Palin Saboteurs
By: Floyd and Mary Beth Brown
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, November 17, 2008
Attacks on Gov.
Sarah Palin by McCain campaign staff at first appear to be a case of
making her a convenient scapegoat, but the attacks have a more devious
motive. This post-election barrage is the first volley of the campaign
to choose the Republican nominee in 2012. The Washington, D.C. based
establishment that rules the GOP wants her career over now. She
threatens them.
Firefighting 101 teaches it is easier to stomp
out a wildfire when it is small. Don’t allow the fire to grow, spread
and become an inferno. Sarah Palin was the spark of McCain’s reform
campaign. She ignited the campaign and gave the reform message
legitimacy.
Those knifing Palin are the old-guard Republicans
who don’t want to see her as the nominee in 2012. The old-guard GOP
candidates are likely Gov. Haley Barbour or former Gov. Mitt Romney.
Sarah
Palin brought a vibrant, fresh face to the Republican Party. The GOP
elitists saw how she easily connected with voters. Palin drew huge
crowds of up to 30,000 people anxious to see and hear her. The crowds
flocking to see Gov. Palin bond with her culturally. She has the
potential to garner Obama- or Reagan-like devotion.
The
Republican Party needs this grassroots energy and her reform agenda
after a decade of broken promises and the disappointing Bush
presidency.
Looking back at history, you see resemblances of
Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in Palin. Both Thatcher and Reagan
were dismissed and insulted by their own party stalwarts. “Useful
idiot” was a term once leveled at President Reagan.
Palin
hails from Wasilla, Alaska; Margaret Thatcher grew up in the apartment
over her family’s grocery store in a small town in England. Thatcher’s
father taught her never to do things because other people were doing
them. He said, “Do what you think is right and then persuade others to
follow you.” Like Thatcher, Palin’s political philosophy and economic
policies emphasize reduced government intervention, free markets and
entrepreneurialism.
Margaret Thatcher was willing to take a hard
line and earned the nickname “Iron Lady” for her tough-talking rhetoric
defiantly opposing the Soviet Union. Likewise, Palin is tough enough to
stand up to present-day threats. While Thatcher earned the moniker of
‘Attila the Hen,” Palin calls herself a “Pit-bull with Lipstick” and
others dub her “Sarah Barracuda.”
Human, likeable, personable
and witty like Reagan, with loads of common sense and confidence, Sarah
Palin lives what she believes. And the camera loves her as it loved
Ronald Reagan.
Grass-roots efforts are sure to encourage Palin
to run in for president in 2012. Meanwhile, she trusts a higher power,
saying she is, “Putting my life in my creator’s hands---that is what I
always do.” She also said, “I’m like, God, if there is an open door for
me somewhere, this is what I always pray, …don’t let me miss the open
door…And if there is an open door in ’12 or four years later, and if it
is something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for
my nation, an opportunity for me, then I’ll plow through that door.”
This
rising star is now too bright to be extinguished by attempts at
sabotage. She has addressed the criticism, setting the record straight
concerning the purchase of clothes for herself and her family by the
Republican National Committee, saying, “Those are the RNC’s clothes,
they are not my clothes. I never forced anybody to buy anything. I
never asked for anything more than maybe a Diet Dr Pepper every once in
a while.” And then there’s the ridiculous rumors regarding the debate
prep about NAFTA and Africa. Palin summed it up well, calling it
“cruel, it’s mean-spirited, it’s immature, and it’s unprofessional,”
and said, “Those guys are jerks if they came away with it taking thing
out of context, then tried to spread something on national news.”
Yet
Palin realizes criticism is to be expected in politics. “Your life is
an open book and you open yourself up to criticism and you’d better be
ready to take that criticism,” she said. “In other words, don’t run for
office if you can’t handle it.”
Those staffers guilty of
anonymous attacks are cowards. Their agenda to control the GOP needs to
be seen for what it is -- an attempt to kill the career of Sarah Palin
because it threatens them. Americans can see through the falsehoods and
love the real Sarah Palin. Nearly 400 letters arrive daily addressed to
Gov. Palin and are now piled high in big bags waiting for her.
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