IS SARAH PALIN FINISHED?

Yesterday I encountered a post on Yahoo which addressed a separation with Fox News and Sarah Palin as a paid contributor. This post gave a rather bleak appraisal of Sarah Palin's future in contrast to the substantial contribution she has made to bring new conservative candidates into the Republican Party.

She had run as vice president with John McCain who had picked her, a very successful Alaska Governor who fought Democrats and Republicans alike who fostered schemes to increase their power and wealth rather than help the people of Alaska. She won her battles, making government work for the people; her favorable ratings near 90% testified to her popularity.

Unfortunately there were influential leaders in the Republican Party who did not give her their 100% support and clearly criticized her; these were the same kinds of politicians she battled in Alaska. She espoused a need to reform and even eliminate many of the institutions that were handing too much control to an ever increasing size and power of the Federal government.   There was too much money, taxpayer money, that was going to the EPA, the Education Department, the Energy Department and all kinds of bureaucratic agencies which increase the power of the government by diminishing the power given to ordinary citizens through the Constitution.

Unfortunately the 2008 election brought to the presidency Barack Obama who called for change but in his various speeches during the campaign did not really explain what he meant by change. It was clear to conservatives that he wanted to create what seemed to be a socialist state, a goal in total opposition to what Sarah Palin believed.

After the election she returned to Alaska and took up her job as governor. But politicians on the left feared her and hated her with a vengeance heretofore never seen in the history of American politics. She was not attacked on the basis of her political beliefs; because the left doesn't work that way. The left, through lies, distortions, and attacks on the personal character of the person can literally destroy their enemies; it is the method used by any tyrannical regime. It was a method used by the Communists, and the Nazis.

These leftists even assaulted her womanhood in the most vicious terms and even her family members were reviled in the same way. So thorough was this character assassination that even though many wanted Sarah to run for president in the 2012 election it was not possible. Even those same Republican leaders who attacked her in the 2008 election were there to make sure she didn't run for president in the 2012 election.

I was hoping to hear some good news that she was not quitting her fight against those who are trying to destroy America and sure enough, I spotted an article written by her for Breitbart News (link) declaring "We have not yet begun to fight" the famous quote of John Paul Jones:

On September 23, 1779, Jones fought one of the bloodiest engagements in naval history.(link) Jones struggled with the 44-gun Royal Navy frigate Serapis, and although his own vessel was burning and sinking, Jones would not accept the British demand for surrender, replying, “I have not yet begun to fight.” More than three hours later, Serapis surrendered and Jones took command.

This statement of Sarah Palin's could not be more appropriate. She, like Jones has been hammered mercilessly, unjustly to a point where, were she to give up, no one could blame her; but also like Jones she will not give up; she will do everything to save her nation, America, just as Jones fought tooth and nail even though his ship had been pummeled by Serapis and was near sinking - he eventually won against all odds!.

Go get 'em girl!