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.

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.

I’m not one to be defeatist, but the closest thought that threatens my optimism is the notion that the American people could potentially fail at the ballot box again in 2012 just as they did in 2008. The outcome of the 2010 elections gives me hope, yet considering that Harry Reid and Lisa Murkowski were reelected to the Senate and that Jerry Brown was elected as Governor of California leaves room for angst about what could go wrong in 2012.

Thomas Jefferson believed strongly that a well informed electorate was necessary in order for our system of government to work properly. He also recognized that there would be times when the citizenry would not be well informed. He wrote:

The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty....

Many of Jefferson’s statements would be considered radically right wing by today’s liberal standards. In fact, many of our founders’ ideas are attacked regularly by progressives and undermined by President Obama’s policies. The mere thought that people would be in such open opposition to the ideas of our founders would have been political heresy 25 years ago. Today, this opposition is not only open, it is in power.

Our presidential elections are no longer a national referendum on patriotically based competing ideas. They have become an up and down vote on the actual letter and intent of our nation’s very founding. The fact that we are even talking about the possible reelection of a man who has filled his administration with people who think like Van Jones is just bone chilling.

Alexis deTocqueville may have written about tyranny of the majority, but what about tyranny of the minority. How is it that we ended up with ObamaCare against the will of the people? If he was alive today and asked, he would probably observe that the judicial branch would eventually be the check on that tyranny as well in the same way by overturning it (which it is in the process of doing now). But would he or any of the other great analysts of the American democratic experiment ever foresee its demise in the complete and utter collapse of its very underpinnings and the outright ignoring and dismissal of its foundation documents?

World history shows us a disturbing pattern when examining the rise and fall of global super powers. From ancient Greece, Egypt, Rome through the British Empire, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, history is littered with stories of the rise and fall of powerful nations. The only two countries which have not succumbed to this trend are China and The United States (although The United States is showing signs that it’s next).

China is not the best example of a government which values human rights and affords its citizens a wide array of freedom, but it is an example of how a country that remains true to its historical and traditional roots is able to survive for eons in a world as volatile as ours. If America is to survive as long as China has, it too must remain true to its founding values and historical traditions.

America, though, seems more intent on following the model of ancient Rome where the empire grows to the point of complacency and decadence before losing its nature and status. N.S. Gill writes  :

Many say the Fall of Rome was an ongoing process, lasting more than a century. Since Rome still exists, it is argued that it never fell. Some prefer to say that Rome adapted rather than fell. [For some more details, see Decline of Rome.]

Liberals and statists think big government is good because it can save us from ourselves by controlling our behavior right down to the french fry we eat or the lightbulb we use. But like chemotherapy, government bureaucracy and nanny state laws make no distinction between bad cells and good cells; nor does statism cure the ill it is designed to stop. It is this scorched earth policy of regulating everything for the good of all that strangles our small businesses and eats away at the dollars we earn and the productivity that allows us to earn them.

Jay Clarke at American Thinker gives more examples of how tyranny has grown under Obama:

By definition, tyranny is the "arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power." Whether it's Congressional oversight, court orders, or the American People, Obama is well-versed in circumventing any authority that may seek to limit his acquisition of power.

Though unpopular, unwanted, and un-Constitutional, he rammed a $2-trillion healthcare bill down the throats of an unwilling American people and then defied court orders restricting its implementation. He has violated the War Powers Act in Libya and has ignored court orders regarding his moratorium on offshore drilling.

In a move worthy of any would-be tyrant, Obama has proposed illegally requiring businesses competing for government contracts to disclose their political contributions.

Clearly in violation of the 4^th Amendment, Obama and DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano applaud the TSA's warrantless groping of men, women, children, the elderly, and the infirm during airport screenings that reek of police state tactics.

The Justice Department has gone rogue too, ceasing defense of The Defense of Marriage Act and prosecution of hate crimes when the victims are white. Attorney General Eric Holder refused to prosecute the New Black Panther Party when members brandished clubs, made ethnic slurs, and threatened white voters attempting to enter the polls.

Obama's federal power-grab has expanded into suing and threatening states. He sued Arizona for daring to enforce immigration law and joined a lawsuit against Indiana's defunding of Planned Parenthood. The ATF is pressuring Montana and 7 additional states for passing the Firearms Freedom Act which restricts Federal regulation of firearms made and sold within the states' borders. Obama even threatened to declare the entire state of Texas a "no fly zone" should the Texas legislature criminalize TSA screening procedures.

As a raw, political tactic Obama has refused to secure the southern border while Americans die on American soil at the hands of criminal illegal aliens. Undaunted, lawless Obama used executive powers to enact immigration policies through the back door, bypassing Congress and the rule of law.

When Obama's Cap and Trade carbon-taxing scheme failed in Congress, he simply had the EPA declare carbon to be a toxic pollutant and open to regulation.

There are still too many in the electorate who fear the media perpetrated myths and misperceptions of what a deregulated business environment or entitlement reform would look like under a conservative president than fear the reality of skyrocketing unemployment, the destruction of the housing market and the ever growing dependence on foreign oil at the expense of our ability to create jobs, wealth and security by drilling more here at home.

Defeating Barack Obama in 2012 should not be viewed as having to chop off our leg to save our body. It should be viewed as making a difficult but rewarding change to American life similar to that of an addict who faces his addiction head on, seeks help and comes out a better more successful person. America can be like Glenn Beck or it can be like John Edwards. It has a choice.

Luckily for America, voting trends show that Americans vote their pocketbooks. In 1992, it was the economy, stupid. In 1980, Americans voted against Jimmy Carter more so than they voted for Reagan during that disastrous economy. What’s puzzling, though, is the complicit media and uninformed citizens still believe Obama can win in 2012 despite presiding on what appears to be the beginnings of a depression.

Republicans should use this opportunity to renew and restore its party just as much as our nation has an opportunity to renew and restore itself. If the GOP doesn’t present a gutsy and clear contrast to what Obama stands for, the message will be muddled and the voters will go about the election as if it’s business as usual or become apathetic. It will be important that the Republican nominee articulate the conservative philosophy effectively and renew and restore the party’s platform while exciting the country about solutions that can bring an end to our economic woes.

Despite concerns about the “electability” of some of the candidates, whoever gets the GOP nomination is going to win it because they are the hardest worker, most effective campaigner and has the most energized and enthusiastic base. Regardless of whom the Republicans nominate, if the people don’t recognize Obama’s disastrous presidency as an existential threat to the future of America as we know it, it won’t matter. If Obama gets reelected, you can fold board up and go home. The game will be over.

The Republicans will not lose the election because of who they nominate. The only way they will lose the election is if the American people allow themselves to be duped again the way they were in 2008. We may wake up the morning after the 2012 election and see Reagan-like electoral numbers or we may wake up the next morning and begin our new lives in a declining European socialist-style democracy, learning to live the way people do now in Greece.

It’s imperative that electoral strategy should focus on educating the public on the current state of the economy and linking it to Obama’s radical agenda. Republicans should focus on defusing media myths and convincing the public to do their own research. The only way to make this sale is to make sure the American people know that the media lies.

Choosing a strong, energizing and charismatic leader that can bring the Republican Party back in line with its Reagan roots and the basics of Constitutional government is very important. In the general election, the stakes will be high. Whoever defeats Obama will have to take on the daunting but feasible task of restoring America.

Ultimately, whoever wins the presidential election is going to win it because America is going to make a final choice as to which direction it wants to go in: Constitutional limited government or big government nanny state. Ronald Reagan said that given the facts the American people will make the right decision every time. Let’s hope he’s still right.

Stimulus and bailouts only made the problem worse.

When someone has a drug or alcohol problem, you don’t give them more drugs and alcohol. The idea of “too big to fail” drove our government (as it was transitioning from the Bush administration to the Obama administration) to embark on the TARP program, which basically was the equivalent of giving an alcoholic another drink. Then came Stimulus – more alcohol. Rather than go through the painful steps of detoxification then, we are facing the reality now that rock bottom is nearly here.

By stabilizing poorly run and improperly regulated banks and financial companies, our government took a binge drinking alcoholic and stabilized it temporarily instead of putting it through a tough love detoxification process of controlled bankruptcy followed by the sale of assets to investment groups. The argument was there wasn’t anyone around to buy the assets. Would Henry Ford have built cars if the auto financing market didn’t develop because someone says there was no one around to fund it?

Today, banks and financial markets are stabilized; but at what cost? They don’t lend anymore. You can’t get a mortgage or a small business loan. These institutions have been conditioned by our government’s willingness to mess with the mechanisms of capitalism and the free market system to such an extent that failure is no longer allowed. When failure is no longer allowed, neither is risk taking. The engine of capitalism is driven by success and failure. No one has died from failing in business. Many have learned from their failures and gone on to great successes because of them.

Obviously we have to have safeguards for consumers. Banks and financial institutions should be self insured and governed by certain oversights to prevent fraud and discourage mismanagement. The constipating effect of over burdensome regulation that doesn’t work must be lifted and replaced with more simple, but effective oversight laws regarding how consumer capital is handled. When a financial institution succeeds, its stockholders and executives deserve to be rewarded. When a financial institution fails, its stockholders and executives need to be left holding the bag – not the American taxpayer.

TARP should have been a simple program designed to pay for controlled bankruptcies of failing or corrupt institutions, the creation of an insurance fund to be eventually replaced by private capital (thus creating a market) and to bridge the gap between the value of a home and the amount of the mortgage. The foreclosure problem could have been greatly reduced and the housing market stabilized if the money went to shore up homeowner’s loan to value balance sheets rather than to shore up the balance sheets of the fat cats who ran them into the red while taking million dollar bonuses.

TARP should have cost half of what it did; and it should have been undertaken with the understanding that the government would spend less the amount of the program in other areas. In other words, TARP should have been revenue neutral. There are clearly enough wasteful federal programs to cut to make up the $300 - $400 billion dollars necessary for a real TARP program that would have been a hand up instead of the hand out bailout debacle it became. Instead of checking into rehab and paying for the cost of that rehab, the government binged again thinking that it would spend its way out of its problems.

Stimulus followed. This was an even bigger disaster than TARP. Stuart Varney said on Fox that 39,000 state jobs were lost last month. He also said that up to 100,000 teachers could be laid off because there isn’t enough money to pay them all. In 2009, President Obama supposedly saved all these jobs. He didn’t save them, he just delayed the inevitable.

The states have no more money. The alcoholic has nothing left to drink. There is no drawing on the parents for the child who ran up the credit card anymore. The parents are broke.

Jeffrey H. Anderson of The Weekly Standard points out that the stimulus is now causing us to shed jobs! Robert J. Barro and Charles J. Redlick of The Wall Street Journal told us in 2009 that it wouldn’t work.Veronique de Rugy also supports Harvard’s Barro's position because stimulus programs historically never have worked and that the proof of what would happen to us was in looking at what happened to Japan in the 1990’s and the U.S. during the New Deal. Had the government lowered the corporate tax, capital gains tax and eliminated the death tax permanently while providing an income tax holiday in 2009, our economy would be coming out of rehab today a fiscally sober being with a bright future of rebuilding itself ahead. Barack Obama’s pipedream of America as a European socialist style democracy was about as foggy as the intoxication that drove the media and the America voter to pull the wrong lever in the voting booth in 2008.

For the last two years, Obama has chloroformed our economy and now it’s dead in the trunk of the car with duct tape around its mouth. Will a “jury of American voters” make the same mistake twice and re-elect this guy?

The Democrat Party and the socialist/progressive movement have done everything they can to hide the facts of the case by using razzle-dazzle. They have lied to us about the Tea Party movement, Sarah Palin and the conservative revival that now bubbles in the nation’s underbelly. They have us fearful of electing “extremists” for fear that these “extremists” will undo everything they have worked so hard for. They are right. If Constitutionalism, responsible money management and free enterprise is extreme, we as a nation need to go there and undo everything they have done.

If it isn’t capital murder of our economy, it surely must at least be aggravated manslaughter or at best criminally negligent homicide.

Don’t be fooled by the demagoguery that lurks in the Republican Party either. Replacing Obama with just another Republican, or a generic Republican as the polls suggest, will end the socialism and reckless spending. But it will not do the second thing that any alcoholic knows must be done: seek help from a higher power.

Financial detoxification and fiscal sobriety is an important thing for our country. But going back to business as usual under the old Republican way is only a replacement drug for the one we are trying to wean ourselves off of. Glenn Beck was right when he said we need to renew and restore America. Knowing full well that sobriety is done day by day, those who emerge from programs know that they must rely on a power greater than themselves to stay clean. America must turn back to God. His will must not be clouded by government interpretation or the muzzling thereof of religious thought. 

Those on the left who fear capitalism because they think it is immoral need to embrace the fact that, even if they don’t want to have faith in God, in order for our country to survive someone has to have that faith. A moral people will act ethically in their business dealings. For those who won’t, that’s why we have an attorney general in each state. The proliferation of regulatory agencies and cumbersome regulatory law is the primary symptom of a government that doesn’t know its proper role. Preventing fraud doesn’t mean you choke off the 90% of the good apples, it means you focus your resources on the bad ones.

We are in a modern era where the institution of marriage is under siege and there are a record number of single parent households. This is not just a moral issue; it’s an economic one as well. Accepting the realities of modern life doesn’t mean we need to celebrate it, prop it up or excuse it. It is what it is. No one can tell it to change until we change it within ourselves. People should be free to live and let live. But, we can’t fool ourselves into thinking that big government which rewards poverty with subsidy and punishes success with cumbersome taxation and regulation is the way to preserve families in America.

Limited government, a renewed belief in the family and a thriving private sector are mutual requirements. You can’t have one without any of the others. It’s an economic fact that the smaller the size and scope of the government, the larger the private sector and the more successful families can be by having two people (with an extended family support system) who can combine their efforts at getting through life’s harsh landscape. Proven in reverse, today’s model of big government, broken families and a shrinking private sector stands as the ultimate argument in favor of this fact.

Returning to business as usual means a continuation of crony capitalism – a false brand of capitalism that relies on the lobbying and the legislative process to choose winners and losers based on who you know rather than what you do. Crony capitalism exists under both traditionally Democrat and Republican systems. A truly conservative system with a libertarian flavor almost came into full existence under Ronald Reagan, but was not allowed to take root and grow past the elections of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

It will take the election of a citizen politician like Sarah Palin who has run businesses, regulatory agencies and governments in order to de-institutionalize all the nonsense we have in our system and re-institutionalize in our culture a sense that governing ourselves from the bottom up rather than the top down is the key to restoring American exceptionalism and to providing a perpetual path for growth for future generations.

It will take someone who has already been battle tested and has who survived the ridicule of the Left and the doubters in the establishment to prove beforehand that they have the courage to flip the tables and upset the apple carts that need to be upset in order to clean house so that a new philosophy and strategy can take root. It will take a spine of steel for our next president to make this happen. We can’t roll the dice on unproven candidates or those who have not walked across the coals already.

It is time to wake up, America. The binge is over. Had we had the fortitude to go through the shakes and withdrawal symptoms necessary to fix our problem three years ago, we’d be through the worst part of the pain by now. But because we kicked the can down the road, it’s only getting worse. It’s now or never. Fix it or die.

We are in the beginnings of a depression.

A bump in the road is a short lived event. But when the road is crumbling beneath you, those bumps, divots, soft spots and potholes go on for miles. It will ruin your car if you keep driving. Another analogy is that of a car that’s overheating. When the check engine light comes on, it’s time to pull over and let the car cool off. America, the check engine light is on.

We’ve seen the pictures of President Obama eating ice cream. Well, it’s time for a double dip. You might as well hand the man a Slurpee and get the checkbook out of Timothy Geithner’s hands as quickly as possible. There is a housing crash worse than during the Great Depression, a dollar crash, a manufacturing crash and a job market crash going on right now. Don’t ask Joe Biden to explain this to you. He’s running cover.

The more these men do to try to fix the problem, the worse it gets. Our spiral into financial disaster began when TARP mutated from the book balancing act that should have cost the United States about 1/3 of what it actually did because it was supposed to provide money to help homeowners and banks offset the losses on their balance sheets when the prices of homes dropped below the amount of the mortgage. Instead, homeowners got minimal relief and the program turned into nothing more than an unwarranted bailout for banks and a handful of insurers and automakers.

Just look at a breakdown of $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. That’s a lot of crony capitalism. Notice how small of a percentage went to homeowners or to programs that would bridge the difference between house prices and actual mortgages. The solution never really addressed that problem. Instead, it was an inside job which allowed thousands of mismanaged financial institutions to be propped up because the government was effective in propagandizing us with the words "too big to fail."

The argument has been made that there weren’t enough private investment groups available to do a controlled bankruptcy and sell off the assets to capitalists willing to take the risk of reviving these institutions so they could be better run and operate in a more modern form. But, that’s like saying there wasn’t enough kids available to put together baseball teams for a league because the kids were forced to go to summer camp. Government regulation has all but chased any private money out of the market unless you count recirculation of printed dollars amongst Wall Street investors who continue to be the only people in America today getting or staying rich.

This is not a smack at Wall Street investors. It’s a smack at the system. No one begrudges anyone in America from making money. One likes to hold on to that last shred of hope that we are in some ways still a capitalist system. The problem is they are playing with monopoly money. There is no real velocity of money in the private markets anymore. Most people are living paycheck to paycheck.

This was followed by the Stimulus, which also failed miserably according to researchers at the Harvard Business School. Steven Van Nuys at American Missive:

..we probably didn’t need Harvard to do a study for us to learn that Keynesian stimulus does little to stimulate lasting private sector economic activity. There is already abundant evidence of this- and two recent events prove particularly instructive.

Most significantly, Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package failed to stem the rise of national unemployment. In fact, unemployment turned out much worse than the Administration’s projection of an 8 percent maximum if the law was passed. As we all know, unemployment has been hovering at or very near 10 percent for over a year since the law’s passage. Not surprisingly, a big part of the reason for this is that companies nation-wide have been doing the very things that the Harvard researchers found local firms doing: hoarding cash, holding back on hiring, cutting expenses, and blaming the overall uncertainty caused by government encroachment into the private sector for their behavior.

Whether you have an economic system that hands out money to people who work at unproductive jobs with unproductive companies or you simply cut them a check, the fact of the matter is unless you are producing something or providing a tangible service, it’s socialism. The money isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.

The United States sits on a gold mine in the Gulf of Mexico, the Continental Shelf, in America’s heartland and up in Alaska. It’s called oil and gas. The only way out of this mess is to toss out strangling regulations, get rid of the EPA and its left wing green agenda and drill, baby, drill.

Real wealth can be generated from not only the actual production and exploration of oil and gas, but from the collateral businesses that will result from this unleashing of our industrial giant. The manufacturing sector will be boosted by a need for equipment and the servicing of that equipment. The housing sector will be boosted by the need for housing in areas where workers will have to live. The service sector will be boosted by the need for people to get their coffee in the morning, eat lunch or buy dinner when on or near the job sites.

Instead of raising the debt ceiling, we need to do what households do when their budgets get tight and the debt gets high. We need to spend first on the essentials of government, service the debt and start from a zero sum budget on whatever else is left over. Whatever we can't afford of what's left over needs to be reformed; and we need to call on the states and the private sector to step in where the federal government is no longer able. We need to go to a two tiered flat income tax structure, cut corporate taxes, eliminate the death tax and create a 5% fair tax on consumption in a way that works toward lowering the amount of our GDP that is taxed by the time we balance our budget. Tax increases are out of the question and should be off the table. We must eliminate burdensome regulations. America can reward itself after it pays off the debt and the balances the budget by reducing or eliminating the consumption tax or by reducing flat tax rates.

This is not rocket science! But it’s a shame that our so-called “great financial minds” just sit there scratching their heads trying to spin their inability to solve the problem when the solution is as plain as the nose on their faces. I'm just a blogger. How come I get it and they don't? There's a lady in Alaska who calls it common sense. This is something the elites, the Egberts and the bookworms know nothing about.

America is the frog that has slowly been boiled to the point where leftists, radicals and socialists now occupy key positions of financial decision making. These people are resistant to anything that they believe are not environmentally sound or which in their Marxist minds creates a disparity between the rich and the poor. Their attitude is if it doesn’t work, subsidize or stimulate it and if it does work, redistribute it. No capitalist in his right mind is going to play in that system. There's your depression and there's why you see jobs falling off the table to the tune of over 400,000 a month.

It’s time for the frog to jump out of the pot and do something about the hand that turned on the stove. Nothing short of a lawful reverse Bolshevik revolution will do here.

There is no civil discourse that can replace the fact that all these people who have overseen the financial collapse of our nation have to go. This means President Obama, too. He is incompetent. If he’s not incompetent, then he’s complicit. Either way, the fish stinks from the head down. The time to fundamentally restore our system is here. We cannot wait any longer.

By this time next year, the dollar will be worthless, real unemployment (not the bogus numbers the Department of Labor keeps putting out) will be higher than it is now and millions of more people will be out of their foreclosed homes. We are in the beginnings of this depression now. We will need to analyze the upcoming quarters to tell for sure, but we know that GDP is dropping and unemployment is rising past the top edges of what would be defined as a recession.

The media won't tell us this because they are covering for the loser in chief who simply won’t do it right. Someone give President Obama and his people a coloring book and crayons. Sit them in the corner so the grown ups can take over and get these problems solved.

We can no longer be tolerant of having leftists, socialists and radicals in charge of our economy. This is not a time for civil discourse or business as usual where the two parties take turns in power so that each set of cronies gets a crack at it. We must demonize the type of people who are in power now and who are responsible for America’s great decline. Yes, that’s right. We must do whatever is necessary within the law to make sure that America knows who these people are, what they've done and why they need to go.

Time is running out. It will only be when liberals, leftists and those in the establishment on both sides of the aisle who are responsible for the mess we are in lose their jobs that the rest of us can start getting ours back.

Liberals whined about Vietnam, Gulf War I and more recently Iraq. There are legitimate arguments to be made as to when and why we should or should not be engaged in military conflict. Yet, there is the intellectual honesty thing which makes Republicans more willing to go along with actions like those taken by Bill Clinton in the Balkans and now Obama in Libya. It’s called not tearing down our figurehead on the world stage. America’s interests should always trump partisan politics here at home.

Liberals on the other hand will go out of their way to sabotage a war effort just to force the results to comply with their ideologically pre-determined outcome. Honestly believing that victory cannot be achieved is a far cry from manifesting that it will not be achieved. This is what separates honest thinkers from demagogues.

When liberals bogged down the war effort in Iraq and the Bush Administration moved cautiously to try to find out why we were still taking casualties long after “mission accomplished,” it would have helped if liberals would have pointed out that Iran was fueling the insurgency, basically fighting a proxy war against the U.S. Instead, liberals like Joe Biden threatened to impeach Bush if we took military action against Iran. As a result, American soldiers were killed.

It wasn’t until the Administration implemented the surge that things turned around in Iraq. Being hawkish on foreign policy does not make one a war monger. It makes one safety-conscious on behalf of the troops. It’s a no-brainer that if you inflict more damage to your opponent as opposed to less, there is a greater chance they can’t inflict as much damage on you.

Even Obama’s reluctant approval to send more troops into Afghanistan has had a positive effect. While casualties increased in the theater under Obama, one must be intellectually honest enough to say more action means more casualties. Rather than turn around and point to the body bags yelling “see, see” the way liberals do, conservatives understand the sacrifice being made and would rather err on the side of more force (let’s take a commando raid that kills bin Laden for example) in order to cut down on the number of casualties rather than to lessen force which emboldens the enemy by giving the appearance of weakness.

The bottom line is that Obama has no coherent policy when it comes to which freedom fighters to back. He turns his back on Iranian and Syrian freedom fighters while backing groups with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood in both Egypt and Libya. Now, serious problems are arising in Yemen. The issue is not whether or not the president has the right to use military force (former Reagan Justice Department attorney Mark Levin, a hard line opponent of Obama even admits that the War Powers Act is constitutionally questionable), but whether or not he is implementing the correct policy in the region.

Libya is a just a moving part. Qaddafi is a brutal dictator responsible for the lives of those killed in the Lockerbie bombing and was in the process of killing his own people during the current uprising. Taking him out is not a bad idea. However, in the bigger picture of things, stopping the advance of radical Islam is of utmost importance and should be our top foreign policy priority in the region. Clearly, Obama either doesn’t understand that or he simply doesn’t want us to stop the advance.

We can’t be isolationists; but we can’t be the world’s policeman either. The question should not be why Libya and why not Yemen? The question should be how do we effectively oppose a Califate much the same way we opposed advancing communism under Reagan? In this sense, we must articulate a much broader foreign policy position as it relates to the growing threat radical Islam poses to the West rather than to simply just allow regimes to topple or to assist in that process because some liberals have humanitarian concerns.

It’s funny how the anti-war movement is silent through all of this. It proves my theory all along. There was no anti-war movement. It was really an anti-Republican movement.

Before Sarah Palin emerged on the national seen as John McCain’s running mate, the future of the Republican Party and the future of the country were grim. She energized the base and excited people, many of whom are still her followers to this day. Since 2008, many have stood behind her, fighting off the enemies in the media and the blogosphere. They have had her back. They have been waiting for 2012.

Republicans and conservatives have been wandering through the political desert in exile for two and a half years. They now enter a dark forest hoping and praying that they can find their way to a renewed and restored America. Some are not sure yet who to follow or fight for. But, for others, Sarah Palin has been the voice in the wilderness that has kept the belief alive that the conservative movement could take back America.

The Palin following didn’t pack it up and wait four years. They hung with her every step of the way, every day of the way. Since the day after Election Day 2008, time marches on for an army that looks north to the future.

The visible members of the Palin army are an impressive group. You see them on Twitter, Facebook and in the blogosphere. They follow each other. They are fans of each other. And, they are friends to each other. Then there are the invisible members. These are the ones who will come out of the woodwork should she announce a presidential run. Some are already committed. Others are waiting for her to commit. But, make no mistake, those who may keep it toned down on the cocktail party circuit will be out like wildfire should she announce.

They sit and wait, cleaning their rhetorical weapons. It gets harder for them to keep their powder dry with each passing day. They watch Republican candidates announce, debate and lay groundwork. They see shades of their beliefs in each of the candidates, but not one embodies the full power and gusto of a Sarah Palin.

As the American economy crumbles under Barack Obama, it’s easy to lose patience knowing that there are still 18 months between us and any real policy changes that might lead to the all out oil and natural resource development and return to fiscal sanity that this nation needs to avoid insolvency. Asking Sarah Palin to lead us back to that Shining City on a Hill is a huge request. Knowing this, her army will have to do all they can to help. It’s the least they can do for her if she decides to accept.

When she writes an op-ed, speaks on Fox News, writes a Facebook note or sends out a tweet, her supporters stand before her not as lemmings, sycophants or hypnotized adorers; they stand before her as an army of patriots in full agreement with her on where this country needs to be led. She is one of us. She is of us. Yet, she is so much greater than us because of how many hits she had to take and the unbelievable amount of crap she’s had to deal with. If it had been anyone else, they probably would have said screw it and went home.

The Palin army formed because so many of us were outraged at the number of attacks that just kept coming after the 2008 presidential election. We wanted to rhetorically wring the necks of those who continued to push lies, smears and false innuendo toward her. Yes, Sarah has taken a lot of arrows for her army. But, those of us who want her to lead us back to greatness would gladly take them all for her if we could.

Being bloodied by the press and a barrage of false ethics complaints was the symbolic low moment of her governorship when she told us “politically, if I die, I die.” Watching her rise from the ashes like a phoenix, a sole survivor, and grow into the behemoth she has become today is triumphant.

Her supporters have followed their leader through a vice presidential campaign damaged by a lying media and a governorship cut short by harpies and whiners – dead butt disillusioned crybabies who will never lead anything more than pity parties and who will do all they can to tear another person down so that their inadequacies are made less by relativity. (How they hate the fact that she makes millions writing books and giving speeches. This was not supposed to happen. She was supposed to be living in a trailer park raising Levi Johnston’s son while he went on to live the high life in Hollywood.)

The fact that she is who she is today is a testament to her strength and the loyalty of her supporters. These people did not jump ship the day she resigned as Alaska’s governor. They stood up for her. She asked them to trust her and they did.

Despite what the polls or the media say, this is a story of an extraordinary woman who has been conditioned for leadership like none other in our lifetime. This alone not only qualifies her to be president, but is representative of the true belief that we should be led by those who have earned it with the sweat of their brows and the political blood and tears they have shed. If Americans can’t see that in time, it will probably be too late to save the country.

Every time someone struck her or smeared her, we wrote. Her army saturated the internet. They blogged, tweeted and formed Facebook groups. No shot at Sarah Palin went without a swift and effective response. This army was once a rag tag group of people who would battle for her in the comment sections of articles and in letters to the editors of newspapers. They loosely assembled as members of Team Sarah. From there, they opened up their own blogs and spring boarded onto the pages of Conservatives4Palin, the Breitbart “Big” sites and gained places at the table across the culture and the conservative media both new and old.

Organize4Palin is now on its way to building legions of the brave who are establishing footholds in each state with the mantra “boots on the ground.”

The army has come a long way and continues to become better organized every day. All Sarah has to do is give the word and they will spring into action. They will take no prisoners and will not bow to any union thug, communist, socialist or jihadist who tries to intimidate them or get in their way.

Yet, she makes us wait. Throughout the camp there are whispers. Some are starting to doubt because she’s waiting so long. Others are even more certain that she will run. Palin supporters are existential rainbows in the dark who await the word of their leader. They wait for the light in a political world that has been dark for over 2 ½ years.

The political science degree and the textbooks are no help when trying to analyze an unconventional candidate. The answers were not in the political science textbook when she resigned as governor. Only Sarah had the answers, which she gave us in her speech and Facebook post. We are at another “trust me” moment. Again, only she has the answer. She will tell us when she is ready.

Some may grow impatient. Others are waiting for her to commit before they commit. Her diehard supporters want her to run. There are so many who are hungry for her leadership and willing to do what it takes if she does run. We chomp at the bit. Every time we watch another candidate announce, we wish it was her. But we know one thing about her. She is unconventional. She is different. She is unique. She has to have a plan.

She tells Martha MacCallum it’s too early. As I watch some of the GOP candidates stumble coming out of the gate, I wonder what’s up her sleeve?

This isn’t the first time we’ve had to put blind trust in Sarah’s wisdom. It’s okay to wait if that’s what she wants us to do. She has never let her army of supporters down yet.

What if President Obama gets Osama bin Laden, cuts spending and unleashes our industrial giant by opening all-out oil exploration and production here at home? He wins reelection.

So far he’s done only one of those three things. It doesn’t look like he’s about to do any of the other two. But if he does, America wins.

Once decried as the “bumbler” in chief, Obama showed some serious national security chops when he signed off on the mission to kill bin Laden. Questions still remain on Libya policy as well as the overall Obama doctrine in that part of the Middle East where clear objectives are not articulated and the civil war in Libya grinds slowly while other nations in the region destabilize. But, the mission in Pakistan shows that the President sits atop a powerful and highly capable military-intelligence complex that when used properly yields swift and effective results.

Cleaning up the mess in the Middle East will require policy shifts in a fashion similar to those made in order to kill Osama bin Laden. Senator and presidential candidate Obama wanted to close Guantanamo Bay and discount intelligence obtained from enhanced interrogation. Yet, he kept Guantanamo open and relied on information obtained during the Bush years to give his presidency a much needed shot in the arm when he gave the order to raid bin Laden’s compound.

Reality trumped ideology. America has been searching for bin Laden for nearly ten years and Obama has been searching for a good moment in his presidency for the last two and a half years. It worked out well for both Obama and America. When that happens, it’s a good thing.

Americans prefer reality based policy over ideological dogma. When the facts on the ground conflict with ideological theory, the one who goes with the facts on the ground usually wins (the killing of bin Laden being case in point number one).  If he broke from his tax, borrow and spend economic policy positions, cut spending and embraced ramped up oil production domestically, he would be tough to beat in 2012. But if he did that, it would be good for America.

When conservatives criticize the President for health care reform, the Stimulus Plan, wanting to raise the debt ceiling and hindering domestic oil production, these are not the arguments of political opponents who are simply looking for excuses to defeat him. These are legitimate criticisms at a time of high uncertainty about our nation’s financial future. Obama’s policies have brought our nation to the brink of insolvency.

You can rest assured that if Obama cuts spending, removes the obstacles to production (particularly oil production) and implements policies to stabilize the Middle East, he will defuse the criticism of him on these issues much as he has defused the criticism of his efforts in the War on Terror by killing bin Laden. But he won’t do that. He thinks by killing bin Laden he will now have a mandate to call for unity and use that as the argument as to why we need to continue on our wayward spending ways. Liberalism is ruthless, but it is unreasonable.

 Conservatives are reasonable and intellectually honest to boot. They won’t beat on a president who acts in their favor and in favor of the country. Conservatives don’t change their stripes because the political landscape changes.

Liberals fiercely attacked George W. Bush for his aggressive military and intelligence policies, turning on him and the best interests of the country after 9/11 when the world needed to see a united front from us. Liberalism gave us anti-war protests and anti-nuke protests which have hampered every president since Lyndon Johnson from effectively conducting foreign policy and trying to defeat enemies whose morale is easily boosted from watching images of Americans tearing down their own on TV.

These people have proven themselves to be doves and pacifists of convenience. When they were able to defeat the conservative movement and finally elect a true liberal, suddenly the protests stopped despite a ramping up of military efforts in Afghanistan, aggressive military operations in areas where piracy is an issue, a military assault on Libya and now the attacks within the sovereign borders of Pakistan with predator drones and Special Forces. They really were never anti-war. They were just anti-conservative.

When “their guy” used the type of military force that they were once so quick to rally around flag burning ceremonies to decry when a Republican was in office, their protégés - the liberal students of today –  poured out into the street in front of the White House to suddenly become these great flag waving patriots celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden. For a moment in time, these students got to feel the pride and thrill of what conservatives feel every day whether in power or out. But, put a Republican in the White House and watch these liberals flip back to being angry protestors that call out American imperialism.

So we move on to the business at hand. We still have an economy to fix. For those who think that it’s a lock for Obama to win in 2012, think George H.W. Bush. Bush, Sr. was a highly effective military leader who won Gulf War I and earned over 90% approval numbers from the American people. He lost his incumbent presidency to Bill Clinton because of – you guessed it – the economy, stupid.

Americans have short memories. Americans will forget bin Laden if they still have to struggle to pull together the money they need to put gas in their cars and do their food budgets come election time. If the economy continues to go in the direction it is going in now, Obama can still be defeated.

There are some who think we should cancel the election now that Obama got bin Laden. Not so fast. Patriotic conservatives need not fear losing in 2012. Obama’s not going to change. But, if for some reason he does and can fix the economy and get the rest of our foreign policy on track, we still have our principles. We are Americans first Our flag never burns. It waves whenever whoever is in there does the right thing.

America is not a stupid country. Ronald Reagan said that given the facts, the American people make the right decision. A poll just released, though, gives one pause to think. While one never bases an irrational fear on just one poll, it provides food for thought and something to look for in subsequent polls. Given the state of the economy and foreign affairs, it would be an anomaly worth analyzing should Obama win reelection if the circumstances remain as they are now or worsen come 2012.

America made a mistake in 2008. They elected a president who had a very shallow history and no executive experience. The decision was based in part on standard political science – the voters vote the party in power out when the economy is down (we had the financial crisis, a recession and unemployment that was trending up) – and in part based on media myths which glorified Obama without question while piling on McCain as a continuation of the Bush era (not to mention the complete deceit of the American public when it came to the person of Sarah Palin).

But that vote does not make America a stupid country. The next one could. Ignorance is making a bad decision without all the facts. Stupidity is when you have the facts and still make the same bad decision. We can grant the American electorate dispensation for mistaking the media as being truthful and having faith in Obama’s words about hope and change. But now that we know the media lies (and, when you look at Obama’s campaign promises, so did he), it would simply be ludicrous to give him four more years.

To reelect a president that many believe is either incompetent or intentionally collapsing our system at a time when unemployment is high, inflation is high, the national debt is high, deficit spending is high and our foreign policy is in disarray would be sheer stupidity. The American people reserve the right to vote for what they want; and if they want progressive redistributive policies that will bankrupt our nation, they can certainly have that with the flip of a lever or a push of a touch screen.

The Republicans must be very careful in how they frame the entitlement debate. Those who need to fear losing their benefits are the young and those who will be retiring twenty or more years out if our country goes bankrupt and the existing system is not reformed. Those who are receiving or about to receive Social Security and Medicare need not fear. This is what the GOP must communicate effectively.

Normally, elections are a debate of choices which are supported by facts. Each party articulates an agenda and provides supporting facts to convince the voters which to vote for. This election will different, at least from the Democrat side. In order to convince the American people to vote for them and to reelect Obama, they will have to hide facts rather than provide them. They will have to convince us why after stimulus, health care reform, high unemployment, high gas prices and high inflation that they deserve reelection. Can they really convince us that this is the hope and change we can believe in?

It will be up to rational thinking Americans to come to the conclusion that the path we are on is leading to our destruction. History could look back on our little experiment and laugh at how stupid our country was that we allowed a movement of Utopian socialists to steal the American dream from us by placing doubts in our minds through use of a complicit media. Or it could look back on 2012 as the moment we saved ourselves at the last minute, picked ourselves up, confronted the pain required to undo our addiction to big government, and remade the capitalist system into what it was originally intended to be.

This is our last stand.

Obama announced his reelection bid today, so now it’s time to defeat him.

Want to get a liberal mad? Tell them that Obama’s a failure. No one hopes for failure. But, when you tell a liberal the truth, they think you’re hoping for Obama to fail. The more they hear it, the more disheartened they will become. The more dissent and dissatisfaction the public sees directed toward Obama, the better our chances are of convincing the people not to reelect him. The key to a GOP victory in 2012 is being loud enough so that everyone hears us above the droning of the media and the big money of Obama’s upcoming campaign.

Conservatives have learned the rules for radicals, understand the media better now, have organized Tea Party rallies, successfully supported candidates in 2010 and are exploding in numbers in the blogosphere and the social sites. The tactics of the Left and its marching order media are being countered with a new conservative media. The proliferation of sites like the Breitbart sites, the Daily Caller, the Blaze, Conservatives4Palin along with the increasing amount of traffic to sites like The Drudge Report and National Review Online tells us that the conservative movement is alive and growing.

So how do we win in 2012? We look to the Constitution, the principles of Lincoln and Reagan and to our communities for the values and the philosophy upon which our platform can be based. We also look to the liberals who gave us the playbook in 2008. Scrubbing off the grime and restoring the shine to the city will require that we get our hands dirty. As Barack Obama once said, it’s time to get into their faces. It’s time to act now and put forth a positive patriotic campaign. It’s also time to stick it to the Left with mockery, harsh rhetoric and strong attack ads which use either outrage or humor.

Tweet something about how many more people are on food stamps or how the unemployment numbers are higher than what the government is telling us then sit back and watch the backlash you get. Tell an Obama supporter that inflation is coming and laugh as they get personal with you because they can’t argue the actual issue of the inflation numbers themselves. Let’s frustrate the liberals. Don’t be afraid to “Palinize” him. It’s Urkel’s turn to be the butt of America’s jokes.

It’s time to mock him, the way his supporters mock us. It’s time to point out that labor leaders think they can suck off the taxpayers’ and union dues payers’ teats to keep themselves in power while extorting the American middle class out of millions of dollars so they can pad their pension plans. It's time to ask union protestors who knock the cameras out of women's hands why they did it. It’s time to paint Chuckie Schumer and the DNC as extremists, bought and paid for by George Soros and the immoral minority of secularists, socialists and jihad sympathizers who think there should be no morality or ethics in political life.

Remember how they Astroturfed to make their numbers look bigger? We can do that to them, too. Only our grass is real and it grows from the root on up. Write letters to the editor. Leave comments on articles all over the web. Join forums. Friend like-minded people on Facebook and Twitter. The “revolution” which will restore and renew America is coming. Be a part of it.

Once we demoralize them enough to knock them off their game, we need to come in with the one thing which will make that final blood vessel blow. Who do they fear the most? Who do they hate the most? Who is our loudest voice? Get them furious. Make them lose control of themselves. Watch them flail as they can’t argue with facts and reduce themselves to sniveling personal attack artists. This will make them ready for their political aneurism. This will make them ready for President Palin.

What gift should we give to those who’ve made our country suffer for four years? We shall give them eight years of Republican rule. Fret not conservatives who may hate the game but who are forced to play it. When we take it back, the grown ups will be back in charge. We will own the board again; and we will make the rules again. This our last chance to save our country and bring back civility and decency to American politics. The "children" will whine and cry the whole time, but that’s what they do anyway. They are liberals.

Sarah Palin’s trip to India and Israel is a great opportunity for her to boost her foreign policy credentials, solidify future potential alliances, learn more about the issues by engaging directly with the movers and the shakers and develop relationships which will be important to her should she become president. But, it’s also an opportunity for those who are enemies of America to size up a potential opponent; and if you are a Muslim extremist bent on establishing Sharia law worldwide, Sarah Palin represents a serious threat.

Because liberalism and elitism in both major political parties here at home are protecting their own interests, not enough is being understood about the role Palin would play on the world stage should she become president.

Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher experienced the same issues along their ways. They were seen as lightweights from the uneducated classes that couldn’t fully grasp the complexity of things like détente, global interconnection, the complexities of intelligence gathering and the concessions that had to be made in order to keep people safe – even if it meant toning down rhetoric or letting a domino country or two fall. They weren't unintelligent. They appeared unable to grasp the complexity of these things because they didn’t accept the premise behind these things in the first place.

Opponents of Reagan on the Left and in the GOP establishment saw a cavalier cowboy who might say something inflammatory enough to cause the Soviet Union to go to war with us. They operated from the premise that we could be scared but the Soviets were too cold to fear us. Reagan knew defeating the Soviet Union wasn’t going to come from pressing the button and throwing the planet into World War III. He knew that defeating them required us to have a set of convictions and be willing to stand up for those convictions in much the way a child stands up to a bully.

You can put all the greatest political, intellectual, military and diplomatic minds in the country into a room and have them overanalyze any issue. In their great complexities and in their deep thinking rooted in years of education and research, you will find one difficulty with their methodology. “We win, you lose” is too simple a concept for them to grasp.

This is not to say people shouldn’t be educated and shouldn’t analyze problems. This is to make the point that in any competition or conflict, the ultimate underlying meaning is winning is everything. One never wins out of weakness or fear, but rather out of primal brute strength. Calling out an “evil empire” or demanding that its leader “tear down this wall” may sound provocative to “trembling tigers” that are comfortable in their positions of power on what is now becoming a rocky boat, but it’s a language better understood in international power politics than it is in our domestic language of civil debate.

You earn the respect of your enemy when you demonstrate the ability to stand up to them and defeat them. Getting together, holding hands and singing Kumbaya may work in the feel good confines of Berkeley, but it’s a completely foreign language to forces outside our bubble of Constitutional democracy. The only language they understand is force; and if we don’t speak to them in that language, they won’t understand us.

Force can be defined as political, economic or military. But the fact of the matter is you don’t communicate with people who are using triggers, detonators and suicide bombers by calling a meeting.

There are too many people in America who don’t understand that there are millions of Muslim extremists throughout the world who want to destroy us. There are too many people in America that don’t understand that these people are already in the process of establishing a world caliphate. If we wait for the “plane to hit the building” this time around, it may be too late.

Once again, it’s not the complexities of the situation that disqualify people like Palin the way the elites would have us believe; it’s her unwillingness to accept the premise that really drives them nuts. Just as it was with the Soviet threat, the idea of peaceful coexistence or curling up into a ball and only attacking them if they attack us are still being seen as viable options against Muslim extremism. Coexistence and isolationism didn’t get us out of the Cold War; and these will not prevent a worldwide caliphate either. “We win, you lose” is the only way to stop them.

When it comes to the language of international power politics, you must remember that the world does not operate under a civil democracy where disputes are settled in courts. It’s a wild frontier out there with armed maniacs willing to die for Allah. It’s not about being scared of them. It’s about understanding their language so that we can communicate with them. Their language is brute force. Until we learn to speak that language fluently, we will always have problems relating to a world that doesn’t relate to us through our prism of civility and a naiveté that assumes they value life the way we do.

When Sarah Palin uses mama grizzly imagery, she is talking about the primal condition of nature. Here in America, we are civil human beings. But out there in the world, a lot of those people are just animals. She understands the language of international power politics. In fact, she's fluent in it.

The elites and the liberals in America may worry that she will rock their little boats and upset their little apple carts, but they can take solace in the fact that this country will still be a familiar enough place for them to survive in if she does win the presidency. One cannot say the same should Obama win a second term.

Watch how we react when the electricity goes off or if there is no food in the store. They say you can’t release domesticated animals into the wild because they won’t survive. Well, we humans better realize that we, too, have been conditioned like domesticated animals. Our problem is we are spoiled as a nation. See those folks over there in the Muslim world? The extremists don’t have that problem.

Americans are easily distracted by Charlie Sheen, Jersey Shore or Desperate Housewives. While entertainment is fine, let’s not short change ourselves on keeping an eye on our country. Many are caught up in the pop culture and get their news in sound bytes from a very biased media.

This may at first seem like not a big deal, but it’s crucial to an educated citizenry in a democracy that people know that someone like Sarah Palin is out there discussing real threats to our country and raising alarms regarding our current leadership while the media lies about her, distorts her image and doesn’t cover the substantial stuff so they can get us to believe that she’s a lightweight. It’s also dangerous to not know that Muslim extremists are looking to impose Sharia law on the whole world while the media paints a picture of them as just a bunch of terrorists who can’t do much more than blow up car bombs while steering us away from the “M” word.

This is serious, folks.

The lame stream media won’t touch the Palin Doctrine or call Muslim extremism what it really is. They’re afraid people might start listening to Palin and take her seriously.

The media lives a double life of lies by propping up the incompetent president they helped get elected while desperately hiding the truth about Sarah Palin because they know her message could get her elected in 2012 at the expense of their poor chosen one. Listen to Sarah Palin’s 2008 VP acceptance speech and compare that with Obama’s message of hope and change. Is what we have going on right now in America and in the world the hope and change that some of you voted for?

Don’t kid yourselves. Muslim extremism is as dangerous as communism was back in the Soviet days. Resist the urge to watch the Tina Fey version of Sarah Palin play back in your head when reading this or any other article that is trying to break through the fabric of a lying media. They want you to doubt her. They want you to fear her. Unless you’re a Muslim extremist, those fears are unfounded.

The official U.S. position is that Mubarak needs to go immediately, he needs to stay indefinitely, he needs to stay for a bit and then go, he needs to stay for a bit longer then go sooner rather than later, unless he decides to stay until September because he is standing in the way of the full bloom of a new Egyptian democracy, unless it turns out that he is all that stands between us and a Muslim Brotherhood takeover, because the Muslim Brotherhood are a radical theocratic tyranny in waiting, unless of course it turns out that they are reasonable moderate types we should have been talking to all along. So that's the official Obama position verbatim from WhiteHouse.gov. Got that?

Compound this with the media’s lack of ability to properly assess the information on the ground, challenge the administration on its policy and report accurately about who the real actors are in the movement. Americans looking for the right information again, as they so often do since the 2008 election media debacle, turned to the new media, Fox News and talk radio. As much as those on the right love and respect Mark Levin and Glenn Beck for properly connecting the dots on this one, it’s simply pathetic that mainstream journalists were incapable of doing this for the Americans who are not political junkies and who mainly get their news from traditional sources.

Americans will have to assume a greater responsibility in obtaining and verifying the information they get by going beyond the mainstream media. Unfortunately, that’s asking a lot from people who work, raise children, run businesses and deal with the daily financial pressures of keeping a house out of foreclosure and providing food for the table. Until we break that dysfunctional relationship between the mainstream media and America, we risk the spread of political cancers throughout the world as they go relatively undetected because of improper screening or neglect.

When the protests first began in Egypt, pro-democracy citizens who took to the streets seemed to be participating in a fundamental right that we in America have for so long enjoyed: the right to ask the government to redress their grievances. The call for an end to the corrupt and autocratic rule of the Mubarak presidency seemed reasonable, albeit conflicting to us since it is in our foreign policy interest that a stable Egypt which has been helpful to us in the war on terror and which has been abiding by a good faith and long lasting peace with Israel. At first, it seemed a reasonable thing that we allow the people of Egypt to push out Mubarak if that’s what they wanted and to move toward secular economic and political reform. But nothing ruins a good revolution like a bumbling Obama administration and the poisoning of the well by the Muslim Brotherhood.

At first, this writer didn’t want to make too much of a mountain out of the rough start and inconsistent statements coming out of the White House and State Department. When it comes to foreign policy, it’s important we let whoever the president is deal with the problem on a national stage and get his (or her) ducks in a row without the distraction of loud chattering of citizens who are pulling in all different directions. I wasn’t about to start spouting off about Obama until he at least had a chance to gather the information, meet with his advisers and formulate a policy that would project the interests of our country properly on the world stage. He has had an opportunity to do that now. And now I will spout off.

He got it all wrong. The cornerstone of President Obama's "Carteronian" approach to Egypt comes in the form of his complete and utter disregard for the dangers posed by the Muslim Brotherhood. In fact it is an abomination that he would even consider having them at the table. Robert Specner writes at Front Page Magazine:

Game over: Barack Obama has endorsed a role for the Muslim Brotherhood in a new, post-Mubarak government for Egypt.

This should come as no surprise. Obama has behaved consistently all along, from his refusal to back the protesters in Iran, who were demonstrating against an Islamic Republic, to his backing of these protesters in Egypt, to whom he has just given a green light to establish a government that, given numerous historical precedents, will likely be the precursor to an Islamic Republic. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Monday that a post-Mubarak Egyptian ruling group “has to include a whole host of important nonsecular actors that give Egypt a strong chance to continue to be [a] stable and reliable partner.”