Palin, in the mold of the founders - image NYSun
Sarah Palin’s PAC released the video below to supporters yesterday – the email subject title: “Are You Ready to Rumble?” – belies the power behind the message the video (shown below) contains. Her decision to walk away from the GOP race for the 2012 nomination, could not have come easy, however, the understanding that her style of “calling them like she sees them”, regardless of party. (Although she will align with the Republican’s at times, depending upon the record of a particular incumbent, she may endorse the opposition (should there be a Tea Party Candidate) and successfully, in most cases) upend the race through the primary process – see her effectiveness in this respect in 2010.)
It is a fact that the Office of the Presidency does come with some restraints, and, just as with pivotal individuals who shaped the nation, and never served in the role of President, Palin will be that later day Samuel Adams, who played a major role in shaping the Revolution, or perhaps a later day Tomas Jefferson, one who shaped the nation, shaped a political party and then took an Executive role in Government. The later were chosen as examples, perhaps because they are more known to most American’s (or should be), and fit the spirit of the force with which Palin is capable – through her speeches, appearance, books, and letters (Facebook notes) – not unlike the aforementioned. Those who seek to make a chance, recognizing that Sarah Palin is an individual who is sought after by candidates and those who are willing and able to put aside the misconceptions, and often partisan party politics - understanding that Lady of Alaska has the ability to help shape a nation, or perhaps more to the point, remold to the original intent of the Framers.
She has the record to stand on.
Suggested: Poor cinematography aside – “The Undefeated” is worth a look (now available on Amazon.com as a DVD) – although essentially about Sarah Palin, more to the point, it is about the ability of the process of the campaign for the Presidency (or any office), to skew a point of view, to malign without evidence, and to effectively hide, from the majority of American’s, the value of a candidate. In that wise, it is a primer of sorts for the American voter who needs to spend more time personally “vetting” any candidate, for any office, and to ensure that one’s vote is well placed. It is also, from this point of view, an eye-opener – specifically if one thought one knew the depths to which the media would sink, then this will shock and with any candidate, understand that agenda’s are shaped from within a Political Party, with the help of a media gone astray (that evidence is most compelling), to an extent that was foretold through the worries of the framers, reluctant to add “freedom of the press” to the Bill of Rights, concerned that they would, in time, corrupts the process and take part in attempting to destroy the basics of the document that was being prepared to stand the test of time – the U.S. Constitution. (See Letter 84: Alexander Hamilton and his argument that the press could play a powerful role in usurping the government)
“I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and, on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do? Why, for instance, should it be said that the liberty of the press shall not be restrained, when no power is given by which restrictions may be imposed? I will not contend that such a provision would confer a regulating power; but it is evident that it would furnish, to men disposed to usurp, a plausible pretense for claiming that power. They might urge with a semblance of reason, that the Constitution ought not to be charged with the absurdity of providing against the abuse of an authority which was not given, and that the provision against restraining the liberty of the press afforded a clear implication, that a power to prescribe proper regulations concerning it was intended to be vested in the national government. This may serve as a specimen of the numerous handles which would be given to the doctrine of constructive powers, by the indulgence of an injudicious zeal for bills of rights.”
(From the Federalist Papers, everyone should own a copy for reference specific copy: ISBN-10: 1604248599)
The Video which lends to the comparison
In closing, although it is statistically evident, (probability being what it is), that the current President will not be re-elected, therefore, one can suggest that Palin, with her ability to campaign, and make her voice heard above the fray (whether one appreciates the message or not), is the biggest threat to the powers that would take this nation away from the original intent. Those that dismiss Sarah Palin, out of hand, are doing so either out of a sense of forced bravado or ignorance.
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