Sarah Palin, the GOP "blue bloods" and "The aristocracy of nature"

"There'll always be an England, And England shall be free If England means as much to you As England means to me," Canadian actress Deanna Durbin (above) melted hearts with her girl-next-door rendition of the British WWII classic in the 1941 American movie "Nice Girl."

"Even after Journolist, these guys don't get it. We see you. You're not even trying to hide it anymore," writes The Aged P, "an Englishman living in Sussex…married to the lovely Mrs P who has never aged at all." We were about to give the subject of The Aged P's latest post — the perennial Ruling Class "Blue Blood" Republicans' tired narrative to the effect that "Palin Must Get Off The GOP Bus" — another whirl around the dance floor when we fell in love with the "About" narrative at the eloquent UK gentleman's blog and realized why it may well be true "There will always be an England":

I have an inbuilt suspicion of anyone who claims he or she knows what is good for me. I usually distrust people with plans and schemes because, like Robbie Burns I tend to believe “that the best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley.” But I do have heroes, especially people like Oliver Cromwell, Michael Faraday and Margaret Thatcher because they came from obscurity and achieved greatness through their own effort and talent. They are members of what Thomas Jefferson called the “aristocracy of nature,” and their authority comes not from their social status but from who they were and what they achieved as individuals.

We love it when Tea Partiers turn up behind Ruling Class lines in Sussex. Back stateside, Patrick of Patrick's World USA was beating the drum in "The Powerful Palin Army Smacks Down the Media and Establishment … Again," a must read:

I'll trade you a Jonathan Martin and John F. Harris for Jedediah Bila and Dan Riehl. I'll even throw in a couple of draft picks or players to be named later. Earlier in the week, Martin and Harris (sounds like a comedy team, doesn't it?) produced a really sophomoric piece for the Alaska Dispatch that failed miserably at painting Sarah Palin as the Right's Al Sharpton. It was the flagship piece of a number of what appear to be coordinated attacks on Sarah Palin which came out earlier this week. Like the man who takes a whack and says, "thank you sir, may I have another," the media tried for the umpteenth time and failed. The response from the Palin army was swift, precise and dead on target.

As we wrote in Patrick's comments:

Great post, you rabble, rouser, you!

As Sarah herself said in her keynote at Young America's Foundation's "Reagan 100 celebration" last month:

"There's a whole army of patriotic Davids out there across this great country ready to stand up and to speak out in defense of liberty, and these Davids aren't afraid to tell Goliath 'don't tread on me.'"

With a nod to Mark Twain, reports of Sarah Palin's political death are much exaggerated. We'll give the last word to Dan Riehl, who says in a different but not unrelated context:

Most of the talk we're hearing now doesn't mean a thing.

Related must read: Jedediah Bila's "Managing the Left-Wing Elite":

Be real. Left-wing elitists revere pomposity, arrogance, and highbrow rhetoric. However, they fear humility, authenticity, and practical smarts. Those things disarm them and leave them reaching for baseless attacks. Don’t forget to keep smiling.

Update: Doug Ross links.

Crossposted at Riehl World View, Cloven Not Crested and Liberty Pundits.

Comments

[Gayle Miller]

I kind of understand what's motivating such as Krauthammer and Rove, it's hard to see your relevance deteriorating although in Krauthammer's case, his mind is a golden treasure always. But when you reach a certain age, grumpiness sets in and doesn't go away. That shouldn't, however, keep a person from being open to new ideas and new political movements and it certainly didn't in my case. Sarah Palin had a lot to learn when she first burst upon the scene, but we shouldn't be permitting our first hesitations to become fossilized! She has grown and developed and is now truly a force to be reckoned with on so many levels. I would work for her and support her and VOTE for her! And I'm 69 years old!

[Pasadena Phil]

The "Palin Doctrine".

http://www.nysun.com/opinion/palin-doctrine-emerges-as-arab-league-echoes-her/87263/

Maybe the start of honest analysis in the media?

[AgileGlacier AgileGlacier]

hate to break it to you Pasadena PHil, but taht's not "the media", that's an outside contribution to the NY sun from someone who's already made no bones about being a strong supporter of Palin.

[Bill589]

The fact that she has been first on many issues shows her courage, but the fact that she is right, apparently each time, is even more exceptional. Very Presidential.