Sarah Palin: America Desperately Needs a “Come to Jesus” Moment
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, September 22, 2012, 6:25 PM
Sarah Palin encouraged the Romney-Ryan to “Go Rogue” today in a letter to the Weekly Standard.
Sarah Palin says America needs a “Come to Jesus” moment and the Romney-Ryan ticket needs to deliver it.
The Weekly Standard reported:
“With so much at stake in this election, both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan should ‘go rogue’ and not hold back from telling the American people the true state of our economy and national security,” says Palin. “They need to continue to find ways to break through the filter of the liberal media to communicate their message of reform.”
Palin also suggests that Romney and Ryan can be responsible for an epiphany on this country’s fiscal standing. “America desperately needs to have a ‘come to Jesus’ moment in discussing our big dysfunctional, disconnected, and debt-ridden federal government,” says Palin.
“It is nothing short of appalling that President Obama couldn’t even remember how much our national debt is during his interview with David Letterman the other night. Even my 10-year-old daughter knows that it’s $16 trillion, and unlike Obama, she’s not responsible for adding trillions to it. Obama casually told America that we don’t have to worry about our debt in the ‘short term.’ Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan need to ask him how long that ‘short term’ will last.”
Palin adds that Romney and Ryan are being “counted on” to get this right.
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Red commented:
Wtf is a “come to Jesus” moment?
donh commented:
#1 Come to Jesus moment..> http://youtu.be/tL7s_bwgjZM
regularguy commented:
It has become offensive, to me, that anyone could consider Sarah Palin to be anything but eminently qualified for President, when compared to the lunacy we face daily with the current “leadership.” She’s dead on, almost every time she speaks her mind.
dba vagabond trader commented:
She is correct, we are lacking those who present our side with clarity. Gingrich would be a good choice to deliver the preamble but Romney and Ryan must step up. imho bringing up the medicare mess was ill timed, as much as it must be addressed it can wait til after the election. It has scared people and we need to be fearless right now in order to rid us of these commies.
Robb commented:
Agree Vagabond. But the (oxymoron alert) republican leadership in DC is so bloody afraid of the media that they hold back. They do not nor will not understand that most citizens have nothing but contempt for that same media.
Militant Catholic commented:
Love Sarah! Hate the goddamn media for crucifying her for absolutely nothing when, for four years, we’ve put up with the utter stupidity of the Obama/Biden horror show. Go Sarah!
Holger Awakens commented:
regularguy#4 – I couldn’t have said it any better myself. So I won’t.
Thank you.
Militant Catholic commented:
Romney/Ryan winning will only be step one. Holding their feet to the fire will be the real challenge.
Ace commented:
“Obama” campaign manager admits MSM polls are fake…say repubs are stronger nationally…but still insists “Obama” is winning.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/messina-forget-the-tied-national-polls-were-win
Texas_Treeroach commented:
I have to agree with Palin. It’s really better that we come to Him first with some sort of an appeal, rather than wait for Him to show up and set things straight once and for all, without one.
Oliver commented:
Sarah’s right, but I’m not optimistic it will happen. Axelrod is a a genius when it comes to political spin — in fact, I’ve never seen anyone better. Makes me wonder how he sleeps at night. Anyway, here’s an example of how good he is, and what R&R need to do to combat it.
The Obama folks KNEW, in advance, that Mitt’s best argument was that he is a “fixer” — a man with a proven ability to turn bad (economic) situations into winners. The first instinct for most folks would be to counter that argument with examples of his failures. But what Axelrod did was to create the narrative that “everything is fine” and the economy is improving. By doing that, he/they pulled the rug right out of Mitt’s greatest strength. i.e. If things are improving, you don’t need a fixer. And let’s face it, most people desperately want to hear that everything is going to be fine, so they’ll actually swallow the Obama BS. It’s pure evil genius.
If Romney backs off his argument that the economy is a complete disaster, people will take it as confirmation that Obama is right, that things are getting better.
Romney’s best bet is to keep hammering home — with concrete examples — just how bad the economy is. For eg. the debt clock should be in EVERY ad, along with images of foreclosure signs, and going out of business banners, etc. Then and only then will his greatest strength — his ability to FIX THINGS — resonate with voters.
john b commented:
Barky did not “forget” what the debt figure was — he just did not want to speak its “name”.
Opaobie commented:
(Credit to Bill Federer or American Minute)
He sat in the pew next to George Washington in New York’s St. Paul’s Chapel during the religious service following Washington’s Presidential Inauguration.
He helped ratify the U.S. Constitution and was a Congressman from Massachusetts.
On August 20, 1789, he proposed as the wording of the First Amendment:
“Congress shall make no law establishing religion, or to prevent the free exercise thereof, or to infringe the rights of conscience.”
His name was Fisher Ames.
Fisher Ames compared monarchy to a republic, as recorded by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Politics (1844):
“Monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; whilst a republic is a raft, which would never sink, but then your feet are always in water.”
Of the American Republic, Fisher Ames wrote in 1804:
“We now set out with our experimental project, exactly where Rome failed with hers. We now begin, where she ended.”
Warning against the temptation to increase government regulations, Fisher Ames stated:
“To control trade by law, instead of leaving it to the better management of the merchants…(is) to play the tyrant in the counting house, and in directing the private expenses of our citizens, are employments equally unworthy of discussion.”
In Dangers of American Liberty, February 1805, Fisher Ames warned that democracy without morals would eventually reduce the nation to the basest of human passions, swallowing freedom:
“A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction.”
Fisher Ames commented, January 1788:
“The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness, which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be, liberty.”
When George Washington died in December of 1799, Fisher Ames delivered a eulogy titled “An Oration on the Sublime Virtues of General George Washington,” February 8, 1800, at Boston’s Old South Meeting-House, before the Lieutenant Governor, the Council, and the two branches of the Massachusetts Legislature (Boston: Young & Minns, 1800). In the eulogy, Fisher Ames stated:
“Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits…It is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs rulers.”
One of the most famous orators in Congress, Fisher Ames stated that no one could be eloquent “…without being a constant reader of the Bible and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.”
Yep, this nation needs a “Come to Jesus” moment in the worst way.
Oliver commented:
#13 – of course not, but as I said above, a $16 trillion debt doesn’t fit with the narrative that everything will be fine. He’s very good at staying on message.
Oliver commented:
by the way, here’s what Sarah really meant by “come to Jesus moment”:
A “come to Jesus moment” refers to a dawning, epiphany or agreement following a disagreement. It refers to when the light blub comes on and you understand something or make a critical decision.
This is what I’m talking about too — when people finally WAKE UP and realize the economy is a disaster and 4 more years of Obama will only make it worse.
Ghost commented:
#1 and #2
belong in the Conservative Blogosphere Hall of Fame, back-to-back just like it is here
#1 – was not an innocent question, it was sneering impudence
#2 – the Best Answer, and better than Pontius the Red deserved
#14 – Excellent!
Larry Walker Jr commented:
Yeah, if this isn’t a “Come to Jesus” moment now, then when?
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