Posted on 07/07/2009 8:58:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin is a sinner. She has violated several commandments and thoroughly deserves the savage beating that she is now getting from political mandarins and media elites.
If it were not for one simple fact, I would say she was through in politics. And that fact is that if the Republicans were picking a nominee today, they would pick Sarah Palin.
No? Don’t believe me? Who would beat her? Tim Pawlenty? Bobby Jindal? Haley Barbour? Mike Huckabee? Mitt Romney?
All of these men might build credible, attractive, even powerful political operations by 2012. But right now? Today? Today, Sarah Palin would be the winner, because more than anyone else, she has won over the hearts and minds of the Republican rank and file. (And tell me that a Sarah Palin-Newt Gingrich ticket would not set conservative hearts aflutter.)
She has done this by sinning, however. Let us list just some of the political commandments she has recently violated:
Thou shalt not surprise the media.
Palin announces she is quitting her job as governor of Alaska, and she catches everybody by surprise. What is up with that?
Where were the leaks and the trial balloons? Why weren’t the media alerted so they could have predicted it?
When you do what the media have predicted, you are “savvy.” You are a “skilled” and “adept” politician.
If you surprise the media, however, you are “out of control” and “bizarre” and even “egotistical.” (Though I have always believed that accusing politicians of being egotistical is like accusing ballerinas of dancing on their toes.)
How badly do some in the media take to surprise?(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at theunionleader.com ...
Just look at the volume in her Facebook and PAC....they keep growing....I mean surging daily!!!
Oh IF ONLY.........I respect Bolton. He’d make a great running mate or Secretary of State/Secretary of Defense in a Palin administration. :)
Free Republic is all the “social networking” I have time for. Is her Facebook page pretty popular?
They need to embrace the conservatives if they want to live. I see the GOP establishment trying to distance itself from the conservatives and it strikes me that this is little less than putting in a phone call to Dr. Kevorkian.
We need to send stuff like this to Barnes and Krauthammer
Pretty good article except for the bone-chilling thought of putting Newt anywhere near the ticket.
Palin/Bolton 2012....
I LIKE it!
I agree-—why put the ball and chain of VP on Bolton...turn him loose.
I do not know what the future holds in store for Palin. I hope she somehow succeeds in whatever she does. You can’t get a better conservative woman than Palin. I am not sure about this but from all indications so far I do not think Palin had any plan post-resignation. Harry Truman once said, “if you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen”. I am disappointed that Palin took the route of resignation because I would much prefer conservatives stand their ground and fight. That is precisely what has been wrong with the republican party since 1997. Not only has the party completely forgotten their copre basic conservative ideals but they have also relinquished the fight, resigned themselves to despair and decided the only way to get stronger was to conform rather than return to the core values and principles that make the republican party a tremendous force for good in the world and fight hard for those values and principles.
***Post of the day nominee***
Do you have a million dollars to send her to fight those baseless ethics complaints? Me, either.
Bolton was the first guy I thought of to help add ADDITIONAL gravitas to Sarah Palin’s new Party.
No, I haven’t thought of anyone else yet. Too many pussies.
because more than anyone else, she has won over the hearts and minds of the Republican rank and file.
Power to the people. The elite power brokers can pound sand.
Conservatives love Palin, Romney’s people know that she is an obstacle.
In doing so, she has made herself an outcast to the mandarins, the pooh-bahs and the elites.
So how can she go wrong?
I second the nomination.
Same here until today...I’ve signed up for Team Sarah....will do what I can to help there...Beside it’s worth the e-mails.
“Just look at the volume in her Facebook and PAC....they keep growing....I mean surging daily!!!”
Would you please post the correct links to avoid left wing traps.
Palin/Bolton.
The left would need to order Depends in bulk!
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