On April Fool’s Day this year I unwittingly predicted the future.
Ok, I was a little off, but I jokingly announced that Sylvestor Stallone was producing a Hollywood epic called Ordinary Barbarians about the pro-Palin blogosphere and our bloody battles to defend Gov. Palin and save America from socialism. I had some folks really going for little awhile. Ha! (Remember, Sly is a Palin fan.)
Little did I know at that very moment our real-life special ops warrior and award-winning filmmaker Steve Bannon actually was hard at work producing an epic, The Undefeated, a brilliant film chronicling Gov. Palin’s political battles, which all of us now know will be screened in 10 cities later this month.
Sometimes I have a weird way of getting things almost right … purely on intuition. I should be working for homeland security, I swear. Ok, maybe not. I probably would have missed the underwear bomber, too.
But, I thought it might be fun on this all-American, and apparently Republican holiday to try my hand at some more predictions for the next 12 months and beyond. Who knows, I might be closer to the truth than we know!
(Oh, and let me know your predictions, too!)
1. Governor Palin’s announcement date
I predict she will announce the day after Section 9 finally gives up in utter frustration and swears off C4P for life. Sorry I can’t be more precise here, but that is my gut feeling. Oh, and hang in there, S9. We love ya. And the sooner you give up, the sooner it will happen. I’m kidding, you know?
2. The unconventional campaign
I predict Karen Allen and Organize4Palin will play a huge role in spreading the word about Palin’s whereabouts and campaign events. Palin will grant off-the-cuff interviews to just about any reporter who shows a willingness to work hard and report fairly. Local news outlets will enjoy a wealth of riches covering Palin, as the major national news venues endure a frustrating blackout. More reporters will be forced to actually report than ever before in the history of presidential politics.
3. Money, Money, Money
Money will come pouring into the Palin campaign, and she won’t even have to turn off her website’s AVS (Address Verification System) as Team Obama did in 2008 which allowed unlimited anonymous credit card donations with no legal ramifications. Alas, no donations from Dora the Explorer or Palestinian nationalists will come in for Palin, but the Palinistas will come through bigtime for the Guv. I predict that even a few of the old guard GOP donors will be writing checks out to “The Future President Palin’s Political Action Committee.”
4. The Primaries
I can’t really get a good read on how the primaries will play out. I don’t have a strong impression. Will Palin come out on top in Iowa, narrowly lose New Hampshire and win South Carolina? Who knows? Polls are not my thing. You’ll have to ask Techno. I just predict that Palin will win the nomination in the end. Mark my words. It’s not gonna be close. A bandwagon effect will start to emerge, for sure.
5. The Turning Point
This is where my special prognosticating powers could prove stunningly accurate. I have a gut feeling, and have had it for quite some time, that we are going to witness a sea change in the media, in Hollywood, and among the American populace. There is going to be a mass realization that the media lied in 2008, that we were sold a bill of goods, and when enough people wake up to that, we will see an unprecedented shift in public opinion, even among some liberals.
I already see signs of this shift when you consider the warm reception Governor Palin received in her predominantly blue state One Nation tour. I see signs of this shift when I see the work of Thomas Schmitz who is Organizing4Palin in Los Angeles or Randy Avila, who works with an East L.A. pregnancy crisis center and encounters many Hispanic Palin supporters. I see signs of it in my own “blue” Pennsylvania neighborhood when I encounter closet support for Palin. There seem to be more and more of these anecdotes.
Ronald Reagan, the most conservative and arguably most vilified president ever, won in a blowout in 1980 and 1984. (Heck, even John Lennon apparently was a Reagan fan.) I think we may be headed to Reagan blow-out territory. Techno might disagree. And I won’t take anything for granted. We have to work, and work hard. But once the populace turns on Obama, you’ll know it’s coming.
Afterall, how many more bizarre press conferences can Obama give like the one he gave this past week where he whined incessantly about the corporate jet tax break he himself signed into law in his bittlerly partisan stimulus bill while accusing Republicans of failing to lead?
“I’ve been here,” Obama said. “I’ve been doing Afghanistan, bin Laden, and the Greek crisis.”
Even my non-political husband was wondering what Obama meant by “doing Afghanistan.” Is that a Chicago colloquialism? Or did he pick up that expression at Harvard?
Thankfully, I’m quite confident the churlish Obama presidency will end in 2012. And it seems only fitting that it ends with the inauguration of a true patriot, Sarah Palin, who has been fighting this presidency for going on three years.
One last thought about America on our day of celebration.
In a July 4th message two years ago, President Obama declared that “as long as some Americans still must struggle, none of us can be fully content.” First Lady Michelle Obama echoed that exact same phraseology recently in a fundraising speech in Boston, once again declaring war on struggle.
I want to point out that struggle gives us liberty, struggle gives us the ability to work through challenges, to learn and grow, and to rely on our own ingenuity. Struggle is, indeed, part of our pursuit of happiness, enshrined in our founding documents. Without struggle, there is no happiness. Without struggle, there is no freedom. There is no way for any government to eliminate all struggle – within the confines of a Constitutional Republic and without permanently bankrupting the Treasury. It seems that “eliminating struggle” is more of God’s domain than government’s, anyway, and it probably includes wiping out evil and selfishness, too – a divine task if ever.
So, on this 4th of July, I will drink a lemonade toast to John Lennon’s late-in-life “Republican” conversion, and to “the struggle” that all of us face, regardless of our station in life, while thanking God for this great country that grants us all the privilege of struggling and reaping the predictable rewards of our efforts.
Happy Independence Day to Ordinary Barbarians everywhere.
When my predictions come true, I’ll see you at the inauguration!
Maybe Sylvestor Stallone and Steve Bannon will be there.
Imagine all the people … It isn’t hard to do …
So what do you predict?
