Only Dead Fish Go With the Flow
Well, first things first. My friend Elizabeth wrote the first piece on Sarah Palin.
One thing I noticed when Governor Palin resigned on Friday was that she spoke not of the Republican Party, but her philosophy.
In an interview in this week’s Time Magazine she stated, “President Obama is growing government outrageously, and it’s immoral and it’s uneconomic, his plan that he tries to sell America. His plan to “put America on the right track” economically, incurring the debt that our nation is incurring, trillions of dollars that we’re passing on to our kids, expecting them to pay off for us, is immoral and doesn’t even make economic sense. So, his growth of government agenda needs to be ratcheted back, and it’s going to take good people who have the guts to stand up to him, stand up to him and debate policy, not personalities, not partisan politics, but policy to effect the change that we need there. And allow free enterprise and the industrious Americans who run our small businesses and want to raise a family, allowing our families to grow and prosper and thrive, Americans who still believe in those ideals to get in there and effect change. I want to work for people who believe in that.”
Did you see a thing about the Republican Party?
I think that the Republican Party is a morally bankrupt institution that no longer responsive to the people it claims to represent. I think that’s one reason for the defeat last November. I did not vote for John McCain, I voted for Sarah.
I don’t think the Alaskan governor has her sights on the Presidency in 2010. I think what you are going to see is a new party. The Republicans have become a caricature. They talk a good game, but they seem to be just going through the motions.
There are some in Congress standing up to the insanity gripping our nation, Bohner for one, but so many are proposing Democrat Lite.
I think what Mrs. Palin is doing is birthing a new party.
By no longer being a Republican, she takes the partisanship out of the equation. People think the folks at the tea parties are right-wing nuts, but they are not. They are folks who are scared at the trajectory this country is on.
If Sarah Palin can change that, then I don’t care if she’s an Atlantean or an Amazon. Someone has to grab the spotlight and shout for all they are worth.
If resigning from her position in Alaska accomplishes this, so be it. Stay tuned.
July 7, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Rite On!
July 7, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Alas, were that the Libertarians not mockingly graced by the lukewarm extremists of right and left as “wingnuts” this would be an opening… mayhaps Stewart Flood ought to weigh in here ’bouts.
Sarah and a few others (DeMint) may take up Nehemiah’s mission, but with the population of RINOs, a Sanbalat or two in leadership positions, it be a difficult undertaking.
‘Een microscopically, it seems to be a bit of the basis of the friction created for Sanford by a legislature not prone to rein in the largesse that floweth from them. I suspect Ozymandias would be over the heads of most in either house.
July 16, 2009 at 2:36 pm
When Sarah
palin gave her “waders interview” announcing her resignation, she said that she couldn’t perform the duties as Alaska’s chief executive because of frivolous lawsuits. I was most concerned at her comment that if she was the president, she wouldn’t have these problems, that the “Department of Law” would take care of it. Honestly, Palin supporters, you have to acknowledge that such a comment indicates a true cluelessness to the operations of government.Sarah needs to take this time to go back to college and take Political Science 101 before you consider throwing her any support.