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. Dont allow the fire to grow, spread and become an inferno. Sarah Palin was the spark of McCains reform campaign. She ignited the campaign and gave the reform message legitimacy.
Those knifing Palin are the old-guard Republicans who dont 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 familys grocery store in a small town in England. Thatchers 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, Palins 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 creators handsthat is what I always do. She also said, Im like, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, dont 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 Ill 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 RNCs 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 theres the ridiculous rumors regarding the debate prep about NAFTA and Africa. Palin summed it up well, calling it cruel, its mean-spirited, its immature, and its 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 youd better be ready to take that criticism, she said. In other words, dont run for office if you cant 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.
Suppose we do. There's a reason he did not run for president until age 64.
yeah, well running older candidates doesn’t seem to be working out too well for us.
No need to read past the first 9 words. These phony, made up, now debunked, unsourced, lies were the work of Obama operatives.
And they are right. :)
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.
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.
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.
Sarah Palin is such a significant figure in America. She is too far in to be taken out by those people. :)
They want to danquayle-ify her.
Have fun in the big tent!
In other words, she plays redneck identity politics very well.
Now there's a qualification to be president!
Thats garbage. She gets a lot of South Park Republicans nationally.
A lot of her support in Alaska is with Moderate and Conservative Democrats !
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.
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.]
Now compare with a Conservative winner:
Is not THAT special. The rest talk (or less)
and Gov. Palin actually did something.
ZOT...
“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.
Novak: Fred Thompson drop-out rumors traced to Romney campaign
Romney here imposing socialized medicine (HILLARYcare).
Just read your home page and it verified my instant evaluation of you. An elitist ala the big O.
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.
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