Keep Your Powder Dry

Never one to miss an opportunity to get into a good rhetorical sword fight, this blogger heard the sound of metal against metal and quickly ran to Conservatives4Palin to find that John Ziegler, barbarian maximus, was quickly going for the pierce over the AP's hit piece on Sarah Palin's book, Going Rogue. As Ace of Spades says on their website "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." Palinistas across the land began to rumble; and as has always been the case when their leader was attacked, the army assembled with hands at sheathe.

But Sarah Palin said, hold up! In advance of "operation Going Rogue," she gave her first order.

As you probably have heard, the AP snagged a copy of my memoir, Going Rogue, before its Tuesday release. And as is expected, the AP and a number of subsequent media outlets are erroneously reporting the contents of the book. Keep your powder dry, read the book, and enjoy it! Lots of great stories about my family, Alaska, and the incredible honor it was to run alongside Senator John McCain.

- Sarah Palin

The army's leader is now a strong and powerful woman, even stronger than when she was chosen by the one she honors, John McCain, to lead Palinistas in battle against Barack Obama. She has taken not only liberty's lamp to guide them now after a bitter defeat, but she has also taken the helm of the her growing army, ready to lead them back into battle again.

The battle looms, yet the army is told to hold fire. She knows she wields the ultimate weapon, a book that is sure to slay many in the media and those in the McCain campaign who restrained her at a time when the battle needed its warrior to be unbridled.

The Phrase Finder explains her message: "Be prepared and save your resources until they are needed."

Until they are needed...

Donna R. Patrick wrote:

As military soldiers go into battle, they have to know with a certainty that their weapons are in good condition. The anticipation of utilizing those weapons is ever present, so not only do they have to be maintained, the user has to know how and when to use them. They usually have a clear target, have studied the enemy to gain as good an understanding as possible of how the enemy operates, and from there have mapped out a clear strategy for overtaking the enemy.

Those who have been part of the Palinista army battled fiercely in their losing effort against the forces of liberalism and its leader, Barack Obama. When the warrior leader went home after the loss, her enemies continued an unprecented effort to finish her off and completely destroy her.

They couldn't.

Her army stood tall, defending its leader as the victors demanded their spoils. Ordinary barbarians took up defensive positions and thwarted attack after attack from the mainstream media, bloggers and even Barack Obama himself.

Yet even as she was being hit with arrow after arrow, she stood up and told everyone that she would not shut up. "If I die, I die," she said. "I’ll know that I have spoken up and I will speak up to...encourage you too...to do the same, and don’t just hang in there and go along to get along but stand up and speak up, and be bold and demand that Washington be prudent...and prioritize for America’s security..."

Sarah Palin, bloodied and weakened, then resigned her governship, went into seclusion, recovered and emerged stronger than ever before. Ironically, now Obama is weaker than when they battled the first time. The Palinistas sense this and thirst for liberal blood.

The clouds prepare for battle
In the dark and brooding silence
Bruised and sullen storm clouds
Have the light of day obscured
Looming low andominous
In twilight premature
Thunder heads are rumbling
In a distant overture...[1]

The glimmering light of a shining city is the prize they are willing to politically die for.


[1] Jacobs Ladder, lyrics by Rush

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UPDATE 1

Despite a call to keep the powder dry, Conservatives4Palin is slicing and dicing over the AP article: We Won't Just Keep Our Powder Dry - We'll Fight!

It may have just been made harder for Palinistas to keep their swords in sheathe or their powder dry after reading this: Great Moments In Journalism: Sarah Palin Marginalization Starts Early At MSNBC

Is the army ready to go rogue in defense of it's leader?

On guard, MSNBC

UPDATE 2

I see C4P was already slicing and dicing MSNBC. They did that BEFORE they posted the story about the AP. Man, talk about ordinary barbarians! They are like the Vikings, only they're not pillaging and plundering, but rather slaughtering in defense of Palin!

Sarah the Slayer Makes Liberals Get Serious

The stakes are getting higher for radical big-government Democrats who sense that a movement that wants to wrestle the government their control is growing rapidly. There are also similar rumblings going on in the more elite insider rooms over at Republican headquarters as well. As they adjust to the rising threat to their power, we are beginning to see the end of one kind of a smear campaign and the beginning of another. The lampooning and the notion that one should never let a great set of facts get in the way of an an anti-Sarah Palin argument is now giving way to a much different approach: take her seriously, very very seriously.

We've watched senators pen Op-Ed pieces in rebuttal to Sarah Palin on cap and trade. We've seen Moveon.org spend millions of dollars to run ad campaigns against her. We've seen the Vice President of the United States show up in what was once a little unknown district in upstate New York to counter the Palin effect. These are the acts of liberals coming out of denial.

Those who have called Sarah Palin a moron or an idiot and those who have called her Caribou Barbie and politically irrelevant have been doing so at their own peril since the presidential campaign ended a year ago. If you check with those who have actually lost to Palin politically throughout her career, they're not talking of her in those terms. They always describe her as a force to be reckoned with, even if they are giving quotes for hit stories.

It looks like the kool aid drinkers have decided to wake up and smell the coffee.

ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: "Just when you thought you wouldn't have to spell 'Dede Scozzafava' anymore, the Republican nominee in that upstate New York special election is back -- lashing out at Sarah Palin and others who worked against her bid."

Scozzafava may have a time of it trying to convince her small wing of liberals who try to pass themselves off as moderates in the RINO movement to start a civil war withing the GOP, but she sure as heck is going to try.

Klein writes:

And Scozzafava has this message for the Club for Growth and other
Republicans who are vowing to bring down moderates.

"There is a lot of us who consider ourselves Republicans, of the Party of Lincoln," she said. "If they don't want us with them, we're going to work against them."

In other words, Dede Scozzafava wants to work against Republicans who oppose Barack Obama because Sarah Palin exposed a problem in the GOP's candidate selection process. In a representative republic, the last time I checked, the representatives are supposed to be chosen by the members of the republic, not a backroom committee. Apparently, Dede has a more politburo-like vision of what a representative republic should be.

Those in the Republican party who intentionally moderate because of a false notion that the electorate is liberal or hide a liberal ideology behind the R next to their name unwittingly aid and abet at best, and as in Scazzafava's case join liberals who heed the president's call to "fundamentally transform the nation" when they complain that the TEA Party and Palin wing is trying to purge the Republican party of them. The last time I checked, the GOP was opposed to Obama.

The baseless childish pettiness and vindictiveness of the Alaska bloggers that was once at the heart of the Palin smear campaign may also be on its way out as the real grown ups start taking Palin more seriously. There is at least one Alaska blogger who might just finally be willing to accept this.

Shannyn Moore has cast aside the silly lines about word salads and Sarah Palin's wardrobe to take a more serious approach toward the growing monster that Palin is becoming for the left. You can almost visualize Moore standing over the political body of Dede Scozzafava as she traces the "slaying" all the way back to Palin's first intra-party goring of John Klein for Mayor of Wasilla.

Moore writes on the Huffington Post:

Many people regard Sarah Palin as a punch line. That's too easy. In fact, she's more of a threat.

King Kong, once taunted as a dumb ape and turned into a circus freak show is breaking free from the reigns and headed straight for the Empire State Building. Those who once thought laughing at the monster and taunting it would make it go away are finding that they have actually manifested their worst fear. Those people are now climbing into airplanes and soon will be taking real shots at the monster as it climbs to the top of the tallest political building in the country, the U.S. presidency.

As for complaining about the path of political bodies that Sarah Palin has left behind her, just remember it's going to be a typical meme for the left and for RINOs who are slain by the greatest female political warrior to ever unsheathe her sword. It goes like this. Out of touch politician who still smells of smoke from the backroom filled with corrupt party insiders gets taken out by reformer and corruption fighter Sarah Palin. "Victim" joins the anti-Palin movement.

The cat is out of the bag and the genie is out of the bottle. The swords will be drawn on both sides, not just in defense of or in attack on the person of Sarah Palin, but for the very heart and soul of America and what it stands for. Strict constructionist/small government conservatism is about to do real battle with statism and its radical followers who apologize for America and want to remake it in some twisted image of a bunch of failed Utopian thinkers.

Liberals and RINOs have owned the board for years. It's always been their rules and their game. Yet, at the right time, the silent majority is silent no more. It's a real fight now. Don't hate our players. Hate your game.

There will come a time when those who stand for integrity, principle and good governance will all be in one party and all those who don't will be in the other party. You will be able to tell "the bad guys" by the "I hate Palin" buttons they'll be wearing.

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UPDATE and writer's note: Watch the mainstream media coverage of Palin's book tour as well. They are going to be taking a hit from the chapter in her book about the media and at the same time they are going to have to admit that Palin is huge. Norah McDonnell on MSNBC this morning even admitted this tour was going to be big for Palin. She also said in a conciliatory way that she doesn't expect to get a call from Sarah real soon.

Will the media try to lampoon her again? Or will they grow up and start reporting the facts (the 5 W's as Sarah always asks them to do). I expect a more grown up approach to the tour, but don't expect the media to stop trying to find a real legitimate "gotcha" moment that will have legs instead of ginning up stuff. They already got slammed for ginning up the "coin issue." The pit bull has already bitten quickly when journalists get out of line, so expect the MSM to realize they have not beaten this poor dog into a corner. On the contrary, they've made her a more dangerous animal.

Rob Harrison wrote an excellent piece on Conservatives4Palin that explains what we should look for from the media: Look for the Smoke Machine. I think there are going to be too many people looking more skeptically at the smoke. This should keep the media on guard about getting too crazy.

Halloween Horror

Yes, it's Halloween again. From the bowels of the earth come the tortured souls who come to claim the world as theirs for one night before returning to the pungent holes of their inner hells.
That's kind of what it was like on Countdown the other night.

In his interview with CBS, Levi Johnston said he knew things that could get Palin in trouble and that she "routinely referred to her baby, Trig, who suffers from Down syndrome, as 'retarded.'" The Sarah Palin Blog pointed out "The remarks have been condemned by every credible news source - and then there is MSNBC - who took the opportunity to inflict more pain on the Palin family by bringing in Palin critic and proven liar Shannyn Moore."

Moore, who once complained in her blog for The Huffington Post that Sarah Palin does nothing to denounce the idiocy of extremists in a blog about Dr. Tiller's murder didn't let any of the facts get in the way that day when she quoted every single thing that Palin wrote on her Facebook page except this:

"I feel sorrow for the Tiller family. I respect the sanctity of life and the tragedy that took place today in Kansas clearly violates respect for life. This murder also damages the positive message of life, for the unborn, and for those living. Ask yourself, 'What will those who have not yet decided personally where they stand on this issue take away from today's event in Kansas?'

Regardless of my strong objection to Dr. Tiller's abortion practices, violence is never an answer in advancing the pro-life message."

Moore, who says she can't say if Levi is lying or not, deflects to the "we all know Sarah Palin has a lying problem" so that she can segue into her usual pitiful, vindictive shpeel about Sarah Palin. Who cares if Moore thinks Levi is a liar or not? "Using Shannyn Moore as an expert on the truth is like using Reverend Jeremiah Wright as an expert on race relations," says The Sarah Palin Blog.

The depths of her hatred for Sarah Palin reveals a deep dark black hole in Shannyn Moore's soul. Like a woman tortured by the contrast between Palin's accomplishments and her own, Moore chooses to advance her media career specializing in hatred, rather than advancing herself as a positive progressive.

Moore tries to explain away her own vapidness by complaining that the reason Sarah Palin seems so popular is that she is selling her book at a discount. It's understanding to see why Moore would be so catty given the small following she has on her radio show and Twitter page.

So as the goblins and ghouls make their Halloween appearances, we see the horrors of the images of a media created zombie who doesn't care for his own child, or his own dignity for that matter, meeting with the vacant cries of a black cat that will never recover from the emotional cancer that spreads throughout her tortured mind.

Those who think they can take down Sarah Palin continue to bark at the moon on this All Hallows Eve.

Palin Smear Campaign: I Was Getting Worried There For a Second

Sarah Palin just got a bump in the latest CNN poll for 2012 President: 32% Huckabee, 25% Palin, 21% Romney, 5% Pawlenty. The previous poll had it 29% Huckabee, 24% Romney and 18% Palin. She is putting out a book that shot to the top of the best sellers list before its release. She just changed the dynamics of the race in New York's 23rd Congressional district with a Facebook page note. She's scheduled to be on Oprah in November. I was beginning to think she was losing her star power until I saw that Levi Johnston was on CBS trashing her and now the DNC just put out a hit ad.

Whew, for a second there, I thought she wasn't relevant. Thank God CBS put Levi Johnston on and thank God the DNC put out this hit ad. There was just too much not paying attention to her for my liking.

Sarah Palin will not be the success that she is supposed to be unless they trash her through her second term as president. As soon as they stop smearing her, I am going to have to look for another candidate.

If we can't get a good old fashioned dirt bag kid out there to threaten to use his "wad" of credibility to feebly attempt to take down Sarah Palin, I'm out of here. If we don't see the DNC using Obama's voice and Palin's voice together in an ad smearing her, I'm going to have to start looking for anti-Romney ads or anti-Huckabee ads to reassure me that there is a candidate worth voting for. Quite frankly, I don't know who I'd consider a legitimate conservative anymore if Sarah Palin isn't Bedtimed for Bonzo all the way through the democratization of Iran.

Walls don't fall unless a hapless American leader is lampooned while Mikhail Gorbachev single handedly gives the okay. Unless Bruce Springsteen criticizes her during his concerts, Don Henley writes a lyric calling her a tired old lady we elected queen or Genesis puts out a video showing Sarah Palin as a cartoon caricature during her term as president, I'm just done.

Tonight, my hope in Sarah Palin has been renewed. It's great to see the left the smearing and trembling again.

Update: This may be one of the reason's why the left is so scared of her: The Other McCain.

Texas For Sarah Palin Slice and Dice!

Instead of writing a blog pointing out more of the anti-Palin loonies for a rhetorical sword slicing, I will simply defer to the excellent work of Texas For Sarah Palin. Anything that I would have said has already been said here:

Now the moonbats have gone after Lynn Vincent

Now that is an unsheathing of the rhetorical sword and a liberal slicing that makes us proud!