Posted on 07/06/2009 5:31:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
Sarah Palin is the winnowing fork, separating the wheat from the chaff,
those in favor of individual liberty from those in favor of state authoritarianism.
Remember when Darth Vader killed Obie Wan Kenobie in Star Wars? What was it Obie Wan said?
Also he would not have been our candidate if the media had not pushed him on us
I really don't understand why no one seems to get it. She could not effectively run the state with so much controversy. She ended up spending most of the time she should have been governing fighting false accusations and it was costing the state for her to do so, so she is stepping down for the good of the state. She clearly stated that:
Political operatives descended on Alaska last August, digging for dirt. The ethics law I championed became their weapon of choice. Over the past nine months I've been accused of all sorts of frivolous ethics violations - such as holding a fish in a photograph, wearing a jacket with a logo on it, and answering reporters' questions.Why is that reasoning so hard to understand? In this selfish world, there still are a few rare people like Sarah who think about more than just their own political aspirations.Every one - all 15 of the ethics complaints have been dismissed. We've won! But it hasn't been cheap - the State has wasted THOUSANDS of hours of YOUR time and shelled out some two million of YOUR dollars to respond to "opposition research" - that's money NOT going to fund teachers or troopers - or safer roads. And this political absurdity, the "politics of personal destruction" ... Todd and I are looking at more than half a million dollars in legal bills in order to set the record straight. And what about the people who offer up these silly accusations? It doesn't cost them a dime so they're not going to stop draining public resources - spending other peoples' money in their game.
It's pretty insane - my staff and I spend most of our day dealing with THIS instead of progressing our state now. I know I promised no more "politics as usual," but THIS isn't what anyone had in mind for ALASKA.
Normally much higher quality thought than this exudes from the American Thinker.
Sarah is running in 2012. Buy a clue. The author is an idiot. Dunn = Dunce.
Agree.
Like now, they will never know what hit them as she continues to blind-side the ‘RATS and the RINOS both.
Palin knows exactly who and what she’s dealing with, so she’s doing an end-run around them and heading them off at the pass. She’s doing the exact opposite of playing “defense” and “running away from the heat in the kitchen” as they think she is. She’s running TOWARD it.
They’ll never figure her out. I pity them :)
Coulter, Rush and Levin have the right take.
The democrat party is a criminal enterprise. Doubt me..look at what they are doing and have done, as individuals and a congress. Look at the list of activities. From passing unwritten legislation to personal financial gains at the public expense.
I suggest that we no longer be quiet or polite with Rat friends..tell them what we are thinking. “you supported and voted for a crimnal enterprise”.
You are guessing that will run in 2012. She might just wait until 2012 to get better prepared. To call the author an idiot, just because you don’t agree with him is outragous. He is entitled to his opinion, as you are to yours and I am to mine
Close the primaries, along with paper ballots; ALL of which need to be tied to a living, eligible voter. ALL others disqualified.
“The democrat party is a criminal enterprise.”
We have a WINNER!
And the Republican party is currently the WIMP party, controlled by big government Republicans. While we worry about the gangsters from Obama and Polosi on down, we had better fix our own lost mess. FAST!
Quit dreaming, people. Sarah quit on us. Look for your counter-messiah elsewhere.
She isn’t blind-siding Rush, nor Levin, nor Coulter.
“While the money may come from the coast elitists, the votes come from the people”
I’d like to refer you to exhibit A: John McCain.
I bet 80% of the GOP was opposed to his getting the nomination....but he did.
Palin may have a presidential future...but she is going to have to spend some time building relationships with fundraisers. I don’t think she wants to waste all of her fuel on a 2012 run, without alot of preparation. Remember, even Hillary ran out of money in the primaries, and it hurt her.
The real reason the Messiah beat out Mac...he decided not to use public financing, and outspent McCain.
Sadly, alot of this is about money. The ‘moderates’ out there are swayed by tv ads and robocalls.
Palin is going to need a big warchest, just to outspend Romney.
She doesn't need the RINO cash. In fact, she doesn't need much cash at all to run, because the media will give her LOTS of coverage. Granted, the MSM will attempt to skew coverage, but Palin's got a Reaganlike ability to speak over their heads, directly to the American people and to CONNECT. Though she won't need much cash, she'll get plenty because lots of conservatives will send something, including many who've never donated to a candidate before.
Presently, I have no idea who the GOP might field against the Messiah....but I don’t think it will be Palin.
You're speaking as though the GOP establishment makes the decision. Often they do, but not always. Reagan would never have won the party's nomination if it were up to the GOP establishment. Voters picked Reagan and voters will pick Palin if she decides to run.
Here's the big concern... Palin strikes me as a rather normal person. What normal person would seek the white house? Almost by default, anyone willing to seek the office is unfit to serve.
She's gotta know what's coming if she runs. For her to go through that, she needs to feel a sense of mission and national need that's so great she'll endure the liberal and establishment Republican hate machines.
I think she'll keep her head down through the end of the year, and then start traveling, speaking, and helping conservative candidates for 2010. Based on the response she receives and her effectiveness, she'll make the call with her family about whether to seek the white house in 2012.
Of course, what do I know?
Bristol didn’t have a “failed marriage”...
Willow isn’t Sarah’s “youngest daughter”...
Ummmm....no. The scum are still afraid to take nasty shots at Piper, Sarah's youngest daughter...
Your facts are in error. Hillary continued as Senator while running for president, after dropping out, after endorsing Obama, and after he was elected. She didn't resign from the senate until late January 2009.
“So Sarah Palin has left the stage, for perfectly justifiable reasons, and taken her family with her. “
Right. And those of you who expected her to affect some kind of magical influence over McCain would now expected the same thing of her, due to the circumstances listed, if she were, at this moment, his Vice President?
I remember Rush reading that letter on his show.
Let me clarify.
I’m harkening back to when she promised the people of NY that being their Senator was the be-all and-end-all of her life. There is no way she devoted herself to that job when at the same time she ran for President.
No, there’s not an exact comparison in terms of official acts of quitting but the results are my point.
Ask the upstaters about all those jobs she brought them that she promised. Snort. She then did quit the Senate for SecofState for the man she said couldn’t properly answer the 3 am phone call as President, where she has been buried.
They hurriedly named her replacement - that so-called Blue Dog Dem Congresswoman who was barely a House Member - now she’s Senator and turned into a Lib.
Repeat: compared to Hillary, Sarah is a rock of consistency.
To hold up Hillary as a shining example of a female Dem pol who isn’t a quitter as opposed to Sarah as a female Repub pol who is a quitter - as Gretchen did on F&F is silly.
Hillary doesn’t quit on her ambition, but she changes plans and methods constantly.
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