My Dear Friends in Sarah,
 
Happy Saturday to you all!!
 
Here are some observations on her interview with Greta last night.
 
Re the primary season: She acknowledges that candidates never come to Alaska.  She says that conditions are too tough for them.  Now, while the tone of this remark may have been tongue-in-cheek to some extent, I think that there was an edge and a point to it: WHO is the one who is hardy and strong enough to bear up under both the physical storms of the winter season in The Great Land and the political storms of an election season in America?  She does not have to spell out the answer; she leaves it to us to do that: S-A-R-A-H …SARAH!!!!
 
She summarizes the strategic and key place that Alaska holds in our polity, with its riches in natural gas; with its abundance of oil; with its strategic location.  Again, she does not have to SAY it, but we remember who was GOVERNOR of this key State, and who, in part of a term, accomplished more than most governors do in multiple terms!!
 
Alaskans look at obama’s naïve apologies to SAVAGES in Afghanistan who turn around and kill our soldiers, and they say, “ABO,” “Anybody But obama.”
 
Alaskans are tired of the pettiness in the GOP primary process.
 
It is very important to get a Commander-in-Chief whom our troops deserve.
 
Alaskans believe in the US Constitution and in their State Constitution.  This State Constitution established that the Forty-Ninth State should be as self-sufficient as possible. But the Feds have impeded and interfered with this principle, especially when it comes to energy development.
 
William Seward’s dream for Alaska was for her to help secure the Union through her resources.  It is time for the nineteenth-century statesman’s prophetic vision to be realized and fulfilled.
 
obama manipulates the domestic supply of energy and bows to our enemies: This INFURIATES Alaskans.  Further, his manipulation of US currency is devaluing the dollar–which eventually leads to phenomena like the high price of gas.
 
We need to replace obama with someone who understands the energy security that is JUST AT OUR FINGERTIPS–and Alaska has a lot to do with that.
 
Guys, to my eyes, this was as strong a statement that she is going to run as she could make without formally announcing.
 
The other candidates are not tough enough for the winter climate of The Great Land—by implication,  they are not tough enough for the “winter,” hibernal climate of the savage PPD (Politics of Personal Destruction) that are waged by the Chicago thug and his minions.
 
She emphasized this point via the raging fire that grinned at us from the background during the interview, a fire that was a symbol both of the storms and winter outside, and the fire inside her that can meet and overcome the storm!!
 
The other candidates cannot come close to matching her record with and experience in ENERGY issues, which she emphasized as paramount and critical to the security of the nation.
 
SHE DOES NOT SAY IT DIRECTLY, BUT SHE IMPLICITLY CONTRASTS THE SMALLNESS AND PETTINESS OF THE GOP PRIMARY PROCESS WITH HER OWN STATESMAN-LIKE QUALITIES IN FOCUSING ON THE NATION’S INTERESTS: DEFEATING AND OUSTING OBAMA, AND SECURING OUR NATION, BOTH IN TERMS OF ENERGY AND IN TERMS OF OUR MILITARY.
 
Only Sarah, from her lofty seat in the High North Country, takes the long view, as she gazes down with the eyes of the Eagle upon the discomfiture and the crisis of our times!
 
IMHO, this great interview delivered a subtle but powerful punch!!
 
God bless you all always!!
 
DEO VOLENTE, SARAH 2012!!!!
 
Brianus

I think it’s nice that Jedediah Bila wrote that great rebuttal of the push back the “Palin camp” received for speaking out against Game Change.  However, for me, it doesn’t cancel out her silence when the article was published in The Blaze attacking Sarah for writing an article talking about Trig.  Some people defended Th Blaze by saying that the article was from a blogger and not from one of their “journalists”, but I don’t really buy that.  For me, that makes Jedediah’s silence even more grievous.  If the people at The Blaze used the “he’s only a blogger” defense, it should have been easy for Jedediah to step forward to condemn the blogger’s outrageous column.  For whatever reason, she chose not to do so.

I know that there are some here who will defend her silence, but imo, if you can’t stand up for your friends, your principles and your integrity should be questioned.  We witnessed Sarah being attacked by the left and the squishes in the GOP, and we were outraged that very few came to her defense.  I am equally outraged that Jedediah sat back and said nothing.  Jedediah had the ability, and the cover from a “speaking out against her employer” label because the writer “was just a blogger”, but she remained quiet.  For that reason, I’m not inclined to forgive and forget.   

Good morning all.

An excellent news round up.

The posted parody of Rush Limbaugh’s apology to Ms. Fluke?

Spot on. Delightfully Wicked. Hilarious. Still laughing.
 
Thank you.

I’m probably in the minority here, but I usually lament when Rush makes news with some sort of crack about women.  IMO he does have some sort of misogynistic blind streak in him that goes for this sort of gender baiting.  But it’s bad enough that Santorum has given the press so much opportunity to focus on birth control as an issue in this campaign–the last thing we need is for Rush to be fanning the flames with the same.

Maybe it’s because I’m up here in the Northeast, but I know how many liberal and even moderate women the Dems and the MSM have already got motivated to defeat the GOP based on this focus, and every little bit that furthers the discussion just helps Obama IMO.

Video of Gov. Palin’s interview is now available at TRS:
http://www.therightscoop.com/sarah-palin-allen-west-should-be-considered-for-vp/

I think it was quite bold of her to name Allen West as her top VP choice. She also predicted that Newt will win GA.

Palin/West 2012!

How did I miss this?  Gov. Palin at the very end here seems to be suggesting that were she somehow the GOP nominee she would look to name Allen West as her running mate:

http://www.therightscoop.com/sarah-palin-allen-west-should-be-considered-for-vp/ 

Firelight, BTW – nice touch in the headline photo. Squirrels love bendy straws too!

Morning all…….Pietro Leatherchest here…….a bright, sunny Sunday morning, temperature a nice 75 degrees in the great desert Southwest. Just back from church, full of the good spirit….I hope everyone is having a wonderful week-end….of course being retired, every day  is a week-end. It’s funny when I worked, I worked most week-ends as I was in the hospitality industry and also law enforcement…Jails and Hotels all are 24/7.   God be with you all this fine day and for the rest of the week…..

Oh, I failed to mention earlier… not that I forgot or anything.  Yes, good job subbing Crueladev.

It was PHUN PHUN PHUN!

GB

I wrote this on Romney, April or so of last year.  What prompted it was Romney’s use of two campaign slogans with racist overtones.  I was cautioned by Nicole, at the time, to not rock the boat with this, as a lot of Mormons were supportive of Gov. Palin.  The converse is perhaps not applicable, at least for me.  I will not be campaigning for or supporting Mitt Romney. 

I am a bit of a student of advertising slogans.  Romney was clothing his campaign with past slogans of Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.  Romney was in the habit of borrowing campaign slogans from Conservatives, so he could appear as a Conservative to the Colin Powell branch of the Republican  Party. 

There was even a 3rd campaign slogan borrowed from Reagan, but it escaped me, and perhaps someone here can remind me.  Romney would be better to come up with his own slogans, but this is perhaps another problem, as there is no there there.  It does not work to plagiarize others, and the reason it does not work, is rooted in Romney’s conflicted mind. 

I went to Rice U. in Houston in 1965, the year following the passing  of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.  Rice was originally founded as a segregated school with free tuition for all that could get thru the academic hoops.  But when Rice wanted to expand its space program, and apply for money from the feds, they had to integrate.  My freshman class was the first integrated class, and I took my math 100 in German from the first Black professor, who did not speak English, as there was no college level Black math professor to be found who could.  Rice U. and most of the rest of the country went along with integration and embraced the civil rights movement.  Two schools did not.

I might title this, “Why I don’t Like Mitt Romney.”  Romney’s recent remark, inartfully plagiarizing Margaret Thatcher, “Obama Isn’t Working”,

http://tinyurl.com/3ompr2q

which some leftists have jumped on as inappropriate because of the racial overtones suggesting the old school adage that Black men are lazy, points to a familiar theme re Mitt Romney, BYU English grad class of ’71.  This remark portends racist code overtones similar to Romney’s
April “hanging Obama with the misery index” remark:

http://tinyurl.com/5vy7aoj

Not only is the remark to be condemned as a racist metaphor, it shows the same lack of originality.  The two remarks together, reveal in part, Mitt Romney’s mind, and the world in which he grew up. During the late 1960′s and early 1970′s, when Mitt Romney attended Brigham Young University, it was a segregated school, only becoming integrated in 1978, 14 years after the passing of the 1964 civil rights act. Sporting events between segregated BYU and other integrated colleges and universities during this time, frequently led to boycotts and riots and demonstrations, because of BYU’s racist policies re segregation.  BYU was one of 2 schools in the country to fight integration during this time, and well after, Bob Jones U. being the other, from 1964 until 1983.

Segregation at BYU, during and well after Mitt’s time there, during the late 1960′s and early 1970′s, was not just a casual rule, but rather part of an all embracing honor code and code of conduct, which required all LDS students to adhere and conform to the doctrines of the LDS church.  LDS doctrine included Brigham Young’s founding theology that Blacks were made black because of their sins against God, and that slavery was a “…divine institution”.  Blacks were prohibited from entering the LDS temple until June 1978, and then only if they were considered “worthy”.

This was Mitt Romney’s world during his school days, and during the formative years of his “education”.  So yes, he is going to repudiate it, in part, and claim he and his father marched with MLK, which later would become he was in the same town that MLK was in at one point.  But in Mitt’s mind, he is conflicted, because on one hand he is commanded to conform to these abhorrent racist doctrines and codes of conduct, and on another he surely must realize, that at least others, if not himself, consider them repulsive.  So, yes, this would lead to a flip flopping personality prone to avoid verbalizing the profound issues of the heart.  Wholly understandable. 

Now, Romney and his father were leaders in the LDS Church, and as such, bear responsibility, at least in part, for the continuing segregationist policies of BYU, which flew in the face of the mood of the country, for integration, and equality of opportunity and housing and education, and drinking from the same water fountains, regardless of the color of one’s skin.

And although I could care less if Mitt Romney, or Nicole Coulter, or anyone else, wants to practice their LDS religion, for me, the racism part is disturbing, as an American and as a Republican. It does not belong in the Republican Party.  It much better suits the Democrat Party.  The Republican Party, forget for the moment, whether the Colin Powell wing or the Clarence Thomas wing, was founded in 1854 on the principle that freedom is for all men regardless of their race or skin color.  Mitt Romney’s burden re this seminal Republican principle is too heavy to contest leadership of the Republican Party.  Indeed, the Republican Party is perceived by most Blacks as being the party of racism, rather than the party that was formed to fight it.  That ground is sacred to the Republican Party and needs to be reclaimed, and Mitt Romney is not the man to do it.