Dear Sarah...A call for the unconventional….from the heart of the heartland--
We’ll cut to the chase, but stick around for our reasons. Now is the time to publicly announce that you intend to run for President in 2012. Don’t worry, we know and are not persuaded or impressed by all the punditry’s reasons for opposing such a move. Pundits deserve to be directly in the line of your earlier fire at political correctness: screw ‘em. What’s at stake in this country right now is far above the pundits’ ability to grasp, and demands thinking and acting outside the box of conventionality. Let’s be clear: we’re not talking about the launching of a formal campaign with all the travel and stump speeches. We’re talking about a clear statement of an intention to run, which would automatically make your Governor of Alaska status into an authoritative, visible, national platform to be a voice of opposition to any and all Obama initiatives. The political and social dynamics of this nation would change dramatically and instantaneously—and for the better. Here’s why: 1. Americans’ opposition to what Obama is doing is far stronger and broader than our Pravda media would have anyone believe.
Except for talk radio, Americans can’t find any voice to rally around. They need an elected official to say the things they feel—the things causing talk radio ratings to surge in an otherwise depressed economy; the things not being said in the Pravda media that are causing them to go bankrupt. Americans will rally to you in droves. They will instantly look to you for a conservative ‘take’ on the issues roiling the country. Forget popularity polls or ‘job approval’ ratings—they are not reality. Our own guess is that well over half of engaged, patriotic Americans are now vigorously opposed to an Obama agenda that very simply bears no relationship to the agenda portrayed or implied in the 2008 election campaign. We’ve written about this extensively at Brushfires-of-freedom—feel free to peruse “Not the Obama We Knew; Not the Government We Chose”; also, note Karl Rove’s comments last month, which we also wrote about in “The Fog is Lifting…the Fraud is Becoming Clear”:
”Making adjustments in office is one thing. Constantly governing in direct opposition to what you said as a candidate is something else…
America now has a president quite different from the person who advertised himself for the job last year. “ 2. The mere announcement of your intention to run in 2012 would stall and probably derail the entire Obama agenda. For the sake of America and the world, the entire Obama agenda needs to be stalled and derailed.
Yes, the Pravda media and the DC elite would go apoplectic in condemning you for making such an early announcement. “Undignified”, “unpatriotic”, “pretentious”, “insensitive to the nation’s need for a break”—these are some of the nice things that would be said about your announcement. But the opinion of Pravda and the DC elite has never been more out of synch with Americans; the extremity of their general reaction to you is a measure of just how far out of touch they are. The enormous crowds that form every time you make a mainland appearance are a much more important bellwether of the public mood. Those crowds would only increase in size once you’ve made your announcement. And then the miracle of miracles would occur: elected Republican conservatives in Washington and around the country would find a backbone or, in language Todd will understand, they’d grow a pair. Nationalized healthcare would stall in its tracks. Americans don’t want the government screwing up the best healthcare system in the world; they know socialized medicine is a failure every place it has been tried (and it has been tried many places). There just isn’t anybody with enough of a national, popular, elected profile to stand up and say so.
Climate change legislation would fall apart of its own stupidity. Pravda simply will not cover the fact that the tide of scientific opinion has dramatically changed against the idea of man-made global warming; and the tide of public opinion has changed as well. Americans smell an overhyped ‘crisis’—they smell a fraud. Even more important, Pravda will not cover what real people are experiencing all over the continent—significant cooling. The climate change/cap and trade steamroller is an illusion; the people don’t want it, and they know we don’t need it. But Republicans in Washington just can’t bring themselves to risk the ridicule of Pravda by saying so. An Alaskan like you can do it.
A more pro-American ‘can-do’ energy policy would take hold. As the price of a barrel of oil keeps drifting upward in the midst of a recession, and as the clueless and spineless Political Class fantasizes about windmills and solar power and biomass and frets about carbon emissions, Americans are growing restless and impatient with this unconscionable handling of a major national issue. The people want more American-produced energy; they know we can do it if the government will just get the hell out of the way. We have oil; we have shale, we have natural gas—and we have hundreds of thousands of jobs waiting to be created if Americans are turned loose to solve the problem. And solving it doesn’t have to mean environmental degradation—Americans know that, too.
The anti-private sector/socialism-on-the-march propaganda would be exposed for the complete BS that it is. The people have never supported the bailouts; they have never wanted the government running car companies or banks or anything else. They want cars they like to drive; they want bankers who aren’t looking over their shoulders at Barney Frank regulatory agendas; they want people who make bad business decisions and run businesses into the ground to live with their responsibility, as their shareholders learn to find better people to invest with. Americans want their freedom—to succeed and to fail. (If you want a ‘big tent’ platform, take a look at “Building the Big Tent”).
Seriousness about national security would re-emerge and stay in the limelight. Dick Cheney has carried the load very well, but Americans don’t see him as likely to be an alternative to Obama in 2012. They like what he says, and his willingness to say it bluntly and forcefully, but your voice brings the voice of a real alternative. To be fair, it’s easy for a Brushfires’ essay to call on you to do something that will without doubt expose you and your family to a level of vitriol and mind-boggling hatred that most of us could not possibly handle. You already have our unending respect for the courage and grace with which you’ve already handled this in the 2008 campaign and most recently in the aftermath of David Letterman’s signature demonstration of the moral vacuity of the left. But we all know that Letterman’s jokes are minor league compared to the elitist’ vilification that would come your way in the event of an early announcement. But here’s some encouragement we think someone of faith (like you) can appreciate. All the screaming noise directed at you—it’s just evil coming to the surface to be identified, rejected and unveiled as impotent. No matter what the ‘post-modern’ intellectuals like to say about new or changing views of truth, truth isn’t new and doesn’t change, and you know it. Your conservative instincts come straight from the Judeo-Christian heritage of America, and publicly voicing them resonates with the Judeo-Christian heritage of Americans everywhere. (See our essay “Israel Matters” for an expanded explanation of this). One last point—for all the condescension directed your way as to what books or papers or think-tank reports you do or don’t read—Americans in the real world know that instincts and judgment matter more than Ivy league dissertations and ‘on the one hand, on the other hand’ vagaries. You can find trustworthy, solid advisors on any subject—Brushfires will go to work for you any time you ask—your job is to stick with the guts and courage you’ve already shown, and now need to ratchet up to a level that will rock the nation: Announce NOW your intention to run for President in 2012! With best wishes, Paul Gable Posted June 15, 2009 |