Excerpts from 'The Wisdom of Palin'

She has faith in the people to have faith in themselves
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Excellent post at Hub Pages by weholdthesetruths. Excerpts:

Over the course of the last couple years, Sarah Palin has written or spoken on just about every matter facing us as a nation, and in each of these, reveals that her choice, is the simple, common sense one. There's no need of complex policy papers, or "complex, theoretically driven schemes" to solve any of them.

No, our need is someone with the will, the guts, and the integrity to carry out those things. Palin's been through the fires of hell for 3 years now. It has't done anything but make her stronger. There's nothing anyone can say that will intimidate, break, or weaken her. During this time, she has merely gotten more direct and demonstrated absolute commitment to doing the proper things.

The other thing Sarah Palin does, is to reach people. No, you foaming at the mouth liberals will never love her, just like you hated Reagan, so we're going to ignore you. But Sarah reaches everyone else. And at this moment, more than at any time in a long, long time, we need leadership. The kind that speaks up, speaks out, and pushes people to the right thing, and can tell them what, why, how, and in a simple direct manner. One that recognizes there's no guile, no speaking down to, or duplicity. And behold, liberals scream the opposite in frantic rage, afraid the people will actually see the real her and respond. They watched it happen with Reagan. For different reasons, but the same principle, Palin will do the same.

No, the wisdom of Palin is that we need common sense. The wisdom of Palin is that we've found someone with a spine of tempered steel, who won't break, and if we ever needed a leader with courage and unflinching resistance to attack, we need it now.

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The people must have faith in something. They, not the leaders, are the answer. They are the ones who will create the jobs, build the new industrial sector, create the new institutions from the rubble of the old. And what they need is confidence in themselves, and confidence that once they take on the risks and burdens of these things, that our government will not turn on them and beat them down yet again. Palin's got the character, and that's her wisdom.


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It's character that counts, now. The ability to move people, to reach them, and to encourage them to go and do and be, and to have faith in themselves, not her. She tells that message every time she speaks. And that's the wisdom of Palin.

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- JP

Common Sense: The Intelligentsia Just Doesn’t Get It

Sarah Palin's common sense message resonates. That’s what drives liberals insane.
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We'd like to call to your attention to a worthy opinion piece on how the intelligentsia doesn't grok common sense, posted by Leona Salazar at Bernard Goldberg's website:

By whose barometer, exactly, is Sarah Palin considered “stupid”? By Richard Cohen’s?

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How about considering one’s “common sense” and how well they solve problems? How about looking at one’s actual accomplishments?

It seems to escape many of these supercilious fools that Sarah Palin was elected as Governor of the State of Alaska – no easy task. Another fact that seems to evade the liberal media’s talking heads is that, in the 2008 Presidential election, she was the only candidate who actually had executive skills, a trait I believe is necessary for the Presidency. Instead, our choices were Senators Obama, Biden and McCain.

Howsoever this snob came to his conclusion about Palin, is calling her “stupid” the best argument a so-called “intellectual” can make. Instead of analyzing Palin’s ideas, referencing where she’s wrong and debating those differences, Cohen was reduced to nothing more than a kid in a schoolyard who can’t win a fight so ends up saying to the other kid, “your mother wears combat boots.”

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When Cohen called Palin “stupid,” I never heard a word from NOW or any other feminist group. That’s because they never come to the aid of a Sarah Palin or a Michelle Bachman because, even though they’re women, they’re not liberal women, and, therefore, they don’t count. That’s the hypocrisy of so many feminists. They’ll only support a woman if that woman adopts their ideas. If you don’t, you’re on your own, sister!

Sarah Palin’s message resonates with so many people because what she says makes sense. That’s what drives liberals insane.

For me, I’d rather have a common sense politician who can balance a checkbook rather than one who tries to convince me that by spending money, I’m actually saving money. If I want to hear that type of drivel, I’ll turn on the home shopping channels.

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- JP

Hendrickson: Sarah Palin's common sense vs liberal utopianism

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Grove City College economics professor Mark Hendrickson draws insights into Sarah Palin's significance from Ronald Reagan, Ludwig von Mises, and King Herod in his commentary "Palin and the Leftist Elites" published Tuesday at American Thinker:

The connection between Sarah Palin and Ronald Reagan is fairly simple and straightforward. They share conservative convictions and a special gift of communication. Palin is reminiscent of Reagan in the way she resonates, inspires, and energizes conservatives.

Less apparent are the links that may be drawn between Palin and the long-departed Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises -- and Palin and the much-longer-ago-departed King Herod.

The connection between Palin and Mises occurred to me while rereading Mises' 1944 book Bureaucracy. Mises wrote, "...the educated strata are more gullible than the less educated. The most enthusiastic supporters of Marxism, Nazism, and Fascism were the intellectuals, not the boors." Indeed, Marx, Lenin, et al., were intellectuals, and the leaders of socialism have been relatively well-to-do educated folks like Bill Ayers, not salt-of-the-earth blue-collar folks.

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And what is the antidote to the grim utopian schemes of leftist intellectuals and politicians? According to Mises, "Just common sense is needed to prevent man from falling prey to illusory fantasies and empty catchwords." In other words, people as down-to-earth and common-sensical as Ronald Reagan and Sarah Palin.

Indeed, the fury directed against Palin by leftists is so overwrought, and at times maniacal, precisely because her innate common sense is so powerful and effective when she dares to declare that the emperor of government economic planning has no clothes. Like Mises and Reagan, Palin understands with utter (and to leftists, frightening) clarity that leftist utopias have no practicality or viability, but are, in Mises' words, "illusory fantasies."

What does King Herod from the Gospel of Matthew have to do with Sarah Palin, you may ask? The answer is not to be found in these excerpts, but rather in Prof. Hendrickson's full opinion piece at American Thinker.

- JP

How will the White House spin this?

Joe Biden says that we're in a depression.



This is the guy Newsweek insisted is "no joke" while liberals claim that Sarah Palin is "dumb." Good Lord, Sarah has abundant common sense, while poor Joe is uncommonly stuck on stupid.

Related: The Reaganite Republican explains Slow Joe's real value to Obama:

"...having Biden as VP makes people think twice when they talk about any disqualification or impeachment."

- JP