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Sarah Palin’s Illusions of Grandeur

July 5, 2009 at 4:25 AM Leave a comment

My take on what Sarah Palin’s up to is this:  I suspect that — particularly over the last several weeks, during the Letterman joke fiasco and the release of the Vanity Fair article — Sarah Palin has received thousands of supportive emails.  Chances are good that they urge her “not to take it” from the “liberal media” anymore and to stand up and fight the “socialist” (or “communist” or “Muslim”) establishment.  The establishment that was treating Palin — the righteous, patriotic, goddess-mother with nothing but concern for the little people in her heart — so unfairly.  What “they were doing to” Palin was a symptom of all that is wrong with the country and the authors of those emails undoubtedly urged her to stand up and fight for herself, for them, and FOR AMERICA!

I believe she resigned in order to form some sort of PAC or even a third party and that she intends to do just that.   I believe she thinks she has enough supporters out there to make it a viable, competitive movement; that she’ll draw in the Tea Partiers and the PUMAs (and maybe she will) and millions more.

This part of Friday’s resignation speech essentially says that:

And one chooses how to react to circumstances. You can choose to engage in things that tear down, or build up. I choose to work very hard on a path for fruitfulness and productivity. I choose NOT to tear down and waste precious time; but to build UP this state and our country, and her industrious, generous, patriotic, free people!

Life is too short to compromise time and resources… it may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: “Sit down and shut up”, but that’s the worthless, easy path; that’s a quitter’s way out. And a problem in our country today is apathy. It would be apathetic to just hunker down and “go with the flow”.

Nah, only dead fish “go with the flow”.

No. Productive, fulfilled people determine where to put their efforts, choosing to wisely utilize precious time… to BUILD UP.

And there is such a need to BUILD up and FIGHT for our state and our country. I choose to FIGHT for it! And I’ll work hard for others who still believe in free enterprise and smaller government; strong national security for our country and support for our troops; energy independence; and for those who will protect freedom and equality and LIFE… I’ll work for and campaign for those PROUD to be American, and those who are INSPIRED by our ideals and won’t deride them.

And then she posted this on her Facebook page on Saturday:

In her Facebook posting, Mrs Palin said she urged Americans to “join me” in looking how “we can advance this country together with our values of less government intervention, greater energy independence, stronger national security, and much-needed fiscal restraint”.

“Now is the time to rebuild and help our nation achieve greatness!” she wrote.

So, we will see of course but I think, insofar as she has isolated herself inside a group of like-minded thinkers, she has some illusions and delusions as to how many people support her and her ideas.

I can’t wait to see what happens next.

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