Posted on 07/06/2009 5:31:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
Sheeesh, another elitist pundit.
America needs Sarah NOW - for help in 2010 and finally to stop chairman obeyme's communism. If we wait for 2016, it will be too late to save our republic.
"I’m confused by all the confusion among the chattering classes about Palin. I thought her press conference explained it very clearly – though she couldn’t put it precisely this way without sounding vain, but it’s obvious.
Even though she’s just a state governor, she’s a HUGE national star who is both sought after and attacked as if she is already a president (a Bush, not an Obama). But she basically can’t participate because she’s tethered to the governor’s office up in Alaska. Consequently, she has to fight with one hand tied behind her back and she also can’t go around the country campaigning for candidates and principles she believes in – because she’s governor and would be accused of neglecting the state.
Meanwhile, the Lt. Gov. is a great guy, so she’s leaving the state in good hands and now she can go on to be an even bigger star.
It’s a weird Washington insider perspective to be perplexed by what she’s doing. Contrary to Mark Sanford’s e-mails to his mistress, no one was really impressed with him; 99.99999999999999999% of Americans didn’t know who he was. Who is more influential: Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge and Bill O’Reilly, or Tim Pawlenty, Bobby Jindal and Mark Sanford (before the fall)? As Palin said, God bless people who run for political office, but – and she didn’t say this part – she’s too big to be a lame-duck governor stuck dealing with fishing licenses in Anchorage right now.
She’ll be much bigger now and can play on the national stage without constantly setting off state ethics investigations by loons, parasites and liberals. None of this applied to McCain or Kerry – both of whom went back to the Senate – because their national campaigns diminished them. Palin’s national campaign made her a major star. As she said, she’s not retreating, she’s advancing in another direction."
Very interesting comment.
I’m not ready to say that Sarah should wait until 2016 or after. It depends where we are 2012. If Obama has thoroughly wrecked this country and Americans are disgusted enough by Marxism, 2012 may be the time.
Whether 2012 or 2016, she has to network and extend her influence as early as possible. She needs to make $$$ and position herself as the Conservative leader. Traveling the world should also be on the agenda.
Resigning from the Governor’s office was the smartest (in not only reasonable) thing to do.
P.S.: A correction though: Piper is the youngest daughter, not Willow.
If we wait for August and Cap and Trade it will be too late.
My fanstasy, first speach, Here is my birth certificate that I need for a driver's license, WHERE THE HELL IS YOURS?
Then walks off the stage with the liberal media speachless, the Executive Branch laughing in fear, and the uneducated masses ENERGIZED! They aren't going to pay attention to us until they think we're mad enough to start HANGING THEM (after the trials of course for treason).
If she waits until 2016,
she may have to choose WHICH
“America” she wants to be president of.
I predict she will go on a speaking tour, and do events for 2010 congressional candidates.
This will keep her name in the public eye, without ‘running’ for the GOP nomination. Sort of a more subtle version of Hillary’s listening tour.
I think what she will discover is that most of the GOP money comes from the left and right coast, and she will not be well funded enough to pull the trigger on a 2012 bid.
Presently, I have no idea who the GOP might field against the Messiah....but I don’t think it will be Palin.
Palin will win the GOP primaries if she runs 2012.
While the money may come from the coast elitists, the votes come from the people (Mr Steele close the primaries and stop the caucuses!!!)
If the GOP runs another RINO, they can stuff it.
We all should write in Palin then.
I would not say elitist pundit, since Dunn describes how the northeast elitists running the GOP can blow the opportunity in 2012 - snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Excellent idea. McCain wouldn't have been our candidate if only republicans would have been able to vote in the primaries.
F&F’s Gretchen was bemoaning how Sarah let down her ability to keep reminding her daughter of female role models in politics who don’t quit...one, Hillary the Democrat and two, Sarah the Republican. Now Sarah went and ruined the balance.
Gretchen is factually wrong. Hillary quit being Senator to run for President then quit running to endorse Barack and accept an embarassingly nothing role in HIS government. Compared to Hillary, Sarah is a rock of consistency.
Gretchen is wrong as well to personalize Sarah’s decision in terms of herself and her daughter. Sarah isn’t there so Gretchen can use her. She’s there for real, substantive reasons in her own right.
Gretchen is ridiculous.
But ohhhhhhh so seriously somehow involved in what Sarah is up to.
How dare Sarah disappoint Gretchen!
To the article, I wonder why the writer referred to Bristol as facing single motherhood and “a failed marriage”?
Failure to marry is not quite the same as a failed marriage. Strange.
To the article’s take on Sarah’s decision, who knows?
I’ve read that Sarah knows this country is done unless we the American people grab these statist clowns by the throat (figure of speech) right now, and THAT is why she’s leaving the governorship to lead the movement.
As horrible as things are, I see the latter as being more the case.
We are about to see Sarah’s view unfold.
If she stays home with family and lets the catastrophe play out, or if she leads the movement to arrest it in progress...
The GOP has another think coming if they think they can push Romney or some RINO on the base in 2012! It won't work!
The National Republican Party is losing $ donations daily and will continue to do so. Why would any conservative donate hard earned cash to a party who keeps RINOS in good standing?
I received a call just yesterday from the GOP asking for a donation. I kindly told them that I will only be making donations to individual candidates who I know to be constitutional conservatives. I said I just can't let even one penny of my money go to the likes of the 8 RINOS who voted for Cap&Trade along with the DEMS! I was then given the little talk about how Chairman Steele is working so hard to bring back the "conservative Republican Party". I told the caller I just have not heard Mr. Steele call out the 8 RINOS who voted with the DEMS. I suggested that Mr. Steele needs to try to become more "conservative" himself!
I enjoyed the call, and I also asked the caller to remove me from the calling list as I have received several calls for donations and will not be donating anything to the GOP, just individual candidates of my choosing. :)
Can you make me one using:
ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW I am swimming with Sarahcudah!
using this picture
Sarah hasnt left the stage, she is going to pop back up in a much better position soon, that is my prediction. Be prepared for a surprise.
Good points. I don’t think it will be anyone involved in the 2008 race. I look for someone new and fresh.
Bobby Mahat Jindal...
She’s resigned from a position before when she realized she couldn’t do the job the way she wanted to. That led to her eventually being elected governor.
Way too soon to write her off, IMO.
If new and fresh, your words, it would be the first time. The GOP is known for putting out there the next-in-line candidate that everybody knows.
JMO, it won’t matter if they are “new and fresh” if they are run by the establishment GOP shoving them in the face of the grass roots who don’t want them.
For example if the GOP for once decides to annoint a “new and fresh” candidate and tries to shove Tim Pawlenty or his ilk in the face of grass roots who want Sarah Palin or Jim DeMint or whoever is standing strongest for saving this imperiled nation from the statists, they can kiss goodby their precious pick.
Ahhhh... they, including Noonan, may have led the charge against Palin, but in no way are those elitists "the movement conservatives".
Ronald Reagan, himself, threw the conservative leadership mantle on Rush Limbaugh to carry on in his stead - in writing. Rush has that letter framed and hanging on his wall.
Reagan would never throw his mantle on any of the pretenders to "conservativism" who have been going after Palin. RINOS always show their true colors, and we _WILL_ take the Republican Party back from them.
And I say it will happen in 2012, too!
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