Posted on 04/01/2010 6:08:06 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
Conservative or Liberal, Right or Left, or somewhere in the vast spectrum of gray between Red and Blue, how on Earth could anyone not like - either be inspired by, bemused by, awed by or appalled by - Sarah Palin?
Not only is she an arousing and invigorating political wonder with evangelistic zeal and the moxie and alluring looks of a 46-year-old youthful cheerleader smartly attired, but Sarah Palin is an entertaining and spirited revolutionary yelling for a return to constitutional government and, were it attainable, self-reliance.
That is an image of the spirited Sarah Palin.
Across the nation (and in Midland last week), Sarah Palin is delivering a hellfire message, laced with homey frills and cutesy phraseology, that evokes attention: "You Betcha!" and "How's that 'hopey-changey' thing working out for you?" and "Our government is supposed to be working for us."
Her tone is upbeat and optimistic, though she does lament the nation's woes.
"We've had enough (of big government and big-government spending), and we want to take our country back," she declares to her exuberant audience. Her political rainbow is a "government that allows us to live as we choose" and does "not tell us how to live."
Sarah Palin lights a fiery blaze and holds high the Conservative Torch even if the pathway "back to the Constitution" (and, incidentally, back to the Bible) may be fraught with perils and crossroads brimming with hope.
She doesn't exude the anger or rage of polarizing right-wing conservative commentators and opinion-makers, such as Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. But in a more light-hearted tone and in plain, coffee-shop language, she bespeaks the certainty of a strategically shrewd Karl Rove and the audacity of a mild-mannered (could it be?) Dick Chaney.
One day last week, Sarah Palin no doubt charmed and aroused a staunch and enthusiastic multitude of West Texans and, especially, diehard conservatives with or without party affiliations. Surely, most were Republicans and Tea Party loyalists and, to boot, a smattering of Independents and, perhaps, a few Democrats who fancy or decry her rhetoric and who critically mull over her preachments to set aright a nation gone astray.
By her rhetoric, upbringing and competitiveness, Sarah Palin is feisty. She is a smartly attired celebrity star often sporting a modified French-braid hairdo. She is emboldened by success, re-routed by failure and eager to "reload" and try again.
Midland's Clayton W. Williams Jr., West Texas rancher, oilman and adventurer who was the Republican Party's 1990 candidate for Texas governor, said Sarah Palin is "presidential material."
Williams, "very impressed" by the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate, said he "liked her wit. I liked her appearance, and I now think she's presidential material. I like her conservative stance. She's definitely got the intelligence and nearly two more years to continue to grow. She's already grown a lot since she was the VP candidate. Her bearing is such that I think she'd make a good president."
Her self-esteem seems intact and booming. As both the literate and unlearned populous surely knows, she is not by disposition a quitter, though she did bow out of the Alaska governorship (2006-2009) to pursue personal and political interests following her bold run for America's vice-presidency in 2008.
One of her favorite poets, Robert Service, the "Bard of the Yukon," penned in the poem "The Quitter":
"It's easy to cry that you're beaten - and die; It's easy to crawfish and crawl; But to fight and to fight when hope's out of sight - Why, that's the best game of them all!
Just have one more try - it's dead easy to die, It's the keeping-on-living that's hard."
Read more: http://www.mywesttexas.com/articles/2010/04/01/news/opinion/columns/ed_todd/ed.txt#ixzz0jtslwGvo
R, please keep posting that, forever, keeping the record straight.
*Bad shark*
I don't know, I don't make the rules, but I did see this post by Jim Robinson on another thread.
"To: Bob J
I love Palin’s conservatism and patriotism! She may very well support McCain out of loyalty and I have no problem with that. And I have no problem with whom she supports with her PAC. There is nothing written that says she has to do everything (or anything at all) according to JIM.
Sarah is unabashedly pro-God, pro-Life, pro-Liberty, pro-family, pro-America, pro-constitution, pro-gun, pro-limited government and so am I. And she’s wildly popular among the God-loving, Liberty-loving folks with whom I choose to associate. In short, she’s a refreshing breath of clean fresh air in an otherwise putrid failure of a RINO infested party.
She represents my interests better than any other viable wannabe at this point and if she decides to run, she will have my undivided support!!
Romney, the draft-dodging, Big Government, lying statist political whore can KMA!!
And your picture does say a 1,000 words, but Bob, unfortunately they’re all about YOU and political whores like you and the results and likely outcome of your slavish, cultish RINOism!!
So you can shove your picture and your RINOs where the sun don’t shine.
Sarah has more guts, talent, ability, patriotism, and sheer determination and love for America and our God-given Liberty than you and Romney and a thousand other RINOS will ever have!
It’s been more than obvious for several years that our pro-Life & Liberty Free Republic has become an embarrassment for you, so why the hell don’t you just take a fricken hike already!!
Shove it, pal.
GET THE HELL OFF FR if you don’t like it, but whatever you do quit your damn whining and pestering good conservative FReepers about your hatred for Sarah Palin!! It’s beyond sickening.
394 posted on Saturday, January 09, 2010 12:05:07 PM by Jim Robinson"
*Shrugs*
Actually, I got the name by reading an April fools joke in the paper about researchers apologizing to the population at large for losing a bunch of specially bred fresh water sharks in Lake Michigan.
Why thank you. Gotchya on the patience thing..generally I would have chosen the route you did but this was a great thread and then he surfaced over and over and over...and my patience came to an end.
*bad outlaw* hehe
Sharks in Lake Michigan????!!!!! Yikes!!
Whatever or maybe Jim was having a bad day - we all do I guess.
Hope this continues to be an open forum - this is the best one I know of.
It's why the NRA gives such good training courses.........I failed my tonight.......and I strangely feel good about it....
:-)
LOL. Lady Jag has done some good ones too.
At least you seem to have dropped the pretense that you aren’t trolling.
That explains allot. Savage was trashing her on the very day McCain picked her, and he has never let up. These chronic Palin bashers we see post here, have such a vapid dislike for her and it did not start with the McCain endorsement, nor will it end with her next great speech at a TEA Party or standing room only town hall.
They sit there at their keyboards waiting like vultures for another opportunity to cast stones at Palin. And everyone of them jump in on a Palin Ping with as much enthusiasm as a Kamikaze with a Flat-Top off the port wing. I stopped listening to Savage long ago, when he joined the Democrats calling for the impeachment of George W Bush. It is amazing he has a conservative audience at all.
Lets see.....Sarah is President
If she had campaigned for McCain and he won she has untold influence on him to tow the line for her Presidency... a Sarah win!
If she had campaigned for McCain, and and he lost to JD Hayworth she has a meeting of like minds with JD to support her Conservative agenda. She gains an ally in JD because he is also a Conservative.....a Sarah win!
She only loses in the minds of people pushing for another candidate and hoping for a wedge issue to divide Palin supporters..... sound familiar to ya Jim?
I’ve read all of your comments on this thread and Sarah Palin isn’t the candidate for you because I think her endorsement of her former runningmate has fatally soured her for you, despite everything else she does on behalf of conservatives and the Tea Party movement, so I suggest that you merely move on and find another candidate of your choosing. You’ll have to mark off Ron Paul unless you think his endorsement of the traitor, Adam Kokesh in Mew Mexico, is not a deal breaker.
If that label, whatever it is, is your way of blocking honest criticism that you don't agree with, then apparently all you're looking for are people who agree with you, but that's not what an open forum is all about.
The "Barracuda" has much more to do.
If instead of busy with McCain, she’d gone on a relentless nationwide against the Health Care Bill, I think her influence could have tipped the scales and she would have sealed her election.
She has the degree of support that would have tipped the scales in this Health Care Bill thing if that was where her focus had been and I think she very well right there could have sealed her Presidency.
I wish "the Barracuda" had rather been focussed on defeating this Health Care Bill in the national forum. So be it. Hope for the best. Pray for her and our country.
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