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.
As someone who joined in 2000 one of the reasons I walked away was the hate by some small minded twerps of this wonderful American loving woman.
Thanks, I think.
Maybe the mods are in a mellow, “give them some more rope” mood.
I sure didn’t do it as n00b either; but then, neither did I demand to be spoon fed info I should have known before I posted a lefty ( “she’s a quitter )smear !
What's amazing here is that to date, the poster has done nothing wrong (that I know of) - unlike most others here who have been
1). Banned and begged to be let back in.
2). Suspended - multiple times.
3). Muted - multiple times.
“Don’t YOU have anything better to do, than to heckle other posters....FOR ATTENTION” and replies?”
I’ve not heckled a single poster here. Any examples? Just engaging in conversation.
Well, I did get beat up by A+Bert pretty good once.
So - there’s that....
Thanks for being on patrol.
I miss the old days...
Don’t we all brother.... don’t we all.
A+ beat up everyone.
This thread is about the sad news of her divorce; ergo what she has done re politics is OFF TOPIC!
Oh great...so now you admit that you have NO idea what she has done for the GOP/CONSERVATISM since McQueeg purposely lost that election.
Here's a well meaning hint...please don't post about topics that you aren't knowledgeable about.
"RUDE"? Now which old, now long gone poster used to say that kind of thing?hmmmmmmmmmmmm...................
Want to know when you'll get an apology from me? Find out when there's a blizzard in Hell.
Yes, I’m shocked!
“What about that whole decade of lurking, n00b? It profitted you nothing?
“RUDE”? Now which old, now long gone poster used to say that kind of thing?hmmmmmmmmmmmm...................
Want to know when you’ll get an apology from me? Find out when there’s a blizzard in Hell.”
Everything I wrote I meant, and you and another I think is still making allusions to some poster(s) I know nothing about.
I’ve profitted plenty by lurking- I’m not rude, I’m genuine and I mean what I say. I get to the point and don’t deflect and most certainly do not insult like some have here multiple times ..
Coldest state, hottest Governor. Heh.
He apparently doesn't know much of anything at all about recent political history.
“You posted an incorrect LEFTY SMEAR! What you posted was NOT “factual”!
This thread is about the sad news of her divorce; ergo what she has done re politics is OFF TOPIC!”
I merely wrote that I didn’t care for her after she quit her governorship, she lost all my respect - it was about her and on topic.
“Oh great...so now you admit that you have NO idea what she has done for the GOP/CONSERVATISM since McQueeg purposely lost that election.”
I never said that. McCain was a RiNO (still RiP, he served this country and was imprisoned by our enemy for it) and he doesn’t deserve much more respect beyond that. He is the reason Obamacare is still the law and for that he deserves (some of) of the vitriol written about him, but not all.
“Here’s a well meaning hint...please don’t post about topics that you aren’t knowledgeable about.”
I will post on everything I am knowledgeable about, including this one. This forum is for discussion.
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