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Title: Sarah Palin's Career Ends in Tragedy
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URL Source: http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/palin-tragegy.html
Published: Sep 2, 2008
Author: Lew Rockwell
Post Date: 2008-09-02 07:39:30 by wudidiz
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by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. The frenzied reaction of the middle class all over the country toward Sarah Palin has no real precedent that I can remember. Indeed, the reaction especially among women is completely understandable. She provides a much welcome cultural break from the chip-on-the-shoulder, grudge-against-the-world model of public women that have been held up to us for years, embodied in the belligerent and insufferable person of Hillary Clinton. Sarah, on the other hand, is both beautiful and professionally accomplished, a wife and mother and a natural politician, both religious and secular, both feminine and fears no tasks such as hunting that are usually associated with men. She offers a different model of a woman who has excelled not through intimidation and aggressive demands for reparation, but through her own efforts, charms, and intelligence. What's more, her political outlook has much to recommend it, from what we can gather so far. There is a libertarian impulse here. She has rejected the perks of public life in favor of common sense. She is friendly to business interests but unfriendly to special privileges. She has praised Ron Paul and rejected the party mentality of GOP regulars. It strikes many people as a brilliant choice on McCain's part, and I would agree. Social conservatives have forgiven all of McCain's deviations. Many people who just last week didn't give a fig about whether he wins or loses have come around completely. She will, of course, be a huge focus of the campaign. The claim against her that she lacks "experience" is one of the most bogus things out there. For starters, the history of VPs shows a long history of people with very little of what is called "experience" today. And contrary to what media pundits say, what is far more important than experience are the political values you hold. The demand for experience seems to imply that somehow we are seeking social and global managers for public office, and that is manifestly what we do not want. In a truly liberal society, the job of a White House executive could be held by anyone or no one. Now, the sad part begins. The first job of anyone who works for the government – and that is the job of the vice president – is to echo the line of the government. People find that to be reasonable. It really comes down to a matter of job loyalty. If you are working for Burger King, you have an obligation not to criticize their hamburgers publicly. But in government, this job requirement takes on a different cast. When a decent person accepts a job such as vice president, our first instinct is to celebrate that good people are in a position of power and influence. This is what the McCain campaign is counting on. But this is an illusion. The influence runs completely the other way. Good people become part of the party machine and surrender all their principles in order to survive. We are speaking here of the leviathan state that lives on a lie. To be part of that, you too must become part of the lie. It is perhaps possible to be the governor of a small state such as Alaska and not be part of the machine. It is not possible to be vice president of the United States and not enter into the deeply immoral arena that values the burying of all principle, and saying and doing whatever is necessary to bolster power. Part of the purpose of campaigns is to socialize the candidates in this mold. Sarah will be slapped around if and when she openly disagrees with McCain's politics. When they win the election, she will immediately be required to take on the role of an apologist for all that the administration does. In some ways, this is the continuing of a terrible trend of the Bush years. Many good young people from conservative backgrounds, with excellent educations and decent political values, went to work for Bush under the impression that they could make a difference. There was change as a result, but it was not government that changed, but the young people who went to work for it. There are even cases of former libertarians who have held high government positions and sacrificed all their values in order to hold their jobs. They claim that they haven't abandoned libertarianism but rather seek to apply it in the "real world." But the real world of government is the opposite of libertarianism. It is stealing, lying, killing, butchering, badgering, looting, coercing, and sucking the life out of society itself. That is the essence of modern statecraft. You either have to come to terms with that or leave. If you stay, you become part of the very problem that you fought to oppose. We saw this not only during the egregious Bush administration but also in the 1980s with Reagan. Many people become educated with sound political values and find themselves attracted to Washington politics. They quickly feel embarrassed about their naïveté and seek to fix themselves up, adopting the approved cynicism that eats away at their soul. They become changed over time, morphing into the very opposite of what they started out, and of what they started out believing. This, sadly, is the future of Sarah Palin, who may have been doing some good in Alaska. It is even more of a tragedy when people leave the private sector where they are serving the public in productive ways, only to become part of the machinery of stealing, lying, and killing. There is something about Sarah I really like, especially that she seems to have had some sympathy for an Alaskan secession movement, which, contrary to media hysteria, is a perfectly reasonable and liberal position to take. But you can be sure that if she plans to be a successful vice president under a McCain administration, all of this will be swept under the carpet and her primary accomplishment in life will have been to dupe many people into supporting an administration that promises to be the worst thing that has happened to this country since Bush was sworn in. September 2, 2008
Sarah Palin's Career Ends in Tragedy
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. 
There are names I could mention here in our time, former libertarians now holding high political appointments in the bowels of the federal bureaucracy. They know who they are. They can pretend superiority that they are "getting their hands dirty" while the rest of us are merely typing away at our keyboards. But in fact, they have become responsible for great evil, the leading one of which is to contribute to the great lie that government is doing good for us.
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#1. To: wudidiz (#0)
If she pulled this off I'd move and take up voting again.
"Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its power but the truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States." "Mr. Chairman, the people of the United States did not perceive that a world system was being set up here that the United States was to be lowered to the position of a coolie country. . and was to supply financial power to an international superstate -- a superstate controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the World for their own pleasure."
Sad but true.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
I'd like to secede as part of the revolutionary "CENTER" ...
"Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its power but the truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States." "Mr. Chairman, the people of the United States did not perceive that a world system was being set up here that the United States was to be lowered to the position of a coolie country. . and was to supply financial power to an international superstate -- a superstate controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the World for their own pleasure."
When you hang around a festering septic tank long enough, you're bound to come out smelling like shit.
I shall not vote for evil, lesser or otherwise.
I'm all for allowing to secede, us too for that matter. Separatism, an idea whose time has come.
The more I read about Sarah, the more I like her. This may be a CLM for her, but it certainly does make things interesting. Just wish she was on top of the ticket instead of playing second fiddle.
"A leader, for a change." - Jimmy Carter, 1976 campaign slogan. Sound familiar? Here it comes again!
McCain's new prop sure duped a bunch of people on this forum.
Just what I'm thinking. If she were Ron Paul's VP, everybody would be saying that her quirky, not-so- perfect lifestyle fit right in with the individualism espoused by Ron Paul.
If she were at the top it would be worth looking at her credentials. As it is, it doesn't matter what she is. Rockwell nails it good.
Not really. It is just that Obama is a marxist that has hung out with commies his whole life. He is a collectivist and about 1000 times worse then McCain. A few months ago I thought Obama was better then McCain. They both still suck but one will be president and the course in history will be greatly different.
I almost instantly fell in love with the gal but I'm seriously concerned with her association with the Assembly of God.
Minus accident of birth .. GWB, Mgr. Hardees ... McBomb, Mgr. Burger King .. (both flunked out at Hamburger U.)
I don't buy the "McCain is the lesser evil" any more than I bought into "Bush is the lesser evil" in 2000 or 2004. Bush and McCain are as bad if not worse on many counts than the Democrats. Both parties want a welfare and a warfare state, with Dems putting slightly more emphasis on the welfare, the GOP on warfare, though even this small difference has gotten blurred recently. Much as I oppose almost all welfare programs, they only cost us money. Warfare costs money and blood. The two parties also slightly differ in how they pay for the warfare and welfare state. Dems rely on the tax and spend model - bad enough. Neocons use the borrow and spend model, which is even worse. It's like the difference between a drunken sailor who spends everything that he earns, versus the con artist who maxes out his credit cards and declares bankruptcy.
Why...something hypocritical and extremist about the fundies?
I'm seriously concerned about the integrity (or rather, the complete lack thereof) of anyone who goes from being a Buchanan and Ron Paul supporter to barking the McCain/neocon foreign policy line overnight. When Palin started talking about the "Iranian threat" during her acceptance speech, that was enough for me to write her off as either a moron or a GOP tool in prettier packaging.
I agree. Although her support of the insane, cowardly and ecologically destructive practice of killing wolves makes her a top of the list political foe of mine. That is a controversy up there as well iot should be. I am strongly opposed to flying around shooting needed predators like wolves. Healthy ecosystems need predators to actually be ecosystems. Other then the fact I wouldn't vote for her for dog catcher, she seems like a decent person. I would enjoy ripping her up rhetorically on ecological issues face to face, but have nothing against her personally. I would however vote for Hillary before I would vote for this woman for anything.
Sure ya did.
You just a bigoted christian hater. Like anyone with any sense would listen to someone as bigoted as you on this subject.
Yes. Predators in balanced numbers. I doubt the gubmint people know a damn thing about what the numbers are or should be. Airplane hunting for sport is a travesty.
Funny you'd say that, I'm a big fan of Christ.
Shooting wolves from a helicopter is unsportsmanlike and I oppose it, but having a hunting season for wolves in Alaska is perfectly legitimate. Wolves are anything but rare in parts of Alaska, and predator populations need to be held in check like anything else. If somebody proposed it for Michigan or Minnesota, it would be a different story.
People who use the word "fundie" are insulting christians. A christian who doesn't believe the fundamentals is a fake christian. You take the word for what it says. That is my position. Also you saying that I didn't used to prefer Obama to McCain is not true. It proves you open your mouth and talk about things in which you don't know what you are talking about.
Don't you just love the hypocrites who criticize the parents for the actions of the kids. I did kids in trouble as a living, and many came from the very best, most caring families. And BTW, there but for the grace of God goes me 40 years ago. And yeah, lets not mention the fact that BO is the product of a single mother. Papa Obama, like most blacks who knock up a chick, blew town after young Barack emerged. What a crock of shit this entire issue is.
I don't care how they kill the wolves if they are over populated. Of course they shouldn't be totally wiped out or even close to totally wiped out. You are correct that they play an important part in the ecosystem. God created them for a purpose.
The Dems are going down a losing path with this issue. It will just make her a victim and people will rally to her.
Ain't very likely an Obama supporter's gonna switch to a McCain supporter, especially a "supporter" whose's a fundamentalist christian. There are many different kinds of christians. In my view, fundamentalists as a group are the least christlike.
Never said I was an Obama supporter. I did consider voting for him. I just said in the past I thought him winning would be preferable to McCain. Because of the war issue. But I don't think Obama is gonna stop any war. I think the opposite in fact. True christian fundamentalists are by definition the most christlike. Not that any of us mortals even come remotely close. If I got you wrong it is because you used the code word "fundie". That is a pejorative meant to enrage christians.
A sleazy personal life in a GOP candidate is an easier target, because they talk a lot about family values and morality (which is bullshit anyway, because there's nothing a President can do to force people to be moral or care for their families). It's hard to criticize people for having an immoral personal life when they make no pretenses of morality. The real hypocrisy in the "McCain is the family values candidate" has nothing to do with Palin's daughter. It has to do with how "family Man" McCain dumped his wife in her time of need to shack up with a young, rich heiress. Is it old news? Sure. But a scumbag like McCain has no business talking about morality or family values.
That was bad on McCains part. Is his wife still alive? But what if he did it because she cheated on him and he found out?
McCain blows farm animals, so I'll limit my comments to Palin's daughter. Shit happens, regardless of upbringing. Want some stats on young girls knocked up? Take a trip to any HS in an inner city. A large % of the female students are knocked up, and the kids dad doesn't step up like this kid did. They let government raise the child. It's no accident the the politics of every inner city government I know of is D (socialist).
Amen. Slamming her for her daughter's pregnancy seems a new low. Of course, in many aspects Palin epitomises the feminist "the view" ideal of pulling off a high octane career and family.
LOL - and you were claiming that it was poor me who persuaded you to love McCain?
Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'
It's easy to criticize predator population control techniques when you live in already conquered former wilderness.
Animal population control is strictly utilitarian. Why should sportsmanship factor into the chosen method? Should dogcatchers use their bare hands?
It's for the same reason that they don't let hunters shoot deer from helicopters. Among other things, deer hunting does provide good population control, but there are still reasonable rules about how it should be done.
Lodwick, here's a friend for you in the rationalize-everything-away department.
Is there any evidence for this, or do you just grasp at any straw to make McCain look better than he is? I don't know if Mad Dog's ex-wife is still alive at this time, but she did survive the accident that put her in the hospital. Without any help from the great protector of family values.
It's for the same reason that they don't let hunters shoot deer from helicopters. I beg to differ. While any species may be definable as an animal by its own ability to be controlled (a finite being), the method of control is dictated by the constraints of that creature's implied economic value (the deer over the wolf), which requires that the methods used in its control can not be utilized in mass roundups. Smoke: 1 Deer: welcome to round 2 Rupert: 0 Wolves: goodbye; you're the weakest link
Rupert: 0 Wolves Certainly might be the case if McCain's the successor to the puppet box.
There was an article, a while back, about Mrs.McCain 1, which said that McCain had and is supporting her financially and that she had nothing bad to say about him. She really didn't want to talk about her/their marriage and its ending. It was a sad interview.
A nation of idiots, ruled by moronic tyrants.
If the argument is for population control they should. It's as stupid not to as it is for the USFWS to sound the alarm every year about how the Canadian goose population boom is destroying their tundra breeding grounds yet still requiring three shot plugs. Among other things, deer hunting does provide good population control Hunting is dying as a sport and populations are exploding in semi-rural areas with many municipalities hiring sharpshooters to kill almost tame deer in city parks and golfcourses. Not very sporting but necessary. Nowhere in the lower 48 can one travel more than 30 miles and not come across a manmade road. That's not the case in Canada or Alaska. The capital of Alaska doesn't even have a road to it. Now how many guys do you think are going to sign up and trudge miles and miles on foot through swamps and spruce into -20F temperatures to thin out an extremely elusive predator? The wolves in the lower 48 were taken out by people who happened across them while puruing material wealth: French fur traders, lumberjacks, farmers and ranchers. I suppose the state of Alaska could pay hundreds of guys to fan out for wolves, but I imagine it's much cheaper to pay a couple of guys with a few hours of helicopter time to do the same thing. How many is one guy going to be able to take out on a backpack expedition in two weeks? One if he's lucky.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestThere is something about Sarah I really like, especially that she seems to have had some sympathy for an Alaskan secession movement, which, contrary to media hysteria, is a perfectly reasonable and liberal position to take.
#2. To: wudidiz (#0)
...her primary accomplishment in life will have been to dupe many people into supporting an administration that promises to be the worst thing that has happened to this country since Bush was sworn in.
Lord Acton
#3. To: noone222, all (#1)
The Third North American Secessionist Convention
#4. To: Jethro Tull (#3)
the voice of the revolutionary left heard.
#5. To: wudidiz (#0)
They become changed over time, morphing into the very opposite of what they started out, and of what they started out believing.
#6. To: noone222 (#4)
the voice of the revolutionary left heard.
#7. To: Jethro Tull (#3)
#8. To: wudidiz (#0)
her primary accomplishment in life will have been to dupe many people into supporting an administration that promises to be the worst thing that has happened to this country since Bush was sworn in
#9. To: mirage, All (#7)
-Schweizerische Schutzenseitunt (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#10. To: mirage (#7)
Just wish she was on top of the ticket instead of playing second fiddle.
#11. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#8)
McCain's new prop sure duped a bunch of people on this forum.
#12. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#8)
McCain's new prop sure duped a bunch of people on this forum.
#13. To: Old Friend (#11)
(Edited)
A few months ago I thought Obama was better then McCain. They both still suck but one will be president and the course in history will be greatly different.
#14. To: iconoclast (#12)
I'm seriously concerned with her association with the Assembly of God.
#15. To: iconoclast (#12)
(Edited)
I'm seriously concerned with her association with the Assembly of God.
#16. To: Pinguinite (#10)
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
#17. To: Old Friend (#11)
A few months ago I thought Obama was better then McCain.
#18. To: angle (#14)
#19. To: Ferret Mike (#16)
Healthy ecosystems need predators to actually be ecosystems.
#20. To: Old Friend (#18)
#21. To: Ferret Mike (#16)
Although her support of the insane, cowardly and ecologically destructive practice of killing wolves
#22. To: angle (#20)
#23. To: mirage (#7)
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#24. To: Ferret Mike (#16)
I agree. Although her support of the insane, cowardly and ecologically destructive practice of killing wolves makes her a top of the list political foe of mine. That is a controversy up there as well iot should be. I am strongly opposed to flying around shooting needed predators like wolves.
#25. To: Jethro Tull (#23)
Don't you just love the hypocrites who criticize the parents for the actions of the kids. I did kids in trouble as a living, and many came from the very best, most caring families. And BTW, there but for the grace of God goes me 40 years ago. And yean. lets not mention that BO is the product of a single mother. Papa, like most blacks who knock up a chick, blew town after young Barack emerged. What a crock of shit this entire issue is.
#26. To: Old Friend (#22)
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you open your mouth and talk about things in which you don't know what you are talking about.
#27. To: angle (#26)
Ain't very likely an Obama supporter's gonna switch to a McCain supporter,
#28. To: Jethro Tull (#23)
(Edited)
Don't you just love the hypocrites who criticize the parents for the actions of the kids. I did kids in trouble as a living, and many came from the very best, most caring families. And BTW, there but for the grace of God goes me 40 years ago. And yeah, lets not mention the fact that BO is the product of a single mother. Papa Obama, like most blacks who knock up a chick, blew town after young Barack emerged. What a crock of shit this entire issue is.
#29. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#28)
Man" McCain dumped his wife in her time of need to shack up with a young, rich heiress.
#30. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#28)
#31. To: Jethro Tull (#23)
(Edited)
What a crock of shit this entire issue is.
#32. To: Old Friend (#11)
Obama is a marxist that has hung out with commies his whole life. He is a collectivist and about 1000 times worse then McCain.
#33. To: Ferret Mike (#16)
Although her support of the insane, cowardly and ecologically destructive practice of killing wolves makes her a top of the list political foe of mine.
#34. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#21)
Shooting wolves from a helicopter is unsportsmanlike and I oppose it, but having a hunting season for wolves in Alaska is perfectly legitimate. Wolves are anything but rare in parts of Alaska, and predator populations need to be held in check like anything else.
#35. To: SmokinOPs (#34)
#36. To: lodwick (#29)
But what if he did it because she cheated on him and he found out?
#37. To: Old Friend (#29)
(Edited)
But what if he did it because she cheated on him and he found out?
#38. To: Rupert_Pupkin, smokinops (#35)
(Edited)
Animal population control is strictly utilitarian. Why should sportsmanship factor into the chosen method? Should dogcatchers use their bare hands?
#39. To: KinkoTheKlown (#38)
Smoke: 1 Deer
#40. To: Rupert_Pupkin, Old Friend, all (#37)
I don't know if Mad Dog's ex-wife is still alive at this time, but she did survive the accident that put her in the hospital. Without any help from the great protector of family values.
#41. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#35)
It's for the same reason that they don't let hunters shoot deer from helicopters.
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