Frum's pathetic obsession with Sarah Palin

http://www.frumforum.com/palins-way-to-win-friends-and-influence-people

David Frum is nipping at Palin's heels like a rabid shitzu. Speaking of centers, Frum has no center, and that's the problem -- people who do have a center of values frighten him -- they obviously remind him of his weakness, which is to scrounge for acceptance in power circles, seeking his identity through consensus.

It must be painful for people like Frum to see people like Palin become popular and prosperous. Frum needs to destroy Palin because she represents what he can't achieve -- independence. Frum is dependent on power outside himself to vicariously feel the rush of importance. That he can't understand what Palin was talking about in the interview tells me all I need to know about Frum. Him and his ilk are definitely not pulling people to the center, they're alienating everyone who falls outside the popular mindset in Washington D.C. Frum is a sell-out and a hypocrit, playing expert in a crumbling political circle of sycophants and wannabes. The good thing about him is his lack of influence.

Outside this political circle are people of accomplishment -- men and women who produce and make the world work. Frum preens among the pretension and empty cynicism in a world of takers, second-handers and prostitues of principle, understanding nothing about integrity and strength. He spends his time tearing down a person who has done nothing but speak her mind and try the best she can to deal with her popularity -- someone who at least has a basic understanding of the world outside political half-asses, faux-intellectuals and suck-ups.

The Beck and Palin haters

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-23/glenn-beck-community-organizer/

Forget about the government's tax and spend policies - that's small potatoes compared to the problem Conor Friedersdorf has uncovered which is bankrupting people across the nation -- Glenn Beck's book sales!

It appears Beck is conning people into buying his books, which is draining the victims' bank accounts -- how many books are people buying at a time? Conor doesn't say, but they must be filling up their car trunks.

It's known as the "bait and switch", and Beck, according to Friedersdorf, is a master at this con game. Beck lures innocent victims into his trap by convincing them that if they don't buy his books, obviously dozens of books, that the government will control their minds and do all sorts of horrible things to them and their family. Once the victims are terrified, they rush to Barnes and Nobles and deplete their bank accounts buying Beck's books.

It's a good thing that people like Friedersdorf and Andrew Sullivan are looking out for the gullible people of this nation, because, otherwise, between Beck's book sales and Palin's female organs, the nation could be in serious danger. It's all about priorities, folks. 

Why pundits don't understand Sarah Palin's appeal

Since most of the pundits pontificating on Sarah Palin don't understand her appeal, they should stick to what they understand -- politics. I don't make claim to being mind-melded to the heartland of America, but I have a better perspective than the political class who think of the country outside Washington D.C. as ignorant, docile subjects to the powerful state.

Between 1988 and 1991 I had to go to D.C. about six times a year to deal with a contract we had with AmTrak, and I can't think of a another place in this country more antithetical to the traditional idea of America than Washington D.C. -- it's a gross misrepresentation of our country. What D.C. represents is what's wrong with our country -- statism. All of the muscle-bound architecture is an affront to innovation, individual liberty and the creative spirit of the free market. All the arrogant waste is a sign of our past apathy and ignorance. All the dire poverty, blocks from the opulence of power, is representative of our dependence.

The restaurants/bars full of political players speaking loudly and drunkenly represent a country on a binge, spending money and creating a mess we'll pass on to our children and grandchildren to pay for and clean up, or wallow in as they spiral further downwards in collapse, taught by their parents only how to party and spend. One day, though, a future generation will look back and wonder in disgusted amazement how we could make heroes of men like Edward Kennedy while denigrating the heartland as rubes and racists, undeserving of a voice in governance.

Washington D.C., with its New York financial connection and Hollywood/media image connection, is a cancer spreading through the body of America, and now the body is beginning to fight back. The heartland of America is fighting back against an arrogant state which thinks it can control a country born in individual liberty and individual rights. Washington D.C power players look across America and see a collective to be manipulated into power bases of dependent voters -- what they miss is the diversity and the awakening. The power players have no idea how vulnerable they are against the people of this country, once the people wake up and act.

Sarah Palin understands the power of ordinary people, the diversity which makes up America, and the arrogance of paternalism. Because Sarah Palin is an individual not made in Washington D.C. and not approved by the D.C. power players, she must be destroyed. It has nothing to do with the individual -- Sarah Palin -- it has to do with the image -- Sarah Palin -- that the power players perceive as dangerous. Any one of these power players who met Sarah Palin at some social event, if Palin was not the image she is now, would have no problem with her and would no doubt like her or be indifferent to her -- but they'd have no reason to hate her.

The D.C. power players hate what Sarah Palin represents -- a diverse public outside D.C. fighting against state power. The power players will hate anyone who rises above the perceived collective -- Beck, Limbaugh, Levin, Hannity, Coulter, etc. The only reason all these people are on the right is that no liberal has risen from outside, or inside, the D.C. statist culture to become a popular voice against statism -- but make no mistake, the first liberal who rises up and becomes a popular voice of resistance, will be destroyed. Statism and power are what the Washington D.C. political class is protecting, and anyone from the "collective" across America who rises to challenge statism will be attacked.

Sarah Palin's appeal is that she empowers ordinary people against a powerful, over-reaching and impersonal state. This, the political class can't have.

Sarah Palin - President of the Private Sector

If Democrats really think that Sarah Palin running for president will destroy the Republicans, then the Obama administration ought to be talking to Democrat operatives and their friends in the media, telling them to lay off Palin, and actually give her a little support.

We know why the moderate statists like Frum hate and denigrate her - they're terrified of her. Frum asks about her intentions:

It’s not the presidency. But it may be more fun. Why campaign, when you can tour? Why seek votes, when you have fans? Why be Evita, when you can be Madonna?

And why care what a lightweight like Frum thinks? But Frum's sarcastic attack is unintentionally correct. It's obvious by the obession that Frum has for criticizing Palin that he knows she has star-power, and this makes him angry. Frum is the type who hates what he believes is unearned success in the political realm. If Palin is as incompetent as Frum suggests, then why even worry about her -- Frum, too, could lighten up and give her a little support, if he believes that if she runs, she will implode -- then she'll be gone for good, right?

No, the moderate statists and the progressive statists must destroy Palin, because Palin is a threat to them, but it's backfiring. The more they pile on, the less credibility they have. It's a pathetic show of fear and elite disgust. But, be that as it may, Palin should not run for President.

The high-stakes political game in Washington D.C. is run by snakes, and only snakes emerge unscathed. Either someone enters politics at a high level already a snake and they survive, or they become a snake and survive, or they resist becoming snake and they're destroyed, or at least marginalized.

Sarah Plain doesn't stand a chance running for president, and if by some miracle she won, she'd be destroyed, or become a snake. Palin's forte is in the private realm. I can't even imagine why she would want to run for president -- it would thwart her power. She would be in constant battle with snakes and nothing would be accomplished.

The private realm is where the untapped power lies. If we want to regain free market principles, it will be done in the private realm. I've recently wrtitten about the need for innovative safety net initiatives in the private realm, but we're using an old worn-out term -- what we need are private empowerment initiatives. There's a certain small fraction of the country which needs permanent assistance because this group of Americans are incapable of helping themselves for various reasons, and they should be taken care of in a wealthy, powerful country. But the great majority of people simply need an environment of empowerment to fight against the big government/big business cartel in a competitive/cooperative free market. Yes, we need representatives in government who will work to limit government power, but a president will not get this done, so it's useless for Palin to even consider running at that level. Palin, and others like her, can avoid the unfair advantage of the political class by running in the private sector for leaders of a private revolution to restore the integrity of the Constitution, capitalism and voluntary social change.

Palin, and other charismatic proponents of the free market, liberty and limited government, can raise money to defeat progressive, professional politicians -- they can represent small businesses, and women, and minorities, and all ordinary people in the private realm, in a battle to fight the state/corporate stranglehold on America.

Palin should be brushing up on the particulars of free market principles and Constitutional issues so she can articulate the philosophical differences, then use her star power to help persuade America to gain control of our government, so that private realm forces are unleashed to make changes. The politcal snakes can't use inside political tricks to destroy her if she immerses herself in the private realm and becomes an integral part of a peaceful revolution of principles. Perhaps principles don't mean much in Washington, D.C., but they are vital for the private realm to restore integrity and to protect our freedom.

So, I say -- "Sarah, give the finger to the political class and join the private citizens who will support clear-headed, limited government ideas, and who will help to re-establish free market prinicples -- who knows, we might make you President of the U.S. where it counts, among producers and hard workers, and intellectuals who are not subsidized by government, and women who need empowerment, and minorities who need empowerment, and all the rest who are trying to make sense of it all. Plus, the pay will be better than a government job. But, here, you'll have to prove you mean what you say, and you'll have to compete, and persuade by reason, rather than coerce." 

What about Sarah Palin?

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDIxZDQyOGUwNTgzMGExMWZiOTk3Mjc4NGI1OGUyMjU=

I can't believe Costa doesn't know that Sarah Palin was the first high profile Republican to support Hoffman. She had the guts to realize Scozzafava is a liberal and that Hoffman represents limited government. How can you write an article like this and not mention Sarah Palin -- it undercuts the point of the whole article. Palin has been out front on the whole limited government movement -- I wonder how many others who are now jumping on the Hoffman wagon really believe in the need to limit government -- which one of them would have been first if Palin had not acted?