Gutless Grandstanding to Gig a Grizzly

'The left sinks to new lows' has become a cliché
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Whether Sarah Palin's One Nation Tour is a quest to try to get America back in touch with its founding, or whether it's a testing-the-waters expedition is a valid question for debate. But in the active imagination of a ten year old child for whom politics is just boring stuff that adults do, it's a vacation. You don't need advanced degrees in child psychology to figure it out unless, you're a Democrat with an agenda and a cable "news" network for a megaphone.

MSNBC crackpot host Lawrence O’Donnell and radical leftist Comgressman Earl Blumenauer show that they have no problem with running a sword through Piper Palin to get to her mom:


America is broke, thanks to the likes of Blumenauer and other Democrats who have spent other people's money like drunken... well, Democrats; beltway statists have skyrocketed the national debt up to incomprehensible heights; unemployment under Obama is double what it was when Dems blamed Bush in 2005 for it being 4.5 percent; Obama is borrowing money from China to give to Greece; he loaned more Chinese money to Brazil to drill for oil that he's promised to buy from them, after shutting down domestic production in the Gulf of Mexico. With all that and much worse going on, Blumenauer and O'Donnell are obsessed with whether the National Park Service gave 15 minutes of its time to talk to Sarah Palin exclusively at a stop on her bus tour?

We always knew "progressives" had their priorities all out of whack, but the left's obsession with making war on Sarah Palin and her family is nothing less than pathological. That Blumenauer and his useful idiot O'Donnell would use MSPDS to grandstand about it while attacking little Piper Palin to sling a little mud at her mother clearly demonstrates that the left no longer cares how low it sinks below the level of the rest of humanity.

h/t: Mediacrank

- JP

That spirit is already in Piper's DNA, Stacy

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Stacy McCain received an e-mail from the Brenham Banner-Press asking him to see if he could confirm that the rocking horse on which Piper Palin is perched in a photo from the USA Today Mothers Day story on the Palin family is the same one a Brenham resident built and sent as a gift to the Palins:


That other McCain was able, through one of his sources, to confirm that it is indeed the same item (the Texas flag on the side of the horse was no doubt a helpful clue). Hmmm. Wonder if the gent from Brenham sent some Blue Bell ice cream up Wasilla way along with that horse? Stacy concludes by expressing his wish that Piper "absorbs some of that courageous Lone Star spirit that earned Texans their famous praise":

“They have fought grandly, nobly,
and we must have more of them.”

Not to worry, good sir. Piper already has that fighting spirit all wrapped up in her personal genetic code, and she didn't even need a rocking horse from this great state to donate the DNA. We think her mom and Dad have that taken care of very nicely.

Todd Palin, after all, finished the 2008 running of the gruelling 1,971-mile Iron Dog snowmobile endurance race in fourth place, despite having crashed into a 55-gallon oil drum hidden in the snow. The first dude estimated that he was going 50 to 60 mph at the time, and it sent him flying some 70 feet through the air. It was quite a painful experience and broke his arm, but Todd has a lot of fight in him. He just manned up and rode the last 400 miles with a broken arm. No Big Joe Biden Deal. How did Todd describe the episode to Sarah? "He said, 'I got bumped around a little bit,'" Gov. Palin explained.

And, in case you haven't noticed, the Heath side of Piper's family tree has no shortage of gutsy genetic matter either. Sarah Palin has been fighting the Obama administration and its neosocialist agenda fiercely and courageously for quite some time now. And she has been doing so with gallantry unmatched by most others in the conservative camp. David Karki took note of this about a year ago, and in a North Star Writers Group op-ed, paraphrased Lincoln's famous quote of Grant:

"We cannot spare this woman – she fights."

Much as we proud Texas are more than willing to pass the cup of courage around, we're confident that little Piper or any of the other members of the Palin clan won't need nary a sip. We'll offer it instead to someone who really could use it. (Suggestions?) But we certainly did appreciate seeing General Lee's inspiring quote about the Texas Brigade. Thank you, suh!

Update: That Brenham resident is Antonio Palacios, and the Banner-Press published this feature article about him.

- JP

E-mails reveal Piper Palin ran Alaska in 2008

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Great slapdown of the salivating Obama media lapdogs by William K. Wolfrum at dagblog.com:

ANCHORAGE - Recently released e-mails by the Alaska State Government showed that Sarah Palin’s youngest daughter Piper, then 7, handled most of Alaska’s State business in 2008.

“If I don’t get a happy meal, heads are going to roll,” thundered Piper in an e-mail to then-Lt. Governor Sean Parnell in March. “And the toy better not be doodie!”

Nearly 3,000 pages of e-mails that Piper Palin exchanged with state officials, which were released to msnbc.com and NBC News by the state of Alaska under its public records law, draw a picture of a Palin administration where the governor’s young daughter got involved in a judicial appointment, monitored contract negotiations with public employee unions, received background checks on a corporate CEO, added her approval or disapproval to state board appointments and passed financial information marked “confidential” from her father’s oil company employer to a state attorney...

The precocious child held incredible sway in the Alaska government throughout the year, notably when she made sure that her “Mommy & First Dude” didn’t have to pay taxes at a vacation lodge the family owns in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough of Alaska...

Read the whole thing here.

h/t: Matthew Sheppard

- JP

A Very Palin Christmas

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From Examiner Lori Calabrese:

Sarah Palin shared some of her favorite Christmas traditions with Gretchen Carlson of Fox & Friends during a book signing at The Villages in Florida. Fox & Friends recently aired the short segment titled "Christmas with the Palins" for their Christmas Special.

So how do the Palins spend their Christmas?

AdoringPalin captured the answer on a YouTube video:



- JP