian" party may be a sorry bunch, but it doesn't change a bit of Libertarian values which are heart and soul of America and Conservatism.
To quote Ronald Reagan:
"If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.
I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories.
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is."
War on Sarah. Perfectly named. Thanks for the post.
However, they are the obstacles that any leading presidential candidate must navigate.
I don’t think any other candidate had as many and as difficult obstacles like Palin does.
BTTT
OK. Obama and George Soros have their 32 points.
But God is bigger and a whole lot stronger than these creeps.
I will pray every day that Sarah can overcome all 32 of these tactics and prevail against the evil that will be thrown against her and her family.
I hope God listens to my prayers. Really.
A legal defense fund in advance of charges.
That looks good.
I pray for Sarah everyday, because the hell that she has had to endure I have never seen before. She is a good human being who is bashed every single day for wanting to make this country better for her children and grandchildren. She gets it from all ends, Dems who are scared to death she can beat their “messiah” Beltway Republicans who want her far away from Washington so that she can’t throw their corrupted asses out..I’d like to see the GOP grow some balls for a change and stand up and defend her. Where the hell are they.
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