I haven’t heard this mentioned — granted, I haven’t been paying close attention — but in the midst of the latest media distraction / dissembling / erroneous grounpthink over Sarah Palin’s supposed Paul Revere gaffe (in which, yet again, she showed herself more knowledgeable than those who presumed to sniff at her mistake), people seem to have missed her suggestion that, while a year ago she would have completely rejected the idea of a third party candidate, she now realizes that should the GOP “machine” not be careful, a third-party movement is certainly a possibility, though one she continues to hope won’t be necessary [about 5:30]:
The split between the GOP establishment — the Roves, the inside the Beltway candidates, the sneering coastal pundits recommending Palin read poetry they themselves either haven’t read or haven’t understood, in order that she correct mistakes she didn’t make, but that they did — and the constitutional conservative / classical liberal grassroots uprising is growing wider, and we’re approaching that point where we last found ourselves in 2008: do we go with who the GOP machine tells us is most electable (a Mitt Romney, with his “I’ll grow big government more slowly than the socialists!” platform); or do we reject the same old weak tea and go for something more bold, a candidate that actually embraces and defends conservative and classical liberal positions, and is eager, as an extremist Visigoth, to juxtapose those principles against the statism and socialism that is at the heart of progressivism, and which these days IS the Democratic party, and to speak the truth — unafraid — about our “historic” president?
Even if Palin doesn’t run, her strength is that she will hold any potential GOP candidate to account; and she will move the field to the right, no matter how much it is done with much kicking and screaming from the ruling class Republican establishment.
— And of course, Shep Smith and his runny mascara.
(thanks to JD and geoffb)
The wonderful thing is that Sarah Palin is exactly 100% correct about Paul Revere.
If you read REVERE’S own account, he was captured by the Brits, and more or less told them “Hey, you just shoved your cock into the meat grinder.”
Which is what they actually had done.
http://www.earlyamerica.com/lives/revere/chapt3/
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So, the enlightened ones are the ones who don’t have the facts at their disposal, while the idiot rubes with the correct facts must have stumbled over them on accident, as there’s no way they could possibly know things that their ignorant yet ever so enlightened betters do not.
Black is white. Up is down. Lennie is George.
I think she should not run, and that what she is doing now is more useful than a presidential run would be. However, should she run I would most likely vote for her in the primaries, and certainly would in the general.
Still, she will have more effect doing what she’s doing, mostly because as a non-candidate she doesn’t have to meet any supposed standards (not that they won’t be applied anyway) and also because drives the MBM into fits. I enjoy seeing them whine like spoiled brats.
Thing is, cranky, once the campaign begins in earnest she won’t get the attention she gets now without being in the race. So, I dunno.
Wanna bet, McGehee? The MBM is completely obsessed with her. If anything, if she doesn’t run, the GOP candidates will be complaining, bitterly, that she is monopolizing media time, and preventing them from getting their message out.
Damn. Is it just me, or is Sean Hannity starting to look like Al?
There shall be no third party. This thing will be hard enough to pull off even without a candidate pulling a chart job.
Some of them are beginning to figure it out.
I just watched Palin’s interview on Fox News Sunday. I thought it was pretty good.
The pundits continue to consider her unelectable.
Tobin doubles down on PDS.
Then tells us why we won’t win unless we listen carefully to folks like him in his next article.
Another day, another dick pic. Anthony Weiner. Winning!
So which is it, genius? Does she always tend to bumble, or is it clear from this particular episode of goofy syntax that she couldn’t possibly have known what she was talking about?
“a person of substance.” Like, for instance, the sniffing Mr Tobin. Who is an online article writer. Who can eat a dick.
Third party or bust.
Third party or bust.
Isn’t that up to the GOP?
I predict a strong third-party showing this year and a major GOP loss. Obama will be re-elected, not because he can’t be beaten, but because the tone-deaf GOP will put forth Romney as their candidate. I will not vote for Romney. No more statists. Enough is enough.
Seconded.
If that’s the case, cranky, Romney finishes third.