The establishment media loves a good fight – especially a fight within the Republican Party that allows them to attack conservatives – so the Sarah Palin vs. Karl Rove smackdown is a twofer for them. The problem is that the more they play up the alleged “fight,” the more they make Sarah Palin’s case for her.
Rove’s beef with Sarah Palin goes back to the height of the 2008 presidential campaign and it is really nothing more than elitism and economic self-interest in their rawest form.
The applause for Sarah Palin’s electrifying speech at the 2008 GOP Convention had barely died when Rove began to criticize Governor Palin and make it pretty clear he thought she was unqualified to be President.
Given the history between Karl Rove and the McCain team, Rove was never expected to be a fan of the 2008 GOP ticket, but this was something deeper.
It seemed clear to many observers that what Rove was really saying was not that Sarah Palin lacked any specific experience, skills or knowledge that he thought a President needed to have, but that he just plain didn’t like what she was all about. (To sign our letter to Karl Rove telling him we are outraged by the disrespect he has shown Governor Sarah Palin and her supporters, go to http://www.conservativehq.com/article/12638-petition-support-governor-sarah-palin )
Palin’s degree from a western state university, instead of an eastern Ivy League college; apparently not good enough to be President in Rove’s eyes.
Sarah Palin’s professed love for the joys of family and small town life; according to Karl Rove’s kind of thinking, she must lack the sophistication necessary for the salons of Georgetown and Washington, DC.
Governor Palin’s deep and public profession of her Christian faith; to elitists like Rove, that’s a sign you are a superstitious airhead, not a believer in a power greater than mortal man, who calls all people to goodness and salvation through Jesus Christ.
All of that was bad enough, but what big government Bush Republicans, like Karl Rove, really didn’t like was all of the Sarah Palin supporters who suddenly materialized in their thousands to agree with her criticism of Washington’s bloated political establishment and the cronyism upon which it thrives.Sarah Palin’s professed love for the joys of family and small town life; according to Karl Rove’s kind of thinking, she must lack the sophistication necessary for the salons of Georgetown and Washington, DC.
Governor Palin’s deep and public profession of her Christian faith; to elitists like Rove, that’s a sign you are a superstitious airhead, not a believer in a power greater than mortal man, who calls all people to goodness and salvation through Jesus Christ.
Sarah Palin was rocking the boat and inflaming the masses and that would never do.
If all those people from the heartland, who support Sarah Palin (and who provide the manpower to make the phone calls, work the precincts and cast the votes necessary to elect Republicans) ever figured out they were the victims of a big insider joke -- and that guys like Rove get paid millions whether Republicans win or lose -- then there would be a rebellion of monumental proportions that would end Karl Rove’s multimillion dollar gravy train.
What’s more, it would end government by the interchangeable urban elites (like Rove) who run Washington as a principle-free zone where it doesn’t really matter which Party is in power, as long your lobbying shop or law firm or consulting firm keeps its Rolodex fresh and the revolving door spinning with enough dollars.
And criticism of the interchangeable urban elites who run Washington was the one key point in Sarah Palin’s speech to CPAC (rather than her jibe about his abysmal record in the 2012 election) that most likely got Rove’s attention. It is because Governor Palin was calling for a radical change in the GOP status quo that would break the rice bowls of a lot of Republican insiders.
When Rush Limbaugh said the Republican Party’s national leadership is out of touch with its own base, “Whether they like it or not, the Republican Party’s base is sufficiently large that they cannot do without them – and their problem is they don’t like them. It really isn’t any more complicated than that,” he pretty well nailed the basis for the feud Karl Rove chose to start with Sarah Palin, and her supporters, back in 2008.
Palin rocks the boat, that’s why Rove and company just plain don’t like her and the millions of voters who share her views.
We think the best way for grassroots conservatives to show their support for Sarah Palin is for all of us to follow her advice “to imagine leadership that deems to understand us little people, us clinging to our God, our Guns, our Constitution and our grassroots – imagine leadership that actually takes seriously the idea of government of the people, by the people, for the people…” and then to push Karl Rove and his elitist pals aside to make that kind of leadership a reality in the Republican Party and among our elected officials.
To sign our letter to Karl Rove telling him we are outraged by the disrespect he has shown Governor Sarah Palin and her supporters go to http://www.conservativehq.com/article/12638-petition-support-governor-sarah-palin
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