Palin: America is Ready for a Woman

The further Sarah Palin distances herself from mainstream Republican Washington, the more I like her. And while I tend to agree with Andrew Breitbart that she can be the proverbial king maker for the next 20 years by just holding her peace, the United States is in desperate need of someone decidedly un-Washington in its next President.

I believe she will run in 2012.

While Washington punditry use every Palin tweet and FaceBook posting to point out why she cannot be President, the former governor continues to woo those of us who are convinced that our government cannot recover without drastic surgery. The current lot of GOPers, now only five months in office—and I’m speaking of the old-guard leadership—are already showing signs of being more a part of the problem than the solution.

Sarah Palin is the only true Reagan Republican in the current field of potential candidates, unless one considers Michele Bachmann a potential. Newt Gingrich—who I have always liked—brings with him the same insider baggage we’re trying to shun; Mike Huckabee at times borders on the downright goofy, and most of the rest will never raise enough money to see primary day.

In the meantime, Palin has been busily crafting policy statements that are sounding more presidential with every speech she gives. Her métier is energy but she has also waded into the big boy game of international politics and makes uncommonly good sense when she does.

The Qualification Thing

In light of recent events in Libya and Japan and the current economic crisis, there should now be no question (actually there never was) that Palin is qualified to be President. The woman knows how to make a decision, unlike one world traveler who comes to mind.

Does anyone really believe that the US would be following France in the current Libyan mess were President Palin in the White House? There is no way she would looking at Nicholas Sarkozy’s backside today. I gotta buck says she could kick Obama’s ass in a street fight.

Nuff said.

My dream cabinet in a Palin White House:

Secretary of State: Newt Gingrich

Secretary of Defense: Oliver North

Secretary of Treasury: Paul Ryan

Attorney General: Michele Bachmann

Secretary of Commerce: Donald Trump

Surgeon General: Keith Ablow

Energy Department: What Energy Department?

Transportation: Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Education: Any home-school mother

Palin Staffer Sells Out for the Big Bucks

Frank Bailey worked his way into Sarah Palin’s favor as a volunteer in her campaign for governor of Alaska, to become one her closest advisors in that office. He has since “been forced to reconsider his actions on Palin’s behalf in terms of his deep Christian faith … ” for money.

For the second time since Sarah Palin left him behind upon her resignation, Bailey is shopping a “tell-all” of his years as a staff member in her office. This time he has secured the services of New York literary agent Carol Mann to pedal his trashy opus, “Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of our Tumultuous Years.”

According to some in the publishing industry Bailey stands to make as much as $100,000 up front, and between $500,000 and $1 million in total for his scandalous tell-all.

In his quest for publication, from the get-go, Bailey plays fast and loose with the facts, by alleging that Palin made a political appointment to the state Supreme Court as personal payoff. The former staffer claims that the governor appointed a pro-choice judge rather than pro-lifer to the state Supreme Court for ruling in her sister’s favor in her custody dispute with state trooper Mike Wooten.

The dispute between Wooten and his then wife, Molly, Palin’s sister, resulted in the “Trooper-Gate” scandal, which was concocted by DNC operatives in the media to derail the 2008 McCain-Palin campaign. The fact is, both of the judges eligible for the appointment to the court were pro-choice, and the one Palin ultimately selected was never assigned to her sister’s custody case.

With that kind of command of the facts, Bailey may be able to secure a recently opened anchor position at MSNBC when book sales die down.

There will no doubt be more leaks in days to come, all designed to interest Random House et al.

One reason Bailey’s previous book failed to attract a publisher was that he was playing in the big pool—the ultimate mud puddle. Virtually every disreputable writer and journalist in America has taken an underhanded shot a Palin over the last two and a half years; even heretofore mainstream journalists have not been able to resist the temptation to go tabloid where the beautiful conservative firebrand is concerned.

In this era of microwavable success where—in the words of Tom Petty—“it seems people want to … start at ‘American Idol’ and go on to some form of instant fame from there,” what Bailey is attempting to do has been almost legitimized. Much of it may be the result of under teaching morality and ethics in our schools, but more often than not it is simply laziness. For a man like Bailey, who missed the “brass ring” on the Palin bandwagon, writing a tell-all probably seemed like easy way back into the game.

In the end, of course, he is just a bottom feeder like the others who sell out those who trusted them with their most closely guarded secrets, or who pedal thinly veiled lies for a price.

Frank Bailey will sell his manuscript this time, if for no other reason than the fact that nothing else has worked in the Left’s attempt to destroy Sarah Palin. He will have no integrity left but he will, like Scott McClellan before him, have momentary albeit fleeting success.

And then he will join the legions of others who have bitten the hands that fed them, and become an ugly footnote in the history of a great life.

Medved Turns on Limbaugh-Palin, Feeds Left’s Disinformation Machine

Oh no you didn’t! Michael Medved, who came to fame as a conservative commentator when Hollywood dumped him for taking the industry to task on content, joined the chorus of clueless Republicans to go off on Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin today, calling their criticisms of Barack Obama “especially distasteful — and destructive to the conservative cause.”

In his WSJ op-ed, “Obama Isn’t Trying to ‘Weaken America,’” Medved laments conservatives who think Obama has less than honorable intentions for the nation. Which explains why conservatives are burning up the airwaves to dial out his daily radio program to listen to Limbaugh, who, incidentally, gave Medved his start in talk radio. Happy Valentines Day, Rush.

Palin and Limbaugh, both of whose stock seems to increase by the nanosecond, have been pointedly critical of Obama as possibly purposely undermining the government. Theirs is not an isolated position; Glenn Beck has floated the theory that Obama is a proponent of the Cloward-Piven strategy to collapse the American republic into a democratic socialist state-type government.

The thing is, the evidence is on Limbaugh and Palin’s side. Whether Obama is deliberately trying to collapse the government or not, he has employed both Saul Alinsky and Cloward-Piven strategies consistently from the beginning of his term. His takeover of the American healthcare system is a classic example of the former; he used Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals, rules numbers 5, 8 and 10 in pushing through his package, and continues to use rule 11 now to implement it.

As honorable as Medved’s intentions may be, in publishing the attack on his conservative radio mentor and the former vice presidential candidate, he is fueling the Left’s disinformation machine by giving weight to the spurious argument that their criticisms are fantastical.

Medved piously declares:

Moreover, the current insistence in seeing every misstep or setback by the Obama administration as part of a diabolical master plan for national destruction disregards the powerful reverence for the White House that’s been part of our national character for two centuries.

Which of course plays right into Obama’s hands. By joining the lines of moon howlers on the left who suggest that Limbaugh and Palin are among the loonies propagating malicious or ignorant untruths about the President, Medved strings swimmingly to the tune of Alinsky’s fifth rule. Make them look ridiculous with ridicule.

But Medved doesn’t let conservative loyalty get in his way:

Regardless of the questionable pop psychology of this analysis, as a political strategy it qualifies as almost perfectly imbecilic. Republicans already face a formidable challenge in convincing a closely divided electorate that the president pursues wrong-headed policies.

Oh really?

Currently only 29 percent of voters approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president; nearly 40 percent strongly disapprove. Fifty-seven percent are for the repeal of health care, and similar numbers disapprove of his stance on immigration, cap and trade and just about every foreign policy decision he has made. Workers in the Gulf Coast petroleum industry are on the verge of revolt because of his drilling moratorium.

If the Republicans have a problem selling their message in 2012, one is safe to bet that it will be John Boehner, Mitt Romney, or dare I say Michael Medved, who miss-sell it, not Plain or Limbaugh.

The fact remains that whether or not Barack Obama is trying to harm the nation, he is without question doing just that, and what is decidedly not needed at this juncture, is another inside-the-box Republican to help him with his task.