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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

The Restless Grass Roots

Many have felt that an angry tone or a momentary release of steam doesn't go over well when political figures speak to the public or the media. When Representative Allen West (R - Florida) said that the liberal ideas like “economic dependency” (some interpreted that he meant people with those ideas) should “get the hell out of the United States of America,” he hit a nerve with the Left. Criticize him for it? Hell no. Forget the words. He's right in the feeling that he is expressing because it is a feeling that we can all relate to! The Left needs to hear that from us and hear it loudly.

Forget protocol and traditional delivery to the media. Those went out the door years ago when Democrats became unhinged and people like Al Gore screamed "he betrayed America!" about George W. Bush. Yes, that's unhinged because it was fabricated in order for Gore to project that onto the liberal base. The release of steam from the normally well tempered West is the opposite. It is clearly representative of the growing loudness coming up from the kitchen tables, the water coolers and the smoking areas across the land. It just so happens that it channeled its way through the words of that of one who knows how the people really feel.

Good for Allen West. In your face, libs.

The grass roots are getting louder. When neither party properly represents the voice of the people, those who hear those voices, particularly Tea Party leaders like Rep. West, can't be blamed for giving expression to those voices. If it comes off a little loose cocked, it's because we're all a little loose cocked when talking about jobs we've lost, the growing debt being saddled around the necks of our children, the homes we're losing and the price of gas at the pump. Those who see the growing encumbrance of big government are not speaking nice nice. If that seeps out in the rhetoric of an Allen West, a Newt Gingrich or a Paul Ryan it's because they get it.

Americans are getting tired of mealy mouthed flip flopping politicians who tell them what they want to hear and who bend their message to the constituency. Instead, they are getting fired up by politicians who aren't afraid to open mouth and let it rip. Voters want to hear what they think. They want to hear what they feel genuinely being articulated back to them before they will embrace a candidate.

In a previous post, this blogger wrote:
Call it shrill. Call it undisciplined. Call it angry. But it is a reflection of how Americans feel. We are no longer content to stand by and let the idiots who are running our country continue taking us down the toilet. There is no reason to look down on or to describe as unacceptable the actions, words and feelings of a presidential candidate who clearly articulates what we are all feeling just because it might be harsh.
There are articles written that can express more concisely the points I'm trying to get across. I'd rather you read what they have written directly and bring to it an understanding of how restless the grass roots are getting in America. You'll find that the common sense lobe in your brain will cause you at some point to make you smack your head and be astounded at just how seriously stupid, out of touch and outrageously off to la la land many in our political system are on both sides of the aisle.

The truth about ‘electability’ by Yates Walker

Mitt's Scorched Earth Win by C. Edmund Wright

Hey GOP! Do You Hear Your Fed Up, Fired Up Base? by Janice Shaw Crouse

Our Elective Despotism by Lawrence Sellin

Project Obama: A Puppetmaster or a Puppet? by Victor Volsky

These articles should clearly explain what animals we're dealing with in both political parties. Defeating the progressive movement and the Democrat party gone hog liberal wild and replacing the establishment in the Republican Party with people from our ranks who can properly represent what the millions of us "little guys" are really saying around those kitchen tables and water coolers is paramount to the survival of our nation.

Mark Levin says it's a daunting task. But its doable if we all just keep talking louder, writing louder and encouraging those around to us to read articles like those linked to in this post in order to get them to understand better.

This isn't your father's election cycle. This is do or die for America.
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Gov Palin on O'Reilly: Candidates Should Focus on Beating Obama

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin tonight called upon the GOP declared candidates to focus their energy on "who is is best equipped to take on Obama and his failed policies" in a single-segment TV interview with Bill O'Reilly from her home studio in Wasilla, Alaska.


Gov. Palin also urged voters to not listen to the negative ads put out by the super-PACS and the candidates and instead do their own homework, and do their own vetting. "It is imperative that voters do not become lazy," she said. O'Reilly said that while may viewers of his and other Fox shows would do it, he considered most voters to be ill-informed.


Gov. Palin said the candidates need to focus on how best to mount a campaign against Obama. She also said "it is not negative campaigning to call out records, past associations, and what another candidate has said and done in the past." She acknowledged O'Reilly's thesis that negative campaign ads ultimately become free ads for the Democrats to use against us.


"I hope that [the candidates] keep their priorities straight," Gov. Palin said adding that for her faith, family and freedom come first. Gov. Palin said she has a thick skin but is "sympathetic when she sees others going through what I have."




Video retrieved from SarahNET.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Gov. Palin on Fox News: Debate Solutions, No More Negativity

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin tonight called upon the GOP candidates to debate solutions and issues and stop the negativity during a TV interview with Bret Baier and Megyn Kelly from her home in Wasilla, Alaska.


On Romney's win - which as of this writing stands at 47% with Gingrich trailing 15 points at 32% with 79% of the precincts reporting - Gov. Palin said, "those are pretty large numbers for Governor Romney. $17 million bought lots of darts and arrows which were flown in one direction, and others were thrown back." Gov. Palin said that with this $17 million in ads all spent in Florida, the other candidates found it difficult to counter Romney. "Once a bell is rung, it's difficult to un-ring it."


On Romney's closing statement pertaining to leading the party, Gov. Palin said that is every candidate's mission. She called upon all the candidates to debate the issues, like why are we facing a huge deficit, and debate solutions to problems such as the rumor that U.S. currency will no longer be used for oil trades, which increases our dependence on foreign energy. She said the candidates should debate the war on religion, which is a "war on our first freedom." She said candidates should focus on normal every-day things, not nitpicking.


Baier asked Gov. Palin if she would carry her call to vote for Gingrich to Nevada in light of her having done it in South Carolina and Florida. Gov. Palin said, she would call on people to vote for whichever candidate would allow the competition and vetting to continue. Since Romney and Gingrich are the two front-runners, Gov. Palin said Gingrich is currently the candidate she would call upon Nevadans to vote for. "An even playing field allows the vetting to continue."



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Alaskan Grit Exercised Amidst “Global Warming”!

Governor Palin today posted on Facebook:

A friend emailed me this notice from her local Alaskan school today. As the school notice makes clear: anything above -55 degrees below zero is warm enough for our Alaskan young’uns! Global warming? What global warming?

I just had to share this with all those who are enjoying the balmy 65 degree (above zero) weather in the Beltway today and the 70+ degree weather our Florida voters are enjoying!

And here’s a photo of my nephew doing his chores in -20 degrees. Last Frontier indeed.

- Sarah Palin

“Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.” - Henry Ford




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How Obama Repaid Notre Dame

Governor Palin today posted on Facebook:

Back in May 2009, during the controversy over Notre Dame’s decision to have President Obama as their commencement speaker and honorary degree recipient, I gave a short statement to the Boston Herald: “My favorite grandpa, Clem James Sheeran, was Catholic. Irish to the core, his favorite place (other than church) was Notre Dame. I can’t imagine what he would think as the university recognizes someone who contradicts the core values of the Catholic faith by promoting an anti-life agenda.”

In his latest Washington Post column, Michael Gerson writes about the Obama administration’s war on Catholic institutions with President Obama's decision to strip conscience protections from Catholic universities, hospitals and charities.

As Gershon points out, the timing of Obama's most recent slap won't go unnoticed by the faithful: "In politics, the timing is often the message. On Jan. 20 — three days before the annual March for Life — the Obama administration announced its final decision that Catholic universities, hospitals and charities will be compelled to pay for health insurance that covers sterilization, contraceptives and abortifacients. Preparing for the march, Catholic students gathered for Mass at Verizon Center. The faithful held vigil at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Knights of Columbus and bishops arrived to trudge in the cold along the Mall. All came to Washington in time for their mocking.”

And in this we see how the faithful at Notre Dame got snookered and how Obama has shamefully repaid their faith in him:
Both radicalism and maliciousness are at work in Obama’s decision — an edict delivered with a sneer...



The implications of Obama’s choice will take years to sort through. The immediate impact can be measured on three men:



Consider Catholicism’s most prominent academic leader, the Rev. John Jenkins, president of Notre Dame. Jenkins took a serious risk in sponsoring Obama’s 2009 honorary degree and commencement address — which promised a “sensible” approach to the conscience clause. Jenkins now complains, “This is not the kind of ‘sensible’ approach the president had in mind when he spoke here.” Obama has made Jenkins — and other progressive Catholic allies — look easily duped.
- Sarah Palin

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Monday, January 30, 2012

Gov. Palin on Hannity: More Vetting, No Endorse, Any Better than Obama


"Keep the process going. Only three states have had the chance to chime in....Who is best to beat Obama? Who as been sharpened and shaped? The more candidate information that is revealed the fairer it is for voters. Competition reveals and shapes character," Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin tonight said in a two-segment TV interview with Sean Hannity from her home studio in Wasilla, Alaska.



"We need somebody passionate about not embracing the status quo. That's the beauty of competition," Gov. Palin said adding that Hannity's son would not do well in tennis if he knew he was going to win every time and never be challenged. But, Gov. Palin said the campaigning has gotten vicious. "I'm not whining about it, but I will call out when lies are being told, whether by a PAC or by the candidate. We feel disconnected and disenfranchised. [The candidates should] debate relevant ideas and solutions, not petty stuff.



Gov. Palin felt compelled to write her Facebook Note about the GOP establishment using the tactics of the left when she saw the "re-written history about Newt Gingrich and the Reagan Revolution." Gingrich had balanced budgets and was at least partially responsible for welfare reform. "I'm going to continue saying good things about all the GOP candidates, because any one is better than Obama. The establishment has never balanced a budget since Gingrich and Clinton did." Gov. Palin said that the establishment appeared content to instead engage in insider trading that is illegal for everyone else.



In the second segment, Gov. Palin was asked to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each candidate. She chose only to discuss the positive, as the candidates were doing a fine enough job bringing out the weaknesses. Hannity agreed.



About Gingrich, Gov. Palin said "his experience in Washington is a strength, because he was one of the few to work on a balanced budget and is passionate about shaking things up."



Gov. Palin said if Romney is surrounded by hard-core conservatives he will be directed more toward the center-right values that the majority of our nation holds. But, Gov. Palin said Romney has a solid family lineage of success, and is a good family man. "I respect that."



"I'm a great admirer of Rick Santorum. He is a great warrior on the field." He is a social conservative and great on Judeo-Christian values, she said. Gov. Palin added that she would like to see Santorum expand his discussion to fiscal matters and foreign policy.



Gov. Palin said she has "great respect for Ron Paul's fiscal sanity, and his austerity ideas are right on. Keep on being bold."


Gov. Palin did not endorse any candidate tonight.



Video retrieved from SarahNET.

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Gov. Palin on Freedom Watch: Be Practical Not Naively Idealistic


"What I'm trying to do is find out who has that ideal, and also who can win the GOP nomination - not that it would be a wasted vote for Ron Paul, but Gingrich and Romney are the two front runners. I'm trying to be practical, not naively idealistic," former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin tonight said in a TV interview with Judge Napolitano of Freedom Watch from her home studio in Wasilla, Alaska. "It is the multi-billion dollar question, 'who best to go against Obama? That's why I want the vetting to continue," she said.


Gov. Palin reinforced her "rage against the machine" message, saying, "rage against the status quo - the status quot that got us into that pickle. I want voters to rise up and allow the vetting process to continue." Gov. Palin said if the GOP establishment gets the expedited conclusion it seeks, the electorate will be cut off - disenfranchised.


On Gingrich, Gov. Palin said he "has a record of raging against the machine in so many respects. He's balanced budgets. He was part of the Reagan Revolution, and he was responsible for welfare reform."


During the interview, Gov. Palin said the race was largely between Gingrich and Romney now, because Santorum and Paul are trailing very distant third and fourth respectively.


video retrieved from SarahNET.

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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Following Gov Palin's Lead and Math




US for Palin has maintained a policy of not endorsing any POTUS candidates until former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin does. Our policy has not changed, and we remain neutral toward all the candidates, except as Gov. Palin directs. It is all rooted in this promise. Tonight, it is time to execute one more aspect of that promise....


Gov. Palin has issued the call to Florida voters to "rage against the machine" and vote for Newt Gingrich so that the vetting process can continue. This is not a matter of "Romney vs. Newt" and not a matter of any candidate's relative merits or lack thereof. There has been too much bickering amongst Palinistas over that and too many friendships destroyed. Our support and fan activities for Gov. Palin did not end on October 5 with her announcement that she is not seeking the 2012 GOP nomination. Yes, we are both fans and supporters and proud to be both!


The GOP establishment and many pundits would like to have us believe that Mitt Romney's nomination is "inevitable," that it's all over after Florida and we should just be good little boys and girls and accept it. The problem is not Mitt Romney so much as those who want to make his nomination a fait accompli as fast as possible. All these candidates need to be vetted and asked the tough questions. Whoever becomes the nominee, should do so because there was a thorough vetting and as a result, that candidate was truly found to be the best of the four to go against Obama in the general election. That cannot happen if those who want to "expedite the proceedings" have their way and secure a Romney win in Florida.


Gov. Palin's call to Floridians to vote for Newt Gingrich mirrors her call to residents of South Carolina. Though has undeniably spoken in highly favorable terms about Gingrich - favorable enough that many have construed her words as a de facto endorsement - the fact is Gov. Palin has not endorsed any candidate. SarahPAC has not provided any financial support to the POTUS candidates and Gov. Palin has not gone on the stump for any of them - actions that would rise above mere endorsement.


Why Gingrich?


"The math is the math," and that is what Gov. Palin's decision boils down to with the objective of seeing to it that proper candidate vetting occurs and this is not decided after four states. She has so much as said so. Romney and Gingrich are in a statistical dead heat in Florida. Santorum is trailing distant third behind them. Ron Paul is an even more distant fourth. Ergo, calling upon Floridians to vote for Santorum or Paul would make absolutely no sense as neither of them have the chance to pull off a win with little more than 36 hours remaining till Tuesday. Her call to Foridians is not about who is the most pure, or who has the best character. It's about vetting candidates and ensuring as many voters as possible have their say.


In Her Professional Opinion


Gov. Palin has nearly 20 years in this business. She's had more than her share of flowers and stones hurled at her. She's been through heated contested primaries. Her statements on the candidates are her professional opinion derived from her experience, and the knowledge she attains in in the course of analyzing this race.


Denial - It's Not a River in Egypt


About the only thing I disagree with Gov. Palin on is her statement that we are seeking the perfect candidate. It's not so much that we are seeking the perfect candidate. We found her three years ago. Our perfect candidate chose not to run, but she never led us down a primrose path to believe that she was running. We advanced the idea and summoned her to run. While nearly all Palinistas prefer Gov. Palin to any of the four declared candidates, she is not running. Part of support means accepting, not denying reality, understanding that our narratives belong to us, and should not be projected on Gov. Palin. As she said on the Tom Sullivan Show, "logistically speaking, I'm up here in Alaska, raising a family, and running businesses. I don't have the organization that could propel me to a position of being a viable candidate." How far is Gov. Palin from New York and Washington D.C.? From either city, take a flight to Warsaw, Poland, then take a train or rent a car and drive another 200 miles. That's right, you have to cross the entire Atlantic Ocean and more than half of Europe to equal the distance from New York and Washington to Wasilla, Alaska.


Gov. Palin does not live in a romantic world of talking trees, singing animals and pixie dust to steal from the FedEx commercial. She lives in a world of reality. Though Gov. Palin has her core values and convictions, she is a realist who sees the big picture. She has endorsed candidates who were "less than ideal" before, such as John McCain and Carly Fiorina, because other factors aside from conservative purism came into play. just like then, we need to watch Gov. Palin and listen to her words and execute them.


Test of Loyalty and Leap of Faith


I know Palinistas who absolutely hate, detest and loathe Gingrich for various reasons. The fact is, all four candidates have things in their records and aspects of their character that are Achilles Heels. They also have their strengths. We are not going to find a perfect candidate among the four - as Gov. Palin has said. They all need to be thoroughly vetted.


Gov. Palin has given a directive. If we are her supporters, if we have accepted her as our leader, we must execute her orders. Support is not always fun or easy. Sometimes, we have to do things we would rather not do. Whatever we think about Gingrich now - we need to support Gingrich in Florida - not on his merits, but as Gov. Palin said - to ensure that all four candidates are properly vetted and that as many of our 50 states as possible have their say in the primaries.


Now, therefore, everyone who lives in Florida, please vote for Gingrich on Tuesday, even if you are among those who hate him. Please put your hate aside. Don't do it for Gingrich. Do it for Gov. Palin - Sarah.

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AGU: Let's Get Ready!



We have 10 months to get ready. Let's get ready to send an army of relentless reformers to the U.S. Congress in November.

American Grizzlies United (AGU) has two resources to help you send public servant reinforcements to Washington, DC. These reinforcements cannot be mushy Republicans-In-Name-Only who quickly disregard conservative principles when true relentless reform gets tough.

We must make sure that our new President has a congress of common sense, constitutional, conservative public servants.

To make things easier for you to seek out good candidates; AGU has created:

The Grizzly Doctrine; A Crib Sheet .

This manuscript provides a framework for discussion about the honest and ethical policies that all Americans should expect from our leaders. The Grizzly Doctrine covers the issues that Americans are concerned with, and helps educate ordinary citizen volunteers on the best ways to approach potential voters to discuss candidates positions.

Another AGU resource: Citizen Activism Guide; showcases volunteerism, vetting, and organizing your precinct.

We hope these resources help you in your local communities as we all get ready to retain the House, seize the Senate, and repeal and replace Barack Obama.

Our work continues...



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