America Needs Sarah Palin

  • Thomas Sowell on Sarah Palin
    "Not One of Us"
    by Thomas Sowell

    Analysis and reaction at C4P.


  • Culture of life














    From Esquire interview

    (cross-posted here)


  • Culture of life #2
    Never underestimate the human spirit. Gotta love the coach who put him in.
    http://patrickmadrid.blogspot.com/2009/02/against-all-odds.html


  • Sarah Palin is smart
    Save this excellent article and pull it out when someone questions Sarah Palin's intellect.


  • Quotes from Sarah Palin

    Conservatives for Palin excerpt some wonderful quotes from Sarah Palin's Esquire interview. These are on motherhood and faith. Click on their post for comments and context.

    A courageous person is anyone who loses a child and can still get out of bed in the morning.
    I can always go home again and just be Mom and be perfectly happy and fulfilled with the blessings that God has given us. And with a great marriage and great parents and siblings and children, I could today go home and just be Mom.
    After a long day, if the weather's good, I like to take a long, hot run to unwind. Otherwise, lately, I take a bath with Trig, and I answer e-mails, and then we all fall asleep in my big bed while we listen to Piper read her Junie B. Jones books out loud. She's learning to read and she'll read for hours on end. It's idyllic. It's amazing.
    Many high-powered parents separate work and children; Ms. Palin takes a wholly different approach. “She’s the mom and the governor, and they’re not separate,” Ms. Cole said. Around the governor’s offices, it was not uncommon to get on the elevator and discover Piper, smothering her puppy with kisses.

    “She’ll be with Piper or Trig, then she’s got a press conference or negotiations about the natural gas pipeline or a bill to sign, and it’s all business,” Ms. Burney, who works across the hall, said. “She just says, ‘Mommy’s got to do this press conference.’”
    I know He hears me when I just call out to Him, which I do a lot. Oh, yes, I pray. I talk to God every day. I've put my life, so I put my day, into God's hands, and I just ask for guidance and wisdom and grace to get through one situation after another.


  • Iron Dog this weekend
    Links to stories on this hardcore race:

    C4P: Iron Dog, Duct Tape, and Commemoratve Knives

    HillBuzz: We don't know which one is cuter . . .

    The stories are great.

    But this picture . . . !

    This is the most photogenic family ever. And they are genuinely interesting people. They, like, do things.

    Here's what I wrote about the Palins and their mass-appeal on September 4th just after Sarah's convention speech. That was before the msm smearing kicked in. It's hard to know what "the public" would think of the Palins without the distorting effect of the msm lens.

    Here's a fun excerpt from a Washington Post article on Todd from Sept. 7, 2008:

    Todd Palin arrived in Wasilla from Dillingham on Bristol Bay in the early 1980s, and cut such a figure at the high school that girls inked T-O-D-D on the back of their fingers, Kaylene Johnson wrote in her admiring biography of the governor. The newcomer chose Sarah Heath, daughter of a popular science teacher, and flirted with her from a two-way radio on the open boat his family used when the salmon ran up Bristol Bay.

    Todd Palin claims Yupik Eskimo blood through his grandmother. When he took a job on the North Slope, working Arctic Circle oil pads for British Petroleum, the family's life assumed a rhythm familiar in Alaska: a week or two at home, a week or two on "the Slope."

    And when he won the Iron Dog, he basically owned the state. The endurance race involves six days of steering a snowmobile at 80 mph. From its start in Wasilla, the course runs across two mountain ranges to Nome on the Bering Sea, then back down the Yukon River to Fairbanks.

    The terrain is so rough that some days drivers pull their hands out of mittens bloody from blistering, and so dangerous that drivers must move in teams. With Scott Davis, who sells concrete block in Soldotna, Palin has won the race four times.

    "He's always trying to give someone else credit," Davis said.


    (cross-posted here)


  • Palin's shoes sold on eBay

    Sarah's red pumps sold on eBay:
    "JUNEAU, Alaska, Jan 29, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A pair of red pumps purportedly worn by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin during her vice presidential campaign have sold for $2,025 on eBay."


    A     pair of red pumps? You mean these iconic Palin pumps, the shoes that sparked the avalanche of interest in Gov. Palin's footwear. They shouldn't have been auctioned - they should be in the Smithsonian.


  • Note to ANSP readers:
    I've imported almost all of the 500+ posts from AmericaNeedsSarahPalin to my other blog, Pundit&Pundette.

    They're labelled with the tag ANSP. They're all there: the shoe gallery, the Harley photo, Maureen Dowd's snipes, Obama's chilling born-alive statements, etc. They're integrated into the other posts by date and it forms a coherent whole, I think.

    I'm leaning toward not posting here anymore. But I'll leave the blog up. That way, links to it will still work, and I can visit it now and then when I'm feeling nostalgic. I still love Sarah. She's the anti-Obama. I will certainly continue to write about her. But I'd like to streamline my efforts into one blog and talk about a wider range of topics. The ongoing war to preserve our liberties has many fronts.

    Many thanks to all my readers and fellow bloggers, especially to the Read My Lipstick network. Your support and patronage has been greatly appreciated. And surprising. When I started the Palin blog in my excitement after her pick as VP, I never dreamed anyone other than my blood relatives would see it. 20,000 visits (almost) and 32,620 page views later, I'm still a little surprised. But it was all Sarah. Her enormous appeal created a Palin internet boom, and my little blog got just the edge of that. The outrageous smearing, borking, and quayling of her by the msm has kept Palin's supporters busy. They continue to do a fantastic job on behalf of her and of the truth.

    Please visit me at Pundit&Pundette. If you list ANSP on your blogroll, would you consider putting P&P in its place? My blogroll there is very inclusive. If you'd like to be linked, email me at pundette at gmail dot com. I'm thinking of making a significantly more exclusive roll for those who have linked to me. ;)

    Go Sarah! Go Palinistas!

    Jem/Pundette/Jill


  • Media attracted to yet repelled by Sarah Palin
    They can't live with her and they can't live without her.

    From Newsbusters: Chris Matthews Mocks Gov. Palin One Day, Calls Her For Interview the Next

    You get the idea from the headline. Newsbusters quotes Bill McAllister, talking to the Anchorage Press:
    Introducing the clips, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews referred to “the vice presidential campaign that won’t end,” a characterization that McAllister says was hypocritical, as Matthews had recently called him asking for an interview.

    “If it’s so objectionable, why do you want to interview her?” McAllister asks. “This is the double standard we get from a lot of people in the media. I could put her on any TV program you could imagine. She’s being treated as if she’s out there trying to garner all this publicity; we turn stuff down every day. We turn down dozens of things every day. We get invitations all the time for her to speak at various events, either of a partisan or conservative nature or whatever; she’s not doing that. She’s here. She put out a budget. She’s got a State of the State address she’s going to deliver in less than two weeks. It’s not that she’s commenting, it’s that it seems like the national media will just gobble up anything Palin.”
    It's irksome that Gov. Palin is being blamed by the media for the public's, and therefore their own, insatiable "appetite for all things Palin." It's real and it's out there. It has been since the end of August.

    It must be painful for the msm. They despise her, but they can't ignore her, not because she's looking for the limelight, but because she's a huge story. It's not a moral dilemma for the likes of Chris Matthews. He doesn't mind slamming her one minute and using her, or hoping to, the next. But it must be distasteful to be forced to acknowledge, at least implicitly, that this woman is enormously popular with Americans.

    It may be that even Gov. Palin doesn't fully grasp the depth or extent of her appeal:
    The governor’s office says she doesn’t want the constant exposure, that the recent blitz due to Ziegler’s film excerpts was unexpected.
    Name another vice-presidential candidate on a losing ticket who was this hot a story two and a half months after an election. The msm paparazzi find her irresistible, but are attracted and repelled at the same time. From Newsbusters:
    One wonders how the liberal Old Media establishment has the temerity to say they aren't attacking her when one day they are calling her names and the next trying to get interviews with her. We've seen incident after incident here on NewsBusters, so many incidents that NewsBusters has itself risked becoming all Palin all the time.
    Temerity is not a stretch for them.

    Newsbusters believes Palin's staff needs to do their job better:
    Palin has to get a firm hold on her image but so far the people she has helping with that are failing miserably. This is not to say that it is all their fault, of course. It is clear, even to the Anchorage Press, that the Old Media is out to get Sarah Palin. Even they had to admit that Palin is "perhaps justifiably" making the charge that she is "under siege by the media." For the media, that is quite an admission.
    Maybe she does need better 'people.' But it's gratifying to see the real Palin emerge, now that she's no longer under the control of the unaccountable McCain campaign staff, who so deeply misused and misunderstood her assets and her appeal to Americans.



  • Reprise: Sarah Palin's pro-life manifesto
    http://americaneedssarahpalin.blogspot.com/2008/10/blessing-or-punishment-palin-makes.html


  • Tired of Mr. Right
    Readers, can this relationship last?
    Dear Abby,

    I've been seeing this great guy for a couple of years now. He is really incredible: smart, cool, great dresser, really ambitious, kind of exotic in a cool way. Did I mention he's cool? And a good listener who really respects my point of view (though, to be honest, he never seems to change his mind). Different from my usual type, I admit, which is more mature, square, and straightforward. You know, boring. I felt like I needed a change and boy did I get it!

    So what's the problem? All my old friends think he's a jerk who is just using me, and they tell me so in no uncertain terms. They point out that some of his friends are kind of shady (which is true, but he is so over them now --- he told me himself). And we do disagree about a few things, like children --- he called them a punishment, which is kind of harsh, though maybe I can see his point. And they say he wants to take my stuff and run my life. But would that be so bad? I mean, he is really smart.

    So what should I do? I hate to part ways with my friends but this is the chance of a lifetime. And I'm sure he will be different once we formalize our relationship. I can bring him around on those things we disagree on. It will definitely be worth the effort! There is so much promise there!

    And my friends are not cool at all. I see that now. So small loss, really.

    Thanks for listening!

    Signed,
    Tired of Mr. Right

    (originally posted here by Pundit)


  • Video: Sarah Palin on Glenn Beck, 1/19/09


    Glenn misread the first viewer question (toward end of interview) and entirely reversed its meaning. Too bad. It was a good question.

    I'm pleased that Beck allowed her to talk a bit at the end about the intrinsic value of human life. Parents out there will immediately relate to her enthusiasm when she talks about Trig, how cute he is, "a little Michelin man," and the joy and "healthy perspective" he's brought to their family, reminding them that what matters is "cherishing life."

    I'll post a transcript when one becomes available.

    Check out the comments at C4P.


  • Sarah Palin revealed in emails



  • David Shuster: worst person in the world . . .
    . . . or: John Ziegler, I think I love you.

    It's infantile, but I'll nominate John Shuster for WPITW. His interviews with John Zeigler speak for themselves.



    Related story at P&P


  • Paglia on Palin and Couric
    A must-read over at Conservatives for Palin -- Paglia's Take on Palin, Couric and elitism

    Just a taste: "What a bunch of tittering lemmings the urban elite have become in this country."

    Paglia saves her most withering commentary for Katie Couric. Go to C4P to read it.