Posted on 10/06/2011 12:11:05 PM PDT by Jeanette Pryor
"I wanted to just kind of put the marker down and say no, Im not running, not have a big press conference about it, not make a big darn deal about it, because this isnt about me, and its not about Chris Christie, Palin said, adding that it was about Americans working to get good people elected.
Since 2008, millions of conservative Americans have admired and supported Sarah Palin only because she articulated and had governed according to the principles delineated by William F. Buckley, father of American conservatism, and exemplified in the Presidency of Ronald Reagan.
Buckley grew up in a palatial mansion, Reagan was often a hungry child. The personal accidentals mattered not. The values mattered. The power to implement them mattered.
You know what, Sarah, it is a big darn deal.
The next election will decide if America becomes a Marxist collective or remains a free society. The last best hope of mankind is a big darn deal.
Ronald Reagan wrote the following in his autobiography:
As I rode my horse, Little Man, around Rancho del Cielo during the spring of 1975, I thought a lot about the lost vision of our founding fathers and the importance of recapturing it and the voices from around the country who were pressing me to run for president. And I remembered something Id said many years before: A candidate doesnt make the decision whether to run for president; the people make it for him.
For the past two years, the former Governor of Alaska campaigned to ensure that titles and power be removed from those threatening our free lives, then she assured millions that she would seek the presidency if no candidate appeared who embodied the Spirit of Santelli, the core principles of the Reagan Revolution.
Yesterday, in the absence of such a candidate Palin minimized the expectations she had nurtured for three years, shocking supporters with reasons for her abandonment that are neither logical nor noble. I do not believe that it is only in the last two weeks that Palin realized a campaign and elected office would be difficult for her family.
I do not believe a woman involved in seeking offices for the past twenty years actually thinks that we need another pundit instead of a conservative president. Rush Limbaugh is the loudest most powerful voice of conservative principles in the world and, on March 21, he watched, one of the powerless, as seven titles enslaved the worlds free market to Obamacare.
Sarah Palin mattered only because she was the Voice of Buckley, Reagan, Santelli, Herb Brooks, Todd Beamer, and We the People. Sarah Palin was Everyman headed to Washington, not with a new plan, but with that of our founding core principles; not with a bullhorn, but with a red pen.
Millions of people made the decision for Sarah to run, but she said, Its not a big darn deal.
I woke up this morning and looked at the stack of books on my desk: An American Life, by Ronald Reagan and Boys of Winter: the 1980 Miracle on Ice, and I thought about the candidates from which I will have to pick the next President
Romney birthed Obama cares mother. Perry thinks Im heartless if I object to subsidized illegal immigration, Herman Cain ignores the basic facts of the most dangerous regional conflict in the world, Bachman knew something about the church she attended for decades would prevent her election, so she abandoned what had been the locus of her religious conviction, Santorum endorsed Arlen Spector when he had the chance to support a true conservative, Gingrich promoted Climate Change reforms with Nancy Pelosi, Huntsmans name was pronounced favorably by Michael Goebbels Moore, and Ron Paul is Ron Paul.
America doesnt need a new cheerleader. We need a conservative candidate who is willing to give voice to the people and seek the power needed to save our country from the Marxists and the RINOS.
We dont need new ideas, just someone willing to follow those penned in An American Life, by Reagan. We dont need a new game-plan for victory, just someone willing to follow the Herb Brooks playbook. We just need someone who thinks, in a practical way, that preserving America is worth every sacrifice.
We need an American willing to fight for the name on the front of the jersey, instead of the one on the back.
Someone who thinks promises to We the People are a big darn deal.
The thought that entered my mind at its conclusion: Jim DeMint.
Jeanette, the wounds of the Palin wounded are too fresh to ask questions in detail, but yes, speaking of sacrifices, it was not rocket science to wonder some time ago about God, and the “family first” reason back in the beginning. There was no lenthy indecision, nor check to the spirit back then keeping Sarah from so quickly joining the McCain ticket, (like over night) where within 24 hours she consents to clearly being used outright as a token to his ticket to bolster him with the women’s vote and as a pawn to cover his RINO bona fidis as a liberal Republican. Before McCain came along, she had written eloquently of her conversation with God concerning her new infant son suffering with Downes Syndrome. Sarah had a husband, one adolescent daughter, Piper, and a pregnant teenager, Bristol, both in the home, and a son headed to Iraq. Nevermind the still new tenure as governor of Alaska, and her but pedestrian grasp of world history, politics and events. What could go wrong, right?
Sarah and her family have paid a price for that decision, and she is wiser. Why would it take anyone two and a half years to consider God and check with the family about making a run for the presidency? There was evidently no time given to consideration for serious and sorely needed due diligence about running a nation, or overcoming her but pedestrian knowledge of the world, global history and politics. No actual interest in job preparation anywhere in sight. That valuable time was instead poofed off entirely in fun and favor of collecting a small staff to line up and manage celebrity appearances, contracts and a few political pal show howdies and handshakes that bank rolled some nice things for the family. Sarah has been transparent from the beginning that she would not run. All those supposed signs were never there. Not even remotely.
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