The Palin Ploy: My Respectful Dissent to “Another Dead Horse”

Yesterday my faithful compatriot rj bemoaned the fall from glory of another Republican.? I could actually feel his heart breaking in the tone of his voice.? Why wouldn’t it be?? The past eight months have been rough for Republicans all over this country.? Instead of recovery and a renewed invigoration, we have for the most part seen an weak and unorganized party with plenty of infighting to boot with the Frum led Neo-Cons attempt to take over the GOP while the Reaganauts favor a movement back to the roots of conservatism.

The recent escapades of the?Governor of the fine state of South Carolina and now the announcement of Sarah Palin stepping down as Governor of Alaska have added to the concern of the current statue of the Grand Old Party.? Members of the party of the “Rough Rider” and “The Liberator” are beginning to feel weak in a government dominated by Progressives and in all estimations have zero voice in the grand arena.

rj’s current concern of course is that of Palin’s supposed fall from grace.? That a potential unifier or at least fresh face in politics has given in and can no longer stomach the fierceness of the battle ground that is modern politics.

I respectfully dissent.

This is a Trojan Horse if I’ve ever seen one, my friend.? I am of the position that there is a presidential campaign announcement headed our way in 12-18 months.? Do not miss the forest for the trees here.? This is truly a cunning ploy of which the fall out is the act of storing ammunition and not the destruction of her political career as the elitist media would have you believe.? Her base is that of the disenfranchised, the down and out, the every man.? The individuals sick and tired of being told how they feel and what they should believe by the Washington Beltway elite.? Those individuals who crafted a false Palin under the McCain campaign and refused to define her as an intelligent leader, and allowed her to fall victim to painting her as a ditsy pretty face.

The salt of the earth Americans are growing sick and tired of the direction the country is going, and they have zero representation.? The Progressives do not represent these people, and neither do the Neo-Cons.? These are the people that care little if a candidate hales from Blue Blood Ivy League educated status.? They desire leadership that knows of their struggle, that has raised a family outside of towers of concrete, has sweated for their keep and watched it taken away by the invisible hand of government.? These individuals are slowly beginning to rise up against the machine as evidenced in the outpouring of movements like the Tea Parties across our country.

Palin will use the animosity towards her to further establish her base for a strong following when campaigning begins in just about 18 months time.? Because the animosity towards her by the elite will be associated as animosity towards the American Every Man.? This movement can be further established with smart and ambitious grass roots, Internet based social networking plan in the line of my.barackobama.com to impress upon individuals of communities that she represents their strong Goldwater-esque convictions.

If I’m wrong, then there is either a Huckabee style talk show on Fox News waiting on her post July 29th.? I can’t take credit for that prognostication.? That belongs to Ruth Ann Harnisch.? But my conjecture remains that there is a strong possibility that this exit is simply based on a desire to spend time with family prior to the roller coaster and to build ammunition for the fight.? This is more than reasonable.

The bottom line is this: Sarah Palin is standing on the precipice of either disappearing as a footnote of the McCain campaign or having made one of the most brilliant campaign moves in political history.

-nick