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Okay, the dust has settled and even rank-and-file democrats know that Sarah Palin and others on the right had nothing to do with the massacre in Tucson on January 8, 2011. Yet we know the attacks on Palin won’t stop. We get that. Thank you media, for detailing for us how irrelevant she is by taking the only meaningful statement on the matter - a 7+ minute video and text message - and reducing it to a record breaking two-word sound bite. Priceless. But some of us also know there only one reason the media and the left can continue this fruitless line of attack – which exposes Palin biggest problem.

As Americans, we see who the real leaders are – and who are the dividers. Despite all the hand-ringing about the ‘blood-libel’ the media has been engaged in, I saw no one – from either side of the political isle – disagree on point with anything Palin actually said. And anyone who dares say that Mr. Obama echoed her exact sentiments in his speech later (i.e putting the blame on the shooter – and not others) would be considered ‘blasphemous’ in most political circles.

Newsflash to America: There is a presidential election coming up in 2012. The left and their media cohorts didn’t go after Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Tim Pawlenty, Rudy Guliiani or even Haley Barbour (Wikileaks didn’t go after them, either). You might recognize these well-known people as potential GOP candidates for that office. Yet, they targeted that irrelevant, stupid, mean, quitter, who is 80 million points behind Obama, and whose unfavorable ratings are so high that she might as well to go to Russia to verify that she can really see her house from there.

Did I get it all in there? Need I go on? Need I explain? Okay, for the few of you reading this and don’t get it, here it is in a nut shell:

Sarah L. Palin is not a mere person, nor is she a god. She is the defacto face of the American Political Revolution, the Silent Majority, the ‘Great American Unwashed’, the Tax Paying Majority, and yes – the Tea Party. Her Facebook page carries more gravitas and is more effective than Obama entire communications team (including his teleprompter). A mere utterance from her can change the entire news cycle nationwide (Obama can’t even do that at times). She is the greatest threat to the Washington, D.C. establishment since 1812, the top Republican fund raiser, the top insult to political-correctness, and to a growing number of Americans, a constant reminder of the mistake that was made in November of 2008.

To some, having Sarah Palin at a podium debating Obama in 2012 is more of a threat than a nuclear missile standoff with China and Russia combined. Hence, she (and those who follow her) must be destroyed. And with that said, her greatest problem may come as a shock to some, but should be exposed and addressed now:

The Republicans.

Throughout all these attacks, especially in this last week, the silence of all but a few republicans has been deafening. The attacks against Palin this week probably would not have lasted more than 24 hours, if the GOP had to guts (or the will) to step up to the plate and defend the most popular figure in their party (not to mention the one who help them win back the House). No, there has been very little defense. In fact, we can always be sure that some soft republican hack will give the media a sound bite that will go viral against Sarah Palin knowing full well that any negative opinion about her will be the headline of the next hit-piece on her.

Surely her name was brought up frequently at the GOP weekend retreat of the January 15 weekend. One wonders how many there may suspect what we already know: If they get rid of Sarah, how long before the left/media turn their guns on the next GOP threat? And since no one wants to be that person, let them expend all their ammo on Sarah, right?

Wrong. Look at the Democrats. You attack one – it’s like attacking all of them. They rarely speak ill of another democrat – if at all. On the other hand, republicans will throw one of their own into a live volcano at the drop of the hat (or one drop of ink from the New York Times) The GOP has this critically bad habit of allowing the left and the media to dictate the rules of engagement. Those attacked after the Tucson shootings are the ones who don’t play by those rules. Sarah is the most notable and effective among them.

The D.C. elite (including republicans) have yet to come to terms with the reality that Americans are fed up with the way government works only for itself, and not the people who pay the bills. Those of us between Interstates 5 and 95 see what is happening to our country and are determined to make a better future than the one predicted for our posterity. As the GOP exalts their new Chairman, no doubt his first mission will be fund raising. But like is predecessor, he will have to find a way to steer campaign donations back to the RNC and away from SarahPac.org and others helping good republican win seats in Washington as well as the states. And to do this, he will have to allow to attacks on Sarah Palin to go un-answered in mass by the GOP, hoping that her followers will loose faith in her, and not them.

…good luck with that.

1 posted on 01/16/2011 7:10:32 AM PST by jimjohn
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LOVE YA SARAH!


2 posted on 01/16/2011 7:13:13 AM PST by Libloather (Teapublican, PROUD birther, mobster, pro-lifer, anti-warmer, enemy of the state, extremist....)
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Well said, sir! Well said!


3 posted on 01/16/2011 7:13:30 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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“Newsflash to America: There is a presidential election coming up in 2012. The left and their media cohorts didn’t go after Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Tim Pawlenty, Rudy Guliiani or even Haley Barbour (Wikileaks didn’t go after them, either). You might recognize these well-known people as potential GOP candidates for that office. Yet, they targeted that irrelevant, stupid, mean, quitter, who is 80 million points behind Obama, and whose unfavorable ratings are so high that she might as well to go to Russia to verify that she can really see her house from there. “

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+1


4 posted on 01/16/2011 7:14:02 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (McCarthy was Right.)
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She is the greatest threat to the Washington, D.C. establishment since 1812

Bring it on. It is TIME to DownSize DC!

5 posted on 01/16/2011 7:16:57 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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ping


6 posted on 01/16/2011 7:17:02 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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Palin/Bachmann 2012


7 posted on 01/16/2011 7:17:09 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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Spot On.


8 posted on 01/16/2011 7:18:07 AM PST by Moorka
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To: onyx; Al B.; Brices Crossroads; Lakeshark; Victoria Delsoul; sarah fan UK; rintense; ReneeLynn

This is GOOD!


10 posted on 01/16/2011 7:20:11 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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This is well said. As a non-American (Irish) I have puzzled why so much ink and words have been concentrated on Sarah Palin. There is only one explanation possible, having dealt by a process of elimination with all the others. The GOP elite know that she is capable of sweeping the nomination, and the Democrats realize full well that she is capable of overwhelming Obama in 2012. Washington knows that she is a genuine reformer and that she would go through that town like a dose of salts.


11 posted on 01/16/2011 7:21:04 AM PST by Emerson C
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Too many Republicans are not GOP but POG - Party Of Government
14 posted on 01/16/2011 7:24:12 AM PST by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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It’s almost as if she can transcend the presidency. I am beginning to believe that she would be wise to not run in 2012, simply do what she is doing. She might make Republicans and Democrats irrelevent before it is all over.


16 posted on 01/16/2011 7:24:50 AM PST by tickmeister (tickmeister)
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The natural born dunham act 2004...
http://www.thepostemail.com/2011/01/16/why-did-sen-james-inhofe-propose-an-end-run-around-the-constitutional-eligibility-requirement-for-president/


18 posted on 01/16/2011 7:25:55 AM PST by biggredd1
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Primary season is already here. The GOP’s spineless but surprisingly nasty RINO/Establishment branch keeps egging on the Dems and the media to take Palin out for them. And the Dems and the media keep trying to oblige.

The sorry truth is that the Dems, media and RINO’s are all going to be allied this year at least up until Palin is vanquished from the 2012 race. If she actually becomes the GOP nominee I’m not sure that GOP Establishment will acquit themselves much better than they did in Christine O’Donnell’s senate race.


19 posted on 01/16/2011 7:27:40 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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kaching!


20 posted on 01/16/2011 7:29:31 AM PST by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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Good Post. Very well thought out. This should be common knowledge for any Freeper. Most of us already know that the some of the Republicans are RINO’s, and we are on it, (as shown by the last election.) We need to take the rest of these “pretenders” to task and vote them out of office.

You seem to write very well, maybe you should put your gift to use and write something awesome to try and persuade the “fence-sitters” completely to our side, (I have pretty much given up on trying to persuade any “rabid” democrat.) Maybe publish it in the paper, (I know the newspaper is dead, but you would be surprised how many people I see reading one.)

Just a thought, thanks for the post.


21 posted on 01/16/2011 7:33:09 AM PST by ConservativeChris
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Unbelievable.

for over 130 years, the democrat/marxist mainstream media has posed as objective reporters reporting what is happening : however what the media have actually been doing for over for over 130 years is lie and create fake hoaxes to slander Palin,Republicans, Capitalism ( slandered capitalism with the global warming hoax and BP “disaster”). But now I see this “genius” here has figured it out : all this media slander is actually the fault of Republicans as if democrats didn't control a billion media outlets , the mainstream media.

Obama/democrats/Marxists and their commerce dept. are about to put an Internet ID on all of us to monitor and censor what we say on the Internet. Obama’ FCC is about to censor the Internet. Obama’s EPA about to shut down the economy. Many will say “Republicans’ fault.

As in most of the last 130 years Democrats/marxists , in the Lame Duck Session democrat Congresses tried to pass a country destroying bill such as the dream Act Amnesty every day. Republicans , vastly outnumbered, stopped almost every one these bills as Republicans did for the only 14 years Republicans had barely a majority in the last 100 years.Many say democrats under the cover of their media creating almost all of these government agencies is Republicans fault.

22 posted on 01/16/2011 7:36:24 AM PST by Democrat_media (Why is no government creating a product we can hold in our hands like a cell phone..?)
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YES!!!...Thank you...


23 posted on 01/16/2011 7:36:24 AM PST by rusureitflies? (OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD! There, I said it. Prove me wrong.)
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Has Palin yet articulated her views on immigration? And I’m talking about something more than the mindless ‘illegal-bad, legal-good’ soundbites we usually hear from Republicans.


24 posted on 01/16/2011 7:38:27 AM PST by Aetius
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Talk about hitting a grand slam.

This should on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal.

25 posted on 01/16/2011 7:38:45 AM PST by painter (No wonder democrats don't mind taxes.THEY DON'T PAY THEM !)
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Unbelievable.

for over 130 years, the democrat/marxist mainstream media has posed as objective reporters reporting what is happening : however what the media have actually been doing for over for over 130 years is lie and create fake hoaxes to slander Palin,Republicans, Capitalism ( slandered capitalism with the global warming hoax and BP “disaster”). But now I see this “genius” here has figured it out : all this media slander is actually the fault of Republicans as if democrats didn't control a billion media outlets , the mainstream media.NO, it is the fault of who is doing the slandering , the democrat mainstream media, not of Republicans you puppet of the media.

Obama/democrats/Marxists and their commerce dept. are about to put an Internet ID on all of us to monitor and censor what we say on the Internet. Obama’ FCC is about to censor the Internet. Obama’s EPA about to shut down the economy. Many will say “Republicans’ fault.

As in most of the last 130 years Democrats/marxists , in the Lame Duck Session democrat Congresses tried to pass a country destroying bill such as the dream Act Amnesty every day. Republicans , vastly outnumbered, stopped almost every one these bills as Republicans did for the only 14 years Republicans had barely a majority in the last 100 years.Many say democrats under the cover of their media creating almost all of these government agencies is Republicans fault.

26 posted on 01/16/2011 7:39:02 AM PST by Democrat_media (Why is no government creating a product we can hold in our hands like a cell phone..?)
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