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PHIL BRENNAN
...Sarah Palin, A Reason Why
In 1962, having lost to Jerry Brown in an attempt to win the
California governorship on the heels of having lost the
presidential election to Jack Kennedy, Dick Nixon held a press
conference in which he snarled to his media torturers that he
was finished with politics, growling, "You won't have Nixon to
kick around anymore."
...Sarah Palin, A Reason Why
In 1962, having lost to Jerry Brown in an attempt to win the
California governorship on the heels of having lost the
presidential election to Jack Kennedy, Dick Nixon held a press
conference in which he snarled to his media torturers that he
was finished with politics, growling, "You won't have Nixon to
kick around anymore."
Needless to say, Nixon, a victim of what Whitaker Chambers called "the conspiracy of
the gentlemen" who had rallied around their hero, the traitor and fellow gentleman Alger
Hiss and who hated Nixon for his role in exposing the Soviet spy, was written off as
finished in American politics. His press conference itself became one more example of
his unfitness for the presidency.
Nixon was not finished despite the common wisdom. He simply lowered his shoulders
and largely unseen by the hostile media, plowed ahead. For the next six years he
crisscrossed the nation, tirelessly campaigning for Republican candidates for Congress
and state offices and amassing a vault full of IOUs in the process.
Six years later, in 1968 he called the IOUs in and walked away with the Republican
presidential nomination, and then the presidency itself.
THE FAMOUS PRESS CONFERENCE
I don't have the vaguest idea of what led Sarah Palin to hold her sudden press
conference and announce she was stepping down as Alaska's governor, but I have a
sneaking suspicion that she knew exactly what she was doing.
Like Nixon, Sarah Palin has been a target of a relentless
and vicious attack by the conspiracy of the gentlemen, now
known simply as the "elite"—all those who went to the right
schools and live in the right places in Washington and New
York and speak and socialize only with each other.
Like Nixon she has been personally and financially dam-
aged by their attacks. Astonishingly, however, the incred-
ible barrage of slanderous aspersions hurled at her and
her family has failed to put a dent in her popularity. The
gentlemen may despise her but the great mass of the
American people recognize her as one of their own and
they love her for it.
Like Nixon, her press conference itself was as loudly denounced as foolish and
unintelligible with many of the "gentlemen" pronouncing it as her swan song, and with
some even speculating there were some dark and hidden meanings behind it, the least
offensive being that the lady is entente, a gentleman's way of saying she's pregnant.
She offered this explanation: "How sad that Washington and the media will
never understand; it's about country. And though it's honorable for countless
others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term,
of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for
the decisions I make.
"I am now looking ahead and how we can advance this country together with our values
of less government intervention, greater energy independence, stronger national
security, and much-needed fiscal restraint."
Look at it from Mrs. Palin's perspective. Aside from the matter of the timing of her press
conference, the reason for which is known to herself and family alone, may have been
the result of the urgency she feels exist at this moment in our history.
THE BATTLE AHEAD
While everybody else seems focused on 2012 and the presidential election I'm
convinced her eyes are set on 2010 and the crucial congressional elections, and given
that focus, time's a wastin' and there isn't a moment to spare.
I think she is fully cognizant of the fact that her beloved America is in dire
straights and Barack Obama's relentless drive to change this nation into a
European style socialist state with the massive loss of freedom that entails
must be halted now.
Driving the socialist Democrats out of control of Capitol Hill is the last and best hope
available.
By freeing herself to plunge into the battle, Sarah Palin has cleared the way. If I'm right,
for the next 17 months, like Nixon, she'll crisscross America not only campaigning for
conservative GOP congressional candidates but sounding the alarm that individual
freedom and prosperity are threatened and the threat must be addressed now.
The message is clear and must be shouted from the roof tops—America cannot survive
unless the legislative power is stripped from the hands of the slavishly compliant
Democratic majority which follows obediently the demands of a man determined to
change the character of this nation into that of an authoritarian Marxist state where all
but the elite will be equally miserable.
When America was last threatened by the incredible ineptness and bungling
that was the Carter administration, divine providence gave us a new George
Washington to save the nation—Ronald Reagan.
This time in Sarah Palin we may just be getting a new Joan of Arc.
Ora pro nobis
the gentlemen" who had rallied around their hero, the traitor and fellow gentleman Alger
Hiss and who hated Nixon for his role in exposing the Soviet spy, was written off as
finished in American politics. His press conference itself became one more example of
his unfitness for the presidency.
Nixon was not finished despite the common wisdom. He simply lowered his shoulders
and largely unseen by the hostile media, plowed ahead. For the next six years he
crisscrossed the nation, tirelessly campaigning for Republican candidates for Congress
and state offices and amassing a vault full of IOUs in the process.
Six years later, in 1968 he called the IOUs in and walked away with the Republican
presidential nomination, and then the presidency itself.
THE FAMOUS PRESS CONFERENCE
I don't have the vaguest idea of what led Sarah Palin to hold her sudden press
conference and announce she was stepping down as Alaska's governor, but I have a
sneaking suspicion that she knew exactly what she was doing.
Like Nixon, Sarah Palin has been a target of a relentless
and vicious attack by the conspiracy of the gentlemen, now
known simply as the "elite"—all those who went to the right
schools and live in the right places in Washington and New
York and speak and socialize only with each other.
Like Nixon she has been personally and financially dam-
aged by their attacks. Astonishingly, however, the incred-
ible barrage of slanderous aspersions hurled at her and
her family has failed to put a dent in her popularity. The
gentlemen may despise her but the great mass of the
American people recognize her as one of their own and
they love her for it.
Like Nixon, her press conference itself was as loudly denounced as foolish and
unintelligible with many of the "gentlemen" pronouncing it as her swan song, and with
some even speculating there were some dark and hidden meanings behind it, the least
offensive being that the lady is entente, a gentleman's way of saying she's pregnant.
She offered this explanation: "How sad that Washington and the media will
never understand; it's about country. And though it's honorable for countless
others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term,
of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for
the decisions I make.
"I am now looking ahead and how we can advance this country together with our values
of less government intervention, greater energy independence, stronger national
security, and much-needed fiscal restraint."
Look at it from Mrs. Palin's perspective. Aside from the matter of the timing of her press
conference, the reason for which is known to herself and family alone, may have been
the result of the urgency she feels exist at this moment in our history.
THE BATTLE AHEAD
While everybody else seems focused on 2012 and the presidential election I'm
convinced her eyes are set on 2010 and the crucial congressional elections, and given
that focus, time's a wastin' and there isn't a moment to spare.
I think she is fully cognizant of the fact that her beloved America is in dire
straights and Barack Obama's relentless drive to change this nation into a
European style socialist state with the massive loss of freedom that entails
must be halted now.
Driving the socialist Democrats out of control of Capitol Hill is the last and best hope
available.
By freeing herself to plunge into the battle, Sarah Palin has cleared the way. If I'm right,
for the next 17 months, like Nixon, she'll crisscross America not only campaigning for
conservative GOP congressional candidates but sounding the alarm that individual
freedom and prosperity are threatened and the threat must be addressed now.
The message is clear and must be shouted from the roof tops—America cannot survive
unless the legislative power is stripped from the hands of the slavishly compliant
Democratic majority which follows obediently the demands of a man determined to
change the character of this nation into that of an authoritarian Marxist state where all
but the elite will be equally miserable.
When America was last threatened by the incredible ineptness and bungling
that was the Carter administration, divine providence gave us a new George
Washington to save the nation—Ronald Reagan.
This time in Sarah Palin we may just be getting a new Joan of Arc.
Ora pro nobis
| Phil Brennan, a veteran investigative journalist, writes for NewsMax.com and edits and publishes Wednesday on the Web. A native New Yorker, he moved to Washington in 1956 where he worked in the public relations field, handling such assignments as the Washington end of the successful Alaska Statehood campaign. After working on the Nixon campaign staff in 1960 he was named director of public relations and special projects of the House Republican Policy Committee. During his years on Capitol Hill he also wrote the "From Washington Straight" column for Bill Buckley's National Review. He was responsible for uncovering the Bobby Baker scandal which resulted in the jailing of the secretary of the Senate, a close confidant of Lyndon Johnson. In 1964 during the Goldwater campaign he organized the GOP Truth Squad and served as its PR director. In 1968 after working as an administrative assistant for a member of Congress, he moved to Boca Raton, Florida where he continued his journalism career and wrote two unpublished novels and a series of non-fiction books, the last being a history of the Shroud of Turin. Phil is a veteran of World War II, having served in the US Marine Corps from 1943 to 1946. He is a widower and the father of seven children. He served as sacristan at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Boca Raton and is a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute. He is a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. Email address: pvb@pvbr.com |
