Palin/Beck 2012 - Imaginary Presidential ticket criticized for lack of qualifications

Political pundits of all stripes are speculating on a Palin/Beck ticket and now they're criticizing the imaginary ticket -- they're appalled at this imaginary ticket and indignant over the imaginary possibility of them imaginarily running for imaginary office.

I suppose we don't have enough real news to cover -- I mean ACORN, SEIU and government lies about policies which will bankrupt the country are just not sexy and weird enough, so the media and pundits create a fantasy ticket to get upset over and show their brilliant political insights. One commentator got upset because Beck goofs around too much, not knowing when he's serious and when he's not, and this, says the commentator, is no way for a political leader to act. 

Before we drift off into a Beck-ett play, Beck has never claimed to be a political leader, and I doubt he would ever become insane enough to run for any type of office. I don't think Palin will run either, although the lure of political fame is powerful. But, regardless, it's a little premature to start analyzing a Palin/Beck ticket, and, for goodness sake, let's not lose our sense of humor -- it's the only thing some of us have to keep from going crazy. Beck is a satirist at heart, and this is where he shines, so let's not suit him up and kill the only strange quality that gives political discourse any possibility of interest and redemption. 

I think what most people are missing is the power formation going on in the private sector. It's basically apolitical. CEOs of small companies, writers, radio talk show hosts, Tea Party participants, libertarians, women fed up with power politics, minorities breaking out of Democrat chains, all are forming a power base in the private sector which appears to be resisting statism -- an over-reaching government which has pissed off a large portion of the country.

Leftists have praised diversity for years, but what they mean by diversity is the politically correct connections which give them power to control those with which they disgree. Real diversity is individualism, and what we are seeing is a rebirth of individuality. Americans don't make for docile and cooperative collectivists.

Statists thrive when they can control groups which can be bought off or brain-washed -- statists can't thrive or survive when individualism and free-thinking reigns. Palin and Beck are a part of the individualistic private sector power formation -- agree with them or not, they don't have the power of coercion, and that's the point -- what we are going to see, I think, is the revival of the free market of ideas where persuasion and reason will eventually win, if guns are put away and statists are chained and made powerless once again by the Constitution.

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[Clay Barham]

MEAN MARTHA AND THE HERDING CLASS
Martha Stewart, in a recent TV interview, demonstrated why the elite hate ordinary people who stray into the public eye. She earns the title of Mean Martha with her demeaning responses to questions about Rachael Ray and Sarah Palin. I'm sure she could add Glenn Beck to that. She did us a great service, however, because she gave us a concrete example of the differences between the elite herding class and the herd, them and us. The few elite rule the many, as is tradition in the world outside of America. The elite herding class has moved into most all levels of government, the law, media, entertainment and the big city cocktail circuit. Ordinary working class men and women, their children and parents, are the fly-over herd they are to manage, like polished cowboys circling the cattle. In the terms of the Transactional Psychologists, Mean Martha and her elite are the I’m OK, you are not OK crowd. That is what happened to America since its founding, when everyone, as individuals, had to work and create to survive, stand on their own two feet and depend on their neighbors in times of stress. We have a lot of Mean Martha’s with us today assuming positions of importance where they believe they decide how the herd is to live. Claysamerica.com.