Palin is the only true conservative who has any reasonable chance at becoming President any time soon. That fully and completely explains the reaction she elicits from anti-conservatives.
The chattering classes are spending a tremendous amount of energy arguing that she’s not worth the energy. . .
You can smell the fear.
Give em hell Sarah !
I’d say Tony has put them all in the black.
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“Well, I’m not so sure that being an incumbent is an advantage if the world seems to be going to hell and government is seen to be at least part of the cause for that journey. And though many conventional politicians might be seen as quitters if they resigned their offices, I have a very strong hunch that Sarah Palin is constitutionally incapable of being seen as a quitter. Because she is not. She constantly is taking on the biggest challenge on her horizon.
Now, I am not endorsing her, predicting she will run, or predicting she is likely to win if she runs. Let’s wait a couple of years before getting to those questions. If President Obama is seen by the public to be a great success as president in 2012, he probably will be re-elected.
But if he is not seen as a great success, the public may be looking for a straight-talking candidate from the heartland who calls for and truly believes in limited government, maximum personal freedom and fiscal responsibility.
People may be listening for someone who knows how to talk to them rather than at them or down to them.
They also may respond favorably to a candidate who does not respond favorably to the Washington political class — nor it to her.”
At the stage we are in, someone who appears part of the problem ie;government is not the solution.
Go Sarah.
Fire in the belly?
You bet’ya.
All I can say is...
Go Sarah! :)
You’ve got my absentee vote!:)
The fear and superstition demonstrated by the press, pundits, and the paid thugs and character assassins remind me of the historical times that occurred before the civil war. People were so afraid of a general uprising by the slaves that they overreacted with murderous intent over and over again.
I would vote for Sarah Palin in a heartbeat.
Saving for later.....
The reaction to Palin’s announcement gives proof to the contention that there is some kind of virus inside The Beltway which infects the brains of those who live there for more than a few years.
Sarah Palin is light shedding on all (Dems, RINOs, etc.) who are lying to us for their own power, glory and money. Hopefully, that will be the light illuminating the truth thus enabling the rest of us to focus our energies in order to effect some serious changes in the ranks of our elected officials. I’m sadly of the opinion that it may be too late by 2012. We’ve got to clearly make the case and make those serious changes in 2010. Even if she runs for no office, her voice and her words will bring clarity if she is allowed to speak. The opposition’s defense, as usual, will be to “change the subject” from her message to her so-called behavior, which is the first tactic of all evil doers. “Obfuscation” will be their theme.
Ever since she appeared on the scene, I’ve been trying to get a grasp of Sarah’s thinking. I like what I have discerned. She has a solid view of reality and is comfortable with her place in it. She believes in God. She believes that God is personally involved in our lives and that He opens and closes doors.
I think that is where she gets her obvious courage, and that is what makes her smarter and stronger than the inwardly empty chatterers who assail her.
As I posted on another thread about the hit piece Noonan has in the WSJ, quoting:
"What she is, is a seemingly very nice middle-class girl with ambition, appetite and no sense of personal limits." So said Noonan of Palin!
In making such a sweeping judgments of a woman who actually has done something, as opposed to just writing about things, makes their judgments simply irrelevant.
Noonan, in retrospect, like a chameleon, may have absorbed the glow of Reagan, heard his ideas which he so clearly expressed, and was able to put them to paper in such a manner that she accumulated an overblown resume--one which has followed her till today.
She has overstepped her own "personal limits" in her analysis of Palin, the millions of Americans who understand Palin well, and in where her small mind believes Palin will be in the future. By so doing, she has revealed things about herself which she may not have intended.
In Laura Ingraham's interview with Quinn on Oreilly this week, Quinn did the same thing. Her pettiness and irrational conclusions simply revealed her own bias.
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The thing is, they’ve been so vicious to Sarah and her family that she is now fairly well insulated. What else can they say? It’s all old news now, including the fact that the media is willing to say or do anything to try to bring her down.
They did the same to President Reagan, and, it afforded HIM the same protection. “Teflon President” was originally a frustrated ridicule that they couldn’t make any of their inane antics stick.
Come campaign for me, SARAH! We love you in TEXAS! Besides, my mom made me promise that I’d introduce her to you, if I get the chance . . .
Excellent, Tony!