Palin enters the arena where the fight is not between liberal and conservative; nor is it between Republican and Democrat. The fight is between elite and the common person who works every day and continually asks how Washington D.C., under both parties, is so out of control.

Elitism has never been popular in America. Major American critics from H.L Menken to Rush Limbaugh made careers poking fun at elites.

Elitism is on display today as never before. Senate and Congressional seats are passed down in the family. Just look at the family members lining up for Ted Kennedy’s seat or Caroline’s assumption that she deserved the New York Senate seat. Vice President Biden’s Senate seat is being kept warm for his son, now serving in the Middle East. Lots of talk that Michelle Obama may be the next Illinois senator.

Hereditary government on display. How much more elitist can a nation become?

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/sarah_palin_all_in.html

Well worth reading. The author uses a poker analogy– Palin went “all in”.

This article makes perfect sense considering the absolute foam-at-the-mouth frenzy that the left and, to a lesser extent, RINO’s have engaged in in the months following the ’08 election.

LMAO.
Go figure, I was thinking recipes for a good ‘cosmo’.

This is a really good round up of the video responses on the networks.

My response is up for those interested.

Not to go an analogy too far, but Sarah Palin seems to be taking a page from the Hollywood playbook of George Lucas. She has just completed her own introductory trilogy, and it was an astonishing success.

First, she was a fantastically successful conservative governor lurking beneath the mainstream media’s radar. Next, she was a vice-presidential candidate who, even though she lost, still did more to electrify the base than the headliner. Third, she has now drawn the curtain on her post-election career as a sitting governor, a period that saw her deftly turn the tables on mainstream haters like David Letterman. Like “Star Wars,” she’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but her fans are rabid and chomping at the bit for the next installments. And as to these future installments, the question is whether the next step is going to be “The Phantom Menace” or something that doesn’t suck.

From:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kschlichter/2009/07/04/the-force-is-with-sarah-palin/

In reading the whole article, I’m struck by the fact that the Democrat response to Palin’s resignation contains in part: “How dare you leave your current job to do something else? Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES is that acceptable!”

And I was immediately reminded of one of Ayn Rand’s great twists in Atlas Shrugged, when the Statists, under increasing pressure and desperation as everything collapsed around them, passed a law requiring that every person HAD to remain in their current job. They couldn’t switch jobs nor even quit.

The author of that article lists a number of compelling reasons that resigning the governorship is good for Sarah Palin. (Yes, there are downsides…) One thing I noted is it frees her up to do a number of things within the conservative arena outside of the Republican Party apparatus, especially avoiding the election battles; for the purposes of election battles, Palin has become a nuclear target to the leftists and Statists.

One thing she is free to do now is write her book. This may be a critical book: Think “Profiles in Courage” (er, ghostwritten for JFK), or “Dreams of My Father” (er, almost definitely ghostwritten by Ayers for Obama)… Assuming she doesn’t ghostwrite it, and it is very good, her supporters will buy it in droves. It would form the basis of her rehabilitation from the nuclear smear campaign against her that has been underway now for almost a year.

And she’ll be mixing it up in the lower 48 as Newt Gingrich has been, lending her massive popularity and natural conservatism to various causes – albeit with the high negatives caused by the nuclear smear campaign. If she can speak well to the issues, reaching and convincing “the middle”, she can have an incredible effect. And she only has to reach “the middle”. Screw the leftists, screw the Statists, screw the Palin haters. They won’t matter even though they’ll keep going after her. It’s congenital with them, like a bull seeing a red cape, she provokes instant, helpless, foaming-at-the-mouth rage among them. It’s totally instinctive and utterly irrational.

She just has to reach “middle America”, all those people whose doubts about Obama and massive Statism… are growing… day by day by day. What an effect she could have.

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HatlessHessian
07/04/2009 at 11:32 am

Steve White writes:
>if the staffers were so brilliant, why aren’t we addressing ‘President McCain’ today?

Saul’s book, Voltaire’s Bastards, elaborates extensively on this issue. McCain’s staffers were elite technocrats in the style of McNamera, Kissinger, Chirac and others of this class of “reason.”

From the perspective of a risk manager, they’re akin to highly trained professionals who mistakenly believe the world complies with their simplistic models. It reminds one of the misadventures of Long Term Capital Management in the late 1990s, when several of the finance and economic world’s elites jeopardized the global financial market through their naive assumption that financial market behavior is gaussian (e.g. it follows a bell curve on probability distributions). While a college undergraduate could open up his Intro to Business Statistics textbook to the first chapter and read that such distributions can only be used when a half dozen so assumptions can be made, including statistical independence and absence of correlation (e.g. each coin toss is independent; getting tails last time doesn’t have any influence on the next toss), and subsequently recognize that financial markets don’t have such conditions, the “world’s brightest” financial market technocrats felt they knew better and plowed LTCM into the ground. They nearly took the global market along with them.

McCain, Obama, Pelosi, Reid and others seek power and project it through the myth that their policies and influences actually effect outcomes. This is often akin to the five year old in the coach section of a commercial aircraft wielding a toy steering wheel and believing he is flying the plane. Unfortunately, in the progressive model, the only power they wield is to increase error in the actual functional system. Commands to grow corn in the USSR by the technocratic elites doesn’t increase food production, but it does cause a shift of resource from the natural system to a false one, causing an outcome of near zero food production. China experienced similar outcomes when it empowered party technocrats to order farmers into communes and compete with each other for party favor through party favor bidding wars. Each commune promised a higher and higher return on produced crops, resulting in the impossibly high levels coming only through the seizure of the crops needed to feed the commune workers. When tens of millions of farmers starved, and further years crops not even planted due to the mass death and absence of population to grow food, China finally relented and re-privatized agriculture.

Obama’s policies are a strong march down that of the commune. We’ve made GM and Chrysler workers communes, with state and worker shared ownership of production. Cap & Trade and other control delusions will regulate Ford to death, forcing them to relent or expire. When 40-50 million Americans die, and the replacement of them with immigrants from the south is no longer sufficient to stave off catastrophic failure, the technocrat may relent. However, as we’ve seen in China and Iran, we won’t return to the freedom of our founding. We’ll only return to the lighter versions of tyranny.

Read Saul’s book; while he rants at length at time, it’s foundational material for the understanding of the ilk that Powell, McCain, Obama and such represent. It’s why Palin is a true terror in their eyes. She is not one of them. It’s clear in her language and behavior. We need to understand our enemy that is present across both parties in order to understand what strategy we must all employ.

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HatlessHessian
07/04/2009 at 11:44 am

One additional comment… We need to move ourselves past the path of identification with a single political individual. The reason for Palin’s popularity, in my assessment, is that we recognize her as one of us (albeit a very sharp and well spoken representative).

It could be argued that our representative model of government has caused us to relinquish too much of our personal responsibility. We wait for others to do what we want, grow angry when they don’t and yet we sit on our asses complaining. History has shown that a small minority of extremely active individuals tends to control the majority. Obama knows this and has created his astroturf version via Acorn and its aligned sister organizations.

We must organize, agitate, intimidate the technocratic elites, expose one after another for their deviance (the narcissism that correlates to the the technocratic elite always ends up with “live boys and dead girls” in their closets, along with financial misconduct, illegal gifts, and a life of excess). Right now, we have millions who have lost jobs and homes. How would they respond to a profile of their congressman who just took a $300K trip to the tropics along with his/her family as part of a “fact finding mission to learn how sea shells are produced”?

We must target one after another for political exposure, drag out the stories of excess, corruption, sexual deviance, infidelity and special favor. In Iowa, we’ve quietly let Senator Harkin conceal his interesting little perversions and his proclivity for global travel with his family at your expense.

So while we like people like Palin, we need to ask: What is it about her that we like? I think you’ll find that it’s that she is like us. By not making our movement dependent upon a single leader, the technocratic elites of the Progressive Castle cannot take us down with a single shot.

Happy Independence Day America! May this day be the one where we awaken, get our lazy butts off the couch and rise up to storm the Castle.

http://mamapundit.com/2009/07/the-brilliant-strategery-of-sarah-palin/

Pretty good comment I wanted to share here with you all.