Palin 2012
Monday, July 6, 2009 at 06:10AM I was running a string trimmer and listening to one of those headset radios when I heard Governor Sarah Palin was stepping down before finishing her term as Alaska’s governor. I would call it a “remember where you where” moment.
This is the best thing that ever happened to the conservative movement and a big headache for the Republican establishment whose members have honed to a fine art throwing inner-party opponents to the crazy savages on the left.
Sarah isn’t going to be that easy to deal with. She fights back.
The short story from the news media/Democrat Progressives is that Governor Palin is the sum total of any number of thousands of bad adjectives – the usual pummeling of political up-and-comers has a standard theme: stupid, unhinged, unprepared, blinded by an off-beat religion, ethically challenged and sexually repressed. We have seen it all over and over again. The technique has worn thin and predictable.
Sarah Palin sees right through the media slaughter aimed at her family and future and took decisive action against it.
Let’s see:
She leaves Alaska with enviable poll ratings, measurable accomplishments in several executive positions, a clean record as a champion of the little guy and good government, and in the hands of a like-minded successor.
There is absolutely no recognized leadership on any level, in any fashion, with any testosterone, in the Republican Party the public sees. Sara Palin has white hot name recognition.
There is a craving by the Republican base for a conservative champion. Paling has a 73% approval rating among Republicans now. This move will do nothing to harm that.
Every day our rapidly graying, out of his league, change agent in chief gets out of the sack he has to answer for failed socialist policies that have brought him, in six short months, to the brink of answering politically for his mistakes. Sarah Palin will be right there to point them out and the press will cover her every time because they have no other target on which to focus on. Why it’s almost like having a political campaign, issue by issue, point by point, handed to you by your foolish foil. And as luck would have it, unlike Barack Obama, Sarah Plain has a set of core beliefs she can say out loud.
Sarah Palin has the “misfortune” to be mocked by such unfunny cultural icons as Saturday Night Live and David Letterman, but SNL saw its best ratings in almost two decades when she appeared on that sad little show. Letterman had his posterior handed to him when he tried to go after one of the two Palin children remaining who have not been smeared properly by the left. Sarah should re-visit the dwindling dwarf of CBS anchorland and hand-truck her a load of what any governor reads in a week. Where did Couric go after she made anchor anyway?
This will be fun to watch.
Sarah Palin takes on the three biggest detriments to America’s future at the same time:
1. Socialist/Progressive Democrats and their shrinking White House diety.
2. The mainstream left-wing media and its shrinking reader and viewership.
3. The silk stocking Republican sellouts who cling to cheap deals with their enemies as a plan for a road back to power.
Reader Comments (18)
The left's whole appeal is that they claim to be the party for the working guy or the lower class. They are the ones for the people on the bottom while republicans are for the "rich". Well Sarah is everything they claim to be for... she went to a regular college. She worked her way up. She is the working class candidate that the left try to claim they are.
One other thing pointed out Ed is that part of the reason she stepped down is because the Democrats have made it impossible for her to do the job and they were actually harming the state of Alaska. Since running with McCain the Democrats have flooded Alaska with ethics complaints about Sarah costing her thousands in legal bills and tying her up making her unable to do the job she was trying to do. Meanwhile every single one of the complaints were found unfounded and were all dismissed. But never the less every time she spoke the Democrats would flood Alaska's system with more and more complaints. They don't care if it destroys the state, democrats are more interested in attempting to harm Sarah because they fear her. She shows them as the hypocrites they are.
I think Palin will do just fine. I first learned of her from my son who lived in Alaska long before she hit the national stage. This is one smart, tough woman who, unlike many of her critics, has a solid underpinning in her beliefs and is not afraid to take her own advice. The critics just don't understand... and this is a real plus in my mind.
Will she run in 2012? Maybe. But she has time to get Wonkish while she's not busy being governor.
Fact is, no matter how they try to bankrupt her with frivolous lawsuits (15 of them thrown out -- things like wearing a jacket with a logo on it...) she is clean as a whistle. There is a move afoot to try to show some sort of impropriety with the building of her house, simply because she used some of the same style windows as a government project. Wow, big deal! But you know this is how Obama got elected to senate, he litigated his opponent off the ticket.. He won by default. He's really never been elected to anything on his own merits and was a very bad senator, voting 'present' 142 times. Many people are waking up to this fraudulence it's good to see.
People are critical of Palin's religion (?) which frankly I've never heard her mention other than when some wackjob liberal hate group burned down her church in Wasilla.
Fact is they are scared of this perfect candidate who has so many accomplishments under her belt, far more than the current poseur in the WH.
It's fun to see how many things they can make up about her -- mentally ill, trailer trash, post partem (she's a jogger and had a nearly indiscernable pregancy and thus is at the peak of health) erratic... etc etc. There is no evidence to suggest she has done anything 'wacky' as they suggest, except state unequivocable conservative positions, and not with the use of a teleprompter.
Put another way, if she weren't so hot (politically) they would not be attacking her so much because she wouldn't matter.
I say, go ahead liberal pukes, keep it up. You just make us like her more.
She's like Howard Stern. She appeals very strongly to a certain demographic and she's strangely mesmerizing to the rest who can't stop watching her or talking about her. But, just like Howard Stern, that doesn't mean she's electable.
You can't win the presidency without the middle. When McCain added her to the ticket it appealed to a certain part of the Republican base, but it horrified the rest and it pushed the moderates towards the left. It's not a winning formula.
@Barnes: the reason the media can't stop talking about her is she's fascinating. That speech she made was totally bizarre, and it was a totally bizarre thing she did quitting the governor's job. Maybe it will pay off, but it was a weird and unconventional thing to do. Also, she courts attention. David Letterman made a joke, like he makes jokes all day, no one else calls him out on it because everyone knows he's a late night talk show host who doesn't matter. She made a fuss out of it. And looked silly for doing it.
Total Ray has laid out the scary scenario of Palin as his party's next opponent. He is stuck on calling everyone stupid. Yep, that will keep working.
Sarah Pailin laid out EXACTLY what she has for a plan - duke it out with the powers of darkness bare knuckle style - give as good as you get. Many Republicans are so used to the Bushies letting these hyenas chew their legs off they forget what a good old fashiond fight look like.
It has been a loooooooooong time since Ronald Reagan belittled the left with grandfatherly charm and wit, totally disarming them and cleaning house after Carter's mess.
Sarah Palin is going to attack the left right at their jugular - that throbbing pulsing vein in their skinny knecks which propels them to attack her Downe Syndrome baby, clean record of executive accomplishments, family, religion, gender, lack of a pathetic liberal Ivy League education (her biggest asset because she has not associated with that type of low creature), religion, clothes, etc, etc.
The smarter progressives see it coming.
And the liberal option besides attacking Palin? ZIP.
What, are they going to brag about, the economy, employment, war, deficit, hyperinflation, double digit interest rates, or high gas prices? How about education, TAXES, foregin policy achivements? Who doesn't want to hear about how the Obama Eco-Nazis will be stakling your home or business. They don't even read the bills they vote on!
And how about that Solomayor? When will she step in it - again? Al Franken to the rescue! Say something intelligent Al! Please!
My prediction: Sarah Plain will start eating into Obam's hide bit by bit, issue by issue. But the crowning glory for her will be when the Clinton's jump on the bash Obama bandwagon. That is when you will know she has had an effect.
Just as with Obama, if the econmy turns around, which it will not, he will try to take credit. When the Obamanomics crap hits the wind mill Sarah Palin "was right all along."
Then Ray will need a trip to Amsterdam or Neverland.
Behold the Great Nostranailenus and his predictions! Nostranailenus said, "My prediction: Sarah Plain will start eating into Obam's hide bit by bit, issue by issue."
But Republicans beware of Notranailenus' predictions and Democrats rejoice! Back in October, 2008, Nostranailenus boldly proclaimed, "By the way, Obama loses."
He then went on to make a series of homophobic remarks about Ray Buckley. Some things never change.
I was 9 months early. He is losing now or you would not be so interested in what I write.
Take a breather. Put on a Jako album and moonwalk on the slippery photos on your apartment floor.
No, you were wrong.
Once again Raybo has tossed he head back and spat out the "homophobe" charge.
Oh so scary!
Is labeling any opponent with the boring "homophobe'" moniker the last refuge of a pedophile?
If I remember correctly it was kiddie porn charges from Steve Vallaincourt regarding the Democrat Party Chair that cranked up the endless anonymouse comments from Manchester here on my blog when I wrote about seeing Mr. Special offer a young man at Best Buy in Manch. "a lick" of his soft ice cream cone.
So when I use the devastatingly accurate description AmsterDamn Democrat, make no mistake, I am refering to that tiny Gloved One-like character flaw.
Homophobe? Me?
How about Homoboring/predictable/sad -phobe. That is what I think about the issue.
I suspect at least the next two elections they will continue to try to run against Bush and claim look what republicans did wrong rather then attempt to run on their own records (mostly because they have no records to run on)
Look how long they blamed Newt.
Theirs is a very slim playbook.
Not only are you a homophobe, you are a liar.
"how did Chuck McGee enjoy his prison time?
March 28, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterTotalTalent
Not as much as someone like YOU would like it.
Its not Amsterdam but it does have its special moments for the light loafer crowd."
Notice how most of your responses have some type of negative reference to homosexuals? So keep making snide comments about Ray Buckley and ice cream cones and I'll keep posting about the hate you spread on the web.
You know the rules here and commit to them every time you post.
You post with an anony-mouse name - I call you Ray.
Live with it.
Now answer the question Ray.
@Ed: I never said anyone was stupid. I think there are some very clever people who are betting on Sarah Palin - Ivy-League educated people no less. But that doesn't change the fact that her appeal is limited - the base loves her, people outside the base don't. Look at 2008 - she really helped McCain secure the base - but she turned off those who were on the fence.
I understand you've got your Stalin-esque brand of Republicanism that requires you to try and rally the great proletariat to purge the party of those who aren't loyal to the Fatherland, but at some point you're going to have to accept that if there are only two major candidates in each presidential race, the winner needs 50 percent or pretty damn close, and the Republican base isn't 50 percent. No where near 50 percent. To win, you need to add onto the base. You need to convince outsiders that your platform is worth voting for. Do you get that? What you say has to be appealing.
Palin will be a riot to watch in the primaries - she'll be the Pat Buchannan of 2012, tweaking the other candidates, forcing them to accept more socially conservative positions, but she's a dead-ender. Give her a talk show, she'll make millions.
But you know, I don't really expect you to get this. People don't like you. They realllllly, realllly don't like you. You're mean, you're unfriendly and you take everything to an unnecessary extreme - you're an embarrassment to your party. But, you don't get that. Have you noticed that your political career is kind of, uh, stalled? I'm sure you haven't. You can be as extreme and ideologically pure as you want (although, I would argue you're not) but by chasing people away from your cause you're not winning - you're losing.
Here's a piece of advice for you - if you don't like the way your party is going, and you're sure that they're all drifting to the middle, betraying their conservative values, try convincing them to come back, instead of driving them away. It's a novel idea - one that you don't get, and one that Palin's handlers don't get.
I'm a registerd Democrat, remember?
Think outside the campiagn box for just one second once in a while. Your wasting everyone'sa time with this emotional release of yourse.
Get a cheapo ticket to Amsterdam and purge yourself.