Posted on 10/08/2011 2:50:52 PM PDT by Gargantua
Sarah Palin’s “Earthquake”
© 2011 by Anthony James
A little less than three years ago American conservatives received a devastating gut blow when Barack Obama was elected president. Although the mainstream media had not done any of their usual in-depth vetting of this largely unknown candidate, there were nonetheless millions of Americans who had availed themselves of the information digging properties on the Internet, who knew very well who this man was, who his radical past associations were, and who knew without being told what he meant when he said, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America!”
A few scant weeks earlier that same core group of American conservatives had been given reason for joyous exultation and celebration. Taking the stage at the RNC convention was an amazing conservative superstar unlike anything seen before or since. When Sarah Palin, Republican Governor of Alaska and John McCain’s selection for vice president in 2008 strode to the microphone and delivered that amazing acceptance speech, I felt like a gradeschool child watching fireworks on the Fourth of July. I was out of my mind with joy.
In the nearly three years since Obama’s victory, American conservatives have remained sane largely by keeping our focus on that bit of light at the end of the tunnel. That bit of light is also the most brightly shining superstar in all of American politics. We were able to bide our time and suffer the horrific indignities of the Obama administration by clinging to the hope, the desperate belief, that come 2012 we would have a chance to watch Governor Sarah Palin do for America what she had done for Alaska as president of a Nation once again allowed the opportunity to draw itself up to its full height.
On the evening of Thursday, October 6, tens of millions of conservatives across America once again had the wind kicked out of them as Sarah Palin on the Mark Levin radio show announced that she would not be running for president in 2012. The sense of abject hopelessness and despair was palpable and numbing. Year after year of sincere prayer, desperate wishes, and hopeful optimism as expressed by tens of millions of Americans throughout the heartland, all were snuffed in that instant.
Those among the deeply invested who wanted so badly for Sarah to run were not mindless followers or deluded Kool-Aid drinkers. They were people like yours truly who were thoroughly conversant with the amazing record of successes Sarah had amassed as Mayor of Wasilla and then as Governor. We could recite by heart her specific and unique qualifications that marked her as the perfect person for the job, and fully waist, head and shoulders above anyone else in the field.
We also knew that of all the candidates who might win in 2012 for the Republican ticket, only Sarah had a well known history of hunting down those of her predecessors who had run afoul of the law and having them fitted for state-issued jumpsuits. Nothing less would have been appropriate in Alaska under Governor Palin, and nothing less will be remotely acceptable now for America.
FreeRepublic.com is America’s leading site for conservative activism on the World Wide Web, and has been for well over a decade. Despite not really having the heart to engage in any political discussions given the recent paralysis which has consumed me since last Thursday, I logged onto FreeRepublic today and was given my life back. A FReeper (as the inhabitants of FeeRepublic are often referred to) known as “upsdriver” had received permission from the site’s owner and founder, Jim Robinson, to start a thread called “Sarah Palin’s Earthquake.”
Apparently Sarah had been asked in one of the recent interviews what it would take to get her to change her mind. I’m assuming here that she replied that, “…it would take an earthquake.” This is how the idea was born that those who, like me, have spent the last few days stumbling around in the blind funk might find a way to channel and even make extremely productive use of this terrible sense of loss and emptiness by doing something positive to change it. When you really look at it, isn’t this what America has always been all about? Taking having been dealt a lousy hand, and with effort and innovation, turning it into something worth leaving to your children?
If you are among the millions who who know that there is nobody who will come close to generating the enthusiasm, filling the stadiums, or bringing out the voters in 2012 like Sarah Palin will, this movement is for you. If you are among the millions who know that there is no other candidate with a proven track record and decades of experience doing exactly those things that most need to be done to save this nation as it trembles on the brink of Third World mediocrity, it’s time for you to act.
We will be Sarah Palin’s “Earthquake.” There is even a Facebook group started called Sarah Palin’s Earthquake. If you’re on Facebook go and sign up. Either way, get a postcard… or better still, get 50 postcards. Fill them out with this phrase:
“WE ARE THE EARTHQUAKE!”
Mail them to:
The Office of Sarah Palin
P.O. Box 871235
Wasilla, AK 99687
Let’s make absolutely certain that, at the end of the day, if Sarah doesn’t end up running for president in 2012, at the very least it will not be because she did not know how many of us would dearly love to see her and her amazing American family in our White House.
It remains impossible for me to reconcile how someone could be so sincere in their frequent praise of our troops and their willingness to leave even their lives on the battlefield in answer to the call of their country, and then for that same person to turn her back and walk away as her country cries out in its most desperate hour of life and death need. Quite frankly, that’s not the Sarah Palin I know and love.
Let’s make sure she knows it, too.
“Buck up or stay in the truck!”
“If you can’t ride two horses at once you probably shouldn’t join the circus.”
“Don’t retreat… RELOAD!!!”
~ Sarah Palin ~ 2011
o, I see..that is ok. Beautiful song from a group that was not so holy yet produced some very good rock music.
I suppose it might... if I actually "loved" him. Which I don't. Sorry.
I'm not obfuscating anything. My point remains; Sarah isn't walking away from anything. She was never a candidate, so she's not 'quitting' the race. She simply decided, as did Chris Christie, that the time wasn't right for herself or her family. If some of her supporters didn't understand what she was saying all along, that she was seriously, prayerfully, considering a race, but would have to wait and see what God, and her family, put on her heart, and that she would make her decision known in the Fall, which is exactly what she did.
I know many of her supporters had pinned their hopes on her, because they are so dissatisfied with the rest of the candidates, but we have what we have, and we'll have to make do with one of the remaining candidates. I like Herman Cain, myself, but frankly, I'll vote for whoever ends up the nominee, because ANYONE will be better than Obama. And if that Republican enters office with a larger number of conservatives in Congress, all the better for us. That is what Sarah will be working for, and I'm looking forward to that!
“I suppose it might... if I actually “loved” him. Which I don’t. Sorry.”
No, it’s the presumed mutual love of a 3rd party that makes one ascribe noble motives to the fellow admirer - motives the fellow admirer himself never voiced. Sorry.
Look.
Palin’s head and shoulders above the other Republicans in a number of ways - but she’s made a spectacle of her supporters. Disappointed us and let us down. Now she’s a distraction.
She should get out of the way right now and let the real candidates set the public debate.
She runs the risk of truly becoming irrelevant. But she’s the one who made that decision.
Palin can reconsider and get back in the race - plenty of time for that. Or get out of the way until which time her imput is no longer a distraction from the REAL CANDIDATES.
Pick a lane.
Don't try to pretend she's following the call for her to run for president. She is not. Save your half-baked, goofy-spun, third-grade excuses for someone who gives a flying funk.
Not allowed on this thread. Don't try to weasel-word around it, because IT WILL NOT FLY HERE. "SarahPAC" was never intended to mean "Sarah ~ Potato, Armchair/Couch"
You know, they didn’t need a bullet. They used her children.
You've officially "lost it."
Nobody here has even mentioned a "Third Party, much less are any involved in this discussion "enamored" of the concept. Hang a sign around your neck, please: "OUT TO LUNCH"
So sorry.
‘Nobody here has even mentioned a “Third Party, much less are any involved in this discussion “enamored” of the concept. Hang a sign around your neck, please: “OUT TO LUNCH”’
The third party I’m referring to that you are clearly enamored of and presume that others are (and therefore ascribe motives to them that they themselves give no indication of having) is the one in your tag line. Typical childish bot-like behavior...incapable of having an exchange without eventually hurling an insult.
Laughing for no good reason could be a sign of neurosis. Might want to get that checked out.
Yah, sure. I'll get right on that. LMAO!!!
8^D
See what I mean by my "limey fag" comment? LMAO! I've never seen that vid, didn't even know it was on YouTube. Actually, it was only uploaded to YouTube in August 2010.
That is hysterical. Why do all Brit rockers act like such flaming queers... or... is it an act? Scarey. And definitely not cool.
Yeah, I was very disillusioned with Robert Plant after he started TALKING. Same is true of a lot of great vocalists, I’ve found.
And what point is he trying to make? It’s stupid. lol
Being ever helpful, I will attempt to fix your crude efforts at a haiku.
First of all typically you’d want to follow the traditional 5- , 7- , 5-syllable pattern.
Your first line only had 4 syllables. Since much of your waking hours are doubtless spent worshipping the Goddess of Fairbanks, burning incense, sacrificing goats, muttering chants and casting runes, it’s understandable that you might be sloppy.
So to help you, might I reconstruct your poem, to wit:
“You are Palin’s tool
You must worship her daily
Will you stop sobbing?”
-George
Now THERE at last is the true Gargantua eloquence! An amphibian AND a body part, all in one phrase. I TOLD you that you would do well to sign up for the word-of-the-day emails! It works for my kids, after all!
And now, get thee to a Wizard !
That way, Gov. Palin’s bodyguards will know where you two “fans” are when they prepare their security plans.
To help yet again, I leave you with these takeaways:
The things that you and the other Palin fanatics have failed to realize from the beginning were primarily these:
1. “If” is for children. We actual conservatives can only deal with reality — not wishing, hoping, chanting, rituals, magic, or some combination thereof, that you believe would make Sarah Palin magically appear in your midst, or at least in a GOP primary run.
2. It wasn’t Palin that we actual conservatives had concerns about. She’s a very good politician and would likely make a fine president.
3. The ire and concerns we had were directed at YOU. You and your fellow fanatics.
Your 15 minutes of fame have expired. Savor the irrelevance you richly deserve.
-George
What happened to 'Game On' ???
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