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.
From the resignation speech of Sarah Palin (™):
And so as I thought about this announcement that I wouldn’t run for re-election and what it means for Alaska, I thought about how much fun some governors have as lame ducks… travel around the state, to the Lower 48 (maybe), overseas on international trade – as so many politicians do. And then I thought – that’s what’s wrong – many just accept that lame duck status, hit the road, draw the paycheck, and “milk it”. I’m not putting Alaska through that – I promised efficiencies and effectiveness! ? That’s not how I am wired. I am not wired to operate under the same old “politics as usual.” I promised that four years ago – and I meant it.
You can read the full transcript here and watch the speech here: Part1 Part2
I don't know how you can claim lame duck status when you have 16 months left in your term.
A few months later with Bill O'Reilly, she again cited the "lame duck" status as her reason for quitting.
EveningStar( ! ) you're barking at the moon again. How many doggie biscuits did you get in your bowl for posting that lovely hatchet job?
Don't blame me. I didn't write the Alaska state constitution.
Oh, but you can make a person look bad by only quoting selected facts. You know that, and so do I.
Taken as a whole, the facts of Governor Palin's public service record are exemplary. You don't have to like that, but you can't change it.
In retrospect, I am still convinved of it.
I can see no other explanation for why she would say first that she will not be running for re-election.
If her intention in the speech was to quit then why even bother to mention re-election? Did she think that she was going to quit and then maybe run again the following year?
Her quitting was damn near spur-of-the-moment....much more "screw this, I'm outta here" than a disciplined, calculated political move that smacks of genius as her acolytes would have us think.
That's why the silliness of the "lame duck" nonsense.
That statement is proof positive that you've never once picked up her book and read her own account of what led her to resign the governorship.
You're just parroting the liberal MSM with that trash. Why? Why would you take their word over Sarah Palin's?
I swear, if you were a newbie, just coming on to this site with that sort of garbage, you'd get the zot on the first day.
It could be worse. It could be Fightin’ Joe Wheeler.
Thanks for the stale news, EveningStar( ! ). What would we Palinistas ever do without you?
I suppose you think it would have been better for Sarah to leave her name in the public domain, so that the ravenous left could use it in every sort of filthy attack against her.
I'm going to so enjoy watching you PDSers' brains leak out through your noses when she's elected .. LOL
Bless Mark America in Texas.We will prevail, or have a lot
joy breaking the heads of the enemy. The leftists and RINOs are not our representatives as a people, that is plain.
I am for Sarah Palin.May she lead us and stay her sacred course.
Doc, use your elbows and check a few into the pool.
Why do you keep pinging your homey, wtc911 to every reply you make to me? You some kind of gang banger, or something? Can’t go toe to toe with me all by your quisling lonesome?
Pathetic coward. That’s right. I said it.
Tick tock.
It’s a courtesy ping because wtc911 was involved in an exchange with you in which I also took part. Calling me a coward for issuing a courtesy ping shows that your reasoning powers are challenged.
Bull. You don't need to ping anyone to a post in which you don't mention them by name, and you know it.
You're pinging your buddy for the same reason that all craven cowards do... you can't go toe to toe with someone who's willing and ready to fight you fair and square.
Don't mess with me, troll. I've been walking this earth long enough to know your type when I run across them.
I'm with you and Sarah Palin.
She holds my hopes and she has my prayers.
Tick tock.
I've said many times, that the PDS posse had better be glad that Jim doesn't let me have access to the zot gun. I used to wear that hat on another conservative board. Libs, plants, trolls, and other assorted misfits didn't last long around there.
Man, winning Illinois would be a miracle!
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