@ Years Since Sarah Palin's Decision to "Go Rogue" (VANITY)

Sarah Palin is too modest to claim the role of "TEA Party Queen", but she most certainly deserves a great deal of credit for helping to get the movement going. I want to acknowledge this on the second anniversary of her selfless actions in stepping aside and taking the fight to another level.

Think back to August 2008. I was a supporter os John McCain due to his service to the Country. I thought that he was treated badly by the Bush Family in 2000, and I was glad to see him get his due.

While I was all to aware of his troublesome habit of "reaching across the aisle", I didn't care for Romney, finding him slick and disingenuous. I can still remember him trying to show us that he was a lifelong NRA guy (Boy, who wants to go to the shooting range for a photo-op this time around? Anyone up for a challenge from Sarah?) I thought Huckabee had alot of Elmer Gantry in him. Rudy and Fred Thompson got me excited, but when they failed to light a fire, I was happy for John McCain.

However, he sure didn't seem up for the fight against Obama. I heard rumors that he'd consider picking Sen. Joe Lieberman as his running mate, and I thought he'd taken leave of his senses! (BTW, I admire Sen. Lieberman very much. As a Democrat from Connecticut, he's great. But not so much as the VP for the GOP!) I heard about Tim Pawlenty, which sounded about as exciting as soggy wonder bread, and I heard Mitt Romney, which I thought meant that John would have to watch his back.

Then, one Friday Morning as I drove around doing errands, I heard a woman with a kinda funny accent speaking truths that I hadn't heard in ages, and I was instantly a fan. I had to find out more about who this gal was!

It took alot of discernment of what was being fed to us, as the McCain team seemed content to let Barack Obama's team and media tell us all about her, but I could tell that she was "One of us", and she connected like nobody since, who..That's it, Ronald Reagan!

Of course, the rest of the story about her delivering possibly the best campaign speech in 20 years or more, the bogus ethics complaints, etc, and the eventual Election Loss followed, but I really like that gal, and I hoped that she wouldn't just fade away.

When she was trying to invoke the 10th amendment in Alaska, only to have her own party stick it to her, and then fail to defend her from the endless ethics charges that all got dismissed eventually, I thought that the machine had won.

However, the TEA Party had gotten started, not in response to having a Black Man in the White House, but to average Americans finally standing up and speaking out against 2 decades or more of unaccountable runaway spending. I think that during the Veep debate, when Sarah answered a question about the TARP bailouts with what Frank Luntz described as "The strongest answer he'd ever recorded", a movement began to form. A neglected people began to realize that the pretty gal from Alaska really did know what their life was all about, and was speaking in their language. When she talked about her sister's gas stand in Anchorage, they got it.

So today, July 3rd, I want to salute you, Sarah Palin. You are the one I think gave the TEA Party movement it's first authentic voice. You are the one who was willing to sacrifice personal prestige and position for the greater Good, and you are the one who's given many of us hope for a genuine restoration of America. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Has anyone ever read the book "The Nightingale's Song" by Robert Timberg? It's about how dis-spirited the US Military was in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, and the author's premise is that it took the election of Ronald Reagan to reawaken the inner pride of these warriors, and how they responded to his call.

Well, it also implied that this led to the involvement of Oliver North, John Poindexter and Robert MacFarlane in the Iran-Contra affair. That's debatable, I guess, but the author explores these 3 men, as well as James Webb, a class mate of North at Annapolis, and John McCain, who was Poindexter's classmate in the class of '58. Poindexter was the valedictorian, where McCain distinguished himself mostly with demerits and his pugnacious attitude towards bullying upperclassmen. This character trait served him well, of course, during his long captivity in the North Vietnamese POW camps that he was interred in. His fellow POW's have attested to his defiance of the guards, often earning him extra beatings.

Anyways, the title refers to a story told by the actress, Barbara Feldon (Agent99 from Get Smart). She told the story of how Nightingales have an intricate song that they sing. If a Nightingale is raised apart from other Nightingales, it will remain mute, but as soon as it hears the song, it picks it up like it's known it all it's life. Which it has, in it's "Inner Programming".

I think it's doubly ironic that this story came from a book about Ronald Reagan and John McCain, because by this account John McCain is the direct link between Ronald Reagan and Sarah Palin.

But my take is that we've all been wanting to hear our own version of "The Nightingale's Song" ever since Reagan rose off into the sunset, and we didn't even realize how much we missed it until Sarah sang it to us back in 2008.

To hear what I mean, listen to the 4 minute mark of her remarks in Pella the other night, when she boldly proclaims "If we go down, we're not going down without a fight!"

Or the summary of her Madison speech, which we know is "Mr. President, Game On!"

These are the bold colors Reagan spoke of. Who else can evoke them quite like Sarah?

We have more entitled groups thanks to birth rates and immigration than ever before so it’s a taller order

just on ethnic lines or racial if you’re old fashioned

used to be if 52 percent or so of whites voted a certain way it was a victory....then in the late 80s or early 90s it took 55 percent...now it takes 58%.....a heck of an increase...and a level we rarely hit

1972,1980, 1984, 1994 and then not again till last November when we hit 61% nationwide in the midterms

given how liberal so many under white 40s are brainwashed to be it gets harder

I dunno..it can be done but we have allowed more and bigger obstacles and continue to do so and congragulate ourselves for it as if we are suicidally open minded

Well I agree with Rush and he is rarely wrong...and will be the first to tell ya.

I liked McCain’s war record sort of but the more I looked at him the more it unraveled

Yep, let me see, road kill or a pile of horse huey? I do agree McCain is a hair better, but he would have been a nightmare for us too.

You see, the real danger of a McCain is that his party would allow him to do anything he wanted. Then you’d have folks here praising him for it, and trashing anyone who objected as a D.U. plant.

Ah, no thanks. Under those circumstances, Conservatism isn’t just on the rocks, it’s essentially dead for a term or more.

Then you’d have folks here praising him for it, and trashing anyone who objected as a D.U. plant.

well hell that is how many posters here are over anything...you know that as good as I do

God help us if Palin doesn't run...what will they do then?

Will they still hate Bachmann or learn to love Perry?

or God forbid Romney gets it...oh lord another 2008 with a dipshite candidate

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