Who not to listen to

Now that I have some time off I can get to a few things that I've been wanting to talk about. The first is this column by Chris Cillizza which appeared in last Friday's Washington Post. Mr. Cillizza spoke to some GOP "movers and shakers" about who looked good for the 2012 nomination. Chris begins by explaining why he left someone off of his list:

The most notable omission is that of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. While we expect the former vice presidential nominee will be on this Line in the coming months, she doesn't make it this time around because it is not yet clear how she will find a way to remain in the national dialogue from her far-away outpost in the Last Frontier. Palin is also VERY lightly regarded by many of the opinion leaders and establishment types within the GOP, making it tougher for her to command a leading role.

This pretty much explains why nothing else he says is to be taken seriously. The fact is that the "opinion leaders and establishment types within the GOP" are the geniuses who have led the Republican party to its devastating losses in the past two elections.

Further it was these "wizards of smart" (as Rush calls them) who have been telling us for years that "Reagan was dead" and that the only hope for the party was to move sharply leftward. These are the people who assured us that John McCain was the ideal candidate to broaden the appeal of the GOP to new constituencies, like Hispanics, and eat into the Democrat party's advantage among the "moderates" and independents.

Well we saw how well that worked out, didn't we?

So now that their fantasy of a center-left GOP led by the grand master of "reaching across the aisle" has been demonstrated to achieve nothing but devastating losses at the polls the "go left" crowd is desperately seeking to make Governor Palin the scapegoat for McCain's defeat.

Their first attempts to slime Mrs. Palin were almost unbelievably crude and stupid and backfired on them badly. Now the "party line" on the Governor is that she is simply a lightweight who tried her best but just couldn't hold up her end of the campaign.

This isn't going to work either. The average Republican in the street knows that the "Republican" leaders who are telling anyone who will listen that Mrs. Palin isn't to be taken seriously are the same people who took the GOP from a growing majority party to a shrinking minority party in just a few short years.

We are finished listening to these people and the fact that they don't like Sarah makes us love her even more. The FACT, not speculation or wishful thinking, is that the only time that McCain moved into the lead was right after his announcement of Governor Palin as his running mate. The FACT, again not speculation or wishful thinking, was that McCain had to take Palin on the campaign trail with him in order to draw a crowd of any size. The FACT is that when ordinary Republicans are polled (rather than elite Washington-Manhattan axis RINO's) Sarah Palin is the most highly regarded living Republican.

The fact is that Mrs. Palin will have no trouble staying in the public eye. She is one of the most sought after politicians in the world with offers for book deals, movies, speaking engagements and interviews pouring in from around the world. Her only real problem will be avoiding overexposure.

In conclusion I would just remind everyone that the same class of RINO elites who despise Sarah Palin also despised Ronald Reagan, and for exactly the same reason. The same people who call Governor Palin "uninformed" or an "airhead" also called President Reagan an "amiable dunce" and implied that he was borderline senile.

History shows us how utterly wrong they were about both Ronald Reagan and John McCain so why on earth would anyone trust their judgement about anything else ever again?

It is time, and past time, that we broom these liberal Trojan horses out of the party once and for all. The GOP's tent should be big enough to cover every social, fiscal and national security conservative in the nation, and not one square inch larger.

If we set ourselves to making that happen we will find that the tent is large enough to cover a majority of Americans.