Posted by
Casper on Monday, January 19, 2009 3:27:42 PM
Liberals in the media love to claim that Sarah Palin is responsible for McCain's election loss back in November.
Tomorrow, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States and on this historical occaision (All Presidential Inaugurations are Historical) I thought this would be as good a time as any to post some of my thoughts on what I call the Sarah Palin effect.
Governor Sarah Palin is a fresh and new face on the national political scene. She was used by the McCain people to launch barrage after barrage of attacks against the Obama political machine. When she was named as McCain's running mate she energized the conservative base that was rather luke warm about their candidate. Soon after the announcement the numbers showing up at McCain-Palin rallies increased to a size rivaled only by the crowds drawn by Barack Obama.
The media claims that conservatism hurts the Republican party because we are considered to be outside the mainstream. In other words, conservatives are the radicals within the Republican Party. What they don't realize is that Conservatives are the Republican party. They don't understand us, so they think we are somehow wierd or strange like exhibits in a sideshow carnival. They criticize our ideas because they are not in line with the liberal ideology they publish in major newspapers and broadcast across the airwaves on all the major news outlets.
Sarah Palin falls into this category because she is not one of them. They fear conservatives and conservatism. They fear us because they now that our way works every time it is tried. They can't call themselves liberals any more because Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the "radical" right wing of the Republican party have succeeded in defining the term "Liberal". Americans fear that word any time they hear it and the reject politicians who claim to be liberals. If you don't believe me, name the last liberal to successfully run for the President of the United States. Bill Clinton ran as a moderate and was successful in shaking off any attempt to label him a liberal. Barack Obama re-labeled himself a "Progressive" in this last election reciting the name as if he were a member of some growing movement. In reality, Barack Obama is nothing short of the same ole same ole liberal, the same liberal big government ideas, the same liberal tax and spend policies that have failed this country in the past and will fail it again if he is successful.
Liberals are now trying to do the same thing with the term Conservative as we have done with the term liberal. They want to brainwash the American people reeducating them on the six o'clock news. Conservatives are bad, they are cooky wierd and strange. That's why they pummeled Sarah Palin with questions that no one would dare ask Barack Obama. She hurt herself in the interviews with Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric because she tried being something other that what she was for the sake of John McCain. When Conservatives do that they come off as something phony and ungenuine.
Conservatism works. It works everytime and every where it is tried. Conservatives win elections when they show the American people who they really are. They don't win when they try to be something that they are not. John McCain lost because the best thing he could say for himself was that he was a "Maverick". He did not have a message that resonated with his Conservative base or the American people. His inability to speak beyond the media spin and directly to the American people is the reason John McCain will not be inaugurated tomorrow as the 44th President. It had nothing to do with Sarah Palin.