Posted on 10/07/2011 1:42:59 PM PDT by Yaelle
Editorial by John Ziegler
An Open E-mail to Sarah Palin
10/5/2011
The following is an actual e-mail "Media Malpractice, How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted" Filmmaker John Ziegler sent to Sarah Palin's personal e-mail address after she announced she was not running for president.
Dear Governor Palin:
Wow. So, is this really how your political saga is going end? By letting down your remaining supporters and telling them, with a straight face, that you can do more to impact change as a Fox News Contributor than you can as President of the United States?
I was almost positive you would run because it appeared that your brand demanded it from a career maintenance perspective. I had even written a long letter blasting you for being either selfish or delusional in making a decision to run which could help President Obama get reelected. While I applaud you for making the right decision, thanks to the way you made it, I must also question your real rationale.
One of the many reasons (other than the conversation I had earlier this year with Todd about working on your campaign) I was so sure you would give it a shot was that I figured you were way too smart to go this far with a blatant tease without a legitimate exit explanation.
While you have used the “I don’t need a title to impact change” line before (to justify your politically inexplicable resignation as governor of Alaska), I never figured you would actually try to float that as a last minute reason for not pursuing the most important job in the world. It is hard to believe that even the most crazed of your fans will buy that, but I am sure at least some of the remaining lemmings will.
Of course, there is no way you actually believe it yourself. First of all, how is this “issue" new information? You mean to tell us that in the last year since you started talking openly about running for president that this never occurred to you before? If it was a decisive factor now, why wasn’t it that way several months ago before you started acting like a candidate? Why did you selfishly put your supporters through the long wait and stunt the process for the actual candidates?
Secondly, exactly what change have you impacted since resigning from office? Being generous, you raised legitimate questions about a healthcare bill which ended up passing, you may have helped energize a base that assisted in winning back the House, and you were heavily tied to three senate candidates who lost otherwise very winnable races (btw, if “titles” are so unimportant, why did you even bother trying to help those campaigns to begin with?).
Finally, what change do you think you can possibly “impact” in the future now that everyone knows there is no chance of you ever having real political power and your base of current support is sure to wither away? You do realize (as I warned you about after your resignation) that people/media will stop caring about what you say/write once they know for sure you are never going to be president, right? If you still don’t believe me, just ask any promising athlete whose career is cut down prematurely by injury (as yours was by an unfair kneecapping by the media) how they are treated once a comeback is no longer achievable.
It is certainly possible that you may not accept this premise because you are under the understandable delusion (thanks to the media’s obsession with you) that you are somehow special and not bound by the same rules which govern mere mortals. After all, if you didn’t think you deserved extraordinary consideration, you would never have had the audacity to even float the idea of a presidential run after resigning office in a way that was clearly designed to get rich and stay famous.
If this is indeed the case, you are finally in for a rude awakening.
The only reason the liberal media has been obsessing over whether you might run for president is that you would have added to the entertainment value of a Republican race with which they are already getting bored. As you recently accurately (and, given your family’s penchant for participating in such endeavors, rather ironically) observed that they see the whole thing as a “reality show” in need of a new wacky character to spice things up. Plus, they would love for you to have somehow been the nominee to insure Obama’s reelection.
The conservative media has been going along with this charade as well because they see their own ratings as more important than the cause of beating Obama and because they fear offending your fans who are some of their most important customers.
Now that you aren’t running you have made yourself almost totally irrelevant. Unlike with Chris Christie (did you notice how much more passionately the media pined for him than you?), no one with an actual chance will want your endorsement. Once the nominee and the new VP candidate are chosen you will be very old news, and with no elected office (or, thanks to you’re your incredible lack of popularlity in Alaska, even the theoretical chance of one), you will have no opportunity to alter your narrative or make any news.
My guess is that you won’t even end up speaking at the convention because you are too big for a minor slot and too dangerous for a prime one.
If the Republican ends up winning you will no longer have a purpose at all (unless you go really rogue and decide to be the chief conservative critic of the new president) and 2016 is obviously not an option, especially with no way to significantly enhance your resume. If they lose, by the time 2016 comes around a whole new wave of Republican superstars will be ready to take the plunge and you will have already shown yourself to be afraid of getting in the water even when people were still begging you to get in. By 2020 your name will be almost as remote as Dan Quayle’s and you will have been out of office for almost five times as long as you held it.
About the only way you could retain any semblance of political potency is to become the conservative Ralph Nader, constantly threatening a third party run. This would be roughly the “fall from grace” equivalent of Tiger Woods being reduced to doing a dating reality show for attention.
Now, if you realize all of this, then I praise you for making a selfless decision for the betterment of the cause. There was a time not long ago when I truly believed you when you said you were letting your principles guide you and, “If I die politically, I die.” You are now, clearly, about as politically dead as someone of your celebrity could possibly be.
However, based on my personal experience, I have lost my faith in your ability to correctly perceive reality or to be totally honest with yourself and the public. Therefore, I question whether this realization was truly the motivation for your decision not to run.
No only did she bail - she conned her followers in the worst way!
Between the bus tour, sarahpac, the movie, the youtube videos, the veiled promises of a campaign, etc, she led them on like teenagers in love.
How many Sun Tzu references did her followers foist on us for her non entrance into the debates?
How many insults and stalking OCD trolls did she have attacking everyone?
How much oxygen did she and her followers drain from this site?
They need to learn from this and move on.
I don't think she really ever had any intention to run, and I think she probably has too much personal baggage that she doesn't want to deal with on a national stage.
Srah Palin is a brand now, and it is much more lucrative for her to stay that way. Can't say I blame her either.
This is politics - not bible study and a personality cult like her followers tried to deny. Thank heavens the Spinger/Jersey Shore/Maury/Soap Opera nonsense is now over.
I have one goal - defeat Obama. Period!
All Else is BS!
Sarah wasted enough of our time with her nonsense. We need to focus on getting that commie wretch out of office.
yeah it was pretty rough on the non sarah peeps here for a while.
I got flamed constantly. And for my former support of ron paul (which I can now see I deserved)
But seriously sarah’s story is age old. A crusader who got enamored and corrupted by wealth and influence. How many times have we seen it? That’s why we have to nominate someone who has true executive experience and a track record of success in challenging and powerful positions.
John, she’s just not that into you. And never was. And by the way, you broke up with her five or six months ago. She moved on. You apparently didn’t. Turn the page.
lol. That was just lunacy. Like when they used to say GWB was playing three-dimensional chess. LOL! People have an unhealthy need to put politicians on a pedestal.
I don't get it. I can't think of a more un-conservative tendency, in the strict sense of the word. But then, "conservatism" isn't really all that conservative sometimes.
Palin is now relegated to Jersey Shore / Maury / Springer / Reality Show / VH1 / Celeb Star - status.
I know I was. I don't have anything against Palin, but she was never my choice. There were many here who out and out worshiped every move she made and every thing she said. It creeped me out to be honest, so I just stayed away.
The whole point of FR is to be able to discuss things with other conservatives. You could not even have a discussion about her, because many of the most rabid Palinistas were just waiting to attack anyone who questioned her.
If you think this is not a Bible issue, you are sadly mistaken. This country has wandered so far from the Founders dream, that we are begging for a King. The one we are going to get will be a really nice one the Progressives will love him at first, until their women start wearing Burkas.
This was irrational from the beginning. Thank God, it is over. I am sorry for all those who had so much emotionally invested in another flawed human being. There is no human worthy of that kind of blind worship.
I have no problem with that but The Bible says: "God is not the Author of confusion."
Why did Sarah tell Bristol on 6-28-11 that she had made her decision, and then wait 3 months to announce it?
It is sufficient to say that he does not understand why she resigned from the govrernship.
I had the sense that Palin was very close to announcing that weekend in Iowa when, out of nowhere as far as she was concerned, Perry jumped in and took this gigantic lead.
I remember seeing her comment on that and saying he had personally told her he was not going to run and that he had not told her he’d changed his mind.
I think she was completely blindsided by that and it just derailed her. She kept nosing around for an opening, but none existed. So she exited the scene, finally.
I’m sorry to see people so bitter against her now. She must be somewhat surprised to see supporters turn on her on a dime.
That just can't be a coincidence.
Or she was headed toward announcing and Rick Perry’s surprise entrance to the race seemed, to her, like God slamming the door shut.
It is what it is.
He said months ago she wouldn’t run and Offered a cash bet! He’s just another drama queen.
ziegler acts like an old woman.
That said, I do not blame people at all for being desperate for a real, honest person to step up to the fight. We certainly do need that.
Where there’s “smoke”...there’s fire!
Palin will not be chosen for Vice President in the next election because of what she said a fews days ago. She may be finished from running for any office for a short time. I am not saying that Sarah will never run again, but it will be a while if she does. May not be as big an office.
Zigler does have a few good points in his letter. A lot of attention she received lately is because she might run for office. Now, she is just another pundit and without as much power as she did earlier this summer. She alienated a lot of people.
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