While Senator John McCain is to be admired for his trademark tenacity in slugging it out till the bitter end in the presidential race. It’s evident the establishment republicans, have begun throwing the first punches in the shadow battle for control of the Party. Old guard republicans who have never hesitated to sin against Ronald Regan’s commandment not to speak ill of another republican during the midst of a campaign, landed some hard sucker punches on Sarah Palin aboard the straight talk express. The blood battle for control of the Grand Old Party after November 4th assuming no last minute miracle occurs is officially under way.
Sarah Palin was drop kicked in the eyes of most observers, but perhaps the real question should be do they have her so sequestered, she is unaware of the fact she is under attack by those who are intent on destroying her national political future in its infancy?
I simply disagree with social conservatives and evangelicals when it comes to politics, that’s the two party system. I loathe and despise establishment republicans and democrats alike; they are to the last man or woman corrupt, vile creatures.
As I said in a previous post, John McCain has a couple loyal friends in politics, a few who are even republican. But his “people” are paid operatives, and like FOX contributor Dick Morris who kept Bill Clinton in office till pillow talk with a whore made him a liability, sell their skills to whoever signs a paycheck.
Rank and file Social conservatives, who comprise the largest block of republicans, see in Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin a leader who shares their core beliefs. As do the old guard who are preparing to make sure come the 5th of November if the polls are correct, her time on the national stage is over. And these guys are the kind whose lack of morality and basic humanity allows for anything.That she seems out of her political depth at present would be like faulting Tiger Woods for an inability to win the U.S. Open while still in high school. McCain picked her for what he saw. Raw political talent and someone who could fire up the base.
Hell she alone for all her naivete was making a race of it, till the market tanked and McCain locked her down and wandered off the political reservation. In the event she does not become the vice-President elect a few days hence. Should she choose to grasp the opportunity and move on the establishment after the election, provided the loss is a landslide.
Her path to claiming the reins of the GOP, which would otherwise be frustrated by a lack of political capitol and insider relationships.Becomes an asset, the fewer establishment republicans in power provides a more open field. If the electorate repudiates the GOP November 4th, Social conservatives become the deciding influence in who emerges as the party leader. That’s why the old guard is seeing to it descriptions of Diva, and Wacko are being leaked to opposition websites and news outlets. They want to quickly abort any prospect of a GOP led by Governor Sarah Palin and evangelical social conservative loyalists.
Unless Governor Palin starts reaching out to strict ideologues like Pat Robertson, James Dobson and Patrick Buchanan in the next couple days for advice on what to do now and immediately after next Tuesday, they will make short work of her.
That’s my view yours may be different
psburton
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Sarah Palin blamed by the US Secret Service over death threats against Barack Obama
Sarah Palin’s attacks on Barack Obama’s patriotism provoked a spike in death threats against the future president, Secret Service agents revealed during the final weeks of the campaign.
By Tim Shipman in Washington
Last Updated: 4:04PM GMT 08 Nov 2008
Palin’s tone may have unintentionally encouraged white supremacists Photo: Reuters
The Republican vice presidential candidate attracted criticism for accusing Mr Obama of “palling around with terrorists”, citing his association with the sixties radical William Ayers.
The attacks provoked a near lynch mob atmosphere at her rallies, with supporters yelling “terrorist” and “kill him” until the McCain campaign ordered her to tone down the rhetoric.
But it has now emerged that her demagogic tone may have unintentionally encouraged white supremacists to go even further.
The Secret Service warned the Obama family in mid October that they had seen a dramatic increase in the number of threats against the Democratic candidate, coinciding with Mrs Palin’s attacks.
Michelle Obama, the future First Lady, was so upset that she turned to her friend and campaign adviser Valerie Jarrett and said: “Why would they try to make people hate us?”
The revelations, contained in a Newsweek history of the campaign, are likely to further damage Mrs Palin’s credentials as a future presidential candidate. She is already a frontrunner, with Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, to take on Mr Obama in four years time.
Details of the spike in threats to Mr Obama come as a report last week by security and intelligence analysts Stratfor, warned that he is a high risk target for racist gunmen. It concluded: “Two plots to assassinate Obama were broken up during the campaign season, and several more remain under investigation. We would expect federal authorities to uncover many more plots to attack the president that have been hatched by white supremacist ideologues.”
Irate John McCain aides, who blame Mrs Palin for losing the election, claim Mrs Palin took it upon herself to question Mr Obama’s patriotism, before the line of attack had been cleared by Mr McCain.
That claim is part of a campaign of targeted leaks designed to torpedo her ambitions, with claims that she did not know that Africawas a continent rather than a country.
The advisers have branded her a “diva” and a “whack job” and claimed that she did not know which other countries are in the North American Free Trade Area, (Canada and Mexico). They say she spent more than $150,000 on designer clothes, including $40,000 on her husband Todd and that she refused to prepare for the disastrous series of interviews with CBS’s Katie Couric.
In a bid to salvage her reputation Mrs Palin came out firing in an interview with CNN, dismissing the anonymous leakers in unpresidential language as “jerks” who had taken “questions or comments I made in debate prep out of context.”
She said: “I consider it cowardly. It’s not true. That’s cruel, it’s mean-spirited, it’s immature, it’s unprofessional and those guys are jerks if they came away taking things out of context and then tried to spread something on national news that’s not fair and not right.”
She was not asked about her incendiary rhetoric against Mr Obama. But she did deny the spending spree claims, saying the clothes in question had been returned to the Republican National Committee. “Those are the RNC’s clothes, they’re not my clothes. I asked for anything more than maybe a diet Dr Pepper once in a while. These are false allegations.”
Speaking as she returned to her native Alaska, Mrs Palin claimed to be baffled by what she claims was sexism on the national stage. “Here in Alaska that double standard isn’t applied because these guys know that Alaskan women are pretty tough, on a par with the men in terms of being outdoors, working hard,” she said.
“They’re commercial fishermen, they’re pilots, they’re working up on the North slopein the oil fields. You see equality in Alaska. I think that was a bit of as surprise on the national level.”