Sarah Palin At High Noon

American Thinker ^ | 6-26-09 | Lloyd Marcus - OP/ED

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June 26, 2009

Sarah Palin At High Noon

By Lloyd Marcus

I just watched the classic movie "High Noon" (again). Gary Cooper played a brave sheriff who brought law and order to his town. As one woman said, "He made it safe for a decent woman to walk down the street". A recently released outlaw was coming back to town on the noon train to deliver vengeance against the sheriff who put him away. His gang of three arrived early to help their leader take out the sheriff.

Fully aware of why the bad men were in town, the sheriff could not arrest them because they had not broken any laws. Waiting is not illegal.

Desperate, the sheriff interrupted a church service to solicit help. After much debate, the ungrateful town folks declined. They even suggested the sheriff "get out of town" hoping the trouble would follow him. The sheriff contemplated their recommendation. He began saddling his horse, but something inside would not allow him to run away. Heroically, the sheriff faced the bad guys and won!

I thought of another strong, gutsy, bold, stand-on-principles hero, Sarah Palin, in her own modern day version of High Noon. Sheriff Palin rode into America Town on a white horse with conservative guns blazing and saved a dead McCain campaign. She brought hope to weary and battered conservative town folks and gave them a reason to vote.

Outlaw Obama and his posse, the hate filled liberal media/Democrat gang, came to town a gunnin' to politically eliminate Sheriff Palin. They ambushed her at Miss Katie Couric's CBS saloon. Though wounded numerous times, Sheriff Palin survived.

She bravely stood tall and rode high in the saddle while ungrateful, weak kneed Republican town folks ran for cover, hid in their homes and peeked nervously through the curtains.

Why are Obama and his gang so committed and desperate to destroy Palin? Could it be they recognize her destiny, like that of Moses, to set her people free? And why is she so despised by them? Obama's gang hate Palin for all the reasons we love her. Sheriff Palin is a good, decent and strong character driven conservative leader. Palin also believes in God. Such humility and virtues are as repulsive to liberals as showing Dracula the cross.

Something that sticks in the craw of many liberal women is that in their youth, they brought into the feminist rhetoric that women's liberation means no husband and family. Tragically, they find themselves aging and alone. Meanwhile, this conservative woman has it all: great career, fine family and a husband who loves and respects her. Adding insult in injury, Sheriff Palin looks mighty fine in her jeans.

Recently, the libs sent an old washed up gunslinger, the Letterman Kid, to challenge Sheriff Palin to a shoot out. Palin planted two bullets between the pathetic old dude's wrinkly eyes before he could un-holster his gun.

Despite Sheriff Palin's courage and willingness to fight, Obama and his posse rule America Town. They are in the process of taking over everything! Obama took over the livery stable and banned horses. While he and his posse continue riding horses, we town folks are forced to ride miniature ponies.

But in the spirit of what has made America Town great, an uprising is a brewin'. A huge conservative posse is building daily. Our first battle will be in 2010 to win back America Town's House and Senate. Then, in 2012, God willing and the creek don't rise, Sheriff Palin will lead us to victory in the battle of Little Big Washington DC. Years earlier, another great lawman cleaned up America Town, Sheriff Ronald Reagan.

After Sheriff Palin sweeps out the Obama gang, perhaps once again, we will be as what Sheriff Reagan affectionately called us, "a shining city on a hill".

Lloyd Marcus is the Singer/Songwriter of the "American Tea Party Anthem" and President, NAACPC (National Association for the Advancement of Conservative People of Color).

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[HighlyOpinionated]

Palin is not a savior, she is just a decent lady who would preserve our Republic.

Very True. I'd say that Gov. Palin does not wish to be a savior, either. She's a talented and charismatic woman who doesn't need a teleprompter to give a spirit stirring speech. She's a "real" person who doesn't pose as something she's not. She has a close relationship with Alaska which I'm sure will transfer to the entire USofA. She just went to Kosovo to talk to the National Guard from Alaska. She truly cares. She's connected. She has a tight knit family. And I can't wait for her and her family to be in the White House. The Obamas can leave the swing set.

[counterpunch]

The poll numbers spike when he picked Palin, just as they spiked for 0bama when he picked Biden of all people.
That’s what always happens.

But the more people got to know Palin, the less impressed they were with her.
She is not someone out there as a leading light of the conservative movement.
She has done nothing to earn her admires except for 1) being hand-picked by Juan McCain 2) being a woman 3) being a target for the leftwing media.

She’s not a leading thinker in the fight on any conservative issues.
She’s barely even a follower. She bungled all of her memorized answers, and just stared blankly on the questions she hadn’t crammed for.

I want the GOP standard-bearer to be someone who can speak lucidly and with authority on any issue thrown at them.
We have leaders, both past and present who can.
Sarah Palin is not among them.

The best comeback the PalinChoir has to offer is that she can be trained.

[Oztrich Boy]

Right now, I believe Americans are clamoring for less government, but at the same time, making the government we keep more streamlined, efficient, and responsive.

You want a candidate who, two days after being named as VP candidate, can articulate: "We don't want bigger government. We want government that does a few big things and it does them right." - oh, snap!

[HighlyOpinionated]

Sheriff Palin will be standing alone on the edge of town. She’s going to need a lot of help from the rest of us to bring her safely to the Sheriff’s Office.

We'll all be there, not to worry. There are more and more Candidates who are signing the 9-12 promise and are running on the Values and Principles of Glenn Beck's program. Check them out at http://912Candidates.org

[sport]

Goog job and post. obama appreicates the job you did.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

You know, it is a damned good question as to WHY you have THIS picture on your FR profile page...

...and then come on this board to trash her as mercilessly as you have.

I'm starting to think that you're either a lib troll or a deranged nut.

[Al B.]

Prolly another Matt Braynard.

[HighlyOpinionated]

Huh?

Sarah Palin has excited the electorate. She’ll be ready to run for President in 2012. No, she didn’t graduate from an Ivy League College and she doesn’t have “Esq” behind her name. But that’s okay. In fact, many of us prefer it that way. I doubt that she’d put up with a 1200 page bill that the Congress did not have time to read. And the “hurry up” and vote attitude would not be in her agenda.

I for one am tired of the majority of Congress who have an elitist attitude and think they know what’s best for us WITHOUT asking us first. Gov Palin is not elitist. She’s “normal” and “one of us.”

Being negative about the set-up from McCain (who didn’t PLAN to win and when he chose Palin and she brought his numbers up, he had to sabotage her with TV interviews and change his tactics) is unfair. She’s intelligent and personable. Neither of which McCain can claim.

Once Gov Palin is running at the head of the GOP ticket . . . .

[counterpunch]

I’m not being a “mouthpiece for the left.”
I’m contributing my voice to what I believe conservatives need to be doing to avoid more embarrassment and defeat.

There is a time to put our best face forward, and a time to be honest with ourselves and each other.
If Palin somehow captures the 2012 GOP nomination, then I will have no choice but to swallow hard and put my best defense for her forward. But it will be an uphill battle, and I guarantee you, we will spend the entire election cycle doing just that: defending her. We will never be on offence with a candidate like Palin, only defence. And you cannot win that way. The best defence does is minimize your loss of ground. You never advance with it, though. And you cannot win by minimizing your loss.

Voters want solutions. If we put forward a thinker who can make a good case for conservative approach to fixing the mess we’re in, and the mess 0bama is making, then we can win. But putting Palin up instead would be simply holding her up and saying “vote for her because she’s a woman, because she’s not 0bama, because she’s a conservative, because she’s a Republican.” It would be trolling for votes based on identity, not ideas. It would be hoping she could get enough votes because enough people are excited about what she represents, the way so many were excited by what 0bama represents. It would be hoping that America says “OK, now that we’ve had a black president, how about we break some more barriers and elect a woman president!” But she really has nothing going for her outside of identity politics, and we all know that, deep down.

[Arizona Carolyn]

You are clueless — pure and simple, you sound like David Frum and Peggy Noonan; elitist.

[counterpunch]

You need to use the <CENTER> tag.
I've had that graphic up since the election, when I had to do my best to sell the McCain/Palin ticket (you should see the lows I had to stoop to on behalf of McCain. hah. click the 'propaganda' link at the bottom of my page.)

The fact is, I have become steadily less impressed with Palin.
It concerns me greatly that I see this sort of hero worship pooping up from some on our side who refuse to see her for what she is. They have to invent fantasies of her being some kind of 'sheriff' because there is nothing tangible they can point to in the real world.

As long as there are people trying to invent some kind of mythology around a public figure, they need to be countered and brought back down to earth.

How does it make you and other FReepers feel to know that you are no different and no better than the Cult of 0bama worshipers?
 

[wardaddy]

Counterpunch hates flyoverland folks

I had a fight with a lib last nite who made the same sort of arguments

they are so erudite, we are all so dumb and beneatht them and all

and to claim Palin is inarticulate...good lord...she gives speeches as good as Fearless Leader does and without teleprompters when need be

and btw....articulate does not make a leader

else all our Presidents would have been Billy Mays clones

hey...I can be snotty too...slapping my back

[hrh40]

You are clearly basing your WHOLE assessment on the Katie Couric interiew.

You CLEARLY haven’t followed ANY of her career.

And your tag line is about government being the problem. If you had followed her for even one minute other than the Couric interview, you would have heard her say your exact tag line.

Because she says it every other day.

And she doesn’t only just say it. She embodies it as Governor of Alaska.

Incidentally, do you work for the media? ‘Cause you do your research just about as well as they do.

I really shouldn’t do this ‘cause you should find your own sources, but here ya’ go:

www.gov.state.ak.us
www.twitter.com/akgovsarahpalin
www.conservatives4palin.com

Spend a couple of hours at any of those sites and then get back to us.

Oh and look elsewhere at this very site for videos of the Governor meeting the troops and citizens of Kosovo and speaking to them of their peacekeeping mission and peace through strength, etc.

[jazusamo]

We will never be on offence with a candidate like Palin, only defence.

Just curious, are you a Brit? Do you have anything to do with Counter Punch Newsletter?

[counterpunch]

I’m not basing my assessment solely on the Katie Couric interview, as shameful as Palin’s performance was.
She proved then she is a know-nothing.
Do you think Dick Cheney or Newt Gingrich or even Mike Huckabee would have come up blank on those questions?

Do you think Mike Pence or Jim DeMint would have talked in incoherent circles?
Get real!

If poor widdle Sarah was “just having a bad day” when she got outsmarted by the mental midget Katie Couric, then how do you explain her latest grammatical gem she dropped on America’s airwaves:

“No wonder young girls especially have such low self-esteem in America when we think it’s funny for a so-called comedian to get away with being able to make such a remark as he did and to think that that’s acceptable.”

Sure, she grabbed a lot of attention, but she lowered herself to the level of a late-night comedian in the process. Could you imagine Dick Cheney behaving this way when his daughter was attacked? Remember, it did happen in 2994. And from Kerry and Edwards, no less, not some late night hack. Dick was asked about it, and he declined to comment. He never stopped being the graceful statesman.

[counterpunch]

No and no.

[counterpunch]

‘2994’ should have said ‘2004’.

[counterpunch]

I guess it’s easier for you to attack a strawman than to counter my actual words.

[rabidralph]

There is no myth, besides, you can’t take anyone seriously who can’t spell “invent.”

[DemforBush]

Personally, I like to think of Palin in 2012 as the High Plains Drifter, with Congress as the town of Lago...