Palin & Patriots

My estrangement from the Republican Party has been coming on for some time. I think I hit the wall with the Tea Party business that I described in the previous post.

But there have been so many other issues along the way that I tried to rationalize:

The execrable treatment of Sarah Palin, the corruption and spinelessness of GOP politicians. Their weak response to Øbama, their dithering in the face of the destruction of the country.

Their continued paleo approach to activism: Attend meetings, listen to speakers, have lunch, donate, go home. Not much meat for Pissed-Off Patriots!

But, still, I haven't really wanted to leave the Party if only because changing my registration from Democrat to Republican after my 9.11 conversion was such a life-changing event for me, that I've been resisting surrendering the significance of it by leaving it.

But reality is reality. And I have come to understand that the problem with our country is the government. The government itself. And that government has been built, brick by brick, by the two party system. And both parties are responsible.

Republicans spend too much money, ignore the Constitution, engage in corruption, with almost the same degree of abandon as Democrats. They are life-time politicians who live in the Blue Bubble of Washington D.C, and worry more about their jobs than about their country...and certainly their constituents.

They don't seem to understand that people are sick to death of "politics as usual". And that includes blind Party loyalty, and a resistance to common sense.

Sarah Palin came to prominence in her state by standing up against dirty, corrupt members of her own Party. She's got guts. And she cares more about honesty and truth than Party affiliation. She's the sort of non-politician we need running for office. Running America.

Let the Cult Media and the elite pundits (including the Republican heel-snappers) expose their terror by continuing their mindless, rabid attacks on her, her family, her children, her character, her wardrobe, her high-heels and her hairdo.

How does the saying go..."When you start to get a lot of flak, you know you're over the target."

Can I register as a "Palin Patriot"?.

Even if she never runs for office again, it is her character, her honesty, her genuineness, her decency, her faith in and love of the real America that inspires.

It's also her scrappiness, her pride, her strength, her courage, her humor, her intelligence, her clarity of vision. And her absolute disdain for the self-important, so-called "elites" in Washington, New York, Hollywood...whether in politics, society or the Cult Media.

She is a woman of and for The People. (And I support that, no matter WHO carries the banner!)

And she loves Red Shoes.

The Gunslinger