Posted on 08/02/2009 3:32:50 AM PDT by Scanian
Lost mostly amid Sarah Palin's resignation hoopla was a declaration she made. The now ex-governor made the not newsworthy announcement that she'd campaign for likeminded Republicans and independents. But then she added something very telling. She'd stump for Democrats who "share her values on limited government, strong defense and ‘energy independence.'" At least in states or districts where Republicans aren't competitive.
The governor, one fully suspects, is playing for higher stakes than many may suppose. The presidency -- if she ever seeks it and wins it -- will simply be the capstone of a three and a half year effort to change the nation's political landscape.
That's heady stuff. But Palin already has a blueprint and track record to prove her bona fides, compliments of her stint as Alaska's Chief Executive.
Lest anyone forget, Palin challenged the GOP's old bulls to win the party's gubernatorial nomination. And, as warranted, she battled them as governor. She also wasn't shy about crossing party lines to push her agenda. Hers is a decidedly practical conservatism, based on principle, not profile.
Palin's new freelancing is sending a chill up the collective spine of the left. That same chill is making its way up the pliable spines of establishment Republicans and in-name-only conservatives. How do we know? By the vitriol they continue to spew at her, via the main stream media and their allies in the blogosphere. (Peggy Noonan, David Brooks and Kathleen Parker, raise your hands.)
After the hosing Palin has taken over many months from media elites, it's no surprise her approval ratings have sagged. But Palin unleashed now has the chance to go eyeball-to-eyeball with voters across the Republic. Americans will make up their own minds.
Palin has what one would say about nature: an elemental force.
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Sarah should make a fact finding trip to Honduras (as a private citizen or as a church mission trip).
This would bring the situation there back into the news cycle and, perhaps, Obama’s disgraceful position could be more widely exposed. And she gets coverage on the international stage.
props to FReeper heiss who advanced this idea first.
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great piece.
too risky security wise
This says it all:
“Palin has what one would say about nature: an elemental force.”
There is something about Sarah that endears people to her, to her vision.
Could it be that she focus’s on all the good that America WAS, IS and WILL BE If Americans just pull together and work together for the common good of all, country and God.
To Sarah the cup is always half full and feeling, while the dems is always half empty and leaking.
Go Sarah!!!!!! We need you and many more like you
IF that’s true, then meet at a safe site - Costa Rica? I still think it’s a good move to make if it is made soon.
Unfortunately true. There are several socialist leaders in this hemisphere who would like to see her disappear, and it wouldn't surprise me if obama, Chavez, or Castro made their wishes come true given such an easy opportunity.
Who is this John Galt?
Palin’s new freelancing is sending a chill up the collective spine of the left.American’s are with her.
The OP lost its Conservative soul long ago. Palin can only advance Conservative causes by leaving the OP wing of the Republicrat party.
Liberal, country club, internationalist Republicans are more wont to de-train the rails.. Nelson Rockefeller according to Stuart Spencer (Rockefeller's public relations head) said, "We had to destroy Barry Goldwater as a member of the human race."
.. and number two, Goldwater appealed to a lot of blue collar guys.
Palin Gold.
See how they attack Gov. Palin and imagine that there was no modern talk radio and no Internet. That's what was the time of the silenced majority.
Sure Goldwater was defeated soundly. I am not trying to draw that comparison to Gov. Palin. Lots of the usual leftist shenanigans worked to defeat Senator Goldwater that cannot succeed today against Gov. Palin.
Actually she should make a fact finding trip to California.
She should go to people who have IOUs, and uncover all the shortfalls of the nanny state.
She could them cite statistics about unemployment and other deficiencies in the state budget and relate them to high taxes. She could then visit Massachusetts and investigate its failing health care system run by the state govt.
From the book Atals Shrugged: the man who convinced the brains of America to go on strike and to no longer support the looters (bureaucrats)and the academic/intellectual proponents of a socialist Utopia.
"It is a form of comfortable surrender. For Palin, a big tent means fundamentally making conservatism sensible and inviting to a majority of voters. It is premised on a true grasp of the American nature. Therein lays the irreconcilable difference."
"There is where the real battle for the soul of the Republican Party will be fought. "
Let them follow the TEA party! We can no longer follow them!
The GOP has no soul, it was sold many years ago to special interests.
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