Liberty MavenTime For Ron Paul To Reach Out To Sarah Palin And Reform The GOP
November 6th, 2008 9:06 am | by Marc Gallagher | Published in Activism, Big Government, Constitution, Free Market, Liberty, Maven Commentary, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Ron Paul, Ron Paul Republicans, sarah palin | 9 Responses
The media is starting its barrage of attacks on Sarah Palin, reporting such things as her not knowing the countries involved in NATO or that Africa is not actually a country. The attacks may have some truth to them, and it seems like they are making large efforts to throw her under the bus so she is going to be far too damaged for a run for President in 2012. FOX news, as shown below is one of the leaders of attacks.
I wonder if this is an orchestrated effort to damage Palin because she supposedly went “rogue” during the campaign and decided she had her own opinions after all. I think this situation is ripe for Ron Paul to reach out to her. She can be an ally in helping to change the GOP from within. It seems the current party leadership is vulnerable. A few Palin and Paul media counter attacks are in order.
If Palin truly did go rogue, then what is stopping her from doing so now as the media promises to continue blaming her for McCain’s loss? In fact, I think the time is ripe for Ron Paul to contact every endorsed candidate in his Liberty PAC and have a public forum (hopefully televised on CSPAN or another outlet) discussing the future of the GOP. They could make attempts to publicly push the Republican Party towards its Old Right roots. I would love to watch a forum including Jeff Flake, Sarah Palin, Walter Jones, Gary Johnson, Mark Sanford, and many of the other Ron Paul endorsed Republicans.
Paul did something similar with his “vote third party” press conference. He ignored some of his own principles to find a common ground. Why not do the same in a concerted effort to publicly and openly steer the GOP back towards the Constitution and limited government?
Here, FOX News throws Palin under the bus.
November 6th, 2008 at 9:32 am (#)
I must take issue with your statement that Ron Paul ignored some of his four principles in the famous September 10 alternate presidential candidates news conference. He did not ignore his principles. They were modified so that the four major candidates could reach agreement on basic issues necessary to restore our constitutional republic. The four principles are the bare minimum to which any presidential or congressional candidate should be required to adhere if he or she is to earn the support of libertarians and constitutionalists.
Regarding Sarah Palin, she was chosen by William Kristol, a dedicated Zionist neocon enemy of liberty, one of the leaders in the destruction of the Republican Party, which richly deserved to commit suicide. Unfortunately, it may be taking the rest of us with it as the communist Obama regime begins.
For life and liberty,
David Macko
November 6th, 2008 at 10:15 am (#)
David,
I don’t think Paul compromised on the four principles touted at that press conference. He did compromise though. He endorsed voting for two candidates (Nader and McKinney) who advocate more government control over our lives. Although I personally didn’t like that move, I’m not saying he was completely wrong in doing so.
I’m just saying that he could reach out to those he’s already endorsed through his Liberty PAC (which also sees him compromising some of his principles) and maybe a few others like (the now seemingly GOP banished) Sarah Palin to make an attempt to push the debate within the GOP towards liberty.
-Marc
November 7th, 2008 at 5:44 am (#)
Let Sarah go back to Alaska and there she can leave the rest of us alone again. What do we need with her?
November 7th, 2008 at 1:00 pm (#)
This is a GREAT idea. Palin is NOT in approval of the new world order that has just gained a MEGAJUMP in bringing about world government.
Sarah does NOT go along with this, she is innocent of the CFR and the oligarchy which is why she was dissed by McCain’s RINOs.
McCain picked her to grab us disaffected conservatives without having to apologize for what the GOP did to Ron. I’m an insider and I know this.
SARAH IS ONE OF US, believe me. We need to put some faith in her to help Ron because as good as Ron is, he won’t be here forever. Sarah is just 44 and she should indeed get with him to help reform the party who SHOULD HAVE BEEN the keepers of the ‘republic’ but have allowed the UN to control our schools and turned out little communist clones.
Liberty Maven, good point here, KUDOS to you!
November 7th, 2008 at 1:04 pm (#)
Sarah Palin is the real thing – she is no NeoCon. Her husband is a member of the Alaska Independence Party which is much more radical than the LP or the CP.
David Macko says, “Regarding Sarah Palin, she was chosen by William Kristol, a dedicated Zionist neocon enemy of liberty, one of the leaders in the destruction of the Republican Party, which richly deserved to commit suicide. Unfortunately, it may be taking the rest of us with it as the communist Obama regime begins.”
David I agree with you about Kristol and Obama, but Palin was not chosen by Kristol – ha ha ha thats funny. Kristol promoted her (had nothing to do with VP selections)
as well as demoted her on purpose. Why not put in Palin (a populist conservative libertarian) and drag her down with McCain. Its very easy to see that Kristol had no real enthusiasm for her, because he knew all along McCain was going down. Palin was brought in for one thing and only one thing, McCain was crashing, Barr was at 7% and they did not want the blame to be the fact that a couple of Liberals in McCain and Lieberman who would have been the nominees for President and VP to take the fall. So they searched and found the one candidate that was polar opposite of McCain in every way and ambushed her with crazy rules and setups.
Once she was picked you can see that Barr’s numbers dropped like a rock, so he could never achieve the minor party status we all wanted at 5%. Then they tried to make Palin look like a joke, never really making the argument that she had more experience and brains than Obama.
Mission acomplished.
No No No David they hoodwinked you into thinking Palin was not worthy, when if fact she is probably the closest person for truth in America. The problem is that you are listening to the MSM too much, you should know better.
You will see Palin come out firing back, pushing her populist/conservative/libertarian message. She is free from the McCain campaign chains she was forced to work within, that is, until the last 2 1/2 weeks of the campaign
when she started to push her own views.
The Democrat Party is deathly scared of Palin, they know she is someone that can unite enough populist/conservative/libertarian voters to beat them.
I think they made a huge mistake (bad for them/good for us)
in picking her, I don’t think she would have ever came into national prominence otherwise, but now she is here and the seed has been planted and it will grow into a Palin win in 4 years. I was a Ron Paul district coordinator, and a Barr supporter but I am already transitioning to Palin 2012.
November 7th, 2008 at 1:56 pm (#)
Who cares?
Follow:
Scenario. The economy revives in a couple of years, say 2011 or 2012. We leave Iraq and Afghanistan and there’s no new explosion or war or whatever. And there’s no more uncertainties, such as Katrina or the like.
In 2012, Obama takes credit for all of this, and will have his Democrats in control of Congress, with a replacement Justice or two for those elder liberal Justices who will retire. Then another four years–2016. Palin will be 52. Paul will be retired or perhaps dead (old age) And if there’s no new set of circumstances that would get the Democrats into trouble for 2016, then Hillary will stomp on Palin in 2016.
You paople remind me of those other neocons, the neo Confederates, who are trying, in vain, to get the old South back via those pathetic secession movements. There’s no hope there for that Lost Cause, and there’s no hope for this one, with exceptioons noted (such as if the economy continues to tank or we do not leave Iraq and so forth)
If nothing else, there’s a long four years–
To these comments there can be no reply, no rebuttal, only a grudging agreement–the bases are all covered. The talk of a decline in voters and political partticipation was wrong, indeed, the young went for not Paul but for Obama.
If the economy does revive, it will be noted that it was done by the old Keyenesian school–libertaian economists would be put outside like the cat.
The only thing that I see written now at many libertarian places is the usual lament about the stupid, ignorant and vile American public who voted in Obama (or for that matter, also voted for Mccain) But for all of the nonsense talk of republics, this is, as Madison oput it, a wholly popular governmet where the people will get what they want if they want it long enough. And doing the right thing was for Madison and now only a side issue for the people.
Enjoy the debris field–it’s all you have now.
November 7th, 2008 at 3:33 pm (#)
I agree that Ron Paul should call a summit and invite some Republican leaders, such as Sarah Palin, along with ordinary folks to begin discussing ways to revive the GOP.
November 7th, 2008 at 4:51 pm (#)
Hmmm. When McCain announced Palin the media assumed it was a cynical ploy to get the Hillary vote. I’m not sure how any breathing human would confuse Sarah Palin with Hillary Clinton, but whatever. That’s the media for you…
To me it seemed he was attempting to appease the Ron Paul vote without offending the evangelical vote.
Yeah, we should definitely reach out to her.
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