My thoughts on Sarah Palin
Posted by americana83 on November 21, 2009
Sarah is a controversial person at this point. Supporters of the Pelosi-Reid-Obama health care bills are up in arms over her pointed comments. She isn’t even holding an office and yet she is seemingly feared above all the conservatives of whatever party. the AP dispatches 11 reporters to “fact check” her book, and yet there was no such effort for Obama’s autobiography, Dreams from my Father, or the late Ted Kennedy’s book.
What I like about Sarah:
It’s not just the title of her book, she’s actually went rogue. She stood up to the establishment party to endorse a real candidate in the NY 23rd congressional district. It speaks a lot about a person when they refuse to bow to pressure and compromise the future of a country for mere “big tent” party unity.
Anyone who has suggested that Palin isn’t substantive or doesn’t discuss issues obviously hasn’t been on her public facebook page.
Sarah has been hard and to the point in her critiques of the current unconstitutional “reform” efforts to take over health care and run it as effectively and carefully as the run Recovery.gov.
http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin#/notes/sarah-palin/cancer-screenings-rational-advice-or-rationed-care/178333423434
One thing I didn’t like:
I really didn’t care for how the recent book signing in Columbus, OH was conducted, though I am not sure who is responsible. They had her in a curtained box, so that only the “official” photographer could take photos, the Border’s staff said you could take photos from a distance, but that was a laugh because they had her boxed in! It had the impression of separating her from the people, when one of her strongest traits is being one of the people.
Palin seems like a nice person, and I feel that such things, at least symbolically, detract from her folksy and open persona. I hope that if by some chance you read this, Palin, that you tell the staff to lighten up and let you be yourself.
Yet one more thing:
While waiting in line for the signing, they were only going to let in 500 people. However, after those people had finished, Palin, came running out the front, and told the multitude still waiting to come in. It really didn’t seem like they expected her to run, you should have seen the camera crew trying to keep up.
Final thoughts
Sarah Palin was the most exciting mainstream candidate in 2008. It was disturbing to see how threatened the MSM and leftist groups attacked her, hypocritically for a “lack of experience.” She has handled it well, and while she’s not afraid to stand up to them, she does it in a polite way. I hope that, as she mixes and mingles in the lime light of fame with her best seller, that she surrounds herself with good advisers, and stays close to the Lord. And, if she seeks federal office that she doesn’t forget her base consists of constitutionalists and conservatives, and that they want her to fight to keep Americans a free people with a limited government caged by the constitution, yet not shackled with toxic international treaties.
CharInOhio said
Americana83…..
Here in Cincinnati she was in a curtained box too. They first said no cameras at all, then said we could, then said we couldnt again, it was holding the line up. They had her bus sectioned off too and cop cars two of them to where you couldnt get decent pics of EVEN the bus !!! And then , the cops keep grouping up talking right in front of the thing !!! It was awful. I saw some places that….that….you could take a picture right up against her bus….that was pretty cool…but NOT US !!!! They also took our books from our hands and stacked them up on top of each other like an assembly line to be signed. I realize she was really busy and stressed for time…..but, that was really rude like sort of. It just wasnt too personal like. In some places you could see Trig up close too…not here….everything was so boxed in and guarded like we were criminals. IF they are THAT afraid of coming to Ohio….then they shouldnt have came here….it makes me feel like I live in some ghetto. I hear of and see other peoples pictures ect…and they got good pics of her, the bus and Trig and I HAVE NOTHING !!!! Yes I have a scribbled autograph….and I do mean scribbled, its not even her full name?
Now I DO so much LOVE Sarah….I was the first one in the lot other than the media that morning and the last to leave when she boarded her bus…..but ….the bookstores oversold the event I feel…or didnt schedule enough time for the signings….so it could be more personable. I mean, you ALREADY didnt get personalized signatures….and no pictures? A little more personable would have been NICE ? They took my book like five times acting like they were paging it so it would be easier for her to sign…but then they opened it and laid it flat on top of the others anyways? While doing that, they found an index card where I had written down two sites I run for her….fan sites sort of….Palin groups. The one guy says meanly…is that a note for her? I said no….and went on up to get book signed…I didnt give it to her cause I figured I wasnt allowed. BUT IT WAS ONLY AN INDEX CARD …please !!!!!
It was awesome to see her and stuff…but I seen that she signed someone’s shirt and it SAID …NO MEMORBILIA would be signed….and I seen a book signed personalized…and the rules were ..NO PERSONALIZATIONS….the RULES should have been for EVERYONE….that wasnt right. They wouldnt even let me give her an index card with sites on it? Granted she may have just thrown it away when I left….it was still rude to not let me? Just saying….