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Palin, Frum, and the Tea Party
Pajamas Media ^ | October 19, 2010 | David Solway

Posted on 10/19/2010 11:14:58 AM PDT by Kaslin

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Sarah Palin is generally regarded as a hyper-emotional hussy whose message is purely reactive rather than proactive, while the Tea Party is supposedly vitiated by a lowest common denominator of right-wing vehemence, unbecoming religiosity, and a simplistic attitude toward political reality
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Canada, land of liberal mugwhumps, socialist harumphs, and big government spittles. As stated before, why should I care what the land of lumberjacks and curlers thinks about Palin.


21 posted on 10/19/2010 1:26:23 PM PDT by ak267
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To: US Navy Vet

Amen, amen and amen!

LLS


22 posted on 10/19/2010 1:36:37 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: Diogenesis

This is the frum that is a disgusting little gollum for satan.

LLS


23 posted on 10/19/2010 1:38:16 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

LOL. She thinks she’s informed because she watches Olbermann every night. Oh dear. I’m afraid there’s no changing a mindset that.


24 posted on 10/19/2010 1:41:37 PM PDT by onyx (If you sYou betcha!upport Sarah and want on her Ping List, let me know!)
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To: Kaslin

None of the RINO or Libtard talking points matter when it comes to Palin. But she is highly vulnerable on her right flank. And that matters.


25 posted on 10/19/2010 2:16:33 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Kaslin
The so-called "intellectuals" in the White House, the Congress, the old media and the Left's blogosphere, wouldn't even begin to appreciate the wisdom of America's truly intellectual Founders.

Can one imagine how they would attempt to denigrate and destroy the men who penned the following words?

"I do not think it for the interest of the General Government itself, and still less of the Union at large, that the State governments should be so little respected as they have been. However, I dare say that in time all these as well as their central government, like the planets revolving round their common sun, acting and acted upon according to their respective weights and distances, will produce that beautiful equilibrium on which our Constitution is founded, and which I believe it will exhibit to the world in a degree of perfection, unexampled but in the planetary system itself. The enlightened statesman, therefore, will endeavor to preserve the weight and influence of every part, as too much given any member of it would destroy the general equilibrium." --Thomas Jefferson to Peregrine Fitzhugh, 1798. ME 10:3
"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." --Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820. ME 15:278
"If Caesar had been as virtuous as he was daring and sagacious, what could he, even in the plenitude of his usurped power, have done to lead his fellow citizens into good government?... If their people indeed had been, like ourselves, enlightened, peaceable, and really free, the answer would be obvious. 'Restore independence to all your foreign conquests, relieve Italy from the government of the rabble of Rome, consult it as a nation entitled to self-government, and do its will.' But steeped in corruption, vice and venality, as the whole nation was,... what could even Cicero, Cato, Brutus have done, had it been referred to them to establish a good government for their country?... No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and their people were so demoralized and depraved as to be incapable of exercising a wholesome control. Their reformation then was to be taken up ab incunabulis. Their minds were to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and deterred from those of vice by the dread of punishments proportioned, indeed, but irremissible; in all cases, to follow truth as the only safe guide, and to eschew error, which bewilders us in one false consequence after another in endless succession. These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure of order and good government. But this would have been an operation of a generation or two at least, within which period would have succeeded many Neros and Commoduses, who would have quashed the whole process. I confess, then, I can neither see what Cicero, Cato and Brutus, united and uncontrolled could have devised to lead their people into good government, nor how this enigma can be solved." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1819. ME 15:233
"An enlightened people, and an energetic public opinion... will control and enchain the aristocratic spirit of the government." --Thomas Jefferson to Chevalier de Ouis, 1814. ME 14:130
"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." --Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820.
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia, 1782.
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. And it requires no very high degree of education to convince them of this. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787.
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government." --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 1789.
"Whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, the people, if well informed, may be relied on to set them to rights." --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 1789.
From James Madison:
"Although all men are born free, and all nations might be so, yet too true it is, that slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant – they have been cheated; asleep – they have been surprised; divided – the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson?... The people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it."
"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people."
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea."

Do these words not sound more like Palin and the Tea Partiers than the political elitists in both Parties who dominate American politics today?

Betcha' that Palin understands the meaning of every one of these declarations; whereas the followers of Mao and Marx will disavow them, deny them, and evade their wisdom.

26 posted on 10/19/2010 4:00:19 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: Kaslin

When this election is over I wanna see Frum in a piglet costume beg for his momma in soiled diapers.


27 posted on 10/19/2010 6:32:56 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder ("No longer can we make no mistake for too long". Barack d****it 0bama, 2009, 2010, 2011.)
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I wanna see Frum in soiled diapers in a piglet costume begging for his momma.........

BTW, there is a reward out for anyone who can determine what Frum and the rest of the pukeneos actually do for a living. None of the pukeneos have any visible means of support, unless you count:

(1) media prostitution,

(2) infiltratng the US government,

(3) endless think-tank pontificating on how nice it is to have US troops invade foreign countries,

(4) squatting in the Repub Party, hoping to destroy it from within, and,

(5) kicking so/con Repubs to the curb.

28 posted on 10/20/2010 3:53:55 AM PDT by Liz (Nov 2 will be one more stitch in Obama's political shroud.)
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