Ratings For “Sarah Palin's Alaska” Rise Significantly

Ratings for Sarah Palin's Alaska have taken a nice jump for week three of the eight week event. From the Hollywood Reporter:

Sarah Palin's Alaska delivered 3.5 million viewers Sunday night, rising 17% at the conclusion of the holiday weekend.

Normally when ratings go down double digits for a second episode, the third outing generally falls at least a little, but not in this case. Palin may also have benefited from some weaker competition (ABC had the Country Music Awards the previous week). Even so, this is great news for TLC.

This is quite delicious. When last week's numbers came out, and showed a drop off from the record breaking premier episode's numbers, the loony left proclaimed [for what seems like the billionth time] Sarah Palin was done.

Of course, this is insanity, but I guess we should expect that from the insane!

The first episode benefited from unprecedented promotion, including a roll out the week before in theaters nationwide. This created an incredible buzz..

As stated above week two was hurt by not only a competitive football game, but the CMA's as well, and there is a ton of audience crossover there. Of course one thing these ratings reports fail to take into account is the fact that viewers learned if they missed the show on Sunday, they have several opportunities during the week to see the show after it's original airing. The media is only reporting on the Sunday night audience, so the numbers are not total viewership.

One thing about it, Sarah Palin's Alaska is a real hit and drawing more than respectable numbers.

Liberals and RINOs hardest hit!

SarahPAC Raises Nearly $500,000 In Just Over A Month

Sarah Palin's political action committee had an exceptional month leading up to the November election and beyond. Time Magazine reports:

Sarah Palin raised $469,000 between Oct. 13 and Nov. 22 bringing her total for the year to over $3 million, Tim Crawford, SarahPAC's treasurer, told TIME exclusively. Crawford attributed the surge of funds to energy surrounding the midterm elections, Palin's endorsements and her TLC reality show “Sarah Palin's Alaska.” Her second book, America By Heart, came out Nov. 23.

The PAC spent $64,000 buying advance copies of her books, “just as we did last year” with her first book, Going Rogue, Crawford said. “They're a great fundraising tool for us.” Palin is in the midst of a two-week cross-country book tour.

Overall the PAC spent $581,000 between Oct. 13 and Nov. 22. A larger percentage than normal was spent on contributions to political candidates, $244,000, as Palin tried to help her 81-endosed candidates over the Nov. 2 finish line. Fifty-five of them won.

All of the $469,000 was raised online or through direct mail. The former Alaska governor has had only two fundraisers for her PAC this year – the last one this past summer -- compared to Mitt Romney's nine. Crawford expects to file his report to the Federal Election Commission this afternoon.

This is a strong showing, and yet another sign that Sarah Palin is a political powerhouse. Time gets the endorsement/win ratio wrong though, as she endorsed ninety-four candidates in local, state, and national races. Sixty-three won.

It's quite remarkable that Sarah only had the need for two fund raising events vs Romney's nine.

Though we'll have to wait for the reports, it's known Romney is raising most of his money from big donors, corporate and special interests, while Sarah's money, for the most part, comes in small amounts of $200 or less. Her new book, America by Heart, was used as a premium to generate funds as well, with donors who sent in $100 getting a signed copy. She did this last year with Going Rogue.

This effort tells us that Sarah is poised to make a strong effort should she run for President. It will take an incredible amount of money to compete against Barack Obama. Only two seem capable of this, Sarah and Mitt Romney. Over at HuckPAC, Mike Huckabee's effort seems to have imploded, and others like Newt Gingrich simply aren't raising any dollars.

This may set us up for the inevitable Palin vs Romney showdown in the primaries, and with all of Romney's baggage he's not going to be competitive against Sarah's record of successful leadership.

We expect Sarah to announce her intentions early in 2011.

Sarah Palin Speaks To The Gross Incompetence Of The Obama Regime In The Wake Of The Wikileaks Fiasco

Americans woke up Monday morning to another massive security breach courtesy of cyber-terrorist Julian Assange the founder of Wikileaks. This is a massive failure of security and is going to be incredibly destructive to America's ability to collect the sort of intelligence needed to keep the nation safe and secure.

Sarah Palin has some questions for the President:

Serious Questions about the Obama Administration's Incompetence in the Wikileaks Fiasco

We all applaud the successful thwarting of the Christmas-Tree Bomber and hope our government continues to do all it can to keep us safe. However, the latest round of publications of leaked classified U.S. documents through the shady organization called Wikileaks raises serious questions about the Obama administration’s incompetent handling of this whole fiasco.

First and foremost, what steps were taken to stop Wikileaks director Julian Assange from distributing this highly sensitive classified material especially after he had already published material not once but twice in the previous months? Assange is not a “journalist,” any more than the “editor” of al Qaeda’s new English-language magazine Inspire is a “journalist.” He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands. His past posting of classified documents revealed the identity of more than 100 Afghan sources to the Taliban. Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders?

What if any diplomatic pressure was brought to bear on NATO, EU, and other allies to disrupt Wikileaks’ technical infrastructure? Did we use all the cyber tools at our disposal to permanently dismantle Wikileaks? Were individuals working for Wikileaks on these document leaks investigated? Shouldn’t they at least have had their financial assets frozen just as we do to individuals who provide material support for terrorist organizations?

Most importantly, serious questions must also be asked of the U.S. intelligence system. How was it possible that a 22-year-old Private First Class could get unrestricted access to so much highly sensitive information? And how was it possible that he could copy and distribute these files without anyone noticing that security was compromised?

The White House has now issued orders to federal departments and agencies asking them to take immediate steps to ensure that no more leaks like this happen again. It’s of course important that we do all we can to prevent similar massive document leaks in the future. But why did the White House not publish these orders after the first leak back in July? What explains this strange lack of urgency on their part?

We are at war. American soldiers are in Afghanistan fighting to protect our freedoms. They are serious about keeping America safe. It would be great if they could count on their government being equally serious about that vital task.

~ Sarah Palin

Sarah raises some valid questions.

Why hasn't everything possible been done to hunt down Assange and either bring him to America for trial, or just take him out, as you would any other terrorist?

Why is it five months since the last attack, and Attorney General Eric Holder is just now showing signs of life?

Why is it Obama has time to tout some nonsensical federal employee pay freeze like it will actually make a dent in the budget deficit, but no time to talk about this?

And what of this lackluster response from Hillary Clinton?



Obviously, Julian Assange is a terrorist. His actions are meant to harm America and our allies, while giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Since he is not an American citizen, designating him and his Wikileaks organization officially as terrorists would make things very simple.

Obviously, any and all Americans involved in this effort are guilty of treason and should be treated accordingly.

The 111th Congress will never go there, but as soon as the 112th Congress is sworn in, the Republicans need to go to town, and see where all of this leads. People need to be held accountable all of the way up to the President.

If you know the definition, you know the Obama regime is the very essence of FUBAR. Unfortunately their incompetence has put America in grave danger.

John McCain Discusses Sarah Palin: “A guy named Ronald Reagan used to be viewed as divisive too.”

John McCain, appearing on CNN's State of the Union Sunday morning was quizzed by the host, Candy Crowley, about all of the recent efforts by Sarah Palin and the media attention she gets.

When Crowley asked McCain if he felt Sarah might be divisive, he responded: “A guy named Ronald Reagan used to be viewed as divisive too.”

“She’s doing a great job. I think she’s motivated our base,” McCain added. “She had a positive impact on the last election, and I’m proud of her.”

You can view the video, courtesy of Mediaite, by clicking here

Stunning The Halibut … And The Democrats

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

So I'm catching up on my reading and find this piece by Steve Tuttle in the far left Newsweek magazine, of all places. For the first half of the article Tuttle tells the tale of a democrat party in shambles, and how they ain't seen nothing yet. The gist of the story starts on page two, wherein Tuttle uses a recent episode of Sarah Palin's Alaska where Sarah and her daughter Bristol go commercial fishing for halibut as a metaphor for the “bonking” she is going to give the democrats in 2012:

‘Stunning the Halibut’

If the Democrats think things are bad now, wait until Sarah Palin grabs them by their bleeding hearts.

This week I stumbled upon Sarah Palin’s Alaska by looking it up in the TV directory and sitting down on the couch at the time it started so I could view it. I watched Palin take a club to a huge halibut that was flopping around on the deck of a boat, knocking it out cold so it could be thrown into the hold of a professional fishing vessel. She said in her singsong voice, which seems sometimes oddly Germanic, that she was “stunning the halibut.” Not only was I entranced by her awesomeness, but I now have a new favorite catchphrase.

As the fish story unfolded, Palin said, “I wasn’t goin’ to hesitate either, especially when the fish were pilin’ up and they’re slappin’ around. They could do some damage here. We need to calm these boys down real quick.” As the huge halibut flopped about, she cried out, “Sheesh! That hurts like crap!” She explained to the camera that she got slapped across the thigh by one of them: “I realized—yeah, they could hurtcha!” Later, she and her dancing daughter, Bristol, took the halibut’s still-beating hearts and held them in their hands. The harder the Palin gals squeezed, the faster the little panicked hearts pumped. The Democrats need look no further for symbolic harbingers of what could happen in 2012.

You can read the entire article here.

I haven't written for a few days, instead spending a little time doing some research as well as taking the pulse of the Ruling Class.

Something funny has started to happen. It seems the left wing media has found a whole new respect for Sarah Palin, at least among many. They have obviously realized the past two years worth of vicious 24/7 attacks on the woman and her family have been a bust. Instead of bringing Sarah down, they have destroyed their own credibility and in the process made her stronger.

The left wing sees the writing on the wall.

Obama and his radical Congress overreached like no other in history. They attempted to take America all of the way to the left in one sitting. The American people are not happy, and on November 2 told Obama and Congress not no, but HELL NO, to this insanity.

The American people are fired up, and in it's present form, the democrat party is finished.

What we are seeing is the progression on the left from ridicule, to fighting, to acceptance of the inevitable, that Sarah Palin will likely be our next President. What these writers hope to do is scare Obama and crew back to reality with the knowledge Sarah is coming for them, and will win.

What's just as interesting to me though, is the reaction from the Republican elites in the past few weeks. Showing how out of touch they are, as well as slow to react, they are still at the ridicule stage, and moving towards all out war against Sarah.

We've had all of the blue bloods in the party come out and talk trash. They saw the same election results the left did, and saw the largest shift in Congress and the state houses in over 100 years. They saw a huge wave of Common Sense Conservatism sweep the land, led by Sarah Palin. This is wave has the potential to be much larger, and more durable than the Reagan Revolution. [and we all know how the blue bloods hated Reagan]

Of course, since the base of the Republican party has never liked or trusted the establishment, this isn't exactly earning them, or whatever back bencher candidate they trot out in 2012, any friends.

The Ruling Class [in both parties] have a lot to lose when Sarah Palin becomes President. Their power will be gone, hopefully forever, and be given back to it's rightful owners, the American people.

It's interesting to note the GOP elites actually fear this [and Sarah] as much .... or more .... than the lefties do!

New Oxford American Dictionary: Sarah Palin's “Refudiate” Named Word Of The Year

Sarah Palin has been racking up major accomplishments all year, including becoming the leader of the nation's movement to regain control of our runaway government.

Sarah Palin is a wildly successful political leader, best selling author, top political pundit, and now she can add certified wordsmith to her accomplishments.

If you remember, as the debates were heating up to stop the Obama regime's dangerous agenda, Sarah called on folks to refudiate Obama and his policies. Of course, the left went insane, because she made up a word, especially after she tweeted that Shakespeare created new words all of the time. The entertainment value of watching the left lose it's collective mind was simply priceless.

It was made even more delicious when British MEP Daniel Hannan, a self proclaimed Shakespearean obsessive, and a member of the European Parliament came out in support of the word writing:

I am thoroughly taken with Sarah Palin’s neologism. People often incorrectly use the word “refute” to mean something like “deny” or “reject“, only stronger. We could do with a new word to fill this gap and, since both “refute” and “repudiate” are already occupied with their actual meanings, neither can be pressed into service. “Refudiate” occupies the space perfectly, and deserves to become part of every politician’s vocabulary.

The handsome Alaskan politician is quite right to say that Shakespeare came up with countless new-fangled words – including “countless” and “new-fangled“. Among his coinages, as far as we can tell, are accommodation, assassinate, denote, dislocate, equivocal, eventful, hobnob, inauspicious, lacklustre, laughable, perplex, raw-boned, submerge, time-honoured, unmitigated and zany.

Read more here.

From USA Today's ON DEADLINE:

The staff of the New Oxford American Dictionary has named "refudiate" - former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's mashup of "refute" and "repudiate" - as the 2010 Word of the Year.

From a strictly lexical interpretation of the different contexts in which Palin has used 'refudiate,' we have concluded that neither 'refute' nor 'repudiate' seems consistently precise, and that 'refudiate' more or less stands on its own, suggesting a general sense of 'reject.' "

Palin, also a Republican former vice presidential candidate, generated lots of conversation when she used the word on Twitter. Slate calls Palin's use of the word "an unquestionable buzzmaker."

We wrote at the time that Sarah Palin, with all of her many skills, was a real renaissance woman. I'm sure anyone who watched her brand new TLC travelogue will agree. This is a woman who can successfully govern a city and a state, inspire a nation, write best selling books, hunt, fish, climb mountains, and create new words with the proficiency and staying power of the Bard of Avon himself.

Remembering Our Veterans

Remembering all of those who serve.

All gave some, some gave all.

Our veterans have always been the protectors of Freedom and Liberty. Thank a vet today, and every day.

Washington Times: Sarah Palin The Ronald Reagan Of Our Time

There have been a lot of positive stories about Sarah Palin over the past week including many stories comparing Sarah favorably to the great Ronald Reagan.

Reagan's son Michael told Megyn Kelly recently the other presidential wannabees simply do not have the passion Sarah brings with her. The passion for America, the passion for the Constitution, the passion for the American people. No one else has it.

As readers know, there is a movement among the Republican establishment to try and derail Sarah Palin before she can mount a run at the presidency. This is the same tired old nonsense the elite Ruling Class Republicans tried against Ronald Reagan. History shows it was a complete failure, but the Republican establishment can never be accused of being exceptionally bright, or possessing the ability to learn from it's own mistakes.

Stacy Drake wrote an expose on the GOP elites that you must read, here.

Charles W. Dunn at the Washington Times has a warning for the GOP Ruling Class elites as well:

Hell hath no fury like a Palin scorned


Insiders planning to dump her had better think again

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." The Republican establishment would do well to learn from William Congreve's famous line in "The Mourning Bride" (1697) and even more from the accurate reading of his line: "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned / Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."

"Stop Sarah Palin" is the battle cry of establishment Republicans, according to Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei in Politico: "Top Republicans in Washington and in the national GOP establishment say the 2010 campaign highlighted an urgent task that they will begin in earnest as soon as the elections are over: Stop Sarah Palin."

While Mrs. Palin is no Ronald Reagan, she does possess many of Reagan's attributes, which she could turn loose on the Republican establishment.

Sarah Palin and Ronald Reagan appear poles apart in their backgrounds, but appearances are deceiving. Before coming to the center stage of national politics, Mrs. Palin was a small-town mother of five and governor of Alaska, and Reagan, a Hollywood actor and governor of California. But these and other dramatic differences mask surprising similarities, which could merge at the intersection of time and circumstance for Mrs. Palin, especially if the Republican establishment continues to scorn her.

Critics contended that Ronald Reagan was nothing more than a third-rate Hollywood actor who lacked the intellectual depth and educational training to serve successfully as president. Now they say much the same about Sarah Palin.

Reagan jumped high over this low bar of expectations, leading an insurgent conservative movement into the White House. Already two years away from 2012, Mrs. Palin has become the "rock star" of conservatives and the Tea Party movement, drawing crowds far larger than Ronald Reagan ever dreamed of drawing at this stage in his career.

Mrs. Palin appeals to the very same people Reagan appealed to, including conservatives of several persuasions - economic, political, religious and social. She is the one person in the Republican Party who has burnished credentials in all spheres of the conservative coalition. Her every word commands center stage on television.

Reagan was not a "policy wonk." Neither is Mrs. Palin. Like Reagan, she does not devote herself to the minutiae of public policy details, but rather, she leads by instinct, based upon her guiding principles of right and wrong. When Reagan's advisers tried to prep him for presidential debates by reading thick manuals, he refused. Rather, he brought to the debates a set of well-honed conservative principles. So far, Sarah Palin looks like she is cut from the same cloth.

Reagan and Mrs. Palin have "skin comfort." As former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown said of her Republican National Convention address: "Her timing was exquisite. She didn't linger with applause but instead launched into line after line of attack, slipping the knives in with every smile and joke. She delivered it like she was just BS-ing on the street with the meter maid. She didn't have to prove she was 'of the people.' She really is the people." Likewise, Reagan exuded that same comfort with his persona whether delivering major speeches or dealing with members of Congress.

Reagan and Palin beat the odds. Coming from the small town of Dixon in the midst of flat Illinois cornfields, raised by a very religious mother whose training led him to become a Sunday School teacher of grade-school boys, a graduate of a tiny and little-known religious college, Eureka, Reagan hardly had the pedigree to become president of the United States. Neither does Saran Palin. Her small-town background, a degree from the out-of-the-way University of Idaho and sportscaster start - the same as Ronald Reagan's first job after college - hardly qualified her to become mayor of Wasilla or governor of Alaska or a vice-presidential nominee.

In 2010, no prospective Republican presidential candidate has collected more IOUs than Sarah Palin, whose endorsements and encouragement have propelled many otherwise unknown candidates and likely losers into creditable and more often than not victorious races for office. Reagan collected his IOUs in 1980 after traveling the country on behalf of conservative candidates.

Time and circumstance merged for Ronald Reagan. They could for Sarah Palin, too, especially if the Republican establishment scorns her as it did Reagan, knowing, "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned / Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."

Charles W. Dunn is a professor of government at Regent University.

There are many more similarities between Ronald Reagan and Sarah Palin. Something else one should consider as they contemplate all of this. As we all know, growing up, Sarah Palin was a book worm. She studied the great literary works, of course, but she also studied Ronald Reagan. Learned from Reagan. Learned from his successes, learned from his failures.

Sarah Palin brings with her a unique set of life experiences, having grown up in the rugged last frontier, couple with the common sense that also made Reagan one of our greatest Presidents, and you have a powerful leader who can certainly make a great President in her own right.

This is why the radical left, as well as elements of the Republican Party want to stop her. Sarah Palin connects with the American people because she is one of us. A local gal done good. The epitome of the great American story. Like Reagan, Sarah Palin is living the American dream and proving that, with hard work, anyone in America can succeed, whether they come from the plains of Illinois, or the last frontier.

Sarah Palin Asks: Do Wall Street Journal Reporters Read the Wall Street Journal?

An excellent smack down by Sarah Palin as well as proof that some people are so biased against Sarah Palin they forget their own ideas and in this case, writings, mirror hers. How stupid is that?

Do Wall Street Journal Reporters Read the Wall Street Journal?

Ever since 2008, people seem inordinately interested in my reading habits. Among various newspapers, magazines, and local Alaskan papers, I read the Wall Street Journal.

So, imagine my dismay when I read an article by Sudeep Reddy in today’s Wall Street Journal criticizing the fact that I mentioned inflation in my comments about QE2 in a speech this morning before a trade-association. Here’s what I said: “everyone who ever goes out shopping for groceries knows that prices have risen significantly over the past year or so. Pump priming would push them even higher.”

Mr. Reddy takes aim at this. He writes: “Grocery prices haven’t risen all that significantly, in fact.” Really? That’s odd, because just last Thursday, November 4, I read an article in Mr. Reddy’s own Wall Street Journal titled “Food Sellers Grit Teeth, Raise Prices: Packagers and Supermarkets Pressured to Pass Along Rising Costs, Even as Consumers Pinch Pennies.”

The article noted that “an inflationary tide is beginning to ripple through America's supermarkets and restaurants…Prices of staples including milk, beef, coffee, cocoa and sugar have risen sharply in recent months.”

Now I realize I’m just a former governor and current housewife from Alaska, but even humble folks like me can read the newspaper. I’m surprised a prestigious reporter for the Wall Street Journal doesn’t.

- Sarah Palin

People we are in grave danger. What the Fed is doing can destroy the nation. Sarah Palin is one of the very few out there actually speaking up. We don't have time for petty politics and other such nonsense. It's quite obvious who our leader is. It's time to get behind her and put the silliness on the back burner.

Sarah Palin Demands Fed Chair Ben Bernanke “Cease And Desist”

In a speech delivered on Monday In Phoenix, Arizona, Sarah Palin slams Fed Chair Ben Bernanke and the Obama regime's insane plan to monetize the debt.

Robert Costa over at National Review Online reports:

As President Obama prepares for the G20 summit in South Korea this week, Sarah Palin is challenging the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy, which will likely be a key issue at the talks. On Monday, in a keynote address at a trade-association convention in Phoenix, Palin will urge Fed chairman Ben Bernanke to “cease and desist” his “pump priming.” The United States, she says, “shouldn’t be playing around with inflation.”

Here are snippets from Palin’s prepared remarks obtained by National Review Online:

I’m deeply concerned about the Federal Reserve’s plans to buy up anywhere from $600 billion to as much as $1 trillion of government securities. The technical term for it is “quantitative easing.” It means our government is pumping money into the banking system by buying up treasury bonds. And where, you may ask, are we getting the money to pay for all this? We’re printing it out of thin air.

The Fed hopes doing this may buy us a little temporary economic growth by supplying banks with extra cash which they could then lend out to businesses. But it’s far from certain this will even work. After all, the problem isn’t that banks don’t have enough cash on hand – it’s that they don’t want to lend it out, because they don’t trust the current economic climate.

And if it doesn’t work, what do we do then? Print even more money? What’s the end game here? Where will all this money printing on an unprecedented scale take us? Do we have any guarantees that QE2 won’t be followed by QE3, 4, and 5, until eventually – inevitably – no one will want to buy our debt anymore? What happens if the Fed becomes not just the buyer of last resort, but the buyer of only resort?

All this pump priming will come at a serious price. And I mean that literally: everyone who ever goes out shopping for groceries knows that prices have risen significantly over the past year or so. Pump priming would push them even higher. And it’s not just groceries. Oil recently hit a six month high, at more than $87 a barrel. The weak dollar – a direct result of the Fed’s decision to dump more dollars onto the market – is pushing oil prices upwards. That’s like an extra tax on earnings. And the worst part of it: because the Obama White House refuses to open up our offshore and onshore oil reserves for exploration, most of that money will go directly to foreign regimes who don’t have America’s best interests at heart.

We shouldn’t be playing around with inflation. It’s not for nothing Reagan called it “as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber, and as deadly as a hit man.” The Fed’s pump priming addiction has got our small businesses running scared, and our allies worried. The German finance minister called the Fed’s proposals “clueless.” When Germany, a country that knows a thing or two about the dangers of inflation, warns us to think again, maybe it’s time for Chairman Bernanke to cease and desist. We don’t want temporary, artificial economic growth bought at the expense of permanently higher inflation which will erode the value of our incomes and our savings. We want a stable dollar combined with real economic reform. It’s the only way we can get our economy back on the right track.

Sarah is right, of course. Hyperinflation will destroy America. In fact, the historical evidence of this is so strong, one might think that is the purpose of this dangerous path. It's like the Obama regime is purposely destroying our nation. Surely the Marxist-democrats aren't this stupid, are they?

One of the most well known cases of monetizing the debt occurred in Germany in the 1920s, and led to the collapse of the Weimar Republic. This led directly to the rise of Adolf Hitler and National Socialism. It also led to the ridiculousness that included needing a wheelbarrow full of German marks to buy a loaf of bread. It was a complete disaster.

Surely the Marxist-democrats know this, and one must wonder if the total collapse of America isn't their end game.

We don't have to go back to the early decades of the 20th Century to see the evils of what the Obama regime is up to. Obama's good buddy Robert Mugabe has worked similar “magic” in Zimbabwe. This tin pot dictators policies have been so idiotic that by December 2008, inflation was estimated at 6.5 quindecillion novemdecillion percent! (65 followed by 107 zeros)

Yes we can! (turn America into Zimbabwe)

This is a very serious matter and if the Obama regime and the Fed are not stopped, we could not only see the collapse of the United States, but the entire world's economy. Again, one wonders if something like this isn't by design. As Reuters reports, China and Russia are most certainly alarmed, and Obama just keeps on keepin' on.

Michael Reagan: “The others don't have the passion that Sarah Palin has”

If the boys don’t catch up quickly, it could be evening in America for them.

~Michael Reagan on Sarah Palin's advantage in 2012

This is a great exchange between Michael Reagan and Megyn Kelly about Sarah Palin and her chances for 2012. They are discussing, among other things, the new SarahPAC video which you can view here.

Michael is spot on. Sarah Palin brings an energy, a passion that we have not seen since his father, the great Ronald Reagan was motivating Americans to stand tall and proud. No one else in America has the ability to inspire that Sarah Palin does.

Michael Reagan has been an early supporter of Sarah's. He wrote the incredibly moving “Welcome Back Dad” for Human Events after Sarah's incredible acceptance speech at the 2008 Republican Convention:

Welcome Back Dad

I’ve been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan to emerge and lead our party and our nation. I insisted that we’d never see his like again because he was one of a kind.

I was wrong!

Wednesday night I watched the Republican National Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my Dad reborn; only this time he's a she.

And what a she!

In one blockbuster of a speech, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin resurrected my Dad’s indomitable spirit and sent it soaring above the convention center, shooting shock waves through the cynical media’s assigned spaces and electrifying the huge audience with the kind of inspiring rhetoric we haven’t heard since my Dad left the scene.

This was Ronald Reagan at his best -- the same Ronald Reagan who made the address known now solely as “The Speech,” which during the Goldwater campaign set the tone and the agenda for the rebirth of the traditional conservative movement that later sent him to the White House for eight years and revived the moribund GOP.

Last night was an extraordinary event. Widely seen beforehand as a make-or-break effort -- either an opportunity for Sarah Palin to show that she was the happy warrior that John McCain assured us she was, or a disaster that would dash McCain’s presidential hopes and send her back to Alaska, sadder but wiser.

Obviously un-intimidated by either the savage onslaught to which the left-leaning media had subjected her, or the incredible challenge she faced -- and oozing with confidence -- she strode defiantly to the podium and proved she was everything and even more than John McCain told us.

Much has been made of the fact that she is a woman. What we saw last night, however, was something much more than a just a woman accomplishing something no Republican woman has ever achieved. What we saw was a red-blooded American with that rare, God-given ability to rally her dispirited fellow Republicans and take up the daunting task of leading them -- and all her fellow Americans -- on a pilgrimage to that shining city on the hill my father envisioned as our nation’s real destination.

In a few words she managed to rip the mask from the faces of her Democratic rivals and reveal them for what they are -- a pair of old-fashioned liberals making promises that cannot be kept without bankrupting the nation and reducing most Americans to the status of mendicants begging for their daily bread at the feet of an all-powerful government.

Most important, by comparing her own stunning record of achievement with his, she showed Barack Obama for the sham that he is, a man without any solid accomplishments beyond conspicuous self-aggrandizement.

Like Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin is one of us. She knows how most of us live because that’s the way she lives. She shares our homespun values and our beliefs, and she glories in her status as a small-town woman who put her shoulder to the wheel and made life better for her neighbors.

Her astonishing rise up from the grass-roots, her total lack of self-importance, and her ordinary American values and modest lifestyle reveal her to be the kind of hard-working, optimistic, ordinary American who made this country the greatest, most powerful nation on the face of the earth.

As hard as you might try, you won’t find that kind of plain-spoken, down-to-earth, self-reliant American in the upper ranks of the liberal-infested, elitist Democratic Party, or in the Obama campaign.

Sarah Palin didn’t go to Harvard, or fiddle around in urban neighborhood leftist activism while engaging in opportunism within the ranks of one of the nation’s most corrupt political machines, never challenging it and going along to get along, like Barack Obama.

Instead she took on the corrupt establishment in Alaska and beat it, rising to the governorship while bringing reforms to every level of government she served in on her way up the ladder.

Welcome back, Dad, even if you’re wearing a dress and bearing children this time around.

That was quite lofty praise at the time, for sure. But since then, Sarah Palin has not only lived up to this praise, but exceeded it wildly. Sarah walked on the national stage and seized the moment like no one has in recent memory. Like Reagan before her, Sarah Palin loves America and celebrates American exceptionalism every day. Her leadership will shape America for decades to come. As Michael rightly points out, she is rebuilding a younger, smarter, bolder, more Conservative Republican Party. And that is a good thing!

For the record Sarah endorsed 94 candidates in local, state, and national elections, 60 won, 31 lost, with the remaining races undecided.

Rasmussen: Republican Primary Voters Like Sarah Palin Best: 82 Percent Approval Rating

From Scott Rasmussen's latest polling on possible 2012 presidential contenders:

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of those voters finds that 82% have a favorable opinion of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the party’s vice presidential nominee in 2008, while just 17% view her unfavorably. That includes 50% with a Very Favorable opinion and eight percent (8%) with a Very Unfavorable one.

This is quite a significant rise in Sarah Palin's approval ratings, which have consistently polled in the low to mid 70s. Obviously, as her favorables have risen, her unfavorables have lowered significantly as well.

These numbers are getting close to her pre-vice presidential run approval numbers when she was Governor of Alaska, where her numbers were consistently in the high 80s to low 90s. The top numbers of any Governor in the Nation at the time.

For more polling results, go here.

GOP Taps Sarah Palin's Endorsees For Help With Transition To Power

The Republican Party has chosen three of Sarah Palin's candidates to be party of the team that will help with the transition of power in the House of Representatives.

These new members of Congress are:

Adam Kinzinger of Illinois:

Tim Scott of South Carolina:

Martha Roby of Alabama:

From the Associated Press:

WASHINGTON — House Republicans have tapped two newly elected congressmen who drew tea party backing in their campaigns to help lead the party's transition to power.

Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Tim Scott of South Carolina, who won endorsements by Sarah Palin and support from tea party activists, are part of a newly named 22-member team charged with crafting new rules and smoothing the GOP's shift from minority to majority.

The team, led by Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon and headquartered in the basement of the Capitol, is to meet Monday night and Tuesday. It includes several seasoned veterans and influential members like 15-term Rep. David Dreier of California, in line for his second stint as head of the powerful Rules Committee, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, in line to head the Budget Committee, and Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas, the GOP campaign committee chief.

Rep. Doc Hastings of Washington, one of a large crop of GOP lawmakers who came to Congress 16 years ago, the last time Republicans seized control of the House, is part of the group.

Two other freshmen, Cory Gardner of Colorado and Martha Roby of Alabama, are also on the roster.

Walden said he didn't choose the team based on whether they had tea party backing, telling reporters last week that he wasn't sure whether those he was recruiting were supported by the conservative-libertarian movement. "It's a nice cross-section of our Republican conference," he said of the group.

But it's clear Republicans are aware that the grass-roots movement that helped propel them to big wins in last week's elections will be an important part of their new House majority and bolstered Senate minority.

Many of the newly elected Republicans are political novices, including a pizzeria owner and a gospel singer. All four first-termers on the transition team have some degree of experience in elected office; Scott and Gardner have been state legislators while Roby has served as a city councilwoman and Kinzinger on a county board.

Sarah Palin: The Way Forward

After unprecedented success on election night, Sarah Palin, in an op-ed for National Review Online, offers up some lessons and a pathway to future victory:

The Midterms: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward

Have an intelligent message, and fight for your right to be heard.

Now that the dust has settled on the 2010 midterm elections, it’s slowly becoming clear just how monumental the results really are. We saw an extreme left-wing agenda suffer a crushing defeat. At the ballot box, voters took Obamacare and the stimulus and wrapped them right around the necks of those same House members and senators who had arrogantly dismissed the concerns voiced in countless town halls and Tea Party rallies up and down the country. Voters sent commonsense conservatives a clear mandate to hold the line against the Obama agenda.

Does that mean Republican candidates can look forward with greater confidence to the 2012 elections? Yes and no. Yes, objectively speaking the next electoral cycle should be even more favorable than the one that just ended. A large number of red-state Democratic senators will have to defend their seats; and since Obama will be at the top of the ballot that year, they won’t be able to hide from the fact that their party leader is a detached liberal with a destructive tax-and-spend agenda. Whether Republicans will do as well as they did in this cycle depends on whether they learn the lessons from the 2010 election.

The first lesson is simple: Set the narrative. This year it wasn’t too difficult to tell the story of the election: It was about stopping an out-of-control Congress and an out-of-touch White House. In races across the country, Republican candidates ran on the message that the Left was bankrupting America with budget-busting spending bills that mortgage our children’s future, burden the private sector with uncertainty, and cripple our much-needed job growth.

The story of the next cycle, though, remains to be written. Its content depends on what Republicans do next. Just as in the 1980s, there are today millions of conservative-leaning Democrats and independents who are ready to join our cause. They gave us their votes, now we must earn their trust. And we do that by showing them that a vote for us will not be a vote for the big-spending, over-regulating status quo. The 2012 story should be about conservatives in Congress cutting government down to size and rolling back the spending, and the Left doing everything in its power to prevent these necessary reforms from happening.

In the next two years, if all we end up doing is adopting some tax hikes here, some Obama-agenda compromises there, and a thousand little measures that do nothing to get us out of the economic mess we’re in, the same voters that put the GOP in office will vote them out in the next election. If that happens, the story of 2012 may well be that of the GOP going the way of the Whigs. No, the American people are expecting us to be bold and big in our economic reform to allow the private sector to create jobs and soar!

In the coming weeks, there will be those who lament that some of us endorsed conservative Republicans over liberal ones in blue-state races. It’s a good debate, and one I’m willing to have. First, we must keep in mind that there is no guarantee that any Republican will win in a deep-blue state (as evidenced by the exit polls in Delaware showing that the liberal Republican would have lost too). But even more to the point, we saw in the last decade what happens when conservatives hold their noses and elect liberals who have an “R” after their names. Our party’s message of freedom and fiscal responsibility became diluted.

In 2008, it was difficult to claim on the one hand that we were the party of fiscal responsibility and on the other hand that our fiscal policies work. It was clear to the electorate that the GOP had not adhered to fiscally conservative positions, and that the liberal positions they did adhere to didn’t work. If we go on in that direction again, we won’t have a base, let alone a majority. Certainly we can and should back sensible center-right candidates in bluer states, but I see no point in backing someone who supports cap-and-tax, Obamacare, bailouts, taxes, and more useless stimulus packages. If you think such a candidate will be with us when it comes time to vote down an Obama Supreme Court nominee, you’re living on a unicorn ranch in fantasy land.

In the coming weeks there will also be a debate about the viability of particular candidates. Anyone with the courage to throw his or her hat in the ring and stand up and be counted always has my respect. Some of them were stronger candidates than others, but they all had the courage to be “in the arena.” The second lesson of this election is one a number of the candidates had to learn to their cost: Fight back the lies immediately and consistently.

Some candidates assumed that, once they received their party’s nomination, the conservative message would automatically carry the day. Unfortunately, political contests aren’t always about truth and justice. Powerful vested interests will combine to keep bad candidates in place and good candidates out of office. Once they let themselves be defined as “unfit” (decorated war hero Joe Miller) or “heartless” (pro-life, international women’s rights champion Carly Fiorina), good candidates often find it virtually impossible to get their message across. The moral of their stories: You must be prepared to fight for your right to be heard.

Another important lesson is that we will need the mother of all GOTV efforts if we wish to win in 2012. Sending donations isn’t enough when push comes to shove. Millions of boots on the ground are needed, and voter-fraud prevention must be addressed before election eve.

The last, and possibly most important, lesson is that a winning conservative message must always be carefully crafted. If candidates are going to talk boldly on the campaign trail about entitlement reform and reducing the size of government, they must be prepared to word it in such a way as to minimize the inevitable fear-mongering accusations of “extremism.” We are quickly approaching a fiscal turning point where these crucial reform discussions will be mandatory. We need to speak about them in a way that the public will embrace. During his first run for the presidency in 1976, Ronald Reagan found out that election campaigns aren’t necessarily the best settings for quasi-academic discussions about issues like Social Security reform. So for his next campaign, he resolved to build his platform out of tried and tested policies like tax cuts. Successful candidates in the next election cycle will have to test and develop similar policy platforms that address the crucial issues of entitlement reform and shrinking government in a way that the voters will find pragmatic and even attractive.

If we manage to do these things, there is no reason why we can’t look forward with confidence to winning in 2012. I have said all along that this election must be seen in conjunction with the next. Ultimately 2010 must be viewed as just the first battle in a much longer fight that leads to November 6, 2012, and beyond. We cannot fully restore and revive America until we replace Obama. The meaning of the 2010 election was rebuke, reject, and repeal. We rebuked Washington’s power grab, rejected this unwanted “fundamental transformation of America,” and began the process to repeal the dangerous policies inflicted on us. But this theme will only complement the theme of 2012, which is renew, revive, and restore. In 2012, we need to renew our optimistic, pioneering spirit, revive our free-market system, and restore constitutional limits and our standing in the world as the abiding beacon of freedom.

Till then, I hope that commonsense patriots will join me in applauding the real heroes of this election year: the Tea Party Americans. In 2008, we were told that we had to “move beyond Reagan.” Well, some of us refused to believe that America chose big-government European-style socialism. American voters elected a politician who cloaked his agenda in the language of moderation. Once the mask was removed, Americans rejected his “fundamental transformation.” The Tea Party reminded us that Reaganism is still our foundation. I think the Gipper is smiling down on us today waving the Gadsden Flag.

Sarah is spot on all of the way around. If the establishment Republicans are allowed to run the show, the GOP will be finished. A brand new party will emerge.

As for candidates, we must start looking at candidates for 2012 now. In 2012 all 435 House seats will once again be up for grabs, as will twice as many democrat Senate seats. The American people will have an extraordinary opportunity to further right the wrongs done to the nation, and vote out even more democrats, replacing the with common sense candidates.

We'll also have the chance to win seats in the House as well. We must take the attitude that all 435 seats are up for grabs, and go from there.

It will be the responsibility of the grass roots activists to start the process of meeting potential candidates and evaluating them. The vetting process should start as soon as possible, so these people can hit the ground running in 2012, armed with solid support, a winning message, and the ability to get that message out there, and counteract what will most assuredly be a concerted effort by democrats and the corrupt media to stop them by any means necessary.

2010 was just the first battle in what is going to be a long war to secure our Republic and restore it. There are powerful forces at work who are not going quietly into the night. Unfortunately, these forces exist in both parties.

We can't do anything with what will be an even more radial, more irrational democrat party, but we can hold the Republican Party's feet to the fire on a daily basis. We can let them know in no uncertain terms we hired them to do a job, and if they fail, they are gone.

With that said, we also have to have patience. We didn't get into this mess overnight, and aren't going to fix it overnight either. Job one for our newly elected Congress will be to stop the Obama regime in it's tracks, and take action that will get our economy going again. Once that's accomplished, there will be plenty to keep them busy.

No matter how well they perform though, there will still be intense battles. It's going to take at least one, if not two more election cycles to clear out some folks, in both parties, who will stand in the way of the restoration of our nation. We'll have a shot at these troublemakers in 2012 as well as 2014.

The bottom line is: We won a huge victory on Tuesday night. A historic victory. A true once in a life time realignment all across the nation, but our work, and the work of those we elected, is just beginning. We must forever be watch dogs, ever vigil should those would entrusted with power stray from the path we've drawn for them.

A little bonus below. Sarah Palin on the Sean Hannity show:

TLC Invites You To A Special Premier Preview Of “Sarah Palin's Alaska”

TLC has announced it will preview the premier episode Sarah Palin's Alaska in select theaters across the country. Here's a chance to see the show on the big screen and enjoy Alaska's majestic beauty.

From TLC:

YOU CAN SEE "SARAH PALIN'S ALASKA" FROM YOUR TOWN

TLC Offers Special Preview Of New 8-Week Television Event

TLC is offering your town an opportunity to visit SARAH PALIN’S ALASKA in a special theater screening of the premiere episode.

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Renee Ellmers Needs Your Help Today

Tuesday night was a historic victory for Republicans nationwide. One of those historic winners was Renee Ellmers who took on the infamous “Carolina Strangler” Bob Etheridge.

 

If you remember, Etheridge is the democrat Congressman who attacked two collage students when they attempted to interview him on the street. He is the poster child for violent, out of control, Ruling Class democrat politicians.

Renee beat this guy, without any help from the Republican Party, BTW. It was a close race, but she won, and won by enough for it to be certified a win. Of course, democrats being what they are, Etheridge is now going to try and steal this thing. All of a sudden, some new votes have been "found."

Let's let Renee tell us about this nonsense:

Dear Supporters,

Election night, after the ten counties in my district had reported their votes, I led Bob Etheridge by 2,100 votes. (That number is crucial because under North Carolina law Congressman Etheridge is not entitled to an ‘automatic recount’ if he trails by more than 1% – or 1,888 votes.)

Then, yesterday afternoon – unexpectedly – the vote totals changed. The State Board of Elections reported my lead had dropped to 1,600 votes. Two hours later Bob Etheridge announced he intended to call for a recount.

As a result, last night my campaign began hiring attorneys – eleven attorneys in all. One in each county to monitor each recount and an attorney to work with the North Carolina State Board of Elections.

Right now, our best estimate of the minimum cost we face is $50,000. But, of course, my campaign spent every penny we had before the election.

Yesterday, we appealed to the National Republican Congressional Committee for support, asking if they could contribute to help pay the costs of this recount. Their answer, unfortunately, was, No – that we would have to raise the money to pay for the recount ourselves.

I was afraid that would be their answer. Months ago, I went to Washington and asked the National Republican Congressional Committee and many conservative leaders to help my campaign. Many conservative groups – like the Susan B. Anthony List, Concerned Women of America, Freedom Works, and Sarah Palin’s Sarah PAC all helped, but the NRCC declined. Later, they did support other campaigns in North Carolina – which, unfortunately, lost – but we never received their support. In fact, their spokesman told the press “that the campaign wasn’t ready for prime time” – which actually made it even harder for us to raise money. So, I am doubtful we will get support from the NRCC to help with the expense of the recount.

Right now, I lead Bob Etheridge by 1,600 votes. That lead should hold up. But we can’t take anything for granted. We must leave no stone unturned to insure a fair recount. We cannot allow the kind of mishap that happened in Minnesota – when Al Franken was elected – to repeat itself in North Carolina.

This morning my campaign manager set up a special fund – Renee Ellmers for Congress Recount Fund – to pay for the recount. I never dreamed I’d be asking you for another donation two days after the election – but I need to raise $50,000 ‘yesterday.’ The maximum you may give is $2,400. Each contribution – whatever the amount, whether it’s $25, $250, or $500 – is crucial and will be deeply appreciated. Could you send a donation and mail it today? Or, better still, click here, to give on my website.

I apologize for asking for another gift so soon – but I am sure you understand.

As ever, thank you and best wishes.

Renee Ellmers

It's bad enough Etheridge is trying to steal this election, but hey, he's a democrat, it's what they do. What I find totally unacceptable is how the Republican “Good Old Boy Network” has treated Renee, especially the NRCC, a group whose entire reason for existing is to elect Republicans to Congress.

For the NRCC to tell Renee Ellmers, a registered nurse and successful small business owner she's “not ready for prime time” is an incredible insult. It also proves we still have a lot of work to do, and MUST defeat these establishment Ruling Class elites who run the NRCC, as well as their inept buddies over at the NRSC, who royally screwed the pooch through their efforts in the Senate.

First things first though.

Renee needs your help. Stop by her website here, and donate. We need to make sure the Carolina Strangler is not allowed to steal this election.

After that, stop by the NRCC website or better yet, give them a call at 202-479-7000. Tell these geniuses you don't appreciate them insulting our candidates and let them know they had better get behind Renee on this one.

Thanks.

Gary .

Sarah Palin: This Is Our Morning In America

SarahPAC just released this brand new video, announcing that it is indeed, Morning In America! A new day, a hopeful day. In the video, narrated by Sarah Palin, we are treated to an optimistic vision of the future. A future filled with success and freedom.

This video also gives a glimpse of what sort of campaign Sarah will wage, should she run for President. In the  tradition of the great Ronald Reagan, Sarah is going to be bold, painting her vision in bright bold colors, not drab, pale pastels.

The numbers are not final, as some races are still to close to call, but after endorsing 94 candidates in local, state, and national elections, 60 won, 27 lost, and 7 are still undecided as of this writing.

Sarah had a special "Take Back The 20" effort, targeting 20 democrats who won House races in 2008 in districts she and Mccain won. The results of all of the races brake down as such:

Take Back The 20: 18 winners, 1 loss, 1 undecided

Governors endorsed: 9 winners, 1 loss, 1 undecided

United States Senators: 7winners, 3 losses, 1undecided

United States House of Representatives: 44 winners, 23 losses, 5 undecided

Sarah also endorsed three state's Attorneys General with Texas' Gregg Abbott and Florida's Pam Bondi winning.

Beth Chapman, an other endorsee, won re-election as Alabama's Secretary of State, though Scott Henderson who was running for the State House in Hawaii lost.

You can see the entire list of endorsed candidates at Texas For Sarah Palin.

Organize4Palin has Sarah's Class of 2010 with complete details as well.

These sort of results are unprecedented. Proof that Sarah Palin is a great leader and knows how to choose a winning team.

You can help keep this winning effort going too. Stop by SarahPAC today: www.sarahpac.com

Judgment Day!

From Austin, Texas: Carolyn Wonderland, one of today's greatest guitar slingers, to get you fired up and ready to vote!

For the Marxist-democrats coast to coast, it's Judgment Day indeed.

Crank it up, watch it on full screen, then get out there and VOTE!

The Greatest Bob Hope Movie Line Evah!

OK, maybe not the best Bob Hope line, but it's damned funny!

This clip is from the 1940 Paramount film: The Ghost Breakers, starring Hope, Paulette Goddard and Richard Carlson.

Now, get out and VOTE!!

More Media Shenanigans: Delaware TV Station “Forgets” To Air 30 Minute Paid Christine O'Donnell Ad. TWICE!

Is everyone as sick of our corrupt media as I am?

We have a real threat to our Republic. A society cannot survive with a free and honest press. America no longer has one. Nowadays the media serve as operatives for the democrat party and will do anything to further the agenda.

No doubt everyone has read Stacy Drake's excellent coverage of the attempt to smear Joe Miller in Alaska by the local. CBS News affiliate. If not, this is essential reading.

In the case of Miller, the CBS affiliate was caught discussing ways to create a story about child molesters, when no story existed. They also hoped to somehow stoke a violent outburst, such as what happened at a Rand Paul rally, in order to effect the out come of the election.

What is it with CBS anyway? This is the same bunch who destroyed their reputation by doing insane things like making up stories, complete with phony documents, about George W Bush's National Guard record, 60 days before the 2004 presidential election. This got both Dan Rather and his producer Mary Mapes kicked to the curb.

This is the same CBS that had hours and hours of tape on Sarah Palin, with Katy Couric, and cut and spliced it to fit the narrative CBS and their democrat masters wanted pushed.

This is the same CBS that frequently runs bogus push polls on Sarah Palin as well. Polls that do not match any other polling out there.

I think, at this point, we can say CBS is a corrupt new organization, and can never be trusted.

I tell ya though, all of this seems to pale by what's just happened in Delaware.

We all know Christine O'Donnell is in a tough battle to defeat Harry Reid's pet bearded Marxist, Chris Coons. She's been surging in the polls, and has closed the gap. Looking to take advantage of this huge momentum, Christine's campaign bought time on Delaware Channel 28, in order to air a really slick, well produced 30 minute infomercial. It was to air Sunday night and then Monday morning.

The spot never aired. The station's excuse? They blame O'Donnell, of course. What a joke these people are.

From the Washington Post:

Christine O'Donnell is taking a page from the playbook of Barack Obama. The Republican Senate candidate has produced a 30-minute television advertisement in the form of a documentary chronicling her connection with the people of Delaware.

But unlike Obama's ad at the end of the 2008 race, the tea party insurgent's campaign has run into obstacles getting it in front of voters before Election Day. The campaign did not purchase advance time on networks in the Philadelphia or Delaware markets, said a source close to the O'Donnell campaign, and the networks did not have time available to air the ad on such short notice.

So O'Donnell turned to a public access television station, Delaware Channel 28. She told supporters at a Tea Party Express rally on Sunday in Wilmington to watch that night at 11:30. "Tell everyone to tune in," she said at the rally.

"1 minute until the premiere of our 30 minute feature. Tune in to meet all the heart warming people I've met on the campaign trail. Ch. 28," O'Donnell tweeted Sunday night.

But the ad never aired.

A few minutes later, O'Donnell tweeted: "Okay... this is NOT our show! Must be a programming mix up. We will get back to you..."

The source, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive campaign operations, said the station "forgot to air it."

Then on Monday morning, O'Donnell's campaign issued a press release saying the ad would air on Channel 28 at 10 a.m. The candidate tweeted: "The Inspiring TV show about Delawareans will air at 10 aam and 3 pm today on Channel 28. Please watch this before you vote."

And again, it did not air.

"This isn't our show either! We are told channel 28 'forgot' to air it...both times... even though we paid for the time slot last week," O'Donnell tweeted shortly after 10 a.m.

For the station's part, again, they blame it all on Christine O’Donnell. Let's say their cock and bull story is true. That only holds true for Sunday night. Why wasn't this video ared on Monday morning as scheduled? The TV station's story just doesn't add up. Doesn't pass the laugh test. Read more here.

The ad is scheduled to air on Channel 28 twice each on Monday and Tuesday, at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., and that the campaign is negotiating on Monday for an airing on WBOC-TV, the Fox affiliate in the Delmarva Peninsula.

The left is facing historic losses in this country. The American people have absolutely rejected the democrat party and the Obama regime. With that said, these people will not go quietly into the night. They will throw everything they have at the Republicans. The media, of course, will be willing partners in all of this.

Here's the great video the O'Donnell campaign has put together. The best we can do is help make it go viral.


We the People of the First State from Friends of Christine O'Donnell on Vimeo.