Glenn Beck to Megyn Kelly: Don’t you think the left is terrified of Palin?

Palin has done enormously well considering she was unknown before the Presidential election, and during the election her image was controlled by the McCain camp, who let her out for one major interview, a taped edited interview by the opposition, while the MSM was given freedom to take her down, since the McCain camp obviously feared letting Palin loose

That is the source of the frantic pre emptive assault on her image. Although Palin ran in a Presidential campaign, she has not had control over her own image building. Should she get funding to let loose using her own instincts, which are far superior to either John McCain’s or his daughter’s, people will see the complete Palin

Both the MSM and the McCain camp already worked her negatives to death, the MSM directly and the McCain camp by acting as if Palin had to be kept back.

There is no where for Palin to go except boosting her positives. She seems to be good at it.

I would be interested to see Palin unleashed because I need more info beyond the staging too. Especially with the Romney Boy Scout b.s. which is inexcusable IMHO

entagor on March 26, 2009 at 12:09 PM

One of the reasons I think Palin looks better than the other GOP hopefuls at this point is the sense of energy and excitement surrounding her. Conservatives should be clear about the dimensions of the horrible mistake voters made last November. The changes being forced upon this country by the Obama administration are enormous and transformative, as Obama himself likes to say, in a rare bout of naked honesty. In just a few short months, we’ve moved farther to the left than Reagan was able to move the country to the right in eight years. It’s been a blind rush into abject socialism, doubling and tripling the national debt with such dizzying speed that neither the public, nor the financial markets, have fully absorbed the effects yet. And the “transformative changes” just keep coming, reshaping institutions to fit Obama’s ideological agenda, or the political needs of his party.

Besides looking at a candidate’s chances of winning the next election, conservatives should consider what that candidate is likely to do, once they get into office. Searching for a candidate who holds your exact position on every issue is futile – no such person exists, and the quest to find them is likely to produce a bitter, divisive primary, yielding a candidate without the necessary groundswell of support. Even if such a candidate was able to defeat a publicly-reviled Obama, they wouldn’t be able to *do* anything significant once they got into office. If you take a clear look at where America stands today, you can see that months of Obama have already done damage that might take years or decades of incremental change to repair. How far does America have to journey, just to get back to Bush’s bloated government? We’ve degenerated into the early stages of true fascism, with political leaders openly advocating violence and unconstitutional tyranny against selected class-war targets. I would submit the American pendulum has *never* swung as far right as it currently stands to the left.

To repair the damage that has been done, we’re going to have to do a lot better than re-running 2008 but having somebody like McCain win this time. 2010 and 2012 will be dangerous times for America, but also moments of rare opportunity. The absurdity, inefficiency, and tyranny of American socialism have never been made as obvious as they are today. Conservatives used to win arguments with liberals by describing what liberalism would look like, if taken to absurd extremes – and now we’re actually living under it. And the real effects of Obamanomics haven’t even been felt yet – the gigantic loss of market value and real wealth over the last few months has been a combination of fallout from unwise policies during the later Bush years, combined with fear of what Obama says he will do.

Now that American businesses know without doubt that taxation without representation and bills of attainder are back, Atlas will finally begin to shrug. The only thing we can be certain of is that whoever runs AIG now won’t be as good as the people Obama has all but driven out of the country. Business plans are being made now that will bear bitter fruit in the coming years… and we haven’t even seen what America’s *enemies* will do yet.

The next president has to be someone bold enough to rise to the occasion and seize the moment. It has to be someone who will do more than just scale back the excesses of the previous administration. A 15% cut in Obama’s monstrous deficits will not get the job done. We need someone with the charisma and energy to inspire Americans to take a sober look at what happened to them between 2009 and 2012, and challenge them to do *more* than just limp back to the broken system we had under Bushes and Clinton. We need someone with the juice to get people talking about the true reforms and paradigm changes needed to burn the old system down and replace with something that promotes liberty and achievement – things like flat taxes and Congressional term limits.

We need, not a “moderate conservative” or “centrist”, but a conservative radical – a visionary. There’s no way to tell if any of the current contestants have these qualities, but so far, Palin is the only one who has shown the faintest glimmer of the electricity that will be required. I hope there are others – I’d love to have an embarrassment of riches to choose from.

Doctor Zero on March 26, 2009 at 2:07 PM