Posted on 07/06/2009 9:27:04 AM PDT by AJKauf
Once again Sarah Palin has confounded the “progressive” commmentariat. What does her announcement portend? I know as much about her plans and strategy as they do — i.e., absolutely nothing. But I have to say all the knowing commentary — all the speculation about how stupid, or brilliant, or just plain inexplicable her behavior is — seems to me to ignore a crucial possibility: that with Sarah Palin, what you see is what you get. Could it, just possibly, be that she meant what she said and that she believes she can pursue her ambitions more effectively outside government? “Outside government” — the mind boggles. Is there life “outside government”? Is it possible that anyone in his right mind who had the chance of being a Governor/Congressman/Senator/President of the United States would choose not to be?
That’s precisely the possibility that punditocracy and all those strategists, GOP and otherwise, just cannot wrap their minds around. Maybe they’ve heard of Cincinnatus. Deep down, though, they do not see how anyone could willingly relinquish political power. Sarah Palin must secretly be running for the presidency in 2012 or else, despite her tough talk, she is really a wimp who can’t stand the heat (i.e., the incontinent and disgusting attacks on her family).
Again, I have no idea what Governor Palin’s plans are. ..
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
I thought she was quite clear and straight as well:
* She said given all the politically motivated ethics filings against her and that she’ll be a lame duck, Alaskans will be better off with their able and philosophically compatible LG stepping in—both for immediate governance and for the leg up in the next election.
* She said there are national political issues of immediacy that are fundamental to Alaskans as to all Americans, and that she can better contribute to addressing them outside of the governorship at this point.
* She didn’t say whether or not she’d run for some other office—which would have been the real shocker if she had—but she said her family is fully behind her contributing to and supporting small-government political leadership on the national level, and that’s what she intends next to do.
All this gnashing of pundit teeth about her being confused and confusing is disingenuous at best.
And I thought I was the only one.
Yeah, but Cinncinnatus defeated the Aequians during his term of office, and Palin hasn’t done that.
The pundits and talking heads and know-it-alls in DC and on up to NYC are just pissed because she by passed them with a message that average Americans liked and understood very well.
Her statement wasn't too hard to decipher. She's not doing politics as usual and still wants to serve her state and the country.
America was founded by persons thinking outside of the political norms.
I have more in common with her than any of my elected representatives at this point in time.
If I read her correctly, she's going to be a Conservative Community Organizer. Only her community is the United States of America.
Conventional thinkers don’t understand her because they can’t fathom someone with integrity. Many (most?) politicians will sell their souls for power and can’t comprehend giving up a position of power. Palin is working in the political arena, but she’s a transformational leader, not a deal-making politician. Big difference. I’m looking forward to seeing her take action.
And, keep in mind that the only way for here to eliminate her detractors while in elected office was through those "politics as usual".
I'm sure she'd be happy to agree with you...once you explained who Cincinnatus was.
Yep! Not hard to decipher at all! The silly people on TV are just too “full of themselves”.
All that about her family may be true, but she told us that her family unanimously supported her resigning to step out on the national stage. Good for her, good for them—and she didn’t use family as an excuse for her resignation.
Great post!
I’m guessing that she will be going around the lower 48 stumping like mad for Republican Congressional/Senate candidates for 2010.
I think this is what the punditocracy fears most: an extraordinarily charismatic figure on the other side in a mid-term election. (Can you imagine? Sarah with coattails and she’s not even a candidate?!) With that in mind, one can only expect their vitriol and abuse to continue - or get worse.
If the candidates for whom she stumps do well in 2010, then the MSM will make the voters co-equal recipients of their scorn and abuse. (Sarah is bad; ergo, those who vote for the candidates she supports are stupid or “acting out,” etc.).
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I'm sure she'd be happy to agree with you...once you explained who Cincinnatus was.Sarah Palin, a modern Cincinnatus?
What this country needs is more people who are willing and able to be a Cincinnatus - and fewer people who assume they are better than them.
If memory serves me right, it was said by Jackie Kennedy Onassis to Hillary Clinton.
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