The truth about Palin’s resignation

And it’s not difficult to understand; except, that is, for the media. 

All would do well to read it (re: Benito).

The Truth About Sarah Palin’s Resignation

An excerpt, but read the whole thing:

This will evidently come as a complete shock to nearly every member of the media elite, but not everyone in public life is a manipulative and cynical liar, and not every person who has a shot at being President must live their lives to pursue that end no matter the costs to the public good, their family and their personal sanity. The Sarah Palin I know is at least one person in that position who is sufficiently well-grounded and secure enough in themselves and their values to not succumb to this illness of hyper-ambition. She is more than capable of putting something else above her own selfish, short-term political self-interest. You would think that a just society might reward that kind of person and not crucify them, but it has been long since clear that we don’t live in that kind of place.  

The bottom line is that Sarah Palin resigned simply because she was no longer allowed to do her job in a way that benefited her state and family. She saw that if she stayed on as Governor it would cost the state millions of dollars in wasted time and resources and doom it to gridlock. She knew that it would also continue to cost her family hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend against false and maliciously filed ethics complaints. And she had simply had enough of her children being fodder for inappropriate public attacks. 

A note to conservative elites who mindlessly joined in the bogus narrative regarding Palin:  Shut your pieholes.  You’re part of the problem.

As for all the blathering by the lefties (who hate her guts anyway) about her quitting, I seem to recall another person who did the same exact thing, who actually now sits in the White House.  So until you can get your sh*t straight, I’d suggest turning off your mouth and turning on your brain, if you, in fact, possess the grey matter in the first place.

Some more interesting stats, just to sate your appetite for all things Palin:  Palin Damaged Among Anti-Palin Republicans (and Liberals)–and this is a surprise how?

Palin’s resignation: What does it all mean?

Okay, my take on Sarah Palin’s resignation.   Definitely a prime illustration of why more good people don’t go into politics, especially if you happen to be a conservative woman.  From what she said, it would seem that this woman, for all her tenacity and drive, is doing the right thing at the moment for her family–she’s a good mom.  Let’s take stock:  Here we have the liberal media and liberal blogs completely dedicated to destroying her, mainly by attacking her children.  Here we have bloggers at the Huffington Post repeatedly calling her baby with Down Syndrome, Trig, a “retard.”  Here we have Letterman making inappropriate sex/prostitution jokes about her 14 year old daughter, Willow.  Here we have the pathetic treatment of Bristol for being an unwed mother. 

Can you imagine the outcry if even ONE person dared to say a thing about the Obama girls?

I don’t think I need to go into what most women would feel if their children were being subjected to these vicious and outrageous attacks by the Left.  It’s sad and sickening, and it makes her actions completely understandable, if this is her main reason for bowing out.  From the Campaign Spot on NRO: 

The lesson that the ruthless corners of the political world will take from the rise, fall, and departure of Sarah Palin is that if you attack a politician’s children nastily enough and relentlessly enough, you can get anybody to quit.

Liberals should be quite satisfied with themselves.

However, is Sarah Palin out of the picture?  Not on your life.  She’s got something in mind, and I hope she continues to scare the organic-weave hemp pants off of liberals everywhere.  Which she does.  The Left is terrified of this woman, because she’s charismatic, has experience, and isn’t afraid of saying what she thinks.  Moreover, she connects with average Americans.

I thought these two theories very interesting on why the Left–and especially many women–have such vitriol for SP.

The first, from NRO:

Liberals believe that their ideas, philosophy, worldview, and policies liberate believers, and that the conservative equivalents limit people. Liberals see themselves as rejecting outdated beliefs and obsolete ideas, overturning established orders, and discarding traditions established by superstitious and ignorant forebears who weren’t as enlightened as we are. Conservatives, in their minds, are runaway cultural superegos, always wagging their fingers about individual responsibility, dismissing excuses, reminding people that they can’t always do what they want because of the consequences to themselves and to others.

Conservatism, they suspect, will leave you in a marriage that doesn’t satisfy you, burden you with children you don’t want, repress your passions, and trap you in a empty, boring, and unfulfilled life, with no hand of government able to help.

Today almost everyone faces some sort of challenge in balancing work and family; I don’t know too many people who believe there are sufficient hours in a day. And then along comes this woman who’s made all of these “conservative” choices and now has an amazing career, a supportive husband, a beautiful family, and great health and appearance, and she bears it all, including the inevitable hard times, with pluck and a smile, as far as we can tell. (For all we know, perhaps behind closed doors, Sarah Palin screams into a pillow when it all gets to be too much. But what we know about her suggests she relieves her stress by shooting moose.)

In her opponents’ minds, Palin’s made all the wrong choices, and cannot, they insist, be very bright. Yet she’s happy and successful. She is an anomaly that invalidates their worldview, and for that, they attempt to immiserate her — regardless of whether she wishes to run for national office again.

Really, I think there’s a lot in that analysis that is accurate. 

The second theory, from Why Mommy is a Republican, Lisa Graas:

More than one in five pregnancies end in abortion.  35% of women will have had at least one abortion by the time they’re 45 years old.  90% of babies found to have Down Syndrome are aborted.  With these statistics in mind, consider what Graas is saying:

The exploitation of Trig Palin compels me now, at long last, to be open about my view on the source of the hatred. I believe that many women attacking Sarah Palin do so because they had an abortion themselves, or multiple abortions, and Palin’s story which touches many so deeply in a positive way actually brings them personal shame. With shame comes pain…..and when someone causes us pain, we sometimes lash out. This lashing out is particularly more likely if we haven’t come to terms with the reality about it.

According to the statistics above:

It means that Sarah Palin is a personal threat to 35% of women of child-bearing age in America. Of course they are going to try to label her as a hypocrite. Of course they are going to file complaints pertaining to the subject of ethics. Of course they’re going to respond positively to the mocking of Trig Palin.

Interesting theories.  And I definitely think there’s something to the theory that PAS (post-abortion syndrome) can lead at least some women to PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome.)

Sarah Palin is not out of the picture, though.  If anything, she’s mobilizing herself to be better able to make a difference in the political world.  The timing may seem off, but she’s not finished.

Just say no to Obamacare–your child’s life may depend on it

Don’t let looming Obamacare distract you from the more immediate “pile of s**t“ bill known as cap and trade–the most massive energy tax ever undertaken in the history of our nation.  Contact your senator and let him know his ass is on the line should this pass.

But there are starting to be some good opposition videos emerging involving Obama’s quest to take over the private health industry, exposing the utter nightmare that will ensue should he get his way.  I must include them here.  See below.

Also, I saw this story last week about the Canadian preemie who was sent to the US for care due to a lack of beds in Canada.  Besides pointing out the obvious–Canada, whose socialized medicine cannot meet the demands of her sick and injured–it makes me wonder where these little babies will go once the US begins rationing healthcare should Obama get his way.   Here’s a great article exploring this as well:  What will happen to Canada’s preemies?

So let me get this straight…

President Obama is capable of “not meddling” in Iran, in not even voicing support for the Iranian people who are fighting for democracy against an evil, authoritarian, and brutal regime, but he does feel compelled to “meddle” in support of Honduras’ ousted Chavez-goon, Zelaya? 

Something doesn’t compute.  Other than that Obama can’t seem to help himself when it comes to supporting tin-pot authoritarian dictators over freedom-fighters with a sharp, frequent, and precise consistency.  Huh.  Don’t that beat all?

Sorry, Brent, it’s all I can muster for the moment.

“The regime before which Obama grovels”

Melanie Phillips:  “It would be laughable were it not so serious that such a clown is in the White House, and at such a time.”

And from Forbes’ Anne Bayefsky:

‘Shouldn’t the present regime know that there are consequences?’ He answered: ‘We don’t yet know how this is going to play out.’ This is a man who embodies the opposite of the courage to act. His appalling ignorance of history prompted him to claim at his press conference that ‘the Iranian people … aren’t paying a lot of attention to what’s being said … here.’ On the contrary, from their jail cells in the Gulag, Soviet dissidents took heart from what was being said here–as all dissidents dream that the leader of the free world will be prepared to speak and act in their defense. The president’s storyline that we don’t know what has transpired in Iran is an insult to the intelligence of both Americans and Iranians.

Instead of denouncing the fake election, President Obama now tells Iranians who are dying for the real thing ‘the United States respects the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran.’ Whose sovereignty is that? The Hobbesian sovereign thugs running the place? Sovereignty to do what? To deny rights and freedoms to their own people? In a state so bereft of minimal protections for human dignity, why should the sovereignty of such a government be paramount?

To have in office a man so utterly lacking in knowledge of the basic principles of the basic fiber of America is a shame and an embarrassment.  He is leading us into ruin at breakneck speed, and he couldn’t care less about the Iranian people fighting for their freedom. 

Enough’s enough

Sorry for the sparse blogging of late.  Suddenly summer has sprung into action, and between being outside with my gardens, kids’ activities, weddings, and life in general, and a sudden hearkening back to the sleeping in summer days of my adolescence, blogging has taken a vacation, too.

Not that there’s nothing about which to write; on the contrary.  The Iranian sham election and Obama’s silence on it (as Rep. Pences said, “Reagan didn’t tell Gorbechov, “That wall is none of our business,”) the ever-rising unemployment rate, the still-spiraling economy (despite the stimulus),Obama’s Chicago thug politics shining through in his unjust firing of Americorp IG Walpin, and the state-run media’s upcoming ABC propaganda spot pushing Obamacare.  This last is particularly amazing.

ABC, now known as the “All Barack Channel,” is set to run an hour-long primetime special pushing Obama’s government-run healthcare scheme.  And no, there will be no opposing voices allowed.  Bye-bye to the old golden rule of objective journalism: Always present two sides to the story.  That is not important any longer. 

Again, all this goes back to the main principle of liberty:  If the govt. has too much power, then freedom is diminished.  There are some people out there who have the opinion that Americans will trade their liberties in order to be taken care of (not actually, by the way, no govt. can do that).  But that they will willingly forego individual liberty on the promise of govt.-granted security.  I still have faith, though, that the majority of Americans still feel the life-blood of freedom coursing through their veins, fought for and won by our predeccesors, and that the insidious nature of Obama’s quest for authoritarianism and total control will become too much for them to bear willingly. 

People all across America are waking up.  They see their freedoms being encroached upon, they see their children and grandchildrens’ futures being spent into oblivion, they see the unustainable spending going on and the wasting of their tax dollars, and they’re reaching their tipping point. 

More later…

Proof that Palin’s got it

Some might say that the author of this article is going out on a limb.  I really don’t think he is.  He is right on.  Here is a portion of Valentine’s article, Sarah Palin, the 21st Century “It” Girl, from American Thinker: 

The landscape is now quite different.  There are tens of millions of people who never voted for Obama, telling their friends “don’t blame me.”  There is a growing number who did vote for Obama who have lost their jobs at car dealerships, who have not found work yet even after the massive spending, and there are those who just say “…this is not the change I had in mind.”

Some thought McCain would be the anti-charisma candidate against the charisma candidate and that would work.  Now we may be lining up for the common sense charisma campaign against the nonsense charisma.

The left is telling us something and they are the experts.  They are telling us not to make Palin the conservative candidate because if we do, it will be humiliating.  I agree with them and I take them at their word. 

It will be the undoing of Obama, and it may be overwhelming.

Something that one can usually bank on is that when the Left goes into full attack mode, it means that the person they’re attacking is effective.  Sarah Palin scares the pants off the Left.  She does have charisma, she does draw a crowd, and once they’re there, she gives it to them straight.  Common sense from a politician:  a sorely lacking quality most of the time.  She has dealt with more than many could handle the past nine months, and dealt amazingly well.  Especially given the low-down, dirty, slimy attacks on her own children, which she has handled with class.  (Trust me, if people went after my kids even half as bad as they’ve gone after hers, I’d probably be in prison or something.)

She’s got it, she’s got the moxie to say it, and she’s one of the few doing it.  She’s out making Obama look bad, and the attack-dog media is doing everything they can to destroy her.  Something tells me she’ll be all right.

**Something else that Sarah Palin brings out in the Left is their complete misogyny.   An attractive, smart woman can only be political if she is liberal; otherwise she is “a traitor to her own kind,” brainwashed, self-hating, or worse.  Just as black men and women cannot be conservative for the same reasons in the eyes of the Left.  She is bringing out the truth behind liberalism:  It’s all about identity politics, not the potential of each and every individual.  A good example of this dirty little secret being exposed was NOW’s attacks on Palin for being everything they ever wanted for womenkind.  She should have been their poster woman–except she was pro-life, and conservative.

Jobs, jobs, jobs

The unemployment rate in this country now stands at 9.4%.  This is the sole result of Obama’s failed stimulus boondoggle.  Hopenchange is beginning to wear thin, even for his supporters.  It’s hard to care about “fairness” when you can’t find a job and provide for your family.  Obama is in the process of destroying the US economy and the private sector. 

As for continuing to try to blame his predecessor?  That crutch is rapidly disappearing.  Ed Morrissey writes (my emphases):

Even if we wildly disagree on economics, we agree that Obama will own this unemployment cycle, and soon.  The 10% mark is a psychological barrier that Obama simply cannot avoid.  Even without it, blaming Bush has a shelf life whose expiration date is rapidly approaching.  Bush didn’t spend trillions of dollars in 2009 and promise that it would create “or save” jobs.  Voters will get tired of hearing how many jobs Obama thinks he’s “saved” while unemployment continues to rise.

Obama has been in charge for almost five months and got every single bit of economic policy he wanted from Congress.  If the economy remains mired and debt keeps skyrocketing, people will start to ask what they got for all of their great-grandchildren’s money.  Even a Party of No will look pretty good in comparison under those conditions, and perhaps especially so.

Meanwhile, an insidious little thing known as “Cap and Trade” will result in even more jobs lost, with skyrocketing taxes as well.  And this tax will affect anyone who uses energy.  Which, yes, would be everyone.  Hell, we exhale CO2.  When are they going to start taxing breathing?  (And I’m only halfway joking, here.) 

A YouTube video is sometimes worth a thousand explanations:

Obama on Cap and Trade, in his own words:

Obama’s stimulus and jobs lost visualization:

In this vein, Iowahawk’s latest is in response to the recent LA Times article about “funemployment.”  It just keeps getting better the longer you read it:  Hot New Trend: Carefree Hipsters Go For Funemployment, Starve-cation

“willing suspension of disbelief,” it’s called

Right here:

For maximum puke factor, don’t miss Bryan Williams bow to Obama at the end. 

Wow.

Shirt, below, and many more available here.

300, de Tocqueville, and Obama

This is why conservatives are so damn “mean”.  (Now, if only we had a Gerard Butler/Leonidas.)