A Suggestion for Sarah Palin

It appears that, after her candidacy for the Republican renomination to the U.S. Senate having been defeated by challenger Joe Miller, incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski has decided to run in the November election anyway as a write-in Republican candidate. This is yet another example of how some people are so addicted to the aphrodisiac of State power, they will do anything to remain inside the beltway. You will have to drag Murkowski out of DC kicking and screaming, apparently. Like most of the parasitic inhabitants of DC, Murky is a typical representative of the bureaucratic version of a heroin addict.

Sen. John McCain is another example. McCain has been oozing in Washington for many, many decades, literally a fossil attached to the side of the Russell office building where he spends his time siphoning from America’s producers while scheming up new ways to compromise America’s prosperity and security.

McCain was endorsed for reelection in the Arizona Republican primary by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, obviously out of loyalty, given that her ideologies are much, much closer to those of J.D. Hayworth, McCain’s primary opponent. McCain won his renomination bid, but I have a suggestion for Sarah Palin. Palin ought to withdraw her endorsement of McCain, and instead endorse the Libertarian Party candidate, David Nolan. Palin should do this because, despite her recent statements regarding the importance of GOP victories this November and a GOP majority in Congress, she has also made clear her belief in moral values and should show that her love for America is greater than her loyalty to a political party.

I have already written about how getting Republicans into office has done no good, from the Reagan tax increases that reversed the economic benefits of the Reagan tax cuts, to Reagan signing every bloated budget Congress gave him and adding whole new bureaucracies, to the 1994 Republican Revolution doing nothing but spending recklessly and increasing the size and power of the federal government, to George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism” expanding the size of the U.S. government at home and abroad, leading to the current collapse of the economy, as well as the destruction of Iraq and Afghanistan.

George Washington (who?) had a disdain for political parties. His party was no party. In his Farewell Address, Washington stated,

…Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.

This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy…

…Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

I mentioned Sarah Palin’s apparent belief in moral values. I believe that John McCain has no real sense of moral values, and one main example can be found in his laborious and concentrated effort to cover up evidence of hundreds of Vietnam vets being left behind in Vietnam while others returned home. As Sydney Schanberg notes in that linked article, the mainstream press never really had any interest in covering that issue during all these years of cover up. Had there been any reporting on this story, it is doubtful McCain would have even won the Republican nomination for president in 2008. I am assuming that Sarah Palin hasn’t read the lengthy article linked in this paragraph, because I assume that, if she had read it, she would not have endorsed a character as loathsome as McCain.

Sarah Palin should seriously consider withdrawing her endorsement of McCain, and endorse Libertarian candidate David Nolan. The people of Arizona actually do have a real choice in November for U.S. Senator. Now, as far as I’m concerned, America is being destroyed by the federal government. There never was a need for a centralized bureaucracy and military Leviathan in Washington, and getting rid of the federal government completely and letting the states have their independence and sovereignty back will be the only way to save America. However, as long as we have a federal government and a House of Representatives and Senate, then at the very least we should get people in there who actually understand the values of limited government and decentralized control, and who have actual experience in the business community. The Republican Party has shown for many, many years that they do not understand these basic American values.

For me personally, I am not a Libertarian Party member, nor do I particularly care about any political party or politics, and frankly, I share Lew Rockwell’s contempt for politics in general, and would prefer that, if there must be a president (which we do not need), I see nothing wrong with Ron Paul (who will be 77 in 2012), or, even better, Jacob Hornberger. And I also have some disagreements with Nolan, but they are minor.

Sarah Palin has nothing to lose and everything to gain by endorsing Nolan rather than McCain, as Nolan is solidly in favor of reducing the size and power of the federal government, believes strongly in our right to bear arms and our right to self-defense, and wants to restore our civil liberties and the right of presumption of innocence and due process, as well as repeal ObamaCare and repeal the new Dodd financial regulatory bureaucracies. And also, unlike McCain who has spent his entire adult life feeding at the public trough, Nolan has spent four decades working in the private sector.

While McCain brought her into the national spotlight and advanced her public career by choosing her as his 2008 presidential running mate, Sarah Palin needs recognize what a thoroughly hideous criminal leech McCain is, and she needs to completely detach herself from him. Withdrawing her endorsement of McCain and instead endorsing David Nolan is something Sarah Palin should seriously consider.