Her Silence Is Deafening

I was reading a transcript of the above speech at Israpundit and decided to follow the link given to the source of the transcript. You can try that here: sarahpac.com/posts/governor-palins-speech-at-the-restoring-america-tea-party-of-america-rally-in-indianola-iowa-video-and-transcript. As you can see it comes up “Not Found”. OK maybe Comcast is acting up again. So I look up Sarah Pac and what do you know? The donate page can be found fine. But when you click on the Home Page link there you get the same “Not Found” message. Something is up.

And something else is up. Sarah has been relatively quiet since that speech. I wonder what she is planning?

As I wrote in a comment at Israpundit:

The First Mate – who was never a Palin fan and in fact disdained her – after looking at the R field, was lamenting that Palin was not in the race. I have been a Palinista since 29 Aug. 2008.

Let me add that The Mate voted for Obama but has thoroughly learned her lesson by now.

There are those who would vote for a syphilitic camel in the next election rather than see Obama win. Why do that when you could vote for Sarah? If she runs. As a third party candidate. If she was in the race I’d vote for her. Any party. Any time. And given the Mate’s reaction to the current field I think there may be a hidden reservoir of unnoticed support (how is that for redundancy?).

I think it is time the Republicans went the way of the Whigs. And they might very well do that if Sarah takes up the banner.

Update: 9 Nov 2011 1510z

McCain is fed up. He predicts the rise of a third party.

H/T filbert in the comments.

Cross Posted at Power and Control


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15 responses to “Her Silence Is Deafening”

  1. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    Palin is up to something, and it is my guess also that it’s a third party run.

    When she was visiting historic sites this summer by bus, her attitude seemed strange for a Republican candidate:

    1. She didn’t let any of the party establishment know ahead when or if she would arrive at a destination.

    2. She didn’t bother to set up support committees in the early primary states. The one in Iowa was the work of an outside supporter.

    3. She was way too relaxed riding motorcycles or chomping down food at picnics, and just visiting with ordinary people – not something you would see in a candidate with handlers and advance men.

    4. She was willing to tangle with the media without interference and with openness and candor.

    5. At the same time she was circumspect by giving few speeches. But in the final leg of her trip and just before officially announcing her intention not to seek the Republican nomination, she gave The Speech, the one everyone from the New York Times to Glenn Reynolds is now quoting.

    6. And since Indianola? Silence.

    I believe she is an extremely intelligent woman who sized up the game last year. Bloomberg and Thomas Friedman signaled a third party spoiler if any conservative were to get the nomination. She knew they meant her. She figured at that point it wasn’t going to happen, within the Republican Party at least.

    So then why take the bus trip, collaborate with the movie, travel to Wisconsin where she flexed her union credentials and talked hockey, and finally give a speech that could be the prelude to a full out assault on the good old boy system?

    All of this has allowed her to remain visible, continue raising money, and yet outside direct confrontation with other conservatives thus not alienating potential supporters on the right.

    It wouldn’t surprise me to see people like Senator’s John McCain and Jim Webb bolt their parties in support of a real third party alternative, with Palin leading it. It will depend on how badly the economy deteriorates next year, and how much more statist the country drifts under Obama.

  2. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    Romney isn’t liberal or conservative. He’s a pragmatic technocrat, what Daniel Bell described in “The End of Ideology” 60 years ago. If he ends up the nominee, the Republican Party is finished.

  3. filbert Avatar

    You have to wonder if McCain’s recent comment about a third party wasn’t (another) shot across the bow. And then you remember Palin supported McCain’s re-election to the Senate–much to the chagrin (at least) of many of her members.

    I don’t know? Is she up to something?

    I wouldn’t mind if Palin and somebody like Nader, or maybe Kusinich, got together and, respectively ripped to tiny little shreds both the Republican AND the Democratic parties.

  4. hrh Avatar
    hrh

    And yet in Palin’s speech last Thursday at the Florida Repub Party Victory Dinner she declared that “a Republican will defeat Barack Obama in 2012.”

    http://palin4america.com/2011/11/photos-video-media-roundup-governor-palin-at-the-rpof-victory-dinner-in-florida/

  5. filbert Avatar

    That’s why I don’t know what she’s doing.

    It may be that if Cain’s problems take him out, she may reconsider. I just don’t know, and I don’t happen to have Governor Palin on speed-dial, so there you go.

    It does seem somewhat against her past political history for her to go as meekly into the night as she seems to be rather than go down fighting, but then my family and I haven’t been the #1 target of the full character assassination machine of not only the collectivist left but a large portion of the collectivist Republican Mandarin Establishment, either.

  6. rjp Avatar

    Americans are fed up with the “McCains”.

  7. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    Why did she lay out a plan with specifics in the Iowa speech if she doesn’t intend to follow through? If you study her delivery, the set of her jaw, pushing up her sleeves, her body language, you must believe she intends to act. This is not a person who just contemplates and speculates. She acts on her beliefs.

  8. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    I had grave doubts about Palin after McCain picked her, and expressed them on this message board. The main one is that she shows little interest in mastering complex issues. Her background jumping from one college to another, leaving office midstream, and playing the victim card are all minus points.

    But she has completely won me over with her absolute sincerity. And the attacks on her from the left and within the Republican Party only bolster her in my mind because it’s like they are saying:
    she must be stopped at all cost because she is so dangerous. They are so afraid of her that they sent a hack writer up to Wasilla to stalk her every move from a perch next door and write a libelous hit piece.

    If she is what they say she is, an airhead, then the attacks are out of proportion. No, she is dangerous because she is not cynical like they are, and fully intends to follow through.

    And most of all, she exhibits leadership qualities missing in both political parties. If anyone can turn the country away from its suicidal decline, Sarah Palin can.

  9. Ken Avatar
    Ken

    You do realize that if your wish comes true, Obama wins, right? It seems to me that you have mentally divorced yourself from America and actually want it to die. I’m sorry, but unlike you, I can actually look out my window and see things I’d like to keep: houses, cars, shopping centers, for starters. Unlike you, I don’t just see a vast empty space on which I can build a libertarian paradise.

  10. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    The country is one crisis away from financial collapse, with trillions added yearly to a deficit that both political parties created and continue to feed.

    The vast empty space is already here. It’s called effective bankruptcy. Prisons are filled to overflowing capacity with people arrested for victimless crimes while the state expands and feeds itself through non-legislated regulations and arms every agency from the IRS to Fish and Wildlife, turning us into a police state with armed drones hovering above our houses and spy cameras at every corner.

    Ken, do you think that it’s just Obama? Would any fucking thing change if Romney were elected?

    NO! It is time to stop this now, hopefully through the ballot box. Voting present by supporting the Republicrat establishment is voting to expand this Leviathan.

  11. Simon Avatar
    Simon

    I don’t just see a vast empty space on which I can build a libertarian paradise.

    You mean you prefer a police state like this:

    http://classicalvalues.com/2011/11/this-is-your-war-on-drugs/

    Is that your idea of paradise?

    If so I’m going to do my best to bring the whole shit pile down. Devil take hindmost.

  12. narciso Avatar
    narciso

    I still don’t get it, except she know this is some sort of Kabuki threatre, I mean this is like sending the third string linebackers against the 49ers when they were at the peak, well Obama was never that good, the Jets maybe.

  13. Simon Avatar
    Simon

    narciso,

    She is doing an excellent job of covering her intentions and she is doing it in the open. She is way smarter than people give her credit for. Even if it wasn’t her plan you have to be very good to leave no discernible track. Self control of the highest order.

    As you point out Obama is not that good. He often just blurts out what should be hidden in order to better execute his plan. The worse for him.