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
RNC Chairman does more than just speak on the Sunday morning shows, lot of office work and paper pushing......She is needed daily out and about in this country encouraging people.
Besides, I don’t believe the establishment of the party will ever accept her in a high positions in the Party, she is not their kind, if you know what I mean.
Palin needs to show herself strong for our country in the face of stupid party pressure. That's what Reagan had to do and he did it and we were all better off for it. Either the GOP knuckles under to her and the powerful conservative support she's had, or she knuckles under to the GOP and we just have another politician.
What the heck is so wise about her helping a guy who has shown himself to be an opportunist and turncoat spearheading legislation against free speech and border control who is running against a real live conservative in Arizona? The fight is for America, not stupid partisan politics.
Sure sign of a concern troll—registered just before the Kerry/Bush election.
To meet all her speaking engagements (as noted by Bigtigermike in his posting # 15) she is already on the road most of the time.
Seriously? You are going there with Sarah Palin? Honest, don't you think you have gone a little bit over the top, questioning her patriotism? More strength of conviction, loyalty and Patriotic than anyone we have seen in a long time...what next, she's not really Conservative?
* Advocating "common sense conservatism" and then avidly supporting McCain, especially over Hayworth (who we all knew would run) was/is an egregious action on Palin's part.
* Mrs Palin, despite what a small faction of kooks believe, is not a deity sent from Heaven to save us. She is human, therefore imperfect - as were our two greatest Presidents, Jefferson and Reagan.
* No living politician articulates and personifies conservatism and the American ideal as does Sarah Palin.
* We really need this lady to run for President and we need her to run in 2012. I don't believe any other person would take the actions required to ameliorate and negate the blatant Marxists policies now being foisted upon our republic.
* Michele Bachmann cut her hair. Please contact her and voice your displeasure over this mistake.
* Watching Rebecca St James on Hannity. Never heard of her but she is gorgeous.
YOU and PEOPLE like you that DIDN’T VOTE for the Republican are why we have BAMMY....THANKS.
She doesn’t stick to her principles. I lost a lot of respect for her when she backed McCain.
You've already seen the arguments here on FR, both from Jim Robinson and others, heard them on Rush.
That they haven't registered calls your own wisdom into question.
OR
Just as likely, it has nothing to do with your wisdom, and more to do with your loyalty.
She's got show that she's got the guts to stand up to the stupid GOP the way Reagan did. The real battle isn't against the loony Democrats. It's against the RINO's, politicians, and amoralists in the GOP who put self-preservation and party ahead of our country.
(((Palin Ping)))
Conceded trolls have arrived.
Bachmann must have not stuck to her principles too then, by inviting that kind of person to raise money for her exclusively?
Hunter endorsed Huckabee
Tancredo endorsed Romney
DeMint endorsed Romney
Pawlenty endorsed McCain
Thompson endorsed McCain
Newt endorsed Scozzafava
Santorum endorsed Specter
Rubio endorsed Huckabee
Santorum endorsed Romney
Scott Brown endorsed Rommey
Ann Coulter endorsed Romney
Mark Levin endorsed Romney
Dick Cheney endorsed McCain
Thune endorsed McCain
Jindahl endorsed McCain
Huckabee endorsed McCain
Bachmann endorsed McCain/Palin
Ron Paul endorsed Chuck Baldwin
Ron Paul endorsed ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney
Ron Paul endorsed Bob Barr
Paul Ryan endorsed McCain for President
Rick Perry (Governor-Texas) endorsed Rudy Guiliani
Peter King endorsed Guliani
GWB endorsed Spector
Santorum endorsed Spector
DeMint endorsed Graham
JD Haworth endorsed McCain
John Thune endorsed McCain
Sheriff Joe Arpaio endorsed Romney
Coburn endorsed McCain
Oh there’s room under the bus for Bachmann! She and Sarah could have a grand time!
What, besides completely changing the subject, you also have my voting record? YOU don't know what YOU'RE talking about. The reason we've got this Kenyan imposter in the White House is because your stupid GOP buddies propped up a turncoat RINO who wrote legislation against free speech and border control. The GOP's got to decide if it’s the old Democrat party or if it’s going to stand up for true conservative principles and America.
Then she should have never became his VP..right? No one said it was a problem then? Reagan should have stuck to his principles by not picking a RINO like Bush Sr? the same one that called his economics of lowering taxes to produce growth “voodoo economics”?
Yeah, Bachmann has to go!
Bachmann backs McCain - now
By Dennis Lien on August 26, 2008 11:46 AM | No CommentsU.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann was no early supporter of John McCain for president. Back in March she said of the Arizona senator, "He is not my man," and today acknowledged that, "John McCain was not my first choice."
But since McCain will be the Republican Party’s nominated candidate in next week, Bachmann has come around.
In a telephone conference call today arranged by the state Republican Party, the 6th District congresswoman listed lots of reasons to support McCain over the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama, whom she called the nation’s “most liberal senator.’’
“John McCain is our nominee,’’ Bachmann said, adding that the choice “could not be more stark.’’
Of course, most of us get it. I'd support Bachmann in a heartbeat. Just as I support Sarah.
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