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The Tea Party and grassroots pick Sarah Palin as their candidate
The above video shows that both Rick Perry and Sarah Palin are aware that the media has declared war against Palin.
by Joseph Ernest December 7, 2010
Newscast Media -- There is no question that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is the biggest Tea Party icon in the Republican party. She owns the grassroots movement, however, she faces a tough battle on three fronts. The first one is with the media, then she'll also have to deal with members of the GOP establishment within her party and lastly the Democrats who oppose her.
In regard to the media, there is absolutely nothing that will cause them to back off or back down. Should she announce in 2011 that she's running for the presidency, a tsunami of attacks will be unleashed by the media to undermine and derail her campaign. Palin is the one person media practitioners do not want to see run for office, because they know she very well might win the presidency and become the first female president. They are using a tactic of reverse psychology against her. It's not unusual to hear pundits say, "Let her run. She will be the greatest gift to the Democrats and will guarantee Obama's re-election."
These pundits do not believe that. They use that tactic hoping to desuade her from running, and the proof is, if they really believed she was unelectable, why does the prospect of her even considering a run for the presidency bother them so much? The reason is because they saw how she energized the Republican party in 2008, and at the time, there was no Tea Party, but now she has a platform on major news networks where she can diffuse any disinformation about her and grow her base.
As shown in this video, both Perry and Palin know that the media and disinformation agents always use sensationalism and fearmongering to discredit a candidate they oppose. Palin is very much aware of this reality, that's why she rarely speaks to the media, because according to her, they constantly distort what she says or misrepresent the truth of whatever argument is brought forth.
In the Texas gubernatorial race, Rick Perry completely bypassed the media. As a matter of fact, he even refused endorsement from practically all major news outlets and went as far as refusing to debate Bill White, before the media. While most candidates courted the media, Perry did the opposite and won the race by an astounding 13 points. Both he and Palin detest the media as demonstrated in the above video I shot. For Rick Perry, the major reason is because they spread a rumor that he was going to proceed with the "Trans-Texas Corridor" plans. He went on the Joe Pags radio show and vehemently denied that he harbored any such plans. He said that the Trans-Texas Corridor was dead. However, the media kept bringing it up even after he was on record with Joe Pags having said the opposite. Shortly after that, Perry established a policy of bypassing the media and connecting directly to the voters. His rationale was, if he could connect directly with the people who mattered to his campaign, eliminating the middle guy (the media) was justifiable.
Palin is doing the same thing. She's using social networks, book tours, personal appearances and townhalls to win the hearts of Americans, because like Perry, from the Fall of 2008, some disinformation agents planted within the GOP started to spread unfounded rumors about her in an effort to induce fear into her supporters, which would cause them to reject her. Fearmongering is the most common tactic used by media practitioners to derail a candidate's campaign.
Another tactic is to cause two candidates of the same party to squabble and fight against each other. We saw this when Mitt Romney appeared on Jay Leno this past week, and Leno tried to get Romney to throw zingers at Palin. To Romney's credit, he did the opposite and not only praised her, but also put the media establishment on notice that he would not criticize Sarah Palin if that's what they are hoping for. As for Palin, in her book America by Heart, she showered Mitt Romney with praise for three full pages, from page 185 to page 188. She is a lot smarter than people seem to think. Both Palin and Romney understand their realities, and that they need each other. Romney wouldn't do a foolish thing of attacking Palin because he needs the south and the Tea Party, likewise, it would be self-defeating for Palin to attack Romney because she needs the northern states, and the moderates. She knows she cannot win with only the Tea Party, so she has to build a cross-over appeal in her messages.
Her strategy should be to focus on her strengths and remind voters of her accomplishments from the time she was mayor until she became governor. One might argue that the fact that she resigned from the governorship, could be a factor that plays against her in 2012. If they bring that up to her she will respond the same way she did about the number of days Barack Obama served from the time he was sworn into the Senate in January 2005 to the time he became president in 2008. Palin in an interview on CNN's "Situation Room" on Tuesday, October 21, 2008, questioned Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's experience, saying, "He served for his 300 days before he became a presidential candidate." Some even say he only served 143 days. So the question is, did that disqualify Obama from running for the presidency?
In regard to the other two battles she has to wage namely: the GOP establishment and the Democrats who will oppose her, Sarah Palin seems to be applying principles laid out by the great Chinese general Sun Tzu who said, "A great tactician should be able to adapt like the snake of Mount Ch'ang. When you strike it on the head, the tail will attack you. When you strike it on the tail, the head will attack you, and when you strike it in the middle, both head and tail will attack you."
We've seen Palin clearly demonstrate her ability to adapt and also absorb all the darts thrown at her, and at the end of the day, this only seems to strengthen and grow her support. Add Comments>>
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