Sarah Palin, once the poster child for the Tea Party as a small-government, maverick politician, has been completely co-opted by the Republican establishment with her endorsement of Newt Gingrich, the poster child for corrupt GOP cronyism — so much so his own party pushed him out of the Speaker’s chair on ethics charges…back when the Republicans at least cared about appearances of propriety.
The idea that a guy who was in Congress for 20 years, reached the Speaker’s chair, then was ousted is somehow an “outsider” is ludicrous, as is the notion that it would upset a liberal — other than he doesn’t have a “D” after his name; he’s a full-on big-government, big-warfare spendthrift with his eye on your money.
That “Mama Grizzly” is throwing her political weight behind him shows that the country girl has seen the lights of Paris…and she ain’t going back to the farm no more. That she was hired on by FoxNews, as many of the failed GOP contenders over the last fews have been is also instrumental: the media giant was once a solid news purveyor that gave a needed balance to the left-end of the Progressive news industry…but since the 2006 elections, Fox has increasingly created media spectacle to push an agenda that is just as Progressive as the “liberals”…just with a conservative spin.
They created spectacle with the 2008 elections, and made Palin a media darling — even those that hate her can’t get enough of her — and they turned the honestly fed-up movement of libertarians and real conservatives of the Tea Party into a sideshow. The station continues to pursue flashy, ratings friendly scandal in this election — both shilling for the GOP establishment’s Mitt Romney while pushing anti-Romneys to the forefronts on a monthly basis…but never, you might notice, the actual anti-Romney, Ron Paul or Gary Johnson.
Media Matters — never a reliable source, itself — has put out an intriguing piece pushing the idea that FoxNews and Roger Ailes have destroyed the GOP leadership and coopted the party; I would suggest this is wrong. FoxNews is pursuing what media conglomerates do: ratings. Their seeming push to control the party’s nomination is less an attempt to place a candidate, than it is to keep up the drama of a rough-and-tumble primary…when the time comes, Fox will push the GOP candidate, just so long as he’s a big-government pro-warfare progressive like Romney or Gingrich.
Sarah Palin, like all of us, have been forced to choose between a lesser of evils.
Ron Paul won’t win.
Rick Santorum won’t be able to handle it.
Romney’s prety cool, but Mormon.
Gingrich is gonna’ fall harder than Herman Cain.
Sarah Palin is our only choice.
Johnson though, I’ll vote for him IF Sarah doesn’t jump in late.
Sarah, or Johnson. And maybe Gingrich….