Posted on 08/27/2010 4:40:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Take any year and if it divides evenly by four, what you have is an American presidential election year. Add or subtract two years, and what you have is a mid-term election year such as 2010, something not quite as delicious as a presidential year, granted. But I love this year just the same. That’s because I love the smell of napalm in the morning. Smells like victory. And who is shaping up as the leader of the victory this time, who has been throwing the napalm? This is where the year does indeed start to get delicious. Sarah Palin has turned into the king-maker of the mid-term elections. The party primaries have started, and the power that Mrs Palin now has with the anti-government Tea Party movement has started knocking establishment Republicans right off the party ticket.
Establishment Republicans: those are the kind of Republican politicians who think their job is to be ‘bi-partisan.’ On Capitol Hill this is called ‘being willing to reach across the aisle.’ Problem is, among the new conservative Tea Party surge this is called ‘being willing to betray conservative principles.’
And in the midst of what is being called the Great Recession, as unemployment stays high, house prices get ready to plunge again, and the deficit moves into unimaginable trillions, this Tea Party surge is angry. Some of the Tea Party people might have believed Barack Obama would deliver change for the good in America. They don’t believe it anymore.
As Sarah Palin mocked in her speech to the Tea Party Convention in February, ‘How’s that hopey, changey stuff working out for ya?’ Short answer: it’s not.
So here is an example of what is happening. There could be no Republican politician more establishment than John McCain...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Sarah is speaking in Hershey, PA this evening.
Ping!
Caaaaannnn yooouuu sssmmmeeeellllll!!!!!
What Sarah is cooking!!!!!
As Ronald Reagan said in 1984: ‘It’s morning again in America.’ And I can just smell the napalm.
“As Sarah Palin mocked in her speech to the Tea Party Convention in February, ‘How’s that hopey, changey stuff working out for ya?’ Short answer: it’s not.”
I LOVE IT!!!
Good reporting...London seems to get it right..
You betcha'!
A very entertaining article. No doubt the author will catch some flak from libs in the Guardian.
The author’s likely to catch some flak from conservatives too. Most of us down here are still sore about how Sarah’s endorsement put Judas McCariot over the line in the primaries.
Thanks, Mrs. Palin. Thank you so BLOODY much... And here I thought shooting oneself in the foot was strictly a Washington-establishment tactic.
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