{"id":17493,"date":"2011-01-19T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T18:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17493"},"modified":"2011-01-19T10:54:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T16:54:02","slug":"divided-and-conquered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17493","title":{"rendered":"Divided And Conquered"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheila Kihne at The Activist Next Door <\/em>is tired of seeing conservatives doing the media’s work for them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She assails Chris Christie for throwing Sarah Palin under the bus on the Sunday Methane Circuit over the weekend:<\/p>\n

Here’s what [Governor Christie’s] answer should have been to any questions about Sarah Palin:<\/p>\n

“There is nobody more hated by the media than Governor Palin. How exactly is she supposed to act when the media tried to lay the blame for a mass-murder on her? Look, you’re trying to get me to distance myself from a fellow conservative and I won’t do it. People are mad at you– they’re more mad at you than they are President Obama or Governor Palin. They’re mad at you because you’re incapable of doing your job as the free press and reporting the news to the American people without your constant spin. Perhaps you guys should buy some steno pads with the words ‘Who, what, when, where, how, how much?’ imprinted at the top of the page.’ Maybe that would help.”<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s the “Palin answer” men of the GOP. Why is it that the ONLY Republicans with high name-recognition who demonstrate valor, strength, and courage are women? Sarah Palin is more of a man than any of these guys.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, to be fair, Palin’s never had to face down the Jersey unions.<\/p>\n

And isn’t it sad that we now have to look to the wilds of Alaska for some ruggedness and true grit? To quote a great 80’s tune: “Where have all the good men gone?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They’re all over the place – but Sheila makes a great point – and you need to read her entire piece for it, but I’ll synopsize it here:\u00a0 conservatives need to quit playing along with the Democrat and Media (pardon the redundancy) effort to turn the vocabulary of our language itself into a liberal tool to be used against us.<\/p>\n

We conservatives (as opposed to Republicans) are going to little in the way of dispassionate balance, to say nothing of help, from the media; we have to do it for ourselves.<\/p>\n

Sheila does “the Palin Answer” pretty well.\u00a0 I’m going to suggest a few more areas where conservatives, locally and nationally, need to stick together in the face of the left and media’s (ptr) chanting points:<\/p>\n