Update: I Still Hate You, Sarah Palin

[stevie_d_64]

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The Republicans bring a knife to a gunfight, and lose again.

By David Kahane

One of the most terrifying moments of my political life came last summer at the Republican convention in St. Paul. No, I don’t mean seeing John McCain careering around the Xcel Energy Center like Eyegore in Young Frankenstein, his face frozen in a Lon Chaney Sr. rictus grin as he reached across the aisle to his erstwhile friends in the media and got his hand bitten off. Rather, I’m referring to the aftermath of Sarah Palin’s outrageous acceptance speech, which whipped up the Rotary Club delegates into a frenzy of white-boy fury that not even heckling by a brave Code Pink embed could deter. Truly a fascist classic and one that sent shivers down our collectivist spines.

Even worse was the glaze of horror on the phizzes of the assembled heroes of the Mainstream Media. Andrea Mitchell — yes, the very same Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, whose employer saw no conflict of interest at all when she married then Fed pooh-bah Alan Greenspan — stood there gaping like a frog while the rest of the assembled Finemans and Matthewses and Olbermanns scurried around like roaches when the light gets turned on: What the hell just hit us? For one horrible moment, it looked as if the carefully crafted plans of David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, George Soros, and the Second Chief Directorate, first department, of the old KGB were about to gang agley.

Not only were we offended at the sheer effrontery of McCain’s pick: How dare the Republicans proffer this déclassée piece of Wasilla trailer trash whose only claim to fame was that she didn’t exercise her right to choose? Where were her degrees from Smith or Barnard, her internships at PETA, the Brookings Institution, or the Young Pioneers? We were also outraged that the Stupid Party had just nominated a completely unqualified candidate nobody had ever heard of, a first-term governor of Alaska whose previous experience consisted of a small-town mayoralty. As opposed to our guy, Barry Soetoro of Mombasa, Djakarta, and Honolulu, a first-term senator nobody had ever heard of, whose previous experience had been as a state senator (D., Daley Machine) in Illinois. After eight long, illegitimate, lawless years of &*^%BUSH$#@! tyranny, how dare you contest this election?

And so the word went out, from that time and place: Eviscerate Sarah Palin like one of her field-dressed moose. Turn her life upside down. Attack her politics, her background, her educational history. Attack her family. Make fun of her husband, her children. Unleash the noted gynecologist Andrew Sullivan to prove that Palin’s fifth child was really her grandchild. Hit her with everything we have: Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, taking a beer-run break from her quixotic search for Mr. Right to drip venom on Sister Sarah; post-funny comic David Letterman, to joke about her and her daughters on national television; Katie Couric, the anchor nobody watches, to give this Alaskan interloper a taste of life in the big leagues; former New York Times hack Todd “Mr. Dee Dee Myers” Purdum, to act as an instrument of Graydon Carter’s wrath at Vanity Fair. Heck, we even burned her church down. Even after the teleological triumph of The One, the assault had to continue, each blow delivered with our Lefty SneerTM (viz.: Donny Deutsch yesterday on Morning Joe), until Sarah was finished.

You know what? It worked! McCain finally succumbed to his long-standing case of Stockholm Syndrome (“My friends, you have nothing to fear from an Obama presidency”), Tina Fey turned Palin into a see-Russia-from-my-house joke, “conservative” useful idiots like Peggy Noonan and Kathleen Parker hatched her, and finally Sarah cried No más and walked away. If we could, we’d cut off her head and mount it on a wall at Tammany Hall, except there is no more Tammany Hall unless you count Obama’s Tony Rezko–financed home in Chicago. And it took only eight months — heck, Sarah couldn't even have another kid in the time it took us to destroy her. That’s the Chicago way!

Yes, my friends, it’s once again time to quote Sean Connery’s famous speech from The Untouchables, written by David Mamet — the lecture the veteran Chicago cop gives a wet-behind-the-ears Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner, back when he was a movie star) while they sit in a church pew. “You want to get Capone? Here’s how you get him: he pulls a knife, you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That’s the Chicago way!” If you just think of us — liberal Democrats — as Capone you’ll begin to understand what we’re up to. And we just put one of yours in the morgue.

I don’t know why I’m telling you this, but maybe now you’re beginning to understand the high-stakes game we’re playing here. This ain’t John McCain’s logrolling senatorial club any more. This is a deadly serious attempt to realize the vision of the 1960s and to fundamentally transform the United States of America. This is the fusion of Communist dogma, high ideals, gangster tactics, and a stunning amount of self-loathing. For the first time in history, the patrician class is deliberately selling its own country down the river just to prove a point: that, yes, we can! This country stinks and we won’t be happy until we’ve forced you to admit it.

In other words, stop thinking of the Democratic Party as merely a political party, because it’s much more than that. We’re not just the party of slavery, segregation, secularism, and sedition. Not just the party of Aaron Burr, Boss Tweed, Richard J. Croker, Bull Connor, Chris Dodd, Richard Daley, Bill Ayers, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and Emperor Barack Hussein Obama II. Not just the party of Kendall “Agent 202” Myers, the State Department official recruited as a Cuban spy along with his wife during the Carter administration. Rather, think of the Democratic Party as what it really is: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party.

If you had any sense, you would start using our tactics against us. After all, you have a few lawyers on your side. Sue us. File frivolous ethics complaints against all our elected officials until, like Sarah, they go broke from defending themselves. (David Paterson would be a good place to start.) Challenge the constitutionality of BO2’s legion of fill-in-the-blank czars — none of whom have to be confirmed, or even pass a security check. (Come to think of it, neither did Barry.) Let slip your own journalistic dogs of war, assuming you have any, to find Barry’s birth certificate, his college transcripts, whether he applied to Occidental as a foreign student, and on which passport he traveled in 1981 to Pakistan with his friend Wahid Hamid, for starters.

You might also want to think about interviewing New York literary agent Jane Dystel, who a) contacted the totally unknown Obama in the wake of an adulatory New York Times piece in 1990 and b) got him a $125,000 advance for a memoir that c) he couldn’t write, even after a long sojourn in Bali, which d) got the contract canceled, whereupon e) Dystel got him $40,000 from another publisher, following which f) the book finally came out to glowing reviews and g) Obama fired her. Wouldn’t she have an interesting story to tell?

Of course, you won’t. You’re too nice, too enamored of history and tradition to realize that the rules have changed. Remember, I live and work in a town where, “Hello, he lied,” isn’t a joke; we men of the Left are perfectly comfortable lying, cheating, and stealing — hello, Senator Franken! — in order to attain and keep political power. Not for nothing is one of our mottos, “By Any Means Necessary.” You see, we’re the good guys, and for us the ends always justify the means. We are, literally, shameless, which is why Bill Clinton is now a multi-millionaire and Eliot Spitzer is already on the comeback trail.

In Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, “the fourth rule is: Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.” This is the book that “Reset” Rodham (what ever happened to her?) and BHO II grew up reading and continue to live by. If you don’t understand that that’s the way we see you — as the enemy — then you’re too dumb to survive. Remember that for us politics is not just an avocation, or even just a job, but our life. We literally stay awake nights thinking up ways to screw you. And one of the ways we do that is by religiously observing Alinsky’s Rule No. 4.

Did Sarah stand for “family values”? Flay her unwed-mother daughter. Did she represent probity in a notoriously corrupt, one-family state? Spread rumors about FBI investigations. Did she speak with an upper-Midwest twang? Mock it relentlessly on Saturday Night Live. Above all, don’t let her motivate the half of the country that doesn’t want His Serene Highness to bankrupt the nation, align with banana-republic Communist dictators, unilaterally dismantle our missile defenses, and set foot in more mosques than churches since he has become president. We’ve got a suicide cult to run here.

And that’s why Sarah had to go. Whether she understood it or not, she threatened us right down to our most fundamental, meretricious, elitist, sneering, snobbish, insecure, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders bones. She was, after all, a “normal” American, the kind of person (or so I’m told) you meet in flyover country. The kind that worries first about home and hearth and believes in things like motherhood and love of country the way it is, not the way she wants to remake it.

What you clowns need, in other words, is a Rules for Radical Conservatives to explain what you’re up against and teach you how to compete before it’s too late. Luckily, since I care about money even more than I care about politics, I have just such a book in the proposal stage, currently making the rounds of various publishers, assuming any of them are wise enough to take me up on it.

And, yes, this time it really is personal.

— David Kahane is pushing for a new national holiday to commemorate the destruction of Sarah Palin, and is hopeful that his senators, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, will co-sponsor it, along with Henry Waxman in the House. You can second the motion at kahanenro@gmail.com or on Facebook.

[stevie_d_64]

Now, before anyone gets too upset, understand that I gleened this from another forum I visit that talks mainly about political issues...

And that the author is being satirical, and they are using a pseudonym to write under...

A lot of people over at the other forum didn't get that right away and got a little miffed by the way they thought the article was being delivered...

This is basically what I have been pounding on since 2004...

And it is time for the Republican Party leadership to man up...Start defending the people in office that hang a big "R" behind their names...

I think Sarah Palin did the right thing, and it sends a chilling message to a party (leadership) that has lost too many races over the last few cycles because of a lack of backbone...

To be moral and conservative does NOT mean you have to take it (all the time) in the political arena...In my opinion there is no longer any morals anywhere in politics, so I believe the gloves can come off and we can start bloodying a few noses along the way to getting this country back on track...

Of course, the few Democrat supporters here in this forum are stand up folks on the issue we all hold near and dear to our hearts, and that is to be mutually commendable, and I would go to bat for those folks in a heartbeat...Being on the right side of an issue trumps political party affiliation in my opinion...

But getting back to the Sarah Palin deal...I believe some folks are dead on right about it when they say she might be positioning for a race as a third party candidate...And the time to get that ball rolling is right now, and do it exactly the way she did here...Alaska will survive her not being governor...

So when the dust settles, and we look at our position...What I find extremely encouraging is the fact that we still have our guns, and that it is unlikely we will lose them because of our individual positions on the issue...When the attack come, it is people like Sarah Palin, Suzzana Hupp, Charles Cotton, James Dark and many more of our state Reps and Senators and other elected officials who we can count on to do the right thing, and be politically courageous to stand up and be counted on to help us when the time comes...

She may have left the job, but she'll help continue the fight...

Just my opinion...

[Rex B]

Wow. thanks for sharing.

We need to wake up, folks

[GeekwithaGun]

Wow. thanks for sharing.

We need to wake up, folks

+1

[Locke]

Another Perspective by someone who thinks Palin is doing the right thing.

http://stonezone.com/

Palin's Plan

By Roger Stone

It was 1962. Richard Nixon had had enough. Enough of being called "Tricky Dick, the man no one would buy a used car from." Enough of the elitist derision that had come his way since the Hiss case. He had had enough of the liberal media who consistently held him to a higher standard than his Democratic opponents and poked fun at his lack of sophistication - he being the son of a grocer. So Nixon blew. He announced the end of his career in seeking elective office; "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference." Six years later he was inaugurated as President of the United States.


Sarah Palin
This moment came last week for Sarah Palin and her husband Todd. Sick of the derision of the media for her unsophisticated country ways, her plain speaking and consistently being held to a higher standard than her critics, Palin had had enough. Palin resigned as Governor and, like Nixon, did not reveal her future plans. A follow-up FACEBOOK posting for her legions of admirers was clearly written in her own hand as it is plain-spoken and blunt.

Watching the Washington chattering class pan the Palin moves shows the moronic level of political analysis in the media today. Switch-hitter Dave Gergen, Ed Rollins who bolted his Party to go destroy the candidacy of Ross Perot and then trashed Perot, and Upper West Side reform Democrat Dick Morris who toiled for Ohio lefty, Howard Metzenbaum and Clinton but is today a born again Christian and right-winger, all panned the Palin move. Fools.

In fact, resignation as Governor was necessary to preserve any prospect that Palin could be nominated and elected in 2012 or beyond.

Palin could accomplish nothing more as Governor to burnish her "experience" credentials. Nuisance lawsuits and ethics complaints from garden variety left-wing nuts were costing her hundreds of thousands of dollars and paralyzing state government. Palin's accomplishments as Governor in boom times where behind her. The lot of a Governor today is painful cuts and delivering bad news for the next 18 months. Who needs it?

Palin has the most valuable commodity a Presidential candidate can have - a base. Roughly 23% of Americans and 68% of Republicans have a favorable view of Palin. She alone has this kind of intense following. She alone can fill a large hall or small stadium anywhere in Republican Country. This is similar to the following that sustained Nixon through two defeats and his 'self-destruction' in 1962 to win the White House in 1968.

Like Nixon, Palin needs some rehabilitation to her political image caused by the relentless attacks of the elitist media, the knife-work of the relatively talentless Republican Party pros like Steve Schmidt and her own self-inflicted wounds from the post election period that were born out of inexperience at this level of political combat. Like Nixon, Palin can re-make herself in the controlled environment of television. Instead of being tortured by smug media types like Katie Couric, Palin can demonstrate her better understanding of issues and articulate a case against Obama. She can be folksy and plain-spoken and above all, 'smart.' All hail the Conservative Oprah!

The "New Palin" is crucial to the expansion beyond her base of true believers to be a viable presidential candidate. The obvious place for Palin to re-tool her political image is FOX television. FOX's viewers are Palin's potential voters. It is ironic that FOX president Roger Ailes is the genius TV producer who erased candidate Nixon's flaws in a controlled environment and facilitated the greatest political comeback in American history, is at the helm at FOX.

As Bill Kristol, the only DC based analyst who "gets it" said, the move also frees Palin to "write her book, give speeches, travel the country, and educate herself on some issues." It also frees her to build a net work of fundraisers and supporters throughout the country - many of whom will be her TV viewers.

Palin will also be more in demand as a dinner speaker, fundraiser and campaigner than any other Republican in 2011. She can suspend her TV career and will have a chance to collect countless political IOUs along the way, campaigning for candidates and raising them money and hitting the State Republican dinner circuit. Demand for the "New Palin" will only increase.

Palin's "star-power," charisma, presence and genuineness cannot be discounted. No one can discount her moxie, her energy and her inspirational qualities. Her anti-elite middle-class message can have resonance again when the Obama economic policies likely fail. The Ivy leaguers and Hollywood crowd so high on Obama may be riding for a fall. The media has unfairly labeled her as "dumb." All she must do is disprove this...and she can have sixty minutes each week to do it.

Palin's stunning move guarantees an outsider strategy in which Palin is a "movement" but not a "party" candidate. No decision on running should be made until 2011 and focus must be on image repair. This is a woman who held off 36 year Senate vet Joe Biden in a 90 minute debate. She may just be up to the task.

[stevie_d_64]

As much as I hate to admit it, she would do well to line up on some of the following shows...

Glenn Beck, Hannity, Huckabee, Bill O'Reilly, and Rush...

Git out there and start really getting her message out there instead of wasting time on the alphabet networks...

That dinner speaking circuit would be a good move as well...

Something tells me the Republican Party leadership is not too happy right now...Just a gut feeling...

[Rex B]

As much as I hate to admit it, she would do well to line up on some of the following shows...

Glenn Beck, Hannity, Huckabee, Bill O'Reilly, and Rush...

You can bet all of the above are calling her daily


go Sarah!

[joe817]

Well that was an interesting article by David Kahane, but how does he really feel? (I say that with tongue in cheek).

[DoubleJ]

Something tells me the Republican Party leadership is not too happy right now...Just a gut feeling...

Heh. Good.

[nitrogen]

As someone that didn't like Sarah Palin when she was McCain's VP, I have a few pieces of advice for her.
And this goes for any candidate, really, but especially for her.
(no, i'ts not snarky)

1) figure out what you're going to stand for, then stand for it.
George Bush did this very well, even though the things he stood for I really didn't like.

2) Don't change #1 just so more people will like you.
Obama. 'nuff said. Keep #1 in mind. I may still hate you for it, but be true to yourself and don't forget your base. You can't make everyone like you; at least keep the folks that voted for you liking you.

3) Don't be afraid to get help. Think before you speak.
Hon, you need help when it comes to talking to people. You tend to say stupid things. We all aren't Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton. If you're going to go off script, think about what you're going to say before you say it. Imagine hearing what you're about to say shouted by the news media. They already hate you, you don't need to give them more fodder. Let them hate you for what you stand for, not the dumb things you say.

4) Really mean it when you say "Country First"
Plenty of Democrats and other lefties hate you. Don't get personal. Be above it all. Our country needs that.

[A-R]

..I believe some folks are dead on right about it when they say she might be positioning for a race as a third party candidate...

Any conservative with any name recognition at all who runs as a third-party candidate in 2012 GUARANTEES the re-election of Obama. Just ask George HW Bush and Al Gore about third-party candidates from your own side of the political spectrum.

[Oldgringo]

As someone that didn't like Sarah Palin when she was McCain's VP, I have a few pieces of advice for her.
And this goes for any candidate, really, but especially for her.
(no, i'ts not snarky)

1) figure out what you're going to stand for, then stand for it.
George Bush did this very well, even though the things he stood for I really didn't like.

2) Don't change #1 just so more people will like you.
Obama. 'nuff said. Keep #1 in mind. I may still hate you for it, but be true to yourself and don't forget your base. You can't make everyone like you; at least keep the folks that voted for you liking you.

3) Don't be afraid to get help. Think before you speak.
Hon, you need help when it comes to talking to people. You tend to say stupid things. We all aren't Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton. If you're going to go off script, think about what you're going to say before you say it. Imagine hearing what you're about to say shouted by the news media. They already hate you, you don't need to give them more fodder. Let them hate you for what you stand for, not the dumb things you say.

4) Really mean it when you say "Country First"
Plenty of Democrats and other lefties hate you. Don't get personal. Be above it all. Our country needs that.

I can not disagree with my 'ol buddy nitrogen's comments above. It was if the Repubs didn't want to win this past POTUS contest? You reckon they knew how screwed up the economy and world was (and still is)?

[KD5NRH]

1) figure out what you're going to stand for, then stand for it.
2) Don't change #1 just so more people will like you.
3) Don't be afraid to get help. Think before you speak.
4) Really mean it when you say "Country First"

You forgot one:
5) Don't play second fiddle to a RINO

[bryang]

As someone that didn't like Sarah Palin when she was McCain's VP, I have a few pieces of advice for her.
And this goes for any candidate, really, but especially for her.
(no, i'ts not snarky)

1) figure out what you're going to stand for, then stand for it.
George Bush did this very well, even though the things he stood for I really didn't like.

2) Don't change #1 just so more people will like you.
Obama. 'nuff said. Keep #1 in mind. I may still hate you for it, but be true to yourself and don't forget your base. You can't make everyone like you; at least keep the folks that voted for you liking you.

3) Don't be afraid to get help. Think before you speak.
Hon, you need help when it comes to talking to people. You tend to say stupid things. We all aren't Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton. If you're going to go off script, think about what you're going to say before you say it. Imagine hearing what you're about to say shouted by the news media. They already hate you, you don't need to give them more fodder. Let them hate you for what you stand for, not the dumb things you say.

4) Really mean it when you say "Country First"
Plenty of Democrats and other lefties hate you. Don't get personal. Be above it all. Our country needs that.

Thank you!! Very well said and I could not agree more!

-geo

[mr surveyor]

and never forget what happened to Dan Quayle either. Like Sarah, DQ was a good, solid person. The republican party (note the lower case "r") really embarrased me by letting Quayle get sacrificed at the political alter. Then, again, they let the same happen to Newt. I would like to see the three of them together in an administration...talk about a Reagan Revival....


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