Liberty's Lamp

The Lamp Goes Out

2011-10-05T20:41:00.000-07:00

October 5, 2011

Wasilla, Alaska

After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States. As always, my family comes first and obviously Todd and I put great consideration into family life before making this decision. When we serve, we devote ourselves to God, family and country. My decision maintains this order.

My decision is based upon a review of what common sense Conservatives and Independents have accomplished, especially over the last year. I believe that at this time I can be more effective in a decisive role to help elect other true public servants to office – from the nation’s governors to Congressional seats and the Presidency. We need to continue to actively and aggressively help those who will stop the “fundamental transformation” of our nation and instead seek the restoration of our greatness, our goodness and our constitutional republic based on the rule of law.

From the bottom of my heart I thank those who have supported me and defended my record throughout the years, and encouraged me to run for President. Know that by working together we can bring this country back – and as I’ve always said, one doesn’t need a title to help do it.

I will continue driving the discussion for freedom and free markets, including in the race for President where our candidates must embrace immediate action toward energy independence through domestic resource developments of conventional energy sources, along with renewables. We must reduce tax burdens and onerous regulations that kill American industry, and our candidates must always push to minimize government to strengthen the economy and allow the private sector to create jobs.

Those will be our priorities so Americans can be confident that a smaller, smarter government that is truly of the people, by the people, and for the people can better serve this most exceptional nation.

In the coming weeks I will help coordinate strategies to assist in replacing the President, re-taking the Senate, and maintaining the House.

Thank you again for all your support. Let’s unite to restore this country!

God bless America.

– Sarah Palin

The Time is Gone

Waiting For the Sun

2011-09-29T20:42:00.000-07:00

When the sun set on November 4, 2008, the nation finished voting and settled in to watch the election results. We know the outcome. Barack Obama was elected president; and so began a long dark political night which has only grown colder and colder. Before it is three years to the day, we will know whether or not the political sun is going to rise again.

To cut through the metaphors, what we're looking at is something Palin supporters are now dealing with in their daily conversations: the question about whether Sarah Palin is running for president or not. October 31, 2011 is the deadline for getting on the ballot for the Florida primary. Other key primary filing dates come shortly thereafter.

Sarah Palin hit the campaign trail in 2008 like a bright flash of light. As hard as the liberal media tried to dim that light with the artificial curtains and blinds of unsubstantiated gossip pieces and articles written by ideologues with the agenda of destroying her persona in the eyes of the electorate, Palin remains viable and electable.

The smear campaign against her may have left enough brains washed to hold her back a few percentage points in national polls, but overall it has failed. The intense effort in yielded little out; and in many ways challenged her to sharpen her skills more than a normal potential candidate would have to.

With that said, the decision as to whether or not Sarah Palin runs no longer lies with the mainstream media or the Republican establishment. Though they may continue to try to stop her by conventional means (i.e. trotting out Karl Rove every now and then or encouraging more moderate candidates to run for president), the control has be wrested from them. Sarah Palin has successfully assumed control of her decision.

After all the battles and after all the help that the Palin army brought forward in defense of her and to promote her, it is safe to say that we bloggers and those activists who have come together to form Organize4Palin to position themselves in advance of her potential campaign have done well. The job is far from over, but the defense shield is firmly in place and we can go on offense now at a moments notice, or at the word of the lady for whom we have given our all.

The image of thousands of soldiers impatiently waiting in camps with fires burning, sitting on stumps cleaning weapons over and over again and keeping powder dry is etched within this writer's creative mind. Impatient, yes, but loyal beyond belief, these "soldiers" may sometimes have worried minds when their leader speaks of not needing a title or not wanting to be shackled to such a leadership position, but they don't have worried hearts. Their hearts are filled with confidence in Sarah, love of country and a yearning to make things right again in America.

Those who fear or believe she isn't running still hope she runs. Those who believe she's running regardless of how what she says is interpreted also hold that same hope. Both schools of thought now rest side by side among Palin supporters. They know the let down they could be facing, but they also continue to hold hope that she will ride in like Xena the Warrior Princess or William Wallace and order the troops to march toward that shining city - the beacon of freedom that seems to be dying in the distance - with the goal of renewing and restoring it.

If she doesn't run, they will still love her. But, they know that her power and influence will not be what it has been prior to this. She could go without a title and continue giving speeches, doing analysis on Fox News and writing in support of the cause. Yet, she will fall back into the chorus of other conservative voices that also do the same. Her sword will not be the pen by which she signs legislation repealing Obamacare, opening drilling, lowering taxes or repealing regulations. That sword is the Excalibur and one needs a title to wield it. Instead, her sword will be a regular one. Her name will hold more weight still, but not enough weight to change what needs to be changed unless the next Republican president decides he wants to let her run the country by proxy.

So why would she let it get to this point and continue dodging the question this late in the game? Whatever the reason is, this blogger must once again defer to Sarah just like he did after her resignation. It's tough to not go out on the ledge after seeing her on Greta Van Susteren Monday night. But there were some folks standing by the window stopping people. "Don't jump," they seemed to say. "Trust Sarah."

I've trusted her this far, so what's a few more weeks? By the end of October, we'll know for sure one way or the other. Jumping off the bandwagon now won't help any. If she decides not to run, then we all have to move on politically and meld back into the fold of the anybody but Obama crowd. Voting against him is still of utmost importance. But voting against someone or something is not nearly as spiritually fulfilling or as inspiring as voting for someone or something.

Jimmy Carter losing in 1980 is not what made America great again. Electing Ronald Reagan was. Sarah, can you hear us?

So here we sit whittling our sticks and cleaning our rhetorical weapons for the umpteenth time. She has to know that our impatience and the chomping of the bit in no way disrespects her tactics or her leadership. We are ready to fight for her harder than anyone in modern American politics have ever fought. This is not a campaign team she has at her disposal, this is a full blown army ready to use any legal tactic, any reverse Alinsky tactic and any other political weapon we can get our hands on to politically go after it for her.

Governor Palin, we are committed to you. Say the word and we are yours. The cause is greater than all of us, but you are as great because you embody the cause. You are the cause. We are the cause. Without each other we are none. We want our country back and we believe only you can lead us. So, lead us.

Until then, we sit here waiting for the sun. We ask that the Lord inspire that political sun to rise through the words of one Sarah Heath Palin.

Sarah Palin: A Whole New Game Plan

2011-09-20T21:00:00.000-07:00

The 2012 election is a little over 13 months away. Politicos online and in the mainstream media are focusing on two related conversations right now: who will win the Republican presidential primary and can Barack Obama be reelected? This may be an opportunity to not only beat a weak Obama, but to completely chart a new game plan for how America is governed.

All the signs are there for further decay in our economic conditions and the morale of the American people. We continue to go further in debt. Unemployment continues to rise (although the government keeps telling us it's 9.1%). Gas prices are outlandishly high with no signs of coming down within the next year. Home foreclosures are continuing at a record rate. If we could save the country right now, it would be a monumental task. Can we afford to wait another 13 months? How much further in decline will our nation be by then?

Simply put, we will end up $14 trillion short and a year late. Many in the Tea Party and the Republican Party are gearing up for what is going to be a "must win" in November 2012. If Obama is reelected, the game is over. His policies will collapse our system and destroy our country. We will not be able to undo the damage after that.

Many tried to warn us in 2008 that electing Obama would be a mistake. A college friend of Obama's, John Drew, tried to warn us. He wrote:

The Obama I knew was nothing like the lifelong pragmatic centrist that he was pretending to be in the 2008 presidential campaign. When I talked politics with the young Obama, he expressed a profound commitment to bringing about a socialist economic system in the U.S. -- completely divorced from the profit motive -- which would occur, in his lifetime, through a potentially violent, Communist-style revolution. In this context, I saw my report on young Obama as a key piece of evidence suggesting a profound continuity in his belief system.

Others like Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin and Glenn Beck tried to warn us. As Drew so eloquently pointed out in his piece for American Thinker, it was the media that ran cover for the Manchurian candidacy of Obama. This is precisely why pounding it home relentlessly and repeatedly that the media lies will be a key component to any GOP strategy in 2012.

Getting the hard facts out to the electorate will require circumventing the big three nightly news shows and their networks. It will require circumventing the written media like the New York Times and the Washington Post. It will require telling people to not trust what they see on MSNBC or CNN. Some may not yet believe us, but the American people are quick to anger if it can be proven to them that they have been lied to by the news sources they have trusted for so long. It's hard to break viewing and reading habits, but break them we must.

Monica Crowley points out how Obama is trying to bankrupt America and why he is a radical.

One must understand Obama's radical associations to understand fully where Crowley is coming from. For more on his radical associations, read here and here.

During the 2008 election, the L.A. Times sat on a video of Barack Obama at a dinner with William Ayers where anti-Semitic jokes were being told. From a12iggymom's Blog:

So, the LA Times has video of Obama attending a Jew bash and toasting a radical former PLO operative, and they are not sharing it with the public. I think we all know they would immediately release the tape if it were Sarah Palin making the toast.

Where were the members of the media then? They were busy bashing Sarah Palin. They saw the writing on the wall. They saw that if they didn't politically kill her before she wrote "death panel" or talked about crony capitalism, that they would eventually be exposed for the socialist/progressive supporting lackeys that they really are.

The American people have been flooded with information about the progressive movement, Saul Alinsky and how the permanent political class has taken the control of our system away from the people in a way that softly and quietly undermines the U.S. Constitution. With all the safeguards our Founders put into the document, the key safeguard of it all is an educated citizenry. What we have become is a brainwashed citizenry. Nearly a century of progressive infiltration into the economic, political, social and academic culture could not be undone with 56 days of Sarah Palin on the 2008 campaign trail.

But, over the past three years, much has been said and much has been written about this. Many more Americans are understanding how this works now. Defeating the media myths means changing how one views their sources of information, not by simply making them feel bad or deflating their egos. Millions of Obama voters and Sarah Palin skeptics can be brought into the fold if we can just get them to understand that they are not stupid; but rather that they based a well rationalized belief in hope and change based on some seriously flawed information. Once they realize they can no longer trust the source of that information, these people will resume normal intelligent lives.

Sarah Palin continues to be a threat to the progressive movement as well as the inside the beltway establishment. When she talks about crony capitalism, she talks about a system that has been growing like weeds around our Constitutional government. Liberal cronyism favors environmental and socialistic redistribution of wealth by rewarding the companies of donors who have earned their millions in a capitalist system for the sole purpose of destroying that system. Republican cronyism favors control over the establishment so that it can pick and choose which capitalists succeed and which capitalists fail.

Republican cronyism unintentionally gave us what we ended up with today: a radical President hell bent on fundamentally transforming the system. Republican cronies aren't socialists. They want Obama ousted, too. But, they don't like Gadsden flag waving Americans who want to open up businesses in a regulatory environment that's not weighted in favor of the friends of the establishment. Allowing banks and mortgage companies to be bailed out because they are too big to fail tells the little guy that, conversely, he's too small to succeed. And, it is because of this constant psychological programming that people don't go into business.

We claim to be a capitalist country, but we have nothing that resembles true capitalism anymore. Eliminating socialism by not reelecting Obama is a noble cause, but we must go far beyond that. Taking the system out of the hands of crony socialists and giving it back to crony capitalists will not change the breeding ground for future Obamas.

Sarah Palin told Sean Hannity last night (emphasis added):

Knowing, Sean, how important it is that we get this country back on the right track; knowing, Sean, that it's not enough to just to change up the uniform, we need to change the entire game plan and we need to change the entire team that's been there at the White House doing such great damage to our economy. We need to make sure that we have the best and most qualified the most vetted candidate to come forth and rise to the surface after this primary process.

I do agree with that [Sean Hannity said other candidates have things they can do to strengthen their positions and that anybody on the debate stage would be infinitely better]. I agree, too, that what you’re suggesting is many of us who are supporters of ABO, anybody but Obama, that’s what it’s going to come down to. But, at the same time, as I said though we need to make sure we’re not just switching up the uniform. We need a new team; we need a new game plan. That’s the only way that we’re going to save our country.

Governor Palin is the only potential candidate who effectively and efficiently defines the real problem and offers real solutions to it. Some may come somewhat close. Others may feed us platitudes. But ultimately, it has to be the person who came up with the idea that implements that idea. To do that, she will need a title.

Returning to business as usual after defeating Obama need no longer be an option. It's no longer about the crony capitalists versus the socialists. Sarah Palin gives us a fresh new alternative. She offers us a true free market and a chance for "we the people" to finally break down the barriers and the frustrations that separate us from our government.

Our system needs a complete repeal of many of the regulations and burdensome laws (including many tort laws) before true grassroots capitalism can emerge again. This will not happen until after 2012. And it probably won't happen ever if Sarah Palin isn't elected president.

There are many who are uncomfortable with the idea of a Palin presidency. This can be overcome by learning the lessons of Ronald Reagan. He, too, was seen skeptically by many until they were finally convinced that he was a competent and capable leader who was able to articulate his ideas and surround himself with smart people while earning the support of an army of followers who would go to the mat for him.

Palin's success will be directly related to the ability of those in the new media to effectively convince skeptics that the perception of her has been diabolically crafted by a mainstream media which would rather have acid poured all over them than to see Palin destroy their dream of seeing a socialist America.

When Sarah Palin talked about her journalism degree and set out to use Facebook as a primary means of communication, she wasn't doing it to show everyone how great she was. She was doing it to be an example for millions of Americans who felt they had no way of having their voices heard. This is leadership. Because of what Palin has done, thousands have taken to blogging and millions have taken to social networks to discuss Alinsky, radicalism, the Tea Party movement and the dangers of crony capitalism.

We have become our own media. In doing so, we have now become analysts of the facts. We are not brainwashed lemmings. We argue amongst ourselves, sometimes bitterly. But it is through this dialogue that real myths are debunked and real truths are exposed.

When Glenn Beck is ostracized because he talks about Van Jones and the progressive movement, there's a reason for it. When the Tea Party is falsely accused of being violent racists, there's a reason for it. When Sarah Palin is called unelectable or not intelligent, there's a reason for it. The only way liars can stop the truth from being told is to lie about it. That's why the mainstream media does what it does. That's why the Democrat Party is incapable of convincing the American people any longer to go with stimulus programs and tax hikes.

The question remains, what kind of country will the United States of America be by November 2012? Psychologically, until we can see light at the end of the tunnel and victory as a possibility, we will be, as Sarah Palin has called us, an "anxious nation." Solving our worries is going to require us to accept that it will still get darker before the dawn, but that there is at least a dawn coming.

We may be near economic death, both individually (I'm unemployed and I see it coming unless I find a job) and as a nation (our GDP is anemic and the deficit continues to rise). As people evaluate the GOP candidates, I hear support for different candidates. But, that support comes with addendums like "I like Perry but I have my reservations about Gardasil and cronyism" or " I like Romney but I have my reservations about RomneyCare." Each candidate comes with a caveat. Support is soft to mild at best.

But, with Palin, support is hardcore and entrenched. Her army is stout with informed activists who can help any doubter borrow their confidence. If Americans can believe that she is the dawn we are looking for, we can capture that same spirit that Ronald Reagan captured. It is with that spirit that a downtrodden and economically abused electorate can find its way back to the shining city on a hill.

We may not have much of a country left by November, 2012. But the enthusiasm and real hope America needs to reignite a revival of growth and a restoration of opportunity in this county will have to come long before we actually start to see the results of our labor. This psychological exercise will require that we have an inspirational leader who, like Reagan, is a lightning rod for those who would otherwise sit at home and wallow in their mire. It will also, unfortunately (as history has shown us), require a leader who is reviled by the true enemies of real capitalism and real free enterprise. Because of that, we will have to be strong.

Unbridled capitalism doesn't mean that we will be running roughshod over the marketplace or allowing companies to defraud Americans or exploit their workers. Unbridled capitalism can succeed when good people use the Constitutional system to prosecute fraud and use the power of the Internet to do consumer reviews of companies and products. Government can play its proper role of referee by getting out of the regulation business and back into the oversight business like it was originally intended to.

Using the legislative process to pick winners and losers and pass cushy laws for some at the expense of others must become a thing of the past. Just as Sarah Palin undid the influence of cronyism in big oil in Alaskan politics, so can she undo the influence of cronyism in American politics. Enforcing laws that protect the rights, property and persons of citizens is the appropriate role of government. Micro-managing businesses and regulating lemonade stands is not.

Don't let the Left convince you that capitalism is a heartless system or that being for small government means we hate the poor. Much of the new poor in America have gotten there because of big government, not in spite of it. The Federal Government can shave trillions of dollars by shutting down useless programs, bureaucracies and government agencies. Entitlement programs can be reformed. Liberals will scream bloody murder. But we will either be forced to reform them by the realities or we will reform them ahead of time in advance of problems that we're being warned about now. Don't let Liberals demagogue you by saying these programs can't be reformed.

In addition, we can open America up for business by eliminating the corporate income tax (which would encourage international investment in America and stop the outsourcing of American jobs overseas), unleashing our energy exploration and development programs en masse (which would create over a million new jobs and create real wealth based on energy commodities rather than paper), repatriating trillions of dollars now sitting off shore and reducing the burdensome regulatory costs that go with running businesses.

A richer nation means we can do more for the less fortunate and provide more efficient safety nets. In fact, the more Americans we put back to work and encourage to become wealthy through entrepreneurship, the less poor we will need to attend to.

Now, that's real hope and change. This is the basis upon which a renewed optimism for America can be built. Knowing that Sarah Palin can deliver on this should encourage the business community and all Americans that help is on the way. While we suffer over the next year or so, at least we can suffer knowing that someday the pain will be over and the light will shine brightly again on our blessed nation.

We Need Governor Palin

2011-09-14T09:34:00.000-07:00

An army sits in their camps keeping their powder dry, cleaning their rhetorical weapons and preparing for a massive boots on the ground grass roots operation with air support from the more technologically savvy among us who can post youtube videos and blog posts that will get the message out to the American people. That army awaits their marching orders. To make this happen, we need Governor Palin to give us the go.

It's a big commitment. She has a family to consider. But, her country needs her. We are calling out to her.

Listening to those people yelling out her name, chasing her down for an autograph or a word with her after the Iowa speech is spine tingling. These are not people just looking for a keepsake. The tone in the cries of "Sarah!" has the intonation of that of people crying out for help. It's not a lazy cry for help. These are people who are willing to lift the car off the American body politic. But they need her to help. If she jumps in and helps, these people will pull muscles and rip tendons to help her move that car.

Contrary to what the media says, the Palin army is not a fan club. This is our lives. There are people who are suffering because of what the Obama administration is doing. This ain't no party. This ain't no disco. This ain't no foolin' around. The American dream is at stake. People's livelihoods are at stake. People's children's futures hang on the outcome of the 2012 elections.

Ending the chokehold that both political parties have had on a system that regular people once felt helpless about changing or affecting requires a discussion of how the insider game hurts the regular guy regardless of which side of the aisle he or she sits. Sarah Palin effectively started that discussion and gave it a voice when she articulated clearly how lobbyists and good ole boys from both parties affect legislation in their favor by defining the difference between crony capitalism and true free market principles during her speech in Iowa over Labor Day weekend.

For the diehard Palinista, removing Obama is not enough. Changing the way business is done in Washington is also a key component to that. We've spent decades frustrated by the inability to beat city hall. Now we have a shot to do it, and it can't be done without her.

There are many who believe that without Palin, ending crony capitalism and putting America back on a permanent track toward restoration and renewal can't happen. Anyone can beat Obama. Only one can implement the true vision needed to insure that something like Obama never happens again.

Governor Palin, there are still millions of us out here that want it to be that way; that want it to be a shining city on a hill. Candidate Palin, please step forward.

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Robert Wiles: The Game Begins When Sarah Palin Lights The Torch

2011-08-19T14:20:00.000-07:00

In a guest submission to Conservatives4Palin, Robert Wiles pens a terrific piece that resonates with the the theme of this blog.

Yes, as with the Olympic Games, they do not begin until that flame is ignited from the one who carries the torch. The games within America and basically around the world do not begin until that flame is ignited. The flame as of yet has not been lit, but we have seen for these last three years who carries that torch. We have seen over these last three years the following of that torch bearer, wherever she goes she is followed by her supporters, wherever she goes she is followed by the media, wherever she goes the one question is asked to the one who carries the torch. That question being, “when will you ignite that flame for the games to begin”.

Yes Americans, I talk about the one who is surrounded by all walks of life, that one being none other then Sarah Palin. Oh how much have we seen within these last 3 years the mystic of Sarah, the coverage of her. We have seen the contempt from the liberal media, democrats, progressives, liberals and left in hoping that this torch bearer would just drop that torch. We have seen within our own republican party and talking heads the contempt as well for Sarah and their displeasure in knowing that she has climbed the ladder to the top within their own party. We have seen the elites degrade her because of one simple reason and that being she is of the people, the paupers, the citizens of this country who just live to survive and are looked upon as just pawns on a chess board. Sarah has captured the hearts of many Americans, she has done something more then any other I have seen, she has become the icon for a culture of values and principles that many have recognized we need to relive so to make this country great once again.

Awhile back we saw Sarah begin a bus tour, we saw the frenzy from the media, we saw the mobs of people who wanted so much to just be in her presence. We saw the coverage that was like no other. We have seen the frenzy over Sarah’s postings on her Facebook page and Twitter account by not just the liberal media, but from everybody. What Sarah writes is NEWS, what Sarah SPEAKS is a story to behold and what Sarah DOESN’T do is more worthy of news coverage then her even doing. Friday, August 12th at the Iowa State Fair we saw once again the drawing power of Sarah Palin. For months we have been reading stories of flash mob youths raising havoc across this country, we have seen violence rage within these mobs of youths and the emptiness of the human spirit. That friday in Iowa, we saw another kind of flash mod and it wasn’t violent, it wasn’t empty of the human spirit, it was a mob of compassion, a mob of serenity, a mob that wanted to be among the one who captures the hearts of a people. These mobs of people who follow her is for a reason and that is puzzling to the power brokers of this country. They can’t comprehend that she is one who we the people can relate to because she is one of us.

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Yes Sarah Palin is you and me, one who believes we as a people stand on values and principles and in that she connects as no other. For the masses, they see Sarah’s political being as secondary when comes to admiration for her values and principles. What the people see as their primary reason in admiring Sarah is so simple, they see themselves standing there. Yes, Sarah is the people’s candidate, one who wants to know us rather then own us. I remember back in the 1970′s there was also a period of time when Americans were captured by the presence of a being. That being was a horse called Secretariat. Now I am not putting Secretariat in the same category as a human being, but when it comes to sparking the human spirit, even an animal as a horse can give a people the mindset of serenity and happiness.

When Secretariat came upon us then, we were living the horrors of the Vietnam war, we were experiencing the class warfare as well, the clash between not just races but also among the youth and the elderly, the clash between the people and the government. We also had Watergate upon us as well as the turmoil of the 60′s cultural revolution. Back then the people needed hope, they needed to grasp onto an entity of comfort and strength to cure their lives. The people needed that spark once again within that human spirit, we were searching for purity and we saw it in Secretariat. Secretariat gave America that peace, that comfort, that identity within one’s soul. Many today will ever know that feeling back then, many will say that is quite stupid knowing a horse could do that, but if one lived back then, they would know what I am talking about. America was lost back then and living in an abyss of darkness. Secretariat changed all that, he won the triple crown in 1972, and people actually cried seeing his victory in the Preakness that year to win it all.

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Sarah has yet to light that flame, but for many we have seen that hope she has given us and right now we are hoping she wins that triple crown as well…….mayor, governor and president. Secretariat gave us what we needed at a time of despair, he made us feel good once again. Sarah is giving us that strength in knowing we the people are the only vision for a great country, and in that we feel good about who we are. There are times through out history where someone or an event will come along that touches millions. I have witnessed two of those events. One took place back in 1972 when a country and people were lost as we are today. Back in that time period America was on the brink of disaster and a horse made us cry in lifting our spirits. Today I see another in Sarah Palin. We flock to one who has taught us we the people are somebody. I guess i can say I have seen a horse and a mama grizzly come forward during times of turmoil and make us feel good about who we are as a people. This country and the world awaits for one person, then the strategies and political furor begins. With Sarah, the people have the control, not the elites of the country. Now that is CONVENTIONAL, the politcians, media and elites are now playing by the rules of WE THE PEOPLE….!!!!

Governor Palin, we wait for you to enter the stadium and light the flame.

Did Ronald Reagan Write This?

2011-08-17T20:51:00.000-07:00

Read this and tell me who wrote it.

We need to get this economy moving again, and the real stimulus we’ve been waiting for is domestic energy development. We must reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil by responsibly developing natural resources here. This will provide good paying jobs, reduce our trade deficit, increase federal and state revenue, ensure environmental standards, and actually stimulate our economy without incurring any debt. That’s real stimulus! Affordable, plentiful, and secure energy is the foundation of every thriving economy. Let’s make it the foundation of ours. Let’s do the opposite of President Obama’s manipulation of U.S. energy supplies. Let’s drill here, build refineries, and stop kowtowing to foreign countries in asking them to ramp up energy production which makes us even more beholden to them as we rely on their foreign product. Let’s move on tapping our massive domestic natural gas reserves. Natural gas is the perfect “bridge fuel” to a future when more renewable sources are available. It’s clean, it’s green, and we’ve got a lot of it. Let’s drill. Let’s build an infrastructure for natural gas cars and power plants. Energy development can help kick start our economic engine.

In addition to energy security, I embrace a pro-growth agenda that can make American corporations far more competitive on the global stage. (I will be writing more about this in the coming days.) We need to tell the world, “America is open for business again!” And let’s welcome industry by reducing burdensome regulations. The Obama administration keeps strangling businesses in red tape. From the EPA’s rulings to that nightmare known as Obamacare, the Obama administration is hanging one regulatory albatross after another around the private sector’s neck. Let’s get government out of the way and give the private sector room to breathe, grow, and thrive. We can provide businesses confidence to expand and hire Americans in a stable environment.

Be wary of the efforts President Obama makes to “fix” the debt problem. The more he tries to “fix” things, the worse they get because his “solutions” always involve spending more, taxing more, growing government, and increasing debt. This debt problem is the greatest challenge facing our country today. Obviously, President Obama doesn’t have a plan or even a notion of how to deal with it. His press conference today was just a rehash of his old talking points and finger-pointing. That’s why he can’t be re-elected in 2012.

Our economic news is disheartening and the task before us can seem daunting, but we must not lose our sense of optimism. People look around today and may see only the negative. They see a culture and a nation in decline, but that’s not who we are! America must regain its optimistic pioneering spirit again. Our founders declared that “we were born the heirs of freedom.” We are the heirs of those who froze with Washington at Valley Forge, who held the line at Gettysburg, who freed the slaves, carved a nation out of the wilderness, and allowed reward for work ethic. We are the sons and daughters of that Greatest Generation who stormed the beaches of Normandy, raised the flag at Iwo Jima, and made America the strongest and most prosperous nation in the history of mankind. By God, we will not squander what has been given us!

Our destiny is still in our own hands if we pick ourselves up and act responsibly and quickly. We must all get involved. Concerned Americans must seek truth, work harder than ever, and be willing to sacrifice today to ensure freedom tomorrow. Please get engaged in 2012 electoral politics and support experienced, vetted, pro-free market fiscal conservatives who will dedicate all to preserving our Republic and protecting our Constitution.

See who wrote this here.

As the liberal light flickers out, ours grows brighter

2011-08-08T14:43:00.000-07:00

The journey back has been a long, tiring one. We thought we hit rock bottom after the financial collapse in 2008, but the solutions to that problem only prolonged our descent. The kicking of the can down the road has led us to today where our debt is unsustainable and our political deals are unacceptable. Are we at rock bottom now? The Dow drops as does our nation's financial rating from Standard & Poor's. Unemployment is high. Gas prices are high. Consumer confidence and the housing market are at all time lows.

Normally, it is at this point in the journey that the desert wanderers forge Aaron's calf out of gold and start worshipping it. Unrest begins to grow. But, conservatives know that despite how low we are as a nation right now, there is a light that has burning in the distance since we started this journey back in 2008. There is a sense that the light is growing closer.

Clarice Feldman at American Thinker describes the latest rage coming from the left as a sign that the liberal flame is dimming.

As time has passed, I have come to believe that the reactions I received represented a rage at the dying of all that which these men had embraced in the absolute certainty of the righteousness and soundness of their views, and their right to have them automatically accepted as the approved model for all right thinking people.
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In fact, the tea party, Sarah Palin, and all of us who eschew bigger government and demand accountability and self-determination are beginning to expand our reach. We are, as reporters in England and Australia note with regard to the debt limit negotiations, showing up worldwide socialism as a foolish and bankrupt notion.
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I suppose if I had coasted through my adult life secure in the belief that I was destined to rule others, that my thinking was the height of sophisticated reason and scientific logic, and I began to notice that that game was up, I'd be rude at dinner parties, too. I mean they are just raging at the dying of their light, aren't they?

As the liberal light dims, the conservative light grows brighter. More and more Americans are becoming disillusioned with the empty promise of hope and change. President Obama's approval ratings are on the verge of plunging under 40%.

Americans are sick of high gas prices. They're sick of being unemployed. They're sick of seeing their childrens' futures being mortgaged away with back breaking debt. They're sick of out of control spending and regulations. When this happens, it is always a sign that the party in power is just one election away from being booted out on their behinds with their stuff thrown in the street beside them.

John Smith writes at Conservatives4Palin:

We can no longer accept it. We no longer can just hope for the best. No matter our differences, the one thing that unites Americans is a common belief in wanting to be let alone, in wanting to make better lives for ourselves and our children, in wanting to have as little intrusion in our lives by others and by government, in wanting the rules to apply fairly and equally to all, in wanting a chance to pursue our American dreams, and in wanting our government, to the degree that it does affect our lives, to act constructively and in service of our constitutive principles.

So, this is my time for choosing, and I will choose Sarah Palin.

Knowing what we know about her governorship, if we can get people to put aside the media myths and leftist lies about her, we could have great confidence in her ability to turn this sinking ship around and bring it back to life. Ronald Reagan said it best. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way. Governor Palin holds the lamp.

Stacy Drake at Conservatives4Palin envisions it best:

Just imagine if this country opened up energy production, while simultaneously taking bold steps, – such as Governor Palin did in Alaska – to get it’s fiscal house in order. As you can see, it produces exactly the opposite outcome of what we are currently facing today. In the words of Governor Palin, “2012 can’t come soon enough.”

While Standard & Poor's was lowering our nation's financial rating, Moody's increased Alaska's to AAA. That says a lot about the potential of Sarah Palin as president.

At the same time, we see the failure of liberalism repeated again. In 1976, Jimmy Carter was elected president. We tried the big government approach then. It failed. The communist countries of eastern Europe tried socialism. It failed.

Today's Europe is now admitting that its hybrid model is failing as well. Governor Palin tweeted a link to an article by in The Telegraph where Janet Daley writes:

This was the heaven on earth for which liberal democracy had been striving: a system of wealth redistribution that was merciful but not Marxist, and a guarantee of lifelong economic and social security for everyone that did not involve totalitarian government. This was the ideal the European Union was designed to entrench. It was the dream of Blairism, which adopted it as a replacement for the state socialism of Old Labour. And it is the aspiration of President Obama and his liberal Democrats, who want the United States to become a European-style social democracy.
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Also collapsing before our eyes is the lodestone of the Christian Socialist doctrine that has underpinned the EU’s political philosophy: the idea that a capitalist economy can support an ever-expanding socialist welfare state.
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We have arrived at the endgame of what was an untenable doctrine: to pay for the kind of entitlements that populations have been led to expect by their politicians, the wealth-creating sector has to be taxed to a degree that makes it almost impossible for it to create the wealth that is needed to pay for the entitlements that populations have been led to expect, etc, etc.

History repeatedly has shown us its glaring examples of liberal socialism's failures. American history has shown us glaring examples of how unbridled conservativism has always been the antidote for the statist sickness whenever it befalls our nation. Ronald Reagan gave us the blue print the last time this happened. Sarah Palin knows that blueprint.

There is a sense of faith that our future is bright despite the current indicators. Sarah Palin's words continue to burn bright. With hope and dedication nothing is impossible, and the Almighty never abandons those who seek the light.

It may seem the darkest its ever been. It may look to be the lowest we've ever fallen domestically. But if you look off into the distance, the light does look brighter. Sarah Palin can bring us to that light. Her lamp of liberty guides our steps.

Sarah Palin the Great Communicator

2011-08-05T16:36:00.000-07:00

When Ronald Reagan was dubbed "the Great Communicator," it ushered in an era when it became cool to be a conservative again. During the rise of liberalism during the 1960's and 1970's, the "silent majority" was made to feel as if their views were antiquated and outdated. We were moving into the modern age and we were expected to be "open minded" and "sophisticated." Conservatives were considered stuffed shirts. We've come a long way. We have a new communicator who demonstrates that the conservatives of today are really the fresh minded thinkers while liberalism is becoming old and stale.

When conservatism was on the ropes in 2008, there was a false sense that our country was moderating - moving to left. The election of Barack Obama created a moment when progressives came out into the open declaring an end to conservatism's "outmoded dogma." Even Republicans had been gravitating toward the center and taking more moderate positions out of this false sense that we were becoming a more liberal nation. The Republican Party nominated John McCain whose ACU rating of 83% had him straddling conservatism lite and moderate centrism.

Talk after the 2008 election was that the Republican Party would have to move more toward the center if it wanted to forge majorities necessary to win elections. This writer and many other conservatives disagreed. It has always been my position that the Republican who could best articulate the conservative philosophy would be the best person to lead our nation. Their articulation would allow the citizenry to continue clearly understanding the philosophy as younger people who were not alive or were too young to remember Reagan were entering the electorate (and it had better be explained to them correctly if it was not to be perverted, watered down or misunderstood).

Between 2004 and 2008, we lost our way. The conservative philosophy was not properly articulated. Yes, we had talk radio. But most of our political leaders were looking for different ways to box it up, market it, hide it or simply give it lip service. It was during those years that this writer can honestly say he saw the philosophy slipping away.

On September 3, 2008 in Minneapolis, MN, the demise of conseravatism was halted and the restoration of the Reagan philosophy had begun. We heard one of the greatest articulations of the philosophy ever given since Ronald Reagan gave his final speech in 1992. Just when I thought conservatism was dead, that speech changed my mind.

The speech was given by a woman who speaks with a funny accent and uses colloquialisms in conversation. One wouldn't think that the next great articulator of the conservative philosophy would be someone who speaks with a working class Alaskan accent whose conversation is more down home regular folk than it is the king's English. Could we really get the best articulation of the conservative philosophy from a person who sometimes has a tendency to talk really fast when she gets excited or has had one too many Redbulls? You betcha.

Put a pen or a keyboard in her hand or put her on stage in front of thousands of people and she is as articulate and electrifying a speaker as anyone you will find. When she gave her VP acceptance speech, her cadence was correct, her pitch was perfect and she even navigated a tough part of the speech without a net after the teleprompter froze on her. She never missed a beat.

Sarah Palin is a trained broadcaster and journalist who understands how to communicate via both the spoken word and the written word. Her speech in Minneapolis was as Reaganesque as they get and her Facebook response to President Obama's comments about her Statement on the Current Health Care Debate was written like a post graduate college paper.

When her emails were released, analysts found that she wrote on a level that is excellent for a chief executive.

When you go back to footage of her as a broadcaster (she did the sports on a local television station), a city council woman, a mayor and a governor, the professional Sarah Palin was always able to put the redneck away and speak clearly and concisely when required. This is not new for her despite the comments of many that she is more polished today than she was four years ago. When Sarah Palin, the private citizen who some mock for her speaking style steps into a business situation, it's like she takes the gum out of her mouth and becomes this clear, consise, straight to the point crowd rallying speaker.

She has mastered the art of the sound bite. Death Panel. Hit me baby one more time. Palling around with terrorists. Don't retreat, reload. All of these are intentional articulations that her detractors mistake as the words of a gum chewing redneck. She is in fact masterful at the art of communication. If she wasn't so good at explaining her conservativism, the liberals wouldn't be so afraid of her.

Jedediah Bila explains why Sarah Palin is so effective.

SHE’S SCARY BECAUSE SHE’LL ACTUALLY DO WHAT SHE SAYS. That’s right, folks. They know she’s the real deal. They know that if she says it, she means it. And that scares the living daylights out of them.

She is so masterful at the art of communication that despite nearly three years of being constantly mocked, smeared and made the target of hateful diatribes, it's extremely rare than any written piece or verbal commentary designed to attack her ever goes near the facts or the crux of her arguments. It's always personal or about the family. It's always a twist, spin or an outright lie.

John Kerry and Barbara Boxer tried to debate her in the Washington Post by taking her on in the arena of ideas, disagreeing with her op-ed on Cap and Trade. They lost. Cap and Trade was later killed after emails surfaced showing that scientists were gaming the facts for political purposes. Charles Krauthammer, one of the most intelligent men of our times once asked her to leave the room during a commentary on Obamacare. He turned out to be wrong. Obamacare is in serious danger in the courts and is scheduled to be repealed the minute Republicans get control of the government again all because of a couple of words written by Sarah Palin: death panel.

She owns Facebook and Twitter. End of paragraph.

The liberals and the media that brain washed the American people into thinking she's a ditz knew full well to stay away from the facts and never let the truth get in the way of a good smearing. But when they did get close to the facts, they would get burnt. Her effectiveness and ability to communicate with her staff and the media was exposed when liberals tried to look for dirt while scouring through her emails from when she was governor. The only smoking gun they would find would be the one they held in their own hands as they danced off the pain of a self inflicted bullet wound to the foot.

She has won every debate she has participated in. She became governor of Alaska with her own version of "there you go again." The Wall Street Journal quotes debate moderator Christopher Clark's take on how Palin stayed above the fray during a primary debate with John Binkley and Frank Murkowski:

"Binkley and Murkowski went after each other, almost ignoring her, bickering back and forth," Mr. Clark remembers. Finally, he continues, "Ms. Palin interrupted and said 'Don't Alaskans deserve a better discourse than that?' It became the defining moment of the campaign."

She won both the primary debate and the general election debate. She defeated Joe Biden, a seasoned Senator, in the 2008 vice presidential debate.

So the next time you hear a high pitched voice screaming out "do you love your freedom?" just remember that this is the same woman who could calmly sit before ethics violation committees and be cleared of every one. This is the same woman who could bring a house down in Minneapolis, MN or a desert to life in Searchlight, NV.

We know exactly where Sarah Palin stands on the issues. She talks the talk and walks the walk. She has stood firm in her position on Obamacare and Cap and Trade. More recently, she has not wavered on the issue of the debt ceiling despite the carping of moderate Republicans and whining Democrats. What you see is what you get and what you get is right for America.

Palin's communication skills are covered brilliantly in a must read article by Bradley A. Smith at National Review Online:

The Sarah Palin who won Alaska’s governorship in 2006 came perhaps as close as any Republican in recent memory to recapturing the Reagan formula. She never wavered in or ran from her conservative positions on social issues, but she addressed them with understanding, compassion, and respect for opposing views. Like Reagan, she emphasized competence, economic issues, taxes, and frugality, and, again like Reagan, her instincts on taxes and spending were libertarian and deregulatory, though not dogmatically so.

She added to this social conservatism and political libertarianism a Reaganesque dose of populism, spotting symbolic issues (such as pledging to sell the state government’s jet) and exploiting an attractive, folksy public persona. Her approach was inclusive, seeking the support of moderates, independents, and Democrats, and it worked. Though substantially outspent in both the primary and the general election, she took out two former governors to become the first woman and the youngest governor in state history.

Sarah Palin is a voice for millions of Americans sick of the status quo business as usual politics of Washington. Hers is the articulation of everything many Americans feel and believe. She can take the hopes and dreams for our country and deliver it back to us in a beautifully spoken or written package. She can explain our frustrations to the press and to the voters.

Her ability to connect with so many makes them feel that pang of total agreement when she delivers our philosophy, the American philosophy, back to us in a way that would make Ronald Reagan proud. He's the only other great communicator in my lifetime who has ever been able to do that. That says a lot about Sarah Palin, the great communicator of our time.

The Flame of Youth Burns Bright

2011-07-28T10:58:00.000-07:00

For a young person, it’s both an anxious and hopeful time. Not fully versed yet in the intricacies of how a culture or a society works or how government functions, the young person goes on an instinct which drives an intellectual curiosity that leads them to answers. I hear on the news how bad our economy is and how our military standing in the world is in decline. There is inflation, unemployment and talk of hard times ahead. What does this really mean?

In the search for answers, I find there is a leader out there who is talking about getting government off our backs and reawakening our sense of self reliance and entrepreneurship. As a high school student, I am eager to listen to anyone who is talking about getting authority off my back, and love the frequency with which this leader uses the word freedom and other variations of the word free.

Always misunderstood, the youth of America are looked upon as naive or ignorant. The more I'm told that the adult world is a functional place which requires me to behave myself, the more confused I become. The more I think about it, the more something doesn’t look right. I am beginning to question the adult world and in my own mind, I’m thinking its a bunch of bull. But what does a snot nosed kid know anyway?

I was taught through a Catholic upbringing and through the values of my parents about this functional world where people could have fun and get a little crazy from time to time, but for the most part most (in my mind at least) it was supposed to be about operating with a moral compass, working hard, developing healthy relationships and eventually getting married and raising a family.

I later find out that the adults gave it to me all wrong. They told me I'd be growing up into a world where people have to be moral, ethical, mentally focused, disciplined and be able to handle freedom with responsibility. Instead, when I open up the door and look outside into the adult world, it's nothing but people just getting by and a bunch of liberals running around with their moral relativism, antipathy toward prayer and religion and reckless ways of spending the public's money while running a "gangsta government." Even the culture is a mess. This isn't what I was told it would be like.

All the thoughts in my mind were changing. My view of the world was becoming more reality based and less fantasy based.

Ah, to be young. Young people like to rebel. To me, non-conformity meant being different than the norm. What I didn’t realize is that the norm was actually no longer the norm anymore. In so many people's quests for non-conformity, they have become the norm. The counter culture in essence has become the culture.

Tie dye shirts, pink and purple hair, freaky rings in people’s faces became too status quo for me. The world was becoming a freak show until I realized, hey wait a minute, I'm the freak. I’m the one who thinks these crazy things about a functioning world where freedom comes with responsibility. I’m the one dressed funny in jeans and a polo shirt. I stick out like a sore thumb in a sea of tie dyeds and nose rings. Ah, but I have a major edge here. In a world of morally and ethically challenged morons, being what we used to call "normal" now automatically makes me a non-conformist. I'm the counter culture now.

I would eventually go on to college and be told how wrong and crazy I was after embracing a political philosophy that doesn't match a dysfunctional world. Logic tells me it should work, but there are so many morons out there doing it a totally different way, I can't help but to wonder if I'm the one who's nuts. As people tell me I'm the loon, I begin to question my own sanity. Am I really the only one who gets it or am I really that far off base?

Then one day my political science teacher in college gave us a research project. We were to pick one of the candidates in the upcoming presidential primaries. I picked the leader I was already following. Everyone was laughing. You picked that person? That person is an idiot, a moron.

One student got so enraged that she threatened violence and wished that my leader was killed. The professor stopped her and corrected her by telling her that she should never say stuff like that about anyone even if she disagrees with them. All around me it seemed there were a lot of people who hated this leader. I knew I’d have to be strong.

In studying this leader, I found that the leader gave a stunning speech at a Republican Party National Convention which matched every crazy thought I had in my head. I read what this leader was saying and watched this leader speak on television. One night, this leader gave a speech and I and was overwhelmed with an eye watering, warm sentimental feeling of “wow, this person gets the deal.” I’m really not crazy after all. I’m not alone.

Finally, I thought, there is someone out there who believes exactly the same thing I do and who sees it the way I see it. Whoa, how’s that for validation of one’s world view? And this person is a person of influence with power, too.

From that day forward, I would never doubt my sanity again. The uncertainty and angst I felt about my philosophy was replaced with a strength that I drew from my leader. I'd never be uncertain again. I studied it. I looked more into it. I made sure it was right. I was tired of reading the lies in the New York Times, so I started reading a wider range of other publications and learning about how conservatism works.

Now, let me let you in something I didn’t tell you until now in this article. I’m 47 years old. That experience I just described happened over 25 years ago. If you're in your 20's or late teens, you may be experiencing something similar to what I wrote. You may have a leader that you look at the same way I looked at mine.
But, you have not been where I have been. There is so much you haven't experienced yet.

You never had the honor, the privilege and the most beautiful life experience of watching a great nation being led by a great leader. You never knew what it felt like to wake up every morning knowing that when you went to work things were only getting better with each passing day. You never knew what it was like to cry tears of joy as you watched this great leader on TV stand before the Statue of Liberty on the 4th of July and talk about how great America is and then watch as fireworks are blown off like they've never been blown off before.

It was 1986 when the Statue of Liberty was restored. The statue was restored and so was our country. America really was a shining city on a hill. It really was a beautiful place. It was everything that people my age and older tell you it was.

I have been to the shining city on a hill. I’ve seen it. I’ve lived it. I’ve experienced it. I weep every day when I see what’s happening to my country today. I watch videos of my leader’s speeches and can’t go more than five minutes without the waterworks going off.

My leader was Ronald Reagan.

Let me take something back here that I said earlier. I said you never experienced what I experienced. Let me correct that. You are now starting to experience first hand what I experienced.

When I look out over the youth of America and I see kids who are the age I was when Ronald Reagan was coming into the presidency, I beam with an overwhelming sense of hope and optimism. I watch today’s youth struggle with the Obama years much the same way I struggled with the Carter years.

I watch today’s youth experience an awakening much like mine was in the late 1970’s early 1980’s. Go study the Carter and Reagan years. You will be amazed at the striking the similarities are to how it is now.

If you want to know what my leader was like, look at your leader. Know that your leader can be a part of a similar experience to what I had when my leader brought us home to morning in America.

If it is going to happen again, the youth of today are going to have to fight harder than they ever have. They are the new hands that will write today's modern updated version of the American story. My leader was Ronald Reagan. Your leader is Sarah Palin. She needs your support.

Your leader knows my leader. In fact, your leader is the same age as I am. Follow her. She knows how to get back to the shining city on a hill because, like me, she’s been there already.

I can’t tell you what a thrill it will be to see it happen all over again through your youthful eyes.

Why It's So Important We Get People to See 'The Undefeated'

2011-07-13T10:13:00.000-07:00

This is a transcript of Patrick's World USA BlogTalk Radio show that will air today.

I’m not one to be defeatist, but the closest thought that threatens my optimism is the notion that the American people could potentially fail at the ballot box again in 2012 just as they did in 2008. The outcome of the 2010 elections gives me hope, yet considering that Harry Reid and Lisa Murkowski were reelected to the Senate and that Jerry Brown was elected as Governor of California leaves room for angst about what could go wrong in 2012.

Thomas Jefferson believed strongly that a well informed electorate was necessary in order for our system of government to work properly. He also recognized that there would be times when the citizenry would not be well informed. He wrote:

The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty....

Many of Jefferson’s statements would be considered radically right wing by today’s liberal standards. In fact, many of our founders’ ideas are attacked regularly by progressives and undermined by President Obama’s policies. The mere thought that people would be in such open opposition to the ideas of our founders would have been political heresy 25 years ago. Today, this opposition is not only open, it is in power.

Our presidential elections are no longer a national referendum on patriotically based competing ideas. They have become an up and down vote on the actual letter and intent of our nation’s very founding. The fact that we are even talking about the possible reelection of a man who has filled his administration with people who think like Van Jones is just bone chilling.

Alexis deTocqueville may have written about tyranny of the majority, but what about tyranny of the minority. How is it that we ended up with ObamaCare against the will of the people? If he was alive today and asked, he would probably observe that the judicial branch would eventually be the check on that tyranny as well in the same way by overturning it (which it is in the process of doing now). But would he or any of the other great analysts of the American democratic experiment ever foresee its demise in the complete and utter collapse of its very underpinnings and the outright ignoring and dismissal of its foundation documents?

World history shows us a disturbing pattern when examining the rise and fall of global super powers. From ancient Greece, Egypt, Rome through the British Empire, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, history is littered with stories of the rise and fall of powerful nations. The only two countries which have not succumbed to this trend are China and The United States (although The United States is showing signs that it’s next).

China is not the best example of a government which values human rights and affords its citizens a wide array of freedom, but it is an example of how a country that remains true to its historical and traditional roots is able to survive for eons in a world as volatile as ours. If America is to survive as long as China has, it too must remain true to its founding values and historical traditions.

America, though, seems more intent on following the model of ancient Rome where the empire grows to the point of complacency and decadence before losing its nature and status. N.S. Gill at About.Com The Fall of Rome writes:

Many say the Fall of Rome was an ongoing process, lasting more than a century. Since Rome still exists, it is argued that it never fell. Some prefer to say that Rome adapted rather than fell.

The scariest word in that quote is the word adapted. The Fall of America is an ongoing process, lasting more than a century. Since America will still exist if Obama is reelected to a second term, many will prefer to say that America adapted rather than fell.

The America that adapts will also lose its economic and military superpower nature and status as well. America’s founders loathed tyranny and warned against it emphatically and repeatedly. When historians look back on the 2012 election, will they mark this time in our history as confirmation that 2008 was the time when tyranny triumphed and American exceptionalism died or will they see it as a wake up call which America heeded just in the nick of time?

Liberals and statists think big government is good because it can save us from ourselves by controlling our behavior right down to the french fry we eat or the lightbulb we use. But like chemotherapy, government bureaucracy and nanny state laws make no distinction between bad cells and good cells; nor does statism cure the ill it is designed to stop. It is this scorched earth policy of regulating everything for the good of all that strangles our small businesses and eats away at the dollars we earn and the productivity that allows us to earn them.

Jay Clarke at American Thinker gives more examples of how tyranny has grown under Obama. He writes:

By definition, tyranny is the "arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power." Whether it's Congressional oversight, court orders, or the American People, Obama is well-versed in circumventing any authority that may seek to limit his acquisition of power.

Though unpopular, unwanted, and un-Constitutional, he rammed a $2-trillion healthcare bill down the throats of an unwilling American people and then defied court orders restricting its implementation. He has violated the War Powers Act in Libya and has ignored court orders regarding his moratorium on offshore drilling.

In a move worthy of any would-be tyrant, Obama has proposed illegally requiring businesses competing for government contracts to disclose their political contributions.

Clearly in violation of the 4^th Amendment, Obama and DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano applaud the TSA's warrantless groping of men, women, children, the elderly, and the infirm during airport screenings that reek of police state tactics.

The Justice Department has gone rogue too, ceasing defense of The Defense of Marriage Act and prosecution of hate crimes when the victims are white. Attorney General Eric Holder refused to prosecute the New Black Panther Party when members brandished clubs, made ethnic slurs, and threatened white voters attempting to enter the polls.

Obama's federal power-grab has expanded into suing and threatening states. He sued Arizona for daring to enforce immigration law and joined a lawsuit against Indiana's defunding of Planned Parenthood. The ATF is pressuring Montana and 7 additional states for passing the Firearms Freedom Act which restricts Federal regulation of firearms made and sold within the states' borders. Obama even threatened to declare the entire state of Texas a "no fly zone" should the Texas legislature criminalize TSA screening procedures.

As a raw, political tactic Obama has refused to secure the southern border while Americans die on American soil at the hands of criminal illegal aliens. Undaunted, lawless Obama used executive powers to enact immigration policies through the back door, bypassing Congress and the rule of law.

When Obama's Cap and Trade carbon-taxing scheme failed in Congress, he simply had the EPA declare carbon to be a toxic pollutant and open to regulation.

There are still too many in the electorate who fear the media perpetrated myths and misperceptions of what a deregulated business environment or entitlement reform would look like under a conservative president than fear the reality of skyrocketing unemployment, the destruction of the housing market and the ever growing dependence on foreign oil at the expense of our ability to create jobs, wealth and security by drilling more here at home.

Defeating Barack Obama in 2012 should not be viewed as having to chop off our leg to save our body. It should be viewed as making a difficult but rewarding change to American life similar to that of an addict who faces his addiction head on, seeks help and comes out a better more successful person. America can be like Glenn Beck or it can be like John Edwards. It has a choice.

Luckily for America, voting trends show that Americans vote their pocketbooks. In 1992, it was the economy, stupid. In 1980, Americans voted against Jimmy Carter more so than they voted for Reagan during that disastrous economy. What’s puzzling, though, is that the complicit media and uninformed citizens still believe Obama can win in 2012 despite presiding over what appears to be the beginnings of a depression. I share Newt Gingrich’s assessment that we are in a depression. The housing market is worse than it ever was during the great depression and real unemployment is anywhere between 16% - 22% depending on which economist you talk to.

Republicans should use this opportunity to renew and restore its party just as much as our nation has an opportunity to renew and restore itself. If the GOP doesn’t present a gutsy and clear contrast to what Obama stands for, the message will be muddled and the voters will go about the election as if it’s business as usual or become apathetic. It will be important that the Republican nominee articulate the conservative philosophy effectively and renew and restore the party’s platform while exciting the country about solutions that can bring an end to our economic woes.

Despite concerns about the “electability” of some of the candidates, whoever gets the GOP nomination is going to win it because they are the hardest worker, most effective campaigner and has the most energized and enthusiastic base. If It turns out to be someone the establishment is uncomfortable with, too bad. We have had over a century of leadership from elites and establishment types and look at where we are. Returning to business as usual after Obama is out is not going to fix our problems long term.

But, at the same time, regardless of whom the Republicans nominate, if the people don’t recognize Obama’s disastrous presidency as an existential threat to the future of America as we know it, it won’t matter. If Obama gets reelected, you can fold the board up and go home. The game will be over.

The Republicans will not lose the election because of who they nominate. The only way they will lose the election is if the American people allow themselves to be duped again the way they were in 2008. We may wake up the morning after the 2012 election and see Reagan-like electoral numbers or we may wake up the next morning and begin our new lives in a declining European socialist-style democracy, learning to live the way people do now in Greece.

It’s imperative that our electoral strategy should focus on educating the public on the current state of the economy and linking it to Obama’s radical agenda. Republicans should focus on defusing media myths and convincing the public to do their own research. The only way to make this sale is to make sure the American people know that the media lies.

Choosing a strong, energizing and charismatic leader that can bring the Republican Party back in line with its Reagan roots and the basics of Constitutional government is not only key to victory in 2012 but key to long term recovery and return to excellence. In the general election, the stakes will be high. Whoever defeats Obama will have to take on the daunting but feasible task of restoring America.

Ultimately, whoever wins the presidential election is going to win it because America is going to make a final choice as to which direction it wants to go in: Constitutional limited government or big government nanny state. Ronald Reagan said that given the facts the American people will make the right decision every time. Let’s hope he’s still right.

Now let’s talk about Sarah Palin.

Sarah Palin Has Walked the hot coals.

We need a time tested warrior to fix our country. Don’t be fooled by the demagoguery that lurks in the Republican Party. Replacing Obama with just another Republican, or a generic Republican as the polls suggest, may end the socialism and reckless spending, but it won’t fix our systemic problems long term. Returning to business as usual means a continuation of crony capitalism – a false brand of capitalism that relies on the lobbying and the legislative process to choose winners and losers based on who you know rather than what you do. Crony capitalism exists under both traditionally Democrat and Republican systems. A truly conservative system with a libertarian flavor almost came into full existence under Ronald Reagan, but was not allowed to take root and grow past the elections of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. We need to pick it up where Reagan left off.

It will take the election of a citizen politician like Sarah Palin who has run businesses, regulatory agencies and governments in order to de-institutionalize all the nonsense we have in our system and re-institutionalize in our culture a sense that governing ourselves from the bottom up rather than the top down is the key to restoring American exceptionalism and to providing a perpetual path for growth for future generations.

It will take someone who has already been battle tested and has who survived the ridicule of the Left and the doubters in the establishment to prove beforehand that they have the courage to flip the tables and upset the apple carts that need to be upset in order to clean house so that a new philosophy and strategy can take root. It will take a spine of steel for our next president to make this happen. We can’t roll the dice on unproven candidates or those who have not walked across the coals already.

If We Fight, The Future is Bright

As we journey toward our future, we take solace in one great notion: socialism and statism is a failure. Under the regulation of liberals, our financial system collapsed and we now head more and more towards government control over our economy. Punishing, over-taxing or over-regulating honest businesses or destroying the capitalist environment in which they flourish is not the answer. If an incompetent, corrupt and insolvent government regulated the private sector into incompetency, corruption and insolvency, what makes anyone think the government is still the solution?

We must remember, many of these banks failed because of government regulation, not because of the lack thereof. Government forced them to write bad loans. We must consider how many businesses fail because they are overly regulated or because they were destroyed by ruinous legal proceedings that occurred in the grey areas and fringes of the regulatory and legal tort system. These are the techniques liberals have been using to encourage the destruction of the capitalist system since the New Deal. They now call on their messiah to finish the job.

Because of capitalism's cyclical nature, recessionary periods are viewed as prime opportunities for the destroyers to come back out of their holes and repeat the same old Keynesian failures of the past. They bring their old style socialism dressed in a new style suit. Once again, they offer no new alternatives, just recycled garbage dressed as something different.

Sarah Palin writes in her latest Facebook post "The Sugar Daddy Has Run Out of Sugar; Now We Need New Leaders":

The same “experts” who got us into this mess are now telling us that the only way out of our debt crisis is to “increase revenue,” but not by creating more jobs and therefore a larger tax base; no, they want to “increase revenue” by raising taxes on job creators who are taxed enough already! As Margaret Thatcher said, “The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” That’s where we are now. Hard working taxpayers have been big government’s Sugar Daddy for far too long, and now we’re out of sugar. We don’t want big government, we can’t afford it, and we are unwilling to pay for it.

The stimulus plan has failed. That flushing sound you heard in 2009 was $800 billion dollars in stimulus money going down the drain. As Mark Levin said on his radio show Friday, we pissed that money away. The next flush you hear are jobs going down the toilet.

Conservatives are optimists. We believe in the American people and confidently await the day they wake up and reject this "Obamanation." We must realize deep down inside that's where we're headed if we don't stop Obama's radical agenda with a positive and courageous message that can capture those who are soon to be disillusioned. We can optimistically tell our fellow country men that there is a correct way to do things, and if we are willing to embrace the correct way of doing things, we once again can rise to the greatness we once were.

The first step is to defeat the media. They lied to us. They gave us Obama. The next step is to be courageous. If we are willing to take the risk to go with a leader who is gutsy enough to take the system apart, renew and restore it, we can win. If we are willing to fight, our future is bright. Sarah Palin is that leader. The new movie, The Undefeated explains why.

Rob Cunningham at American Thinker nails it dead on.

The Undefeated "brilliantly serves as a modern-day case study, and clearly illustrates how our agenda-driven news media, entertainment industry and political power brokers brazenly operate, in plain view and with cold-blooded intentionality, in a tireless attempt to destroy a very decent fellow citizen. When presented with basic facts, Americans will recoil in disgust."

Despite our election loss in 2008, we take solace in the words of Ronald Reagan: "Don't get cynical because, look at yourselves and what you were willing to do and recognize that there are millions and millions of Americans out there that want what you want, that want it to be that way, that want it to be a shining city on the hill."

If you don’t listen to anything Sarah Palin says, listen to this one part from her Facebook note. The entire answer, yes the entire solution to our economic problems is in this one paragraph. It not only gives us the answer, it gives us the reason to be optimistic. Remember this line, go to her Facebook Page and study it, and understand why this is exactly what Ronald Reagan meant about unleashing our industrial giant when he give his inauguration speech in 1981. Sarah Palin writes:

Real hope comes from realizing how God has blessed our exceptional nation, and then doing something about it. We have been blessed with natural resources, hardworking entrepreneurs, and a Constitution that preserves the greatest form of government ever devised by man. If we develop those natural resources, allow our entrepreneurs to keep and invest more of what they earn, and adhere to the time-tested truths of our Constitution, we will prosper and endure.

It’s time to wake up, America. The binge is over. Had we had the fortitude to go through the shakes and withdrawal symptoms necessary to fix our problem three years ago, we’d be through the worst part of the pain by now. But because we kicked the can down the road, it’s only getting worse. It’s now or never. Fix it or die. The answer is common sense and it’s right in front us.

Go take people who are not yet convinced about Sarah Palin to The Undefeated this Friday. Go online and look up where it’s showing and where you can get tickets. It’s imperative that we convince Americans why Sarah Palin is our next great one and why it’s so important for her to lead us as our president.

This is not a fan club. We’re not campaigning for Sarah Palin because she looks good in a jogging suit on the cover of Newsweek. We’re campaigning for Sarah Palin because our country’s life is on the line. This election is do or die. While there are other good strong conservative candidates out there, Sarah Palin is our best and greatest hope.

Memories of the Fourth of July - 2 Years Later

2011-07-04T09:00:00.000-07:00

-from Patrick's World USA

It's been two years since Sarah Palin resigned as Alaska's governor. It's incredible how so much has happened since then. What she has accomplished these the past two years while withstanding the most intense smear campaign ever against an American citizen is simply amazing.

Sarah Palin with son Trig, and daughter Piper holding grandson Tripp Johnston watch fireworks on 4th of July evening at a beach near Todd's parents house in Dillingham, Alaska on Sarah Palin's Alaska.

Let's look at the last two years in order to explain why Sarah Palin is extremely qualified to be president. Her work ethic is astounding. In the past two years, she has written numerous Facebook Notes which delve deeply into policy (her critics called her a lightweight two years ago and still do today). She has written two books (her critics didn't even think she read newspapers). She produced and starred in Sarah Palin's Alaska, a television series that educated America on Alaska while allowing them to get a glimpse of her and her family interacting with her state's natural beauty (her critics thought she was turning her back on Alaska). She has appeared numerous times on the Fox News Channel and the Fox Business channel. She has given speeches, many of which were done on a charitable basis or for the purpose of fundraising for some very great causes besides her own political cause.

Oh, let's not forget that in between tweets, speeches, Fox News appearances, book writing and Facebook posting, she managed to put together this thing called SarahPac and was instrumental in helping a lot of conservatives and Tea Party candidates get elected in the 2010 elections.

There is probably a lot more that I've overlooked or forgotten. But, the point is this: who is humanly capable of doing all that in two years and if someone is capable of handling that kind of a workload and accomplishing so much of what she's done in two years, wouldn't that person make a great president?

Her accomplishments clearly outshine those of Barack Obama who has made vacationing, golf and basketball his only real accomplishments outside of signing off on the killing of Osama bin Laden. Yes, I give him credit for that. It took less than an hour to complete a mission that was prepared for by the Bush Administration. What has he done with the other 1 year, 364 days and 23 hours? He has given us the disaster that is Obamacare and he has implemented policies that are destroying the American economy.

The Palin army has come a long way since two years ago. Her resignation didn't destroy her. It made her stronger. Her army didn't shrink; it grew. She is considered a top tier candidate for the presidency should she decide to throw her hat in the ring (writers note: please do, please, please). The smear campaign didn't ruin her image; it backfired into 24,000 pages of emails which demonstrated how effective a governor she was and it motivated the creation of "The Undefeated." There's egg on all faces there, lefties.

So let's party like it's January 21, 2013 this Independence Day. I hope and pray that everyone's 4th of July is not just to celebrate the past but to look to a future when we renew and restore the United States of America.

And let's also remember what it was like two years ago when I wrote about it last year :

Last year was the roughest Fourth of Julys I can ever remember. I had my Palin shirt, my Gadsden flag and a cooler full of cold beer and good food all ready. Even though it was the beginning of the Obama years, I wasn't going to let his America - a lackluster apologetic weak excuse of a nation - interfere with my celebration of my America - the shining city on a hill. It was going to be my way of declaring Sarah Palin as my real leader and the successor in my heart to Ronald Reagan. I was at Virginia Beach when a friend of mine called me on the beach to tell me that Sarah Palin had resigned.

When I went up to the deck, Stuart Varney replayed Sarah Palin's speech on Fox News. I watched stunned as the pundits talked about a possible FBI investigation and how the frivolous ethics violations had cost her and the state of Alaska a fortune. I was alone in the wilderness. Obama was leading my country off a cliff and my leader just stepped down from her position of power. I felt like I wanted to throw up.

There was a 5 minute period during the entire time I was at my friend's condo when his son was not on the laptop, so I read everything I could about her resignation the next morning which was July 4, 2009.

Sarah Palin called her minions in off the ledge with a tweet (link no longer available - emphasis is mine): "Critics are spinning, so hang in there as they feed false info on the right decision made as I enter last yr in office to not run again...." On her Facebook page, she wrote (emphasis is again mine):

I am now looking ahead and how we can advance this country together with our values of less government intervention, greater energy independence, stronger national security, and much-needed fiscal restraint. I hope you will join me. Now is the time to rebuild and help our nation achieve greatness!
She put her resignation speech on her Facebook page underneath the headline which included these words: "it is good, stay tuned." I read the speech and this line jumped out at me (emphasis not mine - Sarah capitalized the word TRUST):

I do not want to disappoint anyone with my decision; all I can ask is that you TRUST me with this decision - but it's no more "politics as usual".
I'm a political science guy who was taught from the textbook in college. It would have been easy to draw a conclusion that she was done. A friend told me it was her "Checkers" speech. It would have been just as easy to get off the emotional rollercoaster of being a Sarah Palin fan at that point. But she said the right words when she was talking to her fans. She was talking to us. She was talking to me. She was asking me to hang in, join her, TRUST her. And like I did before when the media lies were going un-debunked before the Palinista presence we have on the web today, I decided to listen to her.

I wrote:

Take a deep breath. There are 3 1/2 years left until the 2012 presidential election. A lot can happen. Sarah Palin holds the answer. Whether it works or not is totally up to her now. With more freedom to control her brand, her future will no longer be in the hands of an unchecked hostile media that spreads lies about her.

We will be participants in a future political science lesson that has yet to reveal its answer to us.
I deferred the future to Sarah, knowing that the only way to explain the resignation could not be done until after the fact. Now that it is after the fact, I can explain it. I also know that I was right to trust her.

I put on my Sarah Palin shirt last Fourth of July and flew that Gadsden flag that day. When someone commented on my shirt "looks like your girl's in trouble," I hid my concern and simply told him, "nah, she's just getting ready to run in 2012."

Now that the emotion and the uncertainty of last year's Fourth of July is over. Let's do this again right this time. I'm wearing the shirt again this year and this time I'm really going to enjoy it.

It's a year since Sarah resigned. Since then she has made over $12 million dollars and her PAC has donated tens of thousands to political campaigns across the country. She is a best selling author, Fox News contributor, professional speaker and a documentarian. Did I mention she's in the top tier of contenders for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012? Resignation, smesignation.

In 2010, I will shoot off my fireworks off at make believe Taliban and al Qaeda strongholds in Afghanistan. And despite my disgust at the Obama administration, I believe in the American people. I believe we will get the bum out of office. Five years from now, it will be morning in America. And kid's who weren't alive when Reagan was president will be able to graduate college and go wide-eyed into a world with unlimited potential. The economy will be cranking, the job market will be great and we will be militarily strong. The terrorists will be on the brink of collapse.

It will be morning in America again. Sarah Palin will give her "Statue of Liberty" speech and we will beam with pride and joy over our great nation and the great woman who will be leading it.

Happy Fourth of July, everyone! And God bless Sarah Palin and the United States of America.

No Risk, No Reward

2011-06-22T09:23:00.000-07:00

There are people who insist that Barack Obama will be reelected in 2012. Head to head polls show him leading over the various GOP presidential contenders. America, you are walking in the dark.

Don’t fret over the numbers and the opinions, though. In 1980, polls showed Jimmy Carter leading the field of GOP presidential contenders despite high unemployment, high inflation and high interest rates. Had we been having this discussion then, we’d be shaking our heads just as strongly as we are now.

Despite what the punditry told us and despite what the media said, a supposedly unpopular, unelectable dunce named Ronald Reagan was elected president in a landslide. Americans may look stupid on paper, but when they look in their wallets and bank accounts, they smarten up pretty quickly before walking into the voting booth.

George H.W. Bush was kicked out for a way lesser economy. In fact, the mere perception that it was “the economy stupid,” lost him a second term. The truth is the economy was already on the beginnings of an upturn during the fiscal quarter when the 1992 election took place and went up ever since. Bill Clinton had not even been a glimmer in the eyes of the American people when the business cycle and mechanism of the economy began to swing back. It would not be until after the election that the numbers would come in to prove this.

Such is not the case with Barack Obama. Our economic numbers are a reflection of recently past activity. Think about how a business works. At the end of the month, you do your reports and you look at last month’s numbers to determine how things are going. Well, tomorrow’s “last month’s numbers” are happening today, and it’s not pretty.

We continue to bleed jobs by the hundreds of thousands. Our economy is in such dire straights right now that more and more people are being added to the welfare and food stamp rolls every day. My job is lost at the end of July. Don’t tell me that things are getting better, Mr. Obama.

And it’s not just my job, personally. It’s my position as well as others. My employer eliminated 7 positions. We are not being fired so they can replace us. We are being let go because the company is sucking for air in an economy where there isn’t much money in the system. Everyone is cutting back. Even the rich are cutting back. I go to Lake Gaston once a month and there is nothing even closely remote to the activity I remember seeing there years ago.

We once wandered through the desert leaderless. We are now in a dark forest grasping to the hope that if we can just find the one who carries liberty’s lamp, that they can lead us out to the shining city. But, even then, if we take control of the city, the city is run down and it needs a lot of work to make it shine again.

Some say we are still leaderless. We are because we think we are. We are because people in our movement have not had the guts and the wherewithal to stand up for the one person who electrified a nearly dead Republican Party nearly three years ago. There are those who walk amongst us in this dark forest who bought into the media lies and the caricaturing of a great woman who put it all on the line for us. She inspired us enough to believe against all odds that we could take our country back. Rather than lie down and die after 2008, many of us joined the Tea Party and united in the idea that we could fight city hall and win. 2010 is proof of that. We need to finish the job in 2012.

Sarah Palin could have left liberty’s lamp on the ground and walked off to her own personal castle after cashing in on the fame (and notoriety) of being the first female Republican vice presidential candidate; she didn’t. She could have given us the Italian salute and raked in the royalties from Going Rogue before hitting the rubber chicken circuit to collect her speaking fees. She didn’t. She didn’t have to become a political activist on Facebook and Twitter. She didn’t have to raise money and help the Tea Party win elections in 2010.

Instead, she carries liberty’s lamp. She is the beacon of light that many on our side refuse to see. Like those who followed the other group to the wrong side of the ship in the Poseidon Adventure, there are Republicans who don’t want to believe that Sarah Palin is the answer and the way to victory.

If America reelects Barack Obama in 2012 with unemployment like it is, gas prices through the roof, the housing market in the tank and the debt at near crushing limits, we will know we have reached our Nero moment. We will know that we have put our better days behind us and that the future is nothing more than fending for ourselves as we watch our country become third world. If the Republican Party lets this happen, they’re gone the way of the Whigs.

Some will think it’s too risky to run Sarah Palin. But like I said, if America reelects Barack Obama in 2012, it’s already over. We will never know how great we can be again if that happens. We will never find our way back to that shining city on a hill if we choose business as usual over true risk and reward. This is not about safe choices. Our country is going to hell in a hand basket.

Countries, like people, when on the brink of death don’t sit there and think about it pondering the what ifs. They know they need to act quickly. This doesn't mean choosing Sarah Palin has to be a reflexive response.
Choosing her is not a blind risk, it's a calculated risk. She's been vetted. All the other Republican candidates are fresh meat. Their garbage cans have not been sifted through nor have all their skeletons come out. Those who think the media won't do to them what they did to Palin are mistaken. With Palin, we know what we're getting. Mary Beth House makes this point perfectly in An Open Letter to Sarah Palin.

You are perhaps the most vetted candidate we’ve seen in who knows how long. Any potential skeletons have long ago seen the light of day and have lost their sting. You’ve been attacked endlessly from every angle on a range of issues covering the absurd to some of the vilest, most irresponsible insinuations. And yet, you’re still standing. As an analogy, you’re like a toy who’s been played with by energetic toddlers but are no worse for wear. So why would we want to latch on to a new, shiny toy who has not been through the gauntlet you’ve endured? Who could very well break the first time its picked up?

Take all of the factions in the Republican Party and get them dead set behind Sarah Palin and we will win. If elected, she will do the hard work required to renew and restore America (and we will be excited again the way were under Reagan). Choose someone else, and if that person beats Obama, great. But that won’t be a win. It will just be preventing a loss which will return us to business as usual. With Obama gone, the complacency will set back in. We can’t go back to business as usual. It’s how we ended up here in the first place.

The Light Grows Brighter

2011-06-07T10:25:00.000-07:00

It’s been two and a half years now since we found ourselves cast into the political desert. As our economic water dried up, we wandered thirsting for the prosperity that our once beautiful shining city - now in the hands of leftists, unions and community organizers – offered us during our better days. We pulled ourselves together and found our way through the dark cold nights and the blistering hot days. In 2010, we made important headway toward getting ourselves back to our wonderful city. However, 2012 remains a dark forest which we must go through with some uncertainty about which way to go and an outcome still not yet determined.

The problem with bringing the millions of people that need to return home to the city is that many of them are nervous and unsure as to whether we are taking the right path back. We know that returning to the city requires us to walk through the dark unmapped forest that many have not seen before. Some may want to take a route they think is safer while others want to make this the last stand – an all or nothing fight that will either wrestle our city back for good or result in our losing it forever.

Those who are Sarah Palin’s age and older remember a similar journey in 1979. Some of us have been here before. Back then, the city was run down and in the hands of indecisive leaders who allowed the economy to sink and our military to become weak. In taking back that city, Ronald Reagan led us down a path that many thought would clearly lead us to ruin. Yet, he became the man who made that city shine again. In 1980, against all polls and against all odds, Ronald Reagan led his troops across that threshold. He stood overlooking the city from the Capitol building and told the citizens that we were about to get government off the backs of the people and unleash our industrial giant.

Eight years later, we were the strongest and most prosperous nation on earth.

So when we try to take people who have never been here before down that path again, they buck. They want to take a more traditional route. They believe that if we follow traditional paths (which is why we’re here in the first place) that we can get back to the city. But their city is not a city that can shine from within. It’s a city that they can put a coat of paint on and call it done. That city is called business as usual.

While our allies and friends who are lost in these woods with us firmly agree that Obama must go and we must take back the city, some fear they want to go settle for going back to business as it was before Obama. I argue that it was business as usual that gave us Obama. We did not upkeep the city. We didn’t make it stronger. We allowed it to slip from our grasp because we became too comfortable with Washington's ways and the taste of the Potomoc water.

Should God grace us with the ability to get that city back, we should make a compact that we will restore and renew it and ourselves everyday. We must heed the words of Ronald Reagan that freedom must be fought for every day and by every generation.

Business as usual cannot be acceptable. Yes, the alternative is riskier. However, we are closer than we have ever been to getting a Tea Party sized group of Americans to actually believe that you can fight city hall and win. The once silent majority has gotten up and gotten out to make their voice heard. They scream “we’re mad as hell, and we’re not going to take it anymore.” We cannot let this effort go to waste.

We can’t expect those people to settle for business as usual.

The one who can lead us with the beam of liberty in her eyes and the fire of freedom burning in her belly is growing stronger with each passing day. While there are many among us who have yet to believe in the possibilities, many more are seeing the light as the media myth crumbles before them.

Proof that the media myth is crumbling is in the numbers. RealClear Politics reported Palin's poll numbers as gloomy just a little over 5 short months ago. Today, she is at the highest she's ever been in the polls since polling for 2012 started. For those of you in the media, this is called a story and it needs to be reported.

According to the Washington Post/ABC News, Governor Palin Has More than Tripled Her GOP Primary Support from April. Palin is also back in the top tier of presidential candidates and within 2.2% of Romney. Her successful One Nation bus tour and a new movie will sink the smear campaign which has been going on since she was first chosen to be McCain's running mate.

The new movie, ‘The Undefeated’ could be a game-changer for Sarah Palin. Josh Painter writes: "What [Rob Bluey, director of The Heritage Foundation Center for Media and Public Policy] found most compelling about the film is that it has the potential to help reverse the negative perception of Gov. Palin that was created by the corrupt media which got Obama elected."

Even our opponents are starting to wake up to the reality. Their hysterical ranting about Sarah Palin being dumb, unqualified or unelectable warrant less and less credence with each passing day. Their strategy is changing. Their new meme is that she’s not running or that she can’t beat Obama head to head.

In sad irony for those opponents that even the comedian Titus can see the day when Palin is president and he has to kill her. It’s scary to know that people like him could even say such a threatening thing; but it’s a sign of the times that at least even the unhinged are now seeing the possibility of a President Palin.

We are starting to see people finding their way past the brainwashing that Palin's detractors have been perpetuating upon us for nearly three years now. Dennis Miller is starting to get back on the Palin train. Chris Wallace says it's the first time he thought of her as a serious candidate for president. Michelle Malkin pointed out how Gov. Plain's supporters serve as an ad hoc rapid response team in response to the left's frequent attacks on her. That's what I've been talking about. The army grows!

Liberal and Establishment pundits and writers have wasted thousands of hours of air time and millions of keystrokes tearing this woman down with full knowledge that Palin would evolve into what she is today if they didn't go all out to stop it. They have never believed she was dumb or unelectable. They only wanted us to believe that so that they could continue to pursue their liberal and establishment agendas unimpeded by the one person who could blow the lid off the whole effort to keep America out of the hands of those who would expose these agendas as the morally and intellectually bankrupt ventures they really are.

The reason why Obama is having a harder time running against the economy than he is running against Republicans is that they are going through some coalition building pains. The catch-22 is that moderate and establishment Republicans are not willing to get with the grass roots rank and file to become the battering ram that Palin needs to get through the city gate. Palin is doing everything she can to prove to them that she can do it. It's just a matter of time until they acquiesce.

This may mean the warrior from Wasilla will have to step into the primary ring to do battle with the big boys. It is here she can prove her mettle and prove once and for all whether or not she is the strongest GOP candidate and if she's electable. How much more do we need this woman to go through before people realize that she's been ready for a while now?

Kunta Evans writes (h/t Conservatives4Palin):

What awaits for [Obama] in a few months is a challenger that in stark contrast is worthy of the office of President, who has paid a price few, if any, has politically. She has defied the odds and has seen her share of battles. She’s been hurt, she’s been bloodied, she’s even been left for dead. And yet the courage of her conviction gives her steady legs and an unbowed heart. Her unlikely story will inspire many millions of people all over again to support her in her path to the Presidency.

There really isn't anything else I can write to drive this point home any harder.

Listen to Patrick's World USA on Blogtalk Radio tomorrow night 11pm ET. My special guest is Jedediah Bila.

The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round

2011-06-01T10:00:00.001-07:00

The rumors of Sarah Palin’s political death have been greatly exaggerated. For nearly three years now, we have heard media pundit after media pundit tell us that she was not intelligent enough, not popular enough and not serious enough to be president. Reporters, columnists and pundits have written thousands of columns, spent countless hours on TV and cable news programs and have talked themselves hoarse at cocktail parties trying to convince us that Sarah Palin was a flash in the pan, and that she was done. Yet the wheels keep turning.

This is a story about someone who once “drove” the Alaska state bus, which had its tires flattened by bloggers and frivolous ethics complainants. This is a tale of a woman who rode on the McCain bus only to be quickly thrown under it following his loss to Obama in the 2008 presidential campaign. Now she has her own bus.

When Sarah Palin was nominated for the Republican vice presidential spot, the Obama campaign, the DNC and the media set out to destroy her. As Monica Crowley has said, “Sarah Palin represents an existential threat to liberalism.” Therefore she had to be stopped at all costs. Day after day, week after week, month after month and year after year, the media poked her, lied about her and demanded that she sit down and shut up.

These great intellectuals of the written word were the self-anointed formulators of the processes that all politicians would have to adhere to if they wanted to get elected to higher office. Only those with sophistication, an open mind toward moral and social relativism need apply. Only those who would prostrate themselves before the altar of the new world order, the green movement, the pro-choice movement and the intellectual engineers of all the people living life in a peaceful Utopia, would curry great favor and live protected lives where power would be theirs provided that they “divvy up with the boys.”

Then she came along.

You can imagine the sweat on the brows of those who feverishly sent messages back and forth to each other on the Journolist listserv. You could just imagine the Obama campaign operatives calling emergency meetings. Even the awkward political threesome between moderate Democrats, moderate Republicans and lobbyists was suddenly under just as much of a direct threat as liberalism was. The Republican establishment, long part of that game, didn’t see her as their meal ticket to political domination. Instead of standing up and backing a fellow Republican, they locked the doors and hid the skeletons deep in their closets. They saw that the days of the merchants peddling their wares in the Temple were about to end.

You don't hear people using the phrase “you can’t beat city hall” much anymore. You can thank the Tea Party for this. This once silent majority who stayed home and just took it, now have a voice. They are members of the non-privileged class that makes up a majority of the citizenry, yet were once unable to fight power, money and corruption in a political system that took our country from Great Depression to Great Recession without lining a single pocket but those of their own.

It is as comforting to citizens who long for the days of Morning in America as it is discomforting for those in both political machines to know that there is someone out there with the Mr. Smith Goes to Washington attitude and that there is strength in numbers in a movement known as the Tea Party.

How symbolically ironic it is that the press which once demanded that Sarah Palin bow before it or take on the slings and arrows of smear, lies and innuendo now chases her, reduced to being called paparazzi - a description beneath their fragile egotistical view of themselves.

Palin once dodged the bullets of the media, her name dragged through the mud and her governorship destroyed by a concerted effort of those who could not tolerate anything less than an Armani suit with a good pedigree to lead them, or at least do their dirty bidding for them.

How ironic it is that Sarah Palin once called on the press to treat her fairly and to "stop making things up" and now the press is complaining that she's not treating them fairly. She has turned these once powerful elites into Monty Python's flying circus.

The Republicans have good candidates. But the choice here is between candidates who can run the country properly and one who can bring the country back to greatness again. The choice here is to nominate the lesser of two evils and vote for them against Obama or to nominate someone who has not only taken on and taken down the political establishment in her own state, but who now poises herself to do the same for the rest of the country. We can stop Obama by voting for someone who can return to business as usual or we can stop Obama by voting for someone who can restore this thing and bring it back to being the shining city it was meant to be.

If there is any indication as to who can take one term to get it straight and two terms to make it great, just look at the $12 billion surplus that Alaska runs today. Just look at how many jobs, direct and collateral, that can be created by unleashing America's industrial giant and by opening up oil and gas exploration and resource development here at home. Imagine the prosperity that would be created by a truly free market that rewards producers when we bring it back in place of the current crony capitalist-socialist hybrid system that currently punishes success and subsidizes failure.

The media may have led you to believe otherwise. But the wheels on Sarah Palin's bus continue to roll. If we let that bus go all the way, we will some day look back on this nightmare and thank God it's over. She can lead us to the days ahead where we can feel that same pride and experience that same prosperity as we did the last time someone in America took on the establishment and won.

More Impatience of the Palin Army and the Wisdom of Sarah

2011-05-22T22:36:00.000-07:00

That "draft" you feel is because the door is wide open.

Some of the candidates and potential candidates are stumbling out of the gate. Two big names, Huckabee and Trump, have withdrawn their names. The GOP establishment is trying to play up Romney and Huntsman while hoping all along that maybe Mitch Daniels could be their answer as an establishment guy who comes off conservative. Off in the distance you’re starting to hear something. Listen closely, it sounds like “run, Sarah, run.”

It’s been a rocky start to the Republican presidential primary season. Sarah Palin watches as active and potential candidates stumble over their tongues and their records. She’s not even in the race and her potential opponents are opening the door wider for her by either withdrawing, making verbal gaffes or having decisions from their past time out poorly with the issues of today.

The media has been very careful about her as well. A lot of the commentary the past week or so has been broader based. Analysts still give their take, but they don’t focus strictly on her. Some don’t want to play her up against the rest of the field. Others don’t want to jinx her. Instead, they talk about her in context rather than lavish her with praise or, surprisingly, level her with vitriol.

There are signs that the media are waking up to the fact that the trashing of Sarah Palin no longer goes unanswered. Palin’s army responds like lightning in the new media and on talk radio to any sleight. This is not to say the media has changed their opinion of her. It just means that should she decide to run, they won’t have free shots at a moose in the open like they did in 2008.

The new media is where things will happen for Palin. Already, the Palin army is making it known across the Palinosphere that they want her to run and they want her to run now. A quick read of Josh Painter’s Quotes of the Day from May 16, 2011 will give you a sense of the mood. How much longer do you think the Palin army can keep the powder dry? It’s almost as if they will run her for president even if she says no.

Palin’s followers are devoutly respectful toward her. They don’t like to tell Sarah what to do because in the early days when they did that, Sarah always did something else and surprised them because it always turned out better than they expected. Her army would read her reasoning and then smack themselves in the head after realizing that she went outside the box again and it worked.

Ever since she resigned, this writer realized there is no way to guess her next move. I’m simply a mere mortal. That day, someone at the beach asked me what to make out of her resignation. I told them only Sarah knows the answer. When I read her Facebook note the next day where she asked us to trust her, that’s the day I ripped up the Poli Sci degree and threw out the textbook.

We must trust her, as we've trusted her in the past, that she knows exactly what she's doing. When I asked Jedediah Bila about it she said "If Sarah Palin plans to make a run for it, she will undoubtedly take her time and do it right."

Palin sits to the right of the dealer at the Texas Hold ‘em table. From there, she can wait to see who folds, who checks and who bets. No one can get a read on her. There is no tell.

Palin followers always whispered to each other in email chains or private messages. Will she do this? Will she do that? Everything was hush hush lest it screw up her strategy or give the mainstream media fodder to go after her. But now, we’re just talking wide open right out in front of her.

All this chatter about doors being blown wide open and the lay of the land looking like she told us it would have to look in order for her to run is happening right in front of her. She reads Twitter. She reads Conservatives4Palin and other websites. She must be laughing, thinking that we don’t see her in the room. I expect her to turn around and say “I hear you talking about me running and I will tell you when I tell you.”

During the Miller – Murkowski primary when it was too close to call, the Palin army was on Twitter going back and forth. There were a bunch of them going after Murkowski, the establishment and the precincts where the votes were being counted. It was as if there was a melee in the room and suddenly someone whistled real loud. “Keep your powder dry,” Palin tweeted and suddenly things were calm again. She sees us. She knows we’re here.

Rumors are flying around like crazy. Some are saying it’s a lock she’ll run. Others are saying she’s not going to run. You can feel it in her army. They are itching to go. They are making no bones about it, either. Sarah sees this. Sarah knows this.

We are seeing a metaphorical gathering of a crowd of people forming on Palin’s cyber front lawn. Soon there may be thousands tweeting her, Facebooking her and writing blogs calling on her to run. At some point someone somewhere is going to look her in the eyes and say “we need you, you’re our only hope.”

It’s a huge request. The presidency is a life changing experience. If Sarah Palin is willing to take that on, so is her army. They’re not afraid. Politically, if they die they die. It’s Sarah Palin or bust in 2012.

This is an addition to my original post on Shining City on a Hill : The Impatience of the Palin Army and the Wisdom of Sarah.

Dr. Gina Loudon on my Blogtalk Radio show May 18,2011.

Governor Palin on Justice with Judge Jeanine May 21,2011

Sarah Palin on Hannity May 18, 2011

Why Sarah Palin?

2011-04-21T18:44:00.000-07:00

Sarah Palin emerged upon the national stage as a popular governor from the state of Alaska at a time when the John McCain campaign was becoming dull and dreary. A war weary nation was becoming disenchanted with the Republican Party, particularly after the American Left was able to shift our focus from winning the War on Terror to carping over the Iraqi war when it was discovered that there were no weapons of mass destruction and the liberals found their way to distract the public by using this to attack the man who just brought us through the 9/11 crisis with flying colors.

Barack Obama was sending thrills down the legs of audiences and news media pundits with a message of hope and change. Speaking as a moderate and an outsider, the two year Senator from Illinois was convincing a willing public that he would govern in a fiscally responsible way and that he would restore our standing on the world stage – even going so far as to say he would sit down with our enemies and convince them to like us.

For far too long, the traditional news media controlled the information which influenced public opinion. This conduit of information once used by Thomas Payne and Samuel Adams to free a nation from the shackles of tyranny was now being used to convince the American people to unknowingly elect a president and a political party which would over the course of the first few years of the new administration establish a new tyranny, a soft tyranny as radio talk show host Mark Levin would go on to explain in his book Liberty and Tyranny.

The progressive movement, the Shadow Party and communists all worked cleverly behind the scenes to infiltrate academia and the pop culture. The children of the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s were playing outside unsupervised, drinking from garden hoses and riding their bicycles to the store without helmits while their parents worked hard jobs with long hours. They weren’t concerned with politics or current events beyond the surface level. The news was something to be absorbed, not questioned.

These children became the young people who would go on to colleges and universities where they were taught Marx and Lenin under the pretense that they were getting “all points of view.” Professors would glamorize collectivism, socialism and nihilism by contrasting it to a system which they delicately but meticulously painted as flawed and unfair. They capitalized on the government’s failure to execute the Vietnam War properly to cause students to lose faith in their institutions and to rebel against them. To bring a new order to fruition, it would first be necessary to destroy the old one.

Students began to believe they could change the world. Idealism was nurtured on college campuses. The disillusioned were now ready to be reinvigorated by a new American liberalism that saw the machinery of government as the solution to social injustice, unjust wars and a capitalistic system that made the lazy envious of the successful. The infiltration of the system had begun.

These students would graduate into the world with a sense that they were entitled to change it into their naïve image. Many went into the media and into law where the words spoken both over a television screen and written into newspapers and legal documents would slowly become theirs. As they moved up the chain and gained experience they found that by slanting news stories, collaborating on opinion pieces and uniting behind a common liberal cause that they could mold the information in such a way as to drive their opposition out of power.

The Constitution was no longer understand by its letter, but interpreted by those who would manufacture or embellish intent. The Founders created the basis for a self-reliant society where the states and local communities would be places with their own identities where problems unique to those places would be resolved through a partnership of the people and local government. Instead, the United States became a cookie cutter operation where all the states in one way or another apply the same solutions to social problems and economics.

Some, like Andrew Breitbart, are pointing out how these idealistic people become part of "what I call the Democrat media complex, the natural alliance of the Democratic Party, liberal politics in the mainstream media." These people have used the media, academia and the legal field to cast a net so large and powerful over the nation that those who wanted no part of this are now being adversely affected by the political outcomes of today.

It used to be traditionalists could stay home and tend to their families, have their Sunday dinners and live productive lives while waving off the TV where anti-war protestors and cultural philosophers were worlds away and had no effect on the family, the dinner or the job. Now, everyone is affected by it whether they like it or not. The creeping vines of liberalism that once grew unnoticed under our political house have grown all around the sides and up to the roof.

How do you boil a frog without it noticing and jumping out of the pot? You cook it slowly, very slowly.

In the 1960’s, college kids sitting cross legged on the floor would complain about “the man” and the oppressive institutions. They asked authority to leave them alone and let them live and let live. Some dropped out. But many decided to follow progressivism. They believed they could change the system; and boy have they.

They infiltrated the system and became the system. It wasn’t good enough for these hippie freaks of the 1960’s and 1970’s to want everyone to be left alone. They had to use the legislative and judicial process to drag the regular folk out of our world with the hard work ethic and Sunday dinners and into their world totally against our will.

Today they codify special rights and privileges for those who have out of wedlock births, abortions or alternative sexual lifestyles at the expense of those who believe in traditional values. They have legalized their lifestyles at the expense of traditional lifestyles. They have become that which they complained about. The inmates have taken over the asylum; and we have come to find out that they run it worse than the ones they once complained about.

Today, the world is reversed. Traditionalists are the ones oppressed by “the man” and the institutions which once served them well. We are where they perceived themselves as being 50 years ago. The tables have turned.
We can learn a lot from them. Conservatives are not used to getting their hands dirty. We are small government people who never really got involved in the politics of social manipulation. We’d rather work in the private sector and turn to our churches, communities and local governments to work on solving problems from the ground up, not the top down.

There is a way out of this. It requires courage and a non-traditional approach. It requires us to understand their tactics, counter those tactics and turn those tactics against them. They want to marginalize? Then let’s marginalize. They want to curse and swear at us yet hold us to higher standard of civil discourse because they think they can shut us up by shaming us into thinking we’re racists and inciters of violence when it is really they who are projecting this false image onto us. Then lets not be afraid to speak our mind. If they don’t like our dialogue or discourse, too friggin bad.

It’s time for us conservatives to sit cross legged on the floor and demand that the man get off our back. It’s time for us to take on the establishment and clean up the institutions that have been corrupted by a Godless, immoral and intellectually bankrupt ideology. It’s time to infiltrate the system and the media. It’s time to take it back unapologetically and with no regard for what the media thinks of us. The traditional media must be destroyed. They are the first line of defense between us and the progressive Democrat establishment.

If we do it right, we can get the message out that it doesn’t matter if you're "young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled," you’ve been had. When George W. Bush was president, 9.4% of blacks were unemployed. Today the figure is 15.1%. How’s that hope and change working out for ya?

One day single mothers, minorities, gays and the poor will wake up and realize that their leaders - the people who won their vote by selling them the progressive agenda - have been in power now for years and their lives have only gotten worse. All the groups that make up the rainbow coalition and the progressive movement were asked to invest all their political capital into people like Barack Obama. They have been rooked.

They will find that even if we disagree with them on social issues and lifestyle choices, we believe all rights including theirs are God given, not government given. They will find that even when we disagree, we are tolerant. We don’t name call. We don’t violate the basic human rights of another in the name of social justice or because we want to punish people who aren’t like us. And, if we are protecting life in the womb, we are simply affording that unborn child the same protection we believe the Constitution provides for those very liberals who disagree with us. All Americans have the right to life and liberty.

We are now a European style socialist democracy. Less than half of Americans have jobs according to Mark Schumacher. U.S. households are now getting more in cash handouts from the government than they are paying in taxes for the first time since the Great Depression, Elizabeth MacDonald points out at FoxBusiness. 47% of Households Owe No Taxes, writes David Leonhardt at the New York Times.

Is this incompetence or is this being done on purpose? There are those who say that progressives are trying to collapse our system. They are not drilling for oil here at home the way we should be. They are devaluing our dollar. They are choking off our traditional lifestyles, yet they tiptoe around Muslims for some reason. It's okay for liberals if Muslims build a Mosque near Ground Zero while the government removes prayer, crosses and nativity scenes from our public square.

Do I need a rug and a knowledge of which way east is before our politically correct government will be sensitive enough to allow me to pray?

Losing is not an option in 2012. This is our last stand. There may be some debate on the Republican side as to who should lead that fight, but remember what was happening to the conservative movement the day before Sarah Palin was selected as the VP nominee and think about what happened the day after. That should tell you everything you need to know about how damn close the progressives thought they were.

They thought they had it made; that Obama would slide in on a wave of popular support and govern with the authority of a dictator against a demoralized and defeated opposition. Everything that has been done to Sarah Palin has been done because she represented a road block, a threat, a reviving force for the conservative movement at a time when the liberals least needed it. We were not demoralized and our defeat was simply an electoral one.

Sarah Palin was the unexpected traffic the Left hit after a century of driving to Utopia. They were right around the corner and they could smell it. But she got in the way. She was the speed bump that stopped the Left from getting even further than they are now.

The progressives would have continued boiling the frog slowly, but they got excited about Barack Obama and turned the heat up just a little to fast. That quick burst of heat and that impatient jubilation on their part also gave us the Tea Party.

So here we are. We have an army in the Tea Party and a leader in Sarah Palin. Some may think we are leaderless, but that’s because some just haven’t accepted her yet. In all fairness, though, she hasn’t yet asked us to be our leader.

We know that if we don’t take it back, revive, restore and renew it now, we will probably never get another chance. We know that if we botch this one, there is no next time. We know that this is a must win. It’s do or die. "We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness."

It’s a big burden. Asking Sarah Palin to take on the weight of the world after all she has been through is asking a lot of her. Asking the Tea Party to have confidence in Sarah Palin is asking a lot of them. But the game is not won by worrying, thinking or fearing. It’s won by acting.

If she accepts that role and the movement takes what it may think is a risk and accepts her as our leader, mark my words right here and right now. We will win.

No risk. No reward.

This is not the time to nominate a safe choice. Nor is it the time to destroy the Republican Party during the nomination process. We must respect each other and our differences. Criticism must be focused like a laser beam on Obama, not each other. During the GOP nomination process, may the best man or woman win. The media, the punditry and the pollsters should never decide who our nominee is. We should!

Some may not think they can accept the outcome of a nomination process that gives us Sarah Palin, but think of the alternative. Who out there is the one? If you have someone that you support and trust as much as I support and trust Sarah Palin, stick with them. But if you don’t, join us. It will be a nerve-racking ride, but it will be fun. Following Sarah Palin is a thrill of a lifetime. It is the same thrill we had when Ronald Reagan was on his way in the late 1970’s.

Believe it. Believe that we can once again be that shining city on a hill. It will take a unity of purpose and a unity of vision. Picture it. Picture Sarah Palin with a running mate that unites our movement and revives the Republican Party by rallying us like she did in Madison Wisconsin. If you can take the leap of faith, you are ready to take back our country. If you are courageous enough to stand behind Sarah Palin and take on the arrows that will fly from the media, we will win.

If we have her back the whole way, she can succeed.

If you imagine Sarah Palin as the Republican nominee and it bothers you, it means you either a) have another candidate you believe strongly in, b) are afraid, c) are tainted by the negativity the media has been pushing about her, d) are an establishment Republican or e) are an out and out liberal. This does not make you a bad person. It makes you someone we can help (okay, we can’t help the liberal – but the rest of you yes). Borrow our confidence and we will revive and restore America.

The army is growing. We must continue growing it. Sarah Palin may have great leadership skills, but she cannot do it without legions of us. We are going to have to take on the press, an incumbent president and a Democrat Party machine that is merciless. They are fighting a force that wants to destroy us. We can only beat them with sheer numbers, brute rhetorical force, focus and unity of purpose.

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Envisioning the Palin Presidency

2011-04-12T09:24:00.000-07:00

Fast forward to the early part of 2013 and envision what a Palin administration might look like as Sarah Palin begins her presidency by tackling the most serious financial issues our country has had to face since the Great Depression and the most serious military issues our country has had to face since the Cold War. The concept of a Palin presidency cannot be understood through the filter of a mainstream media which has portrayed a grossly inaccurate picture of who she really is. The real picture can only be painted in the minds of Americans who truly want our country to pull itself out of the ditch and renew itself again.

Should Sarah Palin run, she will have to remake herself in her own true image rather than create an image to counter the damage done by the media and establishment types within her own party. A potential Palin campaign has plenty of material to work with starting from her 2008 VP nomination acceptance speech, her two books, her speech in Hong Kong, her trip to India and Israel, the Searchlight Nevada speech, the Glenn Beck Renew and Restore speech and an archive of great appearances on the Fox News Channel to work with.

In other words, Palin is a candidate whose real image is better than the one portrayed in the media and better than any image a PR firm could manufacture for her. She is the real deal. Selling that to reasonable people should bring her back up in the polls. By comparison and contrast, her enemies will demonstrate by their vitriol and their deranged actions how they’re the ones that are light on the gravitas and worthy of the kind of mockery once directed at Palin.

The key will be to box in the ideologues on the Left. Once we accept the fact that the Obama kool aid drinking class cannot be sold a Palin presidency, we can eliminate that market and target the rest of America. This may rub intellectuals, elites and liberals the wrong way, but the fact is they are a minority of the electorate who can no longer convince moderates to form a winning coalition because their record over the past two and a half years is a disaster filled with growing debt and weakening American stature abroad.

Independents and moderates want to win. They want America to win. They may have thought hope and change was the answer, but now they are finding they were duped. They may not view Palin favorably yet, but put her side by side with Obama and they’ll see the choice for what it really is. These people made up part of the flag waving crowds that cheered for America during the Reagan presidency.

Conservatives are set on finding a nominee that will stand strong on fiscal and national defense issues. The liberals want nothing to do with fiscal responsibility and American exceptionalism. The people in the middle simply don’t want four more years of what we have just been through.

Americans were not comfortable with the idea of a Reagan presidency going into the 1980 elections. They didn’t like the job that Jimmy Carter was doing. But, they needed to see Reagan unfiltered by the press, thinking on his feet and responding to a difficult question about Medicare during the final presidential debate before accepting him as the alternative to Carter. That “there you go again” moment didn’t bring flocks of voters into the Reagan camp. It simply convinced flocks of voters that their vote against Jimmy Carter wasn’t that risky.

Many will weigh the idea of four more years of reckless spending and transformational progressive policies versus choosing a leader who has been portrayed as ditsy, uninformed and a policy lightweight. If the media caricature of Palin was true, surely those who really know Sarah Palin wouldn’t spend the time pushing for her candidacy.

The media has been able to control the public perception so much so that the country elected an unqualified man with no executive background based on delusions of grandeur and rejected a self made woman whose successful past was overlooked because it was easier for the public to digest “I can see Russia from my house” and “hope and change” than it was for them to get any real information from media about Obama’s associations and Palin’s record in Alaska.

Now is the time to break that media hold over the minds of Americans and present to them the unfiltered version of Sarah Palin. The mental conditioning she has had to endure in order to stay confident in the face of a headwind of media vitriol makes her even more qualified for the presidency than she would have been had she been given a cakewalk to the White House. If there is one thing that can ease the worried minds of Americans who still have that doubt about a Palin presidency it is the fact that she is the most vetted candidate in history and that she has been time tested to handle adversarial forces that would want to take her down both from within and abroad.

Americans need to be able to picture a Sarah Palin who is working with Paul Ryan on a House proposal to cut the deficit, balance the budget and reform entitlements. They need to be able to see her working with a Republican Senate to prepare the financial recovery and debt reduction act for committee and ultimately to be sent to her desk for signing. If she is able to also get a comprehensive energy policy which opens up drilling along with the financial recovery plan, she opens the door for industry and business to create jobs and wealth for a country that hungers for the days of the Reagan recovery.

The wealth that Palin needs to pay down the debt sits untapped in the ground right now. The productivity that Palin needs to bring down unemployment sits idle in machine shops, construction companies and a service industry that could be receiving a tremendous collateral boost from an awakened industrial giant that seeks to tap into all of our natural resources and get it to hungry markets here at home.

As we cut spending, reform entitlements and stabilize our budget, world markets will begin to respond positively to America again. The stock market will go through a correction early in a Palin presidency as it weans itself off of crony capitalism and finds entrepreneurial investing a refreshing return to the way things used to be done on Wall Street.

There is no delusion that Palin will eliminate the debt and restore the country in four years. There has been too much damage done. Righting this ship will require us to not only give Palin two terms, but to constantly remind ourselves that we can’t go back to business as usual the way we did after Reagan left office.

Putting Palin in the White House is only the first step. The restoration and renewal will have to come from within. It will have to be built culturally, intellectually and in academia. Americans don’t need to be taught how to be free; they just need to be put into an environment where they are free. This will be the role of the culture, the intellectual community and academia. This is where the real conservative infiltration will have to take place.

America will be able to feel proud again with Palin as president. It will be able to feel productive again. It will see a brighter future with each passing year as the needles on the deficit and debt go down. There will be tangible progress seen over the course of a decade. The liberals will scream and kick, just as they did under Reagan. But when Reagan was successfully leading the U.S. into prosperity and defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War, was anyone really listening to the liberals back then?

Look for the light

2011-04-05T09:48:00.000-07:00

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When things are the darkest, you look for the light. As our country spirals into bankruptcy, we remind ourselves that there is always hope.

George Rogers Clark pens a powerful piece today on The Patriot Post which articulates why we need Sarah Palin. It fits well with a post I wrote on this site Run, Baby, Run. It adds yet another voice to chorus of those calling out in the night.

Will you help us, Sarah?

Clark explains why we shouldn't worry about the polls and the tactics being employed by the Left and the Establishment:

Palin critics have used much of the same rhetoric and tactics that were used against Reagan. He won by a landslide, twice. They underestimate Sarah Palin in much the same way they underestimated Reagan. She can win for all the same reasons Reagan won.

This is powerful:

Liberals, media, and even many Republicans underestimated and misjudged Ronald Reagan. More importantly, they misjudged the American people. They thought a moderate candidate, or even a progressive, would reel us in with more "bread and circuses." They thought that after Carter, we would want change, but not too much. A true conservative, like Reagan, was not to their liking. The people saw it differently.

We loved every word that Ronald Reagan breathed. The "experts" were wrong about him, and about us. He helped us find hope in ourselves and encouraged faith. The change he sought was a return to principles and values that would lift us out of the haze so that we could see the horizon and pilot the ship on a straight and true course.

We have considered the contrasts of the hope, change, and course set by Reagan and those of Obama; they are startling.

Sarah, the "experts" have missed the mark again. You have already helped to energize a new revolution. The situation is far more extreme, but the American people are ready to remove Obama, as we did Carter. Obama is an astute politician and a very good speaker; he was a formidable opponent in 2008. Voters allowed the media to successfully sell him. But, now we know where he really stands. He will be a one-term President.

We know that nominations are hard to win and campaigns have a tremendous financial cost. Your platform at Fox News and effective use of the Internet will help. As your positions, your ideals and your commitment become clear to a broader base, additional financial support will follow. The money seems to flow toward the emerging leader. Be that leader, Sarah.

Clear your eyes and read the whole piece here.

As we look for light, Paul Ryan gives it to us here (read the whole thing):
Paul Ryan Releases His Budget Plan

We have a leader and we have a plan.

Run, Baby, Run

2011-03-24T18:59:00.000-07:00

For over two and a half years now, Sarah Palin supporters have been writing their fingers to the bone, speaking out in their communities and standing up against vicious opposition from hate-filled hearts towards her. Some, like Jedediah Bila and Tammy Bruce, have taken to radio and television punditry to advance the cause and stand up for the one person who has taken more slings and arrows than any other politician that comes to mind because they all believe in her. They recognize that she stands for and articulates the core values that have resonated silently inside all of us since the torch was doused with the passing of Ronald Reagan.

The comparisons to Reagan are many; but it’s not about the next Reagan anymore since many are growing weary with the references. It is, however, about relighting that torch and carrying it forward again. People like Michael Reagan and Bill Kristol who once extolled Sarah Palin as the fresh new face of a Republican Party that had lost its way have grown cold having given into the pressure from the establishment within their own party as well as by allowing the false doubts perpetrated by the mainstream media to slowly seep into their heads. It’s as if many in the GOP are giving up on that dream – that belief that we could again have a leader that inspires us to go through the political desert and the dark forest of our current political culture with full faith and optimism knowing that, despite the fatigue and despite the lack of political food and water, if we just keep moving forward we will get there. We will get there to that shining city on a hill once again.

As a Republican, this writer is partisan; but as an unpaid political scientist (this is a euphemism for having a political science degree that doesn’t make me any money) I see all sides and pride myself on understanding the whole mechanism of politics, not just my side of it. Observing as an unbiased analyst, it troubles me to watch a country of people who are all over the place ideologically trying to coalesce behind a leader. We have become a country of what we don’t want rather than a country of what we do want.

Americans didn’t want George W. Bush anymore, so they voted for Obama. Now they don’t want Obama, so they wait until someone handpicks the next opponent (okay, we all know the primary voters are supposed to pick the nominee, but many people sit it out until a candidate is presented to them and they end up making the choice of the lesser of two evils in the general election).

When you consider the evolution of civilized man, we have yet to find a Utopian vision that can stand the test of time and which is impervious to outside forces whether they be man made or natural. This premise leads me to believe that collectivism doesn't work. Thus, I fall on the conservative side not because I picked an ideology out of a hat and blindly followed it, but because I found the place on the political spectrum which most closely matches what I freely believe in. I thank God every day that our Founders created a nation and a Constitution which allows me to do this.

Yet, it appalls me whenever I see people on any side of an issue try to impose their views or demean the person with whom they may be arguing or debating. If we are to move forward as a nation, we need to govern it in such a way that we recognize that everyone is all over the place ideologically and that the only way to govern such people is to maximize the amount of personal freedom they have and minimize their abilities to impose their views and lifestyles on other.

The unifying forces that will keep our nation great lie in our abilities to live and work with each other even if our interests are different. Because of the wisdom of our Founders, we have become a civil society where conflicting interests and competition for wealth and resources is best kept orderly by a government which puts as much power into the hands of individuals, local communities and state governments and limits power at the federal and centralized level.

As long as we have roofs over our heads, food on our tables and a source of income to sustain our basic needs, we should be thankful to our Lord for our blessings. Yet, many on the Left mistake utopia for a place where people live lifestyles free from the natural repercussions that are built into the fabric of existence because all of their basic needs are provided to them without the requirement to labor for them. And, many on the Right mistake wealth and abundance or the lack thereof as permanent states that don’t ebb and flow with the same mobility as the water and the tides.

Some believe that they can argue with others over petty issues as if they are experts on how people should think. Watching both the Left and the Right split over the issue of Libya, for example, worries me not because people aren’t entitled to their opinions, but because people become so arrogant in their beliefs that they are willing to even go after their own because they have to be right.

Winning an argument will not stop the planes from enforcing the no fly zone. Nor will losing that argument do the same. The frustration lies in the inability to grasp the greater picture. The “I’m right, you’re wrong” attitude misses the truth that we are merely fleas on an elephant’s ass – or to put it more delicately we are from dust and to dust we shall return.

Securing the future of our nation and renewing our national ambition and spirit is not a matter of greed. Yes, my business will do better and I will have more economic security personally if my country isn’t going bankrupt and won’t be nuked by a terrorist or even worse a terrorist nation some day. But what good is it to me if others around me don’t have the same opportunities to be free? What good is it to my son if our future is only bright for some people and not others? Government by cronyism frustrates our country because Democrats and Republicans take turns suffering and basking in the economic lows and highs depending upon which one is in power.

Our two party system has replaced the free market with competing brands of crony socialism and crony capitalism. Each wins at the expense of the other while the voters just throw their hands up having been brought to submission by the old adage “well it is what it is.”

This is where we stop dreaming. Here’s where we stop striving for more as both a nation and as individuals. It’s the fatalism, the pessimism and the negativity which drives our country closer to the edge of the cliff faster than the liberalism or the conservatism. We are not a nation of liberals versus conservatives. We are a nation of cry babies and whiners versus optimists and believers.

Sometimes it is what it is, but it shouldn't mean stop trying to turn it into what it should be. We’re arguing over the drapes when it’s really the color of the walls and the placement of the furniture that’s the problem. We focus on too much little stuff that we miss the big picture. We major in the minors when we should be minoring in the majors.

It’s our responsibility as individuals to learn two things: what we need to know that’s technical and specific to our own daily lives and what we need to know about our greater world around us. Changing the greater world around us starts with changing the technical and specific stuff we do as individuals, and not the other way around. The world cannot be changed from the top down; it can only be changed from the bottom up.

In order to rally around positive change, we need to seek out coalitions and find like minded people who may sometimes disagree on the specifics but are willing to work as allies toward the general. As the Republican Party seeks its next presidential nominee, we're seeing a disturbing picture. We're seeing the reemergence of self interest at the expense of the common good. We are seeing backstabbing and the turning of friends and supporters on each other.

We watch as the Republican establishment bends over backwards to tell us who not to choose as our nominee, but we don’t see them offering a better alternative. It’s this sickening negativity that drives me to wonder am I really a Republican anymore?

I’ve considered myself a loyal person. As such, I don’t run to any bandwagon that sets up outside the party each election like some do. And that’s okay if you’re honest about being an independent. But for those within the party, if you can’t work with a party system that requires building coalitions that respects the opinions and candidacies of all, don’t be a member of a party! This particularly is aimed at some in the GOP establishment who feel that going along to get along is okay when it comes to dealing with the opposing party, but that it’s all or nothing, my way or the highway, when it comes to selecting its own nominee.

Since I came of age during the Reagan years, my vision of the Republican Party has always been that it is the party of Reagan and Lincoln. When I see the party establishment reject candidates who see that same vision, I scratch my head and wonder what really motivates some of the party leadership. Then I realize it’s them not me. I’m loyal. I’m not leaving the party. The party is leaving me!

Since Reagan left office, the Republican Party has slowly drifted back to the Left. Again, the spot on the political spectrum where I am chose me. I did not choose it. My belief system matches well with that spot on the spectrum where conservatism shares a border with libertarianism. My political party has always been somewhere reasonably close to that spot but lately it’s been moving away from there.

I’m okay if my party’s a little left of me or a little right of me. Anyone who seeks perfection or complete unity of thought with a candidate or a party will easily be let down or frustrated unless they are lucky enough like me to have been graced with having a political “meeting of the minds” with both Ronald Reagan and Sarah Palin. It’s rare, sometimes non-existent, that a constituent can be so closely aligned with a candidate that there is nearly total agreement on not only issues, but the entire world view.

It was not a problem for me to vote for George Herbert Walker Bush, Bob Dole or George W. Bush. My party came to a consensus on candidates who were not exactly me or with whom I’d agree with all the time. But it wasn’t ridiculous. The party never shut out a better candidate those years and we voted for what we had. The country wasn’t on the brink then either.

I admit I struggled with the idea of John McCain being the candidate in 2008. As a Romney supporter then, I was looking for more conservatism and less “maverick-ness.” I knew Romney wasn’t perfect and understood his flaws reluctantly. But there was no one better available at the time.

Having watched the failure of a past administration in taking care of the Iran problem and having watched a past administration which had an admirable view of the free market but which still allowed the maggots of socialism and liberalism to undermine the housing and banking industries, my hours of darkest despair regarding the future of our country were never more pronounced then when it looked like John McCain would be doing rallies in fields of crickets while Barack Obama was drawing hundreds of thousands who were fainting and getting thrills up their legs.

When John McCain selected Sarah Palin to be his running mate, it was as if just as I was about to turn off the light and close the door behind me, someone yelled out “leaving so soon?” Suddenly it was as if I had to turn around, put the lights back on, fire up the computers and call everyone back in. Wheel in the drinks and start the food going again. The party that was just about over wasn’t over anymore. Even though we lost, I was still reinvigorated by the VP candidacy of Sarah Palin.

So, here we are two and a half years later. Our country’s a mess. The Republican Party is wandering around like a dog chasing its tail. Yet, the people… the people are vibrant and optimistic. The Tea Party believes we can get our fiscal house back in shape if we just listen to them. The Tea Party believes that we can be that beacon again, that shining city on a hill. There are a lot of Americans who really want this to shine again – enough to win the next the presidential election if we don’t shoot ourselves in the foot.

Yet, we let the negative ones drag us down. Negativity is a communicable disease. It infects the GOP. It infects the Tea Party. It infects our entire body politic. It’s our optimism, the Tea Party’s optimism, the Reaganite optimism that is tainted by the negativity. We are strong healthy groups of people willing to unite behind common causes, but then we can’t pick a leader or even worse we put some of those who want to be our leader down?

Intellectual honesty requires me to disclose this. I don’t put down any of the other GOP presidential hopefuls on my blog or in my tweets. I may be critical of them occasionally and if so I do it in a civil and light hearted way. As we get into the primaries, I will be more critical because this is the selection process. This doesn’t mean I won’t be fair. It also doesn’t mean I won’t be slow to draw the rhetorical sword on anyone who acts traitorous to the conservative cause or treats mine or any other person’s candidate in an unfair or underhanded way.

Therefore, it bothers me when even people on my side who support my candidate speaks of another Republican in a harsh way. This is not to say they shouldn’t do it if it serves the purpose of advancing the cause. But, I prefer to not personally fight this battle as an anti-Romney guy or an anti-Huckabee guy.

I prefer to fight this thing as a pro-Palin guy. And, I will not tolerate anyone who says that Palin can’t win, shouldn’t run or she’s this or that if they can’t deliver their argument in a civil way and without using mainstream media lies and talking points as their supporting facts. Tell me why you disagree with her position on drilling, fiscal policy or national defense. Don’t tell me she’s an idiot.

All of those on the Republican side who put Sarah Palin down are either purposely or inadvertently getting into bed with the liberal media. The liberal media has made it clear that their smear campaign against Sarah Palin can’t work unless prominent Republicans parrot their memes about her intelligence and her gravitas. And for the most part, there are too many on the Republican side too willing to oblige.
Our entire country’s future is on the line here. Watching people on our side take shots at Sarah Palin while Barack Obama and the progressive movement fundamentally transform our country into a European style socialist democracy as it tenderizes it for its place in the New World Order is no longer just a matter of getting mad at a fellow Republican because they don’t like Sarah Palin. It’s a matter of life and death for the party and the country. Wake up, man!

We fell for the progressive trick once before. They led America like sheep into the slaughter pen in 2008. That time it was for the purpose of feeding their political machine off our meat and clothing themselves off our wool. The next time they do that, they will not be tricking us into voting for a progressive president, they will be tricking us into giving up our sovereignty as a nation.

I’m not an extremist. I would never yell fire in a crowded movie theater if there wasn’t a fire. Ladies and gentlemen, please find the exits because this cinema is ablaze.

As for Sarah Palin, I have only one argument that no one is capable of truly refuting me on. Can you show me a better horse?

I admire true Paul, Huckabee, Romney and other candidates’ supporters because they believe in their guy. They stand up for their guy. But, as for some of the undecided people I meet or chat with online, the conversation ultimately turns to why Palin can’t win rather than why she can. If you weren’t such a disillusioned negative dead butt who didn’t have a candidate of your own, why in the hell would you want to try to convince me that someone can’t do something? That’s infuriating.

I knew a guy who sold business opportunities. When he would speak to a prospect, he would ask them if they would like to become a millionaire. Once he explained the business opportunity to them, he had a sure fire way of qualifying them for it. It was always the ones that asked “what if it doesn’t work?” that told him that the person wasn’t qualified. He’d give them one last chance by asking “Well what if it does?” If they couldn’t see it by then, he knew it was time to move on and find another prospect.

Therein lays the power of positive thinking. Therein also lays the cancer of negativity. If someone can’t believe it or someone thinks it won’t work, it’s a self fulfilling prophecy. Of course you can’t fix your car if you don’t believe it needs a new starter. Of course you can’t mow your lawn if you think you can’t change the oil and sharpen the blades. Of course you can’t elect Sarah Palin president if you think you can’t flip the crony capitalists’ tables in the temple or if you think you have to know someone or be on the inside to take down the progressive establishment.

Obama supporters, liberal kool-aid drinkers and those who aren’t unhappy with the state of current affairs will never vote for Sarah Palin. But, why are so many people - who are disillusioned with Obama, the direction of this country and who actually understand how dangerous big government, insolvency, a caliphate and nuclear armed countries like Iran really are - so unwilling to accept Sarah Palin as a viable option?

We should be working toward forming coalitions and consensus within the Republican Party so that we can unite behind a nominee whoever it may be. This is not the time to disillusion an entire wing of the conservative movement. It would be sheer stupidity for the GOP establishment and the blue bloods to alienate the Palin wing of the party. She has a strong base of support regardless of whether the polls say she can win or not.
I’ll speak for myself here, but I think a lot of Palin supporters may agree. If the Republican Party focuses on stopping Palin when they should be working to defeat Obama, I don’t know if they can count on me to help them in 2012 if they don't do this thing right. Seriously, if my country is going to go down in flames it’s not going to matter what RINO we put in there next.

The time to stop the bleeding was in 2008. John McCain could have handled that much had he won. But the patient is flat-lining now and if you don’t shock it back into life with an electrifying candidacy like that of Sarah Palin, than you might as well elect Mickey Mouse president. As our economy continues to fall to pieces and our foreign policy makes people yearn for the Carter years, anyone the GOP may nominate is not going to save America if he doesn’t take this country in the direction being put forth by Sarah Palin and the Tea Party.

This is not an ultimatum. I’m a fair guy. If Sarah Palin runs and she loses fair and square, I’m okay with that. If Sarah Palin stumbles on the trail or if another candidate simply outperforms her, I’m good. This is not to point a gun at the head of the Republican Party and say if you don’t elect Palin, I’m going home. This is, however, a demand that they stop the nonsense and let her run fair and square.

In fact, I want her to run because I need to know if all this crap the media has been throwing out about her electability is true or not. The more they say her poll numbers are down and the more they say she’s a lightweight or she’s unelectable, the more skeptical I become about the truth to these claims as I watch Palin’s army grow on Facebook, Twitter, in the blogosphere and in real life. It’s an informal observation. Sheya at Conservatives4Palin sees this too.

Which raises the question: if they really believe she is as stupid and uneducated as they suggest, why not let her run and make a fool of herself? If she’s that dumb, then her stupidity will be on full display during the primaries and the “smart” guy they support will inevitably outsmart and defeat her. Why, then, do they care if she runs? On the contrary, if she runs and makes a fool of herself it will vindicate their argument that she’s in fact uneducated and unfit for office.

The answer, of course, is because they know that she’s really not what they portray her to be, and when the campaign begins in earnest and Governor Palin takes her message directly to the voters, everything the establishment has been saying about her will be brought into question, and it won’t be Governor Palin who’s looked upon as stupid.

We have watched Sarah Palin grow from being a political newcomer on the national stage in 2008 into the political behemoth that she is now. Argue as much as you want about her national starting point. Tell me she was great back then because of her RNC speech, the way she drew crowds and the way she beat Joe Biden in the debate. Or, tell me she wasn’t ready then because of her Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric interviews or because people thought she didn’t know Africa was a continent. Either way, or whatever point in between you want to define as her starting point, tell me honestly and with a straight face that she is not bigger, better and stronger than she was in 2008.

They started tearing her up back then because they knew this was going to happen. She’s always been an evolving candidate. Think about where she was two and a half years ago. See where she is now. Imagine where she will be if you look two and a half years into the future.

Tell me that the Sarah Palin you saw on Greta Van Susteren’s show last night or the Sarah Palin you saw in India or Israel is not up to the job of being president. Come on, tell me that she isn’t at least as qualified as any of the other Republican candidates who may run for president. Tell me that based upon her undistorted record in Alaska that we’d still be better off with Barack Obama if she got the nomination.

Instead of looking for the gotcha, why not look for the possibilities? Why not have faith that she could do a better job about bringing renewal and restoration than Barack Obama did about bringing us hope and change?

If you’re concerned about her resignation as governor, dig deep and be intellectually honest about understanding why she made that decision; and if you still can’t accept it, at least respect her for having the courage to do it or at worst understand her reasons.

Running for the presidency should not be a science experiment. She has said if she does run, she will run to win. But will we ever know how dastardly the mainstream media and the Republican establishment really are if she doesn’t run? Is this the reason they are discouraging her from running? Are they afraid they will be exposed for who they really are if she does well or even outright wins?

There are thousands of pro-Palin bloggers and tweeters who are figuratively getting carpal tunnel syndrome supporting this woman. There are millions of people who buy her books, read her Facebook notes and listen to her speak. Now you can see why I’d be skeptical of a media that keeps telling us she’s not electable. Do the other candidates have this type of a following? Why are they not being barraged with hit pieces everyday telling us why they shouldn’t run or why they can’t win?

Something’s not right here. And that something cannot be righted or fixed until Sarah Palin gets into the arena and does battle. In sports, it’s why they play the games. All the punditry, polls and expert opinions from sports writers don’t choose the winners of the championship games. The teams play for it.

Finally, I want to direct the rest of this piece to Sarah Palin.

As one of us, you seek the next great one. As one of us, you yearn for the greatness our nation is capable of; you seek that shining city with a swelling heart and the tears of anticipated joy in your eyes as fervently as or even more so than we do. You tell us you are considering running but that if there is someone out there who has the servant’s heart and is looking to lead for all the right reasons you will support them.

That person is you.

Like I ask those with whom I argue, I ask you this with all due respect. Do you have a better horse?

Ma’am, if there was someone out there better than you, I’d be supporting them already.

Put your faith and trust in God and let the rest of us out here help you. I realize it’s a huge request, but don’t let the backstabbers and the weasels of the world sway your decision. We got your back.

What if it doesn’t work? You’ll still be Sarah Palin and we will still love you.

Run, baby, run.

The Left's Abject Inability to Destroy Sarah Palin

2011-03-11T19:54:00.000-08:00

Despite the Left's frantic (and well coordinated) lie, cheat and smear campaign which took Sarah Palin from who she really was to the caricature they portrayed her as in 2008; despite the frivolous ethics complaints, the continuous hits on the Anchorage Daily News and the continued smearing of her after the election was over; despite the media frenzy where they even got people on our side to say she's not electable and despite the horrible lies that continue til this day; Sarah Palin is a top tier contender for the 2012 GOP nomination.

Now we know why they were scared. They saw what we saw in her back then and it scared them into desperation. They lost their humanity. They lied about, slandered and smeared a fellow human being because they feared that she would expose their ideology as the morally and intellectually bankrupt philosophy that it really is. Just when they thought they were home free with America's loot, John McCain picked Sarah Palin and you could hear them all collectively whisper "oh crap."

You wonder if she'd be as skilled as she is now if she was able to waltz to the nomination and not have to level up one more time to counteract the Left's brainwashing of half the people in this country.

"After that [2008 RNC] speech, at least for two weeks, McCain/Palin surged ahead of Obama/Biden; she scared the s*it out of them," writes Ace of Spades (h/t Conservatives4Palin). "I still think that when they see Sarah Palin, she reminds them of those weeks of terror..." And now she's still here. That wasn't the plan. She was supposed to be politically dead by now.

Everything liberals touch turns to crap. Just look at how ineffective they are at running the country now that they're in power. What would make you think they'd be effective at destroying Sarah Palin? Many of us knew for the last two and a half years that they weren't going to beat her. They are the reason why the Palin army has her back so vigilantly. They created the very monster they have been trying to destroy.

What really has to have them in a cold sweat is that we're now heading into 2012 and Palin is firing on all cylinders. They have to be soiling themselves knowing that after all they did to try to destroy her, it may not work and she may end up becoming president after all.

A Tribute To Sarah Palin and Her Supporters

2011-03-02T10:25:00.000-08:00

Sarah Palin: “There’s a whole army of patriotic Davids out there”

It’s so encouraging to see the topics I could be writing about or the political positions I could be taking being articulated abundantly across the new media and in the blogosphere. It was but a couple of years ago that a small group of us set sail on the USS Team Sarah to take on the hateful Palin bashers online and in the mainstream media. The task looked daunting, but we were willing to use “brute rhetorical force” if necessary to defend the honor and the truth about one of the most exciting political leaders to hit the scene since – I know it’s getting played out – Ronald Reagan. Though the wind is still blowing in our faces, our numbers continue to grow and our voices continue to get heard more and more.

Those of you who I’ve had the honor of meeting online and assisting with the effort to stop the destruction of Sarah Palin know who you are. It all began on the comment sections in the bowels of hell on websites like the Anchorage Daily News, the Washington Post and the New York Daily News as well as anywhere else they would post their hit pieces on Sarah Palin. From there, we built our own blogs. At the same time, Conservatives4Palin became the front line push back on the brutal assault of a wonderful woman with the right values and the deepest love of country of anyone this side of, well, you know who.

The media has spent so much time and spewed so much vitriol over the past two and a half years trying to put fake skeletons into an empty closet. Knowing that Sarah was “clean” by political standards, the media silently trembled and privately sought ways of dealing with a frightening sense of the inevitable by portraying her as a dummy, a liar, an extremist, an opportunist and whatever other caricature they could get the public to bite into. To this day, they continue to laugh off the impending hurricane that will sweep their front man Barack Obama out of the White House.

Given how well she has stood up to the intense pressure on her and her family, it’s simply amazing that she even still wants to do this thing. But, it’s her willingness to take on the brunt of the personal attacks on her and her family for the sake of her country that makes our bond with her even stronger. While the political weathermen keep telling us that storm Sarah will eventually peter out, they know full well that they can’t tell us that it’s really a category 5 without basically just handing her the keys to the White House.

They can lie to the Left. They can lie to the non-political people out there who don’t follow this stuff like we do. They can lie to us in the hopes that we will someday believe it. But we already know they're misguided. They’re losing. The Palin army is winning. There’s still much more work to be done and this thing is far from being in the bag, but we gain confidence with each passing day. We are not a fan club. We are not sycophants who are hypnotized by her words. She is us. Because of what she stands for politically, there is not much for her to do to earn our loyalty there. But, because of what she has done and what she has endured, it’s not a matter of her earning the level of admiration we have for her, it’s a matter of our being grateful that she would even take the crap that she has for us.

The Left needs to understand something that we on the Right have had a pretty good grasp of for all these years. It’s called reality. We were under no delusions that Barack Obama was not going to become president in 2008. We thought there was a chance Sarah could save us from that tidal wave, but she only had 57 days and little chance to prepare. By 2012, she will have had four years.

The naysayers who said she was weak on policy and needed to bone up can’t play that card anymore. Sarah Palin is a policy wonk who has consistently demonstrated how right she is on the issues. We are finding out that there will be a panel responsible for overseeing costs, particularly end of life costs, as part of Obamacare. She called it. We are finding out that inflation is really happening. She called it. We are finding out that Obama’s on the job training is not enough to have in a president. She called it. Cap and Trade is collapsing like a lawn chair underneath a fat guy. Sarah Palin called it. She said "drill, baby, drill," over two years ago. Look at what's happening with gas prices now. We can go on and on.

The only thing that the non political used to hear at cocktail parties a year ago came from people who don't have multi-million dollar book deals or who don't get paid $100,000 a speech. They could hide their own social and financial problems and get others to nod their heads in agreement and succumb to the social pressure of believing the denigration that Palin is a loser. But that is all projection of someone else's personal insecurities which manifest thmeselves in the false caricature of Sarah Palin.

Things are slowly changing since a year or two ago. Today, the non-political are starting to hear things like, I like Sarah Palin but I don’t know if she can do it. For those of us in the Palin army looking for consolation, we’ll take this. Do you know why? Because even though the wind is still in our faces, it’s shifting. More and more people are beginning to take Sarah Palin seriously.

I understand the ringing endorsements aren’t flying just yet, but she is getting the attention of some important people like the Long Island Association, Michael Savage and Mike Gallagher. This doesn’t happen to lightweights. This doesn’t happen to the ethically challenged. This doesn’t happen to extremists. This doesn’t happen to dummies. This happens to people who have worked their tails off honing their skills, learning their craft and demonstrating by their example that they have what it takes to be seriously considered for the presidency of the United States.

For us, Sarah is the evolving candidate who impressed us with how good she was back then in 2008. Long before she had a television show or became an accomplished author, Fox News contributor, potential presidential candidate and sought after public speaker, we knew that as big as she was when John McCain chose her to be his running mate that she would only become even bigger.

Every idea and every thought I have is already out there now because there are larger and larger numbers of pro-Palin websites, pro-Palin bloggers and tweeters, talk radio hosts and people in the mainstream media and on Fox News who are standing up for Sarah Palin because they are starting to see it. Yet, Palin's opponents only has the same old leftovers in the mainstream media and in the blogosphere to continue their bashing of her.

Just a Girl From Homer, Celtic Diva, the Mudflats and Immoral Minority looked big in an empty room two and a half years ago. Today, they are ants in a room crowded with ordinary barbarians, Palinistas and Tea Partiers who have decided that that only way to stop them from being successful in tearing down Sarah Palin is to drown them out. At the same time, the mainstream media continues to play the same loop over and over again, but it’s getting harder to hear the songs because the pro-Palin band is getting louder, bigger and better than ever.

Today we also see the lightning swift responses to smears on Sarah Palin. Websites now debunk myths within hours. When Tucker Carlson posted a tweet about Sarah Palin being from Milfistan, he was instantly called out on it. A poll's data was manipulated by the mainstream media to show that Sarah Palin's support in Iowa had declined when in fact it was on an upswing again. The Palin army is quick to correct the record. The internet is littered with Palin myths that have been debunked.

It’s been a long way, baby. It used to be we’d have to scramble quickly to get our thoughts out there on our blogs or on Twitter so that there would be another of many needed voices to push back on the loony myths being espoused by the Left. Today, by the time I’m done writing a post, there are a bunch of posts already up from other people that say what I wanted to say. I’m no longer writing in the dark. In fact, it’s getting really bright in here.

You can catch my BlogTalk Radio show on this subject here.

Not Sure About Sarah Palin?

2011-02-07T22:07:00.000-08:00

For all the reports desperately arguing against Sarah Palin’s chances of beating Barack Obama in 2012 or downplaying her chances of getting the nomination, ask yourselves why the blogosphere and mainstream media are constantly abuzz with unprecedented amounts of coverage of the hockey mom from Wasilla compared to other politicians and potential presidential candidates. Judging through the lens of a biased mainstream media, one would dismiss Palin as presidential material. Since the media doesn’t give you the straight skinny, your view about Palin’s 2012 presidential aspirations may be based more on fiction than fact.

When polled on the issues without the injection of personalities, more Americans agree with Palin than they do with Obama. During the past two years, Obama has weakened our standing on the national stage, weakened our currency, overseen the wasting of trillions of dollars as part of a misguided approach toward creating jobs which still don’t exist yet and created one of the nation’s biggest political firestorms in decades with a highly unpopular health care plan.

Americans took to Tea Party rallies and town hall meetings to speak out against runaway spending, unfair tax policies and a drift toward statism that most find disturbing. The 2010 elections told Washington that Americans want a smaller government that spends far less than what it spends now and they reject Obamacare.

As inflation looms over the horizon and the price of oil spikes above $100.00 per barrel, most Americans watch as fat cats on Wall Street make millions while loans, mortgages and a strong housing market are no longer available to them on Main Street. Stimulus money and preferential tax treatment is directed toward large banks and brokerages while families default on their mortgages and are crushed by rising interest rates on credit cards. And, there is no coherent policy on Egypt.

The American people understand that what Obama is doing is destroying our country. They just don’t yet understand the great courage that will be required to undo this. Again, with no names attached, Americans will tell you they want drilling, they want entitlement reforms, they want spending cut to at or below 2008 levels, they want fairer and flatter taxes, they want more competition in the health insurance market (not government manipulation of it) and they want America to be strong internationally both militarily and economically.

Many presidents have been caretakers or overseers of a growing government not out of an ideological desire to see that happen, but out of the realities of the job. Those who would step out of line and propose bold changes that would shake up the power elites were marginalized, overridden by legislatures or mocked by the media. Those who hung in there escaped their terms with a few key accomplishments that they could talk about in their books or which would help redeem them in the eyes of history.

Even the great Ronald Reagan couldn't stop the deficit spending of a Democratic Congress. Yet, he pushed the hardest. He repeatedly asked Congress for a line item veto which they would never gave him. The next one to come along with his drive to push back the growth of government gets to stand on his shoulders.

Americans are comfortable when they can watch videos and read books about the struggles and courage of Ronald Reagan. But do they really know what goes into bringing about what Reagan brought about? Most young people today don’t know what it’s like to wake up every day thinking that a nuclear explosion could ruin the routine of that day. Most young people today don’t know what it’s like to wait in gas lines or line up for welfare benefits as prices soar out of control. Could they stomach that today?

We are too comfortable as Americans. Most Americans have basic substance and a roof over their heads. These are things the people of Reagan's era considered themselves blessed to have. Yet, we keep asking for more. Are we willing to make the sacrifices now and stomach the rough ride to get this thing back on track? The answer lies in how badly we want it. Most of the young people I referenced in the last paragraph also don’t remember the abundance we had during the 1980’s. They were too young or maybe not even alive when capital was abundant, the economy grew in leaps and bounds and you could go from job to job in order to increase your income.

The promise of the restoration of America comes with knowing that the reward for the tough work is that we will prosper as a nation again. We will do this by drilling for oil and gas in every possible location where it is available, cutting the size and scope of government and empowering the private sector to create jobs, providing the stability of a fair and flat tax structure, making us comfortable with good private sector health insurance plans, making us confident that there will be money there when we retire and freeing us from the fears of being destroyed by Islamo-fascism with a strong military and properly executed foreign policy. But, there will be those who will try to stop us from doing that. That’s where the hard work comes in.

The abundance and the blessings that God would bestow upon us because of the blood and sweat of our Founders is attainable if we reunite ourselves with our core beliefs, educate ourselves properly on the issues and come to grips with the reality that only hard work creates real rewards. But, there is a price to pay. Are we willing to pay that price?

Are we willing to suck it up for about five years to take the arguing, the gnashing of teeth by those who hate change unless that change is “progressive” and the temporary hardship which may come about as we restructure our spending priorities? Are we willing to watch the television everyday as stories come out about how evil the Republicans are because they want to take away our benefits and neglect the poor? Yes, we know it wouldn’t be true. But we will always worry that too many might believe that over what we are really trying to do. If we ever want to get this country back on track, we must overcome that.

We may not be taking the scenic route to get where we want to go. But we are good, fun loving people. We can sing and wave the flag through the manure patches between here and the shining city. That’s how it was as Reagan began his presidency and inflation and interest rates were in the double digits. That’s how it was when the Soviet Union was advancing in Europe while we waited to prop up the solidarity movement in Poland and Czechoslovakia. That’s how it was as we waited under the threat of nuclear annihilation for the Berlin Wall to come down. It was not easy at first. But we felt patriotic and we felt good.

Now enter Sarah Palin. If the pain and the struggle is not worth it and if there is uncertainty and a lack of confidence, then let’s scratch this whole plan now. Let’s resign ourselves to the next thousand years of liberal darkness or maybe a thousand years of Republican Establishment RINO twilight. But let’s not kid ourselves. We are not getting to the Shining City on a Hill if we’re not willing to suck it up.

Sarah Palin has withstood the opposition and attacks from those in her own party in Alaska. She had the courage to speak out and shake up the good ole boy network. She has withstood the media driven vitriol, lies and slander thrown at her relentlessly during the 2008 vice presidential campaign. She has withstood the knee-capping and the leg cutoffs that came from the Left who kept going after her even after the election was over because they feared she would come back stronger. She risked it all by resigning her governorship rather than be a political sitting duck for her enemies fully knowing that it would be used against her should she ever decide to run for public office again. That’s courage.

She continues to be attacked by a hateful opposition for every word she speaks, tweets or types. She is mocked and ridiculed by the culture and the elites. The environment tells you that you can’t do it and that you can’t be successful. Yet, when you stop listening to that environment, no matter how critical it is and no matter how many obstacles it puts in your way, it’s the only way to be successful. The more she does it right, the louder the resistance and criticism is from the elites. The more she wins people over, the more others turn from her. The more she demonstrates her resilience, the harder the punches and the meaner the attacks are.

Proving herself against all of this shows that she can stand up to Islamo-fascists or take on special interests and the good ole boy crony network in Washington. Do you have the courage to stand with her? This restoration of America is not for the faint of heart, the lazy or those in love with the status quo.

Ladies and gentleman, supporting Sarah Palin and getting the country to see past the media smokescreen is not about a political faction or a fan club trying to get its guy or gal into the White House. It is about the future of America for all of us. Many don’t see it yet. Some never will. But it becomes our job to properly inform all that the media has lied to them and that Sarah Palin is worth the emotional investment. If you want anything less, than you aren’t thinking big enough and you’re not willing to take the risk associated with achieving greatness.

The choice is yours. Stop trembling every time the media tells you she’s down in the polls. An Abc Poll (May 1980) showed Carter led Reagan 58% to 40%, an 18% Spread. A Public Policy Poll (February 2011) shows Obama leads Palin 55% to 38%, a 17% spread. (h/t Conservatives4Palin and Politicons.)

There are those of you who like Sarah Palin but who are not yet ready to make the commitment. I understand. You think she’s not popular enough to win a national election. You think she may make some mistakes. You think she’s too high pitched or she talks too fast and you can’t understand her accent. I understand that. Ronald Reagan made mistakes and had to deal with how people perceived him versus who he really was.

But we found out who he really was, didn’t we? And boy were a lot of people wrong.

It's understandable that there would be people who are uncertain about her right now. Part of it is the image the media has planted in some people's minds. Part of it is your own personal discomfort level. You’re not ready to be talked off a ledge like many of us were after Troopergate broke. You’re not ready to stomach the “what if it’s true” story after story only to find out later that it's not true.

You’re not ready to watch the media and Saturday Night Live just go to town with a Palin presidency. I understand that. Go watch the video by Genesis for “Land of Confusion.” Go find some old audio tapes of Bruce Springsteen just ripping Reagan. Go find some comedy skits that mock Reagan as a bumbling actor. I had to stomach that. You can do it.

There are many people willing to go to the mat for Sarah Palin. Just as there were writers who ran cover for supply side economics and a confrontational policy toward the Soviet Union despite the vitriol heaped on Reagan by the mainstream media, there are writers and pundits who can run cover for a drill, baby, drill energy policy and a confrontational policy toward Islamo-fascism. If you can’t find the muster, borrow some of ours.

Most of all and most importantly of all, what’s the alternative?

How many people can honestly go into that voting booth in 2012 uncertain about Palin yet pull the lever for Barack Obama after all the crap he has put this country through? How many people can honestly say that 8% of the people in America are going to switch their vote from Republican to Democrat because Palin’s at the top of the ticket? If you are a fence sitter, or someone who isn’t sure about Palin, can you pull that Obama lever or press that button on the touch screen as horrific visions of healthcare, trillions of dollars flushed away, nanny state government and craziness in the Muslim world flicker through your head because you’re afraid to vote for a the Palin that has been planted in your head by the media?

Ronald Reagan didn't win in 1980 because everyone thought he was the political giant they think of him as today. He won in 1980 because anything was better than Carter. He convinced his legions of supporters that he was worth fighting for and he convinced those who were uncertain about him that they at least could be confident enough that he would be better than Carter. Sarah Palin can do the same.

That which is supposed to destroy Sarah Palin is only making her stronger

2011-01-19T19:29:00.000-08:00

[Martin Luther King, Jr.] had reminded listeners that a lie cannot live. And I believe that not in every situation, it's just going to be providence that sheds light on what the truth is. We have to do our part, also. - Sarah Palin

The Left is the intellectual guardian of unintended consequences. By passing health care reform, they sowed the seeds of its repeal in the bureaucratic maze that is now being walked back to give companies exemptions and to save Medicare. In their zeal for socialism, they woke the silent majority who banded together to take over the House of Representatives and to make serious gains in the Senate. In their hunger to create “carbon credit brokerage houses” from which their cronies would make millions, they fabricated scientific climate data and watched it all blow apart as evidentiary emails were sent to the press.

In their blood lust to destroy the conservative movement, they formed the Journolist listserv, which when discovered would prove to America once and for all that the media was complicit in getting Obama elected. By unleashing their unprecedented attacks, slander and libel against Sarah Palin, they have created a candidate more powerful, more knowledgeable and with armor and Teflon skin than ever seen before. In their twisted desires and from their most uncontrollable fears, the Left has manifested their most feared monsters: the rise of conservatism and the triumphant return of Sarah Palin to presidential politics.

Had the loony Left decided to forget about Sarah Palin after the 2008 election and send her back to Alaska to return to her life as she knew it prior to being chosen as John McCain’s running mate, chances are she would still be considered as a possible candidate for 2012. But her name would be mentioned among the others without ears perking or heads turning toward monitors upon the mention of that name. She would be another Huckabee, another Pawlenty or another Romney in a field of horses all fairly evenly matched heading into the primary race.

The Left and their media cohorts could have saved face by not exposing themselves as the biased out of touch elites that they are by their continual denial of reality and their rabid attacks on conservatives. Even in the old days of the media when liberals controlled the information, they went to great lengths to put forth an effort to show objectivity. We knew Walter Cronkite and Peter Jennings were liberals, but they would never dare to snarl, outright lie and froth at the mouth during their newscasts. They played honest and for years were able to sneak progressivism into the minds of Americans one grain at a time.

Now, it’s as if they scorch the earth and hurl kitchen sink after kitchen sink at everything that doesn’t fit their world view. Like children trying to put round holes into square pegs, the media and the Left are clearly frustrated that this unnatural pasting together of their view of reality isn’t getting through anymore. Having been caught moving the stickers around on the political Rubik’s Cube, the Left is freaking out.

Their complete unhinging following the Tucson tragedy and pure disregard for the facts was a cry for help. They are losing touch with reality and they are calling out to America to please believe them this one last time. But it’s not happening. The Left and the media are burning in the acid of a conservative revival that is being led by their most feared opponent, Sarah Palin. Michael Savage’s thesis that liberalism is a mental disorder was proven in the field last week.

Had they laid low until Palin’s announcement to run for president, the Left and their media cohorts could have restarted a dormant circus that may have resonated enough this time around again to stop their worst nightmare: President Palin. But instead, they have created and fed a monster who stands calmly and coolly before the camera in her studio and who with intellectual sobriety, logic and relaxed but serious demeanor delivers a video and an interview dripping with leadership and presidential mettle after having her name dragged through the mud for two and a half years relentlessly and having had numerous death threats made to her and her family. Most people would have flipped the American Left the Italian salute and taken the money to a tropical island somewhere where they could sit back drinking fruity drinks while laughing at the animals in the zoo that is the America as portrayed by the Left and the media.

I could just imagine Todd with a Corona in his hand during a fit of side splitting laughter as he sat with his family in a bungalow in the Caribbean watching Fox News as they announced Obama’s re-election. Sarah could then turn to him and say “well if that’s what America wants, let em have it” before asking him to mix another mojito for her. Sarah’s third book entitled “Thanks for the Dough: A Tribute to Dysfunctional America” would surely bring in enough royalties to cover the world trip they could be planning.

But Sarah is not wired like that. She is stronger, braver and smarter than most of us. Those of us who accept the fact that we are mere mortals admire her and look to her for leadership as we seek to find the silver bullet that will destroy the progressive agenda. On the other hand, those who don’t accept the fact that we are mere mortals and believe they are better than us hate her. Their ability to mold the world into their perverse picture is blocked by her. Yet for the good hearted who struggled with decades of frustration about crony capitalism and government screw ups, she represents freedom.

Palin represents a type of leadership where the leader is huge, powerful and feared by her enemies. Yet, this huge leader is a petite woman motivated by a servants heart, a love of God and a love of country. This strength allows her to take on the darts and arrows of vitriol without flinching. She speaks the message of liberty, small government and personal responsibility. Yes, it’s our message. But she takes the hits for those who believe in the message. Her followers growl in anger on Twitter and yell at their television sets whenever Lawrence O’Donnell, Keith Olbermann or Ed Schultz rear their hate filled heads. They rally to her. They have her back. This is because she is so strong and so willing to fight as hard as she does.

Her army is stronger now than it ever has been. Her army is millions strong. Yes, they love her. Yes, they see her as the way to restore America. Yes, they will walk through fire for her. But do you know why? They are bound together by one common thread. The army was built by a bunch of people on Team Sarah that was pissed off at the media. The more the media put forth its libelous nonsense, the stronger the army became. Websites like Conservatives4Palin, Texas For Sarah Palin, Palin Twibe, Palin Promotions and Sarah Palin Information Blog grew out of this. Hundreds of blogs popped up across the web also in response the smearing. There were so many people sitting around scratching their heads going “but there are so many people that love her here, why is the media making it look like everyone hates her?” So they took to their keyboards. Before long, Palin supporters had built an army that would have made William Wallace proud.

The Palin army is indebted with gratitude toward a woman who has been beaten to a political bloody pulp on more than one occasion because she stands up and tells them that she will continue to fight. By telling everyone on Hannity Monday night that she will not sit down and shut up, she was telling her supporters that she will go to the mat for them. She has told us that she is willing to politically die before she will ever stop fighting for the America her followers so deeply love. She has gained even more stature as a leader.

There is no other political candidate that has that. This is not a put down on the other GOP contenders. But look at her. Just look at the grace and dignity with which she handled herself during the vilest of attacks. What you saw last week was an all out firing of every weapon in the left wing arsenal. It was the liberal media’s version of shock and awe. It was supposed to be the attack that ended all attacks and pushed her away from a presidency they so desperately fear she will achieve.

Rush Limbaugh said it best.

...the moment you act affected by it and the moment you respond to it they just pounce on you as not having character, not having the steel spine, not having the ability to deal with it. That's where she has totally befuddled them. She's gotten stronger throughout all this.

They just don’t get it, do they? They will never learn. For years they have been successful at lobbing bombs at their opponents. This time, the grenade went off in their hand and Sarah Palin gets the last laugh.

Robin of Berkeley: The Wilding of Sarah Palin

2011-01-13T21:01:00.000-08:00

In these dark times, with spiritually bankrupt people at the helm, thank God we have bright lights like Sarah Palin to illuminate the darkness.

Robin of Berkeley writes about her journey from the heart of liberal darkness into the light of Palin conservatism. It's a fantastic read.

The Wilding of Sarah Palin

America By Heart Lights the Way

2011-01-04T09:48:00.000-08:00

Ronald Reagan once said that it’s not that he was a great communicator, but that he communicated great things. Our 40th president was able to capture the spirit of our Founding Fathers and unite it with the deep grassroots desire of citizens at a time when the nation needed to return to the basic Constitutional principles upon which it was founded. When Reagan left us, it was thought, so did his philosophy. But, following the 2008 election, there has been a return to the longing for the American exceptionalism and the core fundamental underpinnings of the Constitution.

Historians and social psychologists can study the reasons why Reaganism went on the decline since he left office. America’s return to the progressive agenda set by those going back to the Great Depression is steeped in deception, sugar coating and the exploitation of the apathetic and the poor. Barack Obama’s blatant radical shift in our country’s direction, however, served as a wake up call for those who once called themselves the silent majority. Like sheep on their way to the slaughter pen, the American people feasted first on the grain of hope and change. Prodded effortlessly by a complicit media, an unhappy public rejected the status quo of a two party system which seemed to only reward cronies and insiders at the expense of the people and on the taxpayer’s dime.

Having forgotten the virtues of the Constitution (in part because of a complicit academia), the American people hungered. But for what, they really didn’t know yet.

Then came Sarah Palin. Many began to catch on when Sarah Palin was chosen to be John McCain’s running mate, but 57 days wasn't enough time. Obama still won the election in 2008. Yet as the “sheep” drew closer to the slaughter, they bucked up and saved themselves in the nick of time by forming Tea Party groups and by speaking out against the political reaper’s socialist scythe just as it was about to fall. We were so close to being thrown into that thousand years of darkness that Reagan warned us about. We were really close.

Many of the young people in the Tea Party movement who have become politically active were either not yet born or too young to remember Ronald Reagan’s presidency. But they have taken to it like hungry nestlings by researching it and learning from us older folks what it was like to be an American between 1980 and 1988. Although they may not have experienced first hand the exhilaration and the pride that we felt as Americans under the strong and capable leadership of the great Ronald Reagan, you can tell from their blogs, their tweets and their comments that they long to know what we older people did; and that they long to live in a country where capital and capitalism was abundant.

These people are learning their Constitutional Conservatism from Sarah Palin in much the same way those youngsters of this writer’s generation learned it from Ronald Reagan. While reading Palin’s America by Heart, it jumped off the page. It was my political philosophy. It was the political philosophy that this young college student honed in his mind and which he had learned by becoming a devout follower of Ronald Reagan. Sarah Palin had taken everything I knew to be true and gave it back to me in the most purest and most articulate of ways.

The children of today are learning the same philosophy as those of a generation ago. We were enamored by Reagan in much the same way they are enamored by Palin. My generation hung on his every word. Our mouths dropped in awe as we watched someone in power tell us the real deal in a world full of charlatans and demagogues. We were no longer crazy to believe in individual initiative and to reject cronyism and collectivism. We were right.

The historical parallels are there for those who wonder about Palin's electability or simply were too young to remember how it all went down. Mark Whittington explains in an excellent piece (h/t Texas4Palin):

Some have suggested that there is a historic parallel to a Palin candidacy. In late 1978, Ronald Reagan, himself a former governor and media star, was considered a has-been politician who had tried for the presidency in 1976 and had fallen short. Reagan was ridiculed, like Palin, for his alleged lack of intelligence and his alleged extremism. Yet, in 1980, Ronald Reagan beat President Jimmy Carter and became the 40th President of the United States.

All that the true conservative philosophy needed was a voice. And once that voice spoke, the people came to it not because they are lemmings or because of the cadence of how the speech was delivered, but because the words that were being spoken were true. It happened when Reagan came. It is happening again with Palin.

And just as they did to Reagan, the media and the Establishment derides and mocks Sarah Palin. They find flaws with her educational background, intellect and family in much the same way they did with Reagan. But they cannot touch the philosophy. They won’t even rebut it. They can’t. The closest they can come to attacking the philosophy is to call her an extremist and then not comment further. That’s it.

Sarah Palin's latest book, America By Heart, is proof positive that she is now the articulater of the true conservative philosophy. It lays out Constitutional Conservatism and quotes great conservatives of the past, including Reagan.

What Reagan and Palin both represent is an upsetting truth that draws ridicule from the Left and from the Establishment because it threatens their ways of collectivism, social engineering and cronyism. Constitutional conservatism to them is a danger to the status quo of their power structure. They're afraid that Palin may succeed. And they will do anything to plant the seeds of doubt in the minds of the people.

The people must be strong and courageous if they want to change their nation. Morning in America is a beautiful place. But it will require hard work and mental fortitude to get there. Follow her because she light's the way. Don't be distracted by the pundits and the critics.