Posted on 02/11/2011 1:28:20 PM PST by sjneuf
The desperation is palpable. The Beltway Gang have now officially floated every conceivable presidential candidate this side of Rich Lowry’s cat.
(Excerpt) Read more at conservatives4palin.com ...
But the electorate and even the candidates themselves don’t seem to be nipping.
After a failed Hail Mary to Bush #3 this week, the hopes of the Anyone-But-Palin-Crowd now appear to rest solely on a Miracle in Little Rock, er South Walton, Florida.
Is a clandestine visit to the bass-playing pastor and former governor of Arkansas the answer for the Stop-Palin-ites? (The same ex-governor the Rombots treated as backwater in 2008? The same ex-governor who defended Palin from blood libel while the Rombots ran?)
Rovians are still crunching the numbers.
Meanwhile, certainly we’re due for another round of sub-zero Palin polls to curb the enthusiasm of the Palinista … until the village elders regroup.
It’s funny to me that the brainiacs never seem to see the obvious solution right before their eyes. And at a certain point it starts to feel personal, doesn’t it? What, Sarah Palin’s good enough to run for VP, good enough to raise money for GOP candidates, and good enough to “cheerlead” for y’all, but not good enough to run for president? As if you and your buddies got what it takes to knock off the President of the World? Where was that Google results list again?
Beltway to Sarah Palin: You’re a hick, we’ve run your reputation into the ground, so you must cheerlead. Besides, we kinda like backroom government. We got it. And some of us realize that disrespecting Sarah Palin is disrespecting all of us who reside outside Brie club. I can’t help but feel personally affronted here. I was a journalism major, just like Sarah Palin. I also studied political science just like Sarah Palin. I even went to a non-elite state college in the Rocky Mountain west – just like Sarah Palin. I worked and paid my own way through school, and graduated debt free – just like Sarah Palin. You get the point, right? Heck, I even played high school hoops – just like Sarah Palin. Our team stormed to the championship game my senior year just like Sarah Palin, but fell just short of the prize. Damn Provo anyway!
So, I feel I have more than a little skin in the game when Sarah Palin is underestimated. It feels personal. Indeed, because I share a similar cultural DNA as Sarah Palin, I am in awe of all she’s been able to accomplish. Nobody eased her path to power, or laid down a red carpet for her to waltz into positions of authority. Governor Palin didn’t come from a family of plutocrats. She fought and scraped and worked for everything she’s done in her life. She got up every morning with her life in God’s hands and simply set out to make a difference – with her guts, her vision, her values and her faith.
Perhaps some folks won’t like this comparison, and it’s not completely spot on, but Sarah Palin reminds me of Bill Clinton (sans the liberalism, the Ivy League education, and the, uh, infidelity, obviously). Sure, you’re saying, compare Sarah Palin to Bill Clinton ON HER BIRTHDAY, Coulter. Thanks a LOT!
I’m doing this deliberately to irritate liberals who have irritated all of us by comparing Barack Obama to Reagan all month, ok? Fair is fair.
Like Bill Clinton, Sarah Palin is a self-made political rock star. They both grew up in hardscrabble existences and were raised in non-politician families.
And here’s the deal. With the exception of becoming president, Sarah Palin has done substantially everything Bill Clinton did in his path to prominence. Take away the academic profiles which really don’t mean much outside the Beltway, and look at the wattage effect. Who else in America is a bigger, brighter political star right now than Sarah Palin? She is on fire. Nobody, perhaps not even Obama, can match her grassroots appeal, drawing power – and arguably her fundraising prowess. She speaks, and a million patriotic citizens immediately launch into action. She tweets and the White House feels the need to respond.
And so I take great umbrage, frankly now, even amusement, when I hear condescending suggestions that Sarah Palin could serve as a GOP cheerleader, or even worse, as a “Kingmaker.”
Didn’t we fight a little war to overthrow the idea of kings? Governor Palin is young, charismatic and carries the right message: Constitutionally-constrained federal government that remembers that the people are sovereign not the government.
So yeah, forgive us if we’re laughing when you suggest Sarah Palin should sit on the sidelines, cheerlead, and be the sugar mama to the next propped-up wannabe to come down the pike. We’re not on board with allowing Governor Palin to absorb all the political body blows, raise all the cash, draw all the crowds, and then watch her sit around taking orders from HQ again for another candidate with the charisma of yesterday’s bad cliche.
Here’s my suggestion to the Beltway GOP: if you’re gonna shoot for the stars without Sarah Palin, find your own damn star, okay?
Sarah’s light is meant for greater things than illuminating hopelessly dim bulbs.
Everything the ruling class has done to destroy her has only made her stronger.
well i might vote for the cat
Good post!
Rich Lowry is owned by a cat?
The comparison to BJ Clinton is gonna make some libtard explode! Hehe
Dream on. If anything, she is about on par with the rest of them.
Good article.
Exactly. Can you see them all sitting on the edge of their chair waiting for her to make any announcement? LOL! That’s how powerful she is just being herself. Imagine when she sits in the Oval Office with authority. Right now she is a private citizen, mom of five, who speaks out because of her love for the USA!
Palin’s overall National name recognition rating is 95%, about the same as was Obama’s before the election, but her “favorable view” category barely made 21%.
That's hardly what I would consider as “strong”. Huckabee even beat her by 8 points.
Well he is a (the rest of this post has been zotted).
The Governor plays 3D chess; everybody else struggles playing checkers.
Sarah is playing a perfect game of chess.I hate that phrase. It's been ruined for me.
All through the Bush years -- as he refused to veto spending bills, as he pushed through prescription drug funding, as he opened the Mexican border, as he let the dims walk all over him with horrible accusations that he let go unanswered, as the dims won back the house and senate, as the dims finally got a commie-muzzie in the WH -- all through that process, we were always told "Bush is playing a game of chess", or "Bush is a great poker player".
I hate those metaphors now. Really hate them.
I just want to see good conservative policy and strong articulation of good conservative principles.
I don't want chess. I don't want poker.
As a commentator, Sarah of course is concentrating on the negative. When she has a chance to propound proposed policy specifics, the number of discontents should steeply drop.
Works for me.
You know what?...Let’s get the campaign started. Voters talk, B.S. walks.
Huck, Mitt, Newt and Palin are all household words. They are known quantities.
None of them have much way to go but down.
She can only fight back for so long before it no longer works for her. She will run out of support from all sides. Her deciding not to go to CPAC this year was a major error on her part. Like McCain's was in 2008 and his vote on the Stimulus during the campaign.
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