Posted on 07/28/2013 2:08:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin embodies the traditional values of trust the American heartland:
- Firstly, it is the assertion of independence, values Dream west, south-west against the domination of the east coast. The logic is that the militant defense against government intervention against the permissiveness for the family.
- Then this is the assertion of unilateralism in international relations. This is the logic of Reagan, unyielding defender of pride and power in decent shots of Rambo.
- The last aspect is the religious dimension. It is an approach that cares less mistakes individual behavior as theoretical or doctrinal deviations. This component, partly ironic, also explains the understanding that surrounded the place some blame Sarah Palin.
This representation of the world based on simple and Manichean benchmarks: - The enemies are evil, - Allies are ungrateful and fragile - The United States can not therefore rely on themselves.
It is in this world of fantasy that the leader must embody the rock.
His life had to give him a psychological force that inspires confidence.
His temperament replaces any military, economic or diplomatic strategy.
Americans are portrayed as honest, sincere, well-intentioned, caught in traps evil they must face with courage, determination and of course with the help of the Lord who watches over them.
It is this "conscience" that the tenant must embody the Oval Office. It is this awareness that Sarah Palin intends to embody when it has a great opening with the leadership vacuum suffered by the Republican Party.
Yeah, but she’ll be like Hitler or Reagan or Rambo or somebody like that.

Sarah Palin will not ever win the GOP nomination. As a result she has virtually no chance to be President of the United States. She does not have the financial backing necessary to win such a campaign. There’s a reason both nominees flock to Wall Street. They want their cash. It’s just not likely any of those financial wizards would ever pony up money to back someone like her. Her ship sailed for that job ages ago.
Seems like it is the mindset portrayed of ANY true conservative, Reagan-like leader. And it’s clear they (writer) doesn’t like it one bit. Considers it a retrograde mindset, a throwback to some unenlightened past. I’m unsure if they’re saying she will wind up in the WH, or they are just using her as an example of the mindset they are portraying and denigrating that hopes to return to the WH.
See my tagline. Study it. If a disabled veteran who can barely walk can do that, what do you think her younger, healthier supporters will accomplish? They’re out there.
Well, this author is entirely right in thinking that Sarah Palin is one of the few out there who has a conscience, knows the difference between right and wrong, and wants to do the right thing by her country. And we haven’t had such a person in the White House since Reagan.
What he doesn’t entirely seem to understand is that this is a good thing.
Understanding the difference between right and wrong isn’t some strange “Manichean” delusion. It’s a strong, Christian conscience that Sarah has. And that’s what we need.
You are absolutely correct - There is no way she or any other Patriot will obtain the Presidency for the simple reason of how politics are financed. Barry Soetoro hopes to make that all a moot point by taking America down long before the next election. No one seems to want to stop him either. Sarah & Ted Cruz & whoever else appears to be on America’s side need to step up the rhetoric and start calling the traitors out or there will be no America. A plan of action would be nice, too.
I say Sarah is the only one woth voting foe
Not Republican VS Democrat, the GOP is just as much her enemy as it is ours.
Maybe Sarah will never win the GOP nomination, but the GOP is going the way of the Dodo.
GO SARAH!!!

You couldn't be more wrong on the money issue. Sarah is not bought and paid for which is precisely why the reason the elites keep attacking her. If she announces, she wouldn't accept any corporate or PAC funds. All of her funds would come from individual donors, and it's quite possible she would raise a $100 million just from individual donors.
You guys don't get it. Palin is not bought and paid for. She has spent her political career fighting corruption. The minute she announces, you will see private individuals donate to her in droves. And she's not the type who will take federal matching funds.
I second that motion. I have reserves I would gladly expend on her behalf if she were a candidate in any race, but especially the presidency. She would have to find a way around the media stonewalling, which would certainly occur, no matter how much money she had. But I think between she and us, it could be done.
We need not only to elect a real, strong, moral leader, but someone with a track-record that proves they also will track down the wrongdoers and see them brought to justice.
RSR. Amen.
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Got to love them French folks.
I agree and let’s keep praying!
Meaningless. No one who "wins" the GOP nomination will ever be President again.
As a result she has virtually no chance to be President of the United States.
Whether as the nominee of the Freedom Party, or when Marine Expeditionary forces retake Washington, she will.
Welcome to the deconstructionist universe, where nothing is clear but the art of unlearning everything you ever thought you knew. Obama represents this well. He is Nietzschean to the core. He is an orthodox postmodern, rejecting the primitive Judeo-Christian notion of universal, uniform moral truth, and accepting in it’s place whatever works to advance his will to power, currently a mix of race-baiting, Marxist rhetoric, and good old fashioned cronyism. If it’s not self-consistent, it doesn’t matter. Truth is whatever works in the getting and keeping of power.
This, BTW, is precisely why someone like Palin is a deep threat to the left. She would be a real setback to the plan of continuous socialist evolution, not just because she holds to the “old” truths of Western Civilization with intelligence and conviction, but because she has a charisma and a following sufficient to exert some real power in reestablishing those truths, and thus the potential power to push the left back under those slimy rocks they came from.
Well said.
Obama is a hardcore communist. All democrats are
Terrible translation!
I do get it - $2.6 billion was spent (that we know of so far) in the 2012 Presidential election. That is not chump change. Private citizens, even the rich Patriots, cannot offset that. I like what Sarah has to say, and I respect what she did in Alaska throughout her career. She needs a lot more free exposure on TV to show us that she has matured and could field those questions designed to blast her out of the water. Haven’t seen that yet.
Then there is the Electoral College issue - Sarah would need to pull a plurality of the votes in a 3rd party run in virtually all those lesser populated states to offset the 11 or 12 states that the Dems carry that put people like Soetoro in the WH. Eric Holder will still be AG, so he can make sure there is no voter integrity laws or investigations in play, so they can steal the election again.
Too many people have dropped out - if the same number of Republicans voted in 2012 as in 2008, Soetoro wouldn’t be president.
Palin doesn't need billions. She would only need $50-$100 million, which would mostly pay for travel and lodging. That can easily be raised through individual donors.
She despises campaign consultants, so she would have a small loyal staff. Expect more supporters to volunteer at no cost.
She needs a lot more free exposure on TV to show us that she has matured and could field those questions designed to blast her out of the water. Havent seen that yet.
One thing about Palin that separates her from other GOP candidates is that she is in tune with pop culture, technology, and communicating her message to reach low-information voters. That's why she did that show on TLC, encouraged her daughter to go on "Dancing with the Stars," and uses Facebook and Twitter rather than conventional media. Thus, the liberal media would follow her, as they did when she did that bus tour of America 2 summers ago.
Her candidacy would produce the first interactive, 21st-century presidential candidacy in American history, while at the same time a throwback to the old mom-and-pop political operations in the 1800s. All she has to do is announce, and you'll immediately see a groundswell of supporters, donors, and volunteers risking everything to support her.
There is definitely a leadership vaccuum in the Republican Party. The USA and the whole civilized world need a US leader who embodies the spirit of Reagan. Such will not come from any faction of the Democrat Party, and not from the establishment GOP.
That leaves us a short list with Palin, Cruz, Allen West, and few others at the top.
So, you are not talking about a 3rd party run, but Sarah getting the Republican Party nomination - right?
Either/or. Regardless of which method Palin chooses to run for President, she will have instantaneous support, a large donor base, and built-in name recognition. I would really like her to run as an Independent, because the GOP is so compromised that they will pull some shenanigans in the primary and deny her the nomination.
As for Sarah, no other candidate of either party could rally the boots-on-the ground and the mountains of donations like she can. All she has to do is say something like, "I'm in the race, and I need your help," and within a week she will have more than a half-billion dollars, with the other half streaming in by next payday, and double within a month.
One midnight line from her on Facebook or Twitter immediately reaches 3.5 Million readers, half of whom will each immediately share it with the Facebook average 190 "friends", to reach more than 300 million people by daybreak. By noon the next day, every sentient person on the political spectrum has read what she wrote, along with several hundred articles pro and con, along with thousands of personal responses pro and con.
No one else of either party can do that.
I would agree with your assessment that Sarah need not waste her time with the Establishment Republican party - they only want to be part of the elite Oligarchy that exists after Soeotoro destroys America. We are at the brink of war in this country, so Sarah needs to really step up her sense of urgency. Good point on how she could do it with the new social media. I would also implore her to stay away from the Enemy Media. Why give these Idiots ratings, and never get to make your points? Makes no sense.
Sarah doesn't need the moneyed elites to win a presidential election. She merely needs to announce that she's running, and the people will give her whatever she needs to get her into the White House.
No, money will be no object for Palin.
There isn't another American who garners as much love, admiration, and respect from the people, as Sarah Palin does. She's got something that no amount of money can buy, and people sense it. She's one of the few politicians out there who doesn't need a billion dollar war chest to win because she's already got the votes. She only needs to ask for them.
And why should she? That to her would be like going on a date with Michael Moore at this point, Fat, bloated, and smelly and doesn't share your values and a bazillion other adjectives and anologies that may not be fit for a family audience and besides, she has Todd :-)
Seriously, she runs on some new Indy / Levin / we have had it with you, you all suck on ice party, dang near all of FR and prolly every Tea Party in America would work their @$$es off for her to the point it would make the Perot movement look like an ant fart in a wind storm.
The lamestreams would be so stunned they wouldn't know what hit um...
I would really like her to run as an Independent,
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Do you think an Independent could win enough Electoral College votes to be elected? With winner take all, etc. I just don’t see that as a possibility. JMO.
Except in the most extraordinary of circumstances, the Electors are supposed to cast their votes to reflect the will of those they're representing.
If Palin runs, she will easily walk away with the lion's share of the people's votes. If the Electors fail to honor the will of the people, there will be war.
Agreed. It's a smarter move than trying to build a third party three years out from the next presidential election. The Independent label is already established, and Independents are already serving in elected capacities at every level.
Good call. The Indie brand is a blank label that we can imprint anything on.
What percent of the democrat voters do you think Palin will get? GOP? Other various and sundry parties? Other Independents? I just don’t see the various party voters abandoning their party to vote for an Independent in sufficient numbers to win the electoral votes to make a majority.
300 million people at $10 a head comes to $3 billion.
Okay, cut 300 million in half because half are Democrats. Cut in half again because half are minors. That comes out to $40 per head. That's an average; some can give more, some can't give that much. The point, however, is that $3 billion in small donations is doable. It would take work, but if people believe it's worth the effort, it can be done.
Wall Street need not apply. Big donors won't be needed, but would be welcome.
Mitt got da money, but Mitt get nuttin to show for it.
SEMPER FI -— GOD, CORPS, COUNTRY !!
Yes, it can be done - the challenge is to get people to see that it can be different. I love that you all still have hope.
it would make the Perot movement look like an ant fart in a wind storm.
The lamestreams would be so stunned they wouldn’t know what hit um...
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Perot had huge money to defend himself and was distiguished (self-made);Palin would get savaged like buchanan did after he won a few primaries. imo
She would have my vote but she can’t win.
Youre right, not a chance in hell. Just who does she think she is? I mean really... Ronald Reagan didn’t have a prayer either.
Not can speaking English much?
The article is from the French media, in French and was translated by Google translate, which is not the same thing as having a human do it.
I’ll say! ;)
I love Sarah and wish she could be President one day, but I know it will never happen. Only the true Conservatives really like her and everyone else just hates her to pieces. She’d be lucky to garner 40% of the vote in a national election.
It’s a shame because I think she has good ideas and her positions are best for this country. I truly believe she is on Gods side. But a majority of the people are hopelessly liberal now. A real conservative does not have a shot anymore.
I know it may be hard to visualize now, but let Palin announce that she's running, and the whole dynamic of American politics will shift on its axis. You'll witness the greatest convergence of Americans of every political niche that has ever been seen.
They will back Palin with a fervor and energy unmatched in our collective experience. Her campaign will break all the rules, and force a re-write of every text book on the subject of presidential election strategy.
The reason this will happen, is because she's one of the few leaders who transcends politics. She stands for something much bigger, and that is our shared American experience, history, culture, courage, excellence, pride, integrity, fealty to the Constitution, and the heritage of our forebears.
In short, she represents the essence and soul of our nation. Such a force and presence can't be beaten by any mere politician or a political party.
I'm not sure that even Sarah herself appreciates the full potential she has to galvanize the people. In my view, she's the only person we have who can pull enough voters together to defeat the radical elites and their unholy cabals.
Its true, I saw her at CPAC and she was ten feet taller than anyother speaker. But she needs to get her ducks in a row....and keep ‘em that way.
Or taking over the gop due to the vacuum between the ears of all present leadership.
LLS
Sarah Palin is of the few people I will trust at this point.
I listen to what other say and trust a few to a certain extent like Rand Paul or Ted Cruz or Glenn Beck.
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