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Sarah Palin, a Female Ronald Reagan?

Posted by (Jimmie) Blackhawke on Friday, November 20, 2009 11:31:50 AM

Sarah Palin is a very personable and intelligent person. Liberals are very much afraid of her huge popularity among the American people. They have tried everything to bury, demonize, criticize and marginalize her. Liberal activists, the media and Democrats have viciously attacked her family and overall tried to destroy her. They have failed in their attempts. Sarah Palin, ex-governor of Alaska, is more popular now than ever before.
When it comes to style, honesty, strength, consistency, toughness and connecting with the people, she reminds many of President Ronal Reagan. The Republican Party needs her and other real conservatives to put it back on track and get out of the minority. But, I fear the liberal majority in the Republican Party will not support her in 2010 or 2012. They too do not like her because she represents exactly the type of down to earth conservatism that they lack. They would rather pursue the failed strategy of trying to out-liberal the Democrats. A strategy that the Democrats want them to keep------ which begs the question to Republicans, “what is the definition of insanity?”
As a conservative Independent I view Sarah Palin as the first person to come along since Ronald Reagan that I can get excited about. If the Republican Party makes the huge error of kicking her to the curb, I do hope she runs as an Independent. If she did that, I truly believe she would be the first Independent to win the Whitehouse.

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Presidents Come and Go

Posted by (Jimmie) Blackhawke on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:45:28 PM
It is imperative that our military and national defense teams present a united front to all our enemies. This front must be maintained even when the decisions and policies of this president seem anti-military and weak on national defense. Truth is, over many years Democrat politicians have often shown their disdain for our military and national defense through speeches, policies and rhetoric on the floors of the Senate and the House.
A friend of mine, a retired Marine of African ancestry, emailed me in April and said that it sickened him to watch the Marines having to salute Obama as he entered and exited Air Force One and the helicopter. I reminded him that those Marines are saluting the Office of The Presidency, not the man. He said I was right but it still didn’t make him feel any better. Told him to eat more whole grain and take a nap.
For conservatives it is difficult to watch our military establishment undergoing attacks from a Democratic administration, and it makes it extremely taxing and stressful for the men and women in uniform. So I can understand my friend’s frustration, but the fact that presidents come and go every four years offers hope for our military. One thing is for sure our military will continue to provide a united front to both our foreign and domestic enemies.
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New Jersey "surprise."

Posted by (Jimmie) Blackhawke on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:43:03 PM
To some the election of (R) Chiristie for Governor of New Jersey sent a signal to the nation----others say it did not. But as a conservative I am perplexed that New Jersey, an ultra-liberal state, elected a Republican governor. One of two things must have happened, or maybe both. Either NJ voters saw Christie as a RINO (Republican In Name Only) and thereby wouldn’t hurt their causes-------or----maybe even liberals finally got fed up with high property taxes, corruption and job loss in NJ and voted for a change.
Democrats and the media will continue to downplay the significance of the election while NJ Republicans, who are used to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, are still stunned.

One can speculate about whether or not a “message” was sent to the Obama administration by the recent election victories for the GOP in Virginia and New Jersey, but only the outcome of the 2010 elections will reveal whether or not they were meaningful.

Governor-elect Christie is familiar with the playing fields in Trenton so he knows what he will face as governor.  New Jersey voters, for some reason, gave him the opportunity to try and bring real change to Trenton and to the state-------but the voters will have to stay engaged if they really want the change they voted for----- because the “old boy” network in Trenton is powerful, ruthless, deeply entrenched and don’t want change.

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