Posted on 07/13/2009 11:15:49 AM PDT by OneVike
By OneVike
“The pundits are wrong. Conventional wisdom is wrong. Sarah Palin's decision to step down as Alaska governor was a brilliant move................. The pundits call her a quitter, but let's be honest - the pundits never liked her to begin with. Better to take one hit for stepping down and move on than to stay in Alaska and die a death by a thousand cuts. Willie's World-Willie Brown”
Those are the words of one of the most savy politicians in California's history, Willie Brown. Many pundits and politicians have taken Sarah Palon to task for resigning her post as Governor of Alaska. This critisism is not exclusive to the left, she has her share of detracters on the right. It is amasing how none of these individuals who are attacking her, can stop her. She is quite unique in todays political world. It's even being reported now that she plans to eagerly campaign for Republicans, Independents and even Democrats who share her values on limited government, strong defense and energy independence.
All these attacks upon Sarah, from both sides of the isle will only ensure one thing, and that is the inevitable end of the two party system. It is my opinion that while Sarah will remain a Republican for now, she has within her power to mobilize independents, and conservative Democrats behind her. Not since the Gipper has a politician been able to tap that veign of American pride and anger. Like Reagan, she has the potential to effectively neutralize both the Republican and Democrat establishments. This ability could enable her to build up a bi-partisan team of congressmen that could very well usher in a new age in politics.
Largely due to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the country was ripe for a change. That change eventually came in the creation of a new party, the Republican party. While the reasons may differ today then back then, there is again a clamor from the people to change the way politicians get things done. That demand for change is what put the most liberal politician since Henry A Wallace into the White House. Along with a congress that agrees with Obama, America changed into a Socialist nation. However, now the people are beginning to realize what kind of change they got and they don't much like it. Look around you, people are again talking of change, but this time the talk is about real change. A change that could usher in the dawn of a new age and the creation of a new party. Could Sarah Palin play the role of Lincoln as the first President of America's newest Party of power?
let’s roll...
How can people claim to be common sense conservatives, then turn right around and perform unbelievable acts of mental gymnastics in order to justify her walking out of office?
COUNT ME IN, I don’t want to be a party of any party that has Lindsey Graham as a member. Just look at him today slobbering over Sotomayor.
The threat is there, why do you think Steele at the DNC is groveling now?
I am not sure that is the best approach, it would be easier to do it within the party. That said there are still many southerners who will “never” vote Republican. I know some, sad but they would knowingly vote for Satan himself first. (sign of ignorance)
So the real question is what is left of the Republican Party if the Conservatives bolt, and how much of the Dems realize that they have been taken for a ride by the Commies. (or care)
Next 6 months will be interesting. Dems imploding by failures in the “economy” and the public in open rebellion against their policies. And at the same time the Conservatives in a full frontal assault on the Left. It can happen.
I’m in!
I don’t have to do any mental gymnastics. It is my opinion that she pulled off one of the most brilliant political moves in modern political history.
Count me in. Tired of sissies and crooks.
ditto - the article nails it - she could sit and get hammered and not do her job as Gov or quit and start hammering back from a free position. It was really the only good move available to her.
It’s time to work outside the parties. Money and dollars can be targeted to support conservative candidates and challengers. The war between the R’s and D’ are a distraction to gin up campaign dollars, when they have the same goal and are arguing about how fast to drive to get there.
Brace for your inevitable disappointment.
I think it should be a prty within a party with its own funding and its own primary candidates and its own rallies.
Is it time to form our new party?
No, it’s time to form a shadow party. I can see Palin taking the first steps.
They’re the same people who made excuses for Pat Buchanan when he put a Black Power, lesbian Marxist in charge of his campaign.
She’s not looking to start a new political party or run for office.
http://www.sarahpac.com/faq/
I’ve never been a big fan of the third-party idea (after experiencing Ross Perot and a Canadian party that called itself C-CRAP). However, the two parties that we have at present are both looking increasingly hopeless.
Yeah, there won’t be any “sissies and crooks” in the new party. Everyone will be of one mind and there will be no disagreements or varying degrees of conservatism. Just like the Reform party. Whatever happened to the Reform party?
The Tea Party?
The fundamental problem is that on the central moral issue of our day, she is like Stephen A. Douglas, not Lincoln. She takes Gerald R. Ford's position, not Ronald Reagan's.
This thread is a case study in this problem.
However, since the Republican Party has quite obviously Whigged out, I agree that a new party is needed if we are to save the country.
That's why we founded America's Independent Party last year. If you click on my screen name, EternalVigilance, you can learn more about it.
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