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There is a major problem with your analogy to Frodo’s quest in the Lord of the Rings. While Frodo struggled against the Dark Lord of Mordor, Aragorn led legions in a seemingly doomed attack to divert Sauron’s gaze from Frodo’s seemingly equally hopeless task.

Where was Sarah Palin’s Aragon? Where were the legions of brave warriors riding to what appeared to be an inevitable doom to aid her quest. During the days after Tucson, and in every other incident when the MSM and the literati literally went crazy in their loating and vilification of Palin, what did Romney say in her defense. NOTHING. When did Perry speak up for her. NEVER. When Casper Milquetoast Pawlenty was queried about the target map, he mumbled that, well, it wasn’t his style. Oh, you say, I remember Bachmann speaking up for her frequently. YOU REMEMBER WRONG. Cain’s silence was DEAFENING. Don’t remember Gingrich speaking up.

Pick another story to analogize. The Lord of the Rings doesn’t work.

What will be fun to watch is what will start tomorrow. You’ll hear the Romney campaign whittering about what a brave and courageous spokesperson for conservative values Palin is, and he’ll likely condemn the savaging that was dished out on her. Ditto the Perry camp, and Cain, and the others, all desperately seeking her endorsement.

Look also for Coulter, and Frum, and Ingraham, and Brooks, and maybe even Trotter, all of whom have dissed Palin for years and as recently as in the last week or so, to begin furiously penning columns professing how much they love Palin, and how they hope she will be able to inspire the masses to support the GOP in ousting Obama and electing a solid candidate. They love her as a cheerleader, not as a leader.

I wouldn’t be surprised to even see a flattering article or two in the New York and LA Times as they pen postmortems on the whole affair. There will not, of course, be any apologies or retractions.

I wrote the piece, Spartan; nathan graciously agreed to post it for me because I couldn't post.

It is a call for Palin backers and other conservatives, for *us*, to be that Aragorn: to press on against the enemy, even if it seems hopeless without Sarah; even as Aragorn and the Army of the West pressed on after being given Frodo's mithril coat, thinking his quest had failed.

Palin laid it on the line for America; can we not do the same to honor her effort?

Cheers!

The details may not fit, but fundamentally, after nearly a century of statist control of the Federal goverment, from Wilson to Obama, with respites under Coolidge, Hoover, Eisenhower and Reagan (no, Nixon and the Bushes were not respites, unless statist-lite counts as a respite from full on statism), American conservatism must itself be patterned on Frodo’s quest: the renunciatory quest to destroy power, rather than seize or wield it.

The problem with “establishment Republicans” is they want to follow in Saruman’s footsteps, fancying they can wield the power of the Federal government bloated beyond the bounds set by the Constitution “wisely”, not seeing that like the Ring, it corrupts all who try to control it, or even desire to use it.

Let Gov. Palin be our Galadriel, who refused the Ring, and aided the Fellowship. Our Frodo has to be the one who goes down into the Mordor Washington has become and destroys the Ring of extra-constitutional powers and deficit spending.

Do not look to the minions of Mordor to rally to Frodo’s side. The political leaders to a man and a woman are without merit. Not one can stand for truth. Sarah does have a throng beside her. It is not those who are corrupted by a bloated government. It is you and me and all the other TP members who see the evil thing our government and its leaders have become. They are Mordor and their reign of horror must be ended. We will defeat them and we will rebuild our nation by controlling our representatives and requiring them to do what is right and just for our country. Maybe Sarah does havwe a lesson to teach us about leadership. It does not come through a title but by standing with the power of God, of Family and of our beloved Constitution.

I would say to the other candidates: Save it. Don’t tell us what a great person, a tough fighter, a great trouper she was. I for one already know that. And I know that none of you thus far are up to her standards, and most of you are not even close. That’s why I was supporting her over you in the first place. You want my vote? Earn it. Step up your game. Now. And keep it stepped up. Prove my opinion of you wrong. Show me that the 2012 election year did not just become a complete freaking waste of my time three months before it even started.

“Where was Sarah Palin’s Aragon? Where were the legions of brave warriors riding to what appeared to be an inevitable doom to aid her quest. During the days after Tucson, and in every other incident when the MSM and the literati literally went crazy in their loating and vilification of Palin, what did Romney say in her defense. NOTHING. When did Perry speak up for her. NEVER. When Casper Milquetoast Pawlenty was queried about the target map, he mumbled that, well, it wasn’t his style. Oh, you say, I remember Bachmann speaking up for her frequently. YOU REMEMBER WRONG. Cain’s silence was DEAFENING. Don’t remember Gingrich speaking up.”

Best post of the night, spartan. I began to think it was a no-go when the party dowagers signalled “no”.