If she smells blood she will go for it in 2012.
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.
Palin was tethered to Alaska and was getting bombarded with expensive, frivolous “ethics” complaints by ruthless DemocRATs, but now she is FREE to raise a gazillion dollars from mainland coast to mainland coast.
By resigning now, the new guy (reportedly a conservative Republican) will get a tremendous leg up (as the incumbent) on getting elected to a full term in the next gubernatorial election.
But my favorite part is the handwringing tizzy the scumbags are in thanks to her announcement:
“Oh my! What did Sarah do? Where will Sarah go? What will Sarah do next? Oh my!”
What bothers me is most of her critics on the right have lots of money like Ingraham, and do not understand what a burden the Palins are under. Or O’reilly who promised to give her money if she starts a fund He lied. So what are they to do to pay off bills.
If she smells blood she will go for it in 2012.
I listened to Karl Rove on O’Reilly tonight as I was painting. Rove opens by saying one of the main reasons Palin shouldn’t have resigned is that now she won’t be able to decline invitations to events by saying she is busy with her executive duties. IOW’s if she remains an executive she has carte blanche to lie at will. I almost puked up my hot dog and beans. DC is disease laden, right, left and armadillo on the center line of life alike.
When yu KEEP winnijng on a tightrope, you will eventually lose.
There was no REASON for Bush II to have such close margins, if he had only had a CONSERVATIVE, PATRIOTIC advisor instead of this Friend of Mexico.
One other to consider is the PAC set up by Jim DeMint SenateConservatives.com. None of the money goes to the GOP. It goes directly to conservatives.
I think when the money dries up at the GOP the rinos will lose their grip. The key is to make sure conservatives know that we won't tolerate anymore "DC swamp fever" where they begin thinking it's more important for them to be there than to do what we sent them to do.
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