Posted on 07/12/2011 10:47:52 AM PDT by Gargantua
Lancing the “She Quit!” Boil One Last Time
© 2011 By Gargantua
One of the more unsettling hallmarks of the unfair, often deceitful, and always unprovoked attacks on Sarah Palin is the way in which she is frequently castigated for doing things commonly accepted when done by others, but which somehow rise to a level of unconscionable effrontery when she does them. A good example is the way that she was excoriated for having posted on her website a map of the United States which used surveyors marks to denote vulnerable Democratic congressional seats for The Tea Party to “target”in the 2011 midterms.
Leave aside for the moment the fact that Democrat operatives had created a similar such map using actual gun sight crosshairs (and not the somewhat more innocuous surveyors marks Palin had used) in laying out their “aim for” congressional map. Leave aside the fact that a Democrat candidate actually aired a commercial in which he repeatedly fired a rifle at a copy of the “Obamacare” bill.
Ignoring these facts as well as the fact that Jarod Lee Loughner was a demonstrably insane liberal who had stalked Gabrielle Giffords for the past several years, and had most probably never even looked at Sarah Palin website, nonetheless the extremist left immediately started blatting into every microphone and TV camera they could find that it was clearly Sarah Palin who had caused the lunatic to shoot the Congresswoman.
I use this example to_underscore_the clear double standard employed whenever the extremist left decides to opine on Gov. Palin. Turning our attention now to another of the Lapdog Lamestream Enemedia’s frequent mantras concerning the governor, let's take a comprehensive look at their assertion that she should not be considered for future office because “she quit." The way that canard is presented, one might easily believe that it is something offensive and out of the ordinary that Palin had decided to do. After all, with this act, she was turning her back on and walking away from her constituents and her elected post as governor.
Whereupon arises the question, what Senator, Representative, or Governor in the history of the Republic, did not in fact walk away from his constituency and elected position so that he could run for another office? Can you name one? Of course you can't. Every Sen. Rep. and Gov. who ever ran for a different office after having been elected to their current one walked away from their constituency and their elected post in order to do so. It's a common practice. It's a commonly accepted practice.
Unless, of course, Sarah Palin tries to do it.
Even more insidious in the use of this strawman when attacking the governor is the fact that she did not “run away” in leaving her governorship. She put the reins of the state in the hands of her very capable lieutenant governor Sean Parnell, turned and charged into the teeth of the beast that was assailing her. And proceeded to royally kick its butt.
Speculation was rampant and predictions were unending that this marked the death knell for the poor governor. The path of her political ascension had reached its zenith, and she was in a fire and smoke trailing tailspin headed for political obscurity. Nobody the day after Gov. Palin stepped down predicted that she was about to publish two best-selling books. Nor did they predict that she was about to embark on a series of speaking engagements commanding six figure compensation. Most assuredly, nobody even thought of suggesting that she might mount a series of campaign endorsements, often times for obscure candidates trailing badly in the polls, the majority of which would then win elected office creating the Republican Revolution of 2010; the single largest party shift in control of the House of Representatives in the history of the Republic (whereby Sarah would be most appropriately crowned “Kingmaker”).
Just to recap, Sarah Palin did indeed leave her governorship to move on to bigger and better, and far more meaningful (not to mention unpaid) contributions to the political ship of state. Just as had every elected official in American history before her, Sarah left the Alaska governorship to pursue higher goals prior to the conclusion of her full-term. The main difference being none of the other elected officials who had undertaken this commonly accepted practice were ever so roundly and universally excoriated as a “quitter” for having done so.
As a fitting end to this story of truly unique practices and outcomes, Sarah Palin is quite likely shortly to announce her candidacy for President of the United States in 2012. Should she do so, the most likely outcome will be that she defeats in a landslide the most badly failed president ever to hold the Oval Office.
The irony, and oh-so poetic justice, of just such a scenario is most certainly not lost upon those who still admire and will always support so unfairly mistreated a hero as Sarah Palin.
Instead of asking me a question about a point I wasn't addressing, why don't you simply give your opinion about a point you wish to make.
You might need to lay off the hard stuff.
Much of the law was very good. It had a feature that allowed complaints such that the complainers could generate headlines, but the governor was unable to respond in kind. It was a bug in the code introduced by the attorney who crafted it. It makes no sense to blame Palin for not being a good attorney, since she isn’t one.
Allow me to quote from your article:
"Just as had every elected official in American history before her, Sarah left the Alaska governorship to pursue higher goals prior to the conclusion of her full-term."
Once again, I see that pesky all-inclusive word "every". In your second response to me, you said:
"Each and every "all" and "every" that I did use, I used with full knowledge and specific intent. They are intentional, and precise, not to mention correct."
Are you prepared to share your "full knowledge" of American History to back up that statement?
I doubt it.
Instead you have descended even further to childish name calling.
Very impressive. What will you do for an encore?
You're right about one thing, though. There are more fruitful ways to occupy myself that reading your writings. I certainly won't make that mistake again.
Ahhh. Success. I just love it when a great plan comes together. Seeya, sphinc.
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What ridiculous, tortured, inane pretzel-logic. You really are a badly deranged mental deficient.
Should Palin apologize for a Law intended to protect the public? No more than should the person who invented the handgun apologize for murderers. That some repugnant filth chooses to abuse and bastardize a great tool doesn't speak ill of the tool... only of the repugnant filth who abuse it.
Like you using FreeRepublic to urinate on what Jim Robinson calls "Palin Country." Jim needn't apologize to us for you. Your parents should. You sulfer-drenched brain-fart.
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I’ve been in roadhouses where “You don’t mind if I call you Joe, do you?” with a smile such as you describe, is the first sign of a real donnybrook.
There’s been mention of one of the oil execs telling her “...you don’t know who you’re dealing with.”. Wonder what he’d have to say about that today.
Sarah has indeed got an eyeful of the political landscape, emasculated by their own corruption. She has seen how the trappings of the political machine have done nothing but march our society to the brink of collapse. That sterile machine only pays lip service to new innovation as a facade to enrich the politician. She has seen how campaign contributions come from those receiving favors from politicians who turn their campaign war chests into money making instruments for their own enrichment. Our tax dollars are used to buy votes and laundered to grow offshore bank accounts. It is this system that has grown so far out of control and without restraint that is threatens to collapse and end this nation. Big Government that has allowed to become a business ran by politicians to further their own wealth, is government out of the bounds of our Constitution. It is this system that threatens to swallow the circulation of money in the private sector. Once the private sector has no money to circulate, the beast of Big Government grinds to a halt like a parasite that has depleted its host. We cannot allow that kind of catastrophe to happen, for it will destroy millions of lives around the world. The Unites States affects lives all over this planet.
Those who threaten to break this system are patriots like Sarah Palin who are certain that the instrument of salvation is non other than the U.S. Constitution. It offers the only legal system of codes that cannot be undone, and once applied, will kill the beast of Big Government that our Founding Fathers masterminded to keep government the servant of the individual.
Your post is well written and perceptive in the purpose of Sarah Palin as an instrument of freedom for our nation and people everywhere.
Gov Palin did not even complete one term.
Palin had an extraordinarily productive term as governor, even if it was a bit shortened.
Romney barely focused on his job for two years, did a bad job while at that, and then occupied the office while really running for president after that.
Go see The Undefeated, then report back to me.
I’m not much of a Romney fan but Palin quit. She is not a politician now she is a public advocate and a great one and she should/will stay that way.
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