Posted on 09/09/2019 2:54:33 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Monitoring Governor Palin’s pre-ascent to the national political scene was one of the stories that prompted my joining FR while in college. I remember Free Republic being one of the few places online (along with Glenn Beck’s show, to his credit) to profile the rising star governor: her successes navigating Alaska’s international corporate oil scene, her carrying a Down Syndrome baby to term, and before anybody in the media or even GOP establishment knew who she was — her qualifications as a viable for runningmate for John McCain. I stayed up all night before the day of the announcement, praying she would be the one.
Fast forward a few years and I attended a special screening of a film entitled “The Undefeated” - a documentary breaking down the media and establishment elite’s (including GOP) unhinged distortion and takedown of Sarah Palin and their continued onslaught against her legacy. It was directed by none other than the little known...Steve Bannon.
The ultimate thesis of the film being that as a working class American, as a Christian, a woman and mother, as a highly charismatic and skilled politician with a formidable record of executive accomplishment — Palin embodied a volatile convergence of the very forces in our country, which pose not only a political threat to the entrenched power structures of our society, but existential and cultural.
And it was with this insight and understanding by which Steve Bannon helped guide our current President to electoral victory in 2016.
I see a lot of posts at the moment trying to rationalize away the divorce and speculate on the Palins’ personal lives...Some observations may be valid — but these discussions miss the point — which is, that her fate (and that of her family) is what awaits *anybody* who dares challenge the establishment especially on that scale. (At least in term of what the establishment intends!) - We are not even told about the extent to which the media and other facets from both political parties worked night and day to drive her out of office, stoke fear in her family and her community (like the Wasilla church burning), how frivolous lawsuits bankrupted her financially, etc...
If you watch video footage of the sprightly, shrewd, and calmly eloquent Palin in the early 2000s at things like the AK gubernatorial debates and things, one can see just how much of a spiritual and psychological toll all that’s unfolded since had had on her.
This is what the media wants for Trump and his family too...but luckily our president has the financial and other buffers by which to withstand the attacks, which will likely come even after he leaves office...And in the meantime of course they will do everything in their power to drive him out even during a second term.
In the meantime the wolves will attack the emerging leaders of the conservative movement and NOTHING is off limits: families (children!) , homes, jobs, etc...And it’s incumbent on everyone to just...be aware. And to view all this in proper context.
Prayers up for Sarah and her family. I agree, prayers are very much needed for them in this very difficult time.
“Because you claim to have lurked here for TEN YEARS; that’s how you should have known to whom it was being addressed!
It is FR courtesy to add the nic of the poster being talked about to the reply”
I have not posted before, I don’t know all the details of the posting. I still think you owe me an apology for being so rude.
GFY
Because I’m not an idiot!
“You’ll go far, you believe everything you say”
Paraphrasing Dantons’s description of Robspierre.
Hello, Nicole Wallace. Is that you?
What’s amazing is that the mods are allowing this obvious trolling by a newbie retread...
“Because I’m not an idiot!”
You are vile and insulting - thanks for your input.
Yes, it was, but also what they have done to many others since then too; anyone and everyone in the Conservative ( but now, everyone even vaguely associated with Trump, in ANY way! ) circle.
“Hello, Nicole Wallace. Is that you?”
Who?
““You’ll go far, you believe everything you say”
Paraphrasing Dantons’s description of Robspierre.”
Thank you - I do.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/todd-palin-home-hospital-after-snowmobile-accident-n549116
March 13, 2016 Snow Mobile accident... spent a couple weeks
in the hospital.
Don't YOU have anything better to do, than to heckle other posters....FOR ATTENTION" and replies?
Yes, they are and yes they should.
Just don’t “come up short” like old Rob.
“This one is looking to be ZOTTED and have the VIKING KITTIES descend upon him. The poor thing is obviously just looking for attention.”
I’ve no idea why you’re being so vile against what I’m writing instead of discussing in this forum. You are insulting and constantly deflecting any chance at reaching an agreement or understanding.
But sadly, there have been other posters who have tried get attention, this way, and wind up being sorry they did.
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