As I see it that was then this is now........
Like it or not we know this is what we have to work with....rehashing the past is not helpful to the win we need ahead. Rather we need to acknowledge it’s all crooked and devise the path needful to take through it to win.....we cannot keep griping about how the media treated her....they have knew targets and Sarah is getting behind them...as she said of Cruz and Lee...”They need our help”...and she has clearly shown she is supporting them.
If or not they decide to appoint Sarah to the administration remains to be seen....we have to win this election first or it really is over......how this run up ebbs and flows will give us a good idea if or not the GOP are going to throw Christy or Jeb at us...right now that’s exactly who the media is promoting.......
I just hate to see all the old arguements about Sarah being re-run here yet again.....she’s doing what she wants to do and I am supporting her efforts in doing just that. But she is not going to run no matter how much people want her to.
Maybe it’s all in the past, but it constituted a political watershed for me. There have only been two such watersheds in my life. The first was Ronald Reagan in 1980, whose message and return to values/patriotism made me a solid, enthusiastic and exclusively GOP voter for three decades, who followed every campaign and convention.
The second political watershed for me was the GOP’s backstabbing treatment of Palin. Seeing them cozy up to their lib buddies in the media to trash Palin, and never once speak out when her church was torched, her family was dragged through the tabloid mud, when Dem operatives embarked on a mission to financially bankrupt her, when the media accused her of complicity in the Tucson mass-murder, when Hollywood spent millions on a movie to smear her, etc. I lost every tiny shred of faith, trust and respect in the Republican Party. It convinced me the Party does not in any way, shape or form share my values nor my ideology.
So I did not vote for Romney. I left my ballot blank. Considering the direction of the current GOP, it’s quite likely I won’t even bother voting at all in 2016. It’s entirely conceivable I might never vote again. Two years ago, thanks to the Romney/Rove 2012 campaign, I gave up on cable-news, ending my decades-long status as a news/politics junkie. I’ll probably even quit FR before too long. It’s the only connection that remains.
Maybe it seems like I’m rehashing the past. But it has everyday bearing on me, in the way I now look at politics, the country, and the genuine question as to whether I believe America is even worth saving at this point. My answer is leaning “not.”