Last week, the conservative punditry lit up, discussed a brief series of rumors that popped up saying that Sarah Palin might be considering a run at the Talk Radio business.

There are some ups and downs to the idea (which, let’s be clear, is still only a rumor; further rumors claim that Clear Channel, which broadcasts Limbaugh, Beck and Hannity, has taken a pass on a syndicated Palin show). 

I think there are ten better plans out there for Sarah Palin (and am discussing them right now, 1:15PM Central Time, on the Northern Alliance Radio Network): 

10. Run for Senator from Alaska.  This is a bit of a gamble, in that it would traditionally imply that she’s giving up on 2012.  It’d be especially important for Palin; she’s already left one office early.  2012 is going to be a challenging time to run as a Republican – but as with all challenges, there are opportunities.  Does Palin run against an incumbent whose numbers are down now, but who could well bounce back big by 2012 (remember Reagan’s polling, which was dismal in 1982 but bounced back to landslide levels in 1984?), or wait until the nation is really ready for a change?  It’s a tough call.  That’s why it’s #10.

9. Start a blog.  She should be doing this anyway; if there’s a conservative pol out there who has the capacity to outflank the media the way Reagan did, it’s Sarah Palin.  If blogs had existed in 1980, I suspect Reagan would have had a great one.

8. Do a collection of frank, to the point Youtubes.  The model for this would be Milton Friedman’s classic 1979 PBS series “Free To Choose”, which sold conservatism and economic liberty to many of the unconverted (which means PBS will never ever let that happen again – hence Youtube).  Cover the big Palin issues – growth, liberty, prosperity – on her own terms, in her own way, playing to her strengths.  Quit relying on the mainstream media to do anything other than be in the bag for her opposition.

7. Talk Radio – Oh, what the heck.  But she should not do a three-hour-a-day show, like Limbaugh or Beck.  She should shoot for a one-hour daily show, or maybe a two hour weekend show.   Making fifteen compelling hours of radio a week  – easy as the good ones make it sound – is a lot of hard work.  It takes commitment – and Palin needs to commit to a higher calling than earning ratings.  But a one-hour daily, or two-hour weekend show is ideal for getting specific, focused messages out there, and taking just the right amount of positive and negative feedback from callers.  Each hour could be a major event in its own right.  And doing an hour of radio, especially with a solid support staff, is not that difficult.  Especially if Palin had a good sidekick.  Especially a sidekick with impeccable conservative credentials and lots of experience working with radio neophytes.  Ahem.

6. Get that book done.  Make sure it’s a doozy – as in, “less autobiography, more challenge to today’s status quo“.  Of course, some autobio

5. Big honkin’ speaking tour.  She showed during the campaign that she can work a room as well as anyone, and better than most.  She also showed, I think, that she needed to top the marquee; speaking in support of John McCain was like bailing in support of the Titanic, especially given the number of Mac’s staff that were actively sabotaging her.  Let her do the tour as the A-list, and let her – no, make her fail or, ideally, succeed on her own terms.

4.  Do what Reagan did; hundreds and hundreds of small speaking and commentary engagements.  Reagan’s gig as General Electric’s PR face was not only great exposure, but great training 

3. Sunday morning talk show.  Talk with Fox; nobody’ll be surprised that it’s a bald-faced showcase (because that’s what it needs to be), and one hour a week of mixing it up with the punditry can only be great training.

2. “The Opportunity Tour”.  Yes, it’s a takeoff on Robert Kennedy’s “Poverty Tour” (and Paul Wellstone’s cheap 1999 copy) – but the opposite way.  Where RFK (and PW’s) versions were tours of American failure, Sarah Palin’s tour would be a parade of seeming failures that are actual opportunities for the free market, for liberty, for the American way, by way of contrasting Palin (and conservatism) with the dismal reality of Obama’s lumpen socialism-lite.

1. Anything but announce her candidacy!

Jim Ramstad is officially out of a gubernatorial race that he never actually announced he was in.

Ramstad’s a good guy.  He’s a fellow Jamestown, ND native, so he has a huge head start.  And his nine terms in the House made him one of Minnesota’s most experienced politicians.

And I’d never have voted for him.

Oh, that’s not true.  If the DFL had nominated a typical “East Is Red” crypto-Maoist and the Ventura “Indy” party had nominated pretty much anyone in their party, I’d have held my nose and voted for the Rammer, after having joined with whatever pressure group was out to drive him to the right a la Brian Sullivan vs. Tim Pawlenty in 2002.  At least with an “R” in front of the name, there’s a fighting chance there’s a working brain trapped in there somewhere.  It doesn’t always work (ipse the Congressional GOP caucuses since 2000), but I am pragmatic enough to know a Jim Ramstad, “moderate” as he is (his ACU rating is a point or two to the left of John McCain) will make a better governor than a Susan Gaertner or a John Marty or whatever other indistinguishably-“progressive” hamster the DFL throws up. 

But in the weeks before Ramstad bowed out, you started to hear the most dreaded sentence anywhere in politics; DFLers saying “I’d vote for Ramstad!”  With some,  you knew they meant it, more or less. 

But I remember when McCain was every Democrat’s favorite Republican, putatively a “maverick” who’d as soon take on the conservative establishment as vote with it.  He was “the Good Republican”…

…until he got through Super Tuesday.  And then, out came the knives.  Overnight, he became Karl Rove’s spawn.  He “ran to the right” and “embraced the theocrats”, supposedly – I keep asking, but nobody can exactly tell me how he did any of this.  But no matter.

Just remember – whenever the left sets up a “good Republican”, it’s for the sole purposes of tearing them down when and if they become a threat. 

Had Ramstad won the nomination, he’d have been labelled as “Pawlenty Lite” overnight (ironic, since Pawlenty is hardly a rock-ribbed movement conservative – although he’s delivered in the clutch on taxes and spending, and gotten the labels from the local left and media to prove it.  Pardon the redundancy). 

Republicans can not win if we don’t present an alternative to the Democrats – in Minnesota or nationwide.

Well, the Gubernatorial poll yesterday was interesting:  Tom Emmer ran away with it. Laura Brod – who dropped out of the race – came in second, with Marty Seifert rounding out the top three.

OK – time for the Presidential race.

Vote!

Again – it’s super-di-duper early.  But as we saw in the last electoral go-’round, there’s really less and less such thing as “too early”; the ’08 race pretty much started at 8AM on November 3, 2004.

So who should be nominated to run for President next time around?  I’m going to hazard a guess that you Democrats have found your Obamessiah, and will be sitting this particular straw poll out, but feel free to nominate a challenger if you’re so inclined (or if Obama’s economic policy has swallowed your job, unlikely as that is in a party that’s mostly government employees, the unemployable, and plutocrats.  Oh, I kid.  I kid.  I left out lobbyists, soft-skills consultants and the young and solipsistic).

Anyway – same rule as the Governor poll.  And I’ll be running the Prez straw poll on Thursday.

UPDATE:  By the way – I’m keeping things on subject here.  Just saying.

I was enjoying a rare day off when I flipped on the Hannity show and heard Ann Coulter talking about Sarah Palin’s resignation from the Alaska governor gig.

Her spokesman wouldn’t say why Palin decided to step down, but the announcement stirred speculation that she would focus on a bid for the 2012 Republican nomination for president.

Spokesman Dave Murrow says Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated at the governor’s picnic in Fairbanks at the end of the month.

Speculation is running amok, of course; some say she’s just taking political life and shoving it (but there are less auspicious weekends for that than the Fourth of July.  Who could blame her?

Others, of course, say she’s clearing the decks for a run in 2012.

As for me?  I don’t think that a run will hurt her one bit – but I’m going to cross my fingers and hope she runs for the Alaska Senate seat open next year.   As we saw this past election, having two years in the Senate no longer disqualifies one for a Presidential run (even with someone with as mediocre a resume as Obama); two to six years learning the Washington ropes would be good additions to her political rap sheet.

Coulter brought up a great point – she noted that Margaret Thatcher grew up as the daughter of a grocer, and had the accent to show for it.  She didn’t talk in the Eton/Harrow/Cambridge accents that the UK’s ruling class learned or affected.  She had to learn to talk that way; it didn’t come naturally.  Likewise, in America while we might be governed by someone with a Texas accent, or one of those Harvard/Boston brogues (described by PJ O’Rourke as sounding like the speaker put the PoliGrip on the wrong side of the dentures), it’s a stretch to see us governed by someone who sounds like Frances McDormand in Fargo.

Palin has a better resume than Obama had this time a year ago; a hitch in the Senate would make her darn near a fantastic candidate.  She just needs to stop droppin’ her “G’s” and try to sound as white and middle-class as Obama does.

“…the President said in an interview not that long ago ‘We are out of money’ with all due respect Mr. President, if we’re out of money, quit spending it!”

…also, at about nine minutes in, Pawlenty shares what he thinks of the President’s performance six months in and calls out the “Stimulus” Bill and the Federal Government’s encroachment into private industry.

Henry Payne at the Detroit News notes that the voters of Michign

There were two contestants, because…:

The poll comes in the wake of Governor Granholm’s joke at last weekend’s Gridiron Club dinner that her Alaska peer, and former vice presidential candidate, “really set back the cause of hot governors.”

That’d be Jennifer Granholm…:

…who’s a tax ‘n spend liberal who has the Detroit, the calamitous Michigan state budget, and (judging by the photo) messiah complex to show for it…

…and Sarah Palin…:

… whom the relevant authorities have measured at a whopping 955 milihelens, and who damn near made John McCain palatable.

Oh, what do you think?

Part A of our poll asked who’s hottest, and the Belle of Alaska won in a landslide, polling 7:1 hotter over the Lansing beauty.

And you know what they say.  As goes Lansing, so goes…

…well, I don’t know what they say.  But speaking of which:

Part B asked “What should be Palin’s come-back line?”

[snip]
Winner: “I know hot governors. Hot governors are friends of mine. Miss Granholm, you’re no hot governor.” – Peter S

Vox populi, vox dei.

UPDATE:  Yes, Mr. Emailer, I could have called it “Hot Governor Friday”.  My bad.
(Via Don Surber on Twitter)

I’ve said for quite some time; if Bobby Jindal becomes a contender (and his performance last Tuesday didn’t help, but he’s got a lot of time, in political terms, to fix things), “Apu the convenience store clerks” will become de rigeur.

As Brad Carlson shows us, from my blog to Joe Biden’s mouth.

Along with that, look for South-Asian Americans – diligent, hard-working, education-oriented – to get shunted into the same “not-really-authentic-minority” status that the left gives Asian Americans.

GOP taps Bobby Jindal to give response to Obama’s address:

Jindal a former congressman and first term governor, was widely believed to be on then-Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s shortlist for vice president, and often served as a campaign surrogate on the Arizona senator’s behalf.

The 37-year-old son of Indian immigrants was also given a prime-time speaking slot at the GOP convention last September, though he ultimately decided not to attend the four-day event as Hurricane Gustav headed for landfall in his state.

This is good.  The GOP’s needed to pump up its “bench” for over a decade, now. 

And it’ll get the Dems started on their counterstrategy – making “Apu” jokes politically correct.

I wrote earlier about David Brauer’s observing a “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted McCain” bumper sticker.

Well, while I join most of my readers in believing Mac would have been a better president, that sticker doesn’t really sum things up all that well.

Let’s try this:

Or in convenient button form:

They’re available at my Cafe Press store.  Like all the swag @ CafePress, it’s too friggin’ expensive, but that’s what I got…

More to come, if I’m bored enough.

Blockbuster is selling a DVD about the life and times of..Barack Obama.

Con1 at Conservative Oasis comments:

This man just won one of the most historic elections of our Nation’s history, and we have a video on the impulse buying section of Blockbuster, with a complete educational history of “who the hell you just voted for, you damn fools…” And yes, what a perfect place for it to sit, right where people who do things on impulse, will do so again.

He’s just gotten into office, and not done really a damn thing of import, except get elected on a magic carpet ride of MSM ass kissing, softballs, and starry eyed sympathy from a voting block infused with hope driven children, and attention starved minorities.

And, all for .99 cents. A fair price, me thinks, for such a story of really, just about nothing to holler about, yet.

We’ve finally turned into the pop culture we feared we would be. We’ve American Idoled ourselves a new President, voting off the island the true survivors, the real qualified candidates, all because we “liked” the other guy more. The underdog.

The vid is 99 cents, by the way.  I’m tempted to grab one, just for comparison purposes in four years.

Oh, and if you can’t make it to a DVD player, and have $50 to spare?

You can carry your little red blue book with you!

Includes themes of democracy, politics, war, terrorism, race, community, jurisprudence, faith, personal responsibility, national identity, and above all, his hoped-for vision of a new America. POCKET OBAMA is a portable, everyday primer for readers who want to examine the substance of his thought and reflect on the next great chapter in the American story.

Be ready for the Great Change Forward!

Karl Rove – whom some Minnesota liberals have called the Michael Brodkorb of national politics – offers advice for Obama:

Rove, who is considered the architect of President Bush’s election victories in 2000 and 2004, described the latest contest as a “very localized, particularized and, if you will, personalized victory for Barack Obama.”He noted, as evidence, that Democrats failed to pick up as many state legislative seats as past presidential victors from the party had.

“I love John McCain, but with all due respect, he had a dreadful campaign. And having a dreadful campaign, for an opponent, is always helpful,” Rove said to laughs among the crowd of more than 1,500.

That, indeed, was the most frustrating thing about this past fall; how McCain’s campaign could go from its upset win in the primaries and its pre-election conventional-wisdom status as the “moderate’s favorite Republican” and turn it into…well, the campaign we got.

With an eye to the 2012 elections, both strategists were asked whether Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin could re-emerge as a national candidate.

Rove said he thinks she will resurface if “she could grow to become a major policy player with wonderful ideas.”

[Co-panelist and former Clinton and Gore majordomo] Brazile’s rapid-fire answer didn’t miss a beat: “You betcha.”

Nothing really new here.  I’m just sorta working through the novelty of getting material about Karl Rove…

…from Rove’s twitter feeds.

You got it, lefties; after eight years in office, all of us on the right finally  have a connection to Rove!

I had to touch on another incongruity from Victor Davis Hanson’s excellent piece last week on the ironies of 2008.

All that talk about how paranoid and “unconstitutional” Bush’s measures in the war on terror were?

You might not be hearing so much about that:

Bush’s Texas-twang explication that he kept us safe for seven years was laughed at, especially by a suave ex-Harvard Law Review editor Barack Obama on the stump. And then what?Are we now in February to see no more Patriot Act? At least FISA overturned? Couldn’t we shut down the Gulag Guantanamo by January 25? (as easy as getting out entirely from Iraq by “March 2008” as promised once by Obama?)

Or now are all these once so clear-cut issues “problematic” and “raise concerns”? The irony? Compared to what Lincoln, Wilson, FDR or Truman did during wartime, George Bush was a constitutional purist—and the former all had conventional enemies in wartime, not stealthily terrorists who entered our shores to murder 3,000 Americans.

Of course, it’

The issue was never empirical, never historical, but simply political most of the time. Once Bush was wounded over Iraq, his opponents smelled blood and jabbed at anything they could. Most current Senate civil libertarians voted for both the ‘that was then, this is now’ Iraq war and the Patriot Act, and oversaw the CIA and FBI as much as Bush did.

A President Obama will not revoke all, or even most, of Bush’s supposedly unconstitutional measures. Why? Because he knows they did not end our civil liberties but most assuredly helped to keep us safe.

In short, the media will grow silent as the issue now suddenly disappears—as we probably keep wiretapping and holding enemy combatants and terrorists in detention…

Gonna make a note to look back on this in a year or two.

Ben Smith at Politico says Jindal is talking about sitting out 2012:

Jindal said he’s planning to run for reelection [as Louisiana governor] in 2011, something that would make pivoting to a national campaign logistically and politically tricky.

He might figure 2016 is a better bet. He might have a point.

Jindal’s absence – 47 months in advance – is already making lefties turn backflips.

But wait!

UPDATE: A later version of the AP story quotes Jindal trying to tack back to his previous position, which had seemed to leave the door open.

“I think anybody who is even thinking of running would be well served to roll up their sleeves and support our new president,” Jindal said. “I told our people, ‘It doesn’t matter whether you’re Republican, Democrat or independent, it doesn’t matter whether you voted for him or not, President-elect Barack Obama is our president.'”

As much as we joke about the next biennial campaign beginning at 6AM the morning after the election, it’s really too early to even speculate about the next presidential race.  Although it certainly does help paid propaganda organs like the Minnesoros “Independent” bide their time…

Liberals are Lupset that Obama, mirabile dictu, is actually acting pragmatic now that he’s in office:

Even supporters make clear they’re on the lookout for backsliding. “There’s a concern that he keep his basic promises and people are going to watch him,” said Roger Hickey, a co-founder of Campaign for America’s Future.Obama insists he hasn’t abandoned the goals that made him feel to some like a liberal savior. But the left’s bill of particulars against Obama is long, and growing.

Obama drew rousing applause at campaign events when he vowed to tax the windfall profits of oil companies. As president-elect, Obama says he won’t enact the tax.

Obama’s pledge to repeal the Bush tax cuts and redistribute that money to the middle class made him a hero among Democrats who said the cuts favored the wealthy. But now he’s struck a more cautious stance on rolling back tax cuts for people making over $250,000 a year, signaling he’ll merely let them expire as scheduled at the end of 2010.

Obama’s post-election rhetoric on Iraq and choices for national security team have some liberal Democrats even more perplexed. As a candidate, Obama defined and separated himself from his challengers by highlighting his opposition to the war in Iraq from the start. He promised to begin to end the war on his first day in office.

Now Obama’s says that on his first day in office he will begin to “design a plan for a responsible drawdown,” as he told NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday. Obama has also filled his national security positions with supporters of the Iraq war: Sen. Hillary Clinton, who voted to authorize force in Iraq, as his secretary of state; and President George W. Bush’s defense secretary, Robert Gates, continuing in the same role.

Why, it’s almost as if Obama harnessed the immense frantic manic normally-aimless energy of the left to get into office…

…and then is tacking to the center because he has to be a grownup now.

But the kids are still angry:

“There don’t seem to be any liberals in Obama’s cabinet,” writes John Aravosis, the editor of Americablog.com. “What does all of this mean for Obama’s policies, and just as important, Obama Supreme Court announcements?”

“Actually, it reminds me a bit of the campaign, at least the beginning and the middle, when the Obama campaign didn’t seem particularly interested in reaching out to progressives,” Aravosis continues. “Once they realized that in order to win they needed to marshal everyone on their side, the reaching out began. I hope we’re not seeing a similar ‘we can do it alone’ approach in the transition team.”

It’s almost like some of ’em get it – without knowing it…:

OpenLeft blogger Chris Bowers went so far as to issue this plaintive plea: “Isn’t there ever a point when we can get an actual Democratic administration?”

Simple fact, Chris – one that I suspect Obama (and/or his staff) are smart enough to see:  the American people might express manic dissatisfaction with one Administration or another (including the sitting administration, which is actually center-left on spending), but at the end of the day the American people are center-right conservatives.

We just don’t always vote that way.

Yet.

The Community Organizer was made famous by our President-Elect as his sole “qualification” for the job – save running a successful but financially corrupt Presidential Campaign. Credit is due; Obama changed politics and campaigns forever.

Obama’s success underscores the failure of Republicans to enlist the same level of grass-roots participation among conservatives and centrists that could (and that’s a probably a stretch) have swung the 2008 Presidential Race in John McCain’s favor.

John McCain lost the election not because he was a conservative. He lost because he wasn’t conservative enough. In any case, this election probably wasn’t lost in 2008, rather over the last eight to fourteen years.

The election of 2008 was probably over before it began as the conservative movement ended with George W. Bush’s first State Of The Union address. Republicans have failed to show Americans how they can best serve the interests of middle Americans, moving to the center and leaving the right unoccupied, sometimes desperately adopting quasi-liberal positions in the interest of political expediency.

For naught it turns out.

America hasn’t ceased to be Center Right but Republicans made the fatal mistake that Center-Right is where they should camp out to wait for them. The GOP has failed to make the case to the American people that conservatism represents the best hope for the values that the majority of Americans still hold to be true. Worse yet, Republicans have failed in their leadership by not notifying Americans that this crisis calls for sacrifice and discipline – not another government bailout. A bailout that in retrospect, John McCain should have voted against.

The promotion of Universal Health Care (albeit a “conservative” version), No Child Left Behind, buying ill-gotten mortgages and the most fiscally liberal Republican in modern history have left conservatives without a candidate – or a party.

The result? Kamikaze conservatives actually voted for Barack Obama to hatch another Jimmy Carter backlash.

…but many more stayed home.

Liberals have overrun conservative strongholds by gathering legions of new voters under the banner of esoterica, lead by “Community Organizers.” These Pied Pipers, heretofore dismissed, armed with the internet and credit card terminals are the new tools of political power aggregation and management. The meteoric and unsubstantiated rise of Barack Obama is the ignoble manifestation of this grass-roots groundswell. It bolstered voter turnout (although not as much as expected) among liberal constituents during a contest that concurrently exhibited a mediocre turnout among conservatives.

Lesson learned.

For ’12 -nay ’10- it behooves conservative Republicans (sadly, there is a distinction) to steal Obama’s playbook, rend the chapters on “How to Garner Fraudulent Contributions via Anonymous Credit Card Donations”, “Deflection and Projection”, and “How to Hypnotize the Electorate by Saying Nothing At All” and enlist their own “Community Organizers” to educate, motivate and mobilize the would-be conservative base for the next go-around.

The cause? A new Contract with America? A renewal of unabashed conservatism among Republicans. A rejection of the notion that our federal government is the solution to all ills personal and national. An acknowledgment that our government has become bloated, corrupt, and insolvent.

Moving to the center seemed like a good idea at the time. Average Americans however, are less ideological and more pragmatic. They just want to know who will help them keep their job, keep their taxes low, protect them from evil and share their values of family, freedom, and independence.

Republicans need to sell true conservatism as the only way to serve the long-term needs of the greatest number of Americans. True conservatism is good for the economy and our national security. True conservatism creates real wealth, real jobs and real charity. True conservatism promotes accountability and self reliance; still core values of America to this day. True conservatism promotes democracy and protects the world from tyranny while at the same time champions the rights of the smallest lives. True conservatism recognizes that some traditions got that way because they work.

Republicans have failed to close the sale that Ronald Reagan teed up for them. There’s a good chance Barack Obama and his cortege will meet them half way, but Conservatives need to make Liberal a bad word again. One voter at a time.

…we have two years.

As I’ve noted in the past, I don’t so much care that Al Franken wrote for Playboy; I’ve been a freelance writer, and I know you don’t look gigs like that in the eye.

Does he cuss during the occasional speech?  Yeah, and I doubt I’ll let him babysit my kids, but I’d suspect he’ll be in a different mode should Minnesota lose its collective mind and send him to DC. 

And is he an aloof, elitist jerkwad – sort of a younger Garrison Keillor?  Sure.  But I’m not voting for a buddy – I’m voting for a Senator.  Right?

Right.

But what does matter is that Al Franken is buddying up with a group that is under investigation in a third of this nation’s states for rampant, mind–numbingly bizarre, massive, immense, systematic, criminal voter (and other) fraud – including Minnesota:

It was last July that Minnesota ACORN endorsed Al Franken.

Today, the Al Franken for U.S. Senate campaign is proud to announce the endorsement of Minnesota ACORN, a member-driven community organization dedicated to providing housing services to low- and middle-income Minnesotans.

“I’m thrilled and honored to receive this endorsement,” said Al Franken. “And more motivated than ever to work with ACORN and other community organizations in this campaign and in the Senate to fight for economic justice, health care reform, good-paying jobs, and a solution to the housing crisis.”

There will need to be a national accounting for ACORN and its contributions – especially in terms of votes – to Democrats across this country.

To:  Governor Palin

From:  Mitch Berg, supporter and fan.

Re:  Lessons Learned.

Governor Palin,

I watched with great interest your interview with Carl Cameron, about the two ambush interviews with Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric.

A couple of good – and very deserved – shots at the always-vacuous Katie Couric, there.
But the real lesson, I think, is to not give hamsters like Couric and Gibson the chance to “control the battlefield”, to shape your message for you, as they quite clearly did in both intereviews.  Remember – you can say anything you want into the mike; when the editor gets done with the tape, you may or may not recognize anything you said.  The media is a law and set of “ethics” unto itself; they are unaccountable to anyone.

So you should ignore them.  Bypass them.  Let them stew.

Bypass them.  Go directly to the American people, like Ronald Reagan did.  Good gravy, if you have a talent in this world, it’s connecting with all of us who live between the Hudson and the Sierra Madre.  Use that talent.

Ignore them.  And when they react as they will – arrogantly, fuming at the impudence of a mere plebeian daring to displease them – then mock their impotent rage. Play to your strengths – and conservatism’s.  We don’t need the major media.  We detest  them every bit as much as they detest us.

Or at least make sure you have a camera crew of your own there, to make sure that the truth is out there, somewhere.  The word would get out, and fast; there are a whole lot of us bloggers (perhaps you’ve heard of us?) who’d see to that.

So take control.  Even if you and Mac lose this one, you – like Reagan – can look forward to a short time in the wilderness.

Especially if – as I suspect will be the case – Barack Obama becomes the worst president of my lifetime on Inauguration Day.

Tear ’em up, Sarah.

MBerg