Conservatives4Palin: Are You Ready to Storm the Beaches?

Mary Beth House writes a piece that fits so perfectly with the theme of this blog, I had to put it on here:

I just spoke with Peter Singleton, who many of you are aware is the co-coordinator in the great state of Iowa for Organize4Palin, because I had some questions about the interview he did with Robert Costa over at National Review in this article: Still Waiting for Sarah.

I was especially interested in this part of the article, which you’ll note isn’t quoting Peter but rather paraphrasing him:

However, he [Singleton] says that he will not wait forever, and that his efforts are a “serious” push to establish a movement behind her message, not to be a “fan” or cheerleader.

I had noticed some commenters at C4P took this to mean that he was losing hope and getting discouraged…and I wanted to give him the opportunity to respond to that characterization.
Peter laughed.

“What? Losing hope? Not a chance!”

But what of the article’s suggestion that he won’t wait forever? That he’s not a “fan” or “cheerleader”? Peter clarifies:

“Look,” he said, “if Governor Palin announces she’s not going to run, I’m not going to hang on and hope she changes her mind. I’ll accept it and respect it and my work helping lay the groundwork for a potential Palin presidential campaign will be done. What I’ve done, I’ve done freely and I’m glad for the experience. At the end of the day, Governor Palin will not owe me a thing.”

This is the prevalent attitude amongst those working as volunteers with Governor Palin. Our volunteering, our contributions are done with a heart of a servant, not expecting anything in return.

But what does he really feel about the timing of Governor Palin’s announcement?

“As I said in the NRO piece, we really aren’t all that concerned about the timing,” Peter confirmed.

Then he painted a mental picture for me.

“Imagine, if you will, that this is May 1944. We’re all in our tents in Great Britain. We’re all preparing.

You’ve checked your boots. And checked your gear. Do you have your sidearm? Check. What about your rifle? Double check. How about extra ammo? You’ve packed and re-packed the landing craft. The fellows in the airborne have pored over the maps of the drop zones, again and again.

And as you continue through the laundry list of things you need to do to prepare for the call to hit the beaches…you notice your buddy two bunks over is just sitting there, his arms crossed tightly.

‘Hey pal,’ you call out. ‘Aren’t you gonna get ready?’

‘No,’ he mutters under his breath.

‘Why not? Everyone knows that the invasion is imminent!’

‘Because General Eisenhower hasn’t briefed me on his strategy.’

‘What!?’ you reply incredulously.

‘When are we going? Where are we going to hit?’ he exclaims. ‘What day? These are all things we need to know, and know right now. I’m not going to do a thing to get ready until I hear from the General!’

That scenario is preposterous when you think about it, isn’t it? Because, as soldiers, they all knew they had to be ready. They did know that invading the continent was almost certain and was imminent. But they also knew that they would never be privy to the strategic planning—and should not be. The less people who knew of the whens and the wherefores, the less chance there was of the information being leaked to the Germans. And then what would have happened? The Germans would have been ready and waiting on June 6, and on the beaches of Normandy—and the course of the war and of human history would have been changed.

So we too must look at the election cycle metaphorically as a war.

Today, for us, it is May of 1944. We don’t know when the call will come, only that it’s almost certainly coming…and it’s coming soon.

So our job right now is to prepare for that call so that when the announcement comes…we are ready to go. We’re are prepared and ready for what is to come.

That the “General” hasn’t filled us in on her strategy is no surprise. Secrecy and message discipline is vital in any campaign…be it a campaign for war or a campaign for office. This is could not be more important in this, potentially the most important election in American history.

So the question I throw out there to all Palin supporters is this…

Are you ready to storm the beaches?"

Powder dry? Rhetorical swords sharpened and in their sheaths? Rhetorical rifles clean and loaded?

Let's get ready to roll!

Todd Palin Pulls the Sword From its Sheath

According to Peter Hamby of CNN:

Todd Palin: McGinnis book "full of disgusting lies, innuendo, and smears."

Todd Palin also says McGinnis "has been relentlessly stalking my family" and has "a creepy obsession with my wife."

That metal on leather sound you just heard was Todd Palin pulling the sword from its sheathe. Todd is a man's man and would need little help with disposing of McGinniss (rhetorically speaking of course); but the army is ready and we've already been hitting the comment boards and straightening things out.

What you are seeing here is the last dying breath of a smear campaign that has utterly failed. After three years of trying to destroy Governor Palin, Americans are waking up to the fact that the media lies. They're not buying it anymore. Every lie and every smear that has been hurled at Sarah Palin has been thoroughly debunked. The liberals are down to the bottom of the dumpster. They are scraping up the coffee crumbs of their final last shot at her.

Given all that she has had to withstand over the last three years, she is the strongest, most vetted and most ready of any candidate to take the helm of our great nation. Anyone who can withstand the vile and disgusting attacks that she has and be 3rd in the polls without even announcing (ahead of all announced candidates other than Romney and Perry) has the presidential mettle.

Stand and Deliver

Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter decided tonight that they would trash Sarah Palin following her best speech since the 2008 VP nomination acceptance speech in Minnesota at the Republican National Convention. Quite frankly, if people on "our side" can't give credit where credit is due, then how the hell do you expect me to get into a foxhole with them if the Republican nominee isn't Sarah Palin?

You see, Democrats stick together no matter what. Even though 75% of Californians believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, they are still going to vote for Obama. But Republicans and conservatives, we shoot ourselves and that's why we lose.

Governor Palin said  in New Hampshire:

We need to talk about media-incited internal squabbles that we can nip in the bud, right here and right now — because we’ve got a lot of work to do, Constitutionalists. Our challenges today are too great. We simply don’t have time to be bogged down in internal conflicts and friendly-fire conflagrations. The time to secure our future and preserve our blessings of liberty and RESTORE our economy is now.

We fell for the Alinsky tactics in 2008. What are we going to fall for divide and conquer tactics in 2012?

If you read some of the nasty stuff being written by people on our side about people on our side, you can understand why Democrats have been kicking our ass. Their guy, who is presiding over the worst economy we have had since the Great Depression can't even speak without a teleprompter (and they were able to elect a peanut farmer and a corrup philanderer to the presidency in the past, but Palin's unelectable!!!!?). Yet his supporters don't waiver.

Then you have Jimmy Hoffa who says "let's take these sons of bitches out." Debbie Wasermann Schulz goes on Fox News and clams up. Jay Carney clams up. Everyone on the Democrat side will not publicly criticize Obama. Everyone on the Democrat side won't condemn Jimmy Hoffa's remarks.

Yet, if Sarah Palin had said what Jimmy Hoffa said or if George W. Bush was the president right now, you could rest assured that there would be Republicans and people on our side criticizing them. How could she say that? How could Bush could get re-elected in this economy? They'd friggin primary him. You don't see Democrats primarying Obama do you? You don't see Democrats backing away from Jimmy Hoffa, do you?

Palin puts a standard campaign target insignia on her website and is accused of shooting Gabrielle Giffords. What does she get? She get's criticized by Republicans because she called the leftist smear campaign against her and the Tea Party a blood libel.

Union thugs beat up a Tea Partier, New Black Panthers threaten to kill white babies and Jimmy Hoffa says to "take out" Tea Partiers. What do they get? Unions get waivers from Obamacare, New Black Panthers get a blind eye from the attorney general and Jimmy Hoffa gets a handshake from the President. What does Palin get for her speech in Iowa? Ann friggin Coulter. Spit.

Come on! If we don't get our shit together and start acting like the adults that we will need to be to take back our country then we might as well start stockpiling our supplies and our money and prepare for the thousand years of darkness that Ronald Reagan warned us about.

I asked a well known conservative blogger who was bashing Sarah Palin and who was arguing with everyone on Twitter about her who his candidate is. No response. Instead he, like Coulter, complained about Palin supporters being so quick to attack when she's criticized. Understand something. It's not that Palin supporters are quick to the sword because "Sarah can do no wrong." It's because we're quick to the sword after watching her being bashed by the liberal media and the elites for the last three years and now we have people on our side doing it when they should be battling Obama.

Where were the conservative and establishment Sarah bashers of today two years ago when the media went after Sarah Palin after the 2008 election? Where were they when the media and the progressive movement intentionally tried to destroy her when she returned to Alaska to govern? They were nowhere to be found. They let the liberals and the media destroy her - drive her from her governorship - and not a friggin peep. Then they have the audacity to call her a quitter? ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?

You can bet your ass if you even look at Palin the wrong way that the hate mail will come flying in and the arguments on Twitter will grow bitter. That's right. Whether you're a liberal or a conservative, it doesn't matter. Palin's army is the most committed and best toned fighting force in the world. We are buff. We are quick to the trigger. Why? Because none of the wussies on our side had the balls to stand up for her when she need the help the most, and even worse, now they're bashing her. Obama's down now and his army still fights.

I want to commend Ron Paul supporters. Other than Palin supporters, Ron Paul supporters will pull the sword and stand up for their guy. I don't agree with Ron Paul. I don't like when Ron Paul supporters bash Sarah Palin. But you know what, I respect that they have balls. They have a horse and they're willing to die for their horse. They will engage you in debate. They know what they stand for. They know what they believe in.

I want that in all Republicans, conservatives and libertarians. When I asked that well-known blogger who his candidate is and he didn't respond, it tells me he's more interested in bashing Sarah Palin than he is in supporting his own guy.

Don't tell me what you're against. Tell me what you're for. If you can't find something that Sarah Palin has said or written that you disagree with, then stand back because you're not delivering. I see people on our side spending more energy bashing Sarah Palin than going after Obama and calling him out legitimately on a record that is piss poor at best.

As for Ann Coulter, you want to back Christie? Great. I'm glad you have a horse (and a big one at that). But you know what? Complaining that Palin needs to fish or cut bait out of one side of your mouth and then supporting someone who says OUTRIGHT that he's not running is a sad reach at a dream that will not happen. Fall in love with the guy who will never love you back, Ann. But don't be bitter and don't take it out on Palin.

Palin skeptics on "our" side, ask yourself what you want. Ask yourself what you want America to look like. If you don't want America to look the way Sarah Palin wants it to look, then go vote for someone else. Go find a good crony capitalist who will return this country to the shithole it was before Obama without the socialism. If that's what you want, then let's bring back Gerald Ford, Bob Dole and John McCain. Maybe they'd be more "electable" than Sarah Palin.

Besides, the two most "unelectable" candidates the Republicans ever ran were named Lincoln and Reagan. Yeah, look how bad that worked out for us.

Go ahead. Look a gift Palin in the mouth. Honestly guys and ladies, if you can find a better candidate than Palin, I'll vote for him or her. Just stand and deliver. Otherwise shut up. Good Democrats know how to keep the lip zipped. Bad Republicans don't.

Barbarians at the Gates of the Shining City

We're drawing closer, folks. Yes, we are barbarians as Joe Biden calls us. We are the Ordinary Barbarians as Rebecca Mansour and the folks at Conservatives4Palin have dubbed us. Joe Biden tries to mock us as terrorists and the New York Times calls us hobbits because we, as true Americans, have come to take our country back from the socialist progressives who are floudering in their attempts at fundamentally transforming our country.

We're drawing so close that "say it ain't so, Joe" Biden has warned the Obama army that the barbarians are at the gates and that they are the only ones who can stop us. Jimmy Hoffa has called on Obama's army to take us "sons of bitches" out.

So sharpen the rhetorical swords and let's get ready to rumble.

Our great leader has told us:

You will be demonized. They’ll mock you. They’ll make things up. They’ll tell you to “go to hell.” But we’ll bite our tongue, we’ll keep it classy, and we won’t respond—as tempting as it is—to anyone who just has such disdain for our free market economy and for individual initiative and responsibility. We won’t say, “No, you go to hell.” No, we won’t say that. You know why we don’t have to say that? Because when we have time-tested truth and logic on our side, we win. And when we refuse to retreat because we know that our children’s future is at stake, we win.

The liars of the left will soon feel our sting.

Onward to victory!

Game on!

Riding the Storm Out

Gospel: Mt 14:22–33

Immediately Jesus obliged his disciples to get into the boat and go ahead of him to the other side, while he sent the crowd away.

And having sent the people away, he went up the mountain by himself to pray. At nightfall, he was there alone. Meanwhile, the boat was very far from land, dangerously rocked by the waves for the wind was against it.

At daybreak, Jesus came to them walking on the lake. When they saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, thinking that it was a ghost. And they cried out in fear. But at once Jesus said to them, “Courage! Don’t be afraid. It’s me!” Peter answered, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you walking on the water.”

Jesus said to him, “Come.” And Peter got out of the boat, walking on the water to go to Jesus. But, in face of the strong wind, he was afraid and began to sink. So he cried out, “Lord, save me!” Jesus immediately stretched out his hand and took hold of him, saying, “Man of little faith, why did you doubt?”

As they got into the boat, the wind dropped. Then those in the boat bowed down before Jesus saying, “Truly, you are the Son of God!”





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