Posted on 09/10/2011 12:34:18 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I made the point the other day that Sarah Palin’s speech in Indianola, Iowa, went to the core of the Tea Party movement:
"I don’t know what the future holds for Palin, whether she will be a candidate or just a powerful voice against crony capitalism. I also don’t know whether the two are compatible. I am not convinced that even the Republican electorate is ready for the message. That’s for another day.
What I do know is that in attacking crony capitalism, Palin gave voice to those of us who refuse to buy into the Democratic narrative that the answer to Democratic union pandering is Republican big business pandering. It’s not about them, it’s about us."
Pigs fly today. Anand Giridharadas at The NY Times picks up on this theme, recognizing that in vilifying Palin liberals have closed their minds to Palin’s ideas, which are liberal (in the traditional sense, not the modern Democratic Party sense):
"Ms. Palin’s third point was more striking still: in contrast to the sweeping paeans to capitalism and the free market delivered by the Republican presidential candidates whose ranks she has yet to join, she sought to make a distinction between good capitalists and bad ones. The good ones, in her telling, are those small businesses that take risks and sink and swim in the churning market; the bad ones are well-connected megacorporations that live off bailouts, dodge taxes and profit terrifically while creating no jobs.
Strangely, she was saying things that liberals might like, if not for Ms. Palin’s having said them."
A severe injustice has been perpetrated on the American people not by the vile derangement directed at Palin by the mainstream media, left-blogosphere and establishment conservatives, but by the closing of their collective minds.
The author also hints at possible things to come:
"Is there a hint of a political breakthrough hiding in there?
The political conversation in the United States is paralyzed by a simplistic division of labor. Democrats protect that portion of human flourishing that is threatened by big money and enhanced by government action. Republicans protect that portion of human flourishing that is threatened by big government and enhanced by the free market.
What is seldom said is that human flourishing is a complex and delicate thing, and that we needn’t choose whether government or the market jeopardizes it more, because both can threaten it at the same time.
Ms. Palin may be hinting at a new political alignment that would pit a vigorous localism against a kind of national-global institutionalism.
On one side would be those Americans who believe in the power of vast, well-developed institutions like Goldman Sachs, the Teamsters Union, General Electric, Google and the U.S. Department of Education to make the world better. On the other side would be people who believe that power, whether public or private, becomes corrupt and unresponsive the more remote and more anonymous it becomes; they would press to live in self-contained, self-governing enclaves that bear the burden of their own prosperity.
No one knows yet whether Ms. Palin will actually run for president. But she did just get more interesting."
This probably will not signal a sea change in media coverage of Palin, or among conservative pundits. Liberals and conservatives alike have been played for fools by their media and their parties.
But hopefully it is a starting point of the recognition that Palin stands alone among major political figures in the United States seeking a transformation of the country consistent with its founding principles, not against them, principles which used to appeal to liberals. Palin’s anti-statist anti-crony capitalism message has the power to reach across parties, which is why that message gets buried in Palin Derangement Syndrome.
With Palin, liberals will not get their nanny state, but that nanny state is disappearing by economic necessity anyway. But they also will not get a crushing corporatist/unionist state serving the interests of the politically well-connected, which is where we are heading rapidly, and there is no offender worse than Barack Obama.
Oddly enough, Sarah Palin may be the one liberals have been waiting for.
Yep, that’s a jaw dropper.
After her brilliant and completely innovative speech, the Debate stood out to me for it's bland same-ol-same-ness. A bunch of GOP suits saying blah blah blah.
A groundswell is starting to build for Sarah. I wonder if others sense that too.
Had to look out the window to see if pigs were flying...since I didn’t see any I can only assume hell is a giant Popsicle.
Cindie
This egghead thinks HUNTSMAN has a better shot at the nomination than Palin:
How electable are the GOP’s presidential hopefuls?
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/electable-gop-presidential-hopefuls-204556449.html
Meanwhile, in 2007, Rick Perry ran to Istanbul Turkey to audition for the One-World-Government Bilderbergers.
The left are just confused, most of the problem they have with big corporation tend to be the result of big government getting in bed with big corporations. Without the big government, crony capitalism won’t exist
Interesting take... Democrats waiting for Palin..
For sure Indys and Pubbies are..
The question is, will her stand against crony capitalism trump her soul-deep opposition to abortion with libs?
This is an interesting piece, but it only makes sense if one ignores the fact that libs are in no way sincere when they talk this way about ‘crony capitalism.’ They’re not—they like it when their cronies are being capitalized via government handouts just fine.
If you knew Sarah,
Like we know Sarah,
Oooo, Oooo, Oooo what a gal...
“Democrats protect that portion of human flourishing that is threatened by big money and enhanced by government action. Republicans protect that portion of human flourishing that is threatened by big government and enhanced by the free market.
“What is seldom said is that human flourishing is a complex and delicate thing, and that we needn’t choose whether government or the market jeopardizes it more, because both can threaten it at the same time.”
Got to hand it to you, Professor Jacobson. Sharp thinking.
I am now on the last chapter of “Going Rogue” and I believe Sarah has been in this race, albeit not officially, for quite some time. God gave us two feet so we could take one step at a time. Sarah is leading in her quiet way and more and more people are opening their eyes to her strategy. Sarah has discovered how to drive the media crazy to a point of desperation. They can't figure out her next move. Some of them are actually beginning to ask better questions, actually listen to her responses. They are becoming aware of her influence, and are waiting for that huge mistake they are sure she will make so they can pounce.
Sarah will get into this race at just the right moment. Of course, we all want that to be sooner rather than later, but we must trust that she knows when the time will be right. EAGLES UP SARAH! We here at FreeRepublic and Patriots all over the country will protect your back. We will save America and restore her honor all over the world with Sarah as our President.
excellent observation....maybe, just maybe, Sarah has the Lord’s blessings and WILL be our next President after all......
Well, I personally saw pigs fly tonight on Facebook from a couple of my far nasty left “friends”. (Please give me a break for having such friends - I live in L.A. and dabble in art and music). I avoid politics with them because there is always a real vicious and non-productive backlash but they were actually commenting to their like-minded friends tonight that they are, to their utter surprise, agreeing with a lot of her recent statements! And they seem to be sincere. I couldn’t believe it but will happily take it if it means they are waking up just a little.
the main reason the left has been attacking her nonstop isn’t primarily because she’s a conservative...
it’s that she pulls very hard at their core constituency and the independents, while having no real detractors on the right.
in electoral college math... that’s a landslide win
which terrifies the left and progressives alike
I can relate to your lib friends on Facebook. I’m in the theatre in NYC and have to deal with their hateful postings on FB every day. Generally, they are so dumb, they don’t even know I’ve quietly unfriended them.
So did Sarah Palin in 2008.
I'm gonna laugh 'til I cry when she wins with 78%. Not that she will, but it's within the realm of possibility. One other thing we're seeing that nobody predicted is the truly remarkable twofold rash of:
1) Dems abjectly rejecting O'Bamao ~and~
2) Dems warming up to Palin.
Talk about your watching the miraculous Hand of God at work. CHAWMP!
And amen.
At least acknowledge that it is far easier to quibble over whether or not abortion is justifiable on a full stomach, with a job to go to, and a home to return to. Even venal Dimocrats are capable of putting their and their families' most basic human needs in line before their most fervent dinner chat topics.
With no job, no food, and nowhere to live, somehow whether the President supports state-funded abortion just doesn't carry quite the imperitive gravitas it otherwise might.
Don’t get me wrong, I am a Sarah Palin supporter. I just don’t get off on the Bilderberger boogie man and I am not going to post trash lies about my own governor just to get her elected. Sarah Palin has her own tremendous record to stand on, just like Perry does. Bilderberger, like every other organization like CPAC, ALIPAC, The Tea Party, et al vet anybody that gets near the White House. They even vetted Kathleen Sebellius when they thought she might get a VP offer from Obama.
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