Posted on 06/18/2011 10:23:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It will be a devastating loss if Sarah Palin peddles enough books and visits enough gun shows that she has no incentive to run for President. There would be many chances for unique moments in the White House if she won. How about Sarah on horseback, riding through the Potomac basin like Paul Revere, ringing bells like he did and shouting, “The Democrats are coming!” That would give folks ample warning to quickly cling to their guns and religion before the left wing snatches them away. I know that she suffered ridicule for her version of Paul Revere’s ride, but from a Hollywood standpoint, she actually improved the story. Movies have soundtracks, in case anyone didn’t notice, and bells are a lot more cinematic than one lantern hanging in a church steeple. Or even two. (You can hear her defense of her version on Fox News, or as my friends call it, the F Channel.)
Since Wall Street’s recklessness plunged us into a national nightmare from which we are trying to awaken, it’s hurtful to say, as some do, that Sarah is the national nightmare. Not true. She is historically inevitable. First there was Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party, now there is Sarah’s Shoot Moose Party. And she’s amazingly cheerful about this recession (of course, her own checkbook has fattened, but she has spread the wealth by buying a free shotgun shell reloader for every voter in Alaska).
I have some personal atonement to perform, because in the 2008 election I posted an article saying that Sarah Palin stood for our collective shadow, the pent-up bigotry, hatred, and anger that was suddenly being vented. She was Joe the Plumber’s calendar girl. She was the secret hero of Alcoholics Anonymous, whose slogan is that you can’t recover until you hit rock bottom. President Palin would show us that we haven’t remotely hit bottom yet.
The mistake was mine, though. Sarah would smile her way into the Presidency and then show pointy-head critics the error of their ways. Not that she would ask Americans to turn on one another in vicious divisiveness — been there, done that. With 70% of the public so misguided as to consider her unqualified to be President, she has a bigger job to do than fomenting discord and calling anyone who disagrees with the Tea Party a socialist.
My President Palin would lead us through a national cleansing, like Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Nothing as violent, however, not at first. Maybe she might let school kids scribble with crayons on the paintings in the Museum of Modern Art. I’ve never met a soccer mom who wanted a Picasso refrigerator magnet. Or she might close all the high-brow music schools and inaugurate the kind of music that gosh darn real Americans like: harmonica, the musical saw, and tapping your foot to the radio while driving a pickup. What more do we really need?
Andrew Jackson’s inauguration in 1828 was disrupted when a mob burst into the White House, tracking in mud, breaking the china, and eventually turning the lawn into a drinking bout. Sarah has the style to make this an official event. The Jackson mob dropped so much cheese on the floor that it ruined the White House carpets, so my advice is for Sarah to skip the buffalo wings and hand out beer bongs.
The last reason I want Sarah to run for President is rooted in a famous saying from the auto industry of the Fifties: “What’s good for GM is good for the country.” Sarah wouldn’t have bailed out GM, so you might not see the fit when it comes to helping the average worker. But here’s the update: “What’s good for my brand is good for the country.” Sarah has proved that in spades.
Hey I LIKE Buck Owens. And I’d put my “edumacation” up against Chopra’s any day.
“Is this guy even an American citizen?”
Don’t know. I think there is an obligation to take care of him anyway, given the fact that he is non compos mentis.
“Chopra thinks we are all hicks, incapable of intelligent thought, walking around with cow manure on our boots and playing Buck Owens records.”
I can’t stand Buck Owens.
I wish Deepak would explain to me why the guy he no doubt voted for hasnt fixed the terrible problems of our country . Does it have anything to do with his and Deepaks shadow? or is it really the fault of the poweless boogey man Deepak seems to be seeing?
The first time I saw that it was on a bumper sticker on a Karmann Ghia in Ft. Collins CO.
He’s turned out to be a real a-hole.
Well I know a lot of folks around where I live would like to hear old Deepak read that little essay of his in person at one of the local country bars and would freely offer him some rather lively and pointed critique about it :^)
I hope some day soon, all these self-certain smug assholes with their holier than thou pseudo-intellectual superiority are going to get it shoved up their asses.
And they will deserve every painful second of it.
Here’s Chopra’s writing from 2010 - seems to be in character for him. (After reading it I thought I had stepped into Bizzarro World of Superman fame where everything is backwards!)
http://deepakchopra.com/2010/02/sarah-palin-spikes-the-tea/
Excerpts:
But we all know why Palin has spiked the tea. In the past year the Republicans have decided, as a group, that fostering lies, attacks, and smears is good politics..... In politics, morality often comes down to whatever works. And what is working right now is to spike the tea with poison and tell people that it’s actually sugar......
....I take a different, more positive view. America turned a dark corner when Nixon and Reagan inflamed the worst aspects of populism with manipulative demagoguery.....
My positive take is that Obama and the other smart people (always remembering that they are more than smart but also good-hearted, far-seeing, honest, and credible) are playing the role of adults trying to call forth the adult in all of us. Americans have had the luxury of a long period of post-adolescent irresponsibility. The crown prince of that trend was George W. Bush, for whom both luxury and irresponsibility were a given....
This man is always seething with anger, but he poses like an enlightened peace guru on PBS specials.
Philosophically empty, so PBS thinks he is profound.
like, you’re entitled to your own opinions, mr. chopra, but not your own facts...
LOL!
Profane, profound, tomato, tomahto...
That is how he poses for the cameras. This article shows his true character. He is a petty, angry leftist who hates his fellow man.
Sounds like he and Arianna Huffington-Puffington were made for one another. I'd like to be there when they discover one another in an airport lounge. It'd be social history.
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Like Jimmy Carter, Deepak has a less well-known brother - Sixpak.
He loves Buck Owens and Blue Ribbon beer, and thinks his brother is a bullsh*t artist.
I wonder how he got those shows on PBS which gave him his start. Did he pay for them or what?
He’s also on the board of the Club of Rome along with Ashok Khosla whose a member of Jimmah Carter’s - The Alliance for a new Humanity - where they say stuff like this...
“Christianity is our foe.
If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian Religious tradition.”
- Peter Singer, founder of Animal Rights
http://www.green-agenda.com/index.html
It’s obvious why they don’t like Sarah - we must get her to run.
“(...but she has spread the wealth by buying a free shotgun shell reloader for every voter in Alaska).”
Not a bad idea.
I just wasted 3 minutes of my life reading this.....
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