I've already named it!
The Moose Party.
Posted on 07/06/2009 11:30:12 AM PDT by lewisglad
Sarah Palin’s decision to resign as governor of Alaska so that she could, “advance in another direction,” was a brilliant political move.
She senses, or sees, or grasps what few in politics understand today. Americans are tired of the same old, same old — be it Republican, Democratic, or even Green Party (See California’s recent special election results).
The sound of thundering hoofs coming over the hill is apparent to any real student of political history. However, it seems that only an unlikely moose hunter like Palin has put her ear to the ground to listen.
The rumblings are not just from the conservative Republicans who feel marginalized and trivialized, or the Independent voters who are whip-lashed from promises broken by all politicians, but even from liberal Democrats who are frustrated by the appearance of change and the dimming of hope.
The economy is crushing too many people too fast for the current establishment to fix it. Wall Street has been saved, while Main Street is awash in a nightmarish replay of Hurricane Katrina.
Add to this the perfect set up for a woman who is charismatic and really connects with people, instead of a teleprompter, a fawning overpaid staff, or a purchased press, and you see where Palin is headed.
She intends to forge a coalition of those increasingly large numbers of Americans “with noses pressed to the window” looking in at the “swells” in the fancy ball gowns and tuxedos who are dancing the night away. Those Americans without gold plated health insurance, without jobs, without cash, cards, or even cars to call their own, are her natural constituency and she knows it.
Palin intends to start another Populist movement — without the help of the “usual suspects” — professional image consultants, handlers, inside the Beltway know-it-alls, and especially the establishment press. She trusts her instincts and smells blood, and it isn’t her own.
She is setting up a perfect stage from which to launch a run for the Presidency.
The irony is that the more criticism and ridicule Palin receives from the chattering, clattering, clapping class that has forgotten regular Americans, the more raucous support she will receive. This is the revenge of the outsiders!
Listen to the snickering, snearing, and snobbish remarks among the political press in reaction to Palin’s announcement, and you can calculate the backlash building. Again, “the insiders” scoff at the needs, the hopes, and the increasing desperation of those struggling in America (See grown men cry during the Congressional hearings on the GM bankruptcy).
By design, Palin did not notify the national media of her intentions. She will not give them access. And she will not bother to apologize. She will, instead, use them as the whipping post, much as they used her. Turn about is fair play, and the press has a lot of turn about coming. [Palin is using Twitter for her revolution, too].
Palin’s McArthur like stand will marginalize the press, the pundits, the politicians, and the oh-so-self-important elites that have produced the current economic, military, political, social, and cultural quicksand. She senses the people’s smoldering outrage and mounting fears.
Many Americans want an un-conflicted leader. Someone who can throw a punch as well as take one. Someone who is fearless and compassionate. Someone who, like a Marine, will leave no American behind. And that is what lots of Americans are now experiencing — being left behind.
Whether or not Palin makes a Presidential run is immaterial. She has set the stage for whatever option she chooses. A run for the Senate in 2010. The Presidency in 2012. A stay at home mom. A rabble rousing speaking tour. An over the top fund raiser. And of course, the already inked book deal. She is a natural. And those thundering hoofs coming over the hill are getting louder.
What a great time to be a political junkie!
Colleen M. O’Connor is a former college history professor, the director of the “Faces of San Diego" family photographic history project and co-editor of Eleanor Roosevelt: An American Journey.
Ha! That would be great!
I've already named it!
The Moose Party.
Reagan refused to be Ford’s vice president. People said he was done. The nation thought otherwise, and the press didn’t tell us until the polls were closed back in 1980. They continued to invent lies until Carter conceded that night. Then they got mad at Carter and said he had taken down the Democrat ticket by not continuing to fight like Algore and Kerry would later.
I almost vomit seeing Freepers believe the media/establishment crap. We have a bunch of Rino infiltrators around here. Mitt Romney blows. That’s what they want to foist upon us.
This is the most succinct article I have seen. Profoundly nails it.
I am proud of her and support her. She is a great American.
The left, the MSM, and many RINOs hate her precisely because her very life and its achievements refute all of their entitlement and big government arguements...and let's not forget, many hate her as well because she and Todd chose life for their down's syndrome son, Trig. God bless them for that.
I think Sarah has just turned, like a fed-up mama Bear, on her detractors. She has put things in order, she has left them in the hands of capable people, and she has now turned to face her enemies directly.
...and I think they are going to be sorry. We have smelled the fear in them for a long time. Good on her!
Sarah will now get her book out, go on tour, give speeches and promote conservatie principles all over this country in the midst of the Obama administration disater and gain great political capital in the process. Then she will support conservative candidates in 2010 and help them win, amassing much more political capital. She will then take all of that and make an awesome, stunning run for the Presidency in 2012...and she has my full support.
GO SARAH GO!
Wow. Thanks for posting. Compliments to the author. She sees very clearly what is happening.
Finally, some in the media that gets it.
You can't be serious considering the way the republicans have treated her. Read the Vanity Fair hit piece on her, which wouldn't have had the impact it did without "loyal" McCain campaign staffers pouring gas on the fire as they've done ever since the election.
With friends like that...
By turning over the office to the Lt. Gov. who has been working with her on the good work she's been able to do so far, she knows that work will continue, but he won't be having to spend his time or his staff's time to fend off lawsuits, because they were aimed at HER personally, NOT as her work as Governor.
Well said. The first time I saw a post here about the number of complaints being filed and the time and money that it was costing, I knew that Sarah would have to do something about that situation. I think the incredibly crude attacks on her family, may well have figured into her decisions, but I am inclined to believe she sees this as a fulfillment of her promise to Alaska. I hope she will take it a step further and do something more on the political scene.
the populist part makes a little nervous too but this is not SP speaking
By her selfless act, she has also positioned the Lt. Governor to take over and then he'll be able to run as an incumbent when this term is over.
You know, when sneaking through the bush hunting a Grizzly there can come that moment when you realize the Bear is not where you thought. At that moment the hunter becomes the hunted. Hope zero is not stupid enough to celebrate yet.
General Washington retreated across the Delaware River.
The Brits retreated from Dunkirk.
The Red Army retreated to Stalingrad
Napoleon retreated to Egypt before defeating the Turks.
At Corunna, Spain, the British in heavy retreat turned on
the French army and routed them.
Even Attila the Hun had to retreat once.
And Ronald Reagan, God bless him, retreated
from Lebanon and regrouped.
I don’t know if Sarah Palin is exactly retreating, but she is certainly regrouping.
She is also about to become the face of the conservative base of the Republican Party. By resigning from her job in Alaska she has put the Messiah on notice that she is after hhis job in 2012.
Not ALL Republicans are like those in the McCain and Romney campaigns. In fact, she could help marginalize them when she gets out and starts raising money for Congressional candidates. Those candidates will see just who in the GOP is the one bringing in the funds AND voters, and it won’t be the RINOS.
I would be the first to admit that if Sarah Palin was not a political superstar like Reagan she would not be able to pull this off. Because she is I am convinced she will. If you don’t think Sarah can pull this off then you must not think Sarah is a superstar. If you feel that way, we will have to disagree to disagree.
Let me put it another way. Who else in golf but Tiger Woods could have made that 12 foot right to left putt over bumpy greens in last year’s US Open knowing that if he missed the putt he would lose the tournament, while physically, mentally and psychologically assuming the burden of immense pressure while over the putt.
Sarah Palin is the Tiger Woods of national politics.
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