"Public discourse and debate isn't a sign of crisis but of our enduring strength. It is part of why America is exceptional," Sarah Palin tells the nation in "America's Enduring Strength" on Facebook and Vimeo. Read full transcript here and watch/listen here.
"It is time to restore the precept that each of us is responsible for our actions," Sarah Palin cuts through the ersatz outrage of the vitriolic "character assassins, partisans, liars and propagandists," in John Nolte's words, who have been "doing everything in their power to bring down the right" in the wake of the Tucson massacre. Listen to Sarah's rousing invocation here. Once again she disintermediates the moribund powers that be to speak directly to the American people with her vision of the Shining City, based upon what Thomas Sowell calls the "constrained vision" of human nature. Here's Sarah:
Our Founders' genius was to design a system that helps settle the inevitable conflicts caused by our imperfect passions in civil ways. So we must condemn violence if our Republic is to endure …
Public discourse and debate isn't a sign of crisis but of our enduring strength. It is part of why America is exceptional.
No one should be deterred from speaking up and speaking out in peaceful dissent. And we certainly must not be deterred by those who embrace evil and call it good. And we will not be stopped from celebrating the greatness of our country and our foundational freedoms by those who mock its greatness by being intolerant of differing opinion. and seeking to muzzle dissent with shrill cries of imagined insults.
Following the life lesson her father taught her — "Don't retreat, reload" — she doesn't let those character assassins get away with metaphorical murder:
Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them, not collectively with all the citizens of a state, not with those who listen to talk radio, not with maps of swing districts used by both sides of the aisle, not with law-abiding citizens who respectfully exercise their First Amendment rights at campaign rallies, not with those who proudly voted in the last election.
"But frustration makes you stupid and the left is frustrated, especially those in the media, because they are losing," John Nolte explains:
And other than embarrassing ratings and cratering circulation numbers, nothing points to their diminishing power more than Sarah Palin’s ascendancy as a bona fide political force in this country. Whether or not the former Alaskan Governor becomes president isn’t an issue. She’s already changed the face of electoral politics and even managed to gain a serious foothold on the beach of popular culture while doing so.
Update: We like twitterfriend Daniel Morgan's take:
She totally nailed what needed to be said and is the shadow president!
Update II: Michelle Malkin Buzzworthy link!
Update III: Sarah's address is top story on Memeorandum.
Crossposted at Riehl World View and Liberty Pundits.
Palin's attempt to muzzle her sights.
Posted by: tadcf | January 12, 2011 at 09:17 AM
Silencing those who stand for freedom is the goal of those who would enslave us. Sarah points the way to truth.
Posted by: goomp | January 12, 2011 at 09:19 AM
Sarah Palin is a gift of God to a nation weary of left-wingers and longing for reality and a breath fresh air in the public arena!
Posted by: Gayle Miller | January 12, 2011 at 11:15 AM
Well, if we assume that we as a race are becoming more intelligent, which I think Darwin would agree with, then we should understand that Marxism/Communism is not a sustainable way of governing/culture.
Posted by: Sarah | July 08, 2011 at 10:38 AM
Sarah: I doubt that Darwin would agree with your assumption of our race's becoming more intelligent. It's not intelligence per se but rather the ability of our progeny to survive the great winnowing process of evolution that got us where we are today.
"Nor the most intelligent that survives"
Posted by: Sissy Willis | July 09, 2011 at 07:01 AM
It is unlikely that Darwin would agree that we are becoming more intelligent, and looking around yourself who could blame him, but one hope of humanity is that we will learn from experience. Sadly, those that are addicted to power are much like alcoholics or narcotic addicts, with their ever present optimism that next time they will be able to control what is beyond their grasp. Next time, always next time. The alternative, walking away from alcohol forever, is a hard one to face.
Just so with our central leaders. Sure, communism failed in Soviet Russia, and socialism is failing in Europe, but this time, this time ... it's really going to work out for the best for everyone. Because we are the ones. We are the best and brightest, we care more and are the smartest ever.
Could it be true that only the framers understood the addictive and abusive nature of power's influence on the human heart? Or did they simply recognize what has been known for millenia, their exceptionalism being their willingness to act upon that knowledge?
Posted by: nicholas | July 13, 2011 at 08:54 PM