Posted on 04/13/2010 11:43:41 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Recently I ran across a video interview in which Sarah Palin enthusiastically declares "I support Michael Steele…I think he's doing a great job. Michael Steele is an outsider. The machine, I think, is tough to penetrate--I think it's been good to have an independent outsider trying to create some change in the Republican Party."
Michael Steele has from the first day of his tenure been a spokesman for the RINO, pro-abortion, amoral, 'money is god' elite minority that presently controls the Republican Party. The statement that Steele is an outsider is an outright lie. He has for some years now made himself the tool of the elite RINO clique. There's only one sense in which Steele is an outsider. He's outside the purview of the conservative views of the pro-life, God-fearing grassroots' majority of the GOP's voting base.
Last week Steele went so far as to validate Obama's ugly abuse of the racism charge. To cover what he himself admits to be his "mistakes" he paired himself with Obama as a black being judged by a higher standard than whites. Obama has lied, broken every election promise, hidden all aspects of his background and never been called to account. No politician in American history has been held to a lower standard of accountability. So what is Steele talking about? Just like Obama and his verbal terrorists, Steele brandishes the charge of racism in order to intimidate his critics, and distract from the fact that their criticisms have a solid basis in fact. This gives aid and comfort to some of the worst elements of the Obama faction's media and political thugs. Will Steele stop at nothing in the effort to protect himself and silence his critics? How then does he differ from the arrogant Obama intimidators that as RNC Chairman he purports to oppose?
He imitates the Obama faction verbal terrorists, and Sarah Palin's response is to praise him for doing a good job. How can people who claim to be conservative go on blinding themselves to the truth about Sarah Palin? Just as they did when she was governor of Alaska, her actions belie her superficially constructed conservative image. In the critical area of her personnel choices she blithely promotes the wrong people, as she did when, as Governor, she boasted about putting a pro-abortion Planned Parenthood leader on the Alaska Supreme Court. Now she backs McCain, and heaps prevaricating praise on Michael Steele, though the words and actions of both men confirm their deficiency in anything that more than superficially resembles sincere, consistent conservative principle.
If Sarah Palin was authentically committed to the restoration of political integrity Tea Party people long for, she would be calling for Steele's resignation, not trying to use her popularity to shield him. I'm sure my words will merit shushing and the usual rotten tomatoes from people once again determined to hand the RINO GOP leadership another triumph of hope over experience. Do Sarah Palin's supporters want people to treat her the way the Obama's media clique treats him? Are we to be mesmerized by her words, but by no means analyze her actions? This kind of mentality herded people into supporting the betrayal of conservatism that characterized the locust eaten years of the Bush faction's preeminence. It's what created the void that Obama stepped into. The last thing America needs is more of the same, sweetened with a change of gender.
Sarah Palin's actions more and more confirm that she is pure and simply a 'Judas goat'. Her assignment is to gain some credibility with the disaffected conservatives in the GOP's grassroots base, then lead them over to RINOs like McCain and Steele (or Mitt Romney and Mitt Romney clones like Scott Brown.) She is a fabrication of the GOP's elite RINO leadership; a tool intended to help them survive what would otherwise be their certain political demise in the tidal wave of anger that is poised to sweep socialists, liberals, RINOs, CINOs (conservatives in name only) and other liberty threatening flotsam and jetsam out of their seats of power and influence. If this is the objective of the move to make Palin an icon of the Tea Party movement, many of the anguished, deeply sincere people who are pouring their hearts and hopes into the movement are simply being set up for another episode of heartbreak and betrayal, and this perhaps the last. If they truly wish to save America's liberty, they should first take care to save themselves this disappointment. It may be we have but one more shot at stopping the elitist juggernaut that means to overturn America's democratic republic. We must aim to make it count.
Eveningstar leans more anti social conservative, and pro Giuliani types, he will always be bashing Palin.
He is an admitted libertarian and proven pro gay.
He did :)
Then they (Matthews libs) starting explaining that Alinsky was really a republican.
Even on that show you gotta love the clips of her jabbing O.
Agree with you, re: supporting Ron Paul.
Don't agree with you about Alan Keyes. Way too much wrong with him. Also has never won anything, ever.
I never heard of this before. Not good, if true. I'll do a search on this tomorrow.
Here’s one result of such a search. She DID have a choice. Between two pro-abortion candidates.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/15/state-law-gives-palin-no-choice-but-pro-choice/
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had to make a tough choice in filling a vacant slot on her state’s Supreme Court: Appoint a woman who once served on the board of Planned Parenthood, or risk giving an environmentalist lawyer, also pro-choice on abortion, the chance to become an activist judge.....
He admitted, however, that Mrs. Palin was “backed into a corner” by the state’s system for selecting judges, known as the “Missouri Plan.” Alaska’s constitution requires an independent panel to vet and then submit choices to the governor when positions on the court open up. The only names the panel submitted for consideration were Judge Christen and Mr. Smith - neither an obvious conservative choice.
I’m afraid that the MSM will attack Sarah no matter what she does, what she says, or who she associates with......no actions on her part will ever stop that....
I prefer to call Mrs. Palin, “Sarah”..... to many of us she seems just like a good and trusted friend.....Try it sometime, you’ll like it! Kinda rolls off the tongue...
I think that Sarah has effectively nuetralized McCain, in relation to her hoped for Presidential run...and her Presidency....
McCain was a thorn in Bush’s side, much to the detriment of the Republican agenda, and much to the Dems/MSMs meriment...... I wish he would go away....far, far away....the South Pole wouldn’t be too far, would it?
Given Sarah’s experience in Alaska, I believe she already knows how to deal with corruption...Democrat and/or Republican..... It’s good that the grassroots is finally figuring that out about corruption......They’ll be in her corner because of it......even those that aren’t there already....
I’m not sure about JD’s chances, historically it is very difficult to successfully challenge a sitting Senator in the primary race. It has been done, but rarely..... If I had to guess..... McCain’s return to the Senate seems more than probable.....Would I be happy if JD won?...You Betcha!
Note that I do not know anything about the dynamics of Arizona politics other than what I read..... much of it seems biased one way or the other....I admit confusion as to the situation on the ground...
Sarah does not need to avoid “moderate” Republicans.... rather, she needs to harness them to her purposes.....read Sun Tse......
RINO is a much overused term on this, and other forums...to the point that it has no meaning at all...
While certainly no fan of McCain (actually I dislike him and others of his ilk) calling a man with a ACU rating of 80 a “RINO” is uncalled for and inaccurate.... Backstabber may be a more apt term.........because.....
When the chips are down,
McCain cannot be found!
Need help with your political life?
McCain’s behind you with a knife!
(I can assure you he wasn’t taught that in the Naval Academy/Service..if fact just the opposite.....making him more than merely detestible)
In case you haven’t noticed Sarah Palin is already a more than viable candidate....... See how even Obama retorts her criticisms of him....Does he do that to anyone else? Huckster, Mittens, Anyone? No?..... I assure you Obama knows exactly who the threat to him, and his socialist agenda, is.........
Frankly, I think that Sarah has a good handle on what she is doing, and what she needs to do. She requires no advice from the peanut gallery .... certainly not from me....nor from you....
It is fun talking about the ins and outs of it though?..... Isn’t it?............ LOLOLOL
As I said, I like some of Mrs. Palin's ideas, I like her frankness, I do not like her political associations.
She owes McNutt nothing.
Thats for her, not you to determine.
If Sarah is a true conservative and not a rino, then there is only one explanation for her public behavior with regard to Steele and McCain (although with McCain there is also the misplaced loyalty issue). She may believe that splitting the Republican party is a real danger given the disconnect between Tea Party beliefs and what the GOP has become. She may be trying to head off the formation of a third party that will assure victory for the Dems. If not, I am puzzled and unhappy with her treatment of McCain and Steele. Saying nothing at all would be better than what she has done. However, I am willing to give her the benefit of the doubt.
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