Ruling elite, and conservative establishment fear Sarah Palin!
Rush Limbaugh once again demonstrated his independence and just plain goodness in his defense of Governor Palin. by Mark Vogl
(conservative)
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Rush Limbaugh once again demonstrated his insight, and independence as an observer of American politics, and as a free wheeling leader within the conservative movement when he stepped forward to talk about the efforts of the ruling elite to shut out Sarah Palin.
Ever since John McCain was defeated, the very first significant murmers from the Republican wing was a quite, subtle and persistent denounciation of Sarah. Never mind that McCain's campairn was all but placed in the political morgue until he made the surprise announcement of Governor Palin. Never mind that Sarah quickly emerged as the real star who the conservative voters loved.
Sarah is hated and feared by the ruling elite because her home of Alaska is not the only thing which separates her from Washington, D.C. and the conservative blue blood establishment. Sarah didn't go to Harvard or Yale and doesn't feel less of a person or leader because of it. Sarah is not a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has not sold out her American heritage to the globalists. Sarah is not a part of the "conservative" inner circle. You know, that inner circle that accepts homosexuality, and rejects the Religious Right. Newt Gingrich used to be Sarah, but he sold out years ago.
Sarah, like Rush, is a person strong enough to stand on her own two feet. She doesn't need to be a part of the inner clique. Like Rush and Ronald Reagan Sarah connects to the grass roots because she lives our life, she believes in our values, and her priorities are the same as ours.
Sarah is attractive, smart, and a proven leader. If she decides to run, her campaign could catch fire and soar so quickly that the "conservative establishment" would be left standing, looking up as Sarah travelled the nation to speak to millions and milllions of Americans.
Sarah is a real choice. She needs to run a primary. She needs to demonstrate that she can handle the competitive nature of the primary. She needs to articulate her vision of America. She needs to pray God's will be done.
The world is changing. Our economy is stagnant. We have identified new energy resources. We have a need to build our economy and literally put millions to work. We need to get a handle on our government spending.
Sarah offers a fresh leadership. Sarah offers a real opportunity to place a woman in the White House. I only pray that Sarah spends much time talking with God to determine His will. And if it is His will that she run, that she do it.
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Posted By: Interested Catholic
Date: March 15, 2011 02:02:35 PM
Ok I wasn't going to be nasty here but you have got to be smoking something if you think that Rush Limbaugh lives our life??? You have got to be kidding! I don't know what kind of life YOU lead, but most of us don't have the luxury of hiring Elton John (btw, a very open homosexual) to perform at Limbaugh's 27th wedding reception (for a paltry $1 million fee). If "strong" people in your opinion are foul-mouthed bigots who deny things like AIDS, drop former wives for sexy little numbers to boost his fat-headed, cigar-choking ego so he feels important, energy-wasting, entitlement minded, right-wing shills; then, I would have to agree with you. And you continually rant about the "ruling elite." I am hard pressed to think of anyone more elitist in the way he lives his life than Rush Limbaugh. But the larger problem is, if Limbaugh and Palin are the only hope for conservatism, we are in bigger trouble than I thought.
And btw, what dastardly deed did Newt commit to put him on the "sell-out" list, in your opinion? Why would the aforementioned boneheads be more equipped to steer the conservative bandwagon than Gingrich? I'm curious.
Posted By: chris87654
Date: March 15, 2011 02:11:13 PM
I hear this too often.
Please tell me why I'm afraid of Sarah Palin.
Why would anyone fear someone who (supposedly) has all the answers?
Will she cut government so much that all those who waste will be out of jobs? (and what would be her plan to deal with the increased unemployment?)
Is she going to lock up so called liberals or anyone who opposes her ideas (I'd be afraid of that if I thought it possible, but don't think it's her plan).
But please tell me why an Independent who wants someone like Mitch Daniels for president, might be afraid of Sarah Palin.
Posted By: Mark Vogl
Date: March 15, 2011 05:44:13 PM
Interested Catholic, you proved by your comment that you don't listen to Rush. He is not foul mouthed. You know, its always so easy to see those who don't have an open mind... they really don't listen. They make assumptions, or they listen to others...but they never heard for themselves. And Rush is alot like "us". No not like you. I dont care how much money he has. Emmit Smith has alot of money, but he is one of "us". I dont mean a conservative, i mean a regular person. Rush is a patriot, a man I admire for his gentleness, for his commitment, for his common sense, for his ability to entertain, and mostly for his ability tothink independently.
With respect to why would an independent be afraid of Sarah Palin...I didnt' say anything abouit independents...read the title, its about conservatives. Sarah is free of the usual connections and pedigrees. She is an avowed Christian, which means values which a rebased in the Bible and Chruch and not in politics.
I hope you are not afraid of Sarah. I hope you listen to her and write alot of columns about how right she is for America! LOL...but I would surprised if you did.
Ms. Palin lost her chance to keep railing at "elites" when she quit as Governor to make milllions speaking and writing (w/ a "ghost" writer) and making a reality show. I don't think someone like Palin who is making a career as a whining victim, is afraid to be interviewed except on FOX, and speaks only to her base would make an effective world leader. This has NOTHING to do w/ fear--more like common sense.
Posted By: Interested Catholic
Date: March 16, 2011 10:49:51 AM
You are really not a good one to talk about having an "open mind" Mark, no offense. And as usual, you are wrong again. I listened to Rush Limbaugh for years and could even agree with a lot of what he has to say; without, however, appreciating or respecting the way he lives his life (which I don't). And maybe I should have said that he is like YOU and not ME, and I consider myself a patriot and a Christian as well. I just don't like hypocritical behavior, of which he demonstrates a lot so no, I don't like him. You are free to, of course, just as I am free to not like him. I just felt like commenting about your love and admiration for these folks who talk a big game and walk another. I don't get it. And I have no problem with the amount of money he has either; however, spending a million dollars to have an openly homosexual artist perform at your wedding is very hypocritical imho, simply because of Rush's openly hostile attitude about homosexuals and their behavior. I'm not the one who goes around blabbing against gays and AIDS, etc. He is. That doesn't sound like "commitment" to me.
And have you ever thought that maybe the so-called "elites" are not afraid that Sarah Palin will get elected President because she will take away the game from them; but rather, afraid for the country if she does get elected? Think about it. ;-)
Posted By: Bill Gee
Date: March 17, 2011 08:16:49 AM
Mrs. Palin kills her chance at ever becoming President every time she opens her mouth. We don't fear her as much as we pity her delusions, and we pity the delusions of those who love her.
I'm pretty sure that when push comes to shove, the Republican base will be more apt to put up a candidate that will have a broader appeal than her. While I think Newt has a snowball's chance, Romney's probably they're best bet unless they think that they can afford to write off the entire Northeast of the country in November. If Palin wants to form her own country after she loses the nomination in 2012, good luck with that. I don't think they'll let her do that in Alaska. How about the Midway Atoll?
Posted By: Logical Premise
Date: March 17, 2011 04:39:04 PM
There's not many reasons to read a column from Mr. Vogl any longer unless you are in dire need of a good chuckle.
Let me tell you what is wrong with Sarah Palin:
1) "Sarah didn't go to Harvard or Yale and doesn't feel less of a person or leader because of it" : Here's a truism -- if your ideals , positions and fundamental values as a person are so WEAK that four years exposure to someone who disagrees destroys them utterly or warps them into something distasteful, then you are pretty much not even believing in those values in the first place. The whole concept of anti-intellectualism comes from people who are mentally normal and educationally weak. Without intellectuals, you wouldn't have cars, airplanes, medicines, the internet you spew your screed on, or most of the inventions and creations that make modern life possible. And yet time and time again "grassroots" people stand up and demand to be held "equal" to intellectuals, and get upset when intellectuals don't condescend to hold themselves as equal.
Fact: they shouldn't. A person with a high school education and an IQ of 120 is INCAPABLE of equaling, in potential achievement, a person with a Ivy League education (in something real, like biology, not in crap like English Lit) with an IQ of 150. It's the same sort of stupid idiocy that has led us to allow overweight out of shape people on firefighting squads out of "equality". In this case, yes , each person should have as much say in determining who our leaders are , regardless of their education or intellect. But to suggest that someone who can't even identify major countries on a map is MORE eligible as a leader than someone who has more intellect and education is simply illogical.
2) "Sarah is not a part of the "conservative" inner circle. You know, that inner circle that accepts homosexuality, and rejects the Religious Right." : It may astonish you to learn this, sir, but republican democracy (which is, the last time I checked, what is outlined in the Constitution) isn't a tyranny of the majority. The Religious Right is a pack of Pharasical hypocrites who are a mobile lumber yard with all the beams they have sticking out of their eyes. There is no hierarchy of sin, and yet these people act as if homosexuality is of graver threat than all the murdering, lying, adulterating, and other violations of Biblical Law. Furthermore, the Religious Right does not believe in religious equality. They do not BELIEVE in a separation of church and state. They do not BELIEVE that people should be free to worship and live as they wish.
It is not Sarah Palin's job, or your job, or some adulterating drug using ecomaniac on radio to judge me or tell me how to live my life, or how a homosexual should, or how a divorced person should , or anything, anyone else. The way to be a good Christian is through the way YOU LIVE , not sneering at others and changing laws to make people outcasts and threatening them with "hell". Sarah Palin is a thug who cloaks herself in "religious right" because she is the billy club of a tyranny that makes a statist state look like freaking Galt's Gulch. They want to control how you live and think and exist. How much more tyrannical can one get?
3) "Sarah, like Rush, is a person strong enough to stand on her own two feet. She doesn't need to be a part of the inner clique. Like Rush and Ronald Reagan Sarah connects to the grass roots because she lives our life, she believes in our values, and her priorities are the same as ours." If I was impolite I would suggest you are committing deliberate irony, sir.
Sarah Palin and Rush are demagogues, appealing to the lowest common denominator in a certain segment of society. You will find Rush has very few black, Hispanic, Asiatic, Polynesian or native American listeners. He appeals only to the fragment of white society that has been empowered since the late 1750's and now feels itself threatened because it is no longer the majority. Rush is appealing to your "Grassroots" -- the grassroots which, to be brutally honest, is the same group of fools that put people like Obama, Bush, and every other incompetant into office for the past 20 years. He appeals to people who need someone to blame for the fact that they are out of work, that their child is sick and they can't afford insurance. He solves nothing, he is a can of lighter fluid and loves to make the flames go whoosh. Palin is simple more , writ large.
Furthermore, neither of them connect to the "lives" of the average American, unless the average American commands six figure dollars for speech appearances and has nationwide reach through radio and TV. You may think this is unimportant, but trust me -- being regularly exposed to an audience is a drug in and of itself. The more they cheer you on, the more right you are sure you must be. It corrodes one's sense of understanding and ability to .. comprehend reality as you and I see it. Or at least, as I see it -- you are demonstrating Charlie Sheen levels of variance from "reality".
4) "Sarah is attractive, smart, and a proven leader. If she decides to run, her campaign could catch fire and soar so quickly that the "conservative establishment" would be left standing, looking up as Sarah travelled the nation to speak to millions and milllions of Americans." : Sarah is hardly a proven leader, based on her abysmal performance in Alaska. The campaign against Obama was a beating -- consider, if you will, the number of people not voting for Obama simply because he was black, the number of Democrats who rage voted because he beat Clinton, the number who were already going to vote against Democrate -- and it still wasn't close. Spare me your idealistic view, if she runs it will make her into a laughingstock not seen since the last time Colbert tried to run for president.
Conservatives have no fear of this woman because they know she is a lighting rod. She is there to attract, for lack of a better word, those who tend to follow lost causes, people of diminished understanding. The only reason Conservatives fear anything about her is that they might be held to be the same as she is.
Logical Premise,
I loved everything you said. I am afriad it was probably lost on Mr. Vogl. I agree with everything except the part about Eng. Lit being crap. As person who holds a B.A. in English I take exception to that. Otherwise, you sir are brilliant!
Posted By: Bentree
Date: March 19, 2011 06:53:46 PM
Wow!!!!! LP, that is the largest pile of ad hominem bovine scatology, well maybe not the largest and not the tallest but I would venture to say it is in the running. It is also apparent that you consider youself an intellectual of the highest order, well maybe not of the highest but way up there, and well maybe it is only that you feel that while looking down on us, you know the sub 150 IQ rubes and rubets. Wait! I have this picture of you up to your neck on the afore mentioned pile quizzicaly ruminating on its source, could it be something you ate?
