Posted on 06/20/2011 9:36:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The key to the ultimate effectiveness of a documentary like “The Undefeated” is more than just how many people see it or even who those people are. Certainly that matters to some degree, but so does how the very existence of the documentary changes the national political conversation. Naysayers of the “The Undefeated” dismiss the film’s impact by telling us that only Palinistas are going to bother to buy tickets. In other words, since the film preaches to the choir there will be no new converts. Intentionally or not, that’s a fairly simplistic declaration that doesn’t take into account how the film will impact the political news narrative — an impact that’s already apparent to anyone paying attention.
Thanks to the overwhelming publicity the film has already generated (along with the fortuitous combination of the email dump), for the first time since Palin arrived on the national scene her impressive record as the Chief Executive of Alaska is finally getting some serious media attention. Today in the Daily Caller, Rick Manning has an excellent piece that touches on this very subject. In an editorial titled “Will the New Palin Movie Sway Voters?,” he closes with this:
Right now, most Americans are desperate for a leader who will be unfazed by the entrenched big-government culture that pervades D.C. regardless of which political party is in charge.
Most Americans look at the crowd of Republican candidates for the presidency and yearn for someone with guts, charisma and accomplishments.
(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...
Typical liberal moonbat.
Thank you for this very illuminating post. Unfortunately, you’re wasting your time trying to convince Patrick1. He’s not here to have a meaningful discussion. He’s only here to start a fight and disrupt the thread. I’d ignore him.
Obama was a POS JR senator on the graft in one of the worst corrupt cities in the US, Mob city USA, that was raised by communist aholes and QUIT after a year and a half to campaign for President.
All the ahole ever did was vote present.
How is this a better record than Palins?
FUBO!!!
“You are an idiot with no understanding of what happened.”
No, he has an agenda and is a great supporter of some un-named second tier kook candidate....either than or he is a mittens kitten...... either way a not worth reading his posts.....
Obama was a POS JR senator on the graft in one of the worst corrupt cities in the US, Mob city USA, that was raised by communist aholes and QUIT after a year and a half to campaign for President.
All the ahole ever did was vote present.
How is this a better record than Palins?
FUBO!!!
The fact that you bought into that meme and continue to propagate it speaks volumes about either your intellectual honesty or your knowledge and understanding about the situation she was in.
I’m going to be charitable and simply assume you don’t understand the facts of the matter.
Resigning isn’t inherently bad, if done for the right reasons. In fact, let’s look at her history. Did you know Palin “quit” another six figure job, her oil & gas ethics commissioner job before she became governor? She resigned in order to blow the whistle on corruption when the sitting Republican governor wouldn’t investigate the state party chair for sharing confidential state documents with an oil lobbyist. She quit because by law as a commissioner she couldn’t go public with her concerns because of confidentiality rules. So she quit to be able to blow the whistle on collusion knowing it would probably kill any chance she had to succeed in state politics as a Republican. And you know what happened to that state party chair? He was later given the largest ethics fine in Alaska history, largely because Palin had the courage to put pressure on the governor’s office and the Republican party. And what happened to Palin? She became Governor of Alaska.
Now let’s look at her situation as governor.
Palin was paid roughly 337,500 in 32 months as governor. After 19 bogus ethics charges against her, she owed around 500,000 in legal fees to her attorney. The current laws of Alaska required that every single filed ethics complaint to be investigated no matter how ridiculous (being photographed with a fish, wearing a jacket with a logo, receiving choclates and hockey sticks as bribes) and all at the personal cost of the defendant. Had she stayed in office another 16 months, she likely would have been forced into bankruptcy because Alaska law does not automatically cover the legal defense of its governors nor was the Attorney General of the state or someone else designated by the state to defend her like all other states. If you were working in a job that was costing you almost twice as much to go into work everyday than you were making would you stay there?
Even her set up of a legal defense fund like other politicians have was deemed unethical (It was arguably the strictest legal defense fund in history with all the restrictions it had for those who could donate) wherein a politically motivated investigator suggested Palin should just let Alaska taxpayers pay for her legal defense. They wanted Alaskans to take the bullet for the political malice of Palin’s enemies.. In less than a year, she racked up half-a-million (to put this in perspective, her salary as Governor was only 125,000 a year and she had even declined a 25,000 raise by the legislature) in legal charges with much more to come.
Has any politician at the state level attracted the volume of attacks directed at Palin? Is it normal for a governor to go personally bankrupt defending themselves against bogus ethics complaints? Palin incurred almost twice as much legal debt as the salary she drew as governor. Every day she spent in office she was one day closer to personal bankruptcy.
One can argue that she should have just fought her enemies instead of letting them win.
These frivolous lawsuits effectively paralyzed her administration wasting time and money; moreover, her office was bombarded with countless Freedom of Information Act requests.
The research and paperwork needed to address the lawsuits and FOIA requests, had an estimated cost of State time of 2 million and rising.
If you decide to continue fighting your enemies at the expense of the people you serve is that even ethical? If your presence in office is causing heavy collateral damage to your state, is it smart and ethical to remain in office no matter the cost?
By resigning, Palin effectively took the circus out of Alaska.
It is not a defect to relinquish power for the good of all. When politicians or members of the media criticize Governor Palin for resigning office, remember why she did so. Then ask yourselves, who are these people criticizing her for making that move? What would they have done if they were in her shoes, and why? This move on her part was what a good leader and a true public servant should do, given the circumstances. If only all of our elected leaders put the public good above their own ambition, perhaps this country would be better off.
Never entrust power to those unwilling to surrender it. I’d would rather elect someone willing to relinquish power over a title-clinging politician (i.e. Blagovich, Sanford, Chavez) who refuses to surrender power under any circumstances short of being indicted or ousted in a military coup.
Maybe because we have a shred of compassion for the situation she was in. Obviously, you don't. Fine - do you have to continue spewing the same talking points over and over? You're not convincing anyone here.
This idiot truly has a very, very bad case of PDS. He is a very pathetic, hateful, jealous, ignorant, disrespectful person -- likely Mitt supporter, or RINO lover. He comes on this thread to disrupt and antagonize those of us who support a true conservative.
It's truly sad to see such pathetic, angry people so consumed with hate. The fool definitely has anger issues.
Some on here misunderstand that Sarah accomplished every thing on her agenda during her tenure as governor. Nothing was left “undone” as you nitpickers like to say.
At least she took her responsibilities seriously and addressed them. She didn’t vote “present” to hide her true feelings on the issues.
Her job was not left undone, and she left the office in very good, capable hands. Get your facts straight.
Well hell Ace, you positively supported one in 2008.
Not the best record for a big time pontificater like you.
Well, I think Sarah is going to keep the protection of private life and run this damn election.
That’s what I would do
Who needs the ****ing heartache?
What a pathetic response. At least, she won’t sit down and drink tea or have a beer summit with them, nor will she strengthen them as the poser-in-chief we now have is doing. I wish to God he’d quit his job.
Amen
Too bad Alaska doesn’t have a “no standing” law to protect the Governor like they do to protect Obama. Palin has already explained why she stepped down and it makes sense to anyone with common sense. There was no law in Alaska (unlike most other states) to protect her from frivolous lawsuits. Therefore the Libs took advantage of it! What don’t you understand about that?
Yes, AK has a different system for the governor’s office. They are the CEO, just like in a business. Sarah was the Chief Executive of AK.
Someone who truly loves this country and is in a position to influence it's future positively.
“I’m all for being liberated. I just don’t thank Palin will be around when it happens. Ronald Reagan never quit.”
So may I take it that you think that Sarah should have stayed in place and allowed the left to paralize the Alaskian State Goverment and via Saul Alinski tactics destroy her personally while she remained strapped to her desk. Is that what you truely think????
To me a quitter is someone that leaves the game or field of battle never to return.......but that’s not what Sarah has done now is it????
Since early 2009 Gov. Palin has brought the fight to our domestic enemies in a way that most of the other candidates haven’t/couldn’t....... By all reckoning Sarh has been the most effective fighter we have on the Right.
So why would you want to lose her to our side?????
She fights.......and will win........ while you encourage engagement in pyhrric battles.
We can all be thankful that you were never either a military general nor a political tactician. Thank God! There hope for the Republic after all!
I remember that..apparently you are a yout :)
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country...
Well he keeps it up he is likely to go too far and meet the same fate as pissant.
He won’t last through the campaign season.
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