Sarah represents such a clear and present danger to the established political order that no effort is being spared on her destruction.
In her they see an essential threat to their cozy control of things. A control that evolved over the last hundred years and one they are determined to maintain; a control that allows them to play the partisan game in public, while being good buddies in private.
The way things stand now, the political infrastructures of both major parties depend; absolutely depend, on allegiance to an unwritten yet ironclad system of pragmatic give and take whereby they wrestle for power in just a few arenas, while simultaneously, both sides quietly work to ensure that nothing threatens the other side's lock on their respective bases.
It is truly ironic that -- while the Democrats claim to support the poor and the Republicans claim to support the middle class -- the ruling elite of both parties consists primarily of hereditary millionaires who have become a virtual aristocracy!
Sarah, with her working class credentials, her small business experience, and her hard fought for and hard won university degree, threatens that.
She did not attend the right universities, she did not join the right clubs, she did not do yeoman labor in the campaign office trenches, serve as a congressional aide, intern at the right companies or do ANY of the things that political scions are expected to in preparation for elective office.
It's not so much that outsiders can't join, it's that at some point in time they must indicate willingness to accept the established order -- and that is something Sarah refuses to do.
Sarah epitomizes the Tea Party as it appears to the average American voter in ways so basic they actually find it hard to articulate. She works hard, she plays hard. She has a big family with at least one kid that really needs a good kick up the pants, and another kid that has special needs. She has a husband she loves and who loves her and is not afraid of anything on God’s green Earth.
No other contender even comes close. We have to have Sarah this time around.
Truer words were never spoken.
They saw what Sarah Palin did to the Republican establishment in Alaska.
She has no tolerance for cronyism in either party.
The Republican "insiders" might have to go out and get a real job if Sarah becomes president....
AND THEY KNOW IT!
She is probably going to hire some damn fine OUTSIDERS to assist her.
It doesn't matter what happens to the country, even if it is destroyed. What is important to the insiders is they have to stay INSIDE.
Sarah Palin presents the specter of too many moving vans and U-Haul trucks loading up and LEAVING Washington DC with the belongings of Republican smart asses who have been accomplices to the destroyers of America.
To save America, the next president MUST be an outsider who is ONE OF US.
At some point, if she wants to be taken seriously as a candidate, she must act like a candidate. Don't blame it on others as long as she's not acting like a canddate herself.
“I agree with most of your conclusions, but I don’t agree with calling it a “Right Wing” conspiracy. It is a conspiracy among the “elite” Georgetown Cocktail Party set both Republican and Democrat against the Country Party — which is pretty much the rest of America.”
Precisely.
I do agree that it is the right wing AND the RINO wing of Republican big tent which want to sink Palin and nominate Romney/Bachmann because
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THE GOP WANTS TO LOSE!
CLUTCH DEFEAT FROM THE JAWS OF VICTORY!
just like they’ve done before.