I wasn’t fond of the McCain & Steele support, I am dubious over the rumors of a reality show, I was dismayed over her support of politically correct whitewashing of our language, I am REALLY dumbfounded over why Sarah Palin would go on Canadian television and talk about her families use of the Canadian socialist healthcare system. It is bad enough Mitt Romney basically created and implimented Obamacare, now we have another potential candidate who was using socialist medicine before (or while) being against it.

I dig Palin but this is the latest in a line of things that have really eroded my support for any future political run. Seriously now, the admission was unnecessary in general but asinine when we are trying to put an end to the socialist system here. I don’t care if it happened in the 1960’s or six days ago, what a silly thing to go on about now. Did she help any illegal immigrants across the border while she was getting care? If so, maybe we can hear about it while debating amnesty.

It was bad enough when Sarah Palin was just endorsing John McCain now there is talk that she is shopping around a reality TV show reportedly featuring Alaska and her family. First and foremost, let me just hope this is another media lie so we can be done with it. Please? Anyone? Lie?

Second if it isn’t a joke, let me hope no one buys the thing and we can just move on from here.

Why am I against it? Frankly I hate everyone else currently at the top of the list for the Republican nomination. Newt, Romney, Huckabee et al. I will be chronicling our crazy road to the White House more in the coming weeks and months and the more you learn about these people, the less you like. Palin, while not perfect, was one of the few glimmers of hope we have. A reality show though? I love reality TV, it isn’t at all because I respect the people on the shows, even the “classier” people. It is because I cannot believe people would expose this level of their life and stand there like idiots with the camera rolls.

Maybe the thought is that such a program would endear us to the Palin’s. Sarah, please, you had us at “pit-bulls and lipstick” this is not necessary. The right digs you, the left will always hate you, the rest of America is waiting for you to say something it thinks is “crazy” or “brilliant” either one will do. A reality show will most certainly benefit the potential for crazy and not the potential for brilliant.

More important than all of that, a reality show is WELCOMING public scrutiny of your family affairs. If you didn’t like David Letterman talking about your family before a reality show, just wait until it becomes fodder for the endless myriad of programs devoted to fluff. When it is remixed on YouTube and the press veils every terrible attack under the banner that reads: “Well you put your children on television.”

Seriously if this is true, pack it in. You should be forming policy if you want a career in politics, not treating your children like the square version of the Osbournes. If a career in politics is not what you want, let us know and step aside.

I DON’T CARE!

If you haven’t heard Sarah Palin had a few words written on her hand during her televised Tea Party Convention speech. Now everyone is going crazy with ridicule and speculation. Meanwhile our President, who made a career on being a good public speaker, won’t talk anywhere unless an expensive teleprompter is present. Woman has to write a few words on her hand to spark a memory? Obama needs a teleprompter to say “thank you” to a crowd. Calm down people.

As long as Palin did not write, “Karl Marx is Awesome” or “Chairman Mao is my favorite philosopher” I really don’t think it matters. This kind of celebrity “I gotcha” obsessed hyper media aware nonsense is what has destroyed the political process. If I want nonsense I will go back to reading about Michelle Obama’s clothes.

Update: While writing this robocalls from none other than newly elected Senator Scott Brown started running in support of McCain. So I guess we are just heading back to our RINO ways. Lovely. MEANWHILE: Conservatives: Beware of McCain Regression Syndrome

If you know me or or follow me on social media, you know I adore Sarah Palin the person. I find her interesting and want to see her succeed. You may have also noticed, I am skeptical of Sarah Palin the politician. I believe a politician has to prove themselves, then keep proving themselves. They don’t just get a pass because I find them interesting.

This week, Sarah Palin lent her support to two politicians I personally dislike and believe stand for everything wrong with the modern Republican Party. The first was a defense of RNC Chairman Michael Steele. Since starting on the job, Steele has done almost everything imaginable to make people not like him. In just the last few weeks he, used a term just about everyone knows is considered racially insensitive, he boldly declared the Republicans would not be able to take back the House of Representatives in 2010 (it is partly his job to see they do), and he released a book and went on a media tour to promote it/represent the GOP, crossing the line between being a party leader and using his position for personal profit.

Palin defended Steele saying critics needed to stop “throwing stones” at the chairman. She characterized and applauded his message as “buck up or stay in the truck, critics. If you don’t want to help out, if you don’t want to help the cause of getting these common-sense solutions to all these challenges facing us, then you know, go find something else to do.” Her premise was that attacks against him were “insider baseball.”

Critics of Steele are, in fact, not just “Washington insiders” but the very large and active community of conservatives who have helped to revive the Party over the last year. The recent criticism is by no means the beginning of our discontent and it goes much deeper than worrying about his gaffes and personal style. Steele is not showing that he is managing the RNC with competence or loading it with competent employees. Hopefully we are wrong, but the suggestion by Palin that critics should simply be quiet and “go find something else to do” is disturbing.

Her second endorsement was of John McCain who, for the first time in awhile, seems truly vulnerable as a candidate for reelection this year. Palin announced that she would go to Arizona and stump for her former running mate.

While I have a great deal of personal respect for John McCain’s character, he is a progressive. McCain’s RINO attitudes on immigration, health care, Global Warming and other issues are what have destroyed the party and lead to endless spending and corruption. His support of our troops and military is admirable, as is his service to our country. With that said, the seat is better filled by a Senator who will uphold the Constitution.

What is most attractive about Sarah Palin is that she hasn’t seemed beholden to interests. New to the national scene, she doesn’t carry the baggage that follows most politicians who had to beg, borrow or steal their way to the top. Her endorsement of McCain runs counter to that perception. The Senator gave her an amazing start in national politics, now she owes him.

There is almost no way to take what John McCain believes and reconcile it with what Sarah Palin says she stands for on the issues. It is obvious that her endorsement is inspired by their personal relationship. In a general election with McCain running against a liberal Democrat, it would make sense. Now, as McCain will certainly face primary challenges, there may be a better candidate available who doesn’t have a “favor” in their pocket to pull out for Palin’s endorsement.

Both of these endorsements should act as reminders for even the most committed of Palin’s followers that they should be cautious. We have plenty of time to come before 2012 and a great deal needs to happen before we can begin having any kind of trust that the Republican Party or its elected representatives will actually represent our interests. I remain hopeful that Palin and others will guide the Party toward a better future. I know they can only do so if we remain skeptical, vigilant and vocal about their actions.

While 60 Minutes ignored Harry Reid’s racist comments about Barack Obama last night during their report on the new Washington insider book “Game Change” they did find endless ways to attack Sarah Palin. Actually the ENTIRE segment was a hit piece on Palin that ignored almost every other aspect of the book until the very end with a minute on Hillary Clinton. You almost would have thought the entire book was about Palin.

Their hit piece was centered around McCain campaign head Steve Schmidt, who said Sarah Palin was calm and “nonplussed,” when being asked to take the VP nod. Why was she so calm? Schmidt revealed Palin actually believed God had a plan for her! I know, get the keys to the insane asylum.

Here is something the liberal media doesn’t seem to get, true Christians actually believe in God. Yes that sounds crazy, but I have more. Their belief in God includes the thought that this entity is actually influencing events in our world. Not just an overall, “Hey let’s check on Earth today, OK, whatever, I need more coffee” but is actually connected to the day-to-day activities of our lives.

Since the people at 60 Minutes, the liberal left, and apparently Schmidt, have never spent time around religious people, I understand the confusion and the outrage. Christians actually believing in God must seem very scary to them. For the rest of America, I think it is time we start pointing out just how terribly disconnected these people are from the world everyone else lives in.

Sarah Palin has never been shy about her strong commitment to faith. If ever there were a statement by her that did not require a headline, it is that she believes God has a plan. Christianity is based on the belief that God has a plan. Only in the liberal, atheist, we hate religion, world of the media is this a surprise. Anderson Cooper and the producers of 60 Minutes, along with Steve Schmidt, have given us an amazing glimpse into who they are. Having read this book and sat down with its authors, of all the revelations contained within, they are most shocked and disturbed by God.

There is a silent majority of Americans out there, people who don’t take kindly to their religion being gawked at by Hollywood producers and TV reporters as if it were a circus sideshow. Headlines that intone “Crazy Woman Believes in God” are hopefully fueling this majority and turning them away from the left.

I for one hope they continue. The best thing Sarah Palin can do is get up on a stage this week and say something like:

“Have you seen the latest shocking revelation on me? Those media elites dug far and wide and found out my well kept secret. They actually printed the headline “Sarah Palin Believes God Has Plan”… What is next? “Sarah Palin Advised by Prophetic Ancient Book?” Then those clever people inside the Beltway can bring me down with Biblegate.”

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Sarah Palin makes a surprise appearance on Conan O’Brien to counter William Shatner’s series of interpretations of her book “Going Rogue“.

Love it from her Facebook Page:

The response to my op-ed by global warming alarmists has been interesting. Former Vice President Al Gore has called me a “denier” and informs us that climate change is “a principle in physics. It’s like gravity. It exists.”

Perhaps he’s right. Climate change is like gravity – a naturally occurring phenomenon that existed long before, and will exist long after, any governmental attempts to affect it.

However, he’s wrong in calling me a “denier.” As I noted in my op-ed above and in my original Facebook post on Climategate, I have never denied the existence of climate change. I just don’t think we can primarily blame man’s activities for the earth’s cyclical weather changes.

Former Vice President Gore also claimed today that the scientific community has worked on this issue for 20 years, and therefore it is settled science. Well, the Climategate scandal involves the leading experts in this field, and if Climategate is proof of the larger method used over the past 20 years, then Vice President Gore seriously needs to consider that their findings are flawed, falsified, or inconclusive.

Vice President Gore, the Climategate scandal exists. You might even say that it’s sort of like gravity: you simply can’t deny it.

- Sarah Palin

Love this blog post by Pink Elephant Pundit, especially:

More than anything, I appreciate her small government, fiscally responsible instincts. My main criticism is that she inspires an Obama-esque cult of personality. Her supporters seem to have a hard time acknowledging when she does something questionable – which she has done and will do again should she stay politically involved. While she may be one of the most promising figures on our side, she is not above reproach, and we can’t blame EVERYTHING that comes out of her mouth on the media. Sometimes she is just human, sometimes we are going to disagree with her, and that’s okay. We need to hold people accountable – ESPECIALLY the ones on our side.

Right on! I really dig Palin but her followers are starting to occupy the Ron Paul, Barack Obama frenzied land of “She can do no wrong.” I have a strong distaste for those Republicans now throwing her under the bus to further their own careers and those who walk around repeating the liberal media narratives that are off base and downright sexist. With that said, the woman has much to criticize on substance and on how she handles her message. I am also not convinced leaving her term is the best of ideas, though I understand it.

I love Palin, but she is not a God any more than Obama. It is OK to admit she is not perfect and she has a lot of work to do. Ronald Reagan did not just go from actor to brilliant politician in one short instant. He worked at it, he stumbled, he got better. The same can be said of Palin. However if we ignore the glaringly obvious we are no better than the Obamabots on the left.

FBI spokesman confirms it was all just a liberal lie.

For endless hours after Sarah Palin’s announcement yesterday that she would be resigning the Governorship of Alaska, the media and the public online speculated. They added no facts, little insight and much emotion. With nothing to fill but empty space, they pondered an election so far away it is equivalent in politics to the distance between galaxies in astronomy. In short, they wasted time.

I adore Sarah Palin. A few weeks ago I traveled to see her in Auburn, NY. She was the one on the ticket I truly voted for in November. I hope in the future to support her in her endeavors somehow, somewhere, someday.

Despite my affection, I am tired of hearing about and watching people both vilify and glorify the trivial issues that surround her life. I am tired of her daughters views on sex, her battles with late night hosts and the speculations over her every move and how it will relate to an election we cannot possibly begin preparing for until we fight the midterms.

It is not just Palin however. I am tired of Obama’s dog, Michael Jackson and the endless stream of American schadenfreude and obsession with celebrity. In an age of turmoil we are toiling in triviality. If this does not end, we may as well pack for the Armageddon.

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