Barbour is establishment to the core. There is no way he would make the choices that must be made to restore this country. He is in no sense her equal. In fact, none of them are.
I think that it is her destiny to be President. God raised up Reagan, John Paul II and Lech Walesa (at precisely the right time) to overturn the Evil Empire, and He created the conditions in which it could happen.
In a very similar way, I believe that Sarah Palin is destined for great things as well, things as much spiritual as temporal. Esther is the Old Testament prefigurement for Sarah Palin. There are New Testament and modern historical and mystical salients as well that suggest why she is going to win.
I’m sure you read Eska’s new comments above. Sarah’s the one to make the difficult decisions that have to be made to save and then restore our Republic. I agree with you.
People will call you a kook for saying what you just did about God destining people for great things. Lurkers are probably reading this thread and may be thinking it. But in my study of talent through the ages, there is really nothing that can be explained about it except as a ‘gift’.
Palin is doing things that she shouldn’t be able to do. I watched Jon Stewart, who is not a Palin fan, look on with a type of astonishment when Palin made her ‘comedy debut’ on the Tonight Show (Stewart is, of course, an expert at comedy and knows it when he sees it). Most politicians cannot just go up and do something like that. One thing everyone agrees on, from her detractors to her supporters, is that she has incredible talent. How can someone do this after just being mayor and being governor for a couple of years? When Obama was elected, I was extremely depressed because I knew what was going to occur to this once great country. But I watched Palin’s conference she had a few weeks later as governor and a very clear voice in my head said, “It’s going to be all right.”
God loves the fisherman. She is, above all, a fishing-woman. And she still is. But now she fishes men.
Democrats do not have attractive options when becoming president. Democrat presidents have two choices. They can either be who they are and lose re-election. Or they can ‘go to the center’ like Clinton did to win re-election. Neither of these choices are appealing. Ever since FDR, unless a Democrat President runs to the center, they will lose big.
So Democrats are inclined to recreate FDR (and his four terms if they could figure out how). This is what party Democrats are hoping for Obama to be. Obama, of course, is trying to be the anti-Reagan as well. To undo the ‘Reagan Revolution’. (However, this is not going to plan. The ‘Tea Party’ should not be existing. I saw David Axelrod’s ashen face when the Tea Party began. They were hoping to re-align electorate against “Wall Street” and have them praise Obama’s government.) For 2012, Democrats are hoping to recreate the 1936 campaign by getting Republicans to nominate some financial guy (like Romney) and then ignore him completely by running against Bush (Obama will run against Bush in 2012).
But in the rush to make Bush the new Hoover and Obama the new FDR, Democrats forgot something. FDR was the Vice President candidate back in 1920 on a ticket that lost so big to Harding that you have to go all the way back to Monroe to find an election so lopsided. FDR, also, was a navy man and loved the navy. Palin, not Obama, will become the new FDR. And it will be Obama, not Bush, who becomes the new Hoover.
Politicians are obsessed over political re-alignments. With George W. Bush, Karl Rove believed he could re-align the country by turning Bush into a new McKinley. Hispanics would become the new ‘German Immigrants’. But no re-alignment has ever occurred because of some campaign strategy. Karl Rove is overrated as Bush’s election victories were very weak on the national scale. Axelrod also will find that re-alignment will not work the way he wants it too.
The Tea Party very well could cause a re-alignment in American politics (and Palin benefits from this as she is the only candidate out there who can harness the Tea Party). The political class, many of who I have dealt with all my life, are very confused at what is going on. What they do not understand, cannot understand, is that the very notion of ‘citizen’ is in crisis in America.
Does being an American citizen mean anything today? All the woes going on today can be pinned on that one single question. How can American citizenship mean anything...
-When illegal aliens are given the same rights, status, and protections as American citizens.
-When your representatives to Congress ignore your cries to them.
-When voting fraud occurs which is an attack on the Citizen. How would Congress like it if THEY had voting fraud in their chambers?
-When any concern to Obama’s citizenship, both legal as required in the Constitution and in his behavior, is brought up, the Citizen is demonized.
-When a Citizen’s life is destroyed for making a politician look bad (Joe the Plumber).
-When massive debt turns the Citizen into a serf of Financial Feudalism.
When Palin quit her governorship, Karl Rove said that ‘this is not how you become president’. To the Political Class, they believe the Tea Party is anti-Democrat or anti-establishment. To the contrary, the Tea Party is about the Citizen. It is about people acting as Citizens and engaging in the political process.
I remember the sinking feeling in my gut when George W. Bush called the ‘Minute Men’ of citizens who went to the border to patrol it as ‘vigilantes’. To the Political Class, we are not citizens but walking wallets. We are not supposed to act. We are to them as clay is to the potter: something to be manipulated, shaped, and formed. We are not supposed to act but only react. This is what the Tea Party is all about. It is about Americans demanding to be treated as citizens. America did not become great because of its governors or presidents, its congressman or its senators. America became great because of its citizens. American citizenship used to be the envy of the world. Now, the political class doesn’t give a damn.
In history, it has been reflected that high ranking military officers become presidents (well, not anymore). But I put forth that the military service was not why people trusted them with the office of the presidency. A military hero is, first and foremost, a great citizen. People are drawn to put a Great Citizen in office no matter the time.
The Political Class is watching Palin run around, give speeches, post on facebook, go on TV, and they do not really understand what this has to do with a presidential run. At best, they can point to Reagan and think she is just mirroring him. But they didn’t understand Reagan either.
The Big Picture is not about running for an elected office. The Big Picture is about being a good citizen. This means standing on soap boxes, giving speeches, writing pamphlets (the equivalent of today’s Facebook postings), and trying to do better things for your neighbor. Palin’s power comes from her acting like a ‘Great Citizen’. It does not come from her acting like a ‘Great Politician’. Lord knows we have too many ‘Great Politicians’.
We respect the American citizen. Washington has decided that it wants the respect that properly goes to the American citizen. Washington wants credit for every new invention, every new business opened, and the fruits that have come from America.
Respect flows from Washington to the citizen, not the other way around. It is American tradition to educate Washington this lesson. It is time to do so again. In this action, we continue the cause of our ancestors. When future generations look upon us as we look on our predecessors, there can be no greater honor.