The RINOS control the RNC. Sarah will need all the support we can muster. I have contributed $$$ to the RNC in the past. But all....and I mean all my monry is going to Sarah this time around.
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.
As I see it, the establishment - on BOTH sides of the aisle - are out to destroy her because if she gets into real power she will destroy their comfy situations. The rats and the GOP tolerate each other’s shifty deals, I believe a lot of the complaints are for show. But look how they keep their mouths shut about their own pay raises, their enormous perks, their side deals where they all get rich while pretending to be our “public servants”.
Sarah has shown she won’t tolerate this from ANYONE and that is why I believe they’re against her and why so many of us see her as our champion - someone who will seriously pursue honest government, by the people, for the people, of the people.
I support whatever she does....and if it’s to protect her family and live a normal quiet life then I support that also.
Awesome post!
Sarah’s not quitting. She’s just reorganizing her forces for the bigger battle ahead.
I’ve sent back 4 or 5 RNC fundraising letters with the statement “All my donations are going to SarahPAC. Amount donated so far XXXXXX”
Sorry, I just can’t get into your “roll over and die” approach to this thing. Sit and wait thru 8 years of Obama without doing everything we can to get him out of office as quickly as possible? Sorry. Right now, our best shot at getting Obama out in four years is Sarah Palin. We need to get behind her now, and get behind her hard.
Agreed, and I would join with them in a new conservative party to take this country back.
Expalin to everybody, only the way you can, Gov. Palin has done this before but this time it is on a bigger stage. Think Gas Commissioner to Governorship as a outsider. The same strategy applies. (CodaCuda)
BUMP
Sarah Palin does not seem to be the type of person who'd wait until 2016 to run for President just because America will be in worse shape then than in 2012.
I’m not rolling over to die, that’s just how I think it will unfold if she wants the Whitehouse.
Reagan won two landslide elections with populist support.
Sarah Palin does not seem to be the type of person who'd wait until 2016 to run for President just because America will be in worse shape then than in 2012.
I believe Sarah Palin cares too much about this country to wait that long to let things deteriorate to that point.
A win is a win.
I doubt that Obama will be able to be re elected as our economy continues going south. By 2012 we will know just how bad his decisions were and maybe, his birth certificate will suddenly show up that he is not a citizen after all.
Democrats will be hoard put to get someone else after blindly voting for all obama’s agenda.
I just hope we can correct the mess before it is too late.
The RINOS control the RNC. Sarah will need all the support we can muster. I have contributed $$$ to the RNC in the past. But all....and I mean all my monry is going to Sarah this time around.
Wow! Somebody gets it! Excellent.
I think this is a more important piece than appears at first blush.
I went to high school with O'Conner's brothers. She is a liberal to the core. So for her to say this probably means there are more liberals out there who also get it. But none of them are saying it out loud. I think the vicious attacks on Palin are a manifestation of "they're getting it".
"Impending tidal wave" ... Surf's up!
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