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.
Thank You and very said NFHale my FRiend :)
I was kind of worried about contributing to the Freepathon this quarter, but now that I see that the mouthy newbie troll and his mod have got my share covered, I can relax. :)
Or in summation, if you are a non-establishment conservative with a high profile...you WILL be destroyed so as to prevent the movement from gaining strength.
Personally, I think she’ll jump back into the fray. I don’t think we’ve seen the last of her.
I was hoping she'd be a force in the Senate, from Alaska or Arizona where some Dems took over some seats.
So you think she should have spent the decade after 2008 quitting partway through her only political term above mayor of Wasilla (and losing the support of her state in the process) and appearing on multiple reality TV shows rather than burnishing her policy credentials as I suggested?
She is radioactive political ash.
But the good news is that her experience informed President Trump. :)
In the last 24 hours, Sarah has posted many, many articles on her FascistBook page.
It certainly looks like she is re-entering the political arena. :-)
“...she’d be a force in the Senate...”
She’d be a holy terror to the Dems in the Senate. Would be fun to watch.
Hope so.
Sad to say, but I think her time has come and gone!
It’s sad when older folks after decades split up
Marriage can be difficult
Two biggest hurdles besides money
Men seek what they lack at home or in the old days simply cheated
Women get old and change in ways men simply don’t or don’t as much
I thought middle age marriage would be easier than when we were young like the 7 year itch cliche
Wrong
Where does the Palin children live? All still around
home or scattered across the USA? Where do the older
children live if not in Alaska?
He does not want to go there again, and she is hankering to do so?
That’s been going on for awhile. She hired someone else to do the post of articles and tweets. If the post is not signed SP, it’s not her.
Posts/Tweets by Sarah Palin signed - SP.
Others are not by Sarah.
I was hoping she’d be a force in the Senate, from Alaska or Arizona where some Dems took over some seats.
Ditto!!
I don't see him as weak; but time will tell, and what he does next.
Bristol lives in Austin, TX.
Not sure about their son. The recently married Willow may live in AK w/her
hubby.
I think Piper is in college.
I’d say odds are better than even that she’ll take a run at it. She’s a fighter.
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