Posted by
dolfinwriter on Sunday, July 19, 2009 6:23:14 PM
I was talking to a coworker yesterday about the current sad state of the nation. I didn’t see it at the time, but in my thinking out loud answer to him, and my quiet time thoughts since then, I’m starting to think there is something big here…
We’re both hardcore conservatives, but he is a lifetime Republican, and I am still registered Independent. He asked me my opinion of what has happened with Sarah Palin. After I gathered my thoughts for a moment, I said that I wonder if the Republican party is just too corrupt to tolerate Sarah Palin.
He told me also of a couple of Republican acquaintances of his who have jumped on the bash Palin bandwagon.
My out-loud train of thought went something like this…
There are two major parties in this country, and there are Kool-Aid drinkers in both of them.
The Republican party was nowhere to be found during the campaign when the allegations of Sarah Palin’s spending sprees started. If the party leadership had a shred of integrity, someone would have stood tall and told the press that the PARTY bought those clothes for Palin because she’s the only one on either ticket who’s not a multi-millionaire (more on this later), and she needed appropriate clothes for the campaign! DC and Congress has become a swimming pool for sharks—MILLIONAIRE sharks. Palin is not a wealthy person, and never has been. That has become a rarity in modern American politics.
All we got from the GOP was a Can O’ Crickets.
Then after the crushing loss on November 4th, some of the McCain staffers started making allegations of all kinds about Sarah Palin. In my view it was a bunch of despicable CYOA’ers trying to cover their own for a badly run campaign, and they all should have been immediately called out and fired on the spot. I don’t want people like that in the GOP, nor working in government AT ALL!!!
Oddly, Fox News reporter Carl Cameron seemed to gleefully report these allegations as if they were fact. I’ve wondered about this ever since, and one of my liberal friends pointed this out to me as some kind of "proof" of acceptance even by Fox News of Palin’s incompetence. I said then that I would have fired Cameron for that, but suddenly I see this more clearly than I did even just a few days ago. Now I realize they’re not going to fire him or anyone else for seeming to relish reporting dirt on Palin. That’s just the party line on both the left AND in the Republican elite.
At the very least, I would have expected the Maverick himself to have come out and defend his running mate, but no… His silence continues to be deafening. His only response thus far has been basically “These things happen in campaigns…”
Perhaps...
Later I heard some kind of interview where the Maverick gave what I consider to be an unbelievably lame answer regarding the possibility of Palin running for President in 2012. This is the man who thought Palin would be just fine in a McCain Presidency to be “just a heartbeat away from the Presidency” (to quote the left who has no problem with dunderhead Joe Biden being “just a heartbeat away from the Presidency”).
I’m not having any luck finding the exact quote, but McCain basically talked about some other people who will be players in 2012. I don’t think it was on Jay Leno, but it may have been McCain’s appearance on Hannity on January 16.
The point is, rather than give Palin his endorsement or at least support first, and then mention that there are a number of other viable contenders, McCain made a point to name other strong REPUBLICAN Governors and then almost as if an afterthought, express his admiration for Palin.
Even Dennis Prager whom I admire greatly, said sometime in March that he didn’t think that answer was “problematic”.
What?!?!?!?
I think if even Prager is in the tank for the GOP, then we are screwed.
To be sure, many of those of whom McCain spoke would likely be good if not great Presidents. But they are REPUBLICAN PARTY MEMBERS, and they are MEN, and THAT is my point. The GOP is still a “Good ol’ boy’s” network. I think they simply want to continue business as usual. I think they like the status quo.
They LIKE their earmarks.
McCain has made a real name for himself on the left by poking Republicans in the eye, and the GOP leadership know well Palin’s reputation for taking on head-on the corruption in her own party in Alaska.
They like things just as they are, and they don’t want some do-gooder with genuine integrity and love of country coming in and messing with tradition and screwing up the system for them!
Particularly after my own experience in an English Composition class at SDSU in 1998, I’d probably punch someone in the nose if they were to call me a feminist, but this looks pretty transparent to me.
Therefore the elite GOP establishment seems to have chosen to destroy what it is certain would be a huge pain in its neck, or at least to stand by gazing around and whistling as if unaware while the left continues its assault on her, exploiting the naïveté of Meghan McCain and the knucklehead Levi Johnston, and just sort of passively allow the left to destroy Palin.
And yet it is that very quality—among others—that have endeared Sarah Palin to the hearts of millions of voters.
So that’s the bad news; what’s the good news?
Tea Parties… Millions and millions of fed up, disgusted, Conservative Americans getting mad as hell who aren’t going to take it anymore… Rising numbers of Independents who now outnumber both the GOP and the DNC, due to folks defecting from both parties…
http://themoderatevoice.com/32764/pew-poll-independent-voter-identification-and-centrism-are-surging/
These masses are described to be more centrist, and so this does not necessarily seem to be going the way I would prefer. The piece I read does not specify which social issues were polled, so someone will have to convince me is not just a codeword for liberals in denial. I am willing to be convinced that what it really means is that this group of people are not necessarily polarized over abortion for instance, and would be willing to vote for a candidate who holds most of their values rather than voting for Mickey Mouse or staying home because there is no candidate who holds ALL of their values (Is "Old Lady" reading?)
What it does show is a growing dissatisfaction, and growing anger in both parties with the status quo, and the petty bickering over who is more corrupt, and who will take more money from higher income voters to redistribute to lower income voters, and who is lying about what, and with a Mainstream “news” Media that has chosen its side and given up every last shred of integrity and even any pretense of objectivity.
Could it be that a viable third party could rise from this growing group of Independents, the Tea Parties, and those remaining in both parties who are plain sick and tired and fed up?
The forces at work trying to destroy this country have successfully dragged both major parties further to the left than most people realize. I think if we were all honest, those like Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan would join the Communist Party.
The Democrats would rename themselves the Socialist Party.
The Republicans would rename themselves the Democratic Party.
The true Conservatives left over from any party would form a new Republican Party.
Might Sarah Palin be just the candidate that new party needs and wants, especially since the GOP apparently fears her, and no longer wants her?