Posted on 07/14/2010 3:28:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Some hated her because she is beautiful. One prominent Washington Post columnist and TV commentator scorned her because she had a Garfield calendar on her desk. Others hated her because she is a hunter. A few on the margins even hated her because she is white. But it is too late now. Sarah Palin has arrived. But beneath it all — beneath almost two years of slander and disgrace on the part of the mainstream press — was a real fear. And for good reason, because Sarah Palin is a political genius.
While her detractors were in college reading Derrida and Michel Foucault, she was playing basketball. It made her a relentless competitor. It made her a great strategist. While the others were modifying the existing establishment to fit their own needs, she was building her own house with her own hands. And now she is building her own political establishment.
Supporters, like Dick Morris, say questions will arise about her quitting her job as governor of Alaska. But it was a bold, brilliant and necessary strategy. She wouldn’t have had a chance against such a hostile press and political establishment otherwise. Since then she has led the way at NY-23 — Rick Perry and Tim Pawlenty followed. Since then she faced off against mainstream party people George H.W. Bush, Karl Rove, Karen Hughes on behalf of “W,” Dick Cheney and others who supported Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) in a Texas primary.
She supported Rick Perry, and Perry won in a landslide. It was a definitive moment. Since then she has assumed all of the creative qualities of the Tea Party movement and left the rest behind. Without her it would have been a wandering horde of disgruntled rednecks and peckerwoods. But most telling, when Mitt Romney went South to support Nikki Haley in South Carolina’s governor’s primary this past spring, it barely made a bump. When Palin went, Haley jumped double digits and this week Haley’s picture is on Newsweek.
Now Levi Johnston, innocent and naïve but at heart a very good young man from Alaska who unknowingly became front man for the venomous horde of creepy things in the night which control the world, has apologized. And The Washington Post’s Kathleen Parker, newly minted Pulitzer winner who on Sept. 26, 2008, just days after Palin arrived in the lower 48, called her, “an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who is clearly out of her league,” today writes:
“For what it's worth, I get a kick out of Sarah. May I call her Sarah?”
Jut alors! The Palin phenomenon is “a new feminine mystique,” she says now. Who knew?
“I now view each day as a special gift from my Savior and I have promised Him to try and make each and every one count for His Kingdom, for my family, and for our beloved Republic.”
Scott (sacral chordoma survivor) feels that way, too. Let’s roll!!!!
Not that I know of. But presidents get sued all the time for anything and everything. You don't think that liberals wouldn't file every kind of suit they could think of if they thought that Palin would 'do the right thing' and quit rather than put the U.S. people through the expense of defending against them?
from your lips to God’s ears
Aren't Palin worshipers fun to watch?
It surely is a miracle.
Well for starters the White House Consel and the AG can defend against such things without bankrupting the President or the United States government.
They fought her but couldn't destroy her. Next they will try to co-opt her. It raises an interesting question, can anyone win without selling their soul?
Fortunately, she couldn’t care less what you have “one big problem with”. She has a strategy to achieve a GOP majority and, like Reagan’s support for Gerald Ford, that’s what she’s going for. If you don’t agree, get off the bus.
“Now Levi Johnston, innocent and naïve but at heart a very good young man from Alaska who unknowingly became front man for the venomous horde of creepy things in the night which control the world...”
I thought the rhetoric in this piece was a little over the top, also, but having read your snide comments, I have to admit that “venomous horde of creepy things” has a certain bite.
I wish you people would get over it.
We’ve discussed ad nauseum (and most agreed) that it would look beyond tacky for her not to support McCain. His choice of her put her where she is today.
I don’t recall her beating the drum for him too hard.
Don’t let your McCain hatred stop you from supporting our best hope for 2012.
Yes, there are others who are good. But Sarah arouses the kind of enthusiasm, even devotion, that we need in a candidate. No one else is even close.
Your great love for Sarah is getting you a closed minded : our way or the highway attitude. Try opening your mind that not all of us, even though we like Sarah and would vote for her, are radicals like you two. If I were like you I would say to you, hey you closed minded donkey, if you don’t agree with me hit the road. (but I won’t do that)
Last time I checked, we were looking to elect a new president, not a new Messiah.
The parallels between Palin and Obama are very disturbing.
You mistake my defense of her strategy and tactics as blind support. That’s typical of a dead-ender. My eyes and mind are completely open to her pros and cons, I just understand why she’s doing the things she does. Unlike you political Stevie Wonders who are blind and must be told what’s going on.
I see you are having fun putting me down. Reality is out there if you would just get off the personal bashing and stick to facts. People like you remind me of a Liberal who you show the truth to and they still argue back or use the George Bush did it refrain. If you are indeed an conservative, give up the Liberal tactics.
Yeah, no doubt I'm wrong and Levi's just one prince of a guy. Bright, mature, caring, real father-of-the-year material. </sarasm>
She had that in Alaska.
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No she didn't.
You've been a FReeper for a long time; you should know the truth about this kind of thing.
“In Alaska, the governor, and the executive staff have to hire attorneys at their own expense to defend themselves against ethics charges, no matter how frivolous, malicious, or ill conceived an ethics complaint may be. The state attorney general cannot provide representation under the law because these types of complaints are considered “personal” even though they arise from government service”
Page 373 of Going Rogue, an American life.
It is wiser to hang out in the gym in college than it is to actually study.
Levi is really a decent guy.
The Tea Party is nothing but a bunch of "disgruntled rednecks and peckerwoods"
The whole "I quit" thingy was political genius.
You palinites will swallow anything as long as it feeds your fantasies.
btw...the French expression is "zut alors!" not Jut alors. Maybe the writer should have dropped the basketball and cracked a book.
:-)
The first problem is that you answered your own question.
“Go ask her.”
You are right but the people I directed the question to seem to be fanatical personal friends of hers so I thought they were on an inside track. By reading their posts I’m sure they eat dinner with her every night.
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