Posted on 07/02/2011 8:39:06 AM PDT by onyx
The country is running out of time. We’re broke, nationally, and as the spendthrifts in Washington, D.C. try to discover new and increasingly dishonest, disguised methods by which to hide the scope of the impending disaster, we should be considering what it means for we, the people.
There can be no doubt that they are driving us to complete and unrecoverable collapse. I can describe to you what I believe their motives to be, but that doesn’t change the reality, and I’d rather focus on what we can do about it. Time is getting short. It’s possible that there will be no elections in 2012, because we may have collapsed into chaos and anarchy. If hyperinflation strikes, as some now believe it will, the country is over as we have known it.
Let’s imagine, for the sake of argument, that we can stave off complete collapse at least long enough to hold the 2012 elections. What should be our electoral goal, as a people? We must first stop the hemorrhaging and apply a tourniquet to this nation’s deep, spurting, arterial wounds. That tide of blood, the lifeblood of our economy, and our future, cannot be stemmed by band-aids and a series of well-meaning but undisciplined politicians. We need a determined practitioner who is willing to crack the chest and do the serious, nation-saving surgery. As it stands, there is only one Republican under consideration who fits that description: Sarah Palin.
My own farm is slowly failing. While part of it is the drought, and part of it is the stupidity of the Texas legislature, and its unwillingness to put Texas horsemen on par with those in neighboring states, but more importantly, it is the general economy. The price of fuel, the shrinking value of the dollar, and the general lack of disposable income nationwide is killing the horse industry in Texas. Nobody buys horses when they’re choosing between fuel for their vehicle, and food for their table. Soon, at my farm, it may be a choice between feeding horses and eating them.
Barack Obama is gutting this country, and he’s doing it by intention and malice aforethought. There can be no more claim that he is accomplishing this all due merely to gross incompetence. I don’t think it’s possible to be that incompetent. Even a blind pig finds an acorn occasionally. This guy doesn’t seem to notice a truckload of them. He sees them, but he evinces the willingness, the naked determination, to ignore them.
There’s not much desire on the GOP side to do anything better, or at least no willingness to fight to press these issues. Boehner and Cantor may be ‘really good guys,’ but that’s not enough. We need fighters. We need warriors. We need somebody to realize that the person whose ass needs kicking is the guy boasting about being the guy who says he will “decide whose ass to kick.”
We cannot compromise or otherwise weasel our way out of this mess. There is no short-cut back to prosperity. It’s going to take daring, disciplined leadership. It’s going to take a leader that can look to all the people in the country and say, approximately: “You, the people, must lead us out of this mess, and it starts with a commitment to what is right, rather than what is easy.” Too few of our politicians are willing to get tough in the name of the country and its future.
This is why I am betting the farm on Sarah Palin. Her shortened term as Governor of Alaska stands as empirical evidence that she knows how to lead, is willing to confront difficult problems, combat the media, fight entrenched interests, and rally the people to demonstrate the better angels of their nature.
I will support Sarah Palin, if only she will run, and I am holding on, a little longer, with all I can, for the future of my country, and the future of my farm, in the hope that she will shortly answer the call.
She’s running and she will win if we work our hearts out for her election and we will!
May God bless and keep you, Big_Harry!
I can only say, BTTT and God bless you, dear imfrmdixie!!!
I’m so anxious, but also trying to be patient, for her to announce. Her timing has always been perfect!
GO SARAH!
I’m thinking she might announce Monday, which will of course be July 4th........
When the seas get rough, sometimes it’s best to heave-to and ride it out...Let the storm blow itself out...
No doubt at the behest of the Obama Machine, her enemies in the dominant, establishment, left-wing media, have atacked her from every angle including thru her family and she’s weathered the storm...
The hardest part of the blow may have passed...There’s little left that hasn’t been explored to try to ruin her politically...She’s survived everything that’s been thrown at her...
Just a little while until the Republican herd shows themselves for the (mostly) RINOs they are...Then this fall, announce and conservatives and disaffected independents will flock to her side...
Could this be her strategy? I suspect it may be...
With Michelle Bachmann, a true conservative as her running mate, FUBO and his new American socialism are toast!
Two terms for Sarah, followed by two terms for Michelle!
Thanks...:)
"FIGHT LIKE A GIRL!".....
not like some kitty-whipped P.C. sock puppet.
It’s just heartrending to hear all the stories of hardworking Americans who are under siege. Everyone I know is struggling.
We need lots of Palin and Prayer!
Sold me...
Sarah is the ONLY one on my radar right now. If she doesn’t run, I’m going to have to settle.....
I have said for a long time the 4th of July would be the best time for her to announce. It may be that waiting to long after that would foster the perception, she is weak in her ability to make a decision. It may not be the reality, (I believe she has a strategy) but perception is a strong force.
How are Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain any less real.
I have not every heard a conservative question anything she has said on policy
Then, you haven't been paying attention. Her tax increase on oil companies in Alaska was a disaster, one the slowed job growth, oil production and tax revenue and one Republicans are still trying to repeal. She lobbied to be RINO McCain's VP and supported TARP.
Let's get real here. She's an above-average potential conservative candidate but she has sold out at times just like every other potential Republican nominee. She doesn't walk on water and isn't perfect.
I said “conservative”. I have not heard these examples from anyone conservative. I love your tag. Read it.
I have heard that she must wait for two years after she resigned as Governor to run for another public office or else she would open herself to all kind of lawsuits from those troublemakers in Alaska.....just waiting for an opportunity.
Labor Day sounds great with me.
Michelle has never done anything in her career in government, (nothing), and Cain is wrapping up his run, as his people abandon his campaign.
ROTFL, boom!
Who is Jack Wheeler?
RINOs suck
Since Mar 16, 2011
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