[Congressman Billybob]

Let me know what you think. I am sharing this particular piece only with my colleagues at FreeRepublic, wather than sending it out thither and yon.

John / Billybob

[bpjam]

If only we could collect a tax on pundit opinions which turn out to be entirely wrong, we pay for at least one of the ‘stimulus’ bills that the Socialist Majority has passed this year.

Of course, if we could pass a law that you had to actually KNOW something before you SAID something as a requirement to be considered protected under the First Amendment Clause protecting ‘freedom of the press’, that would be even better. It would cause NYC to sounds like a ghost town because there would be no more speculation spouting from the mouths of idiots who have absolutely no facts to report even while they recite the grave consequences of the outcome of their predictions (which, again, they have no facts to support).

How is it that Palin already has deals in the works with 1. NBC (or MSNBC) 2. ABC 3. Fox??? Wouldn’t one of those three networks at least be able to confirm a story coming out of their own executive offices? NOPE? Well, then we can just chalk it up to ‘this is being widely mentioned’ and call that reporting. Or how about her 8 figure speaking tour? Any evidence there? NOPE? We can just assume that is what she would do because that is what any reporter would do if they had the popularity and public demand that Palin has (or the looks).

And before anybody else mentions the words ‘Palin’ and ‘2012’ in the same sentence, please just shut up. You might want to actually ASK Palin if she wanted to run for the WH before assuming that she would just because ‘that is what a typical politician would do’. Palin isn’t a politician - she is a person who happened to work in politics for a short period of her life. She may work in politics again. But she will be letting others know when and if that happens.

[VideoDoctor]

I think you got it right.

It's a cinch she ain't gonna stay at home and knit.

[21twelve]

“Bottom line: I think Sarah Palin is planning a similar, grassroots effort to those of Nixon...”

Nixon left shop in California after losing the Governor’s race to work for a law firm in NYC so as to be closer to the action as well.

[texas booster]

It is obvious that Axelrod and the axis of evil controlling Obam are attacking Republicans by attacking their base.

Small town business (auto dealerships, small businesses) are being forced into bankruptcy for no good business reason.

Banks are being threatened unless they toe the company line (politically, not business).

Green (the new Red) is attacking capitalism and wealth creation across the country, it seems, in order to defang the Right in the next political battle in 2010 and 2012.

Fraud and graft are only investigated on the Right.

So now that the Chicago mob is effectively ruling the country, how do we legally fight these moves? With Palin as the Outsider (Mrs. Smith Comes to Washington), maybe we can.

From a PR side, who other than Palin can be the Outsider looking to clean up the one horse town called DC?

[4everontheRight]

I have been to Alaska twice on vacation within the last few years. It is a long airplane trip and a car ride....I can not even imagine! My in laws drove it and it was hard and rough on two old people! But flying that route over and over and over would waste more time then I can imagine. To come back home the flight was always an overnight flight and I can't sleep on an airplane. I was wired for days!!!

Having said all that, we have been to AK prior to Palin being elected and after she appeared on the Alaska magazine cover the first time after being elected. Everyone we spoke to just loved her. They loved her gustiness and frankness and cut-to-the-chase kind of attitude. She was what Alaska had needed for a long time being the oil rich state they are. Someone needed to get in there and allow the people to benefit from what the politicians had been benefiting from for years! I still say the more the media tries to throw her over the better I like her because that means they are afraid of her and if they are afraid of her she is ok in my book! I have yet to see the MSM be afraid of any wacko dictator that could toss a nuke our way at any minute. They only dislike true pro-life individuals and she is that!

[grey_whiskers]

DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING!

The article itself, rather than any responses, is a WINNER!

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

Here's my piece, a pale shadow of yours.

(Vanity) Palin and Sotomayor, with a side of Reagan

Cheers!

[MSF BU]

Good rundown. I am sure she could make a good living (and help pay down those legal costs) simply by mixing fundraising for GOP/Conservative groups with personal speaking trips. Reagan did this successfully for six years after he was governor.

[yoe]

We lived in Alaska for three years "protecting the Air Force", loved it and we love Sarah Palin, a real woman, wife, mother, patriot and American. Alaska could become the new capitol of the US....if we drain the existing D.C. swamp cum cess-pool that squanders our $$, our freedoms and even our laws and justice with appointees like Sotomayor, an activist hack so like many of the Obama administration's tax cheats, just people way below the salt when it come to integrity, some we can't even know about because they are the Czars.

Sarah is energizing the conservatives, those who respect the Republic for which it stands regardless of party. So speak out loudly and often for Sarah who knows the goodness that was America and wants to restore what she can of it....I am here to help her.

[PA Engineer]

Missed your post previously. You are spot on.

I did some of the original visits to Aleyska and can attest to how fatiguing (before hub airport system) this is. I was young (24) at the time. She cannot be effective in the lower 48 from Alaska as governor.

This was a very pragmatic decision on her part and struck me as downright rational. She cannot call on her base to counter the insidious behavior of both media and the left while governor, yet she cannot function as governor because of the straw man attacks on her. What is a person to do?

Continue to take the abuse, consuming your time and state resources or free yourself of those constraints and fulfill your destiny. Hmmmm. Tough decision.

The media and left overplayed their hands. Had they left her alone she would have become more obscure and less effective as a spokeswomen for the conservative base. Now she is free to address both the political conservative movement and the American (sans the two party system) people.

I do not know what she is going to do beyond her statements, however everyone can agree freedom is a far better choice then the chains of her current position as governor as well as the relentless attacks of the occupation.

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