I woke up to a big surprise this morning. I had already written a post:
I'm taking a bit of a break from the blog because I'm going to be quite busy in the next few days. I've prepared a few posts to fill the gap. Unless something absolutely spectacular happens, you'll have to make do with revisiting some old posts... I'll resume the normal schedule after Sunday.
I then reposted something about Sarah Palin's qualifications. Oh well, it seems that every time I decide to take a break, she does something!
After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States. As always, my family comes first and obviously Todd and I put great consideration into family life before making this decision. When we serve, we devote ourselves to God, family and country. My decision maintains this order.
God comes before family?
If God wrote her one of his letters urging her to destroy her children, would she do it without blinking?
God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac, on Mount Moriah. Abraham sets out to obey God's command without questioning (Genesis 22:5 and 22:8). After Isaac is bound to an altar, the angel of God stops Abraham at the last minute, saying that "now I know you fear God."
Sarah Palin has been sacrificing her children for years. Unfortunately, no angel appeared to spare them...
Politics in America is mind boggling. Before I started following it closely, I had the impression presidential campaigns were a bit of a circus, where the person with the most balloons and the loudest music was elected.
The 2012 GOP primaries definitely look like a circus, but it seems to be a contest to find the best clown. There's still the possibility of a certain celebrity clown pitching her own tent and going rogue, running on a third party ticket.
I find it very hard to take candidates like Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann or Herman Cain seriously, but when it comes to Sarah Palin, the whole thing becomes completely ridiculous.
Ironically, Sarah Palin herself compared the campaign to a reality show, and she's right. They might as well be in the Big Brother house, all of them behaving in the most outrageous manner for our entertainement.
That would be OK if there weren't so many important issues at stake. The state of the economy is a global problem. They're already predicting another credit crunch in Europe. The 2008 crisis, which started in America, had a domino effect that plunged the whole world into a serious recession.
Problems can't be solved with idiotic soundbites or by quoting the Constitution (and getting it all wrong). All the candidates (declared or not) who are challenging President Obama sound absolutely pathetic and their rhetoric shows a deep contempt for the electorate.
Pandering to different groups, tailoring their soundbites to please them won't solve any problems. In their quest for power, they don't see the big picture.
Yes, American politics always looked like a bit of circus, but now it seems to be official...
We've spent a lot of time researching Sarah Palin's wrongdoings while in office in an attempt to get the word out and prove that she's unfit to lead. We looked for inconsistencies, parsed her word salad, looked at photos... you name it, we've done it.
It's been entertaining at times, but considering how much effort we put into bringing her down, it seems she doesn't want us to get any credit for it and decided to keep it all to herself. She's doing a splendid job!
The safest thing Sarah Palin could do now is announce that she's running. Some of the people who obsessed about her and sent her their money over the past three years are not of sound mind.
They went to great lengths to prove their love. They threatened anybody who dared say anything against their muse, they forced a judge in Alaska to step up her personal security because of custody proceedings involving a member of Palin's family. People lost jobs or were silenced. Their rhetoric mirrors Sarah Palin's own. She may have the excuse of speaking metaphorically, but they know no such subtleties.
These people believed in her promises and have been giving their all for the last three years, dreaming of her bid for the White House to save America and the world.
I believe Sarah Palin is perfectly aware of the obsessive nature of some of her fans. Why would somebody so enthusiastic about the right to bear arms have metal detectors at her own public events? Is she afraid of an attack from a liberal? I don't think so. This kind of violence fits the mentality of her own fans, not the liberals.
If she's already concerned about some of these people when they profess their undying love for her, she should be very, very afraid of them when they realize they have been betrayed by her and taken for a ride.
Perhaps she's taking a long time to make an announcement because whatever she choses to do could have dire consequences for her. If she runs, she risks being properly vetted and all those skeletons would tumble out of her closet. If she doesn't, she'll have to face the fury of some of her most ardent fans, those who believe in 2nd Amendment solutions...
Sarah Palin is between a rock and a hard place, and she is the one who put herself in such an uncomfortable spot.
It's a guessing game for all... Didn't Sarah Palin tell Greta she was consulting with family and close friends about whether or not to run?
"I'm going to keep repeating, though, Greta, through my process of decision-making with my family and with my close friends as to whether I should throw my name in the hat for the GOP nomination or not for 2012..."
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has not talked to close allies in recent days and is set to break her own self-imposed deadline of the end of September for a decision on a presidential run.
Becky Beach, Palin’s top fundraiser in Iowa and a close friend who is usually kept in the loop on the former governor’s plans, told The Hill that she had not heard from Palin in weeks about whether or not she would run.
I expect Becky Beach is not a close enough friend...
The GOP, on top of obstructing any initiatives of the Obama administration regarding the economy in order to make him look bad, are also using every trick in the book to rig the 2012 presidential election.
The only way to counter their strategy is for Obama to win the election by a landslide.
Pennsylvania is tweaking the system to change how the electoral college cast their votes and other states may follow suit. Redisdricting, curtailing early voting and requiring photo IDs also play a part in disinfranchising a great number of voters. Then there are those Diebold machines...
According to a Q&A item on the Washington Post, there's very little individuals can do about it.
So landslide it is, and by a very large margin, which doesn't seem to be on the cards if the polls are in any way reliable.
I think that requiring photo IDs, which involve obtaining a birth certificate (at a cost), plus the state photo ID, again at a cost, would prevent the poor and the unemployed from voting, when voting should be free. One way to get around this would require some creative community organizing in the states in question. It would involve serious fundraising and publicizing that funds would be available for all those people without a photo ID to obtain one.
It's very important that a maximum number of people are elligible to vote and that they actually go out on election day to cast their ballots. That's the only way to ensure a landslide for Obama and counter all the GOP dirty tricks.
As for Sarah Palin jumping in at the last moment, that could be a strategy on the part of the people behind her. They'll wait until the other candidates have put both feet in their mouths during the debates, then she'll come in as the saviour, having spent all these weeks leaking poison from the sidelines. She hasn't been attacking only Obama lately and that's worrying. Her new talking points (crony capitalism, for example) are designed to make everybody look bad.
They might find a way to rig the primaries as well... or she may run on a third party ticket.
When it comes to polling day, faced with the choice between an attractive white woman with instant name recognition, a discredited GOP candidate and the black guy who has been demonized for four years, enough voters may be tempted to go for Sarah Palin. Add the media love affair with her plus some rigging to the mix and... voilà!
She hasn't been talking about an unconventional election for nothing...
George W Bush managed to "win" two conventional elections, so nothing surprises me in American politics.
In 1936 Dale Carnegie, a well known speaker and motivator, published his book on human relations entitled "How to Win Friends and Influence People." A year later, Irving Tressler followed up with a companion guide for those moving in the opposite direction: "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People."
With friends like Sarah Palin, who needs enemies? I wonder what her game is...
Perhaps Chris Weigant has a point when he ponders whether Sarah Palin is going rogue again and is preparing to run as a third party candidate:
If she runs as a Republican, she must win not one but two elections -- the primaries and the general. This means not only taking on Romney, Perry, and all the rest, but it also means participating in the Republican nomination contest. She'd be expected to debate, in other words. She'd be required to stand on a stage with a pack of other Republicans, and compete on the level of answering questions from moderators. Running as an Independent would avoid all of that. The only debate stage she'd expect to appear on would be one with Barack Obama and a single Republican, next fall. Running as an Independent would mean her name would move straight to the general election battle -- with no chance her candidacy would be derailed early next year.
GOP candidates, in the order they appeared in the results of the Ames straw poll:
Too submissive
Too old
Too anti-choice
Too flippy-floppy
Too confused
Too much praying
Too rich
Too adulterous
Almost too normal to be with this bunch
Too stupid
Democratic candidate:
Not too impressed with the above
The non-candidate:
Too short a skirt on a visit to her hero's house
The non-candidate is too short on just about anything: knowledge, command of the English language, ideas, policies, honesty and so on and so on (and on).
It's time for us to take a break from the ongoing Palin/Johnson marriage soap opera, and turn to politics again.
Is Sarah Palin qualified to be the next US President? What would be better than to let Sarah Palin speak for herself.
She did an interview with Bill O'Reilly on November 19, 2009, and probably because this was during her book tour, the interview didn't receive a lot of attention -it was overlooked. However, it should get a lot of attention! Because this was actually one of the very few times when Palin was ready after her resignation from the Governorship to talk about politics in greater detail. As you can imagine, as usual she performed badly.
You can watch the complete, one-hour interview by Bill O'Reilly here:
As it becomes more and more obvious than Sarah Palin is going to run for President, the time has come for us to revisit this interview. Let's start with a "biggie". Sarah explains why she thinks that she is qualified to be President - certainly a key question:
"Commonsense"! Brilliant! That probably means that a large part of the US population would be qualified to be the leader of the free world. You should expect nothing else from an "exceptional" country! ;-)
See the excellent comments by the "Young Turks" regarding this part of the interview HERE.
Let me also mention some facts, which Sarah Palin conveniently left out or distorted in this clip:
Sarah Palin said that there were people who said that she should have "aborted" Trig:
Now this is a fascinating insight into the crazy mind of Sarah Palin! Who ever wrote or said that she should have aborted Trig? I have never read anything like that. Did she just made this up - or maybe she is convinced that this is the truth? I don't know which alternative concerns me more.
This woman is a whackjob. The fact that we are talking about her is like a scene from a surreal Bunuel movie.
"None of it makes sense, except that it makes absolute sense."
Sums up Sarah Palin quite nicely!
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Sarah Palin doesn't like it that the USA is deeply in debt with China. Well, say "thank you" to your friend George W. Bush!
If you have watched this short clip, please pay close attention to the next one. Would Sarah Palin actually have done anything different than George W. Bush? It doesn't seem like it. She praises him and apparently thinks that he has done a pretty good job!
She also thinks that America has to eliminate the "Al Quaida cells", because otherwise they would come over "to destroy America". It doesn't get much more simplistic than that, and with Sarah Palin as President, it's certain that the war in Afghanistan will continue - forever and ever, until the last "cell" in the Afghan mountains has been found and the last billion has been spent. I think the Russians already tried that before, and we all know where that got them. Perhaps Sarah Palin wants to ensure the downfall of the USA.
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If you ask the future President Palin a question, make sure that you explain it properly, because otherwise she might not be able understand it. It''s really just a matter of courtesy!
And for Heaven's Sake, please don't ask her what she reads, also as a matter of courtesy.
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What about healthcare, Sarah? OK, I see: You want "Free-market results-oriented patient-centered solutions", you think that Obama's healthcare plans are evil, and at the same time your family happily enjoys free Government healthcare in Alaska. Glad that we cleared that up!
Apart from that, she talks in this clip for example about "Gitmo", Obama's actions on the road to socialism which "scare the heck out of her", and whether she has ever met Obama (she just met him twice and said "hello").
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Two short and pretty hilarious clips to finish this post.
Sarah Palin dives into the Bunuel movie again and explains that her only "skeleton in the closet" was a "D" on a college course:
Sarah Palin: You lie! ;-)
Your closet is so full, it's about to open on its own!
Let's finish on a high note. Sarah Palin says that it's fair to call out politicians by their associations with others:
Thank you so much, Sarah! We will expand on this point in later posts! :-)
I hope that you have enjoyed these insight into Sarah's qualifications, and please treat this post in the comments as an open thread, as so many other fascinating things are currently taking place in Sarah's world in beautiful downtown Wasilla.
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UPDATE:
I just found this amazingly well done video with Palin's various explanations what the Vice-President does. This should definitely be a part of this little insight into Sarah's limited intellectual capacities. But at least she has "commonsense"! (In Sarah's mind, that means: Make as much money as possible, as fast as possible and take the money and other goodies from as many people as possible)
