Posted on 07/12/2011 10:47:52 AM PDT by Gargantua
Lancing the “She Quit!” Boil One Last Time
© 2011 By Gargantua
One of the more unsettling hallmarks of the unfair, often deceitful, and always unprovoked attacks on Sarah Palin is the way in which she is frequently castigated for doing things commonly accepted when done by others, but which somehow rise to a level of unconscionable effrontery when she does them. A good example is the way that she was excoriated for having posted on her website a map of the United States which used surveyors marks to denote vulnerable Democratic congressional seats for The Tea Party to “target”in the 2011 midterms.
Leave aside for the moment the fact that Democrat operatives had created a similar such map using actual gun sight crosshairs (and not the somewhat more innocuous surveyors marks Palin had used) in laying out their “aim for” congressional map. Leave aside the fact that a Democrat candidate actually aired a commercial in which he repeatedly fired a rifle at a copy of the “Obamacare” bill.
Ignoring these facts as well as the fact that Jarod Lee Loughner was a demonstrably insane liberal who had stalked Gabrielle Giffords for the past several years, and had most probably never even looked at Sarah Palin website, nonetheless the extremist left immediately started blatting into every microphone and TV camera they could find that it was clearly Sarah Palin who had caused the lunatic to shoot the Congresswoman.
I use this example to_underscore_the clear double standard employed whenever the extremist left decides to opine on Gov. Palin. Turning our attention now to another of the Lapdog Lamestream Enemedia’s frequent mantras concerning the governor, let's take a comprehensive look at their assertion that she should not be considered for future office because “she quit." The way that canard is presented, one might easily believe that it is something offensive and out of the ordinary that Palin had decided to do. After all, with this act, she was turning her back on and walking away from her constituents and her elected post as governor.
Whereupon arises the question, what Senator, Representative, or Governor in the history of the Republic, did not in fact walk away from his constituency and elected position so that he could run for another office? Can you name one? Of course you can't. Every Sen. Rep. and Gov. who ever ran for a different office after having been elected to their current one walked away from their constituency and their elected post in order to do so. It's a common practice. It's a commonly accepted practice.
Unless, of course, Sarah Palin tries to do it.
Even more insidious in the use of this strawman when attacking the governor is the fact that she did not “run away” in leaving her governorship. She put the reins of the state in the hands of her very capable lieutenant governor Sean Parnell, turned and charged into the teeth of the beast that was assailing her. And proceeded to royally kick its butt.
Speculation was rampant and predictions were unending that this marked the death knell for the poor governor. The path of her political ascension had reached its zenith, and she was in a fire and smoke trailing tailspin headed for political obscurity. Nobody the day after Gov. Palin stepped down predicted that she was about to publish two best-selling books. Nor did they predict that she was about to embark on a series of speaking engagements commanding six figure compensation. Most assuredly, nobody even thought of suggesting that she might mount a series of campaign endorsements, often times for obscure candidates trailing badly in the polls, the majority of which would then win elected office creating the Republican Revolution of 2010; the single largest party shift in control of the House of Representatives in the history of the Republic (whereby Sarah would be most appropriately crowned “Kingmaker”).
Just to recap, Sarah Palin did indeed leave her governorship to move on to bigger and better, and far more meaningful (not to mention unpaid) contributions to the political ship of state. Just as had every elected official in American history before her, Sarah left the Alaska governorship to pursue higher goals prior to the conclusion of her full-term. The main difference being none of the other elected officials who had undertaken this commonly accepted practice were ever so roundly and universally excoriated as a “quitter” for having done so.
As a fitting end to this story of truly unique practices and outcomes, Sarah Palin is quite likely shortly to announce her candidacy for President of the United States in 2012. Should she do so, the most likely outcome will be that she defeats in a landslide the most badly failed president ever to hold the Oval Office.
The irony, and oh-so poetic justice, of just such a scenario is most certainly not lost upon those who still admire and will always support so unfairly mistreated a hero as Sarah Palin.
You needn't "buy" it. In fact, you can't buy it. It's not being offered as something you can choose to or choose not to accept.
It's fact. F-A-C-T. You can't buy it, you can't change it, and you can't dismiss it. It's there and it ain't moving.
You can cling to your PDS denial, but that's all you got. Every sitting elected official who ever went after another elected position left ("quit") their existing job to do so.
You whining doesn't change a thing. No one single thing.
Deal with it. Should be easy... after all, you love Palin.
LMAO!!!!!!!
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I can live with that. And I don’t even have to inhale! Just don’t think the morons in the LSM are going to get tired of it. Nor the naysayers on FR.
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Not true. Joe Lie-berman did not resign from his Seanate seat to run for VP in 2000. In fact, he ran for both offices simultaneously.
Worse than that, he’s a *supplier* of crack! Great article however, so we’ll go light on him. Bob
So, you’ll vote for Obama because he didn’t quit? Wow, you’ve got some high powered brainz dere Jethro!
I believe she stated that Alaska Governors are the only Governors in the country that have to cover their legal fees, and that she had run up roughly 1/2 million in legal fees.
If someone can add to that.....
>>Not by me. Responding to ignorant posts only serve to distract from the message of the original post.<<
LOL!! You gotta love it!
Thanks, ud, for the confirmation!
Rippin, this is the first in a series, I assure you.
Mmmm-hmm.
She knows exactly what she's doing. Let your love for her abide, and have faith in her strategy. The day she announces, in 24-48 hours she'll raise between $50-and-100 Million dollars.
Think about it... if her 3-Million Facebook fans send only an average of $20 each, that's $60 Million. Just that right there alone, and that is barely scratching the surface of the support she has nation-wide.
In every big Early Primary State, Sarah already has more than twice the organizational groundwork of all the other GOP wannabe's combined just waiting for the "Go!" signal.
Relax, it's going to be a long year-and-a-half. But it will be fun for all Palin supporters.
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She made the only rational decision that she could make, so it doesn’t bother me one iota. James Burnham, I believe, said, “When there is no alternative, there is no problem”. Bob
You will never convince the IDIOT PDSers with facts. Nothing on this Earth will change their minds. I try my best to ignore their rants.
I hope you will forgive me, but I’ve been meaning to ask an established “quitologist” some questions, so I hope you will bear with me.
Here’s the first in the series:
Do you still hold the first job you ever held?
It’ll be fun only if it ends with America calling her “Madame President”.
OOps, I was slow.
“Don’t bother, they’re here...”
Sorry. It is true. I never said they all "resigned." I said that they turned their backs on and walked away from their sitting positions.
Why?
Because running for office is a 28-hour-a-day job. A Senator running for President still has all his/her constituents back home expecting and deserving representation in the Senate, but they have none, because their Senator is in DeMoines kissing babies and pretending he likes Latvians. He's attending fundraisers and campaign rallies, not votes on the Senate floor.
Read more slowly, really think about what you're reading, and you'll get this stuff the first time.
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We not only don't need the idiot PDS'ers, we don't even want them. They are vermin who would assail a fine Christian woman with outstanding moral certitude and sterling conservative credentials just because the limp-di@& Liberal Press says they should.
They are non-entities; energy sucking, oxygen wasting refuse, the detritus of a decaying society who wouldn't recognize a brilliant candidate if one bit them on the ass... which this one is just about to!
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“It’ll be fun only if it ends with America calling her “Madame President”.”
When we hear the click click click of high heels in the hall leading to the East Room and the voice of Sarah Palin looking out the window and saying, “Holy Cow!, I can see the Potomac from my House”.
Geniuses, all of them!
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Actually, the majority of the Palin supporters here will only shake thier head and think to themselves: “There goes another clueless lou!!” and then go about the normal lives.
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