Palin at Rolling Thunder
Thank God, Sarah Palin is back! Politics is fun again.
Sarah Palin, the candidate the media, dismisses – and can’t stop talking about her, her political intentions, and the fact that she showed up at the Rolling Thunder rally at the Pentagon Sunday, May 29, 2011, during the Memorial Day weekend in Washington.
Sarah Palin is Getting Ready to Run
Now that it has been confirmed that Sarah Palin has bought a home in Scottsdale, AZ, it seems pretty certain that she is getting ready to run for President.
Democrat Party partisan Jonathan Bernstein at the Washington Post concedes that she’s got supporters in place, policy positions that are agreeable to mainstream Republicans, and yes, she’s got credentials:
On the plus side, Palin still has something that, as far as I can tell, only Ron Paul of the current Republican field brings to the table: a large, dedicated group of supporters. That’s a valuable resource. She is also conventionally credentialed; yes, she didn’t even make it through a full term in Alaska, but the VP nomination basically clinches it; the Republican Party is already on record as saying that she is qualified to be president. On top of that, Palin has, as far as I know, not a single position on the issues that would get her in trouble with any important Republican organized group or constituency. All of those things make her a plausible Republican nominee for President of the United States.
Actually, that is an important point that Bernstein makes: it doesn’t matter that she didn’t complete a 4-year term as Governor of Alaska, because had she become the Vice President of the United States, she would have resigned as Governor anyway in January of 2009 rather than when she did leave in July 2009.
Palin Film to Debut in June
An epic Sarah Palin documentary will premiere next month, in of all places … Iowa, a crucial launching state for republicans candidates running for president.
Real Clear Politics reported last night on a new Sarah Palin film that will be releases next month in Iowa: “This film is a call to action for a campaign like 1976: Reagan vs. the establishment,” filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon said. “Let’s have a good old-fashioned brouhaha.”
Chicks Rule
This reminds me of Michelle Yeoh in the film “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” when she runs up the side of the building – but I thought it was done with wires. This “Grizzlies” ball girl goes 15 feet up a wall and makes it look easy. Best 39 seconds you will see today.
h/t: http://hillbuzz.org/
The Education on a Leftist
“…I never questioned my tribal assumption that Capitalism was bad,” he writes now, “although I, simultaneously, never acted upon these feelings.” He was always happy to cash a royalty check and made sure to insist on a licensing fee. “I supported myself, as do all those not on the government dole, through the operation of the Free Market.”
…He saw he was Talking Left and Living Right, a condition common among American liberals, particularly the wealthy among them, who can, for instance, want to impose diversity requirements on private companies while living in monochromatic neighborhoods, or vote against school vouchers while sending their kids to prep school, or shelter their income while advocating higher tax rates.
“…But I saw the liberals hated George Bush. It was vicious. And I thought about it, and I didn’t get it. He was no worse than the others, was he? And I’d ask my liberal friends, ‘Well, why do you hate him?’ They’d all say: ‘He lied about WMD.’ Okay. You love Kennedy. Kennedy didn’t write Profiles in Courage—he lied about that. ‘Bush is in bed with the Saudis!’ Okay, Kennedy was in bed with the mafia.”
An excellent read on the conversion of David Mamet from liberal to someone who is finally “thinking away from the herd.”
Two Years of Obama
From an email – ALL OF IT IS TRUE:
If any other of our presidents had doubled the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?
If any other of our presidents had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?
If any other of our presidents had criticized a state law that he admitted he never even read, would you think that he is just an ignorant hot head?
If any other of our presidents joined the country of Mexico and sued a state in the United States to force that state to continue to allow illegal immigration, would you question his patriotism and wonder whose side he was on?
If any other of our presidents had pronounced the Marine Corps like Marine Corpse, would you think him an idiot?
If any other of our presidents had put 87,000 workers out of work by arbitrarily placing a moratorium on offshore oil drilling on companies that have one of the best safety records of any industry because one foreign company had an accident, would you have agreed?
If any other of our presidents had used a forged document as the basis of the moratorium that would render 87000 American workers unemployed would you support him?
If any other of our presidents had been the first President to need a Teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?
If any other of our presidents had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take his First Lady to a play in NYC, would you have approved?
If any other of our presidents had reduced your retirement plan holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?
If any other of our presidents had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?
If any other of our presidents had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?
If any other of our presidents had visited Austria and made reference to the nonexistent “Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?
If any other of our presidents had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?
If any other of our presidents had stated that there were 57 states in the United States, wouldn’t you have had second thoughts about his capabilities?
If any other of our presidents would have flown all the way to Denmark to make a five minute speech about how the Olympics would benefit his home town, would you not have thought he was a self important, conceited, egotistical jerk?
If any other of our presidents had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, wouldn’t you have winced in embarrassment?
If any other of our presidents had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?
If any other of our presidents’ administrations had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?
If any other of our presidents had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?
If any other of our presidents had created the position of 32 Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America, would you have ever approved?
If any other of our presidents had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?
Then IF he were Republican, would the media have let him off?
So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive?
He did all this in 21 months — so you have that much time to come up with an answer.
Every statement and action in this email is factual and directly attributable to Barrack Hussein Obama. Every bumble is a matter of record and completely verifiable.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2719356/posts
Actually, Palin was a Great Governor
They still hate her, but the left Atlantic Magazine offered the following concessions admitting that Sarah Palin did some remarkable things during her two-and-a-half years in the Alaska governor’s office:
As governor, Palin demonstrated many of the qualities we expect in our best leaders. She set aside private concerns for the greater good….She succeeded to a remarkable extent in settling, at least for a time, what had seemed insoluble problems, in the process putting Alaska on a trajectory to financial well-being.
…Palin came out hard on the other side of the philosophical divide from Murkowski—and made it personal. She announced she would challenge him for governor. She assailed the “secret gas line deal” and the “multinational oil companies that make mind-boggling profits off resources owned by all Alaskans.” She put an “all-Alaska” pipeline at the center of her campaign. And she declared her intention to hire Tom Irwin to negotiate the deal. “She’s what I call ‘alley-cat smart,’” Tony Knowles, the former Democratic governor, told me. “It’s not about ideology. She knows how to pick her way down the political route that she feels will be the most beneficial to what she wants to do.”
…Palin has gained a reputation for being erratic, undisciplined, not up to the job. But that wasn’t how she looked as governor. She began by confronting the two biggest issues in Alaska—the gas pipeline and the oil tax—and drove the policy process on both of them.
…Four years later, Palin’s gas line hasn’t gotten going, but it’s not really her fault. Plunging natural-gas prices have made the project uneconomical. Her oil tax is a different story: though designed to capture more revenue under most scenarios, ACES has raised a lot more money than almost anyone imagined. That’s largely because of high oil prices. But it also shows that the law is working. ConocoPhillips, BP, and ExxonMobil have reported record profits—so it’s fitting that, in a sense, Alaska has, too. It’s no exaggeration to say that ACES has made the state one of the fiscally strongest in the union. Flush with cash, Alaska produced large capital budgets that blunted the effects of the recession. Moody’s just upped the state’s bond rating to AAA for the first time. While other states reel under staggering deficits, budget cuts, and protests, Alaska has built up a $12 billion surplus, most of it attributable to Palin’s tax. Galvin estimates that it has raised $8 billion more than Murkowski’s tax would have. But given the corruption that plagued the PPT, a better benchmark might be the tax it supplanted—the one put on the books after the Exxon Valdez spill. By that measure, Palin’s major achievement has probably meant the difference between a $12 billion surplus and a deficit.
Palin’s achievement was to pull Alaska out of a dire, corrupt, enduring systemic crisis and return it to fiscal health and prosperity when many people believed that such a thing was impossible…“
The Debt Ceiling Explained
Here is a very good video by Bankrupting America about the debt ceiling:
Patriotism is the Last Resort of Liberals
“The man who came into office promising multilateral engagement, no more torture and a civilian justice system for terrorists, now has only accomplishment to his name. A unilateral invasion and assassination based on intelligence gained through enhanced interrogation, carried out by men whom his supporters had once condemned as a secret assassination squad. What a failure Obama is that even the one success to his name is a testament to the failure of his own ideas.”
“Liberals joyfully proclaimed that the One would redeem America’s reputation. No longer would we torture terrorists, detain them in prison camps and try them with military tribunals. A shining new golden age was here. Two lawyers to every Al-Qaeda terrorist and a national apology for going outside the civilian justice system. Now three years later, the only thing they have to celebrate is that their man trashed every one of their hopes and dreams just to keep his head above water in the polls.”
Read the full excellent article by Daniel Greenfield: Patriotism is the Last Refuge of a Liberal
Requiem for bin Laden
For someone who believed in martyrdom, it sure took him long enough.
Best News Cast EVER
Two Iraqi guests come to blows on Iraqi TV while discussing Saddam Hussein.
“You despicable dog! Your sister is a whore! You Iranian!”
Warning: Foul language and uphappy folks.
h/t: Don Surber
