Posted on 05/29/2011 1:18:33 PM PDT by NJ_Tom
Sometime back, I saw (and immediately loved) an image created by fellow Freeper E Pluribus Unum. It was a picture of Sarah Palin at the Presidential podium. with the caption: "in·eluc·ta·ble adj: not to be avoided, changed, or resisted: inevitable."
This fit perfectly with my own views on the subject of who should be our next President. Yet, I had to ask myself, why do so many staunch conservatives believe that Sarah is "unelectable?" My own wife, who began her political activities as a Goldwater Girl at a time when I was still dumb enough to be an "Active Young Democrat" for LBJ, is completely convinced that, thanks to the relentless media attacks, she is "damaged goods" and will never be able to overcome the many negatives that have been piled upon her. So, I have to ask myself, how can I be so convinced that President Palin is ineluctable? Today I saw the start of "rolling thunder" and it all suddenly became clear.
Anyone who has read, seen or heard Shakespeare's Henry V (and, if you haven't, I urge you to immediately procure a copy of Kenneth Branagh's magnificent film of the same) might remember the Prologue to Act IV, where King Henry goes through his camp, visiting each member of his army on the eve of battle. Weary, weakened by hunger & disease, they were facing a battle with an army, "all fresh," that outnumbered them more than five to one. The King goes from campfire to campfire, so "that mean and gentle all behold, as may unworthiness define, a little touch of Harry in the night." The next day, his exhausted army won one of the greatest victories in history, leaving the field strewn with several thousand of the cream of French nobility, while losing less than 30 of their own.
Now most historians give credit for the victory to the awesome power of the English longbow and its yard-long "grey goose shaft," capable of piercing plate armor. While that certainly was a factor, you have to ask yourself, why did they even stand and fight? I believe it was that "touch of Harry in the night" that gave that exhausted band the passion to stand and never yield.
Which brings me to the answer for why I see President Palin as "ineluctable" - what you see at "Rolling Thunder" is the effect that a "Touch of Sarah" has. As the campaign progresses, more and more, believers and doubters both, will experience it - and that "Touch of Sarah" will bring forth such a force that even the most relentless media attacks will be powerless to stop it.
In November 2012, we will take our country back!
Hope your are right but color me skeptical
To keep from being personally bankrupted by a poorly written state ethics law which made her legal defense from these charges her personal legal responsibility. I would have preferred she stayed, there were things she still needed to do in Alaska and probably only she had the moral authority to make sure it happened and wasn’t eroded away by the Alaskan RINOS & Crony Capitalists.(Which apparently is happening!) However she left to avoid being bankrupted. Now consider how that would have been played politically by the RATs? (I doubt seriously it could have been spun into conservative martyr!) So she leaves and is labeled a “quitter”, which by her calculus the least “bad choice”. Yes an unusual move politically sort of jujitsu like in its approach where you project a “controlled weakness” to set up the counter-stroke. If she pulls it off, a state college BS journalism major beauty pageant queen will have made jackasses of all the Ivy League trained political operatives. If it works SWEET !! I think this bus tour is her “checking the ground” to set up the match ending throw. If she can find the place to stand, it will be a thing of beauty!
Karl Rove should know better he isn’t one of those Ivy League trained elites (apparently he is a wannabe!). He has forgot his roots. He like Newt have spent too long in DC and have become part of the problem not part of the solution!
Today I could not be further to the right. I am a constitutional conservative and I was born that way. I just didn’t know which party stood for what until that time.
You and I have the exact same experience, when it comes to political enlightenment. I was a disillusioned 'Democrat' from Carter's time, forward, never even bothering to vote in most national elections.
I credit Bill Clinton with pissing me off so badly, that I finally made the effort to see what 'the other guys' were all about. I soon began to listen to Rush and others, and visit conservative websites. It didn't take long for me to realize that I'd been siding with the wrong team my entire life, and that was why I'd been so disillusioned for so long.
The first one I made used the word "inevitable." Another freeper pointed out the word ineluctable, which had a thread from the previous week. I immediately changed my image to ineluctable instead.
“Why was Heuinsane Obama electable.”
Vote fraud, corruption and racism.
Anyone who espouses the works of Shakespeare should at least have a grasp on spelling.........
>Why Sarah is "Ineluctable"
More though, I don't plan on supporting any candidate who doesn't bring an austerity budget plan to the table that addresses the bloated federal government, the so called ‘entitlement’ programs, and a deep curtailment of federal worker salary, benefits and retirement.
Anything short of that, and honestly, it could be Obama as President again for all I care, as the constant spending us into hyperinflation will be at least over quicker under a second Obama term (and the fault of Democrats) vs the slightly slower fall under a Republican who ‘feels people's pain.’
My vote's for sale this time around, not to be given as a gift. Campaign for my vote, or you won't get it.
Sorry 'bout that. I sometimes miss the invisible sarc tags ;-)
I suggest that Sarah Palin look at the way that the Whigs took down one Martin Van Buren in the 1840 election. Van Buren--like Obama a Democrat--had to deal with a major economic calamity in the country at the time and got heavily criticized for the poor handling of the economy.
Yeah,,, Cheney and Gravitas. “Too busy doing other things” to serve in the military,,, but sure found time to jump on the Tailhook horse and beat on the Navy.
And Cheney is a Bush clone,, NWO, open borders, gay marriage, etc.
I’ll never understand this Cheney cult. Sarah has twice the balls of Cheney.
“Think about what it’s like to watch Cheney interviewed- now that is gravitas.”
Gravitas as you illustrate is what an actor demonstrates. Martin Sheen could look just as serious in his answers. I wouldnt want him as president. TRUE “gravitas” is what Sarah has,,, it means no BS. When she says something, you don’t have to figure out where she really stands, or where her loyalties lie. Unlike Cheney.
Cheney is called tough and serious because he’s willing to order better men than himself into battle. (men who must not have “more important things to do”) And meanwhile, stays busy flooding the country with Mexicans, supporting the North American Union, etc. I see very little “conservative” in Cheney.
"When the going got tough???"
...and are the folks down along the Mississippi getting "a little bit wet?"
...and was impeachment "just about sex?"
At best, you sound pretty foolish...you seem to have no sense of proportion or scale.
THAT'S her weakest point?
Then the White House run is going to be a breeze.
sorry, #57 should have pinged you.
I'm sure Mondale's campaign said the same; after all, those really bad economic numbers in 1982-83 made it seem like a slam dunk to toss Reagan out.
Going to head to head against Obama, the white guilt vote is split, since the balance between a black man and a white woman is pretty even. The 'Anyone but a Republican' and 'Anyone but a Democrat' votes are pretty evenly split as well.
It'd be pretty easy for a 'she quit before, she'll quit again, don't elect a quitter' campaign to tip the scales.
Republicans win when they nominate conservatives.
Bush I was effectively an incumbent for his election and lost after proven not to be conservative.
Bush II ran as a conservative.
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