2012 GOP Update: Palin Wins Praise - LA Times Compares to Obama – Trump Given Credence by Vanity Fair? The Outsiders in the GOP Field –It’s About Time

Nothing drives the establishment press and Beltway pundits (from all political affiliations) about the bend more than someone whom “they” feel is not “up to snuff” attempt to throw a proverbial hat into the ring of political ring as a candidate for higher office – be it a Senator or in this case a run at the Presidency. It is evident, and has been since one Sarah Palin hit the stage in 2008 at the GOP convention as the Vice Presidential Candidate that there was something “not quite right” about Sarah. For starters she didn’t have an “Ivy League” degree, nor was she a “Washington Insider”, she didn’t speak in the manner to which both East and West coast academics were accustomed, rather used language and colloquiums that were more in tune with those whose education and “class” might be suspect to those who consider themselves America’s Elite. The fact that she was a woman and conservative, that was too much to bear – from the right and from the left came barbs from the ludicrous to the just plain crass – and it continues today, with little known professors writing tomes about Palin that are more fiction than fact. Palin is no longer alone in the field of “possible candidates” whom the press and the Beltway are now heavily vested in demeaning for being – themselves. Donald Trump, the real estate mogul, reality television star and well, all around Trump, has also thrown is “I’m considering a run for the Presidency” out into the big pond of politics. Trump is also considered, like Palin, not up to snuff, he’s too…..pick something, from his hair to his shoot from the hip (very Palin by the way), style of answering questions asked straight on with no apologies is pushing Karl Rove and company into a tizzy.

Of all the candidates who might run (and one has to speculate that it is a combination of television contracts as well as the scope of the mess one would have to clean up, among mundane things like a rabid press and Beltway) the aforementioned make the most sense. They are who they are, and refuse to change to appease the press and or academics – which stands them in good stead with the “regular folk” – in other words, the very people who are fed up with the entire “holier than thou” or “smarter than thou” attitude one sees coming from those that truly believe they are just that “special”. The fact that one has a degree from Harvard, Yale, or has spent 30 years in the Senate or as an advisor to whomever, or is the “star” at a certain media house, or better yet the editor, publisher or producer, does not necessarily mean, that common sense is present, nor an ounce of understanding of our nation’s founders intentions. The intent was a citizen’s government, and no citizens were exempt from holding office (unless, of course, they were foreign nationals, and then there are some exceptions as to which offices they may hold). There was no mention of one having to go to Harvard or Berkeley, there was no mention that one must speak a certain English dialect, and one did not have to be part of an “elite” club that told the “masses” what to think.

Simply because the aforementioned candidates resonate with the “regular folk”, the elite are having a hard time wrapping their minds around what life might be like, post-Obama with either Palin or Trump holding the highest office in the land – thus out comes the barbs. One has to hand it them, they being perfect and the rest of us being just…not perfect enough, they make some fine points, while missing the big picture. On Trump especially, they’ve investigated everything from his hair to his serious intent to run, specifically pointing out that NBC media execs are hoping he won’t run, putting on hold their very popular program “Celebrity Apprentice”. That fact becomes “Donald isn’t serious”. What if he is? He sounds about as serious as a heart attack, and as his stock has risen, he has actually appeared to push other competitive minded politico’s (ok one) out into the open – Sarah Palin.

An article in Investors Business Daily headlines “Palin Fresh Breeze in Wisconsin” and goes on to speak to her amazing speech that was given at a Tax Day “Tea Party” rally in Madison Wisconsin this past week, in the editorial she did nothing wrong and everything right – specifically when she called on the union workers rather than on the union bosses who, as one should be well aware, specifically study the art of “labor” at colleges and universities, in order to rack up a higher than average salary in order to “organize labor”. (See course of study at University of Massachusetts). The article compared her to Ronald Reagan, a first, and although IBD is not the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times, the fact remains, the article was not written by some anonymous blogger, or a “blog for Palin”. She has struck a very hopeful nerve. The Los Angeles Times went one step further comparing Palin’s Passover Wishes to President’ Obama’s, with, one has to read the article (see link) straight reporting. No kidding.

Enter “The Donald” – who is so well branded, he’s international in scope – Vanity Fair (read that twice) released an article: Despite NBC’s Reported Skepticism Donald Trump May Actually Run for President” They quote NBC executives, (Who better to know the inner workings of Trumps plans than those who stand to lose the most should he walk off the set of the final show and go directly to a press conference and announce he’s running for President?) by saying it’s “Donald being Donald” (Vanity Fair). Then they start go into specifics: as to the reality of a Trump campaign by pointing to who he is interviewing for specific posts for a Presidential Campaign.
From Vanity Fair:

On the other hand, Politico is not so sure this is not just a case of Donald Being Donald. In an article today, Ben “Who?” Smith and Maggie Haberman argue that Trump is “taking very concrete steps toward forming—and announcing—a presidential campaign.” In the past weeks, the Trump Organization C.E.O. has interviewed consultants and potential campaign managers, placed dutiful phone calls to religious gentlemen of outsize importance in Iowa and Florida, and summarily reversed a long-held belief—all behaviors characteristic of someone whose endgame is bigger than Sweeps Week. Plus, now he even has a slogan: Donald Being Donald … For America.

The author even got a swipe in at Politico, as if the blog is well, less than print worthy. The fact that Trumps and his Organization is interviewing (and vetting one can bet the house), campaign mangers and consultants for a run, speaks volumes. One can’t miss the sarcasm of the alleged slogan - that said, it was a fair article.

Finally, despite the hue and cry over a late start by the entire field of GOP candidates as well as the polls that show President Obama with an edge over “pick one”, the simple matter is that until 2007, announcements came as late as August, with those announcing later, going on to win the nomination. The trend towards early annulments and campaigns appeared with the 2007 Democrat campaigns, with President Bush ending his second term, the Democrats and Republicans pushed past the norm, and backed the actual debates and announcements up six to nine months eelier than the historical norm. The media and the politico’s apparently had something to gain – ratings for one, and something to write about, for two. Therefore, if Trump decides in June and Palin does as well, and Mike Huckabee throws his hat in the ring in July, it would be the norm for American Politics. Debates were previously held in Octobers of the year prior to the primaries. Let those that care to speculate, speculate (because it is vastly entertaining), and then, when these candidates are ready to announce, and they will do so, one is fairly sure, to the people not the media or ask permission of Karl Rove and Co. (Rove by the way, has downplayed both Palin and Trump, and anyone who does not fit the Rove Standard – mini-chalkboard and all –not that Rove isn’t a smart man, it is that Rove is part of that Beltway Inner Circle – which might prevent him from taking seriously anyone that is not – as in the case of both Trump and Palin – he also thought that Scott Brown in his race against Democrat Martha Coakley in the Massachusetts special election to fill a vacant senate seat, way back in 2009, was not terribly competitive, he spoke to the fact that Brown “might come close” this was a week before voters went to the polls – Brown, if one recalls, rode his pickup truck across the blue state, and spoke like – a regular guy.).

The regular guy effect (or gal) – it is something about people who resonate with the voters, and they do say things that, yes on the face of it, might appear outlandish, if one is not used to say a Queens accent or a Midwest transplant Alaskan accent – otherwise, those that are willing to overlook the fact that someone might not have the best degree, silver spoon, or criteria set forth by the elite corps, will most likely vote for the person who will get the job done, and has a track record of getting things done, as does the former Governor of Alaska and as does Donald Trump.
The problem facing American’s Therapists to the Elite at the moment is which syndrome they may have to treat – Palin Derangement and/or Trump Derangement!

Polls: Rasmussen Reports recently released a blistering poll on Trump versus Obama, digging into the vault on Trumps “favorability ratings from May 2007”, and comparing data from early March (before Trump was a twinkle (or thorn) in the eye of the establishment (for lack of a better word). In the scenario of the poll, if one looks at it on face value, the fact that Trump, yet to announce and only in the eye of the press for over one month (while speculation on other candidates has been taking place for six months at least (see Mid-terms in October of 2010 and the official starting point), Trump is merely 15 points behind Obama, who, incidentally does not break 50% of the vote. The final number pre announcement by anyone is Obama 49, Trump 34 – shades of Scott Brown and the Coakley poll produced by the Boston Globe back in January a week prior to the election.

Here’s this opinion – both Palin and Trump add excitement to the race, and a quality of can do attitude that will resonate with the public (and it already does). Both are qualified by virtue of the fact that they have actually run something, other than for office. They are both genuine articles, who relate to the regular guy, they sound just like the regular guy, and there is nothing that a million negative articles, YouTube video’s, toxic blogs, or academics looking to sell 15,000 copies of a bad book can do about it.

When the debates do roll around, if these two qualified and interesting individuals are on the stage, with the rest of the “yet to announce”, it will boost rating through the roof.

The nation will be glued as it needs to know who to vote for in the event this nation does not improve drastically in the next 6 months. By that: increasing and damaging inflation of food and fuel, the fact that the S&P is about to downgrade the US credit rating (which has far reaching consequences, global consequences), wars on three fronts, and the usual or unusual amount of assaults on the homeland by Mother Nature. (The later in reference to the recent devastation in the southern U.S. where the White House has no plans to even do a flyover as of this writing. Whereas one can imaging Palin in with both feet on the ground helping to rebuild (literally), and Trump insuring the that all was well by hiring the right people for the job, and actually showing up.)

It is what America needs now, a President who shows up – A President who isn’t’ so concerned with his chances for reelection that he endangers the economy while on the “stump”, a President who actually relates to the people, and does not lecture them. It is time for the “Joe or Jane American to step up and take the reins, and this is not to say that either Trump or Palin is either average, they are rather exceptional individuals who have the gumption and wherewithal to withstand the assaults made by a group of pantywaists that cannot see past their own importance, and make the tough decisions necessary to run a nation.