Say Anything Blog

I thought I was losing my mind the other day as I went to the television and saw that I only had a few channels available.  I thought that maybe there would be a good baseball game on or an American classic like Dirty Harry on TV, but no, it was wall to wall Michael Jackson. 

  I don’t watch a lot of TV anymore, but I was in the mood and thought I would give it a chance.  After twenty minutes, I started to wish that I had a hand grenade so I could pull it and quickly be put out of my misery.  Watching a living fossil like Larry King trying to act hip and listening to Jermaine Jackson describe Neverland as “wonderment and joy” made me want to vomit.  I finally waved the white flag and gave in to the darkness.

  Over breakfast, I told my wife that I was getting sick of the wall to wall Jacko coverage and wished there would be something a little more interesting in the paper.  Oh and memo to the Bismrack Tribune:  Way to drop the ball on covering the tea party.  No one should have any illusions as to why the newspapers are dying a slow death.  At any rate, a few hours later they reported a Sarah Palin news conference.  That’s when I started to get a little nervous and a lot intrigued.

  I was nervous because I didn’t know if she was going to announce that she had been in Argentina with Mark Sanford or if she was going to start a standup comedy tour and start bashing Herman Munster John Kerry and “I used to be funny in 1990” David Letterman.  A Sanford type of thing would have disgusted me and a comedy tour making fun of Kerry and Letterman would have left me broke because I would have went to every show. 

  I was intrigued because deep down I knew it had something to do with her political future.  Was she actually going to announce a run this early in the process?  I know that you start laying the ground work almost the day after an election, but announcing this early would be something all together new.  Well as we all know by now it was an announcement that she was resigning. 

  The timing was interesting.  She pulled an Obama and made the announcement on a Friday and hidden in between the Jackson death and the 4th of July.  She wanted it out there but she didn’t want to maximize coverage.  Again, pretty interesting.

  So what was the reasoning behind this whole thing?  Some goofball at CNN said she was pregnant.  Someone else suggested that her popularity had sunk and she had to get out of the political game.  I heard all of the sick liberal rumors coming from the Internet of course, but as always it was just their usual smear campaigns.  So what in the world is her reasoning?

  I think it was what many have felt it was all along.  She is laying the groundwork for her Presidential run.  Now she might be planning a Senate run soon to act as her springboard, but I’m not totally sold on that.  I will concede though that she never made a secret of her admiration for Hillary Clinton’s political career and she might attempt to emulate that whole process.  I think it was a strategic retreat and the beginning of a massive counter offensive.  If she pulls it off, she’ll be a genius and if she doesn’t, then she’ll probably end up on Fox news in five or six years.  I think she would be excellent in a talk show format by the way.

  I think she’s going to return to her home life and let the press speculate.  Sure she’ll show up for the occasional event, but I think for the most part she’ll stay close to home and be a wife and mother.  During this time I think she’ll begin to pen her long rumored book. 

  Nearly every politician will put out a book before they begin their Presidential campaign.  Most of the books flop or are full of lies like Al Gore’s, Barack Obama’s, and Hillary Clinton’s, but Palin’s will be a little different.  She will get massive exposure because her book will set the record straight on the McCain campaign, the Letterman feud, and the viscous press attacks on her family.  This alone will promise her exposure from all media outlets.  Of course she will also use the book to push her agenda.  Just like Obama and Hillary, she will actually be able to sell her book.

  By stepping back and working on the book she will keep the freshness factor and will keep her name in demand.  She will shield herself from the relentless attacks by the leftist media for as long as possible.  Attacking a politician is one thing, attacking a private citizen is something totally different.  If she doesn’t do this, she runs the risk of being a Dan Quayle and a butt of all jokes from our friends on the left.  This is hard to recover from.

  Dan Quayle was a good man and a real conservative.  He was someone who scared the left and they made it their mission to destroy his reputation.  Quayle mentioned that the ideal family was one that included the mother and father and the nutcase liberals went crazy.  It was about a year after Clinton was elected that I read in a Tacoma paper that Quayle was right.  Studies from liberal entities concluded that the ideal family consisted of a mother and father.  Of course this was buried in the paper and the television ignored it.  There are countless single mothers and fathers who raise good families, but no one can argue that in a perfect world a loving father and mother should lead a household.  He said it and he was destroyed.  Palin is against abortion and so the left feels it is their mission to destroy her.  Throw in the fact that she fights back and she isn’t a big fan of Comrade Obama and you can understand that they want blood.  A brief retreat will help to dampen the attacks and give her a little breathing room.

  Palin will continue to raise money and field phone calls from the movers and shakers within the party.  She will keep a close eye on Bobby Jindal, Newt Gingrich, and Mitt Romney.  She will remerge and be that fresh face once again that puts fear into the liberals. 

  Now all that being said, is this the right move?  I think it is both for her personally and professionally.  Being a front runner at this point in time is never a good thing and history will bear me out on that.  Newt will probably falter and Jindal still might not be ready so Palin could be going head to head with a money raising machine in Mitt Romney.  She will need to be rested and she will need the tidal wave of excitement that will come with a book release and a splashy return.

  I wish the Palin family good luck.  Sarah Palin’s involvement in the future of the party adds to the debate and I for one welcome it.

  I also want to mention that it was an awesome tea party.  Rob Port was a great MC, Scott Hennen was his usual kind self, and Kevin Cramer hit a home run with an incredible speech.  Really everyone there was passionate and full of patriotism.  If anyone thinks this was just a gathering against liberals, they would be wrong.  It was a gathering against all of those who ignore the people and are hell bent on damaging this country.  A great, great evening.  1200people standing united against tyranny was something to behold.  Thank you to all of the people who put their time and money on the line to make it happen.

  I want to take a moment to say a Happy Fourth of July to everyone out there.  This is always a good day to relax and spend time with loved ones.  I am going to go stuff my face in a few minutes and I hope you all get to do the same.  God bless you.