If Sarah falls….I guess it’s Cheney X2….

Or maybe Erick?….nahhh…he’s a squish.

would not have resigned, Just a politician would have used her bully pulpit of the governors office to get to the white house like one Barack Obama did. Just a politician doesn’t sound like Sarah Palin. Sarah doesn’t fit into the mold of a politician,She’s not a statue model for a statesman,but she can and does connect. People know the truth when they hear..just ask Specialist.

Maybe we would be better off to look outside what we think a politician should be and look for what we need as representatives to serve us.

Great post by the way.

I understand the reality of what a politician is today in our country, and I say no more. “We the people” have tolerated the garbage in the system for too long. We have entrusted these idiots with too much power, and that power is now in the wrong hands. It’s time to take it back, it’s time “We the people” demand for the terms trust and politician is one and the same! We need statesman!

If you commit adultery, steel, cheat, lie, etc, you’re disqualified!
If you can not operate on a budget, you’re disqualified!
If you can not secure our boarders & our nation, you’re disqualified!
If you can not operate within the defined limits of power as define in the written constitution, you’re disqualified!
Etc, Etc, Etc!

No more will I vote for anyone that can not live their life the way I live mine, no more!

It’s up to the Republican Party or IMHO the conservative movement to find people of this type of character and then promote/protect them. It doesn’t require a freaking doctorate degree to stop the insanity that is going on in Washington. What it takes is for the ordinary “We the people” to say you’re fired, your job performance has been found to be a dismal failure as defined by your job description in the Constitution of the United States!

You get what you pay for! I’m not buying idiots that can’t run their own personal lives any more, and entrusting them to run our government. And if there is no political party that is willing to accomplish this, well there are other means to bring about change in tyrannical governments.

Fox News just ran it again this weekend.

- JP

Trust is what the GOP has to cultivate….I agree with mbecker that trusting politicians is like walking on a steep ledge, but…

If all politics is, is lying, cheating and stealing…and if all politicians practice the above, I’m not sure what’s left other than pitchforks…

franz is the prince of Dogness…lol

He’s on my short list today, he may not make past dinner time.

I am The Prince of Dogness. All is my Domain. I was going to run for that POTUS thing last time but the sweet lady who feeds me talked me out of it. Too much travel and I don’t like travel. Too many things interrupting my naps. Again not good. So I ignored by best instincts and decided not run.

This time I’ll probably run. There won’t be a stinking primary. I’ll just eat the competition. I figure a YouTube or two of me eating some stringy politician will be all it will take. None of the sweet lady’s shoe money wasted on TV ads. Actually, I’m not announcing for a while because at the rate we’re going I’ll be the only one left standing anyway (unless it’s nap time).

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from that comment am I to assume that you are not on the Fredpac.com email list like I am?

…where has he been….

“I have said in an almost continuous loop that we have to fix the party before we pick a leader.”

OK how do you ‘fix the party’ Before you pick some leaders?

Lots of People like me espouse the ideals you describe….’small government, maximum liberty, and a powerful military’…the numbers are vast……we need leaders we can trust, to pull those numbers together…

this is a vicious circle and Can’t continue…

“we have to get back to the ideas of our Founders, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan.”

People follow leaders not ideas. Try putting “conservative ideas” on a ticket. Ya know what ya have? Fred Thompson. Fool.

There isn’t one up and comer Republican that could out draw Joe Biden EXCEPT Palin. Catch a clue.

If Pawlenty, Jindal and Romney showed up together at my house, I’ld tell them to get off my frickin’ lawn. Got anybody else that could draw enough for a pickup B-ball game?

Yea, I didn’t think so.

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not me, but many lol.

but seriously, we are the party of religion, of national pride, of the Constitution. We should not get too into a single fallible person, because we will always be let down. I guess my point is to give yourself and the party a break. We are only people, and people are fallible. But the ideas of liberty and freedom will always be true, no single person owns them, we all own them.

People are sorry about Sanford, Ensign, etc, but they are fallible human beings. I was amazed that some left the Catholic church because they found out some in it were sinners. the point is we are all sinners, but our ideals are not proven wrong just because we don’t always live them. We need those that want a limited government and maximum freedom BECAUSE individuals will always fail us. Our Constitution stands above all personalities, it is the bedrock, no man can own it.

My point is that our failures are our own. What we need is a drastic change in our party, we need to stop the defensive policy crap and focusing on returning freedom and responsibility to the people. Self reliance is what made this country great. If we want a nanny state, there are many so so countries to choose from.

What does it mean?

I’m hoping the Results from this move will be well worth it…

(hey money…get ready to put your football cap on…my college pool is going to be epic this year)

There were certainly thousands of actors who spent time and money getting their Democratic Party guy, Ronald Reagan elected President of their union. Ronald Reagan quit the Democratic Party, and he quit on a marriage to Jane Wyman. I believe we agree that he thrived well politically after having been a quitter. I am not in any way equating Sarah Palin to Ronald Reagan. All I am saying is let’s not announce her as dead politically.

or maybe a “left” hook from Palin.

I could be wrong, I am but a man, not a rooster.

I think it will surface during the next couple of years.

Really , though, how long can you abuse a hockey mom before you get hurt ?

Regards

I can’t think badly of a parent who injures her own career path for her kids. Not for a second.

Nobody really minds people just like her a lot.

What is disruptive are the people who a) insist on making personal attacks on anyone who criticizes Palin or b) keeps pushing her as a Presidential candidate here in 2009.

you are clueless about why we like Sarah …

and you should keep your fat trap Shut

You quite frankly wouldn’t have a clue about what a real conservative is even if we bought one for you and had your name engraved on it. If you seriously believe that all we like–or need to like–about any politician is that they be an evangelical fundamentalist, then you really need to get your head out of your hindquarters and do some looking around.

Remember when RedState was referred to as “FredState”? Do you think that Fred Dalton Thompson is an evangelical fundamentalist? As to who participates here or doesn’t, I can name several who are agnostic, including one of the moderators, some who are Catholic, some Protestant, and at least one Muslim.

We’re full up on snarky ignorance these days, so you might need to find another blogsite that is lacking. Here at RedState, snarky ignorance is usually the purview of the trolls, not the members.

I want someone with an intimidating level of intelligence, a rigorous education and some serious experience.

I have just the perfect candidate for you. He is a former governor of a conservative state. He is generally regarded as one of the most brilliant leaders ever to [become] president. He is literally a Rocket Scientist, as he has a degree in Nuclear Engineering.

And the BEST news is — he is still eligible for a four year term as POTUS.

I am speaking, of course, of President Jimmy Carter.

….I’ll take Palin!

As long as we’re talking about things we don’t get, how about you explain your utter contempt for folksy, home-spun Christians? I really don’t understand it. Plenty of the people in the current Administration went to big-time colleges and have fancy titles, but they’re the biggest bunch of idiots ever to walk the face of the planet. I’d rather have a down-to-earth “folksy” politician than a self-righteous punk riding on a family name and a Yale degree.

We’re not the ones creating the gap you speak of. It’s there, but it’s the product of “centrists” and progressives attempting to marginalize true conservative values (which do NOT include amending the constitution to make it conform to the bible and using state-operated schools to teach all those Methodist and Lutheran heathens about creationism, thank you very much.) Get a clue, and come back when you can put together a coherent thought without blatantly insulting this diarist and the rest of us on RedState.

it came straight out of a liberal playbook because that’s exactly what libs say when they’re insulting conservatives.

It wouldn’t matter the level of education and a conservative could be in the upper 1% of MENSA and still be considered:

folksy, home-spun, semi-educated politicians

because…

If we’re conservative we’re just dumb. That cannard has been used for as long as I can remember and I’m old. It has become a standard verse of the liberal litany.

to see that the debt shackles we’re incurring is, to use a simple word, bad.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

– Theodore Roosevelt

There is no magic intellectual solution for the debt we’re incurring. Ask the Chinese students that listened to Geithner’s crafted reassurances. The gave a simple but stunning retort: “Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!”

Whether the US navigates its way out of its economic problems or whether it continues to sputter will be far more a matter of the country’s will to make the right choices instead of comforting ourselves with rhythmic, trance-inducing HopeyChangey speeches.

not to prejudge or stereotype me because of my views on just one of the many conservative leaders and issues I support. Me, the middle class guy with a bachelor of science that works in heavy industry. Me, the Buddhist in an interracial marriage. Me, the guy that also supports Newt Gingrich, Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliani, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Jeff Sessions, and a whole host of R’s and conservatives… at least most of the time. Me, the recovering alcoholic that volunteers at the methadone clinic every weekend holding sessions not on religion, but recovery. Me, the veteran that legally conceal carries and owns a large caliber assault rifle. Me, the guy that supports civil marriages, comprehensive immigration reform, and an improved, expanded Medicaid system.

We are all unique, with different views and experiences- this should make us a stronger party- not tear us apart.

There does seem to be a “terrible gap” in conservative politics right now… in fact quite a few. And they are being widened on a daily basis by those that feel that anyone with strong convictions different from their own need to “get a clue”. I trust Sarah, but I am quickly losing faith in some of you.

If you want to see less of the Sarah diaries and more 2010 candidates… START POSTING!!!!!

I didn’t mean to call him or the others, a liar, I was trying to make a point about trust…

I actually fired this off after a half a cup, it was really a rant out of frustration…I like Romney, he’s surfin buddies with my boy Rohrbacher….I’m still not sure if I trust him like I do Sarah……..nevermind….I’m sure I don’t

“I haven’t trusted my judgement since.”

on this issue, you deserve a serious response.

she’ll probably never be president.

Although others may have thought so or said so, I haven’t seen any write it here before. I think you’re right. But you were probably right even before her recent resignation announcement. McCain pulled her onto the national stage before her time, possibly destroying any real chance she might have had in four or eight more years. Besides that, hardly anybody will ever be President, so she really isn’t that different from Tommy Thompson, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, or Bob Dole–they all had lots more experience than she has, and they were either eliminated in the primaries or lost to a much less experienced opponent. Not every politician even wants to be President.

She may well agree with me, and her intentions may be to become a representative of conservative ideas and supporter of other conservatives, not a Presidential candidate herself.

Or, she may think that she’s more like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama than she is like Bob Dole and John McCain, and in some respects that is true, too. Obviously, so I won’t belabor the point.

What we all should acknowledge is that the “free press” and its free support of any Democrat is the monkey wrench in the works. Democrats who are clearly “inappropriate” get elected, while clean conservatives are trashed and thrown away. Bush barely overcame the handicap; Obama used it expertly.

Here is a guess from me: IF she is planning to run for President, it’s in 2008 (just a guess based on the resignation timing). She will spend some time in seclusion, writing her book and boning up on international affairs (no pun intended) and sharpening her knowledge of history, national issues and economics.

Only then will she begin speaking about those subjects, making it clear what her positions are and why the Democrats’ positions are wrong. She will hammer Democrats on every inconsistency in their performances, everything they’ve done wrong, everything they’ve switched positions on, everything they’ve lied about. She’ll eschew her own personal story in favor of her personal and public charisma and powerful ideas. She’ll be able to make a series of speeches, each one on a specific issue, rather than each one having to cover the whole field.

Her interaction with the press will be limited to press conference Q and A’s on specific topics, not half-hour or longer one-on-one interviews. She’ll take her message to America in new ways that bypass the filter of the SCUM. If she can carry it off, she will be nominated and probably elected if she continues to promote conservative ideas forcefully and without equivocation.

If she does this, the fact that she resigned as Governor of Alaska will be meaningless to voters. They’ll recognize it as a politician positioning for an attack, and they’ll appreciate that it was a necessary move, because without it she’d have been tied up in Alaska, swatting flies.

OTOH, if she follows almost any other path, she won’t be able to overcome the “novice, not-ready-for-prime-time” label.

And you are right, “Most people don’t pay close enough attention to politics to understand her reasoning,” in fact they don’t pay enough attention to even be aware of the atrocities of the Obama administration–GM, Chrysler, trillions of dollars of overspending or to know much about Sarah Palin eiher way. In fact, most of them probably couldn’t tell you that a trillion dollars is a million dollars, a million times. So for a whole lot of people, the next time they hear a speech by Sarah Palin will be the first time they hear a speech by Sarah Palin. She still has plenty of opportunity to move forward on the national scene.