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.
First of all, no, most of her supporters will cut her loose faster than you can say "JACK ROBINSON".
Secondly, she will have NO standing as a "motivational" speaker ( which is not what she does )or otherwise. She will lose speaking fees/offers.
And as far as being a "reality show" star, she had one, JUST ONE, program, which is long over and she won't get another one.
Books? What would she write about......."HOW TO BE A COWARD" or "WHY I CARE MORE ABOUT MYSELF THAN THE NATION" ? Oh yeah, that'll really sell.....NOT!
As to the figures/polls you post, they don't count. It's too early, she isn't a candidate........yet, and your biases are blinding you.
Nope, she won't "pull a Trump". By saying that, alone, proves just how little you understand. LOL
So WHO is your #1 choice ?
Palin was a VEEP candidate, took rabid abuse for every side ( and still is getting it; even here ), has an interesting CV; however, should she stay out of the fray, she is a NOTHING, a NOBODY, who is just yesterday's news.
Sarah Palin was there for moral support and NOT to sign random pieces of paper/shirts/previously bought books. If she would do that, without people buying Bristol's book, then there was NO point in having Bristol there, for signing her book.
At least the Palins don't pull a "Jim Wright" thing, who published a book, just to make money, which was all just a scam anyway.
You bet that there's a "HUGE DIFFERENCE" between Palin and other GOP candidates............she has a gigantic grassroots following and she can beat Obama! Not a one of the others have that.
Youtube, like Google, is regularly "bombed" by the libs so that only the PDS videos come up during searches.
That speaking engagement was in 2009. Are you really going to tell me that potential candidates shouldn't charge speaking fees three years before an election? Did you say the same thing back in 2007 about Rudy when he was making speaking money?
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.
I'm no expert on book signings, but I would bet that at most book signings, you are required to bring the specific book. And all of the candidates have/had book deals. So what.
But being who THEY are, they can't conceive of a politician NOT using them in the way they certainly would, and have.
thank you VR. Listening via android.
Sarah Palin gave up a six figure job on the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (Palin resigns from state oil and gas commission) at a time when her family's personal wealth was bupkus. And she did so in order to file ethics charges against one of Alaska's most powerful Republicans. These are actions which were manifestly against her own interests at the time, in terms of career advancement and finances. These are not the acts of a selfish person who operates out of greed.
If you took the time to give the object of your obsessive disdain a fair hearing--say, read Going Rogue, read the testimonials of those who've worked by her side for the past two decades, or view The Undefeated--you might find the evidence reveals that you have terribly misjudged the woman's character and motivations.
ah - thanks!
OK, we get it that you don't like Sarah Palin, but at least be honest when you're trying to convince others.
The book signing was for BRISTOL'S book, not Sarah's. Understanding that those who might come to the signing would also be those who had bought Sarah's book in the past, and would love to have an opportunity for her to sign it, the rule was made that if someone wanted their copy of Sarah's book signed, they should, out of courtesy, buy a copy of Bristol's, since that was the reason for the signing in the first place. I don't see why anyone would have a problem with this. It seems like common sense to me.
I don't know why you're so fixated on the fact that Sarah is out making money writing books and giving speeches. Since she's not the CEO of a large investment company, or a lawyer in a well heeled firm, or a sitting Congressman or woman, she certainly needs SOME way to make a living; why begrudge her that? And as for trying to maximize the profits for Bristol, why ever not? Isn't that why people WRITE books?
You may not like the fact of Bristol's unplanned pregnancy, thinking it unseemly that it should receive so much attention, but I believe that in the book, she talks about that in a way that doesn't glorify it, but shows how it made for complications that could have been avoided had she made different choices. If her talking about it keeps some girls out of the same predicament, her writing the book will have been truly justified.
Indeed. This is endemic in the "progressive camp". They are constantly excoriating their opponents for having the temerity to do things that the "progressives" do on a daily basis. Hypocrites that don't recognize their own intellectual dishonesty.
Your post is filled with something called “reality,” all too absent here recently. Of course, the moment she made one decision they did not agree with, some here would label her a RINO.
She would make a great president. She cannot be elected, much to my regret. To her credit, she is probably way too smart to run. The reality is, the reasons FReepers love her make her too smart to run.
Thanks for the ping.
And she will get a HUGE amount of grass-roots money for her run immediately, too.No, some will come in by mail as checks and some on line over a period of time
Friedersdorf's a small minded hater. He's not stuid, he's mean...
We know that.
Cheers!
Certainly apppears so.
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