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Friday, July 03, 2009
Kingmaker Palin
Posted by: Jonathan Garthwaite at 5:15 PM
Other than Rush Limbaugh, who doesn't fly from state to state doing campaign events, is there a more popular conservative Republican than Sarah Palin?  Nobody draws bigger crowds, raises more money and energizes activist more than Palin.

If she's really done as a candidate, we may find out she ends up having a greater impact as an activist, prolific speaker and fundraiser for conservative causes than she would have had as a candidate.



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e-pig on the arve writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 5:29 PM
Aint'!
I don't presume to know what this broad is up to...

But I do KNOW whatever it is, it ain't about "God, Guns, Faith, Family" and all those other meaningless Republican platitudes.
vonryansexpress writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 5:33 PM
"Like Kuneytzov the clearsighted
[s]he retreats in order to advance." ?

I want Ms. Palin to do well. It has been abhorrent the manner in which she and her family have been drawn and quartered for poor character sport.

Wherever she fixes her gaze, I hope she is strong and resolute, for she has become the target of every marginal in the media that curries favor with the American left.

Ms. Palin needs to stock her quiver with new arrows ... she needs immersion in foreign policy and geo-political history and development.

Her innate strengths, sincerity, love of family and the ability to stand and take it, if accompanied with a political scientist’s acumen, would make her formidable. Ms. Palin needs a loyal and savvy tutor.

If she's game, she has the chops for the victory. She just needs what many women in our nation have not cloaked themselves with historically ... the knowledge of places, events and the strategy that led to those places and events.

Interesting play to be sure.

Jeb15-life writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 5:37 PM
Professional victim
Barring some family tragedy like an illness, this is perfect for her public face as the eternal victim of the big, bad, liberal, elite media.

Bill's right: she's up to something.
Legally Remove BO writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 5:41 PM
Agree 100% Jonathan. It's ALL GOOD 4
the Republican Party both in the 2010 Congressional Races and, of course, in the 2012 Republican Presidential Race v. a dem (TO BE ANNOUNCED after bo is CANNED!)
Legally Remove BO writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 5:57 PM
Sarah: "Eye on the Ball...4 VICTORY 4"
for AMERICA!
RonnaRonna writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 6:03 PM
Bill
You said:
I don't presume to know what this broad is up to...
But I do KNOW whatever it is, it ain't about "God, Guns, Faith, Family" and all those other meaningless Republican platitudes.

ME: Funny, you just said I don't know (BOY WERE YOU RIGHT ABOUT THAT!)And then you said:
But I do KNOW whatever it is, it ain't about "God, Guns, Faith, Family" and all those other meaningless Republican platitudes

ME: You were right the first time dipshiit! YOU DON'T KNOW JACK ABOUT SARAH PALIN.
Good man's wife writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 6:10 PM
Hee-hee
I wasn't a huge Sarah for prez fan, but I gotta say, I LOVE this tack.

She's got everybody sniping and worrying and wondering. Amanda Carpenter sounded down-right nasty a bit ago on FOX. LOL...Sarah sure can stir 'em up. Both Repub establishment and lefties.

What a great present for the weekend of the Fourth. I bet Barry and Michey are FUMING! And Rahm better watch out. This chick could go toe to toe with Toes.

Allen Caeden writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 6:20 PM
Sarah Palin will dominate the GOP...
Sarah Palin will dominate GOP politics during the elections of 2010. Sarah Palin clearly has a plan, this woman's political skills have always served her quite well. I do not believe the GOP base is going to leave her, in fact she now has the time to broaden her base. There is no question that she will be heavily involved in the congressional and governors races next year, via through SarahPac. In the end a lot of newly elected and re-elected Republicans are going to owe her big time come 2012. This woman will still being drawing crowds of 20,000-30,000 but now for other GOP candidates, and she will also be in a position to actively and aggressively bring Reagan Conservatism back into the GOP.
Patriotic Liberal writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 6:22 PM
GMW
that's fine. she has everyone talking on 7-3-09. and in the end, folks will say that she is a weakling who was unable to stand the heat or even finish a single term.

Sarah is good at articulating the resentments and festering anger of the Republican base. but she has shown today that she lacks the fiber to hold high office. certainly, though, there is a broad class of people who cannot see past their resentments and festering anger to realize that this is true. those are the ones calling this a "brilliant move" or whatever. the rest of us are simply shrugging and letting time prove you clowns wrong. not 7-3-09 time, but the fullness of time. she is ridiculous. she is a flake. she has no business being considered for anything more than a dogcatcher. today proves it--if indeed more proof was needed.
Legally Remove BO writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 6:23 PM
Good man's Wife, Y R U not Sarah fan?
There is no hidden agenda in my question. Just curious.

I think she is a BRILLIANT woman and a political NATURAL but what are her negatives? Inexperience? Educational Creds?

I can not think of a single issue that I disagree with her about in substance and I have a Doctorate and have studied Politics all my life. I am a former Democrat and I admire Sarah.
Seadog writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 6:24 PM
I have no idea what she is up
to, but one can bet she has a plan up her sleeve. Her actions in politics has always been different from anybody else and many thought she'd fail. She never did!

Wild Hairy A**ed Guess: She's going to sue one heck of a lot of people for slander!

She'll get my money and vote, regardless of the office to which she goes for.
NeoConScum writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 6:27 PM
$$$$-Bazillions Is What Sarah Can Make
with speaking engagements at $100K(+)as often as she wishes. Good on her!
Legally Remove BO writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 6:29 PM
Pathetic-BO-Lib U make me LAUGH! U R
perhaps the DUMBEST of the DUMB demWits!
Good man's wife writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 6:35 PM
LRBO
I am a fan, but was not looking at her as a Prez candidate, yet. But I'm mulling it.

Legally Remove BO writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 6:36 PM
SeaDog, she may sue LITTLE-Letter-boy 4
SLANDER just for Publicity. What that scumbag said was MALICIOUS!

But generally speaking Public Persons like Sarah can not sue for slander.

What she can do is help We the People INDICT Thousands of bo co-conspirators for CRIMES committed by bo's campaign in 2007, 2008 & 2009.

Here's some restoration, reformation, & revolution that Our Founding Fathers supported:

1) Advertise and Promote the Fact that you are forming a Grand Jury in Blogs, Local Newspapers and Community Organizations.

2) Form the Grand Jury and select a Foreman.

3) Select a Private Attorney General to make Presentments to Grand Jury, if local DA refuses to make presentments.

4) Select a convenient Meeting Place.

5) Communicate with all Citizens who have criminal information to present.

6) Schedule presentments by said Citizens.

7) Subpoena documents from Government Offices and Officials.

8) Schedule presentment of said Documents to Grand Jury by Grand Jury Attorney General.

9) Have Grand Jury Attorney General present said Documents to Grand Jury.

10) After investigation and deliberation is completed, vote and issue a True Bill (Indictment) or No True Bill.

11) Announce all Indictments to the Press.

12) Serve the Indictment on the Judiciary for the Issuance of Arrest Warrants.

http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-start-and- lead-citizens-grand.html
Seadog writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 6:45 PM
Legally Remove BO
"But generally speaking Public Persons like Sarah can not sue for slander."

That is correct . . as you say, "generally."

I believe, though, one can sue if it is personal -- pretty certain I've heard of a senator (or congressman) who did it successfully some years ago. In CA -- wouldn't swear to that, but think it was in one of the Western States.

I know I'd do it, just to rattle cages and cause them problems and cost them losts of money.

What they did to her was shameful!
Legally Remove BO writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 6:54 PM
SeaDog, the Legal Test is MALICE. Letter
boy will say he "bore Ms. Palin NO MALICE."

Would a Jury in New York City buy bo-Letter-boy's BS, yes, of course, they would.

Would a Jury in Knoxville, Tennessee buy bo-Letter-boy's BS?

I don't think so!
Seadog writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 7:03 PM
Legally Remove BO
Could she file her lawsuits in Alaska?

I don't know.
Legally Remove BO writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 7:14 PM
Sarah won't file N Alaska too far for
Press to travel. If she sue bo-Letter-boy she will sue him in a Red City, in a Red County, in a Red State somewhere in the 48.

I live in Nashville so I am biased to Tennessee but being as objective as I can be, I'd say Knoxville, Tennessee is the Perfect Jurisdiction.

Did U know that Nashville home-boy algore, lost to W in Tennessee in 2000?

If algore had won in Tennessee, he would have been President without Florida.

That shows you what We Tennesseans think of demWits like bo, algore and bo-Letter-boy!

Homer writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 7:24 PM
Not much fiber in the White House
at the present time, now is there.

It is more on the order of some sugar coated Droopy Loops cereal. Scant little to chew on and what is slopped out to the masses is hard to swallow and no rational person can keep it down without upchucking.

But there are those hereabouts who exist and often thrive on a meager diet of the Obamian repetitious and nauseating re-statement of the obvious. The occasional cold lumpy gruel served up at Obama's townhall meetings amounts to nothing more than poorly presented theater: the curtain is always down on Obama but he dutifully struts the boards to a pre-selected audience. To be sure, there will always be full plates of platitudes served at these soirees and the Obama worshipers will incessantly chant for more, more, more, even though they know it is an unhealthy diet. Indeed, in the long term it will be deadly to our freedom, our liberty, our Constitution, and the United States.

This weekend, I will visit the restored World War II B-17, the Flying Fortress, christened the Aluminum Overcast, at our local airport. The thousands of Rosie the Riveters who built the aircraft, the pilots, the air crews and ground support crews are examples of real fiber in the history of this great nation.

Happy 4th of July. Freedom is Not Free and Obama wants to take it away from you.
maggie  writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 7:37 PM
It would do well
to watch and listen to Sarah Palin's statement agaiin. She was rather clear in her immediate intent and her reasons for resigning were completely unselfish and better for her state.

She will start a firestorm in the media and this time she can say whatever she wants unrestrained. Look out DNC Sarah has you in her sights. she is coming after the nonrepresenting representatives.
Patriotic Liberal writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 7:40 PM
Homer
no doubt the GIs and the Rosie Riveters are the real fiber of the country. no doubt about that. but truth is more than just being a sanctimonious prig. and it is definitely amusing when you canned Reeps--who haven't held an uncontrived political event since the days of Reagan--bluster on and on about Obama.

the man represents the GIs and RRs. tough luck for you. turns out you folks only own the nasty side of our moral heritage. we are the ones who inherited the better side. and a patriotism is gaining traction which supplants the stupid and common nationalism that your team has been hawking for a few decades now.
Homer writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 7:48 PM
Blind obedience, based on ignorance,
to a Marxist is not patriotism.

"...and a patriotism is gaining traction..."
Seadog writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 7:51 PM
Legally Remove BO
Yep, I knew about TN and Gore. He lost WVA too, one of the few democrats ever to do that.

TN is a beautiful state. I once have a very good friend from Soddy-Daisy. We made a couple of cruises together and I later had him as an instructor in advance electronics school.

I think of going out of my way and seeing if he is still around when I go to WVA, but never seen to seem to have time.

You ever notice that Pat. Lib. can be so nice and make sense sometimes and at other times he/she is flat mean and spouts sheer Bravo Sierra? I wonder what is wrong with that person?

Patriotic Liberal writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 7:57 PM
Homer
and bearing false witness is not a virtue. President Obama is not a Marxist. that kinda stupid talk is what gives you guys zero moral authority.
Legally Remove BO writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 8:01 PM
SeaD Pathetic lib's NOT a person HeShe's
a bo-Robot. HeShe types what HeShe is told to type.
Patriotic Liberal writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 8:12 PM
Seadog
I'm a "he." you can bank on that.

Actually, i don't mind you--although i am disturbed by your argument a few days back that the military has the duty to preempt a legit election. i understand that the guys in the military tend to have higher character than ordinary civilians. as a rule, though, men who are in the business of applying power--like soldiers--are not necessarily the guys who can detect truth. And the top brass--the men who excel at thinking strategically--are not always the men who can see the morality of things. on the contrary, they are often the guys who are political operators, good at grabbing credit and dispensing blame. we owe these guys our humble gratitude--we do not owe them the keys to the country.

do our elected representatives reflect the American people, in all their moral shortcomings, conceits, and character deficiencies? absolutely. that is to be expected. it is the nature of democratic representation. you want an improvement? for one thing, join with us Democrats in putting citizenship before consumerism and the marketplace and those other "organizing principles" that in fact led to the moral erosion in our Republic.

i respect you and my entire family is grateful for your service. you're the real deal--no doubt about it. and if i am nasty to the clowns in here, it is only because i turned my cheek for a couple years and all i got from the deal was disdain and ultimately, being shunned. so i bare fangs once in awhile. that's part of the fun, actually. i am on the side of the angels here, and while angels respect conservatism, they cannot respect the radicalism that has been calling itself "conservatism" for the last generation or two.
Homer writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 8:38 PM
PL is in denial.
"President Obama is not a Marxist."
Legally Remove BO writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 8:44 PM
Pathetic-Lib doesn't know if He or She?
BOYCOTT Nashville to protest AlGore's Cap & Trade Fraud and for Nashville DA Torry Johnson's refusal to investigate Pedophilia by Obama supporters in Nashville.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/04/nas hville-da-refuses-to-investigate-child-marriage-pedophilia- child-abuse-in-shariah-classes.html

There is an ongoing criminal conspiracy among Obama supporters in Nashville to cover up crimes committed by his campaign in 2007, 2008 and 2009. These crimes include, but are not limited to, VOTER FRAUD, IDENTITY THEFT, COMPUTER THEFT, INVASION OF PRIVACY and petty BURGLARIES similar to WATERGATE.

Grand Jury forming in Nashville to Investigate crimes committed in 2008 Election.

http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2009/06/nashville-citizen s-grand-jury-forming.html

BOYCOTT NASHVILLE! BOYCOTT NASHVILLE!
Tim writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 8:44 PM
The answer lies with us.
Sarah Palin is definitely the most popular conservative Republican. This is obvious by the frenzied attack that the liberal media displayed throughout the presidential campaign. Not only does she stand for the CONSERVATIVE principles that this great nation was founded on, but she delivers her message with passion and charisma. She stands firmly for moral values, fiscal responsibility, and opposition to bloated centralized government; precisely what the framers of our CONSTITUTION stood for. She is a genuine American.

So, if we are left questioning the future intentions of Sarah Palin we only have to look within for the answer. If we unabashedly support her, she will represent us.
Homer writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 8:47 PM
PL is in denial:
"...join with us Democrats in putting citizenship before consumerism and the marketplace and those other "organizing principles" that in fact led to the moral erosion in our Republic."

"In the Bolshevik aesthetic it was philistine to lavish attention on the decorations of one's home...it was purely functional...divans doubled as beds...this simple way of living was a form of liberation from bourgeois society in which people were enslaved by the cult of possessions."
~ from The Whisperers by Orland Figes

Do you have an Obama corner at home?
Patriotic Liberal writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 9:48 PM
Homer
it is funny how the clowns with the most cartoonish morality--super-duper heroes and sub-human villains--lecture us about elevating President Obama.

rest assured, chump, that there is no shrine in my house. I am an American. I bow to no man. I barely even bow to the Gods. I like the current President--no doubt about that. it is good to have a grown-up in there. when was the last time? Ike?!? we'll leave the messiah worship to you fools. btw, you gonna declare a national day of prayer and supplication when Reagan's 100th rolls around?
Homer writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 10:27 PM
PL, there is no need for a lecture
because in the case of Obama, there is nothing to elevate. Your mistake.

"...lecture us about elevating President Obama."

You missed the humor in the comment about an "Obama corner" in your house. You might want to do some research on that one so you, too, can appreciate the subtle humor it contains.
Legally Remove BO writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 10:40 PM
Y U libs AFRAID 2 comment on bo's GaySex
with Mr. Larry Sinclair and Mr. Frank Marshall Davis?

What is the first name of Mr. Young who bo had GaySex with?
NeoConScum writes: Friday, July, 03, 2009 10:51 PM
Homer:Lecturing and Stern Finger Wagging
is what the silly, bloviating hack excels at. Along with pomposity. Hey, he's kind of a Bamster Junior. Scary. :-)
Seadog writes: Saturday, July, 04, 2009 10:26 AM
Pat. Lib.
Well, I generally enjoy reading your posts because you often make sense -- even though I might not agree. Folks can argue without getting nasty -- I try not to and am usually successful unless somebody lifts the safeties on my boilers.

I do think, though, that you sometimes subscribe to things that have been discounted and keep harping along those lines. You do it a lot with regard to Sarah.

Now, I didn't like Clinton and it was personal because of the way he felt about the military.
That said, I never badmouthed him when he did something that was needed. And I sometimes agreed with what he wanted to do. I do know of things that happened in Arkansas that never made the media, pretty bad things, but I blame the media for not looking into such things when he ran for office. I heard these things from a fellow who owned a large business and was shaken down by ole Bill.

But, Bill wasn't a bad president -- liking or not liking him aside.

You might want to look into Sarah from folks who know her, such as folks in the National Guard

Take care and have a nice 'Fourth. Might not get to post with you for a while -- going to Heaven -- West Virginia to visit my farm for a while -- going some day next week.

Seadog writes: Saturday, July, 04, 2009 11:01 AM
Pat. Lib.
One more post . . .

I NEVER want the military to take over the
country!

Either you did not understand me, or I said it wrong.

Fact is, though, that the military is subordinate to the civilian govt., and should be.

If, and hope to God it never happens, a president violates the constitution in a really bad way, he can be impeached. What if he/she won't go? It could happen and who could make him leave? Only the military could do that -- and they should only do it under the direction of congress or supreme court -- supreme court being primary.

I worked directly for nine admirals and five CO's who later made admiral. All, but one, was probably the most honorable men I ever met. One resigned rather than carrying out what he considered an illegal order of SECNAV and and other who told SECDEF he'd resign rather than do what the SECDEF wanted because it was wrong and people would be killed unnecessarily.

The exception was exactly those to which you refered in your post. He somehow sneaked through the system. He was likeable, but he was really sneaky, crooked and not to be trusted. He was told to retire after I left his command -- they caught up with him -- who/how I think I know, but not certain.
e-pig on the arve writes: Saturday, July, 04, 2009 9:37 PM
Sure 'nuff
I'm quite sure we haven't heard the last of Caribou Barbie.
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