First of all, we like Sarah Palin and have been to her rally’s to hear her speak and were impressed. We also feel the press has gone well beyond fairness in their horrible and unprofessional treatment of Mrs. Palin and her beautiful family. John McCain and his staff also deserve credit for their poor treatment of Mrs. Palin and tepid responses to the vicious press she has received.
This past Friday Sarah Palin resigned as Governor of Alaska, late in the day before a major holiday weekend. Who could blame her for wanting to remove herself and family from the public spotlight but the unrelenting press now has more ammo to fire at her and if she decides to return to politics it will only be more like all out war. 
Feminists in particular love ridiculing Mrs. Palin and we should advise that pathetic group maybe they should look into a mirror and view a real ugly situation already developed. Attacks on her family are unforgiveable and anyone with a sense of decency would stand up against the media with phone calls, letters and by boycotting TV and radio outlets.
Sarah Palin should stay off Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites and take the high road into the sunset to write a book, give some speeches and quietly raise her family. After all, she resigned a Governorship amidst a horrible onslaught of viciousness and if she has eyes on the White House this act will haunt her as someone who can’t take the heat, no matter how big the fire. If she is simply moving away from political life who could possibly blame her?
The Wall Street Journal has an honest assessment of her Vice-Presidential run although diehard fans may find it difficult to accept:
Last year’s campaign showed she didn’t understand economics any better than Mr. McCain — a very low bar — and her responses on too many issues sounded like half-baked spin rather than sincere judgments that she herself had reached or understood. No doubt Mr. McCain’s backbiting campaign team didn’t help her — we hope the next nominee bars them all — but every candidate is ultimately responsible for her own performance.
Currently only one candidate stands out as presidential material in 2012 and that is Mitt Romney. He still has to thoroughly explain Massachusetts Care to this author but Mr. Romney knows the issues, is articulate and far better qualified than Barack Hussein Obama in every category. The Republicans missed this opportunity last time and they need to get on board with a Romney for President platform or allow themselves to creep further into the background as political party dinosaurs.
Mr. Romney, unlike Sarah Palin, will be able to effectively respond to Obama if he takes credit for any economic recovery takes place and will defeat him soundly in one-on-one debates without teleprompters available.
Mrs. Palin has a very long way to go if she is to lead Conservatives and the GOP to regaining the White House and Congress in a full frontal assault on the current Socialism taking place in the beltway.
We wish Mrs. Palin all the luck in the world and only the very best for her family as they move on to new challenges or to regular life in America’s 49th State. The Palin family deserves our respect and good wishes, they don’t deserve the misuse of the 1st amendment of the United States Constitution. No one has a right to attack children, families and candidates with the absolute viciousness displayed by the media toward the Palin family.
Mrs. Palin has natural political talents and if she is to continue a political career we hope she uses her time to work hard and add substance to her policy resume. Star power is nice but as America is finding out it doesn’t qualify someone for the US presidency.
See you down the road Sarah. Indeed!
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July 6th, 2009 at 9:54 am
If I was a Palin-hater from the Media and McCain campaign, I’d be worried. This sounds more like a Charles Bronson “Deathwish” move than skulking into anonymity. Now she can do some damage of her own, and take over a weakened RNC. I agree, she’s not going to be President. I think she’s going after Michael Steele’s job.
She righted the State of Alaska in only a couple of years, and turned it over to her hand-picked successor. The Palin camp is now freed from the bonds of political office and its required niceties to go on a truth telling spree, which will gain her cash and conservative cred. with options for the future. Target #1 should be John McCain — the candidate she saved from historic embarassment by signing on to his dysfunctional pathology of a campaign, only to have him turn on her.
Palin knows the truth: She brought this politically-decrepit gadfly to within weeks of a double-digit win, only to have him and his Keystone Kops of a campaign staff blow it with classically gutless “GOP moderate” aplomb, then try and hang it on her.
The Media already hates her, so that’s a wash; and making enemies of the GOP has-beens can only be a plus with Independents and Conservatives. It is about time that there is a Republican that is willing to play the “bloodsport” without conscience as the leftists do. It’s ironic that it may be a Conservative woman in the Thatcher mold that will revive the party of Lincoln and Reagan.
July 6th, 2009 at 11:29 am
I agree with everything Joe C. says.
I won’t and can’t support Romney. I have seen the mess he left the infrastructure in. The roads are a mess. The Big Dig remains unfinished. Just try to get out of Logan Airport. What a disaster? Romney gave them a MANDATORY healthcare plan but much else has suffered because of the cost overruns on that plan including a tax hike by Patrick and they are still in the red.
His Massachusetts health care system is in the red with healthcare rationing happening all the time. It even included fining people if they didn’t have healthcare….the same idea is in the Senate version of the current administration’s healthcare bill. On top of that there were no safeguards built into the program. Hawaii had to give up similar healthcare after 7 months.
Peopl with employer health care found it more expensive so they would take their families off that healthcare and stick the on Hawaii’s healthcare plan putting it in the red….the same thing in Massachusetts.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
As I said, I’m waiting for a full explanation. I’m not going to blame Romney for anything a few years after he has gone from the Governor’s house. The Libtards have made Masschusetts into a bigger mess and that is not Romney’s fault.
The Libs own Massachusetts and a Governor on the other side has very little to work with. I agree the healthcare system is a mess but once again, I want to hear what his explanation is.
I also don’t like his social flip-flopping but I’m looking at who can take Obama out.
Romney is currently raising money for as many as 38 candidates for Congress in the background. He has the power, ability and business sense to help the GOP recover from itself.
Palin, even with her star power, is simply not ready for the White House. This country has to stop choosing inadquate people to be president. The choices are slim and between slim and none; the GOP chose none.
The country chose inept and none. Indeed!
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July 6th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
If Palin wants to stay in politics, she needs to hire a good speech writer. Her resignation speech was a mess. Also, the fact that she didn’t really explain why she is resigning is very puzzling and suspicious.
In addition, someone needs to advise her that playing the victim is a foolish strategy for someone who wants to be a leader. People do not look up to victims, they may feel sorry for them, but they do not look at them as leaders. Palin would do well to take a cue from Obama’s method of dealing with criticism – confront it as directly and honestly as possible and then move on (or ignore it if it is something trivial like a comedian’s joke).
One of the worst things that a political leader can do is respond to criticism by claiming that everyone is always picking on them because they are black, female, etc. She is either getting bad advice or she is using poor judgment, or both.
July 6th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Very good post John….here comes that “but”:
“Palin would do well to take a cue from Obama’s method of dealing with criticism – confront it as directly and honestly as possible and then move on…”
Obama’s method with dealing with criticism is not to ignore it because many times he brings it up in a speech for example:
“Some people would like you to think”….than he goes on to rip them without always naming them.
And…I don’t believe Obama does anything “honestly” for he is the ultimate liar. Indeed!
July 6th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Sure, all politicians lie – Obama no more or less than any other. But what I am referring to is how Obama dealt with potential scandals during his campaign, such as the Rev. Wright fiasco. After Rev. Wright made more inflammatory comments during the presidential campaign, Obama denounced Wright’s comments and quit his membership in Wright’s church, and then gave an impressive speech about race relations. This quickly defused the controversy. Instead, Obama could have claimed that the media is always picking on him, playing the role of victim for sympathy, or he could have denied any connection to Wright or argued that Wright never said anything wrong. These alternate approaches would certainly have kept the controversy alive much longer.
This has been the approach that Palin has usually chosen – to blame the media for picking on her or deny that something happened, in spite of evidence to the contrary. Instead, if she would just say, “This is what happened”, and tell her version of the events, it would instill more trust from the public and more confidence in her strength as a leader. The strategy of evasiveness and denial undermines the public trust and gives the impression that there is something bad that she needs to hide. Her resignation speech was very evasive, proving that she still hasn’t learned this lesson.
July 6th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
John:
I was about to reply “point taken” but I have this:
“Instead, Obama could have claimed that the media is always picking on him, playing the role of victim for sympathy, or he could have denied any connection to Wright or argued that Wright never said anything wrong.”
Obama did, in fact, say he never heard the vitriol of Wright in church despite spending 20 yrs. there and having his children baptized by Wright.
When he could claim the media, other than Fox News, “picks” on Obama. Fox reported the new and he did bring them up often as part of his blame game when the rest of the media played cover.
“This has been the approach that Palin has usually chosen – to blame the media for picking on her or deny that something happened, in spite of evidence to the contrary.”
Hundreds from the press corp. dropped down on Alaska, searching through dumpsters, garbage cans and public records in a massive attempt to discredit Sarah Palin.
The same press never pressed issues such as Wright, Dohrn, Ayers, birth certificates, where Obama was born, how he got into Harvard, how the education was paid for, how he got into Columbia, who paid for it, the Muslim billionaire from Texas via the Middle East with ties to the Black Panthers who seems to have that education link but was never part of any vetting process.
It’s all here on this blog but the national press never, ever properly vetted Barack Hussein Obama or Barry Soetero for that matter.
So comparing the press vs. Palin vs. Obama would be laughable if not so terribly tragic.
Did I mention Letterman at this late date in the process after the election? And bloggers in Alaska in particular making absolutely false statements against Palin when and having the FBI confirm nothing the bloggers claim is true?
It’s no contest and do we really know much about Obama? Nothing but we know everything about all the other candidates.
Here is some interesting discussion and other links to posts denigrating Palin and her son Trig at Opinion Journal’s Best of the Web. (See 1st piece about Palin)