Don't bother. We all know what you're referring to. 
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.
“The liberals drove her out of office with frivolous lawsuits. As soon as she became a private citizen those charges became libel and slander - - and stopped.”
They weren’t libel and slander before, only after she quit the governorship?
Perhaps the Freeper who posted the thread will also invite to argue in defense of Sarah Palin, the Valiant.
Don't bother. We all know what you're referring to.
Jane don’t even waste your thoughts on this person posting here!! Ignoring them completely will make them disappear quickly!!!
Thanks for the invitation,I despise party crashers.
If it’s who I think it is, I searched his history on the day she was chosen.
He was apoplectic about it.
Never forgave her for replacing the precious. He became her sworn enemy for life.
If it’s not him, clearly this one has similar mental issues.
Soooo sad to hear this.
Can’t even believe it. Such a soulful couple. Wonder if we’ll ever know what really happened.
LOL! :)
Yes, if not the same one with a different nic, his clone.
Strangely, or maybe not, I don’t find this news to be so horrible and stunning. Marriages don’t always work. I have made peace with this fact. I also know that we don’t know or need to know the “real” reasons why anyone else’s marriages break up.
The kids are all grown except one and he will be fine. I wish them the best.
My heart goes out to them and the rest of the family.
Sarah is a real warrior for Conservatism!
We'll see if The Rules are still in effect on this thread...
nopardons has assiduously avoided engaging the gent. Wonder what the holdup is? 
Bye.
-PJ
OK, if you say so.
“We’ll see if The Rules are still in effect on this thread...”
I only replied, didn’t engage back. What rules am I breaking?
After you were politely asked not to reply to any more of his posts.
I see.
There's apparently some new double standard that applies ONLY to you.
Fascinating...
“After you were politely asked not to reply to any more of his posts.”
He wasn’t polite in any of his other posts, why would I consider that request?
If I broke an FR rule that somehow stops engagement because of a “polite request” then so be it, I apologize because I wasn’t aware of it. Given the vitriol he posted at me, I think I am well within my rights to have one last word.
Carry on.
“We get it - you’re a pet of the mods.”
What does that even mean? My account is literally a week old.
'Butt I lerked fer ten years'
Pull the other one. I'm Class of 97, child. I'll admit you're good at trolling, but you're OBVIOUS.
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