Posted by
Patrick S. Adams on Tuesday, August 09, 2011 8:15:37 PM
This an opportunity to not only defeat socialism, but to defeat
business as usual and crony capitalism as well.
Either Obama’s presidency is over or life as we know it in America ends in
November 2012. That’s the choice. Given how horrible Obama has been as
president, there is no longer a strong expectation that he will win reelection
in 2012. A nation dissatisfied during a time of economic hardship almost always
never reelects the incumbent. It is highly likely that our next president will
be selected through the Republican primary process.
Should Sarah Palin run and get the nomination, many who have had their doubts
or who have allowed themselves to be misled by the lying media will be forced to
make a choice between four more years of high unemployment, high gas prices,
high debt and low national self esteem or the uncertainty that they think may
come with electing the former governor of Alaska. Putting all Palin bias aside
either way, can anyone honestly say based on her record as governor that she
would be worse than what we have now?
Let’s start with dispelling the notion that Sarah Palin has been damaged by
the press and that she is too divisive to win. The time has come to debunk once
and for all the notion that Sarah Palin would be destroyed by the Obama campaign
and the media should she win the nomination.
This notion is preposterous if one believes that if someone other than Sarah
Palin was to win the nomination that they would somehow not be subject to the
same spears and arrows that she would.
Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin at Politico
point out something that we bitter recipients of the 2008 electoral loss already
know: Obama’s campaigns have always been run by street thugs whose strategy has
always favored the politics of personal destruction over the politics of winning
in the arena of ideas. If you think things are going to be easier if Romney wins
the nomination instead of Palin, think again.
“Unless things change and Obama can run on accomplishments, he will have to
kill Romney,” said a prominent Democratic strategist aligned with the White
House.
The onslaught would have two aspects. The first is personal: Obama’s
reelection campaign will portray the public Romney as inauthentic, unprincipled
and, in a word used repeatedly by Obama’s advisers in about a dozen interviews,
“weird.”
“First, they’ve got to like you, and there’s not a lot to like about Mitt
Romney,” said Chicago Democratic consultant Pete Giangreco, who worked on
Obama’s 2008 campaign. “There’s no way to hide this guy and hide his innate
phoniness.”
A senior Obama adviser was even more cutting, suggesting that the
Republican’s personal awkwardness will turn off voters.
“There’s a weirdness factor with Romney, and it remains to be seen how he
wears with the public,” the adviser said, noting that the contrasts they’d drive
between the president and the former Massachusetts governor would be “based on
character to a great extent.”
The second aspect of the campaign to define Romney is his record as CEO of Bain
Capital, a venture capital firm that was responsible for both creating and
eliminating jobs. Obama officials intend to frame Romney as the very picture of
greed in the great recession — a sort of political Gordon Gekko.
“He was very, very good at making a profit for himself and his partners but
not nearly as good [at] saving jobs for communities,” said David Axelrod, the
president’s chief strategist. “His is very much the profile of what we’ve seen
in the last decade on Wall Street. He was about making money. And that’s fine.
But often times, he made it at the expense of jobs in
communities.”
While it is ultimately the right of every Republican voter to choose their
own candidate and vote them through the primary system, whoever the nominee is
will be on the chopping block. As Republicans and conservatives, we cannot allow
the media or the Obama campaign to choose our nominee through psychological
operations. We, and whoever our candidate is, will have to walk through the fire
to get the prize. If we are courageous, and if we dismiss the media in favor of
doing our own research, the Obama smear apparatus will fail.
We can take a chance on having any of the GOP candidates walk through the
gauntlet if we’re strong. The first person who reaches the gates of the shining
city holds them open for all. But consider the idea that the best way to short
circuit the Obama campaign and media lies in nominating a candidate who has
already walked that gauntlet and survived.
Don't let the head to head polls deter you on a Palin candidacy either.
The head to head polls showed Ronald Reagan as the worst candidate to run
against Jimmy Carter. When it came down to crunch time, the American people
weren't willing to go another four years of misery and malaise. The press may
not abandon Obama the way they abandoned Carter then, but the people still
will.
It will have to be argued further, and these points hammered home harder
should Palin win the nomination. But those arguments are there for political
operatives on our side to use in her favor. The path of least resistance to
defeating Obama is Sarah Palin, even if that path of least resistance is just
slightly less resistant than the one any of the other candidates would have to
take.
The regular “Jay walker” on the street doesn’t know Romney’s weaknesses yet
or those of the other candidates. But, they know Palin’s weaknesses. That should
serve as proof positive of how effective a complicit media can be when teamed up
with a gangsta campaign like the one Obama had in 2008 and which he will have
again in 2012 if we let them get away with it again.
Since the media and the Obama campaign have exhausted the playbook on her, a
smear campaign against Sarah Palin in 2012 won’t hold with voters who already
know that a lot of what has been thrown at her was politically motivated. Many
who thought ill of her following the 2008 campaign are rethinking their
positions given the success she has had since then.
The release of the emails she sent while governor and the information
provided in the movie “The Undefeated” is being digested by reasonable people
who may have been misinformed about her record. Not everyone who thinks Palin’s
not presidential timber is a kool aid drinking liberal. Like Ronald Reagan said,
once given the facts, the American people make the right decision every time.
It’s okay for those who may have doubted to come around again. It’s not their
fault. The media lied to them. There's no loss in face for anyone who has a
change of heart about her. She is “the political fugitive” and
the one armed man is David Axelrod. Just as that movie ended, she will be
vindicated.
Run Romney or any other candidate for that matter, and you give the Obama
campaign and the media fresh meat. With new lies based on different events, the
media and the campaign can place fresh doubts in the minds of voters who could
be made to worry about Romney flip flopping, Rick Perry’s positions on illegal
immigration or Michele Bachmann’s headaches. Yes, we can be strong and yes we
can fight it. But it will require new material. Palin’s material is already
written and ready to go.
This is not to say that the primary reason to run Palin is because she’s
already been completely vetted. This is not to say the other candidates aren’t
good candidates or they should be disqualified because of their weaknesses. The
real reason to run Palin is because she is genuine and offers us the best chance
of electing someone who is not beholden to any interest – even if it’s a good
interest like evangelicals or business people. The fact that she has proven that
she can withstand a smear campaign that would have destroyed most other
candidates in advance of their next run is simply a bonus and a nice bonus at
that.
Imagine how great a candidate Dan Quayle would have been if he had been able
to overcome a similar smear campaign against him in the 1992 election. Quayle
was probably one of the most intelligent and ideologically sound conservatives
of his time, yet conservatives were not as aware as they are now of how the Left
and the media have been trying to gain power through thought control.
On paper, Palin should have been as done as Quayle was. The fact that she
risked it all by resigning her governorship so she could spend the next 2 ½
years rebuilding her image, getting her message out to the voters via her books,
her speeches, her Facebook page and her appearances on Fox News is a testament
to her strength and ultimately her presidential mettle.
If anything, it is her ability to still be a powerful figure on the political
stage after all the relentless hits and smears combined with her genuine
servant’s heart that is beholden to no special interest that better qualifies
her to be president over the rest of the field.
Her ability to be where she is now in status is the result of some kind of
amazing out of the box super-human resiliency that is rarely seen in people
beaten down as badly as she was. Anyone who can withstand what she has and rise
from the wreckage to cast the ashes back in their eyes is beyond presidential
material as far as I’m concerned. She is a once in a several generation
phenomenon that just happened to occur statistically sooner than expected given
how recently we had the last one, Ronald Reagan.
We should not look at Palin as a delicate flower or as a candidate that can’t
command enough voter support to overcome a president who is basically leading
America into decline and ultimately into insolvency. Instead, we should see this
as an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. With Palin, you not only
take down the radical socialist agenda of the American Left, you also take down
the business as usual crony capitalism of the center.
In the past, winning elections for the Republicans was an exercise in
defeating liberalism and socialism so that business as usual could continue in
Washington where the political class could continue to enjoy the trappings of
power while the rest of us were relatively unimpeded as we worked hard at our
jobs and businesses. Without the serious threat like the one we have now from a
Manchurian shadow party candidate that is dismantling our entire way of life,
many of the eyes that are on this upcoming election would be looking at other
things instead.
Since it was business as usual that got us into this mess in the first place,
why not just clean house completely? Why not just completely renew and restore
the thing to the way it was supposed to be when envisioned by our Founders?
Stopping the political games of earmarks and special interests used to be an
exercise in futility for the average voter, particularly as long as their
businesses or jobs weren’t be stifled by burdensome regulations or a choked off
capital market the way they are now. In a normal year, RINOs and center right
Republicans are able to win elections and stay in favor with their constituents
because they are a better alternative to liberalism and socialism. Now that we
have a Tea Party, we are finding that we can reject both options in favor of
real free enterprise and a true adherence to Constitutional principles.
This is a rare opportunity for America to change its political system not by
discarding it or fundamentally transforming it, but by changing the players
themselves. By sending citizen politicians and people who will not be corrupted
to Washington, the American people can send a message to establishment Democrats
and Republicans alike that the golden age of the fat cats stuffing themselves at
the taxpayer funded trough is over.
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for those of us who have always
hated crony capitalism to finally become part of a coalition to end it. We can
truly kill both birds with one pull of the lever. We can defeat radical
socialism and crony capitalism by electing Sarah Palin president.
We can defeat socialism with the pull of a lever next to any of the other
candidates’ names (and if we have to, we will). But there will be no guarantee
that we can kill crony capitalism or elitism if we do that. We can risk
returning to business as usual after Obama is booted out or we can begin a new
age in America where the opportunity for prosperity is truly open to all, not
just those who get the wealth redistributed to them or who are affiliated with
mismanaged businesses who just happen to be too big or too entrenched to
fail.
We need the political version of Jesus walking into the Temple and flipping
the tables to get the point across that business as usual is no longer
acceptable and that a new way of doing things is going to take place. This is
not to make any comparisons with the Almighty, but rather more to make the point
that if you want to end the corruption and the nonsense in Washington, someone
is going to have to get peeved off and make it happen. If you can picture any of
the other candidates going in there and flipping the tables better than the way
Sarah Palin would, then vote for them and hope you’re right. As for me, Sarah
Palin is the best bet.
Americans are angry. They are frustrated. Nothing should give us more
pleasure than watching our country being restored while those that have
destroyed it are cast by the wayside, hoisted out by their pants.
Nothing would be sweeter than to watch all those morons who screwed up the
lives of millions of Americans with their elitism, statism, burdensome
regulations and fiscal mismanagement get thrown out into the political street
with their belongings flung behind them. Think about the people up in Alaska who
went to jail because Sarah Palin had the balls to root out the corruption. Let’s
send her to Washington to do it again, this time for all of us.
Read:
As
the liberal light flickers out, ours grows brighter
Obama's
2012 Strategy: Slash and Burn
The Obama campaign may try to make 2012 all
about character. Republicans will cast the contest as a referendum on the
incumbent. I say, how about both? Let's highlight the Obama Administration's
myriad failures on policy (Obamacare, stimulus, debt explosion, unemployment,
downgrade, mortgage bailouts, serial ally alienation, Libya) -- and if his camp
insists on making it a character contest, let's revisit some of the very
legitimate character/association questions
that were dismissed as "smears" and "distractions" from the "real issues" in
2008. This could be a devastating one-two punch: Not only isn't Barack Obama a
successful president, Joe and Jane Taxpayer, he also isn't the cool, smooth,
post-partisan guy that inspired you four years ago. It's time to move on. If
that message penetrates America's collective psyche, Obama is finished.
Even
the Atlantic’s Joshua Green Concedes “Fiscal Improvement Under” Palin Is
“Largely” Why “Moody’s Increased Alaska’s Credit Rating”
Listen to Patrick's World USA Wednesday night 8/10/11 at 11pm ET 8pm PT.
My guests are Gary P. Jackson of A Time For Choosing and Whitney Pitcher who
wrote this blog
post that was retweeted by
Sarah Palin.