PalinTracker: An Open Letter, the Constitution, a Facebook Phenom
September 17:
Palin signs An Open Letter to Obama on the Afghan War along with 47 others across the conservative spectrum, from David Frum to John Podhoretz to Karl Rove:
Dear Mr. President:
The situation in Afghanistan is grave and deteriorating. This is in part the legacy of an under resourced war effort that has cost us and the Afghans dearly. The Taliban has retaken important parts of the country, while a flawed U.S. strategy has led American forces into secondary efforts far away from critical areas. However, we remain convinced that the fight against the Taliban is winnable, and it is in the vital national security interest of the United States to win it. …
Evidently this did not make the cut as “all the news that’s fit to print” in the tired old media.
September 18:
- Palin notably absent from Values Voters Summit in Washington D.C., an annual weekend event attracting 2000 conservatives from 49 states, boasting nearly 50 notable conservatives including former presidential contenders Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee. She still ties for second in straw poll (Huckabee comes in first).
- Palin posts Constitution Day tribute at Facebook:
“The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right.” — James Madison
Today marks the 222nd anniversary of the formation and signing of our Constitution. The United States Constitution is one of the greatest founding documents in history because it charted a bold new path in the realm of political theory. Not only does the Constitution establish checks and balances within the federal government, it also divides power among the federal government, the states, and the people. The Founders understood that it is the nature of government to grow at the expense of the people’s liberty; and with that in mind, they established a form of government that would be limited in scope and power in order to maximize power to the people.
Today, let’s also take the opportunity to thank our armed forces. The weight of defending our liberty rests on their shoulders, and because of their efforts and sacrifice, we can celebrate the 222nd anniversary of the formation of our Constitution.
- Sarah Palin
- Palin’s Dinner for Five at Ebay closes at $63,500, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to Ride 2 Recovery. Cathy Maples, a defense contractor from Huntsville, Alabama, wins. The Washington Examiner reports:
Maples says she fully supports the military and the men and women fighting for this nation. Maples, who owns a defense contracting company, also says she’s a “big advocate” for Palin and would love to see her as president.
The Huffington Post and Palin critic Joe McGinnis complain loudly at his exclusion from the final stages of bidding, though the eBay offer clearly stated that Palin reserved the right to refuse bidders who failed to meet “standards of suitability, professionalism, background and other factors.”
McGinnis sends the following note to Maples:
Although I would have enjoyed the opportunity for a frank exchange of views with Gov. Palin, I’m pleased that someone with your record of accomplishment will grace her table.
Someone with your record of accomplishment? Why the surprise, Joe?
September 19:
Palin emerges as Facebook phenom — Insightful analysis at Politico by Andrew Barr on Palin’s success at articulating conservative positions, spreading the news, and accomplishing political victories — without reliance on the tired old media.
Palin’s Facebook page currently has 877,000 supporters — and counting.
It’s rumored that Palin’s son Track returned this weekend from Iraq. No news yet — will let you know.
Send tips to mypalin@gmail.com.
Heh, Facebook phenom. It must gall the Calcified Media to no end that they have lost control of Palin’s public image.
It’s great seeing articles like this, especially as the ostrich media continues to keep its collective head buried in the sand with respect to one of the most articulate and effective of conservative voices.
FWIW, a great site for keeping up with Govenor Palin is http://www.conservatives4palin.com/ .
She wasn’t up to it before.
She isn’t now.
I am not a Palin-hater, but I am not a kool-aid drinker either: please find someone better educated, more articulate, with a better undrstanding of history and foreign affairs to run in 2012.
Sarah Palin was up to it then, and she’s up to it now. And she’s managed to articulate well enough to stimulate millions of Americans to support her.
She certainly has more knowledge of foreign affairs than the usurper OR Blow Biden, OR John McCain, or any other governor or politician that would run for the office.
It is getting tiresome for the snobbish and the misogynists to keep pouring their coals on Sarah Palin.
I can’t wait to hear how bad Palin screws it up in Asia when she gives her speech on foreign policy. That’s like an Arab nomad from the desert giving a speech on martime navigation.
You tell em Sarah !!
“The situation is grave and deteriorating” really though, was she:
a. referring to her last days in office just before she quit
b. last days with John McCain of the campaign trail
c. referring to her daughters relationship with “the dad”
d. the final 2 years of the Bush administration
e. the republican budget deficits from the last 5 years
or…..
f. todd’s infatuation with snowmobiles?
e. the egg’s Bush laid in Iraq and Afghanistan?
One never knows…..one never knows.
Blackwell,
Obama is who you are talking about, right?
Why are the leftist neocommunists so afraid of Palin? The seem almost terrified. Mention “Palin” in a group and the ones who cross themselves are the America haters. Don’t understand it.
3, 5. blackwell, Middleman: How well did that well educated Ivy League foreign policy genius screw the Poles without concessions from Putin, how well did that well-educated genius screw the Israelites without concessions from Ahmadinejad… Exactly like a drunken mariner navigating an Arab desert.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6210152/President-Barack-Obama-is-beginning-to-look-out-of-his-depth.html
“Regimes in Moscow, Pyongyang and Tehran simply pocket his concessions and carry on as before. The picture emerging from the White House is a disturbing one, of timidity, clumsiness and short-term calculation. Some say he is the weakest president since Jimmy Carter.”
“The situation is grave and deteriorating” really means she has exposed the scum and all they can do is scream bullshit because the have nothing to counter her statements but LIES. LIES and more LIES.
Sarah Palin will be the 45th President and the lefties can do nothing to stop her!!!
I cant wait until 0bama gets the chair or at least 30 years in prison before he is sent back to his birthplace, KENYA!
What I find amazing is, despite her proven competency, and grasp of the issues, the liberal ankle biters continue to underestimate Sarah Palin. They will continue to do so right up to the day she will be inaugurated as President, and well into her term. Great strategy, guys. Keep underestimating her while she hands you your lunch every time. You did it with Reagan, and how did that turn out for you? Morons.
America is Palin and libprogressives are palin’.
How is shelving a missile interceptor facility screwing the Poles? The interceptors in question wouldn’t be able to do a damn thing to an ICBM carrying multiple warheads. Why waste that money on something that really would be nothing more than a Cold War symbol.
The Defense Secretary is the same one from when Bush was in the White House, so it’s the same advice being given, only this time without Cheney there to trump it.
“despite her proven competency, and grasp of the issues”
Now THAT is funny. The witchhunters who prayed over her to cast away demonic forces must given her go-getter mana.
let’s remind all you pro obama lemmings that this so called “hick” single handedly brought the health-care reform machine to its knees. i have never seen anything like it before. with just one sentence about death panels, palin took control out of the hands of the left and put it on a silver platter for the american people. that, my friends, was pure genius….
Blackwell wrote:I am not a Palin-hater, but I am not a kool-aid drinker either: please find someone better educated, more articulate, with a better undrstanding of history and foreign affairs to run in 2012.
Well I kinda have to disagree with you here. I think someone with common sense would be refreshing in the White House. We’ve got WAY too high of opinion of “Ivy League” education these days.
1) Obama – Harvard Education. A Constitutional Lawyer who doesn’t seem familiar with it at all and a nightmare in both foreign and domestic policies. He retreads failed policies so it seems that his education was light on history. Speaks well with access to a teleprompter, babbling idiot without one.
2) Bush – Harvard educated. Generally derided as “stupid”, opinions on his both foreign and domestic policies vary widely depending on who you talk to on the political right. The “epitome of evil” on the left. Generally considered a poor public speaker.
3) Clinton – Yale educated. Supposedly “intelligent & educated” couldn’t keep from thinking with his “little head” rather than his big head. Often receives credit due Newt Gingrich and the Republican Congress.
4) G.H.W. Bush – Yale educated. Said “read my lips” and then broke that promise, it doesn’t take a Ivy League education to know when you break that kind of promise its going to hurt you badly. One term president.
5) Reagan – Eureka College. Arguably the best president of the last century, and certainly one of the most popular. Wrote and edited his own speeches and continued to do so often even while President.
6) Carter – US Naval Academy. Generally considered the worst president of the last 50 years. Nuff said.
So basically our best president went to a small liberal arts college in Illinois while our worst two have been educated at prestigious schools. Maybe you need to rethink things there Blackwater, Palin may not be such a bad choice after all.
Another thing about a leader is knowing when to seek advice from others, there does not exist the man or woman who is an expert on all the subject matters that face a President. I think Palin is wise enough to do that. Bush was denigrated as an idiot who had to look to others when he took office, then even the Fossil Media hailed him as a genius after 9/11 for surrounding himself with such competent advisers.
At least I won’t have to hold my nose and select “Palin/Somebody” like I did with “McCain/Palin”, for many people on the right there hasn’t been this “likable” a candidate since Reagan. Who else might you suggest Blackwater? You’ve got about a year to come up with one and get them on the campaign trail.
“Dear Mr. President:
The situation in Afghanistan is grave and deteriorating. This is in part the legacy of an under resourced war effort that has cost us and the Afghans dearly.?
The proper response:
Dear Mrs Palin:
You are welcome to register at your nearest Army recruiting station. You will be deployed immediately.
PS: your relatives and friends are welcome.
so are yours vivo…so are yours. At least her son served our country. At least he came home, alive.
“vivo” means living in an artificial environment outside a living organism…that explains it all.
13: “nothing more than a Cold War symbol; save the money & give it to ACORN!
6 Poor Citizen, you truly are, and how ’bout oldbamas trillion dollar+ deficit for this year (so far)?
17 vivo – you should go first.
Reply to Blackwell #3. You say Palin was not up to it then and not up to it now. Who are you using as an example of not being up to the job? BHO?
zero is the weakest president in our history, he will make the idiot peanut farmer look like a hawk.
Not up to it??
BO is proving every day what many pointed out during the elections.
He is no where near being ready for the job of Potus.
He has accomplished zero, has zero foreign policy experience and judging from his first 6 months has no experience at much of anything other than campaigning and speech reading.
woopty do… Zero is a Zero.
#11
The thing that gets me is that the Republican ankle-biters keep ‘misunderestimating’ her, too.
16:
Scott: nicely done!
But suspect you’ll agree that RR had a track record of beliefs you could vote for with some certainty that he wasn’t going to change when he was elected. He understood better than the snobs, the dangers of rampant anti-capitalism, the infatuation with socialist dictators and the damage done by high taxes.
More than a small town guy, he was someone who most politicians today are not: he had spent most of his adult life in the private sector. He knew what career politicians do not. Nixon spent some time out of office too and was a better man for it. At the risk of inciting a barrage from the Palinistas, she’s another GOP politician, and a bit lacklustre at that.
We have to do better for 2012. (NO I don’t know who–and you’re right time is running out)
20: No not him: I just think the GOP ought to be able to put up someone with a bit more experience than this. Don’t you?
Sarah Palin/Liz Cheney 2012
5 Middleman:
She’ll do fine. As for you, all you need do is declare that “someone else wrote the speech for her.” Depend on it, she will and you will.
At least Mrs. Palin did not, and I repeat, did not pack a belt in her suitcase when she left to Asia!. Girlfriend…she’s got it!
Middleman (13):
See yesterday’s article http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-appalling-timing-of-obmas-missile-defense-decision/ and the commentary thereon.
Primarily, from the Poles’ point of view, we reneged on a long-term agreement and undercut them re the Russians. The whole assortment of former Soviet-Bloc countries are afraid of Russian resurgance, and the Poles and Czech’s were counting on those missile systems – and our protection of them – to provide a counterbalance to Russian agression, as demonstrated in Georgia.
Also, of course, there’s the fact that it would have protected them and the rest of Europe (and a good chunk of the US) from ICBM’s originating in the middle east.
(BTW, Obama’s replacement for the BMDS missiles – an upgraded SM-3 AEGIS system – doesn’t have the same range and is a less capable system from the point of strategic deterrence.)
You know that the Left is scared spitless of Sarah Palin when the PJM resident trolls show up right away and start their spew.
18. Annie:
19. DDay:
You don’t get it. She’s asking for more sacrificial lambs for a ‘war’ that I oppose. You can go there anytime to please your adored leader. The military keep pushing the issue because they want to keep their jobs. There are better ways to solve these problems, but you couldn’t understand.
At the office yesterday the Leftists were positively chortling and giggling over Vanity Fair.Their reaction to attacks on Sarah Palin could fairly be described as collective masturbation.
As a former naval officer I can assure you that the the SM-3 AEGIS system, wonderful as it is, is not a replacement for a land based BMD for countering the threat from Iran. We would need to build dozens of more ships. The cost has not even been considered and will not be spent on the military by this administration. So the entire proposal is a fraud. Also look at a map, the sea based systems are an effective counter to a threat from North Korea but expecting them to be reliably in position to intercept missiles from Iran is a fantasy.
#17 vivo:
She was not at the Values Voters Summit because her son, Track Palin, was returning from a one year Tour of Duty with the 2nd Stryker Brigade in Iraq.
Sometimes liberals parody themselves so sweetly it’s just great fun to bring the hammer down. Idiot.
It is always a pleasure to read an article about Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin is a rising force to be reckoned with in American politics. For reasons that have nothing to do with contemporary politics, I strongly suspect that she will emerge as the American president – for at least 4 years.
Why do some people keep insisting that liberals are scared of Palin? Talk about delusional.
Liberals were besides themselves with glee when she ran for VP, and they will wet themselves with glee if she is the Republican Presidential candidate in 2012.
Liberals WANT her to run. They still believe she is a pushover.
“Liberals WANT her to run. They still believe she is a pushover.”
Yeah, right. If true then liberals would be trying to help her rather than attack her at every turn.
Aye, if liberals really thought Palin was a non entity they wouldn’t bother to comment. Instead the heaviest liberal posts are always on Palin.
Barbara Curtis Wrote: “others across the conservative spectrum, from David Frum to John Podhoretz to Karl Rove”
Uh… as I just posted in another article: DAVID FRUM IS NO CONSERVATIVE!
Unless, of course, you count Arlen Specter and Olympia Snow as conservatives.
24. blackwell:
I’m still not sure where your objections to Palin are exactly coming from Blackwell. You mention Reagan’s private sector life but Reagan was active in politics for many years before becoming President and was once a Democrat and if you believe Wikipedia was a fan of FDR and the New Deal before becoming a Republican in 1962. He became Governor of CA in ’66 at the age of 57. Reagan spent 16 years in office, 8 as Gov of CA and 8 as President of the US. He dedicated a good deal more years than those to politics however.
Granted Palin is younger and has been in political office a bit earlier as she was elected to the Wasila City Council in 1992 at the age of 28 and became Mayor of Wasilia at 32. However, she has worked as both a sports reporter for a paper and a sports caster for TV. She’s also helped run Tod Palin’s commercial fishing business so I don’t feel that she’s entirely unfamiliar with the private sector as you imply.
As for the “change when they get elected” comment I’m not sure how you believes this applies to Palin, please enlighten me. Perhaps there is some part of her career I missed.
It’s an interesting parallel to consider, Imagine if Reagan had not gone on to California, but had become a councilman in Eureka, Mayor, then jumped to the Ethics Commission, (in Illinois, right) or there abouts, and become Governor. It’s as likely
a circumstance as her political career, Usually this happens in the Democratic side of the aisle
among the reformist element, of which the current incumbent is not.
38. Scott
People like Blackwell can’t articulate an reason for discounting Palin. They get their news from the TV and their opinions from David Frum…
She defeated Obamacare with Facebook…Facebook!?
Keep underestimating her GOP and Dems.
As long as Obama keeps going hard left, Sarah Palin will be the next POTUS.
Sapwolf said: “As long as Obama keeps going hard left, Sarah Palin will be the next POTUS.”
Okay, a very wise man once said “never fall in love with a Politician, he (or she) will dissapoint you every time.”
I’m not 100% sold on Sarah Barracuda… that said, I’m 98.9% sold. What she has to prove to me is that she’s a REAL, as in not a phoney conservative (the way Dubya was).
on the whole, however, it’s fun to watch the Fascist Dems and Fascist RINOs get bit in the butt after underestimating her…
Governor Palin’s finalizing of the AGIA pipeline is an accomplishment that already sets her far above the rest of the pack, and miles above the vastly unqualified nobody currently occupying the WH. Palin’s pipeline will not only provide more American energy independence and jobs than anything this incompetent bunch of racist Marxists can even imagine, but it dwarfs what most past Presidents have been able to accomplish in the field of energy.
Not that the trolls and the Obama-fellating media would either know or care.
What has Sarah Palin done to the people who seem to hate her? She is the basic American, and thankfully does not have an ivy league university education, which seems to contaminate its graduates. Harvard was a good university when founded by a Christian to educate clergy, but over the years erosion has taken place. The great Obama is seeking to redistribute the wealth, but just look at the enormous amount of taxpayers’ money he is spending on himself and his family, and people have the nerve to try to destroy Sarah Palin. Common sense trumps elitism, narcissism and all the other isms that people seem to think are so wonderful.
43. OlympicLeprechaun:
What pipeline? Come back when it actually exists.
#45 N&T – The deal is signed. It will take much time to build it, but the deal has been made. It SHALL happen. It will be a great source of jobs for Canada and the U.S.
vivo – Your comment was ridiculous. She’s too old to join up. There are age requirements. Last I knew, it was 29 as the cutoff, with adjustments for college and prior service.
#41 Sapwolf – She didn’t beat ObamaCare with Facebook. She beat them with the Legacy Media. They were so busy denigrating her, that they published her message. People filtered out the ridicule and heard her message. This is what the media should be doing, furthering the debate and providing strong critique of government. They didn’t intend to do it, but it shows their actual power. They still have lots of power. They just are too busy shooting themselves in the foot with it. For those who think they are powerless, think how badly Obama would be doing if they gave him real scrutiny.
46. Marc Malone:
“vivo – Your comment was ridiculous. She’s too old to join up.”
I can’t believe you thought I was serious. I just wanted to make a point.
She has a staff that will keep her in the news, wasting all her contributors money to accomplish nothing positive. At least that’s less money spent on drugs and booze.
She has a staff that will keep her in the news, wasting all her contributors money to accomplish nothing positive. At least that’s less money spent on drugs and booze.
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Is that good for you?
46. Marc Malone:
“The deal is signed. It will take much time to build it, but the deal has been made. It SHALL happen. It will be a great source of jobs for Canada and the U.S.”
You’re dreaming.
Well N and T it might very well never come to pass, but should that be the case it will have been because your unholy God in the WH and his Leftist minions in the Congress will stop at nothing to either scuttle the entire project or attempt to claim credit for it.
Of course we shouldn’t be surprised in the least that you are hoping for it to fail. Almost a century of the pathology of Leftism has irrevocably proven that you are willing to see society stagnate and regress to savagery and multitudes of people suffer inestimable horrors before you will ever admit how destructive and evil your policies have been. Little wonder that you have no faith in God; you worship your own ego.
If and when the pipeline does come to fruition you and the rest of the Kenyan’s whores will no doubt bow and kiss his feet for such a great accomplishment. Face it, she made it happen, a state college-educated first-term “quitter” of a backwoods hillbilly wasteland, yet it is a greater project for American interests than ANYTHING Obama will do. Chicago Jesus has no miracles and never will, but the humble hockey mom made history–history that you and your scum will no doubt try to erase in Orwellian fashion.
Give it up. This pathetic Al Sharpton wannabe couldn’t get so much as a decent plumbing pipeline into one of his South Side slum projects.
I tend to agree with blackwell. I like Palin, but see potential for her to become a cult of personality figure for the right in much the same way Obama has been for the left. G_d forbid you criticize her and everyone jumps on your case. It smacks of a kind of fanaticism that strikes me the wrong way. Perhaps if she were not such a lone voice on the right, it wouldn’t be like this. But, with so few standing up and speaking out, even I feel somewhat desperate to have SOMEONE standing up for issues I care about and speaking about them in a way that’s closely aligned with my views. But, the issue that disturbs me about her is the feeling that she’s cramming. Time will tell. All of that said, hardly a day goes by that I don’t wish it were Palin in the WH and not BO. From a national security perspective I’d feel a lot safer.