War is being waged on the American people by our Elected Elites in Washington. We might realize that some day.

Then I saw that the body was properly (un)capitalized.

Then I was disappointed enough that it moved me to comment.

Then I pressed “post comment”.

Great rant (that’s a compliment). Sarah Palin vs the Alaska Establishment is one thing. Sarah Palin vs the MSM and the Republican Elite is another altogether. She is a victim of a failed political campaign, a victim of the greatest character assasination in modern political history and considered by too many people (at the moment) as a joke. That’s a lot to overcome.

She wins many critics over by meeting them (except McCain staffers, it seems). But she cannot meet everyone, and the media will never help her like they did Obama. Some of the mud will stick. It’s wrong; it makes me physically ill; but it is the truth. Four years is a long time, but in that time a new conservative hero may rise, and Sarah Palin’s time will have passed.

I agree that she did not hurt the McCain ticket. She cleaned out the crap and energized the base. She represents the best of the Republican Party, and rather than blame her, we need to focus on putting more politicians like her up. McCain’s best numbers were after the Convention, and she gave a dynamite speech during it. Then came the problems on Wall Street, which focused everyone’s attention on domestic issues. It was then that the tide turned for Obama and McCain was never able to regain the ground he lost. Sarah Palin had nothing to do with that, but she kept McCain in the game until the end because she helped him hold onto the Republican base.

survive even the most cursory of examination by anyone not already consumed with PDS. CNN’s exit poll shows that of the voters who stated that Palin had an effect on their vote, those who cited that they voted for McCain as a result of her selection outnumbered those who voted against him by a 57-43% margin.

End of story.

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What about those erstwhile McCain voters who did not vote because of Sarah Palin?

Obviously, we could not be part of an exit poll because we were not at the polls. Yet and still, McCain lost our votes because of the Palin selection.

But, getting back to the topic of the diary, the attacks and snipping against Sarah Palin should stop immediately. Even if the accusations against her were true — which, as I have said elsewhere and before, I seriously doubt — airing them now accomplishes nothing. Worst case, she would be “exposed” if she ever is on the national scene again. And if they are not true, then we are indeed destroying a good woman and potential leader of the Republican Party.

Having said that, however, I must also say that it is discouraging the way these accusations against her are being met. Those who could best defend her (i.e. other McCain staffers who’ve worked with her and even McCain himself) are silent. And perhaps even worse, most of those who are trying to defend her are doing little more than attacking those who raise questions about her; they are not addressing the accusations and issues. It seems that just as the Left and the MSM (but I repeat myself) has developed a cult of personality with Obama wherein he can do no wrong, many on the Right have developed a cult of personality with Palin wherein nothing is ever her fault.

I especially liked this quote:

she is a conservative leader not a calculating politician with conservative tendencies.

This is exactly what we have in Washington now; calculating politicians who talk the right wing talk (when it serves their purpose) but don’t walk the walk, at all.

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I think it shows what a really thinks of her and is an indication of what we can expect from him going forward.

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

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I don’t get the right’s love affair with Palin. Brushing aside her almost complete lack of coherence when speaking, look at her tax policy. She raised business taxes (on oil producers). Isn’t that a bad thing? And then passed that money on to citizens. Isn’t that socialism? Isn’t that a bad thing? She said that the resources of her state are collectively owned. Excuse me, but that is the very definition of marxism. Either she doesn’t know what she’s talking about or right-wingers didn’t listen very closely to the few times she was coherent. Plus, her ranting about Ayers and Wright was not only completely ineffective, it was stoooopid, forcing her to waste time that should have directed at Obama’s actual policy proposals.

Listen why did media/entertainment mock Palin because of her community. Same reason they mocked Clinton he was just a hick from Arkansas who had some white trash in him they viewed

Why don’t they attack Obama? He is from city, black, liberal, educated; you won’t get much stuff attacking him cause thats what they all are (minus black)

Bill, you make great points about Sarah Palin. I think that Romney would have been a better choice considering the economic meltdown (which I think cost McCain the race), but I don’t think that Palin remotely cost McCain the race–especially since she was so good on the stump and drew such large crowds. However, I’m not sure that picking Romney (or anyone else) would have mattered much, because the political environment was so toxic for McCain after the financial meltdown.

On a side note, I think that we all have to be careful not to jump the gun and assume that John McCain has anything at all to do with the trashing of Palin. I mean, who would have anything to gain from that? Not john McCain. If anything, it would only make conservatives mad at him and would make him look petty and vengeful–which McCain is not. Besides, McCain has already said that the buck stops with him as far as his loss goes. In other words, it would make absolutely no sense for McCain to have anything to do with this. No, I think that some of his low level staffers who want a job with future campaigns, and who are trying to save their own skins, are the ones behind this.

Maybe it’s because she really has no business leading this country. Or this party for that matter. I hope she just fades away quietly into the back ground. Moose Hunter? Give me a break. I love how her being “more like us” is somehow a virtue. Peggy Noonan was dead on about Palin.

I think for those of us who support the “moosanator” as you call her find our support grow for her when she is attacked.

I don’t have any problem with someone having valid points of concern about her, the same way that I view Romney as a dull, faux conservative who only became one when he ran for president. If he were to win the nomination in 2012, I’d support him, but I have valid concerns about him. No candidate is perfect.

I understand if others have those same concerns about the Governor. I just ask that they go about discussing them in a respectful way. She is a tough, intelligent and accomplished woman that we ought to celebrate not trivialize.

In this election, she gave one bad interview. The interview with Charlie Gibson wasn’t great, but she didn’t really say anything terrible. She looked uncomfortable and Charles Krauthammer has already pointed out the largely unmentioned folly of Charles Gibson’s oft-mentioned question about the Bush doctrine.

I look to Palin’s accomplishments while in office. I don’t see a woman who is stupid or incompetent accomplishing all that she has in just 2 years. I look to her speeches, her other interviews, and her debate performance and I see a folksy, likable and smart woman.

I also find the line of attack on her eerily similar to the past attacks on Reagan and Bush as being stupid. That’s the fall-back argument of the liberal elite. Anyone that disagrees with them must be stupid. It’s an intellectually dishonest way to discredit the conservative argument by turning all of its messengers into dunces.

Palin is folksy, but we need to remember that that does not mean that she is stupid. Harry Truman was folksy AND I might add had no college education, yet he did fine as president.

Obama has less experience than Palin. Actually running a state is more hands-on training than sitting in a senate seat for 100 days and then disappearing to run for president. His foreign policy experience is non-existent as well, save for his trips to Kenya to support communists and extremist muslims win national office and the photo op trips during the campaign to visit our troops and to declare himself a “citizen of the world” in Berlin. His subcommittee has not even had one hearing under his chairmanship, so you can’t even make a plausible argument that the man has even the experience of a senator.

Those who defend him speak of the tremendous campaign that he ran as proof that he can run a nation. Not quite the same thing.

Palin has an extremely high approval rating in her state and remains enormously effective there. I chalk up her interview with Katie more to nerves and trying to remember the robotic scripted answers that the campaign gave her than to stupidity.

Everyone has an off day. She showed herself time and time again on the campaign trail to be extremely articulate and energetic and frankly made a stronger and more coherent case against Obama than McCain did.

We as conservatives can’t continually allow the narrative to be written of our alleged stupidity. We need to stop sucking up to the elites in the media by trashing one of our own. Palin is a bold, fresh step in that direction.

I do think that McCain putting the word out today for everyone to stop slamming Palin was a good move on his part. Like it or not, she’s a big part of the future of the GOP. When America has more time to see her in action, they will begin to see her as her constituents do.

Excellent read, and I could not agree more.

I want to remind everyone if they have not already mentioned, the media after the Republican Convention was saying how insignificant the VP pick was when it comes to selecting a President.

After they (liberals and the drive-bys) tried that angle, they went on to destroy her with petty sniping about her demeanor, troopergate (obvious hitwise investigation) and God forbid her clothes. Then after the election, the storyline changed to “Sarah Palin cost McCain the election”. Hmmm? I obviously see a concerted effort to destroy her.

…why continue to attack her? If her enemies actually believed she was ignorant and insignificant, they wouldn’t find it necessary to try to destroy her.

What they don’t seem to realize is that the viciousness toward this woman has created a renewed groundswell of support for her. It may prove to have a more positive effect on her political future than four years as V.P. in an administration that would have been doomed from the start.

… are petty, cruel, and dishonest. They are also irrelevant, because she will not be the Republican nominee in 2012, nor do I foresee a career for her in national politics any time in the near future. There are three reasons for this:

1) She clearly likes being governor of Alaska. I know we tend to disbelieve politicians when they tell us they aren’t interested in a higher position, but we should take Palin at her word on this one. Despite all the ink that has been spilled over her supposed “ambition,” for higher office, there is no evidence that she harbors such ambitions for herself. Indeed, her remarkable lack of interest in national politics up to this point indicates just the opposite.

2) Money. It costs a lot of money to run a two-year campaign for president. Palin has no great personal fortune, nor does she have a large contributor base from which to build a huge campaign war chest. Her state has roughly 670,000 people, and only a small fraction of those are likely to contribute significant money to a campaign. Raising money out of state would take time and countless travel hours to go do fundraisers in the lower 48.

3) Kids. Specifically, the fact that she has five of them, including one very young baby with Down Syndrome. She also clearly likes being a mom (which is refreshing), so I doubt she’d be willing to make the two-year time commitment it would take to run for president. She already has a rewarding and challenging job that gives her plenty of time to be with her family. Frankly, she’d be a fool to want to give that up, and I don’t think she will.

……..”This is still America and when one is threatened to the level my family and I have been and still are, those who wish to do my family and my country harm should fully understand one thing: Your words and actions have consequences.”

……she could further elaborate by adding……”While I will defend to the last everyone’s rights, there are personal responsibilities that are part and parcel of having those rights at your disposal.”

Hey, that wasn’t too shabby for not having a cup of coffee yet this morning.

Cheers !

dead on Kenny, but the MSM and the left would twist those statements into “threats” and the (insert one: fascist, rogue, rethuglican) right is trying to take away our rights.

A bumper sticker like this should get into wide circulation. There are probably better ways to word it.

Given the sexist way Governor Palin has been treated, this bumper sticker would apply to her as well as many less well known women.

She’s been treated abysmally by the press and more disappointingly by members of her own party. However, the thousand injuries she has endured have not crushed her spirit one bit. Sarah is a fighter and with our help will come out on top of all of this.

Carl Cameron has done this type of thing before, according to Wikipedia:

“Allegations of journalistic fraud
Media watchdog groups claim that on a number of occasions Carl Cameron has fabricated statements by Democratic politicians, and that this was done to boost their Republican opponents. One claim cited by Media Matters for America was a claim that John Kerry labeled George W. Bush a “warmonger” who intended to create “perpetual war” around the world; Media Matters asserted that no such instance of that criticism ever occurred.[8]
In another instance, Cameron wrote a story posted on the Fox News website which included fabricated quotes from Kerry; the senator purportedly called himself a “metrosexual” and Bush a “cowboy” and spoke effeminately about a manicure. Official Fox News spokesman Paul Schur later said it was intended to be an internal joke not for publication, and the network apologized for the piece, but only on its website, and only through a tag on the article in which these quotes appeared.”

The McCain staffers were ready to blame Palin if McCain was defeated. Wonder if this is their revenge:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14929.html

I see that the liberal blogs are saying that polls show 64% of republicans and 100% of democrats want Palin to be the republican nominee in 2012.

[...just so it's clear that he was hugging himself and rocking when he heard the news. - Moe Lane]

The Media will keep her front and center. Which is a good thing.

While we hate what “anonymous sorces” say about her, the odd thing is that she is still in the limelight. The Media, for all it’s faults, knows that at least they have a built-in ratings booster.

Love her or hate her. We will hear more and more about Palin, about what she thinks and about what she says. Most of us here want to listen in. And Most of our opposition does too.

Comparatively Bobby Jindal has hardly made a dent on the National Scene.

Is Palin-Jindal 2012 a real possibility? Is Sarah Palin a person with the guts to pick Bobby Jindal as her running mate considering she is a woman and Bobby Jindal is a minority? This would probably be the most conservative ticket in the country’s history, could it win?

I think it could. And I think liberals can mock Sarah Palin all they’d like, but the fact is, she is a force to be reckoned with.

You were asked about Japanese relations upon your return to Alaska. Please inform your supporters why that is a key issue for you. “Drill baby, drill”, so we can export it to Japan, right?

Or elected Democratic officials who pee on people below them at a concert…

Please don’t do that again. That’s bad form. If you are new to the blog-world, I’ll just tell you that all-caps are yelling. And we don’t yell here.

While enjoying my brief moment in the sun on the recommended list, I took your advice and fixed the title.

I don’t want anyone to think I am yelling. Although I do get pretty angry when people belittle Palin!

Rumor now is that the rumor spreading was done by ex-Romney staffers who joined McCain’s staff. 80% of McCain’s staff were hired from Romney’s camp and still want their man to be the front-runner on the 2012 ticket.
http://spectator.org/archives/2008/10/27/post-defeat-planners
This doesn’t mean that Romney himself was behind it, but his staff may be.

About the Romney staffers. It unfortunately reflects poorly on Romney. Even if he wasn’t involved in it, he probably could have told them to back down. He has nobody to blame for his loss in the primary but himself. He outspent the others by huge margins and still lost. He’s going to have to do something different next time if he wants to win the nomination.