Posted on 07/06/2009 11:01:20 AM PDT by DB9
There is a point in tournament poker where one player doesn't have the chips to play out the next raise, but they have great cards, so they call "all in." At that point, nobody can raise them and the hand gets played out -- either to a game changing win or a total loss for the person who made the call.
It appears Sarah Palin decided she and her family could no longer deal with the thousand cuts, so she is "all in."
Palin may well decide to stay home and make macaroni and cheese for the kids, but history may not let her. She has already established herself as a major player -- candidate or not. More importantly, the wildly critical left has put her in a financial position where she has no choice but to speak out, perhaps do a book, and make the money she needs to pay legal bills for 15 unwarranted "ethics" investigations, all of which she handily won. The legal bills remain.
One doubts that when she speaks out, it will be about how to field dress a moose. Rather, she will take positions in speaking and writing about her core beliefs. That is a problem for the radical left of their own creation.
Palin enters the arena where the fight is not between liberal and conservative; nor is it between Republican and Democrat. The fight is between elite and the common person who works every day and continually asks how Washington D.C., under both parties, is so out of control.
Elitism has never been popular in America. Major American critics from H.L Menken to Rush Limbaugh made careers poking fun at elites.
Elitism is on display today as never before. Senate and Congressional seats are passed down in the family. Just look at the family members lining up for Ted Kennedy's seat or Caroline's assumption that she deserved the New York Senate seat. Vice President Biden's Senate seat is being kept warm for his son, now serving in the Middle East. Lots of talk that Michelle Obama may be the next Illinois senator.
Hereditary government on display. How much more elitist can a nation become?
The fight is between an out of control government led by media and government elites and common sense Americans, of both parties, who have had enough. Sarah Palin is in the enviable, although personally painful position, of being the "anti elite" voice of common sense and shared American values.
The vicious left put her there and now they may live to regret it.
When informed of the invention of "poison gas" by Admiral Cochrane, the Duke of Wellington cautioned that "that is a game two can play." He wisely chose not to go there because it would certainly be used by both sides.
The parallel exists with Saul Alinsky, the progenitor of much radical leftist smear techniques. His key dictum was that ridicule had no antidote. Sarah Palin was wildly successful heaping ridicule on Obama during the campaign, when he was at his best.
Nothing is more easily and cogently ridiculed than elitism.
Obama even appointed an elite college professor who posits that animals should have legal rights to sue their owners. Can one imagine Sarah Palin foisting this foolish, elitist intellectual on the question: "well, then professor, shouldn't a 6 month, developed fetus have the same legal rights as a chicken?" Make Obama defend that position.
Now Obama is finding the treading a bit harder. Rasmussen polls show a weakening of his approval numbers and all polls agree that most Americans do not support cap and tax, do not want illegals to get health care funded by taxpayers and now are becoming pro life. Wide swaths of informed citizens are coming to understand man made global warming is a hoax used to heap new energy taxes on them. Only elites, from both parties, can propose such nonsense.
Even Colin Powell, the truest weathervane of elitist thinking, is openly questioning Obama's spending. Certainly he did not get these doubts from listening to Rush Limbaugh. Perhaps, Colin Powell senses where this is going, and it is not going his way.
Sara Palin takes on the "fancy people" from a position, eagerly given to her by her enemies, of being a "common" person who went to an ordinary college, has typical family problems, is married to a guy who works in an oil field, buys her kid's diapers at WalMart. If the fight is with the elites, what better background could one have?
Ayn Rand said that there is right and there is wrong, and everything in the middle is evil. Sarah Palin is not a person from the middle. She has her beliefs and lives them in her daily life. Her children are her life's work, they are not accessories.
Nobody is better positioned, as a candidate or commentator, to take on the elites and the nonsense they put forward.
What an irony if the only American President who can make a 3 point shot were taken out by a point guard who came up to his shoulder. And if the guard was a chick -- who went to a no name school?
Yeah, yeah. I’m an elitist. I think you should actually do the job you were hired to do. How awful.
Where did you get the idea that Romney inherited millions of dollars? Or did you just make it up?
I continue to wonder why this occured. Does it not make sense to let such a man pitch, then play first base on days he is not pitching? First base rarely has to make a throw, so it wouldn't hurt his arm.....and if it did, then pull him from rotation until his arm heals.
Little Leaguers rotate through many positions, including pitcher, with no ill effect..why not the pros?
What makes you think that she does not have a new job? Last time I checked entrepreneurs like Rush, Sean, etc. do a lot better job and make more money!
Why be a hired slave when you can be a successful entrepreneur? I'd quit too if I knew I could be more effective; which she can be.
It is up to the INDIVIDUAL to decide if the job offered is better than the job currently held.
Obama
Biden
Sebelius
Emmanuel
Hillary Clinton
They ALL quit one job to take another.
They ALL Promised their original constituents that they would fill out their full term of office, at some time during their campaigns, did they not?
So, you say, in effect, that the duty is to those who voted for the office holder?
What the hell difference does it make, then, for the new job to be “better” or “worse” than the old job?
You have painted yourself into a corner, by your own hand.
Case dismissed!
Ping...finally someone who actually put some thought into what is going on. One of the best pieces yet out of the thousands of hysterical rants that are out there.
“...not one hampered by the GOP mouthpieces du jour.”
I dunno. I would get great pleasure if she showed up unannounced in DeMoines, Iowa next week and was spotted by the local news having a quiet dinner at Dennys with Alan Keyes, Ron Paul and some respected conservative leaders.
The media and the GOP leadership would have a complete and utter meltdown.
Her detractors have said that being the Governor of Alaska was not the same as a being a governor of the lower 48. Even having experience as a community organizer carried more weight than being a governor of Alaska or mayor of an Alaskan town. They have critiqued every move she has made and they have mocked her family.
Then Palin Shrugged.
Now they blame her for abandoning her post.
She can do no right by them.
This is the best article I have read so far on the subject.
Don't forget that it was literally costing her more per year to be governor than she received in pay. No way does that work economically, and no one should expect her to trudge onward against the slings and arrows, paying for the privilege of being governor. I know that if my job-related expenses ever exceeded my salary, I'd quit and look for something else. It would be irresponsible to do otherwise.
So what’s her new job?
Getting under YOUR skin, and others like you.
That is Sarah’s job.
I sent her a check yesterday.....any other Freppers?????
I sent her a check yesterday.....any other Freppers????? Uh....Freepers.
The winnowing fork separates the wheat (the individualists) from the chaff (the elitists).
Count me in too! Right now we don't even have life jackets to keep our heads above water. She at least has a ship, and I think she will have a great crew. I see no other options.
Her new job will be either to sit around the house and make instant noodles while all the slime the Left has poured over her dries or go on the attack writing, broadcasting, doing the lecture tours, etc. Gee, which of the 2 do you think she'll do?
Her new job will be either to sit around the house and make instant noodles while all the slime the Left has poured over her dries or go on the attack writing, broadcasting, doing the lecture tours, etc. Gee, which of the 2 do you think she'll do?
I don’t think they’ll stop trying to destroy her. But I do think the most unsustainable aspect (for her) will be moot. With no official status, she can’t be sued for ethics violations at the drop of a hat.
Her assistants can’t be sued for carrying Trig. She can’t be sued for wearing an Arctic Cat jacket, etc. She can freely travel within the U.S., without being sued. If someone covers her travel to a speech, and includes airfare for Todd or Willow, she can’t be sued.
As to going on the offensive, it pains me to agree with you on this. I hope she and her lawyers have some ‘malicious intent’ evidence, and pound these SOB’s into chutney.
And I’d vote for her right now if she said she was running.
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