Hmmm: Palin sends out fundraising letter … for the RNC

Remember four months ago when she was demanding that they remove her name from an RNC fundraising invitation to donors? Some pol-watchers at the time took that as a sign that she was trying to distance herself from the Republican brand. (“Who wouldn’t want to be sort of seen as more of an outsider and that’s how she’s positioned herself.”) Fast-forward to today and suddenly she’s signing letters on their behalf. What gives? Two theories. One: She’s turned out to be such a good soldier and is so favorably disposed to Michael Steele that she’s willing to do a fundraising favor for an organization that desperately needs one right now to prepare for the midterms. Two: She really is eyeing a presidential run and wants to build a line of political credit with establishment types who aren’t big fans of hers at the moment.

In a surprising move given her reputation as a political outsider, Sarah Palin is helping the Republican National Committee raise money ahead of November’s elections…

“Millions of Americans are expressing their frustration with the state of our government. I join them and seek to return our country to greatness,” reads the letter, obtained by CNN Friday.

“To accomplish this, working within our two party system, I join the RNC – the political home for “Commonsense Conservatives” who want to re-take governance – and I ask you to join me,” the former Republican vice presidential nominee’s letter continues. “Let’s bring our new brand of Reagan conservatism to our party and the country!”

Translation: I know tea partiers and grassroots conservatives aren’t thrilled with Beltway Republicans, but it’s time to be smart and dig deep. How deep? Dude:

The Republican National Committee is entering the fall election season with dire financial problems and, to an unprecedented degree, will be forced to rely upon outside groups to fund activities traditionally paid for by the national party…

With $11 million on hand as of the end of June—and about $2 million in reported debt—the RNC’s paid get-out-the-vote (GOTV) effort will be limited to just targeted House races, POLITICO has learned.

And the committee is only going to be able to spend money on those relatively inexpensive House races thanks to a $10 million line of credit that was approved at the meeting here. Until then, said one incredulous Republican, there was no money available for paid GOTV activities like mailers and automated phone calls.

How bad is it? According to Politico, the RNC’s given $4 million to the NRSC and NRCC thus far, which is as much as it can spare. In 2006, it gave … $57 million. They’re so busted financially that they’re forced to crawl to Palin, the scourge of the “establishment,” and ask her to do what she can to help get the tap turned back on. Given how deeply the disgust runs among grassroots conservatives for Steele’s antics and RNC embarrassments, I’m skeptical that even she can make a dent.

On the other hand, you don’t need much dough if your message is irresistible. “Fire Pelosi!” works for me.

For all their 12 years , Republicans with only a simple majority

That doesn't change the fact that they had a majority.

, stopped Government healthcare and Amnesty for illegals , global warming legislation, and everything the democrats/Marxists are now doing which Clinton wanted to do but didn't try as he knew the Republicans wouldn't put forth that legislation etc.

You mean, when they weren't busy proposing those things themselves, right? Remember that a Republican named John McCain was the primary author of the McCain-Kennedy amnesty legislation (and its many variants) and the McCain-Lieberman-Warner cap-and-tax legislation (and its many variants)...and that's not even counting the efforts of yet another Republican, George W. Bush, in pushing amnesty in the faces of ordinary Americans ("See you at the signing!").

As for government healthcare, the Republicans expanded (instead of reducing or eliminating) Medicare under the notorious Medicare Part D program.

Your problem is that you confuse "conservative" and "Republican." Not all Republicans are conservatives, and not all conservatives are Republicans. Conservatives stopped all those horrid things you mentioned and more, despite having to face down the Republican establishment.

Democrats/Marxists have created almost all of the thousands of government agencies and programs like social security and medicare.

The EPA and OSHA were created under a Republican administration (Nixon).

So was Freddie Mac.

The OTS was created from the ashes of the FHLB Board under a Republican administration (Bush I).

The Department of Homeland Security was created under a Republican administration (Bush II).

Hell, the forerunner of the Departments of Health and Human Services and of Education (the latter being the department that the Republicans later promised to close), the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, was planned and proposed by a Republican administration (Eisenhower) in 1953.

Shall I go on?

In fact all of the 4 conservative Justices were appointed by Republicans.

Justice John Paul Stevens, a liberal who was just replaced with now-Justice Elena Kagan, was nominated by Gerald Ford...you guessed it, a Republican!

Without these 4 Conservative Justices we wouldn't have freedom today.

No, without the Founders and those brave bastards who fought and died over the years and, more importantly, who actually genuinely believed in the rightness of their mission and in the vision of a new world where all men are created equal and with certain inalienable, God-given rights...those are the people who paid the price for your freedom.

Freedom doesn't come from a bunch of old people in black robes in a building on the banks of the Potomac, nor does it come from men or women in The White House or in the halls of Capitol Hill. It comes from your Creator above; it was bought and paid for by countless Americans who came before you; and it is supposed to be upheld by the present generation in power.

It's about time you and the rest of your Republican buddies recognize that plain and simple philosophy.

Now Democrats/Marxists are destroying America.

And the Republican establishment is happy to aid and abet them all the way.

Yet you don't bash Democrats/Marxists but All you do is bash Republicans.

Bullsh*t.

I spend my time bashing liberals, authoritarians, nanny-staters, globalists, Socialists, Marxists, Communists, NWO types, and others who stand in the way of individual freedom and liberty, regardless of what political party, creed, or ideology they claim to adhere to!

On the other hand, she also backed:

Michelle Bachmann

Allen West

Marco Rubio

Doug Hoffman

As for Ken Buck vs. Jane Norton, Clintonfatigued pointed out that Buck called many Tea Party members “dumbasses”

Also, from what I’ve heard, these are Norton’s positions on the issues:

Economy
- Opposes President Obama’s stimulus package
- Opposes earmarks
- Supports government that includes lower taxes, a balanced budget, reduced national debt and regulatory reform

From her website:

•I oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants already in our country.
•As your Senator, I will make securing our borders and ending illegal immigration a priority.

Health Care
- Opposes a single payer system and Democratic federal health care reform
- Supports tort reform

Climate change
- Opposes cap and trade
- Supports alternative energy

Social issues
- Supports U.S. Supreme Court justice nominees who are strict constructionists
- Supports pro-life causes
- Against same sex marriage
- Against gun control
- Against amnesty for illegal immigrants

This is a two party country, and has been since the Federalists squared off against the Democratic-Republicans after President Washington left office

Yes, and what happened then represents a split in Western civilization. Two spheres. Church and state. The Germanic Empire vs Rome. Guelphs vs Ghibellines. Unitarian Harvard (statist) vs Calvinist Yale. Christians in the north which, in the words of Julia Ward Howe, who would die to make men free vs individual piety in the south whose members would die to remain free. Even as religion has waned, the moral beliefs remain and contest each other.

The Federalists attempt to heal the fissure by creating a Federal, republican government which was strong in only certain areas (primarily taking away the power of states to issue funny money) and delegating the rest the states. They failed. They knew they failed. The democratic impulse they attempted to tamp down won. Fisher Ames, a Federalist who wrote the first amendment and was critical to the ratification of the constitution, lamented in 1805:

Federalism was therefore manifestly founded upon a mistake, on the supposed existence of sufficient political virtue, and on the permanency and authority of the public morals. The party now in power committed no such mistake. They acted upon what men actually are, not what they ought to be . . .They inflamed the ignorant; they flattered the vain; they offered novelty to the restless; and promised plunder to the base. The envious were assured that the great should fall; and the ambitious that they should become great . . . we are descending from a supposed orderly and stable republican government into a licentious democracy . . .

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