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Posted on 07/17/2011 1:52:01 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The new Sarah Palin documentary, The Undefeated, opened to solid box office numbers this weekend. Oddly, the Atlantic tried to cook up a quick hit piece on the Palin film by sending the hapless Conor Friedersdorf to an unadvertised midnight showing in Orange County on a Thursday night. He proceeded to note at great length that not many people were in the theater.
This story was quickly picked up and run by other media outlets, in an attempt to construct a “flop” narrative, quickly rendered as hollow and irrelevant as an Obama economic prediction.
Friedersdorf, and the others who ran with his story, cannot be stupid enough to think that theater attendance at 12:45 AM on a Thursday night, at an unadvertised screening of a documentary, while one of the year’s most anticipated summer blockbusters was rolling out, could be truly indicative of The Undefeated’s opening weekend performance.
They had to work fast to manufacture this hit, since the eagerness of Palin fans to see The Undefeated was not exactly a secret. Their goal was to pump one more anti-Palin story into the billowing cloud of toxic smog pouring from major media outlets. They did it so that liberal readers who won’t go anywhere near a screening of this movie can high-five each other and chuckle about what a bomb it was, providing the ”reality-based community” with another of its many fables that survive any chance encounter with contradictory evidence.
I want Palin to run because I want a candidate who inspires that kind of desperation in the Left. I want someone who drives them to sit in little circles around their campfires and tell ghost stories.
This might sound harsh, but I also consider the way Palin brings out the knuckle-dragging misogyny of liberals to be a plus. Modern liberalism is an ideology of hatred and envy. Its blood burns hotter as every product of its imagination becomes a titanic failure in the real world. It has nothing left but hatred now. Liberals have sunk so low that they openly value punitive taxation more than avoiding national default. They spend their time looking for targets, not solutions.
Similar levels of shrieking hysteria are directed at the Left’s other class and ideological enemies. The sexist fury they unleash against Palin is a useful reminder of their true nature to voters that should understand what kind of future they are voting for, when they vote for a liberal. Palin has proven she can take the heat.
Some of the other 2012 GOP contenders strike me as the sort who will be very surprised by what crawls out of the media’s Hellraiser puzzle box after they win the nomination… especially the ones that want to run as “moderates.” Sorry, fellas, but nobody to the right of this radical President is going to be anointed as a “moderate” once the general election campaign begins. If you don’t fill out your Tea Party application now, rest assured the press will do it for you next year.
The media has no surprises left for Sarah Palin. She handled their combined onslaught when major news outlets were openly calling her an accessory to murder in the Tucson shootings. Not all of her potential 2012 competitors were quick to stand by her side, but they should have been. If you can’t swiftly and forcefully defend your party’s tireless, highly visible former vice-presidential candidate from such disgusting slander, what kind of Republican are you? I want Palin to run because she’s a candid voice in an age of lies and deceit. Her running mate in 2008, John McCain , buried his own candidacy in a shallow grave by refusing to speak candidly about Barack Obama ’s shady background and penchant for falsehood. Palin did that, and was excoriated as a “bomb thrower” in the media. She was right. Everything she said about Obama was right. We’ve lost trillions of dollars and millions of jobs because not enough voters listened to her.
The debt ceiling debate has given America a long, hard look at the sick and degenerate politics of Democrats. The President of the United States just lied about opinion poll numbers during a major press conference, in a desperate attempt to make himself look like less of an extremist. This came after days of fraudulent threats to default on America’s financial obligations and freeze Social Security checks. Americans don’t need another presidential candidate who wastes our time being excessively deferential to someone who lies to us and threatens us incessantly. We need one who calls him out the way Sarah Palin always has.
Palin has been dead right about a lot of important issues. She outperformed quite a few high-performance economists in her assessment of the Quantitative Easing monetary strategy. She’s always been right about domestic energy production, and it gets more obvious by the day. How does her record of accurate predictions stack up against the President and his wise men over the past two years? Some other candidates can do a pretty good job of dissecting the Obama record. Palin did it in advance.
She walks eagerly into the crossfire to support people like Rep. Paul Ryan, even back when he was still working on his “Ryan Roadmap,” the precursor to his “Path to Prosperity” budget. Few of the other presidential contenders have done as much for the Republican Party, and the conservative movement, as Palin over the last few years. That will count for a lot, when the new President must assemble congressional majorities to pass crucial legislation. I can remember many crucial moments since 2008 when Sarah Palin took a firm position on important issues with a whole lot of empty space around her, where other Republicans should have been standing.
Most importantly of all, I like Palin’s aura of confidence… not just in herself, but in the people of the United States. There is something luminous about the way she expresses it. Her cheerful reverence and affection for ordinary people is both comforting and inspiring. Many candidates give impressive performances. Not all of them seem as impressed by us as Palin does. To Palin, we are “the undefeated.”
The great struggle ahead of us will involve returning liberty to a nation that has lost confidence in its government, years after the government so obviously lost confidence in us. Our enormous national debt means that Washington sees the American people as so feeble that the rest of the world must be induced to fund government programs to take care of us.
It is said that we must indenture our children for generations to come, in order to finance welfare benefits for today’s population of adults, who are helpless in a growing number of areas without government supervision. The bumbling descendants of the Greatest Generation must be told what kind of car to drive, what kind of light bulb to use, which kind of inefficient and overpriced energy should fuel their businesses, and how to handle their health care needs. A stagnant, jobless economy is presented as the “new normal.” Things would be even worse, if the Democrats hadn’t told the future how to spend four trillion dollars of its wealth.
The leader who challenges that dark fantasy must have a great and inspirational belief in the strength and wisdom of the American people. Where the State has failed, free men and women will succeed. Where regulation has failed, enterprise will triumph. The rot of central planning will burn away in the light of private sector risk and investment. It shouldn’t have taken us decades to remember that politicians don’t know squat about running a business… but better late than never.
I want Palin to run because she gets all that, and doesn’t need stare into a mirror before TV interviews and remind herself to believe it. The people who look down their noses at her have an equally low opinion of the public they have failed so utterly. Worship of the State is all about submission. I don’t see anything coming out of the Left that I feel like submitting to any longer.
We the people of the United States stand on the verge of withdrawing our consent from a collapsing system that will curse us with its dying breath. That’s going to take guts. Sarah Palin honestly believes we can do it. So do I. The time for doubting ourselves is over.
"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Santa Monica, Calif. (July 17, 2011) - ARC Entertainment, the distributor of “The Undefeated,” the film about Gov. Sarah Palin’s rise from obscurity to national prominence, announced today that through Saturday night the film had a stronger opening than expected with the large markets trending towards weekend per screen averages above $10,000 driven by multiple sold-out runs.
The film had accumulated approximately $5,000 per screen through Saturday night. Unique in the theatrical feature world, The Undefeated was rushed to select digital theatres in only 3 weeks, and was marketed almost entirely through social media and grass roots efforts, with virtually no traditional media spend. With the strong initial showing, the film is going to a wider release footprint later this month, with details being announced soon."
Excellent!
She should only run if she wants to be president,,,, and more importantly, give up everything to run.
Right now, she can be out of the public eye when she wants to be, in when she wants. She is the Republican kingmaker. Another defeat, which, considering the media aligned against her and their influence on the 17-20% middle-of-the-road voters who decide elections would probably happen, would finish her in the kingmaker role and drastically cut into her earning potential.
I strongly believe she will choose not to run, be a huge force in helping elect a Conservative republican in 2012, and remain a $20 million a year kingmaker in the Party.
If she doesn't enter the fray, a very large number of her supporters will throw her under the bus.
Since she is hardly ever on FNC, most people there hate her ( Greta and Sean are the exceptions ), what makes you believe that by not running, she gains anything?
Nobody will care what she says, writes, and/or does, if she doesn't run. And no, losing won't hurt her at all; it's the not running that will.
"KINGMAKER"? Is that akin to "cheerleader"? LOL
"..........give up everything and run."? What, exactly, are her job/s right now?
Are you also demanding that the other candidates/possible candidates "give up EVERYTHING" ? If not, why not ?
This is must reading. The best article I’ve seen on Gov Palin in a long, long time.
Agreed. Sarah is powerful because she can become the next president. Her remarkable talents have but one application, the presidency. She is ineluctable. She knows this and hopes that someone, somewhere will stand up before her with the same courage and talent to lead us out of the wilderness.
If she finds a leader willing to follow she will be a happy grandmother, mother and wife in her home in Wasilla. If no one is able to stand before her and take on the mantle of genuine conservative, constitutional leadership, she will become a happy president leading the greatest nation in history out of the doldroms of its insecurity into the blazing glory of its finest hour.
I am curious as to where the title “The Undefeated” comes from.
Look at the field,present right now. Is there anyone, anyone at all, who is/can fight and lead the way she can and has? NO!
What about the ones talked about and/or self proclaimed "thinking about it"?
Pataki isn't going to run; he played a 10th rate Cuomo the last time and never did throw his hat into the ring. And besides which, he's the one responsible for finally killing off the NYS GOP. He's a damned RINO and then some.
Rudy? he'd best forget all about it..........ASAP!
Christie has repeatedly said he is NOT going to enter the fray and he shouldn't !
Rubio? He too says he is NOT interested.
As a matter of fact, every single person, being talked about, except Perry, who is playing games, has said: "NO THANKS!" and not a one of them are whom Palin is waiting to "see", so that she will just stay home. It is Palin's, for the taking; though beating Obama won't be easy, she's the only one who can do it.
You are right, you do not understand.
If Palin backs the winner, her influence grows incredibly.... Oh, by the way, that observation is from about 40 years of covering DC politics.
The problem with Sarah Palin's supporters is that, like Obama's supporters, thay have elevated the object of their adoration to a level of Hope™ that no mere mortal can ever satisfy. Either way, run or not run, Palin's supporters are in for a very hard crash landing.
Any candidate that 72% of all voters believe would NOT be a good President and any candidate that 65% of all voters have said that they will "definitely NOT" vote for is guaranteed a humiliating drubbing at the polls. (See below.) Believing that Sarah Palin can actually be elected President in light of such polls is simply cult-like thinking along the lines of the Heaven's Gate Suicide Cult delusion.
The Sarah Palin balloon has gone as high as it is possible to go without bursting. While not running will certainly affect her negatively to some extent, it is the safest financial option for Palin.
To paraphrase Lincoln: Better to remain a non-candidate and be thought of by many detractors as unelectable than to run, be absolutely slaughtered, and remove all doubt.
If Palin does not run, she will have a plausible excuse that will seem totally logical to her devoted supporters who will then, at least, have their fantasy dreams of how Sarah would have defeated Obama if she had run in 2012 and would then peg their hopes on her running in 2016.
"..........give up everything and run."? What, exactly, are her job/s right now?
Sarah Palin's "job" right now is raking in the Big Bucks as a $100,000 per pop "motivational speaker", as a Reality TV entertainer and as a book writer.
Between stepping down as Governor of Alaska and April of 2010, Palin raked in $12 million. That is one hell of a job!
April 15, 2010: Sarah Palin income 12 million dollars since leaving office
If Palin mounts a serious Presidential run, she risks devastating her personal finances as failed Presidential runs can and do leave you millions of dollars in debt.
"And no, losing won't hurt her at all"?
Wrong! Ask Hillary Clinton how losing a serious Presidential run can hurt you to the tune of over $13 million right out of your own pocket.
If Sarah Palin does mount a "run", it will be along the lines of the fake Donald Trump "run": Stick a toe in the water, gain massive media attention, then, once the media benefit has been gained, find an good excuse to bail out before the "run" actually costs any serious money.
From a purely financial standpoint, Sarah Palin can either cash in her chips right now and walk away with the millions of dollars she has already earned or engage in a Presidential run that is doomed to electoral failure but which will leave her financially devastated as Hillary's run left her.
What would you do if you were Sarah Palin?
Cash in the $12 million dollars worth of chips you have already won or bet all of your chips, plus millions of dollars more, that you can win the Indianapolis 500 in a Ford Pinto?
Regardless of what many say, Sarah Palin is not dumb. She has played the money-making game like a pro and has over $12 million dollars to show just how good she is at the game. Sarah Palin will never mount a serious Presidential run because doing so would be not only financially dumb but downright financially suicidal.
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FOX News Poll (February 7-9, 2011)
Question 3: I am going to read you a list of names. Tell me if you think that person would make a good President or not.
Sarah Palin:
.................YES.........NO.......DK.....Never heard of
ALL...........23%.......72%.........4%.......1%
Dem ...........7%........87%........5%.......1%
Rep ...........40%.......56%.......3%.......1%
Ind ...........25%........69%.......3%.......1%
No it doesn't.
A big part of Palin's monetary value is due to the possibility that she might be president. If she doesn't run, that value greatly decreases.
See Post 113:
"To paraphrase Lincoln: Better to remain a non-candidate and be thought of by many detractors as unelectable than to run, be absolutely slaughtered, and remove all doubt."
The same could be said about every candidate. But that doesn't stop you from just saying it about Palin, does it.
And that is from someone who has been following politics for an extremely long time.
No, I don't understand your position, but it's because I happen to understand how most of her supporters "think"; which you obviously don't.
Haven’t had chance to read this article. Thank you for the ping.
Where is the ‘best’ place to go online to ‘hear’ speeches by Sarah Palin? Last week, when I went to YouTube they had her speeches in the first few pages (CSPAN, Chris Wallace, etc.) but today, all the search shows is B.S. hateful vids by sickos.
Needing some inspiration today; it would be appreciated if you could direct me.
Thx
The hate mongers are out at the Internet Movie Data base and more likely than not have been stuffing the ballot box with bad reviews. I bet only a handful of those who give it a single star even saw the movie. If you want to counter the usual lies click here.(You will have to register an email address but if you want to stay anonymous you can always create a Hushmail account first)
The same could be said about every candidate. But that doesn't stop you from just saying it about Palin, does it. .... FreeReign
There is one huge difference between other candidates and Sarah Palin.
Palin has been the one candidate that, time after time, has been money-driven, for personal gain and not for political gain, since the day that she stepped down from the Governorship of Alaska.
For example:
SERIOUS Presidential candidates trip all over themselves and spend money in order to court favor with influential Iowa political activists.
By stark contrast, Sarah Palin tells Iowa political activists, "SHOW ME THE MONEY!"
Here is another example:
Sarah Palin was at the Mall of America (largest mall in the U.S.) on June 29, along with Bristol, for a book signing and the conduct was very telling.
Here were the rules laid down for the book signing:
Bristol Palin with Special Guest Sarah Palin Book Signing Wednesday, June 29, 2011 5 p.m. Rotunda
Look at Rule Number 4.
"4. You must have a copy of “Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far” in order to purchase a copy of “America by Heart” and/or “Going Rogue” signed by Sarah Palin."
In order words, if a potential Palin voter wanted to purchase a Sarah Palin book and have it signed, Sarah Palin would refuse to sign it unless that individual bought a copy of Bristol's book describing losing her virginity in a drunken coed camping trip.
That is not the behavior of a serious potential Presidential candidate that is trying to court voters.
That is the behavior of a family that is cashing in and trying to maximize profits for Bristol.
With the Palins, it is not about courting voters. It is all about, "SHOW ME THE MONEY!"
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