Posted on 11/09/2008 9:07:49 AM PST by SoftTyranny
An Excellent Editorial posted on City on a Hill Political Observer.
The mainstream media and the Obama-Biden campaign made the political assassination of Governor Sarah Palin their number one goal during the 2008 election cycle. The agile and tough Alaskan moose-hunter was able to survive the attempt on her political life, but left this campaign field bloodied. In the past few days some second-rate hacks within the McCain campaign and establishment elites within the GOP have tried to finish the job. They must not and will not succeed.
It is often quoted by some random Alaskan politician that, “the Alaskan poltical landscape is littered with the bodies of those who underestimated Sarah Palin.”
The same will be true of the national stage.
Governor Sarah Palin came into this campaign on August 29. She did not seek this out, it found her. She has spent years focusing on the issues specific to Alaska and had no time to bone up on national issues. She couldn’t get her sea legs without the glare of the national spotlight like Barry and John could over two years ago when this marathon election began.
Governor Palin’s rise to power was not an easy one. She took on and defeated a sitting Republican governor, and went on to win the general election for governor in 2006, which happened to be a very bad year nationally for the GOP. As Governor, Sarah Palin entered this year with the highest approval rating in the nation. She tackled huge issues like the oil and gas pipeline in a tenacious and powerful way. She took on the oil companies, the state Democrats and the state Republicans to weed out corruption, cut taxes and eliminate over 300 million dollars in spending from the state’s budget. What Sarah Palin has accomplished in Alaska is a model for conservatives across the country of how a bold, reform-minded conservative can succeed by articulating the conservative agenda and taking on anyone who stands against progress. It comes out of the mold of Ronald Reagan, that is, she is a conservative leader not a calculating politician with conservative tendencies. She doesn’t take the easy way. She’s a bold, confident leader in a business loaded with deal-makers and favor-seekers.
Read the rest at ObamaHood.org.
I bet she is.
“The way the Repub primaries are run, an establishment GOP candidate will get the nod-Romney,Giuliani-someone like that.”
After the horrible performance by Mccain, you can bet an establishment GOP candidate will NOT get the nod in 2012.
“The primaries are rigged to allow Rino’s in California, New York and Florida pick our candidate”
Gov Plain is pretty popular in New York actually. I was in Manhattan when she came here for the UN meeting. Even in liberal New York, there were crowds cheering her on... and her husband was on the front page of the New York Post when he took their baby to the ride at Central Park. And this was in liberal New York City. We haven't even mentioned upstate New York which is quite conservative. There are more conservatives in New York State than you think. Don't underestimate the lady.
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Not this.
it still reeks of color pick to me....I like the guy fine but no one here will convince me his non white status does not endear him to many here as much as his talents
and I want no part of that, it’s wrong and it’s a failed avenue for the right
it will make no difference to the medis anymore than they would give one term lt governor Michael Steele or wholly inarticulate tacit Obama supporting JC Watts either
I saw this same sort of color affection here for Powell and Rice and I was smeared as a racist for resiting it then as now.
fine.
for the record, I do think that unlike the aforementioned two, Jindal is a good fellow and a rightist and if he gets the nod I will support him but for now I’m with Sarah
and I don’t like gender picks any better btw
we need to stand strictly on our ideology
this is a battle for what’s left of what made us great for 200 plus years
of course the folks who support Obama reject all that as racist and evil
ps: yes I know Jindal is technically a QuasiCaucasian but that nuance escapes most dumb as bricks Americans
I think her best shot of beating that media driven image is to get out in front on the conservative side of some issue.
The issue that makes the most sense is energy. She knows the oil industry from the government side, believes in production and Obama has already pledged not drill.
She needs to get a few advisors together, come up with an energy plan for America, and get on TV. The American people need somebody on their side of this issue.
Eisenstadt the source for Sarah Palin Africa leak [Freepers expose another HOAX; see downthread]
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This has the smell of a David Axelrod with it....and Carl Cameron of FoxNews has some explaining to do!...see the thread which is getting very active....
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