There's little doubt that many are disgusted by the subterfuge that accompanied the passing of the "Pelosi Care" bill and now Hary Reid's production of the Obama Mess. If you're like me, you might even feel a tad sick, even after the encouraging signs of revival in VA, NJ and, yes, NY 23, where the GOP lost a battle so that authentic conservatism might win the 2010 war, as it were.
Sarah Palin's Facebook responses to Health Care machinations in the House and Senate, however, are inspiring enough for all of us and remain potent warnings. Her point about America's growing unrecognizability as being downright "chilling" hits the mark. It's the keenest observation of her response and, while it highlights the valid concerns of true conservative Americans, it also embodies our indefatigable spirit of optimism, even in the midst of disturbing times.
When the Democrats hurled this bill through the House like a burning spear and bewitched it through the Senate, they were hoping to underscore one of the things they get wrong, routinely, about conservatives. Namely, they believe that we are "afraid" of change. If I may endeavor to correct that misconception, conservative Americans are not at all frightened by various changes that might shape developments in truly beneficial governance. However, conservatives do indeed have a keen eye for developments that seek to change the very foundational fabric of government itself!
Barack Obama, Speaker Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their attendant legions traverse a deviant and dangerous path that will warp the Constitution enough to essentially "gut" the document. This faction of liberal lawmakers, borne of an atheistic and morally relativist misinterpretation of The Enlightenment, seeks to replace 'The Shining City on a Hill' with...'The Dim Housing-Project on a Landfill'.
Why would liberals wish to enact such a diminishing transformation? Because the Leftist impulse lacks the protective inner-solidity of Character, and Character is an integral component of Exceptionalism. To the liberal mind, Exceptionalism is "unfair" because liberals don't recognize it collectively in themselves, which reminds them that not everyone can have it. And if everyone can't have it, then those who do have it must be taken down and "equalized" until the mediocrity is uniform.
Pretty scary stuff, but, naturally, this doesn't apply to millionaire Democrats who fancy themselves "elite." Therein lies one of the great Leftist hypocrisies. But let there be no mistake: being elite should never, ever be confused with being exceptional, and the fatal mistake made by liberals in this regard is that they fail to see that our nation--by its very existence--makes room for everyone to at least gather under the mantle of American Exceptionalism. Yes, they gather: so long as they bring a flicker of belief in themselves, a desire to work hard, and thanksgiving for the opportunity vouchsafed by the blood of those who fought (and still fight) to attain/retain the privilege.
Our Creator may not have made provision for every human being to be "elite" (Funny how God has never had much use for the elite; If you read the Bible, you'd swear He tends to roll His eyes at them), but He most certainly threw-down a wide variety of tools for Exceptionalism, and anyone can put those tools to good use, if they choose to do so. America is the very manifestation of that reality.
Sarah Palin knows this, but she also knows that we're the only ones who can stop ourselves from throwing it all away. Being American is a privilege, not a guarantee. Like Palin, let's work hard in 2010 to guarantee that it remains a privilege.
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Dec 01
|12:31 PM
Last Updated on Tuesday, 01 December 2009 12:37
According to the Associated Press (and this time I don't think it took eleven fact checkers) Governor Palin's book has sold a million copies in only two weeks:
HarperCollins spokeswoman Tina Andreadis said Tuesday that just two weeks after publication, Sarah Palin's memoir has sold 1 million copies. The print run for "Going Rogue" has been increased again, to 2.8 million copies. The original printing was 1.5 million, then moved up to 2.5 million.
And, its not even Christmas yet! I've only purchased one copy so far but I intend on getting at least one additional copy for a gift and purchasing the Kindle version which will be available on December 24th. Congrats Governor!
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Nov 24
| 5:39 PM
The following was posted on Sarah Palin's Facebook page:
Met many wonderful Americans yesterday in Alabama and North Carolina (including some of our brave men and women in uniform at Ft. Bragg) and today in Florida. I also got a chance to chat with Greta Van Susteren along the way. Please enjoy the photos below!- Sarah Palin
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Charolette
Nov 24
| 1:50 AM
Hello Everyone !!!!
I went to see Sarah at the signing Friday !!!! It was great !!! I was the first one in the parking lot in the morning other than media lol !!! I avoided them then, but they did interview me later twice inside :) When the store opened at 8....we had already lined up at the doors a small line. We already had pre assigned places in line so it wasn't very chaotic , mostly we were worried over parking ect so we arrived very early. Nordstroms was opening in the mall that day, a new store....and it was going to be very tight on parking.
I found a chair in a nice corner to spend my time until they called my line letter A which, was very good. That meant only about a 100 VIPS were in front of the group I was in....
I met Sarah, shook her hand, and of course she signed my book. It was nice, but in comparison to some other signings....lacked in some ways. I don't feel it was as personal as some of the signings were. The way things were done, was lacking. Specifically, they took our books from us and paged thru them several times like we were some terrorists. We didn't even hand her our own books. They took them from us and opened them and laid them flat on top of each other and sort of shoved them down the table to her like an assembly line. It was ummm....sort of cold. All of us just sort of looked at each other ....like umm okay.....
I realize this was to make the line go faster ect...but, the feeling of it....was cold and distant. You would have had to "been there".....not a good feeling. She was gracious of course, but very rushed ....too rushed. I didn't expect a fifteen minute convo....but....it was pretty bad. They showed the pics on the videos mostly of the VIPS...which, I think they let her talk to a tad more than us it seemed. The VIP thing wasnt anything special, you paid more and just basically got in the first group going up to see her. I had LINE LETTER A....which was just behind that group.
We werent allowed to take any pictures in there, first they said no, then yes, then no again when I went and got my camera......so much for that too lol....
When the book signing was done....I went out thinking I could get some pics of the bus. Well, so much for that too.....They had the bus parked frontward sandwiched in between the back of the stores .....a concrete wall on the other side.....a driveway with media in front of the bus......and two cop cars and ropes behind the bus a long ways behind.....with cops congregated chit chatting so you couldnt get a decent picture if you wanted to......Ugggh....
I have seen videos and pictures of other signings....they had beautiful pictures of Trig and they could lean right up against the bus and get pictures and other stuff.....and we really got not much of ANY of that.....
The area wasn't really bad....and I understand security is necessary....but that pertains to EVERYWHERE ....not just here. It just seemed in comparison....that she was more personal other places in many ways.
Don't get me wrong....I love Sarah and it was great meeting her....but, like most Sarah supporters....we all like to compare pictures and stuff....and well.....here in Cincy....we dont have much to show anyone.....so it sort of stinks.....
I was interviewed though by CSPAN 2.....once before the signing and once after.....
Here is the link to that....its 45 minutes of the signing here in Cincy. I am the first interview, the lady sitting, the next lady that is after me.....was a lady that I met in line , one of a group who befriended me while waiting to get in that morning.....we all sort of talked and hanged out till our LINE LETTERS were called....
It was a great time and I loved meeting Sarah.....even though, it did lack in many ways and we dont have much to put in an album or anything to remember the day by ......
Here is the link to CSPAN show....
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/id/215826
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Ed and Mary Carlson
Nov 23
| 4:24 PM
We need Sarah Palin to stand up for us here in New York because the politicians that we have in the Senate and many of them in the House are representing their own agendas. We need a candidate to run against Sen. Schumer. He is totally out of touch with his constituents.
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Ian Ransom
Nov 23
| 1:01 PM
by Ian Ransom
Copright 2009
Going Rogue
Sarah Palin has built a career and well-deserved reputation upon being lost when it comes to "politics-as-usual." The fact that so many people are still too willfully blind to see that Palin is an astonishingly effective politician, however, now makes everything that's happened to this woman since late 2008 deliciously understandable.
That is because Sarah Palin is the most compelling and effective conservative politician of the new millennium, and her memoir, Going Rogue, drives this reality home with all the mammoth, unstoppable force of an Alaskan glacier.
It's not just because of the extraordinary sales figures or even the thousands of frostbite-braving supporters who have already flocked to book-tour appearances. These things are great, but they're on the periphery, in this context. Palin's gleaming "Excalibur," at the moment, is the book itself, and believe me as I explain to you why the book is not to be missed, and far less to be underestimated.
I wasn't able to read Going Rogue right away and, frankly, did not know what to expect, despite my own unflagging support of Palin's conservatism. It was to be her first book. The project had been rushed--considerably rushed. She was teaming with a respected collaborator, but a collaborator nonetheless. All good reasons to expect a product that might indeed miss the mark, or fail to capture the authentic voice and vision of Palin the person. The first sign that I need not worry came when it was revealed that the AP had hired eleven--count 'em!--eleven fact-checkers to tackle a book written by a woman routinely dismissed by their unhallowed association as a lightweight dunce. Conservative commentators initially saw this act as yet another sign of the liberal media's automatic condescension toward Palin, an act of blind aggression in the continued effort to "destroy" her.
Oh, no, friends. No. That may have been part of the impetus, but after finishing 'Rogue' last night, I now realize exactly why eleven AP hounds were unleashed and why Rachel Maddow has been looking more fatally constipated than usual this past week.
Going Rogue is effective. Head-smackingly effective. Dirt-roads-being-paved-with-money-culled-from-budget-cuts effective. Ronald Reagan-shutting-up-a-liberal-heckler effective. Barack-Obama-being-summarily-trounced-in-2012 effective.
This brings us inevitably (and in no uncertain terms) back to the Land of How Can There Be Any Doubt? Sarah Palin not only knows who she is and what she believes, but she demonstrates who she is and does what she believes. Put it on a basketball court. Put it in a salmon fishing boat. Put it in a small-town cabinet meeting. Put it on the stage at a national convention. Put it in a book.
Put it anywhere: Sarah Palin is the realest thing you're going to see in American leadership, which is why liberals--attuned to illusion, enamored of ciphers and abstractions--can't even see her at all. The book is one mighty flex of an arm attached to that particular heaping helping of "real," the latest manifestation of Palin's effectiveness. What tantalized and thrilled me most about Going Rogue, however, was its jaw-dropping shrewdness.
Yes, Going Rogue is most certainly a memoir, and an eminently readable one at that. Formative events, environments, and endeavors are delineated and Palin rewards us with a "picnic-blanket-on-the-tundra" feast that is compelling without being affected, evocative without being egotistical, and loaded with integrity in that her narrative lets the reader draw the self-evident conclusion, instead of the self-serving conclusion trying to "draw" the reader (take that, Audacity of Hope).
Palpability is the order of the day, the week, the year, the month, the sentence, and certainly the very word in Palin's book. The frosty, hardscrabble streets of Skagway are palpable. The "gentle warning" that all families are tested by life's travails is palpable. The self-doubts that come after normal human mistakes are palpable, as are the lessons learned which open the door to victories big and small. All palpable. To this reviewer, the most palpable thing of all about this book--the thing that literally gripped me and made me pause to think about it the most (among dozens of notable things)--was the concept of work. "Concept" doesn't begin to do justice, though, because work is not a concept for Sarah Palin. It's a quality.
This woman's life is about work. Constant, dedicated, relentless, enthusiastic, back-breaking WORK. I have to admit it; even I was stunned. The thing that Sarah Palin knows best, from the irrefutable evidence of her life, is how to work her ass off if she wants to get something done, and how to do so with unfailing optimism and not a shred of entitlement. Not even with a hint of self-aggrandizement! Hard work and uncluttered dedication is a given, for her. It's not a thing needing explanation, and Palin doesn't attempt to explain it. It's like breathing. Take a lungful and move on to the next one. The work ethic that literally leaps from the book's pages applies to cultivating a cherished and well-adjusted family life, to sports competition, to making ends meet, to toting happy kids in a red wagon from door to neighborly door in a fight to build a better town, to digging in one's heels for endless months and seeking to build a team out of mutinous administrators, to...everything.
Truly, if the reader takes only one thing away from this always steady, often moving, frequently funny American story, it ought to be the sobering and expansive scope of hard work that Palin represents in every fibre of her history and lifestyle as person and public servant, juxtaposed against this contemporary liberal culture of snarky disillusionment with work, with our offices, with our output, and with the almost reptilian sense of entitlement.
Man, does this book ever make a shattering statement without having to "make a statement."
That's another potent aspect of Going Rogue. Palin wastes no time with insipidly cerebral circumlocutions about the possibilities of this or that wyrmhole of wonderment. You'll find no unicorns in her book. Plenty of moose. There's not a sniff of fairy-dust. Lots of snow. Beginning with her parents' adventurous journey to the Alaskan frontier and extending all the way through the Governor's mansion and deep into the bowels of the identity-challenged McCain presidential campaign, Palin isn't out to impress herself by communicating through a conceited veil of sophistry, or "navel-gazing," as Rush Limbaugh was quick to pipe. Her story is sensible, responsible, and linear--like her politics. When Sarah tells you how things happened, she tells you how they happened. C happened after B, and B happened after A, and A came about because A is where things begin.
In adhering to a method that favors the logical progression of events and reactions to events, Palin reveals far more of substance and interest than any amount of wistful ruminating ever could. Most effectively, Palin's very specific and straightforward delineations of policy are at the service of her natural narrative, and not the other way around. Her expertise on issues of energy and executive fiscal strategy are powerful not because she's trying to make sense out of them, but because she's already made sense out of them via experience.
More than a few liberal (and conservative) critics have grumbled that the book represents some sort of bitter "payback" to transparently out-of-touch campaign managers Steve Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace, but nothing could be further from the truth. Palin's frustration at being so terrifically mismanaged by the people she trusted (and was expected to heed by the top of her ticket) comes through, but her frustration merits a revealing explanation in an autobiography dealing with events that impacted and shaped (or misshaped) the perceptions of millions of observers around the globe. Here again, Palin recounts what happened from her purview, touches upon her frustration without belaboring any one incident, describes how she moved on--remember, with this woman, there is always more and more work to be accomplished--and she covers this material without bitterness. In straightening the lopsided Katie Couric "painting-over-the-mantelpiece," Palin marshalls transcripted evidence of just how very much was sliced-and-diced to expose the "perky one's" agenda for what it was (Creepy Liberal Ambush). Nicolle Wallace's managerial ineptitude in this department is especially glaring.
At last, this brings me back to the shrewd quality of Palin's achievement regarding Going Rogue. In one fell swoop she has reversed the prior damage done by the vampiric "lamestream" media and has very wisely positioned herself as a Reaganesque "teflon-style" figure on the global political landscape. Her resignation from the Governorship of Alaska--once a catalyst of caterwauling derision--is now crystalline in its emergence as potentially the most brilliant political move of the decade. The decision hearkens back to everything Palin has fought for and come to understand about being most effective at the most important juncture, for what counts the most: American people. Careful and objective readers who may have harbored doubts will pick-up on this in a revelatory flash.
Palin's strength and savvy as a genuine leader is likewise exemplified in the construct of this narrative. Palin knows that she's got the the courage of her convictions, she knows that people respond to courage of conviction because its so rare, and Palin very deliberately uses her courage of conviction to connect with her base. The coup de grace? You can't fault or assail courage of conviction! It's impossible.
Oh, my. Sarah Palin has arrived.
Copyright 2009 Ian Ransom
This review first appeared at www.texas4palin.blogspot.com
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Nov 22
|10:47 AM
When Andrea (tries to) Meet Sarah:
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Doesn't that just say it all?
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Thomas S Schmitz
Nov 21
| 9:00 PM
Last Updated on Saturday, 21 November 2009 08:04
I join with other Americans in professing my support for Gov. Sarah Palin, who has emerged as a dynamic, uplifting, and gracious advocate for conservative ideals in our modern day society.
I also deplore the news media's horribly biased, negative and defamatory coverage of Gov. Palin.
We the undersigned wish to send a message of "thanks" to Gov. Palin this Thanksgiving Day 2009. And we ask those in the news media to look inside their souls and seek out some semblance of objectivity and fairness when reporting on conservative leaders such as Sarah Palin.
Our nation and Sarah Palin deserve better than what we've been offered by journalists who have completely bastardized their trade.
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Nov 21
| 8:06 PM
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Nov 20
|10:17 PM
Last Updated on Friday, 20 November 2009 22:23
The following was posted on Sarah Palin's Facebook page:
The Senate is set to vote Saturday night, right before the holiday, on a motion to proceed on its latest health care government take-over bill. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is pushing for yet another weekend vote (commonplace now for the party of “transparency”) because he knows that the American people will be none too happy about the Democrats’ proposal the longer they have to look it over.A vote against the Democrats’ motion will help stop Obamacare before it gets any closer to becoming a reality. While this Saturday night vote might seem like a procedural matter, at the end of the day a vote against Senator Reid’s motion is a vote against massive new government spending and a take-over of 1/6th of the U.S. economy; it’s a vote against billions in tax increases and penalties; it’s a vote against federal funding of abortion; and it’s a vote against ignoring responsible tort reform.
And in case you hadn’t heard – just a reminder that you’ll start paying higher taxes to fund this scheme in 2010 even though it doesn’t start up until 2014. Only in Washington does that make any sense. Among the provisions in this bill will be a $2500 cap on Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs). The IRS allows families with special needs children to use FSAs to cover educational expenses. This new $2500 cap will hit these families especially hard and cost them hundreds of dollars in new taxes every year.
Contact your senators and tell them to vote against the motion to proceed tomorrow night. The American people don’t support this – we support the commonsense solutions that have been proposed, but totally ignored by (at this point) some out-of-control Washington politicians. Let’s put a stop to Obamacare before it goes any further.
- Sarah Palin
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Nov 20
|10:41 AM
Last Updated on Thursday, 19 November 2009 23:33
These are the chief of staff email addresses of the swing vote senators on tomorrows "healthcare" vote.
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Please take a moment to cut and paste these addresses into an email asking them to counsel their senator to VOTE NO on the "motion to proceed".
Here are some talking points you can use for your Email, mix them up and put them in your own words so everyones Email does not come out the same:
Our premiums will go up not down.
The quality of healthcare will go down.
The employer mandate will hurt low-income workers and will stifle much-needed economic growth. Our country does not need a job killing employment tax at a time of 10.2% unemployment.
Those individuals who do not purchase government qualified health care coverage would be subject to new tax penalties and in some cases jail time.
The Senate and House bills use budget gimmicks and unrealistic savings to make their proposals fit under the $900 billion limit put forth by the President. As history has proven, government health care programs end up costing much more than first promised.
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