Oh, you’re fiesty’ firelight and I like it! ! !  Now, be a good girl and “sit down and shut up.” ROFL.

Dick Cheney is ‘trending’ on Yahoo News because he said Palin for VP was a mistake.

No mention in either of two articles about how Liz Cheney disagreed.
(Wouldn’t want to cancel out any damage her Dad may have made.)
Journalism is dead in the LSM.

The elite of both halves of government, the Left and Right, are against her and us.  The CBC of DC.
Pray for Sarah’s safety and success.

Over the last 3.5 years much has been written regarding where to place the blame for McCain losing in 2008.  Reasonable people know that Governor Palin was not responsible for the loss, and the exit polls back that up. 

Many people cite McCain suspending his campaign as the reason the tide turned in favor of Obama. While suspending the campaign was a stupid move, something happened that I think was the real factor in the shift.  It took place at the WH when leaders from both parties met with GWB to discuss the possible collapse of the financial sector.  The Democrats appointed Obama as the lead voice in those discussions.  They were smart enough to bring the campaign right into that room.  They projected him as their great leader, and it worked.  On the other hand, McCain looked impotent and out of touch.  He had nothing of substance to say and he fortified the beliefs of many that he was a tired, worn-down old man who was grasping at relevance while struggling to keep up.

I still can see that group sitting around that table, and imo, that’s the moment that McCain lost the election.  After that meeting adjourned, I told my wife that the election was lost. 

Good morning!

Mark America has a great commentary on the Dick Cheney nonsense. http://markamerica.com/2012/07/29/shooting-off-again-dick-cheney-leads-the-attack-on-sarah-palin/

“The GOP establishment is rightly sensing a bit of a revolt forming in the rank-and-file, as many conservatives are not altogether thrilled with the presumptive Republican party nominee.  He knows there is a move afoot to ditch Mitt Romney at the convention, and he sees Sarah Palin as one of the threats to the Romney ascendancy because the grass roots of the party loves her.

Whatever happens in this election cycle, it is the aim of the establishment to be sure that none but another member of the extended Bush clan rise to the nomination in 2016.  Hammering away at Sarah Palin now, in 2012, helps to solidify the notion that Governor Palin is a political has-been, and one who was never qualified for the office in the first place.”
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My two cents is that I think part of what Cheney is trying to do is set the stage for the announcement of a non-flashy VP pick like Rob Portman or Tim Pawlenty. We should know by next week.

Good morning from the East Coast!  

Question for the masses: Does Willow really have a Twitter? I’ve had some disagreements on that. Not sure and I want to follow the real one if she does. 

Played in church yesterday. The flautist next to me played a D natural instead of a D sharp because she didn’t look at the key signature. After she finished we looked at each other and snickered. Thank goodness our worship leader was at our other campus. 

I’m now allowed to put anything on my walls in my room. So behind my bed I have a “praise wall” and it has Bible verses and all sorts of inspirational stuff. I really like it. 

I do believe that the Establishment is more focused on ruining Palin then actually fighting Obama. Which is super sad. The objective is to get Obama out of office, not tearing Palin to bits. PPC sucks.

Thanks for listening.

Eh, what’s not to like about a Canadian?

1) We go along to get along.
2) We’re polite and well-mannered.
3) We even say thank you to our bank machines. Yep, that sounds like us.

The scariest part of the “civil unrest article”….

“Another recent DHS move to gear up was back in March of this year, when it gave the defense contractor ATK a deal to provide the DHS with 450 million .40 caliber hollow-point ammunition over a five year period. On top of that, the DHS has recently purchased a number of bullet-proof
checkpoint booths and hired hundreds of new security guards to protect government buildings.”

Why is it that I can’t get Obama’s “National Defense Resources Preparedness” EO out of my head?….that, and how all the conservative pundits were telling me not to worry about it?

Just sent this email to Erica Ritz at theblaze.com for her egregious error in this story:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/liz-cheney-splits-with-father-on-palin-remarks-more-qualified-than-obama-and-biden-combined/

“Hello Ms Ritz:

Please correct the sixth paragraph in your story “Liz Cheney Splits with Father on Palin Remarks.”

“Game Change” is not Palin’s book: It is John Heilemann’s and Mark Halperin’s book.

This is an important correction because Palin’s team has publicly and vocally disagreed with the “Game Change” book and film:

http://www.sarahpac.com/posts/statement-on-game-change

http://www.sarahpac.com/posts/game-change-we-can-believe-in

http://www.sarahpac.com/posts/here-they-go-again-dot-dot-dot

Thank you.”

Will someone help us monitor the story to see if she corrects the error and report back here?

Thanks!

Dick Cheney was a terrible VP. He has irrevelant after 2004. Him and Bush deserve to be pariahs for what they did. It is Bush/ Cheney that attack Sarah Palin and are our imediate enemies in the party. Can you even name 3 Bushies that are strongly Pro-Palin . Palin has to beat the Bush machine. The Bush family has gradually built a choke hold on the GOP since the 1940′s.

Just in case Gelston doesn’t win Yakima’s “citizen of the year,” I’d vote for him to be the sites, Lone
Ranger. “There, I said it.” Now, you figure it out.

“I’m not for sale.”        Sarah Palin           That ladies and gentlemen, could be worth a lot.
I’m flabbergasted.

On cheney making the idiotic comment that Sarah Palin had “limited gov’t experience”.

The Ignoramus should read the book…”Sarah Takes On Big Oil”.

The gopElitist would have to dial back his stupid and at the same time, deceptive drivel.

On the other hand, cheney may be right about Sarah having “limited gov’t experience”…

Yes, Dick, zero experience in corruption, cronyism, globalism, socialism and gopElitism.

Some thoughts on two interesting developments:

- Sunday afternoon, CNN issued a statement of regret re the playing of Stupid Girls intro music to their story about Sarah Palin going to Chick-Fil-A. The statement of regret was made to Hollywood Reporter and the Wrap, being two of major TV trade papers.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sarah-palin-chick-fil-a-cnn-355724

(Nice picture of the Governor with the Hollywood Reporter story.)

http://www.thewrap.com/tv/column-post/cnn-sarah-palin-stupid-girls-intro-unintentional-49846

(The wrap also links to the Russell Brand story. Thanks for nothing.)

The story was subsequently picked up this morning by Politico.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/07/cnn-regrets-stupid-girls-palin-segment-130459.html?hp=f3

The statement of regret is receiving wide coverage in allot of online publications across North America because of syndicated content. CNN claims the statement of regret was made in response to the beat down given by Newsbusters (which was then picked up by Drudge).

Possibly, although something tells me that a Legal Beagle representing the Governor placed a call and that a head honcho from CNN subsequently placed a call to the Governor and groveled.

I say this because the Governor has always provided CNN with a good interview which helps with their ratings and it serves no purpose for CNN to be cut off from getting future interviews with the Governor. Just a suspicion. Could be all wet.

- This morning, Senator McCain went on Fox & Friends with Senator Ayotte at his side.

The video is posted on the Huffington Post.

John McCain Responds To Dick Cheney’s Sarah Palin Criticism
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/30/john-mccain-dick-cheney-sarah-palin_n_1718706.html

While some people are unhappy with what McCain said here is my take:

People need to remember that McCain is old enough to be the Governor’s father, so keep that in mind. Also remember the adage “less is more” meaning while some people may want McCain to say “more,” what he said speaks “volumes.”

Let’s look at what he said objectively.

McCain goes on Fox & Friends this morning to respond to Cheney.

Who is sitting next to him? Senator Ayotte, whom the Governor helped win a hotly contested primary.

The symbolism is important.

McCain does the talking. Ayotte provides support with a few nods, etc.

In essence he says three things:

- He makes it crystal clear that he is not only proud to have selected Sarah Palin as his running mate, but he is also proud of everything she has done since the campaign.

McCain is a navy man. He is the son of an Admiral. When a commanding officer in the Navy says they are very proud of someone, that speaks volumes, being a complete and full endorsement of that individual.

By the way, sitting next to me is one of the people she helped elect to the Senate in 2010, in case some of you “nitwits” out there forgot the great victory that Sarah Palin helped orchestrate for the GOP in 2010, including helping my re-election effort. “Nitwits” is referring to Cheney, the Bush Establishment and the “advisers” to the Romney campaign, who have been making clowns of themselves in regards to Governor Palin.

Of course he did not say all that, but watch the video in case you missed it.

- He reminds everyone that Dick Cheney is the same man who sanctioned torture, something he strongly disagreed with. He is reminding the audience of why many people held Cheney in disdain.

He is publicly telling Cheney and the Bush people, do you really want to start a fight, or to quote Clint Eastwood: “You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel  lucky?’ Well, do ya punk?”

- As far as Liz Cheney and her tweet is concerned, his attitude was “whatever.”

In other words, he is saying that he does not believe that Liz Cheney was sincere, but rather she is just covering her derriere. Translation: You know that Cabinet position you were looking for? Well Liz if I have anything to say about it, you can forget it.

Bottom line: He went on television, looked the camera straight in the eye and with Senator Ayotte sitting at his side to provide support, told the audience he is very proud of everything that the Governor has done since he introduced her to the national stage.

He is an officer and a gentleman. This is a matter of personal honor for McCain.

While the two may have their disagreements, he is making it crystal clear to all and sundry, henceforth if you attack Sarah Palin, you attack me.

In doing so, he also very politely told Dick Cheney, his daughter and the rest of the Bush people who have been maligning Sarah Palin to “f*ck right off!”

Also, this interview was a warning shot to Romney and his campaign. Stop the bull sh*t. Stop attacking me and the Governor.

Now I could be all wet, but that was the message that I received when I watched the video.

P.S. If Romney does not want a brawl to break out, he needs to change course PDQ. Something tells me that McCain has had it up to here with being “slagged” by Bush’s people, Cheney, and Romney’s people. Remember McCain is an ex fighter pilot who survived the Hanoi Hilton. Yes, he is an officer and a gentleman, but there does come a time, when enough is enough.

Okay, end of my afternoon rant.

Did you notice in Tony Lee’s piece from yesterday that Cheney cleared Nelson Rockefeller of all people to be Ford’s VP?

If that’s true then Cheney is NOT a conservative. We should spread this useful fact around:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/07/29/Establishment-Strikes-Back-Cheney-Says-Palin-VP-Selection-A-Mistake 

“…Cheney, who led the vice presidential search that picked Nelson Rockefeller for Gerald Ford’s VP, is probably more comfortable with a vice presidential candidate who has similar establishment bona fides to Rockefeller, which Palin obviously lacks.”

(Paraphrased from memory.)
“Why, Mr. Anderson, do you keeping getting up after I beat you down? Why, Mr. Anderson, do you stand up to fight me yet again, over and over, when each time you have lost to me?”
　
Mr. Anderson struggles to rise to his feet, and answers, “Because I choose to.”
　
I saw the end of the last ‘The Matrix’ movie the other day. I still don’t understand a lot about the trilogy, but Mr. Anderson’s response reminded me of, “Liberty or Death” and “Live Free or Die.”

Mr. Anderson does not want to give up his ability to choose what to do, and bow to the ‘government.’  He would rather die.

Must see…3 min. video  of… Nezar Hamze, Executive Director of CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations), asks Congressman Allen West : ‘Can you show me one verse in this Quran where it says to attack America?’
West responds with detail and fervor.  http://mrctv.org/videos/allen-...

SarahAmerica…………………………………………… LetSarahSpeak

Why does anybody watch O’Reilly. It amazes me that I see Palin supporters still giving O’Reilly ratings. The Five is also awful. 5 People that even Bolling was good today. Sarah Palin was a star without FoxNews

Sarah Palin Led GOP Nomination Polls against Romney,Huckabee and others. Nobody ever considered Dick Cheney worthy of the White House.

It’s late and I wanted to post this all day long. Firelight I will post it tomorrow as well much earlier so everyone gets a chance to read it, its a post from RefudiateObama2012 muchas gracias.

For those of you who continue to play the “Palin is stupid” card, here’s a post from the very liberal Indiana University sports board from 2010 that blows your meme all to hell.

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 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.