Posted on 07/06/2009 11:01:20 AM PDT by DB9
There is a point in tournament poker where one player doesn't have the chips to play out the next raise, but they have great cards, so they call "all in." At that point, nobody can raise them and the hand gets played out -- either to a game changing win or a total loss for the person who made the call.
It appears Sarah Palin decided she and her family could no longer deal with the thousand cuts, so she is "all in."
Palin may well decide to stay home and make macaroni and cheese for the kids, but history may not let her. She has already established herself as a major player -- candidate or not. More importantly, the wildly critical left has put her in a financial position where she has no choice but to speak out, perhaps do a book, and make the money she needs to pay legal bills for 15 unwarranted "ethics" investigations, all of which she handily won. The legal bills remain.
One doubts that when she speaks out, it will be about how to field dress a moose. Rather, she will take positions in speaking and writing about her core beliefs. That is a problem for the radical left of their own creation.
Palin enters the arena where the fight is not between liberal and conservative; nor is it between Republican and Democrat. The fight is between elite and the common person who works every day and continually asks how Washington D.C., under both parties, is so out of control.
Elitism has never been popular in America. Major American critics from H.L Menken to Rush Limbaugh made careers poking fun at elites.
Elitism is on display today as never before. Senate and Congressional seats are passed down in the family. Just look at the family members lining up for Ted Kennedy's seat or Caroline's assumption that she deserved the New York Senate seat. Vice President Biden's Senate seat is being kept warm for his son, now serving in the Middle East. Lots of talk that Michelle Obama may be the next Illinois senator.
Hereditary government on display. How much more elitist can a nation become?
The fight is between an out of control government led by media and government elites and common sense Americans, of both parties, who have had enough. Sarah Palin is in the enviable, although personally painful position, of being the "anti elite" voice of common sense and shared American values.
The vicious left put her there and now they may live to regret it.
When informed of the invention of "poison gas" by Admiral Cochrane, the Duke of Wellington cautioned that "that is a game two can play." He wisely chose not to go there because it would certainly be used by both sides.
The parallel exists with Saul Alinsky, the progenitor of much radical leftist smear techniques. His key dictum was that ridicule had no antidote. Sarah Palin was wildly successful heaping ridicule on Obama during the campaign, when he was at his best.
Nothing is more easily and cogently ridiculed than elitism.
Obama even appointed an elite college professor who posits that animals should have legal rights to sue their owners. Can one imagine Sarah Palin foisting this foolish, elitist intellectual on the question: "well, then professor, shouldn't a 6 month, developed fetus have the same legal rights as a chicken?" Make Obama defend that position.
Now Obama is finding the treading a bit harder. Rasmussen polls show a weakening of his approval numbers and all polls agree that most Americans do not support cap and tax, do not want illegals to get health care funded by taxpayers and now are becoming pro life. Wide swaths of informed citizens are coming to understand man made global warming is a hoax used to heap new energy taxes on them. Only elites, from both parties, can propose such nonsense.
Even Colin Powell, the truest weathervane of elitist thinking, is openly questioning Obama's spending. Certainly he did not get these doubts from listening to Rush Limbaugh. Perhaps, Colin Powell senses where this is going, and it is not going his way.
Sara Palin takes on the "fancy people" from a position, eagerly given to her by her enemies, of being a "common" person who went to an ordinary college, has typical family problems, is married to a guy who works in an oil field, buys her kid's diapers at WalMart. If the fight is with the elites, what better background could one have?
Ayn Rand said that there is right and there is wrong, and everything in the middle is evil. Sarah Palin is not a person from the middle. She has her beliefs and lives them in her daily life. Her children are her life's work, they are not accessories.
Nobody is better positioned, as a candidate or commentator, to take on the elites and the nonsense they put forward.
What an irony if the only American President who can make a 3 point shot were taken out by a point guard who came up to his shoulder. And if the guard was a chick -- who went to a no name school?
How about this one:
You Know Of A Higher Office? Cause I Don’t.
Exactly!
Let us not forget what happened with former Senator Ted Stevens, of Alaska.
They came up with bogus charges, just before the election, and picked him off!
Sarah saw that, and decided she would not give the libs a chance to do that, to her.
Yep.
Amazing how one only has to read what she said, to see what she meant.
Meanwhile, pundits and, yes, elitists, of both parties are going bonkers because it ISN’T POSSIBLE that a politician would jeopardize their own career for the good of their state. THAT kind of thinking is just… wrong.
Isn’t it?
I love your post, Kansas!
So if you found yourself saddled with a $500K bill...AND growing... with no way around it, you yourself would continue down that path? I don’t THINK so. Or...maybe you would.
The difference is obvious:
She didn’t quit the right way. You’re supposed to work on getting the new job while you draw unearned pay for the old job that you apparently no longer want. Witness B. Obama (has he not been campaigning since leaving the glorious world of community organizing?), and for that matter most other politicians of both political stripes (the only exception I can think of is Phil Gramm, who resigned as a Democrat to run the next year as a Republican; he won, as I recall).
So you see, it’s not quitting if you’re allowing your old job to pay for your attempt to get the new one. It’s all right there in the manual.
She's not “saddled” with that $500K bill so long as she's capable of raising money to cover it. Which, presumably, she's in a better position to do as a sitting governor.
Why does it pain you? I don’t know if a lawsuit is the right method... maybe a duel would be better. Maybe if Todd walked up to one of these effete snobs and started smacking them around with a glove it would be better. Maybe going in front of reporters and naming names would be better. It’s not just Sarah, the whole pub party is acting like beaten, whipped curs. Somebody has got to turn around and start snarling at the hyenas or they are going to run us into the ground.
jackals, I believe, is more apropos...
She doesn’t strike me as the type to feel comfortable with throwing other peoples’ good money into a growing black hole.
The Lord told me He could get her out of this mess........but the rest of ya are pretty well fooked!!!
She has a curious way of showing her discomfort.
http://www.thealaskafundtrust.com/
http://www.thehotjoints.com/2009/06/22/donate-to-sarah-palins-legal-defense-fund/
http://www.adn.com/palin/story/848230.html
Gov. of AK: $125K a year + Legal Defense Fund (LDF) money and keep your mouth shut or else you'll get more lawsuits and gag orders.
Celebrity : $1M to skies the limit + LDF money and you get to defend yourself and attack.
Which is a better position?
No disrespect to you for your post but I think Sarah doesn’t give a SPIT what the manual says.
WIN or lose she will do what her head and heart tell her.
A lot like bearing a beautiful boy when some were telling her to abort.
I will always stand up for/with this woman with a backbone before I ever bow to the smuck in our Whitehouse.
The American Shallow Thinker.
Depends. What are you planning to do in the future? Go the Hollywood route? Or run for President? If the latter, the better position is to demonstrate your ability to govern through thick and thin. But that's just my opinion. As a voter.
Our TEA PARTY’S need a leader and I suggest drafting Sarah. She could start a “NEW” party and take off where that little ferret faced coward, Perot, left us. She will have no problem getting a large amount of people to follow her, including ME!!! Go Sarah, we’ve got your back this time.
I'm skeptical this was a good move on her part, assuming she wants a career in national politics, but I agree that she is "all in," and no one, certainly not the pundits, knows what the future holds.
It may be an odd comparison, but when I heard the news, I immediately thought of the October, 1989, trade of Herschel Walker, from the Dallas Cowboys to the Minnesota Vikings, for half dozen players, and several draft picks. In retrospect, it was the deal that made the Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl teams of the 1990s, and ESPN calls it one of the 10 most lopsided trades in sports history.
But at the time, when the winless Cowboys traded their best player, their only great player (others on the roster became great players), for players the Viking could do without, and draft picks, Cowboy fans were shocked, and concerned.
Draft picks? The new regime of Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson Jones had just spent two First Round draft picks, on two rookie quarter backs (Troy Aikman and Steve Walsh), in the same year. What were they going to do with draft picks?
Herschel Walker was all that was keeping the losing Cowboys competitive, and Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson traded him.
When the next game rolled around, the trade came up on the Cowboys radio show, and Brad Sham, their play-by-play guy, was asked about it. What on earth were the new owner and new coach thinking when they traded one their only outstanding player? His reply was basically this:
These guys (Jones and Johnson) are deadly serious about winning. Not winning today. Not getting back to .500. Not getting to the playoffs, but winning the Super Bowl. They think this trade, however much it hurts right now, gives them the best chance to do that, and they are willing to pay the short term price for the long term potential gain.
Jones and Johnson were "all in" when they traded Herschel Walker. They had to win the Super Bowl, or the naysayers would drone on forever about what might have been, if only they hadn't traded the NFL's leading back.
The gamble paid off for Jones and Johnson. It will be years before we know if it pays off for Sarah, and I'm skeptical, but I respect the fact that she is deadly serious about what she is doing, and that she had the stones to try this.
The smart move is to do the what you call the "Hollywood" route (Lord knows we need more Conservatives in there). In 2012, or even 2016, why not run for President? By that time, if the momentum is there and the "old news" is reduced to being perceived as nitpicking, she could be the top runner as long as she keeps on espousing the right way.
Has Sarah Palin "Crossed the Yu(du)kon"?
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