Palin Saboteurs Want to Kill Her Career Now (Guest Voice)
Is former Republican ticket Veep candidate Gov. Sarah Palin getting a bum wrap? In this Guest Voice column, authors and speakers Floyd and Marth Beth Brown argue that Palin has been targeted by the party’s Old Guard. Guest Voice posts do not necessarily reflect the opinion of TMV or its writers.
Palin Saboteurs Want to Kill Her Career Now
By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown
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.
©2008 Floyd and Mary Beth Brown. The Browns are bestselling authors and speakers. Together they write a national weekly column distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.
Cartoon by Mike Keefe, The Denver Post
18 Responses to “Palin Saboteurs Want to Kill Her Career Now (Guest Voice)”
Or maybe it is the fact that by most polls a majority of Americans think she isn't qualified, a bipartisan investigation finding she violated ethics laws, and the fact that she thinks being able to see Russia constitutes foreign policy experience is killing her career?
Seriously, she may be “Human, likeable, personable ” but that doesn't mean she should be running the country. George W. Bush was human, likeable and personable and we've seen how well that's gone. She is massively unqualified and divisive. And people don't want that. It isn't some vast conspiracy trying to discredit Palin, it is just that Palin isn't the person for the job.
Why worry about killing something that is committing suicide?
This one has Mitt Romney's fingerprints all over it. Remember, Romney is the same guy who, during the Republican primaries, hired a Mormon-run company make anti-Mormon phone calls to his own campaign staffers in Iowa, who were then trotted out to the news media to denounce the anti-Mormon calls and blame them on McCain.
I happen to think Sarah Palin is a moron, but the sliming of this woman is way over the top, and it bears all the hallmarks of a classic Romney hit job.
If by “old guard” they mean “literate, rational people” then yes, they are totally anti-Palin.
I'd imagine the Old Guard has every interest in killing her career as quickly as possible. She has appeal to a certain segment of the Republican base – enough, perhaps, to secure her the nomination in 4 years. But the Old Guard knows that she'll never appeal to enough of the middle to give the Republicans a chance at winning.
My goodness, this fall's new entertainment season has been the best in years! I've already been through an entire case of Jiffy Pop in a week and a half.
With new shows set in Minnesota and Alaska yet to debut, I'm going to have to consider buying the non-butter flavored kernels though.
I agree with jcavhs.
Probably the old guard realizes that they can't win a national election with a candidate that attracts the base while losing the middle. They may be tired of losing and tired of the social cons' hold over the party.
Divisive politics is out of style- unity is in. The GOP misjudged the mood of the country and tried to run the same kind of campaign that George W won with in 2000 and 2004.
We were kind of OK (my wife and I) reading this dribble…until we came across “Looking back at history, you see resemblances of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in Palin”
My wife, who is English-born, immediately saw this as a shameful insult to bot h Margaret Thatcher and to the British, and I, who as a former Republican still have some respect for Ronald Reagan, see it as an insult to the former President and as an afront to (former) Conservatives.
I couldn't get past the “She ignited the campaign and gave the reform message legitimacy…” statement before I began recalling the palling-around-with-terrorists rhetoric, the “pro-America” statements, the bulk of “lies” spelled out nicely by Andrew Sullivan, and the claim of “victimhood” of the MSM that seems to echo that common Republican battle cry that riles the base. She was unarguably the most divisive, ill informed candidate to hit the trail in decades. Nothing reforming about that, I should think. Comparison to Margaret Thatcher?
“Reform message?” I still think it's a celebration of mediocrity.
Mike_P – funny as heck!! LOL
I guess they're already beginning to work on the “pallin' around with Palin” meme. Good stuff – the GOP eats it's young.
It IS something how Palin went from being a complete unknown to McCain's savior to campaign scapegoat. I may disagree with everything about her- yer darn tootin'!, but McCain and his aides did vett and pick her after all, which was a real whopper in the mistake dept!.
The answer to A.R.'s question is that there are many in the GOP who are motivated to kill even someone who is committing suicide, as they have been motivated to kill others before.
The party is dysfunctional. Granted, these idiots within the GOP are more sane than the scum on the left who have been attacking her (and the GOP) for the most debased motives (as we've seen with some writers on this site, included), and I question the desire of some in the party to rely on Newt Gingrich as the party's re-designer and reviver (he was on NPR this morning). But it's true that (despite the lunacy among the cult-faithful) that this wasn't a big embrace of Obama, much less the Dems this year but that the US public “fired the Republicans with [for] cause.” And at least someone like Gingrich, whom I don't like, is better than, say, Andrew Sullivan, who may as well be wearing blue drag and sporting a D on his forehead. (Was that he on the Diane Rehm show on NPR some time ago who was _sniveling_ about the Bush administration's well-known approval of torture? Not only is that old, tired, stale news, but to snivel about it is absolutely disgusting. Go wear a goddamned blue dress…)
Also, A.R., I question the suicide. Oh, not the phenenomon — to this day I stick with my placing her in the same kind of position as Mike Huckabee, who is personally likeable but who won't go the distance. Nor will she. But the motive? Was it true that at the GOP govs' convention she said that 2012 would be a great year to field a female Presidential candidate? That's what I heard on the radio while on the road earlier today and I just groaned.
K. Ritter — events so far this year underpin my contention that a rational thing for the GOP to do is just adopt Heritage Foundation's people and policy agenda and be done with it — at least then they have defined themselves in a coherent manner with an agenda and a path to take to get there — even if the GOP is just a clone of Heritage. The point isn't if Heritage is the best or not, but that at least Heritage knows what it wants and what to do and how to do it.
DLS – Please show one Lefty scum site that gives a forum to the likes of a Liberal Ted Nugent. Human Events is the future of your Republican party. It's leaders are Biily Kristol(NYT), Palin and Nugent, the Democrats purged Jeff Fieger and embraced Heath Schuler.
The Republcan party welcomes Joe Plumber and purges Buckley's son and Bacevich. Republicans – are you smarter than a fifth grader?
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articl…
Obama read the Federalist Papers, W lied when he said he reads Camus.
DLS- Why don't they just drop their bid for the votes of the middle and lower classes and admit they are just representing the over $250,000 crowd and the diehard Christian fundies? That would be more believable than inventing a Joe the Plumber or a Tito the Builder!
Its pretty sad that everyday people won't vote GOP unless they think there's an imminent terrorist threat and that the world will end if they don't!
In one fell swoop, Bush took the GOP from almost a permanent majority to unforeseen years in the wilderness. That is why they should make sure future leaders have the right stuff between their ears!
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