Opressive Heat Rash

It must be particularly galling for the Opressives to even contemplate this excellent question posed by The New York Sun(h/t Conservatives4Palin), let alone answer it.

Clearly there are a lot of questions to be sorted out in this affair. But one of them turns out to be this: How did one of the most intellectual presidents in history, a constitutional law professor with a government-provided staff of legal experts and policy geniuses and an ability, rarely if ever matched, to speak in lofty tones, manage to get himself in a position where he will end up following the lead of an ex-governor who has been constantly set down by the left as but a one-time beauty queen without brains and who has been watching the whole fracas from a lake-side camp at Alaska?

No wonder they’re so angry and vulgar.  Their Precedent and their positions have been refudiated by the majority of the American people. The Hillbilly from Wasilly has outmaneuvered both him and them on issue after issue. The race card is maxed out , and nobody cares what they think anymore. Does Obamacare cover Opressive head explosions, or a cream for that rash?

Obsessive O-pressive’s

The allways brilliant Hillbuzz Babes have a great post up asking if we should start referring to the leftists formerly known as liberals as “Oppressives” instead of “Progressives”, as they prefer to be called.

Other excellent suggestions in the comments include:

Oppressive Regressives (ht DeniseVB)

Suppressive-Regressive-Oppressives. (ht Bev)

O-pressives (ht ycats)

Oppressive Compulsives (ht MRM)

depressive-progressives? (ht Michelle)

I think all of those are great suggestions, so I shuffled the first letters around a little bit and came up with O-Pressive DORCS.

We probably need to come up with something pithy to call the self-appointed “ruling elite”.  One of my friends refers to them sarcastically as our “smarter betters”. Calling them SBs works just fine for me, since that is what they are. But I’m sure some of you could improve on that suggestion. Any ideas?

To Be, Or Not To Be?

I have had a long hiatus from posting, due in large part to a hand injury that severely limited my ability to type for quite some time, and threw me into a tailspin both physically and mentally for even longer. But the primary reason for my relative silence over the past several months is because I have been conflicted over whether I should continue to post as PalinDemocrat on my own blog and others.  Not because of the Palin part—because my admiration for her has only grown in recent months—but because of the Democrat part.  The actions of the Democrats over the last few years in general, and the last few months in particular, have caused me to question whether I want to be associated with that party in any way, even nominally.

Sarah Palin Is Irrelevant.

No, really. Haven’t you heard? Sarah Palin is an idiot. At least that is the conclusion one would reach if the mainstream media and entertainment industries were the only sources of information about the Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States.

And if those were your only sources of information, you would also have to come to the conclusion that she is not a feminist, and given the fact that she’s pursued a career while raising five children, she can’t possibly be a very good mother. And according to some of the brightest thinkers on the left, she is very boring, but still quite dangerous. Even some of the snazziest dressers on the right have declared her “a joke”.

But what she is not, is relevant. She is so irrelevant that the White House Press Secretary thought it more appropriate to ridicule her from the podium than to discuss the dimensions of the handbasket that the country is currently going to hell in.

Why, she’s so completely and totally irrelevant to the current political discourse that a quick search of “Sarah Palin” on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s official website only yields 100 results, and her picture is at the top of the page to kick off their new site, which has been dubbed “Palin’s Primaries“, in an obvious attempt to emphasize her irrelevance.

I don’t know how much of his personal fortune Mitt Romney would be willing to part with to become as irrelevant as Sarah Palin currently is. But it’s a pretty fair bet that Sarah Palin still has the far left and elites across the spectrum all wee-wee’d up.

A Tale of Two Meetings.

I had a choice between attending two meetings last Thursday night. The meeting of the local Tea Party, which is just getting started, and the meeting of the local Democrat Party. Since I wanted to go to both, and couldn’t figure out how to be in two places at once, I had to compromise.

The tea party started first, thirty minutes earlier than the other one. So I went early enough to meet the candidates who were there before the meeting started. One of the candidates for Georgia’s 9th district Congressional Seat was there, and one of the candidates for Attorney General, and I wanted to shake their hand and take their measure.

Then I went across the park to the library, where the Democrat meeting was being held, and once again found myself taking someone’s measure. Only these were all people that I knew, some of them for a long time. I know their families, one of which is my own. I know how they were raised, and I know what kind of people they are.

One of those people was my brother, who was resigning after 12 years as the Chairman of the local party. Sitting beside him was the guy who had agreed to become the new chairman (yes, they had to talk somebody into it), who I will refer to as Obama-man. I call him that because he has never been involved in local politics until 2008, when he went to one of the OFA training camps, and started working with the local parties as per their instructions.

Obama-man’s father was one of my father’s best friends when we were younger, and his sister was one of my best friends. During our high school years, I spent as much time at their house as I spent at my own. Sitting beside Obama-man was a woman that I will call Dee, whose family has been  involved in local politics longer and more deeply than my own.

 I had to bite my tongue several times, and a few times I didn’t bite quite hard enough. It was painfully obvious that Obama man is still spending way too much time at dailyKooks. When he made reference to “the teabaggers across the street”, Dee told him “That’s so seventh grade.” before I had time to get my tongue out from between my teeth.

Ditto the comment that Republicans are trying to co-opt the R word, which confused me momentarily. Upon hearing the explanation that they were referring to the word “retard”, I explained my confusion by saying that I thought for a minute that they were talking about the other R word, which has been the Democrat’s response to any questions or criticism for the better part of two years.

    But I was there on a fact finding mission, and I have found that you can find more facts when you can keep your mouth shut. My other brother, along with another good friend on the County Commission, are both up for re-election this year.

They have both been elected three times on the Democrat ticket. But they both know that it will be uphill sledding for them this year, because they understand, and for the most part agree with, the current anti-incumbent sentiment. They also know that they are going to be saddled with a national Party agenda that they neither approve of nor agree with.

So my advice to them is pretty much the same as it has been to all Democrats who are not Obamacrats, whether they are on a ballot or not. We can either leave the Party entirely, loudly and publicly. Or we can stand up within the Party, and renounce the Obamacrats and their behavior, loudly and publicly.

I have been asked many times why I am still a Democrat, even though I support Sarah Palin and many other conservative candidates, and this is why. I know many of these candidates personally. I know their charachter, and I know their hearts. I have watched them struggle to come to terms with the fact that their Party has left them, for all intents and purposes.

So I will continue to be a Palin Democrat, at least for now, and I will continue to fight the good fight from both the inside and the outside. I will work for and campaign for these Democrats, as I always have. But that contribution and cooperation will come with a price. And that price is the candidates acceptance of my promotion of the Tea Party movement, and the conservative candidates that I have chosen to support, and my repudiation of the National Democrat Party.

I Spent The Weekend In Nashville.

I couldn’t afford to attend the convention. But even the remote possibility of being able to see Sarah Palin and shake her hand was all the excuse that I needed to meet up with a friend for a mini-vacation. The Opryland Hotel is a nice place to hang out, even if you’re not there for a convention, and we spent some time doing exactly that.

We met Andrew Breitbart on Friday, and then saw him again on Saturday and got a picture. But in spite of finding the most likely route in and out for Sarah Palin, we missed her arrival. There were just too many possibilities to narrow it down to just one spot to stake out, including the underground tunnels beneath the complex.

If I weren’t a glass-half-full kind of gal, I might have been disappointed. But the primary purpose of the trip was some much needed R & R, and in that respect, it was a smashing success. Seeing Sarah Palin was always a long shot at best, and would only have been an added bonus. And I know that there will be other opportunities in the not-too-distant future.

But the more I have thought about it, the more I realized that the reason I didn’t see Sarah Palin on this trip is one of the reasons that I’m a Palin Democrat to begin with. I didn’t see her because she entered the convention center quietly and unobtrusively.

Most politicians of her stature would have made a big splashy arrival, complete with a caravan of limos and SUV’s, with an entourage and an excessive security detail in tow. Sarah Palin did not do that.

Most politicians, especially those considering a run for the White House, would have given a policy speech to impress the talking heads on television. Sarah Palin spoke directly to, and for, the vast majority of the American people. 

 Most politicians would have tried to co-opt the tea party movement, and make it all about them. Sarah Palin delivered a barn burner of a speech to a crowd that she would have been equally comfortable sitting in the middle of.

Most politicians equivocate, and triangulate, and obfuscate. Sarah Palin says exactly what she thinks, and lets the chips fall where they may. You don’t have to agree with her on every issue to admire the backbone and testicular fortitude that are always on full display. And those qualities have gained her the support of many Democrats, this one included.

I’m A Little Disappointed.

Nashville, Tenn. is within driving distance for me, so I was excited to learn that Sarah Palin would be the Keynote Speaker for the First National Tea Party Convention, which will be held at the Gaylord Opryland Convention Center February 4-6, 2010. But I was very disappointed when the ticket price information was released.

I realize that organizing a convention of this magnitude is not inexpensive, and that the convention itself is geared toward those who will be organizing Tea Party events in the future, and not toward those who will be attending them.

At the same time, I also know that the people who attend the Tea Party’s are also the same people who make up Sarah Palin’s natural demographic. Given the current economic climate and the proximity of the Convention to the Christmas Holidays, it would be unlikely that most of the people in that demographic would be able to afford the cost of attendance, even if they were inclined to do so.

It would be really nice if the Convention organizers, SarahPAC, or some other Sarah Palin entity could arrange an overflow room for the people who would be willing to pay a more affordable fee just to attend and hear Sarah Palin speak.

But failing that, there is absolutely no reason that those of us who can’t attend the actual convention for whatever reason can’t turn out in force to welcome Sarah to the region anyway. Gaylord Opryland Resort is a fantastic family friendly tourist destination in and of itself, and most attractions are completely free. There are a large number of reasonably priced hotels in close proximity to both the Convention Center and the airport. And there is no shortage of entertainment in the Nashville area for people of all ages.

So I would encourage everyone who supports Sarah Palin and the premise of the Tea Parties to go to Nashville, if possible, even if it’s just to be on hand to welcome Sarah to the region. If we turn out in force, I think we can make a statement to both Sarah Palin, and to her detractors. It would also be a great way to follow through on the suggestion made by HillBuzz to take advantage of the lines at book signings for Going Rogue to start networking and building the alliances that will be crucial for an effective ground game if Sarah Palin runs for President in 2012.