By Gary P Jackson
How embarrassing is it that even the notorious Palin bashing bunch over at the Alaska Dispatch gets it? The writer, Scott Woodham, spends three freakin’ pages on this, but here’s the gist:
We’re not sure if it’s just a coincidence, but ever since Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee and former governor of Alaska, finally said she’d decided not to run, things have gotten pretty wild. News reporters turned their attention to the declared candidates. When they started shaking trees, all manner of fruit and nuts started falling down. The polls have been all over the place as your party’s voters narrow in on their choice. And it seems that every week there’s some new poll showing a new challenger to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s consistent string of top showings.
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But Trump’s mention of the “right” candidate has us thinking. We’re a little concerned it’s a hint that Sarah Palin might be regretting her decision to bow out of the race. Adding to our concern is the apparent fact that each of the struggling challengers to Romney seems to have something small in common with Palin. It’s as if her formidable media persona had been divided up into pieces and then handed out piecemeal to other candidates who aren’t named Romney or Huntsman and who have recently enjoyed short-lived favor in GOP polls.
Cain, before imploding under the weight of scandalous headlines and Pokemon quotes, exuded a very relatable “you betcha” attitude and wielded very simple solutions to the nation’s problems; Ron Paul consistently rails against the status quo and calls for a wholesale reduction in the size and scope of the federal government (though, admittedly, he’s been at it a lot longer than Palin); Rick Perry looks good on camera and has Texan swagger (a small substitute for Alaskan swagger); Michelle Bachmann has strong appeal among religious conservatives. And essentially all of them encourage the economic fantasy that the United States can actually achieve “energy independence,” as Palin has commonly done.
In a recent media appearance, Palin threw a bone to former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick “Google Problem” Santorum by praising his “ideological consistency.” But he’s never been among the leaders, and a recent Gallup poll concludes that 62 percent of Republican voters consider him unacceptable as a nominee.
Woodham, skewers all of the candidates, you can read more here.
It’s good to see the Dispatch’s contempt for Governor Palin is still intact. I would have been worried the Mayan’s prediction of earth’s demise might be about to come true if it was missing.
Also missing is the author’s grip on reality when it comes to energy independence. The only reason it’s a “fantasy” is because corrupt politicians, and the “green” freak show are making it so.
All the barbs from Woodham aside, The GOP made a huge mistake by not embracing Sarah Palin and her platform of restoration, renewal, and revival. Too many crooks worried that she would do the corrupt politicians in Washington, what she helped do in Alaska, for them to take a chance she might become our next president.
What’s even more pathetic, is while some, like Bachmann, have stolen a line or two from Sarah, and Newt is out-right ripping off many of her speeches, no one is embracing the fundamental issues that will actually restore our nation.
That’s the real tragedy here.
Millions of Americans are STILL begging Sarah Palin to reconsider, because none of these candidates, separately, or as a whole, are addressing the real issues.
It’s a tragedy on a massive scale.
The first candidate who can be seen as BELIEVABLY making an effort to embrace Sarah Palin and her agenda of sudden and relentless reform, as well her agenda to restore, renew, and revive the nation with a solid economic plan, will be the nominee. So far, that’s not happened, and the supposed “front runners” simply don’t have the credibility to pull it off.
I do agree~
The GOP. The Stupid Party.
Sarah Palin is the one that stuck her neck out confronting Obama for years. She wrote 2 books ‘fact-checked’ to the hilt. Those, plus 24,000 emails forced open, an independently made movie, a readily accessible political history, and an online ample policy positions/plans library – all show that Sarah Palin is a hard working, capable, incorruptible, servant of the people.
Sarah is thoroughly vetted and LSM attack hardened – times 1000. She is a successful executive, and a commonsense, constitutional conservative. She talks the talk best, and the only thing she does better than talk the talk, is walk the walk.
She is the one that could beat Obama, and the one that would begin the restoration of our constitutional republic. So, of course, the GOP wants nothing to do with her.
No argument here!
I’m on the verge of saying those famous words Reagan once said of the democrat party, i.e. I didn’t leave the party, the party left me.
Energy independence is economically impossible, and politicians who tell you it is are either pushing to nationalize petroleum operations or are trying to stick their hands in your pockets.
You are quite possibly the stupidest person who ever breathed!
America is setting on more recoverable oil than the Middle East. About 300 years worth. If we were actually recovering this resource, the price of gasoline, heating oil, anything made of plastic, and so on, would come down by a considerable amount.
Then there is natural gas, which is the cleanest burning fuel there is. As close to a zero emission fuel as there is. It’s what we should be using to power our cars and trucks.
There are 1.67 QUADRILLION cubic feet of recoverable natural gas in the arctic alone.
Not only is it plentiful, it’s cheap. Many countries already run most of their cars on it.
Then there is coal. We have approximately 240 years worth of that.
The only thing that is unsustainable are so-called “green” solutions. None of these “solutions” can survive without billions of tax payer dollars propping them up. Government subsidies that were are having to borrow from China to pay for.
A concentrated effort to bring about energy independence would not only create millions of jobs, good, high paying, DURABLE jobs, it would supercharge our economy.
BTW, did you realize that state and locals taxes on gasoline is actually 10 to 15 times [depending on where you live] more than the profits the oil companies make on a gallon of gas?
Do you have a retirement fund, a 401K? Ever heard of a thing called the stock market? Most IRAs, mutual funds, and 401Ks are invested in oil stocks. Not to mention your average every day mom and pop. Millions of regular Americans, either directly, or indirectly own stock in oil companies.
Why do you hate the American people?
So, you’re saying that the companies should be either nationalized or otherwise forced to sell their products only in the US market. You don’t understand what you’re saying, do you? You have no idea what a global energy market means, do you? No wonder the independence fantasy sells so well to you ultranationalist morons.
What the hell? How in the hell do you get anything close to the incoherent nonsense you are spouting from this article?
I know EXACTLY what the global energy market is.I also know we are setting on more recoverable oil, natural gas and coal, then the rest of the world combined. We have at least a 300 year supply.
If we even HINT that we are going to tap into every bit of it, energy prices will come crashing down world wide.
You are either not intelligent enough to understand the simple math of supply and demand, or just plain stupid.
Your “300 year” figure is predicated on the idea that all of that energy would be sold only in the domestic market, which is not how the energy market works. Get it? Your version of independence requires forcing companies to sell only to the US. I can explain it to you till I’m blue in the face, but I can’t understand it for you.
Look up the word “fungible”. Also learn the concept of supply and demand, then get back to me.
You have confused your own ignorance for mine.
No, I have you pegged about right. It’s obvious you don’t understand that oil is fungible, meaning it’s the same everywhere, when it comes to supply and demand. More supply, no matter where, effects the price. In fact, on the commodities market, just the idea of there being more supply coming online will lower the price of crude significantly.
This may be one of the simplest concepts of markets, and yet, you fail to grasp it.