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
No, there isn't.
She is on the outskirts of the GOP establishment. They are using her to raise money but they won't support her if she chooses to run.
McCain has connections to people within the party structure.
Her campaigning for McCain is a total non-issue in the greater scheme of things
Yes you did. This thread has nothing to do with McCain. If you want to bitch about McCain there are dozens of threads to do so.
I made one statement on post 3. Many answered back, some with fairly vitriolic repsonses.
You mess with the bull, you're going to get the horns. Capiche?
What you’ve got going here apparently is some kind of worship cult club, and apparently anyone with a thought that is not in your “party line” so to speak is treated as “the enemy.” Sad. Good luck to you.
I don't know MR. EEE ("mystery"), you keep engaging me even though I'm the enemy - get you in trouble with your minions.
Whatever, I'll give it a try at the risk of perpetuating the "hyjacker" thing - McCain is not a minor issue. He's a major problem, originator and vanguard of unconstitutional restrictions on political free speech as well as weakening illegal alien and border control efforts. He needs to lose to his conservative opponent.
I know you and you fellows in this club I didn’t know I was walking into don’t think it’s a problem, but other conservatives are upset and I think she’s weakened her prospects which also isn’t good. As I’ve said, to many including myself, it’s a mistake
Sarah Palin would be embarrassed by some of her supporters here.
I think you're either too fragile for politics or that you don't have time to keep current.
Sarah Palin not only campaigned against obamacare, she changed the national dialogue!!!
Recall, "death panels"?
I heard Sarah say plenty of things about the Health Care Bill.
Do I really need to post some of it for you?
Jim 0216.
Good one Bald Eagle, brilliant, except you forget, I’m the enemy for being a “Palin basher” for questioning her helping McCain and “hijacked” your thread for asking a question. I didn’t know I’d walked into a Palin cult club where questioning something Palin does is verboten. Didn’t mean to disrupt things. Go back to your play time, I won’t bother you anymore. Forget I said anything. Everything’s OK now. Thought I was engaging with grownups in a political forum where issues could be intelligently discussed. Have fun.
LOL! I doubt that you are any of the things you whined about.
You have loyalties to someone else.
I think you’re paraoid bald eagle but it doesn’t matter. Go back to your schoolyard, recess is almost over.
Baiting doesn’t work on me.
Good then there’s nothing more to talk about. Let me know sometime how your black-and-white, all-or-nothing world works for you.
Chuckle, I can understand many thing that aren't black and white, including the reason Palin is campaigning for McCain.
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