Has Palin’s ascent placed leftwing in panic mode?

by Rick Bloomfield

Washington, DC – Sarah Palin’s recent book release and publicity tour surrounding it has re-ignited fear among the leftwing movement, who see the rockstar as the greatest threat in 2012.

Political analysts say the unease has been triggered by Palin’s comeback recently, when she stepped down as Governor of Alaska to finish her tell-all book and spend more time with her family. Some say her political opponents’ apprehension has manifested itself in slanted editorials and unfair press releases disguised as ‘news’.

“What we have been seeing is a resurgence on the extreme left of a phobia of Palin as a superstar,” one noted political commentator said. “It’s begun to infiltrate mainstream culture in ugly ways,” he continued, pointing to MSNBC’s recent broadcasts of crude photoshopped pictures of the former Governor and a AP ‘fact-check’ that was widely criticized as biased and slanted.

The neurosis engendered by the fringes, while rarely new, has re-emerged in a more virulent strain with the release of Palin’s book “Going Rogue“, where she detailed her experiences on the campaign trail and shared stories of her family life with readers.

“What we are seeing if the extreme left-wing in full-out panic mode,” one news insider shared with TCA on condition of anonymity. “The Obama campaign did a decent job controlling that panic, but their fear of her as a 2012 threat is fragmenting them.”

Political nervousness aside, recent trends have pointed to a legitimate cause for worry for the Democrats and their alliances in the upcoming 2010 congressional elections, and further out, the ‘12 presidential one. They recently suffered shocking electoral defeats in Virginia and New Jersey, while barely scraping a win in the 23rd congressional district of New York.

No loss was more astonishing to political observers than New Jersey, where the Democrats had historically held an advantage for several decades. And although President Obama carried the state by 15 points during the ‘08 election, Chris Christie(R) coasted to victory on the waves of a violent 20 point swing in the other direction.

While displaying a brave face for the public, alliances on the left are beginning to show cracks as strategists have progressively voiced greater doubts about the direction the party is heading. Some advise a more moderate role for the Party, as polls show the public increasingly perceiving the Democrats as extreme and out of touch with most Americans.

The unease engendered by Palin’s meteoric rise epitomizes recent political developments by consolidating the worst fears of those who see an out-of-control party that will lose its majority and possibly the presidency in the future.

“We have to take back the Democrat Party from the extremists within,” one prominent Democrat politician somberly remarked. “It’s a big tent, but if we continue to allow those on the fringe to set the agenda, that is a surefire prescription for a perpetual minority.”

WATT’S MOVE TO DESTROY FED AUDIT RAISES CORRUPTION QUESTIONS

Mel Watt, a Democrat from North Carolina, laid down the battle lines by eliminating measures meant to encourage transparency from the Federal Reserve. In a move that critics called dubious and dishonest, Watt destroyed a bill intended to bring more financial disclosure from the Federal Reserve.

The legislation had been intended to bring greater accountability to the Fed, by calling for an audit of its books in order to determine taxpayer dollars were being spent wisely. The move by Watt to destroy the bill surprised many congressional onlookers, who were left scratching their heads as to why any elected official would participate in an apparent coverup of the Fed’s financial status, with some calling it deceitful and corrupt.

U.S. Representative Ron Paul, the creator and sponsor of the legislation, said Watt had ‘gutted’ the bill and decried the partisan motivations behind it. Many saw the move as a gift to the international finance industry, who allegedly had questionable transactions with the Fed and do not wish to make such matters public.

Others speculated that Watt relinquished to pressure of a more local nature. His district is home to the national headquarters of the Bank of America, one of the largest banks in the United States and big financial backers of current U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama.

Representative Watt will clearly have to explain himself to his constituents on election day. Political observers cast the move as career suicide, noting that it is never wise to frame yourself as a supporter of taxpayer waste or fraud, which many have alleged is occurring in the Fed.

“He’ll have an uphill battle getting re-elected, even with the banks financing his campaign,” one political strategist noted. “Citizens generally don’t take too kindly to crooks, and that’s what Mel Watts is looking like with this questionable move.”

One Last Gasp

Across the nation and across the world, freedom is under assault. There is nothing different about this particular fact, any more than the fact that evil has always existed since the dawn of time. As it has been since the inception of the universe, the forces of light and darkness are eternally engaged in struggle, with the balance of power an ever-changing, amorphous entity.

However, in the past century, something has fundamentally changed. Something is happening. The forces of light that roam the earth have undergone a dramatic near-extinction, with the persecution of its ranks reaching intense and exponentially brutal stages.

What we have beheld is a systematic eradication of goodness, decency, and nobility. What we have witnessed is the intentional and specific elimination of the forces of light. Some pockets of resistance still remain, their declining numbers making it all the more easier to isolate and polarize them. It has also had the converse effect. The multiplication of evil in the world has only clarified the contrast between it and goodness.

Here in the U.S., we have witnessed a strategic erosion of the freedoms our fathers bled and died to attain. Traitors and seditionists within spew falsehoods and lies about our history – they commit sacrilege in their desecration of this nation’s sacred foundation. Lies surround us; they have woven themselves into the national fabric. Generations have arisen with subsequently increasing falsehoods that truth becomes a rarity, a white whale, a spectre one strains to glimpse.

The reasons for this are many; the infiltration and subsequent takeover of the American school system, the subversion of the entertainment institutions, and the militant capture of the national media. The flow of culture is influenced by these three pillars; the schools, the media, and the entertainment complexes. They knew they had to conquer these arenas of thought before they could be victorious.

And so we are left with a country that teeters on its foundation. Weakened and rotting from the inside, only one avenue of resistance remains: the body politic. Even now, the enemies of righteousness swarm and crawl upon the carcass of fair elections, distorting and crippling its legitimacy. This is the only place the people can make themselves heard, the last bastion of freedom.

Liberty has one last chance. It breathes in for one last gasp, and perhaps even that is overly optimistic. The people hunger for good men, and find none. They search for men of character and integrity, only to discover that their father’s house has become a den of thieves.

And yet there is a glimmer of light. The average man, the worker, the father, the simple man rises up to reclaim that which was stolen. Nowhere is this more evident than in the case of Doug Hoffman, a simple man who never desired public office. These are the type of men we must entrust the nation to, not those who will embezzle and deceive, exploiting their great responsibilities to enrich themselves and bribe voters of weak moral fiber.

A wave of simple patriotism is sweeping the nation once more, and Hoffman could be the spark that lights the inferno. A dark horse challenger who entered only after deep persuasion, he has risen quickly on his message of responsible stewardship and lifting the financial chains of bondage from the American people.

Only time will tell if this match, feebly fluttering in the wind, represents something greater and bigger than itself; only the pages of time will write Hoffman’s chapter in history as that of a man who heralded an exodus from darkness or a footnote in time. Anything can happen. My own opinion is far darker than any I currently offer here, and perhaps in time I will share what I envision occurring farther down the road. This isn’t the time or place.

What is needed is a fundamental change in perspective; what is necessary is the realization that we are engaged in a war, a war of good and evil, light and darkness, righteousness and iniquity. There are saints, sinners, traitors and patriots, collaborators and men of good faith. The enemy wishes to neutralize you by convincing you we live in times of peace and times of plenty. Nothing could be further from the truth. We have never been closer to evil on a scale never before seen. We have never been closer to the tipping point. The enemy would like nothing more than to paralyze its adversaries by inaction, by lulling them to sleep or relegating them to the sidelines by feeding their vices.

This cannot happen. What is of primary importance is that we fight the enemy at all times; that we pray without ceasing, that we keep our shields up and our vigilance eternal. We must always be on the attack, we must always be exposing the works of darkness by shining the light of truth, and we must always be pressing forward. Only by our steadfast resolve and determination does this nation, and the nations beyond it stand any chance at salvation. Be a conduit of light and an emissary for God, and all these things will be added unto you.