Posted on 10/08/2011 2:50:52 PM PDT by Gargantua
Thanks Rodney; good summary!
JC
” I’m going to do everything in my power ...”
She has already made her well-considered decision, so your arrogant boast has no basis in reality!
JC
Yeah...I admit, I'd love it if she changed her mind. However, I have reconciled to the fact that God has told her...for whatever reason...NOT to run.
Why do I think God told her not to run?
I am beginning to believe, more and more, that God is about to judge this country. When He does, it will not be pretty. Whoever is running the country at the time will have it VERY bad. It may very well be that He knows Sarah follows Him, and in His mercy He doesn't want her to be the one to feel His wrath.
I also am now almost convinced this will be our last national election. No one in the current lineup can beat Obama. Once he gets that second term, our country is destroyed. The only way...the ONLY WAY...this could be avoided is if a majority of people got down on their knees and repented of the apathy toward the evil that has infested this land. Massive national repentance and revival- that is the only thing that MAY cause God to stay His hand.
Although I believe in miracles, and that He is merciful and can do anything, I do not hold out much hope that this will happen.
hope Palin reconsiders.
Do you all think we should send Pallin something like this?
Sarah Palin,
You gave up running to spare your family the liberal media smears.
But you think your family will be prosperous or even safe the way the U.S.A is going toward socialism? Think again. Please reconsider and run and win the presidency. Only you can save the U.S.A. from becoming a socialist hell hole. You think your family will prosper in socialist U.S.A? think again. When the socialists(democrats) achieve total power then the democrats/socialists will come after people like you who have money and are conservative first. Mark my words. think it can’t happen in the U.S.A? think again. And the marxist/democrats hate you most of all because they knew you were the only one that could stop them from achieving their goal so they will come after you first.
Please reconsider , run for and win the Presidency and stop the socialists from over taking America.
From a Fellow American.
The U.S.A is declining rapidly because of the growth of government/socialism.
When the socialists take total power and come after your little possessions you will wish Palin had run.
I do wish Palin had decided to run, but I also respect her decision NOT to run. You are a moron for attempting to blame me for her decision not to do so. Nevertheless, she is correct in deciding that the benefits of working on the outside outweigh the temptation of being a candidate at this time. Time will tell!
JC
“If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.”
—Sun Tzu
“For my state and for my family to progress ... I will not seek re-election as governor.”
—Sarah Palin
“Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price.”
—Sun Tzu
“After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States”
—Sarah Palin
“Let us worship her
But she says she will not run
We screech night and day”
—Calif Conservative
No, we're convicted that she may already have done that. She admits she was very close to saying "Yes," but then her kids talked her out of it. We want her to make certain she's following the Lord's leading.
Prayerful following is not a precise science... it's never as cut and dried as actually "hearing God say" one thing or another, it's a form of becoming convicted over time of where you believe you're being led through much prayerful consideration.
The result is not perfect or infallible, because in the end it is fallible, imperfect people who are interpereting what they believe to be His leading. Mistakes can be, have been, and often are made. We firmly believe that if there is a chance that she made such an error here, she should have the chance as well as the encouragement to rectify it.
It's called keeping each other "accountable," and it is one of Jesus' commands for the whole church, one obligation every Christian has to another.
You raise an excellent case in point; I'm pretty sure that WF "pinged" Jim Robinson to bring to his attention the fact that the author of this article gave FreeRepublic and Jim himself a nice plug in an online newspaper that is nationally syndicated, and which will be reprinted nationally dozens of times in the next few days.
Especially in the middle of a Freepathon, this can be helpful. However, your focus and attention is being colored by your own feelings to the point where you completely either miss or ignore this possibility.
"Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues."
No, she isn't. And nobody said she was. The article cites quite accurately that she is "walking away from" as much of her country as is crying out for her leadership as President in 2012.
Let's try to stay on point, Suzi. Obfuscation and topic-shifting dissembling are not allowed on my posts. Ergo.
I have never seen any evidence or proof of Todd Palin lying. He said in an interview last week with Stephen K. Bannon that the decision was Sarah's to make, and the he would support her no matter what she decided.
I believe him.
I also know that "following God's leading" is not a precise "science." There's alot of room for error, and this movement simply attempts to highlight that possibility to ensure a correct outcome.
God's answer to specific questions can be one thing one day, and quite another the next. His timing is not ours to determine or pre-judge. If it turns out that this current decision is indeed God's will, we'll know. And we can live with that.
Even Jesus said, "Test the spirits." That's all we're doing. ;^\
I think it is very possible, if Palin did leave all of us out here in the cold based on the feelings of her children, we are facing the worst of all possible worlds.
Children change their feelings on a dime.
I think it likely her children will change their feelings - probably the first time some schoolyard bully calls their mother a “quitter” during an argument. Of course by then there will be no turning the decision around. The taunt will sting, and not be forgotten. The kids end up not appreciating the sacrifice made on their behalf. And America will have lost a unique opportunity to avoid communism.
Pretty much the worst possible outcome. I hope I’m wrong, but this appears to have been a disasterous decision to me.
Palin made a huge mistake. America is not better for it.
Perhaps even as your sentence here is going to be an interesting in literary...
LMAO!!!!
“how did the stupid party get itself in a position...”
Good question. I think the GOP is a stinking corpse which someone has forgotten to bury, but many here disagree.
How does a party allow Democrats to be elected and reelected to the US Senate without opposition from deep red states ( defined as Bush > 60%)?
Would the Dems allow a Republican to run unopposed in California or Massachusetts? The very idea is absurd.
The Democrats are united by plunder and murder of innocents. The Republicans h ave no unifying principle. When a candidate tries to rally them to a campaign of ideas, they allow her to be destroyed.
We need a new and conservative party. The corpse of the GOP is in the way. Get on with the funeral.
Sorry if you missed my joke. Your tagline is a quote from Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven." In the live concert version from 1974, as that verse is sung, Robert Plant ad-libs to the audience in this typically faggy, utterly failed Brit attempt at American coolness:
"Does anybody remember laughter?"
That's all. I was making an obscure reference to the foppish Plant's pathetic screech. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Weak response...if that's the best you have, it doesn't speak well of you.
LMAO!!!!!
“I’m pretty sure that WF “pinged” Jim Robinson to bring to his attention the fact that the author of this article gave FreeRepublic and Jim himself a nice plug in an online newspaper that is nationally syndicated, and which will be reprinted nationally dozens of times in the next few day.”
It’s great if Jim/FR gets broader publicity but there’s absolutely nothing to indicate that that was why WF pinged Jim, as evidenced by WF’s subsequent replies to me when discussing his initial comment - during which he mentioned nothing of the sort, and he’s certainly articulate enough to have done so if that was his motivation.
“Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues.”
That it does, and it makes us ascribe motives to others that we wish they had.
You are the moron for thinking that is what I meant in my post.
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