Posted on 11/14/2008 3:46:26 PM PST by lewisglad
Attacks on Gov. Sarah Palin by McCain campaign staff at first appear to be a case of making her a convenient scapegoat, but the attacks have a more devious motive. This post-election barrage is the first volley of the campaign to choose the Republican nominee in 2012. The Washington, D.C. based establishment that rules the GOP wants her career over now. She threatens them.
Firefighting 101 teaches it is easier to stomp out a wildfire when it is small. Don’t allow the fire to grow, spread and become an inferno. Sarah Palin was the spark of McCain’s reform campaign. She ignited the campaign and gave the reform message legitimacy.
Those knifing Palin are the old-guard Republicans who don’t want to see her as the nominee in 2012. The old-guard GOP candidates are likely Gov. Haley Barbour or former Gov. Mitt Romney.
Sarah Palin brought a vibrant, fresh face to the Republican Party. The GOP elitists saw how she easily connected with voters. Palin drew huge crowds of up to 70,000 people anxious to see and hear her. The crowds flocking to see Gov. Palin bond with her culturally. She has the potential to garner Obama- or Reagan-like devotion.
The Republican Party needs this grassroots energy and her reform agenda after a decade of broken promises and the disappointing Bush presidency.
Looking back at history, you see resemblances of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in Palin. Both Thatcher and Reagan were dismissed and insulted by their own party stalwarts. “Useful idiot” was a term once leveled at President Reagan.
Palin hails from Wasilla, Alaska; Margaret Thatcher grew up in the apartment over her family’s grocery store in a small town in England. Thatcher’s father taught her never to do things because other people were doing them. He said, “Do what you think is right and then persuade others to follow you.” Like Thatcher, Palin’s political philosophy and economic policies emphasize reduced government intervention, free markets and entrepreneurialism.
Margaret Thatcher was willing to take a hard line and earned the nickname “Iron Lady” for her tough-talking rhetoric defiantly opposing the Soviet Union. Likewise, Palin is tough enough to stand up to present-day threats. While Thatcher earned the moniker of ‘Attila the Hen,” Palin calls herself a “Pit-bull with Lipstick” and others dub her “Sarah Barracuda.”
Human, likeable, personable and witty like Reagan, with loads of common sense and confidence, Sarah Palin lives what she believes. And the camera loves her as it loved Ronald Reagan.
Grass-roots efforts are sure to encourage Palin to run in for president in 2012. Meanwhile, she trusts a higher power, saying she is, “Putting my life in my creator’s hands—that is what I always do.” She also said, “I’m like, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, …don’t let me miss the open door…And if there is an open door in ’12 or four years later, and if it is something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I’ll plow through that door.”
This rising star is now too bright to be extinguished by attempts at sabotage. She has addressed the criticism, setting the record straight concerning the purchase of clothes for herself and her family by the Republican National Committee, saying, “Those are the RNC’s clothes, they are not my clothes. I never forced anybody to buy anything. I never asked for anything more than maybe a Diet Dr Pepper every once in a while.” And then there’s the ridiculous rumors regarding the debate prep about NAFTA and Africa. Palin summed it up well, calling it “cruel, it’s mean-spirited, it’s immature, and it’s unprofessional,” and said, “Those guys are jerks if they came away with it taking thing out of context, then tried to spread something on national news.”
Yet Palin realizes criticism is to be expected in politics. “Your life is an open book and you open yourself up to criticism and you’d better be ready to take that criticism,” she said. “In other words, don’t run for office if you can’t handle it.”
Those staffers guilty of anonymous attacks are cowards. Their agenda to control the GOP needs to be seen for what it is — an attempt to kill the career of Sarah Palin because it threatens them. Americans can see through the falsehoods and love the real Sarah Palin. Nearly 400 letters arrive daily addressed to Gov. Palin and are now piled high in big bags waiting for her.
The election of 1840 and the "ballyhoo" campaign. "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too." Whigs won without advancing a claim or an issue.
I think you're a little too proud of your data, and are trying to turn your "I OWN ALL THE DATA, ALL YOUR WORLDS ARE BELONG TO US" shtick into a presumptive right to copulate with all the females. Congratulations on your visions of alpha-ness, but as IBM will no doubt be happy to tell you, data by itself doesn't produce outcomes.
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Now there's a qualification to be president!
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I would think in this day and age, although cheerleading won’t win a football game, it is highly effective in a political campaign, and in fact, we may have reached the point where real substance can be a detriment.
But as you noted, it’s nothing new.
I think she does have true charismatic appeal and could take the country by storm. I think she could win the vast majority of Republicans to her side. I also think she could slice away a decent percentage of Democrats. I think there are enough Democrats these days who see this isn't Daddy's Party any more.
Still, there needs to be a plan. I would like to see Palin start making the rounds with Americana speeches ala Ronald Reagan. That is how she can build a permanent base. She should not now nor any time soon say she is ready to take the plunge. She did say if it's God's will she will be there. There is no better answer, and no other answer this early.
Here's the hard part. Will her family life take the strain? That's why I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
If the answer to Sarah is yes, yes, yes, I think she could time it such that her juggernaut would overwhelm the RINOs and media so they would not know what hit them.
2012 may be the time. It will be if Obama chooses the path he wants, the Robert Mugabe way.
If the GOP stays on this path, TO H#LL WITH THEM. This WILL backfire. Big time.
Nice job thrashing that romneyBot ##### with FACTS! Very well done.
Yeah, she drew that massive repeated 20,000, 50,000, and even 70,000 people crowds just from the eeevvviiiillllll Christian Right. Uh huh.
Romney is slime. GO PALIN!!!
Traitor Mitt Romney's knives still have the coppery smell of Gov.Palin's childrens' blood on them.
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