Posted on 08/19/2011 7:09:07 AM PDT by markomalley
Support a moral candidate it’s still possible
I agree, I think we all want the same things, mostly to be let alone by the government, be it local, county, state, national or home owner’s associations :^)
I noted you said you’d vote for “nearly” anyone against Obama, did you have someone in mind that you absolutely wouldn’t vote for among the potential and announced Republican candidates? Just wondering.
I think a lot of people out there who are on the other side of the fence are reacting out of a gut fear to Palin’s personality, effervescence, and positive personality. Plus, that she’s aggressive. In our jaded society, people who have such a positive attitude always seems to be hiding something. Even the lib media poodles are giving up the hunt on that. People who have a ton of energy and ambition, besides being gorgeous...in the movie “As Good as it Gets” Jack Nicholson calls them “noodle salad people”, people who’ve got it all, and how envious we are of them...which all his travel companions in the movie deny vehemently, though unconvincingly.
As for the bubbly attitude, I believe it’s real. I think it’s a spigot she can’t turn off. I think she has quiet time, but she has an energy that just multiplies with people, reasonable people see this happen everywhere she goes. In this day and age, a person with that quality should be cherished.
We’ve gotten used to most of our leaders always having a little bit of sleaze leaking out somewhere. Clinton getting caught with his pants down apparently made him seem more human to some, because he was fractured like the rest of us, we identified with him. Sarah Palin has been examined with fine tooth combs that the FBI and CIA wish they could afford to spend on terrorists...and sleaze there has been none. When Ronald Reagan appeared as the squeaky clean candidate, there were critics oblivious of the man that labeled him a hick from the sticks. Little did they know. Reagan was not a chess master, he was a fencing master. His gut reactions were right because his moral center guided him, and he committed himself totally. He was equally committed to his few mistakes, but again, being the fencing master he has many tricks to avoid getting ‘stuck’ :)
I get the impression SP can play chess, and swing a broadsword with the other, I don’t think the rapier is her blade. Perhaps a baskethilt claymore. Awoman that’s beautiful, aggressive, and comes straight to the point intimidates. She prods, she pokes, all with a smile that drives you crazy, until you start changing your thinking, and some people rebel instinctively to someone so influential. She changes us, and the change doesn’t make everybody happy. I think she’s capable of changing the country, and right now, change is good. The ship is headed for the rocks and we need someone with a compass in her guts we can trust, and her ability to energize, our doubt is giving us the worst energy crisis. Even the people who get energized to disagree.
Plus, she’s beautiful, and this is not a shallow thing. There’s a kind of beautiful woman that the beauty doesn’t come from perfect features or dimensions, it’s how everything comes together, and how the light within makes it shine. I haven’t met a lib man yet who denies that.
I haven’t heard really substantive, non-skewed reasons why people think she’s unfit for office...only that so many people don’t think she can win. They have this gut feeling that she’s a square peg and the Oval Office is a round hole. I opine that we’ve had enough leaders that fit easily into the whole Washington round hole. It’s about time it got bent out of shape.
The view from the cheap seats.
No, I guess I don’t, but I always want to leave that door open. :)
Nice post. I don’t know if she will run.
I know every candidate will say and do some things I disagree with and I know they will all make mistakes and have some things in their past somewhere that I might wish weren’t there.
However, what I want in a candidate is an honest to goodness moral compass and belief in what they are telling me is their view. If it’s changed over the years (and whose hasn’t? MINE HAS!) I want to know that, and I want them to be able to articulate why and how and when. And if they have been in office I want to see evidence of it. If they have made mistakes they better be few and they better be able to explain them and be willing to explain them and not try to brush them off or hide them or worse yet lie about it.
That’s really all I ask. I’m sick to death of people who just want to get elected for the power and prestige and worse yet for the money. I want to wake up in the morning and not have to think about the government. I don’t want it to have much to do with my life. And I don’t think I’m alone in this. I think a lot of people feel just like I do.
Look at post 27. Hedgecock is enabling this.
I’m sorry, I’m clearly missing some pieces of the puzzle...what?
Now you’re confusing me ;-)
Then we should just go have a drink and forget about the rest of it.
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