Driving A Stake Through The Old GOP November 7, 2008
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Sarah Palin came home last night. She was tired. Worn out. She looked like she had just run a FRUSTRATING political campaign and was on the losing side. Of course, the newsdork that happened to get to her first stuck a microphone in her face and immediately asked her about the scurrilous charges the jealous little pissers in the OLD Republican party were making.
Not happy with having run a stupid, lackluster, Chinese-firedrill campaign led by someone who didn’t want to win, they jealously lashed out at the ONE person in the party who had brains, wit, and charisma, and brought the only votes the ticket received. PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome) has not gone away, if this outburst of viciousness is any indication.
Jealous is as jealous does, and envy is a sin. The people who attacked her were not just envious and jealous, they were malicious. Not satisfied to just attack her campaign performance, these nasty, smallminded leeches knocked each other down getting on national TV to tell the world how incompetent and aggressive Sarah Palin was during the campaign. Ingratitude isn’t nice anywhere, but for these people to be so ungrateful to her for what she brought to the campaign, calling her “Hillbilly from Wasilla,” etc., is beyond comprehension.
That’s funny…we never had that problem with her here in Alaska. She shopped at consignment stores. She cut budgets, cut spending, and raised Alaska’s profile in the energy positions of the nation. She goverened as a conservative, not as a party member for either party.
And, lest those jealous little leeches forget it, she SINGLEHANDEDLY brought John McCain as close as he came to winning the election. People voted for Sarah, not for McCain, whom some have called cowardly.
Sadly, the label seems to stick. He ran a wimpy campaign and refused to fight. He kept trying to suck up to the opposition. He never attacked, he just cowered. Perhaps the years in the Hanoi Hilton damaged more than his body. All I know is that the GOP needs to vote him OUT before he moves over to the Democrat side, for, apparently, the Democrats want him back. He served their purpose well, in helping them to elect their Golden Boy. But, apparently, his performance was marred by the one thing nobody planned on: The serendipitous selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate. If this isn’t proof that there is a God, I don’t know what is. With the selection of Governor Palin, McCain accidentally picked up the very stake that will be driven through liberalism’s heart once and for all. The rebirth of the Republican Party is at hand.
The old GOP is the literal deadwood of the party now, and the Conservative base will never listen to them again, never follow their plans, never vote for them again. If PUMA describes the disaffected Democrats and Hillary supporters who felt disenfranchised on the left, the new Conservatives are in the process of splitting off from the GOP, to become what might be called “GOPUMA.” The groundswell has already begun. The old guard will do their best to squelch this growing sound of dissatisfaction, but the sheer numbers of the new GOP will eventually overpower the mossbacks and render them moot everywhere outside the beltway.
At any rate, Sarah’s effect on the campaign was electrifying, and one only needs to look at the size of the crowds she drew wherever she went, and the love of the people who still support her to understand that she is a power to be reckoned with in politics. (For instance, how many other political campaigners do you know of who are going to be receiving a landslide of “thank you” cards, letters, and emails from grateful voters who recognize her ability and what she represents to the real Conservatives?) No matter what she does from now on, she will not do it anonymously, for she has become one of the icons of Conservative political hope. She and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana are at the top of a short list of truly Conservative figures who will be shaping the Republican party as it emerges from this election cycle. The old mossback GOP is moribund, and the new GOP is going back to its Reagan roots, regardless of what the beltway whiners have to say about it.
It’s no wonder that the little apparatchiki, toadies, and sycophants of the mossbacks pulled out their daggers, stilettos, and poiniards and pounced on Palin’s public image with murder on their minds. She is now so powerful– even without being “in the loop”– that they believe they must do away with her image decisively before she comes back onto the national scene, or they will lose everything they stand for and believe in. She spells death to their cozily comfortable places in Washington politics; she terrifies the moderates, and positively frightens the MSM to death. She is the total anodyne to all they believe in. With her in any national office, the moderates of the old GOP stand to lose everything; to be left standing on a shifting pile of sand.
The old mossback vampire of the Republican vote has been pushed into the light of the morning sun, and the wooden stake is poised at its heart.
jesse, while your use of the language is admirable, you really need to get a dictionary and to do some research before you start throwing those words around.
The charges you make against Gov. Palin were proven false early on in the campaign. You obviously know nothing about Alaska.
I’m guessing you are an extremely bright, but lazy journalism student who is in love with her own voice and little else. The need to strike out with such venom exposes you as the vindictive personality.
Honey, First of all, YOU missed the entire point of the original article.
Then, you came here, not once, but THREE TIMES, and you not only insulted the intelligence of the readers of this page, but you slandered my governor, my state, the people who live in my state and their way of life, and the income our state provides to the U.S. in revenues and royalties.
Again, I invite you to come up here and repeat your charges directly to Governor Palin.
And, then, you expect US to appreciate your “Philosophy??” Those so-called “facts” you quoted were all refuted decisively, and publicly, which you would know if you’d taken the time to do a little research.
What you said about Alaska, about Governor Palin, and about Alaskans was snide and uncalled for. You’re STILL a troll. Begone.
You know, Jesse, you sound just like a sanctimonious, pompous blowhard, threatened little know-it-all I used to know. You come on here, and you spout your rote-memorized talking points, for what reason? Do you think you are going to change the minds or opinions of those of us who like to read this page? No, of course, you don’t. But you love to read your own bloviations, so you trot around to all the pro-Palin pages you can find to dump your steaming piles.
The problem is that you are wrong on all the so-called “facts” you “pointed out” to us, and you probably know it, but you prefer to do what you are doing. I think you should come up here to Alaska to talk to Governor Palin in her office (her door is always open, and people drop in all the time), and tell her what you just said above.
But repeating lies and gossip about someone you don’t know is excruciatingly putrid manners, in spite of the fact that you obviously confuse it with knowing what you are talking about. It’s too bad you think that’s what passes for “informed” and “knowledgeable.” It just shows the rest of us what a sad, pathetic little adolescent putz you really are.
Oh, yeah. You need to move out of your mother’s basement and find a real job.
No, a correct reading would give one the impression of a vindictive leader; a governor whose popularity derives from the incidental idiocy of a pseudo-frontier state; a pipeline that will not be finished; a leader who has only governed during pre-existing state surpluses and will soon be facing huge deficits; a leader of a state of frontier “self-reliance” (ie, complete dependence on federal subsidies, handouts, and programs); a crazy witch-believing nut who thinks leadership is riding the coattails of social conservative winks and the banning of books; and, oh yeah, a leader who is so unwilling to compromise for the welfare of women in her state (the state with one of the highest rates of rape) that she required rape victims to acquire their own rape kits. That’s just sordid. Palin’s “leadership” style is that of an absolute conformist. She is constructed by her circumstances and has never articulated her social or political positions without contradicting her own prior comments and leaving people speechlessly scratching their heads in total incomprehension.
But I think the Palin phenomena can be summed up in one incident, which was when she was giving a speech and she accused her opponent’s eloquence of being solely reliant on a teleprompter. A claim which she stumbled over because SHE READ IT OFF A TELEPROMPTER. I respect her ability to exist, to breathe, and to stay away from the chemical shelf, I just wouldn’t trust her as McDonald’s crew lead. Public administration is for people who can speak in coherent sentences, and preferably also for people who are not ANTI-PUBLIC.
Describe one philosophical position that describes Palin. One. Or, just name two supreme court cases, and there you have it, you’re more qualified than sarah Palin for public office.
Jesse, if I read your rant correctly, you are saying that a woman who holds the highest office in her state, has the highest approval rating of any Govenor of any State, who successfully stood up to big oil companies in negociations that benefited not only Alaska, but the lower forty-eight, and who fought fearlessly to triumph over graft perpetuated by members of her own party has no substance? She’s an image with a hollow core? She’s a cartoonish head?
I’m sure Govenor Palin would never say unkind things about you, my dear. She’s too busy putting yesterday to bed so that she back to running the largest State in the Nation. To me, that’s the defination of substance.
….hehehe. Yes, that is the idea. But even as one ‘o them evil, marxist liberals (*shudder*), I think the conservatives sell themselves far short when they choose these functionally retarded culture symbols rather than picking substantive leadership. McCain had some substance–or he used to–but he could never get it across because he had Palin weighing him down. She was a poorly planned hailmary at best, but there is a great distance between her and substantive, kind of paleoconservative views. She’s a facade, an image with a hollow core. Why the GOP chooses folks like that, I have absolutely no idea. It’s like they enjoy being a caricature of fundamentally valid views from certain forms of conservatism. And I’m far from a moderate, but it’s no positive thing that legitimate views should be alienated from political discourse just because of the cartoonish heads dispersed to represent those views. Just in the last week the GOP has become a bunch of angst-ridden, recalcitrant teenagers. Like even if you want to respect them, and they reject the opportunity. I’m ranting, but you get the idea. Thanks for the comments!
“Sure, but defending Palin at this point will only push the GOP one inch closer to imminent fracture.”
Jesse, that’s the whole idea.
I guess that you have to be a little long in the tooth to understand that Sarah Palin is a real person. She is down to earth, with fundamental values. Saying that she lacks substance, tells all that Jesse is still an infant.
Sure, but defending Palin at this point will only push the GOP one inch closer to imminent fracture. She wasn’t that bad, but she obviously lacks any coherent and consistent philosophical view of things. She drew crowds because of sensationalism, not because of substance. The GOP seemed to choose her for that reason, thinking that it provided some counterbalance to the excitement around Obama. They failed to realize that Obama’s crowds weren’t because of sensationalism (although there surely was a bit of that), but because he had the substance to co-opt it. Personally, I think too much has been recorded in just the last two months to be able to cobble together any kind of philosophically-conservative platform and win an election. There’s just no way. The system is effectively immunized from that occurring again, except on a limited level.