Let’s all strive to find a “Work from Home” job for Firelight, so she has something to keep her from getting bored, or worse…  cabin fever.

Seriously, thank you Firelight for all you do on here and congratulations for being such a good juggler.  My morning surfing experience has been revolutionized since I started starting here on P4A. I still check other sites, but usually you have it all covered.

My notes for today:

Isn’t it wonderful that the young lady wore the proper head gear in her “apology” to Mr. Karzai?

My favorite too:  http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jpollak/2012/02/24/the-truth-hbos-game-change-hides-palin-carried-mccain-until-he-changed-the-game/  

“and the story’s still being written.”  

But I am NOT trading places with you Firelight.  (It is 58 degrees, but going up to 65)  Nuh Uh!
 You can, though,  have my share of snow that isn’t taken yet.

Voters don’t believe maobama’s economic message?  Well Duh?!?!?!?  Good Stuff.

P.S. Kudos to Sheya for providing this forum.

GB

Who in the heck is that gal? She is awesome! I love her!

Crosspost from C4P

 My interest in politics traces back to a warm Sept. nite when I sat
transfixed as my ears heard a presidential candidate win a debate and my
eyes saw him lose the presidency in a span of one hour.  The year was
1960.

Our friends on the Left immediately understood the power
and impact the new medium of television would have going forward and
quickly set about infiltrating and ultimately controlling it.

We
have now evolved  into a society where perception trumps reality, and
truth is a mere inconvenience to be hidden or ignored by the LSM as they
help the ‘Chosen One’ transform our republic into his vision of a
Communist paradise.

Today as I watch the Dwarfs debate, I sadly
realize that in fifty years the GOP has yet to understand what a
fourteen year old boy understood on a warm fall nite in 1960.

Today
the party of Lincoln and Reagan has before it  the opportunity of a
lifetime, but they stick their heads in the sand and refuse to see what
WE see.

They have in their ranks perhaps the most charismatic
political figure in our nation’s history, yet they shun her simply
because she chose to tell WE the PEOPLE the TRUTH!

Because of the
choices she has made and the way she has chosen to live her life, she
and her bedrock of mate and Creator have become the Moral Compass of our
nation.

The GOP refuses see the opportunity we have to merge
perception, reality and truth into one package and restore our republic
to what it once was.

‘And they call me the stupid one.’

got my ggrrr on and listened to all of GrizzlyFest – and a rebroadcast of the Arizona debates.

BREAKING NEWS – which may be a dah moment for many – I am officially changing my registration from Dem to GOP.  Keep your dahs to yourself, or try.  After having spent the day with my county GOP I thought, what am I proving?  The progs could give a shit. They’ve taken over what I thought was my party.

Iron Dog ends today.  Stats here:  http://www.irondograce.org/race-tracking/pro-stats/

GB

Sometime last week, I posted a link and excerpt from an article written by Elaine Lafferty at The Daily Beast.  It originally appeared on Oct. 27, 2008.  ( http://bit.ly/qnOgGI ).  In it, she wrote:

“Now by “smart,” I don’t refer to a person who is wily or calculating or
nimble in the way of certain talented athletes who we admire but suspect
don’t really have serious brains in their skulls. I mean, instead, a
mind that is thoughtful, curious, with a discernable pattern of
associative thinking and insight. Palin asks questions, and probes
linkages and logic that bring to mind a quirky law professor I once had.
Palin is more than a “quick study”; I’d heard rumors around the
campaign of her photographic memory and, frankly, I watched it in
action. She sees. She processes. She questions, and only then, she acts.
What is often called her “confidence” is actually a rarity in national
politics: I saw a woman who knows
exactly who she is.”

When I read this article, it reminded me of an old post I made on C4P way back in 2010.  Some of you who posted back then may remember it, but for those of you who didn’t, I thought it would be interesting to resurrect it.  The Daily Beast article and that post seem to fortify the fact that Governor Palin demonstrates her intellect and abilities in the performance of her duties. 

Here’s my post from 2010:

Every once in a while I
visit the Indiana University Water Cooler Discussion board.  Today I saw a post
over there that I thought would be of interest here.  Keep in mind that most of
the posters there are ultra liberal, so I’m sure it made their heads explode.
  Here it is:   CO. Hoosier, I’m not even sure that I
can be classified as a “Palin fan”, but I am kind of an observer. An old school
buddy of mine has worked within the Alaska legislature for the last twenty years
or so. He’s a registered Democrat and has worked on projects that allowed him to
cross paths with her going back when she was a city commissioner, as the mayor,
and as the governor.   He told me that the picture painted of her as a
mindless ideologue is about 180 degrees off base. He said that over the years,
he’d probably dealt with her a couple of dozen times and that her input and/or
decisions were always supported by law and not by personal beliefs.
  The thing he told me about her that really peaked my interest of her
was her ability to process information and then to quickly forge a plan with the
information she was given. He said she was a living, breathing CPM (Critical Path Method) chart. He
said he had seen her on multiple occasions on a variety of subjects instantly
absorb input from others and then respond with cogent solutions to problems. He
said if you put her in a room with a bunch of people, the chances would be great
that she’d be the smartest one in the room.   He told me that when he
saw her debacle with Katie Couric, his first thought was, “who is that Sarah
Palin imposter?” He said that was not the Sarah Palin he had worked with for
years. He was sure that the interview was highly edited. It came out later that
there was almost six hours of the interview that people didn’t see.   He
told me that if I really wanted to get a feel of who she is and how she dealt
with powerful people, I should read the book, “Sarah Takes On Big Oil”. It was
released in October, 2008 and written by two of the state’s top oil & gas
editors. The lady they described had no fear to stand toe-to-toe with
heavyweights and leave them slinking away with their tails between their legs.
She told them that she was the advocate of the citizens of Alaska and there
would be no deal making that would adversely affect them. The big boys at
Exxon-Mobile and BP folded like a cheap suit.   One other thing he told
me that still amazes him was how she managed to get people to work together.
According to him, she could take two people with opposing opinions, sit down
with them, listen to them, offer her solutions, and both guys would leave happy
and not feeling that they had compromised their position at all. He laughed at the “she doesn’t read” meme. He said it is well
known in the capitol that she was a voracious reader. She truly did read most of
the national mags and newspapers, mostly on line, as well as a dozen or so
energy trade magazines. According to him, there were stories about how she would
take home stacks of papers and reports to prepare for a next-morning meeting and
it was as if every word of those reports were stamped into her brain when she
sat down at the meeting.   He told me not to be fooled by her syntax or
her colloquialisms because they were not a fair barometer of her smarts. He said
if people would just listen and not try to read between the lines, she was easy
to understand. He said he’d love to see her and Obama in a debate about energy
or even healthcare. He said she’d clean his clock. He even said that if she were
given a day or two to prepare for a debate on foreign affairs, his money would
still be on her.   He said she was the epitome of a leader. She
assembled her staff, listened to their advice, allowed opposing ideas to be
heard, and then acted accordingly. As a manager, she advocated making a plan
based on the best info available, budgeting the plan, working the plan,
measuring results, and quickly adjusting the plan if it was determined it wasn’t
working as expected. She believed in the First Law of Holes.   He
thought her biggest struggles in the 2008 campaign were the product of trying to
endorse McCain’s positions on issues. She was able to voice her dissenting
opinion on ANWR because her views were known, but on everything else she was
expected to toe the McCain line. He said that she lacked the ability to shovel
crap and sell it as perfume.   He reminded me that anyone who denies the
accuracy of her “death panel” metaphor should go back and read her exact words,
both her initial FB post and her rebuttal of Obama’s attack on her words. He
said “read what she wrote, not what someone wrote or said what she wrote”. Her
words in those posts have already been proven to be true.   He said that
“divisive” is not a word that should be used to describe her. He said that was
just a simple use of Alinsky’s rule #13. He said, “look at all the issues. Her
position is in line with the majority on virtually all of them”.   He
told me she wasn’t perfect, but if I read something or heard something that was
negative, I should check it out a little closer. He shared a lot more, but I’m
afraid I’ve already rambled on for too long.   Should she run in 2012? I
really don’t know. Would I vote for her? It depends who she’s running against.
Will she drive the agenda if she doesn’t run? Yes, for a long
time.So, here we have first-hand account from a declared Democrat and a second-hand account from someone (another declared Democrat) who had experience in working with Sarah on various projects over the years.  So, who are you going to believe, people who aren’t her political allies, but offer a strong testimony of her smarts, or political enemies who will say and do anything they can to paint her as a clueless diva?Isn’t it a amazing that here it is over three years from the 2008 election and people are still attacking her on a daily basis.  Imo, it says far more about the attackers than it does about Governor Palin.

Main Gov. call for a brokered convention.    So should we…. officially.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/world-news-political-insights-what-mitt-romney-has-already-lost/