Todd Palin campaigning with Gingrich?

I don't understand the Palins' support of Newt Gingrich. This is troubling. Palin appeared to have a fairly good grasp of limited government philosophy, so why is she supporting this frustrated, bloated Napleon? Well, her husband, but from what she's said lately, she's urging voters to support Gingrich. Is it purely political manipulation, afraid Romney is going to become a quick winner too strong for a challenger later on? Did Palin have plans to jump in the race? Does she need Gingrich to keep Romney weak?

Anyone who believes Gingrich is a rebel fighting the establishment in order to beat back Big Government Republicanism doesn't really understand Gingrich or the principles of limited government. Herman Cain also loudly came out in support of Gingrich. They are both from Georgia, but Gingrich is the opposite of what Cain claimed to support during his campaign.

Gingrich will say or do anything at anytime when it's expedient. Gingrich is now calling Romney a Massachusetts liberal when not too long ago Gingrich was sitting with Pelosi and rubbing shoulders with Al Sharpton. Gingrich has proposed many Big Government ideas -- recently wanting to spend government money on colonizing the moon. Gingrich is not the type of person who will adhere to the principles of limited government conservatives -- he'll use their support as a prop to position himself to the right of Romney, then forget about them if he becomes the nominee.

But, Palin knows Gingrich is not going to be the the nominee, so she can only hope that Gingrich keeps Romney from running away with the race, so that she or some other Republican she's supporting can jump in. If there's another Republican who wants to run, they ought to jump in and run. I guess they're hoping for a brokered convention, but this is a terrible career move for Palin. I've defended her from what I saw as unfair attacks in the past, but anyone who criticizes this move will be on the mark.

Just another side show. I have to believe this silliness is just a political illness that strikes those who get too close, and that it will go away when a winner emerges. 

Republican hopefuls pull for Newt

The only possible reason I can imagine that Sarah Palin is urging people to vote for Newt Gingrich is that she hopes there will be a movement to get her to run. If Palin really thinks Gingrich is the anti-establishment candidate, then she's as clueless as her critics have claimed all along.

Ron Paul is the only candidate whose ideas run counter to the Republican establishment. For Republicans like Joe Scarborough and Sarah Palin to act as if Gingrich represents a conservative resistance to Republican moderates is ludicrous. I don't know what their angles are, but it's likely they want a drawn out race  in hopes of a brokered convention.

The more I watch the Republican Party, the more I realize we have to create a viable third party

Morning Joe 6/29/2011 -- Failure of Statism

On Morning Joe today the crew and guests like Tina Brown, Ezra Klein and Al Sharpton talked about the breakdown in Washington DC -- they can't get anything done on the debt ceiling, spending cuts or raising taxes -- they're frozen in a partisan divide -- Obama can't make bold decisions and lead the way -- politicians are too worried about the next election -- so on and so forth. Tina Brown either lamented the fact, or simply stated the fact, that people are beginning to take matters into their own hands to solve problems. Imagine that.

I will say this -- if the inadvertent result of Obama's presidency is that Americans take responsibility for their problems and creatively find solutions, then I will declare Obama's presidency as the most important in our history. Seriously, what Morning Joe was discussing this morning is the failure of statism. Many of us know that statism always fails -- it has to -- it can't end any other way. In the history of mankind there has never been success from central planning and social engineering. Domination has always led to decline -- freedom rises for a minute, then domination returns.

The challenge of the 21st century is not to fix statism/domination short-term so that interventionist governments can prop up a coercive State machine and stretch out it survival for another decade or two -- the challenge of the 21st century is to finish and do right what our Founders attempted in the beginning -- truly limit government and establish an authentically free market. Unless we apply fundamental solutions at this point in time, we will continue our decline, and collapse won't be far away. Statism has been pushed to the breaking point -- we have even surpassed the USSR's long run, but mainly because we had a measure of freedom. Now, we need to do the hard thing -- oppose statism, defeat statism and place real limits on government power. The State machine is powerful, but if the American people want change, we can make it happen -- even if we have to vote every current politician out of office and start over.

Joe Scarborough and Mika said they were tired of Sarah Palin news then spent ten minutes talking about how the media should quit talking about Sarah Palin. I have an idea -- Joe and Mika can use their influence and get the producers to establish a Sarah Palin black-out on Morning Joe -- no discussion at all about Sarah Palin, to show how Sarah Palin is not news-worthy -- yes, make a statement about Sarah Palin, that she's not a player, not important, not worthy of further discussion -- no more Sarah Palin news, seriously, no more, because even though Sarah Palin went to Iowa, it's not...

Why is the media harrassing Sarah Palin?

With the release of her emails written as governor of Alaska and WaPo asking readers to help sort through the emails, the media has gone into Weirdo Land with this obsession they have with Sarah Palin. What other ex-governor has gone through this type of obsessive harrassment?

On talk shows, liberal pundits will actually exhibit rage when talking about Sarah Palin as if her very existence is such an affront to their sense of justice that it borders on wishing she'd disappear from the face of the earth. Palin's every move is a source of consternation for the political class. The media's attempts at humor to make fun of Palin are so charged with hatred the jokes come off as vicious snark out of balance with reality -- in other words, the attacks are too much, a sickness, an extreme form of denigration that comes close to persecution. Then when Palin defends herself, she's angriliy accused of having a persecution complex.

Something is terribly wrong with this national obsession which is mostly on the Left. But there are those supposedly on the Right who also attack Palin with more vigor than is called for, seeing as how she's no threat to them -- many others on the Right share her ideas, but they aren't attacked. Centrists like David Frum and David Brooks dismiss Palin, snootily, as being beneath the establishment's standard for acceptable Republicans and treat her as if she's an enemy.

I think I know some of the reasons for this, like elitism and political class snobbishness and fear of her popularity with a faction of Americans, but the degree to which Palin's detractors are attempting to destroy her is really mystifying.

Sarah Palin and the indignant media

David Brooks on Meet the Press this morning was unintentionally hilarious, the only way he can be hilarious, when the subject of Sarah Palin and Republican candidates emerged for discussion -- as it seems to on all these shows. Brooks began rambling about a crisis in Venezuela and what would Palin do as President when presidents are expected to solve these types of crises. Hold on, Dave, she hasn't declared her candidacy, and I doubt any president goes in with all the answers to all the crises, that's why we have other supposedly capable people in government positions. But Brooks went on talking about Palin as if she has declared her candidacy and is running hard to get elected. The disdain in Brooks' voice is what was so humorous -- I mean it's one thing to think Palin isn't ready, but you don't have to turn rosy red in the cheeks and scowl like a pissed-off, Ivy League candy-ass who's just been mistreated by an inferior.

All the morning shows are reacting to Palin's cross-country trip -- is she running? is she re-igniting her brand? is she trying to boost book sales? is she on a mad quest to conquer the world and make Todd Emperor of the Universe?

I think she's having a blast, and perhaps that's what Brooks and his ilk hate the most.