Palin Saboteurs Want to Kill Her Career Now

The Moderate Voice ^ | 11/14/08 | Floyd and Mary Beth Brown

[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.

[curiosity]

OK, how about we see alot of Reagan at age 44 in Palin.

Suppose we do. There's a reason he did not run for president until age 64.

[Parley Baer]

Exactly right. The democRATS and the rinos are very afraid of Sarah.

[skeeter]

yeah, well running older candidates doesn’t seem to be working out too well for us.

[Cedric]

Attacks on Gov. Sarah Palin by McCain campaign staff

No need to read past the first 9 words. These phony, made up, now debunked, unsourced, lies were the work of Obama operatives.

[Texas_shutterbug]

Liberals are hoping that Governor Palin runs because they know she doesn't appeal to anyone but the christian base.

And they are right. :)

[Jeff Head]

Actuially, based on my own involvement in this election with my various sites and emails I received from hundreds of people, a lot of people outside the conservative christian base supported her and are organizing support for her in the future. Libertarians, PUMAs, etc.

[curiosity]

What I don't understand is why anyone feels the need to demonize her or make up lies about her.

All that is necessary is to play her clip endorsing illegal alien amnesty and her incoherent answers to so many interview questions.

Yes I know, Couric, Gibson, and othes asked some gotcha questions, but even her answers to the basic questions betrayed a profound lack of knowledge.

[beandog]

Why am I not surprised that you are here spewing your liberal trash. She appeals to me and my husband, both who are not christian, so there goes your theory.

Your garbage is really getting old.

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

Sarah Palin is such a significant figure in America. She is too far in to be taken out by those people. :)

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

They want to danquayle-ify her.

[pointsal]

Have fun in the big tent!

[curiosity]

They do so because of her ability to connect with common Americans all over the country.

In other words, she plays redneck identity politics very well.

Now there's a qualification to be president!

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

Thats garbage. She gets a lot of South Park Republicans nationally.

A lot of her support in Alaska is with Moderate and Conservative Democrats !

[exit82]

Points 1,2,3,4, and 6 are wrong, and are your opinion only.

Point 5 I haven’t heard her speak about enough to make a judgment.

Doesn’t unbderstand the financial crisis?

Almost everyone in DC doesn’t understand the financial crisis. That’s why their fixes aren’t working.

She’s been a small town mayor and a state governor. She knows more about economics than you do.

[Diogenesis]

RomneyBOT Curiosity (MIT XIV, professional attacker for Romney);
"1) She lacks knowledge of just about every national policy issue, save enegery,
and betrays a disturbing lack of curiosity about political philosophy.

Myth Romney ruined Massachusetts. He was rated a "C" by the CATO Institute.
That was before he tanked the state through his imposition of socialized medicine.

"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]

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Now compare with a Conservative winner:

Alaska House OKs Gas Pipeline Plan for North Slope - July 23, 2008
JUNEAU, Alaska -- Alaska's House of Representatives has approved a company's plan
to pursue a natural gas pipeline that could unlock 4.5 billion cubic feet of gas reserves a day.
Lawmakers in Alaska's House voted to support Gov. Sarah Palin's proposal to award TransCanada Corp.
an exclusive license to pursue federal certification for the 1,715-mile North Slope pipeline.

Is not THAT special. The rest talk (or less)
and Gov. Palin actually did something.

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

ZOT...

[AuntB]

“What I don’t understand is why anyone feels the need to demonize her or make up lies about her.

All that is necessary is to play her clip endorsing illegal alien amnesty and her incoherent answers to so many interview questions.”

I don’t know why I bother to ask you for examples of your constant charges against Palin. You won’t answer when you’re called on it. She did NOT ENDORSE amnesty! You might wish she did, but no, she did not.

And she doesn’t answer ‘incoherently’.....you just listen incoherently.

[Diogenesis]

Ignore Romney's past abdication to Democrats - check
Ignore Romney's appointment of corrupt, liberal pro-criminal judges, overlooking GOP candidates - check
Ignore Romney's ignoring Mass Constitution - check
Ignore Romney's wussiness to criticism using tears and fabricated 'religious persecution' - check
Ignore Romney's use of fake law enforcement officers (caught in two states) - check
Ignore Romney is the MSM's choice because they have files already prepared against him - check
Ignore Romney's coverup of the "Big Dig" for donations - check.
Ignore Romney's bankruptcy of Mass for his HillaryCARE=RomneyCARE - check.
Ignore Romney's targetting of other GOP candidates - check
Ignore Romney's decimation of Mass GOP and that he couldn't win Mass to Hillary -check
Ignore Romney's real impact on Massachusetts - check
Ignore Romney's federal bailout of the Olympics - check
Ignore Romney's begging for a federal bailout of RomneyCARE - check
Ignore Romney's use of the Mormon card or CRYING to defect from his record or criticism - check

Novak: Fred Thompson drop-out rumors traced to Romney campaign

Said Novak: The rumors were "traced in part to Mitt Romney's campaign,
trying to stir up strife between McCain and Thompson."

Romney here imposing socialized medicine (HILLARYcare).

[upcountry miss]

Just read your home page and it verified my instant evaluation of you. An elitist ala the big O.

[McGruff]

Liberals are hoping that Governor Palin runs because they know she doesn't appeal to anyone but the christian base. And they are right. :)

You don't know squat about who supports who. Tearing down Sarah isn't gonna help your guy Jindal. You'll just make a lot of enemies here.