The only benefit to be gained from an endorsement or even a kind word from Sarah Palin is of benefit to Mrs. Palin. She is a paid contributor on Fox and anytime she shows up to bless us with her infinite wisdom regarding conservative politics, she is well paid. Thus, she makes statements consistent with the Fox programming mandates because if she veers too far from that agenda, her services will no longer be required. The anticipation of whether or not she was going to endorse last hight reminds us of the limelight she perpetually captured as Chair of the Tease Party: will she run or won’t she? She quit her job as governor and she opted out of running in ’12 so her views in the conversation seem irrelevant at this point. It’s one thing to be in the fight and willing to put everything on the line and quite another to sit in the stands and be a critic.

The opinions of elite, celebrity Republicans are only as valuable as the uninformed, fairweather voter allows them to be.

It was interesting to hear Greta make the statement of “the media writes off candidates.” I will be at GretaWire here in a bit to remind her that she, too, along with her network, have failed to be consistent and fair in their coverage of candidates. After checking several times during the night, Fox did not run any info about Gov. Perry’s new policy proposals as a crawler. It will not come up. Granted, the president does not have Constitutional power to change the format of Congress or the SCOTUS as far as length of terms served, salaries, etc., but after hearing in the last few days that members of Congress are exempt from law regarding insider trading and that our Republicans are apparently not going to hold the line on raising taxes, its a conversation worth having. It appears, however, Fox doesn’t find such nuances as worthy of their time.

As expected, Rush came out yesterday in defense of Cain’s inability to articulate on Libya. Cain reminds me more and more of the gentleman that ran in ’08 on the “The rent is too damn high” ticket. The answer to every question is 999. He has no depth of knowledge and apparently little understanding of most important issues. He glosses over all his shortcomings with tiresome humor and of course, 999. One trick pony. Somewhere in the mix of yesterday’s news Cain referred to Bachmann as ‘tutti fruiti’. A throwback to his comparison of himself being ‘black walnut’? MSNBC is running this comment as a crawler. I haven’t bothered as yet to investigate what its all about. In a normal world, a man facing accusations of sexual harassment might have ‘paused to collect his thoughts’ before making such a insulting comment. Oh well, let Herman be Herman.

Also in the news yesterday was a video of Romney talking about RomneyCare and lauding his accomplishments therein, yet ends his statement by saying if Obama had called him, he’d have told him not to go ahead with a similar national healthcare plan. He’s becoming quite adept at serving up his flip flop popsicles: one side of the treat is one flavor and the other side offers the exact opposite. If you don’t like the sound of his first statement, simply wait and enjoy the next because it’ll be entirely different. He went on to say that one big difference between RomneyCare and ObamaCare is that his didn’t cost a trillion dollars. One would gather that without his prompting given the size of Massachusetts vs the entire country.

Newt comes out yesterday in defense of his cozy relationship with Freddie Mac. When questioned about the $1.6 million he received from FM as a ‘consultant’ he says he told them not to give loans to people that may not be able to pay them back. I venture the guess any of us could have told FM the same and would have done so for a far smaller sum. Common sense comes at a high price these days.

Huntsman noted yesterday he ‘doesn’t care’ about states other than NH, then walked it back saying he was referring to polls in other states.

Seems to this commenter that there was ONE candidate that made news yesterday that is worthwhile to the middle class voter: Gov. Rick Perry. He proposed a major overhaul to Washington, D.C., and how our government works (and doesn’t work). At some point, average American voters–tea party patriots–whatever we tend to call ourselves, have to determine if we’re simply going to keep railing on Washington and how much we want change or are we going to get serious about doing something. We can continue to pound on our kitchen tables about waste, fraud, lies, cover-up’s, scams and the like or we can actually take this election seriously and DO SOMETHING ABOUT OUR DIRE CIRCUMSTANCE.

We are simply wasting our time on the likes of Herman Cain, thanks in large part to a Right media that is lovesick over the guy. As long as he continues his “in your face” attitude toward the Left media, he holds their hearts in his hand. He’s stickin’ it to the Arch Enemy and in return he gets coverage and excuses for every gaffe imaginable. The same folks sitting at home listening to talk radio are also answering their phones when pollsters call and they respond according to the hype put on the radio that day. We’re getting played by the hypocrisy and here’s a case in point. Yesterday, Rush railed on Chelsea Clinton’s new job at NBC. He was livid that she has no prior experience and yet, went straight to the top. What about Herman? He, too, is arrogant and audacious enough to assume that with no prior political or govt. experience other than being a registered lobbyist, is qualified to be president! This election process has provided shocking revelations about inconsistencies in the media from ‘our side’. Remember the days when it was so refreshing to hear Rush on Monday morning after a weekend of Left media bias? Remember when we wouldn’t dream of watching a few minutes of MSNBC or CNN? There was a time when we knew we could count on our friends on the Right to be fair and reasonable.

Mrs. Palin commented last night that we need to make “demands” on the media about whom they report on and how they do it.

I suggest we all pay a visit to blogs, Facebook pages, send Tweets and emails to Greta and our other pals on Fox that talk out of both sides of their mouths when it comes to giving equal time, media write-off’s and false reporting. Conversely, I’m going to contact Sam Brownback today and thank him for his email yesterday on behalf of Gov. Perry. I’m going to ask him to make some media appearances, Fox included, doing interviews. Gov. Perry seems some muscle and star power within the party and he needs it quickly. He needs it from people in the fight, willing everyday to work hard for their country and not from sell-out’s that are quitters.