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SARAH PALIN, THE 21st CENTURY 'IT GIRL'
By Jay Valentine, June 15, 2009

The best and the brightest on the left go into politics. The best on the right run their own businesses. So it is no surprise that the left is far more adept, even expert at the art of hardball politics. And they are telling us something profound.

The left is telling us something many feel, many find as a hunch, that Sarah Palin is the most dangerous threat to the Obama administration with no close second. The left is telling us this by their "over the top" attacks. Not just the Letterman assaults, but the constant barrage of grievances filed against her in Alaska. The attacks every day on Palin for no apparent reason -- except that the left seems to see her quite differently from any Republican candidate. A difference of kind, not of degree.

They would never do this to Romney, Huckabee or Newt, at least not to this level. There is a clear reason -- these guys couldn't fill up a high school stadium unless they were giving out free beer.

What is the Sarah difference? Well, it's not the issues, at least that is not all of it. It is the charisma factor. Charisma is not learned, it is innate. One is born with it and no amount of training can inject it. Jack Kennedy had it. So did Reagan. Now Obama. Out of the thousands of politicians who have come and gone over the last generation, not one other person has shown "it."

Money is no longer the life blood of politics. Charisma is. Charisma can raise money overnight; money far beyond what a tired, inarticulate incumbent can raise from rich donors.

When you have "it," the conventional rules no longer apply. Reagan was vilified in 1976 and few thought he could ever be president. No matter how the liberals berated him as a "dumb actor" who made chimp movies and the actor who never got the girl, he just looked the American people in the eye, gave them a dose of common sense and it was over. Carter went on to build low income houses and a life of obscurity punctuated by mischief.

The street fighting, world class, lifelong political experts of the left see "it" and it makes them crazy. They went crazy for Obama; they are going crazy for Palin, although in the other direction.

Palin could fill a stadium if she were reciting a cookbook. But she isn't. She is delivering common sense to an electorate that is becoming ever more jaded every day with the Obama nonsense. Miranda rights for terrorists? $4 trillion deficit?

Look at the blow she delivered with one phrase about "styrofoam columns" and imagine what she can do with the material Obama has recently given her.

Opposing Palin's values has no payoff for the left. They oppose those values for any conservative. They have to destroy her. And that is her power because they can't destroy her.

Whenever she chooses, she will take her first trip to Iowa to campaign for some obscure congressional candidate, and when she does, the liberal media cannot ignore the screaming crowds. And they will not be crowds manufactured by an advance team. They will be fired up mothers, working people who do not want to pay for deadbeats' mortgages, people who are now going to grass roots tea parties.

The television age gives "it," charisma, more power than ever before. Charisma is magnified through television. How else to explain how a 2 year senator few knew could derail Hillary in a few months. How else to explain how an anti-charisma John McCain, someone television does not flatter or magnify, saw his crowds surge when Palin was next to him. Palin, an obscure, unknown governor of our most distant and most unknown state, walked onto the national stage and ignited a burst of energy that may well have taken McCain over the top, until his Queeg-like pausing of his campaign to work on a financial crisis and then vote for a bailout.

The landscape is now quite different. There are tens of millions of people who never voted for Obama, telling their friends "don't blame me." There is a growing number who did vote for Obama who have lost their jobs at car dealerships, who have not found work yet even after the massive spending, and there are those who just say "...this is not the change I had in mind."

Some thought McCain would be the anti-charisma candidate against the charisma candidate and that would work. Now we may be lining up for the common sense charisma campaign against the nonsense charisma.

The left is telling us something and they are the experts. They are telling us not to make Palin the conservative candidate because if we do, it will be humiliating. I agree with them and I take them at their word.

It will be the undoing of Obama, and it may be overwhelming.

Jay Valentine blogs at jayvalentine.com. Page reprinted by permission from: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/06/sarah_palin_the_21st_century_i.html

EDITORIAL
The Benefit of Having No Children
By Maureen Rudel

I am getting older, thank goodness, have no children and would leave only my husband and dog behind if I got run over by a truck tomorrow.  I feel great sympathy for you who have productive children and grand children who will have to pay the price for the terrible policies which have been imposed on our state and the federal government.  I have come to the conclusion that there is probably no salvation for Michigan and that probably the United States is on the way to becoming the United Socialist States of Amerika.

Too many people think that the world owes them a living.  When I was young, I was taught that if I wanted something, I would have to earn enough to buy it.  I was not "entitled" to anything.  What my parents were kind enough to provide was dependent upon my following their rules.  If I didn't like it, I could leave and do whatever I could afford.  Now, I know a number of young people who can't seem to find a job they think suits them.  Since they can get food stamps and Medicaid, and if they are female and can have a baby, they can live in a house provided by taxpayers, don't have to work (because Michigan has not set real limits on receipt of Welfare benefits) and can make more babies to be supported by the fools who do work and pay taxes.

If you are foolish enough to try to work hard, succeed, pay your bills, save for your retirement and take care of yourself, you are punished.  The people who don't work, live off of the taxpayers and save nothing say that it is not fair that you were so lucky. (Funny, I always found that the harder I worked, the luckier I got.)  We have to tax the rich and redistribute their income to the "entitled" people -- those who are entitled to your property.  And, after you have paid taxes on your income all your life, put your money in safe investments, the Wise People in Washington ignore the law on a whim, sell out the secured investors for politically favored groups and the federal government so that the auto industries (along with others) can be nationalized and run by unelected "Czars" who answer to no one but the president.  And, if by some chance the redistributors have not succeeded in taking all of your money by the time you die, they apply the death tax on the remaining funds and pick the bones.

The "Apologizer in Chief" goes around the world explaining what rotten people the Americans are -- even as the world remembered D-Day and the invasion of Normandy and the American dead who lie in cemeteries all over Europe after fighting for the freedom of people who needed our help.  But, no, those Americans owe apologies to countries who are actively involved in spreading and teaching radical Islam and supporting those who seek "Death to America." 

And to add insult to injury, he called America a Muslim nation.  Fortunately, our forefathers guaranteed freedom of religion to all Americans.  You can find that guarantee in the outdated document called the Constitution.  You can believe anything or nothing.  Every woman in America is lucky this is not a "Muslim Nation."  No woman has to cover herself head to toe, give up freedom to become educated, choose the future she wants, associate with whom she wants, drive a car, or suffer gang rape to atone for some offense of a male relative.  That life might appeal to some, but darn few of them would be American women.

If the American population doesn't wake up soon and realize that our country is on the way to being the Socialist paradise that Cuba, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and other totalitarian states are, we will soon be treated to the same level of prosperity they enjoy.  North Korea is a celebrated vacation spot.  We can achieve that level of success if we keep on going the way we are now. Or, we can wake up and try to save our country.

WE ARE THE GRASS ROOTS AT WORK

First District Organization Update

We are now a little over three months since our February Convention. Your executive committee has been working to set goals and to set a path forward to meet those goals.  We have held two executive committee meetings by conference call. This has worked well and allows all committee members to be on the call without having to travel lots of miles to attend. 

During the last conference call on May 26, 2009 the committee assigned the Vice Chairs to designated areas. These are as follows:

Because of the size of the 1st district is important that the Chair delegate to the Vice Chairs and they to the executive committee. The 1st district has 30.5 counties and about 44% of the area of Michigan and can not be effectively serviced by a couple of people.

To help spread the work and responsibility the executive committee has also been assigned to the vice chair based on where they reside. This breakdown is as follows:

The vice chairs and their “staff” will continue to work with the county committees and the MIGOP representatives in each of their areas.

If you have suggestions, questions or comments please call your areas vice chair or me.

As we watch the changes that have been made in the first 100 days of the Obama administration we can see the need for us to work hard to help our Republican candidates win in 2010.

We can all help this effort by volunteering in campaigns and with the local party. Don’t wait to be asked! Let’s all jump in and make a difference. If we do not we are destined to keep the policies we see being formulated, legislated and implemented by the Democratic office holders.

My contact info is:

Jeff Lamb, Chair
MI First Congressional District Republican Committee
WE ARE THE GRASS ROOTS AT WORK
340 West Huron Avenue
Rogers City, MI 49779
989.351.0406 Cell
989.734.2882 Home
jlamb50@yahoo.com

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