California: Draft Sarah Palin as a Write-In Candidate

                    "And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make
                      it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. This
                      vision is for a future time. It describes the end,
                      and it will be fulfilled. If it seems slow in coming,
                      wait patiently, for it will surely take place. It will
                      not be delayed."  - Habakkuk 2:2 - 3


The Sarah Palin's Earthquake Movement is sponsoring two petitions to draft Sarah Palin in the California primary election and the general election. The group urges you to please consider the petitions seriously, then sign and share the links to your family and friends. Thank you very much.

(Note: There are two petitions in this post: the first one is a California petition to draft her as a write-in candidate in the California primary election in June 5, 2012 while the second, which you will find under the California petition, is a national petition for the general election.)

CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS ONLY

Dear California GOP Voters,

We, the Sarah Palin's Earthquake Movement, are asking you to join us in our efforts to draft former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as a write-in candidate in the great state of California. It is not too late. The filing deadline for a write-in candidacy in your state is May 15, 2012. (Note: We are also exploring the feasibility of a national draft for Sarah Palin. Please see details at the end of this letter.)

President Obama in 2008 promised to usher in an era of hope and change. Yet the country's mood right now is gloomy and pessimistic.101% debt-to-GDP ratio. $5 gas price at the pump. High unemployment rate. Unresolved housing crisis. More people on food stamps than ever. Businesses closing shop. If there is a state that understands the pain of these problem, it IS California.

We need a new leadership and "the challenge is not simply to replace Obama in 2012 but the real challenge is who and what we will replace him with." We need someone who will bring sudden and relentless reform to Washington. We need a leader with an incorruptible character and a steel spine to dismantle crony capitalism and the permanent political class in our nation's capital.

Unfortunately, in this year's primary election, the GOP frontrunner is a deeply flawed, weak, flip-flopping, can't-connect-with-a-Joe-six-pack, stiff liberal guy from Massachusetts whose core convictions are as solid as a jello: Mitt Romney. The other candidates, are now dropping hints or are making behind-closed doors deals with the Romney team to save their own political aspirations.

Mitt Romney's campaign has recently confirmed that his "severe conservatism" can be easily shaken and erased like an Etch-A-Sketch. With his shifting positions on issues depending on who he is running against, how can he be trusted to keep his campaign pledge to repeal Obamacare? How much would it take him for him to shake off his election promises when they no longer serve him politically?

Mitt Romney is well ahead in this race, thanks to his six years of non-stop campaigning for the presidency and the unabashed support of the GOP establishment. The Republican Party has been very clear in their support of the former Massachusetts governor, openly advocating voters and delegates to get behind him.

Mitt Romney cannot be trusted. California deserves better. America can do better.

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has always said that she does not need a title to make a difference. Last October, she announced that she would not be seeking the GOP nomination for the Presidency in this year's election. Indeed, great leaders are those who are reluctant to serve, who seek neither power nor title to do good. They are CALLED to serve. Just as our past presidents George Washington and Dwight Eisenhower resisted the encouragements for them to run for office, they eventually stepped up to the plate and served our country well and honorably. Please let Sarah Palin know that she is now being CALLED to serve.

This is the most consequential election in our time. Another four years will seal the president’s disastrous fundamental transformation of America. The difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama and their records cannot be starker.

Sarah Palin gave Alaska a surplus of $14B, earning the last frontier state a Triple A credit rating. Barack Obama has added $4.939T to our national debt since he took office and gave us a credit rating downgrade for the first time in history. Sarah Palin took on the corrupt system and signed the most sweeping ethics reform in Alaska. We are yet to see a single "greedy fat cat", as Barack Obama likes to call those who were responsible for our country's financial meltdown, be brought to justice. Yet these are the same people who grace this administration's fundraising events, donating big bucks to his $1B reelection war chest. Sarah Palin believes in American’s work ethic and independent spirit that we are free and able to achieve anything. Barack Obama believes that you cannot succeed without government’s help, thus his policies are to increase more cradle-to-grave , unsustainable, unfunded social programs. Sarah Palin looks to our Constitution as the ultimate compass in governing. Barack Obama sees it as a living document subject to change according to his whim and his political convenience.

California has the power to lift this cloud of malaise and pessimism brought about by President Obama. Do not allow the GOP establishment to stifle your voice. On June 5, 2012, YOU will have the chance to set things right . Make your vote count. Write Sarah Palin in.Please sign our petition HERE and let Sarah Palin know that her leadership is badly needed in Washington. Let her know that you will fight alongside her in putting our country in the right track. Let her know that she has the grassroots support to defeat Barack Obama and his socialist agenda. She's always had our backs, it is time to let her know that we've got hers.

Thank you for your support and please remember, it is not too late.

God Bless America,

Sarah Palin's Earthquake Movement

here is the website for the CALIFORNIA PETITION:

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/california-draft-sarah-palin-as-a-write-in-candidate.html

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NATIONAL PETITION

Dear Voters,

We, members of the Sarah Palin’s Earthquake Movement, ask you to join us in our efforts to draft Sarah Palin as a candidate for President in the general election of 2012. Help us to bring a true common sense constitutional conservative to the White House. Please sign our petition HERE. Let Sarah Palin know that her grassroots supporters are here - strong, ready, willing and able to fight with her, to take our country back.

This is the most crucial and consequential election in our time. In its outcome depends whether we remain the UNITED States of America or a nation divided, a once-super power crippled by its enormous debt and lost of its national identity.

Barack Obama once famously that that “there are no red states or blue states, there is the United States of America. Yet as president, he has proven himself to be master at class warfare, dividing and pitting us against one another. In his America, there is the 1% and the 99%, the greedy fat cats of Wall Street vs. Main Street, the job creators and his union base, even inserting himself in cases that only heighten racial tensions. Without regard to the separation of powers under our Constitution, he calls our Supreme Court justices “unelected group of people” and governs by fiat, circumventing the Congress at every possible turn. Oblivious to his own hypocrisies and clueless in solving the problems our country is facing, he’ll lay blame on everybody but himself to cling to power.

Unfortunately, the GOP is offering an alternative who is as just as full of rhetorics, whose shifting principles and commitment to issues put a weather vane to shame. Mitt Romney will say anything and do anything to win votes. He has run as a liberal, as a moderate and as a conservative, depending on who is running against. His own campaign has confirmed that his “severe conservatism” is built like an Etch-A-Sketch that can easily be shaken and erased to fit what the general election audience would want to hear.

For such a time as this, we need a proven leader whose message and track record of public service are one and the same. We need a strong leader whose words can be trusted. We need a leader who fought corruption and has the scars to prove it. We need a leader who will dismantle crony capitalism and fight the permanent political class head-on. We need a leader who will restore a government of the people, by the people and for the people. Very importantly, we need a charismatic leader and a candidate who can excite the base and bring the voters to the polling booths. THAT LEADER IS GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN.

Please sign our petition and let Governor Palin know that she has the grassroots support to defeat Barack Obama. Please join Sarah Palin’s Earthquake Movement and request to be added to our group. We will link you up to our state groups where like-minded Americans who are working hard to help Sarah Palin in her mission to restore America’s exceptionalism. Let common sense, civility and the Constitution rule the United States of America again. Sarah Palin will do just that.

God Bless America.

Palin 2012
Sarah Palin’s Earthquake Movement



Here is the website for the NATIONAL PETITION:

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/we-deserve-a-better-choice-it-is-governor-palin.html

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(Note: Petition letters were authored by this blogger.)

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A Letter to Governor Sarah Palin

                          " ... As thy days, so shall thy strength be."
                                                                - Deuteronomy 33:25


Dear Governor Palin,

May this letter find you and your family well and in good spirit.

You have spoken and written about your coming of age during the Reagan years, when America was filled with hope, optimism and prosperity. On the other side of the globe, I came of age in an era of turmoil, in the Philippines, during the dictatorship of the late Ferdinand E. Marcos, whose administration was marked by all-out corruption, cronyism and political repression.  Martial law was declared, unfavorable news were suppressed and journalists simply disappeared or died of "natural causes". Our savior came in the person of Maria Corazon C. Aquino. Propelled by the People Power Revolution and the military that abandoned Marcos, “Cory", as she was lovingly called, ousted him and became the Philippines’ first woman president.

When you first came on national stage in 2008, you reminded me so much of Cory Aquino; two women of high intelligence, honest and incorruptible characters, unshakeable faith in God, spines of steel and five kids. But you have one thing that Mrs. Aquino did not have: EXPERIENCE. You knew the inner workings of a government, saw what ails it and fixed it. You saw first-hand the sources and  symptoms of corruption and fought them successfully in Alaska. As sincere as her intentions were, Cory was never really able to clean up the government. Hence, two and a half decades after her tenure, sad as it is to state the truth, the Philippines is still mired in unscrupulosity and political paybacks and back-slapping.

For such a time as this, your experience is what America direly needs.

Just like you, I do not believe in coincidences. Everything happens for a reason according to God's will and His timetable.

I first wrote to you three years ago. If it weren't for one striking fact, that letter was completely regrettable (I was a Democrat then who had no clue as to the depth of your knowledge on policies and issues. I had no business offering any suggestions to you. I just knew that the way the media treated you was enough reason to prompt me to read up on your record and vote for you and Senator McCain). Without intending to,  that letter was dated January 20, 2009. As I was sealing the envelope, which I had marked "Common Sense Path to the White House in 2012", I happened to look up at the TV screen and saw Barack Obama, with hand on the bible, take his oath as the new president. It was his inauguration day. With the letter in my hand, the first thought that crossed my mind was, "Is it a sign from God that today Sarah Palin begins to fight back and redeem her name?"

Watching you for the past three years, with the media throwing everything worse than the kitchen sink at you, and you, in return, throwing them into a convulsive tizzy at every turn, it seems like the answer to my question above is a resounding YES. 

From the daily media onslaught of malicious attacks and concocted lies to the Tucson shooting, your calvary has been heavy. But God does not put us through these tests simply to make us suffer but to strengthen us for what awaits us down the road. As knives sharpen knives, iron hardens iron, so it is with you as God prepares you to be battle-tested and battle-ready.

Watching you carry yourself and conduct your life, it is clear where you derive your fortitude and courage: from your FAITH. Taking on Team Obama and the left will be a Goliath vs. David battle of our time, or like a  Six Days War when the Israeli nation of 3 million people had to fight against the armies of 100 million Arabs. The Left's agenda has been a cancer that is eating away at the fabric of our nation's character and history, shackling our economy and stifling our freedoms. To untangle its wide web and extricate its deep roots are gargantuan tasks that would take extraordinary grit and leadership, which I believe in my heart, is what God has been preparing you for.

My prayers are always with you and your family. With everything that has been put upon your shoulders, I find comfort for you in Deuteronomy 33:25.  "Thy bars shall be iron and brass; And as thy days, so shall thy strength be."  Whatever the battle, you are strong. Whatever the test, you are ready. Whatever the challenge, you have the answer.  For when you stay true to God's Words, you've got the strongest shield that you'll ever need.

As an immigrant who is now privileged to pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States, there will be no greater honor than to call you Madame President on January 20, 2013.

President Obama has brought about these dark clouds of malaise hanging all over our country. Please bring back Morning in America.

Most sincerely,
NaLa

The Fluke That Was the $3000/Year Contraceptive Costs

                     "For each will have to bear his own load."
                                                       - Galatians 6:5 ESV

A co-ed named Sandra Fluke made a splash in the media and the blogosphere after she testified before Congress advocating for insurance coverage of free contraceptives by religious entities (her school, Georgetown University, being one of them), as mandated under Obamacare's birth control provision.  Religious groups, especially the Catholic Church, strongly oppose this mandate as it infringes on the Constitutional basic right to religious freedoms and on their faith's tenet of opposing unnatural birth control methods.  What grabbed the most headlines, though, was her claim that " birth control costs her up to $3000 a year" causing her, as a student on public interest scholarship, undue financial burden. Her testimony stirred even more controversy after radio show host Rush Limbaugh called her a "sl*t" (he has since apologized). President Obama himself also made a personal call to Fluke thanking her for speaking about the concerns of American women and to "tell her parents that they should be proud of her."

In her testimony, Sandra Fluke stated that "conservative Catholic organizations have been asking: what did you expect when we enrolled at a Catholic school? We can only answer that we expected women to be treated equally, to not have our school create untenable burdens that impede our academic success."

Fluke needs to be reminded that schools and  universities, religious or not, exist to promote academic success so that young people can be positive contributors to our society, be it in the field of medicine, technology, education, or research and development. Nowhere in any single school's platform or goal can it be found to encourage students be active participants in fulfilling the carnal desire of their communities.

Fluke may be an unabashed advocate for women's reproductive justice but sexual activities are NOT Constitution-guaranteed rights but are personal, private choices made by each individual. No one has the right to require his/her classmate, neighbor, pastors/priests or the American taxpayers to pay for their personal, recreational bedroom pleasures. A little common sense tells us that if you cannot afford to buy your own contraceptives, then please practice some self-control. Nobody dies from a celibate way of life. But the most sensible thing to do is to ask your partner to split the bill. After all, it takes two to tango and so it is with the cost of their own private escapades.

I was going to do the math and check the accuracy of Fluke's claim of $3000 per year costs of contraceptives but found this clever nugget from a certain Dennis Dev, posted on Facebook on March 2nd, 2012. This is what Mr. Dev had to say:

"Ok, so let me get this straight - Sandra Fluke says that she has so much sex that she can't afford the birth control because she is a college student and it is putting a strain on her budget and her social life at Georgetown University. She says birth control protection costs her $3000 per year, a whole summer's salary!

Ok, so why didn't anyone at the congressional hearing or in the media challenge that $3000 figure? Where's Bill O'Reilly when you need him? Why didn't Rush Limbaugh challenge this figure? Ok, I will!

According to Planned Parenthood, the pill costs between $15 and $50 per month, depending on type used. Let's see: that comes to between $180 and $600 per year - not even close to the $3000 figure. Is she lying or what?

So, what does Sandra Fluke use for birth control that costs $3000/yr? Oh, maybe it's condoms! Let's see, condoms at Walmart run $11 for a pack of 40 LifeStyles Ultra Sensitive condoms, and between $9 and $18 for a pack of 36 condoms, depending on brand. So, lets assume she buys the economy pack- 40 condoms at $11 per pack (why aren't the guys buying the condoms?). At $3000 per year, that's 272 boxes of condoms per year, or 10,880 condoms per year. Wow, is that a lot of sex or what?

If you do the math and divide 10,880 condoms/yr by 365 days/yr, she goes through 29.8 condoms per day (and guys - no one guy I know could do this), 365 days per year, and she wants us to believe that and pay her for it! When does she have time to go to school? And she and the media and the Dems are outraged by what Rush Limbaugh said about her? To top it all off, Obama calls her today and congratulates her and tell her that her parents should be very proud of her! Yea, right - I'm sure all of you would be very proud of your daughter if she did this and then publicly announced it and wanted others to pay for it. Give me a break!"

As amusing as Mr. Dev's take on Ms. Fluke's testimony, if it was ever humanly possible to be this sexually active, even the simplest elementary math cannot add up to a $3000 contraceptive costs that she claimed, unless, in her calculation, she also added the hidden costs of sometimes unintended consequence of sex - abortion. After all, when you are having this much fun, who wants to be punished with a baby? Sandra Fluke and her peers cannot be inconvenienced with an unplanned pregnancy. No wonder then that she finds support and encouragement from the most uncompromising abortion advocate-president in our nation's history.

It is unconscionable, if not downright twisted, for Fluke to lobby Georgetown University (which she is attending on her own free will)  for free birth control coverage, which subsequently includes abortion, when abortion is an act that is very much against  the core doctrine of the  Jesuit faith.

It is also utterly deceitful of Sandra Fluke, and Rep. Nancy Pelosi who called her to testify, to frame her testimony as a fight for women's "reproductive rights" and "health issues" when we all are smart enough to know that the ultimate purpose of this hearing is to protect and advance the abortion cause. Because when babies are being aborted, what exactly are they "reproducing"? When doctors decry the use of simple laxative as a dieting tool, how is it promoting women's health when fetuses with beating hearts are purged out of their mothers' bodies with pills or through surgical procedure?

I was not part of the party-crazed crowd back when I was a college student. My parents paid for every bit of my education so I did what they expected me to do - hit the books. Now that I am a parent myself with a child in college, I am not so sure which is more frightening: (1) that we are raising a generation who feels entitled to other people's money and displays the outrageous audacity to demand that the American people pay for the cost and consequence of their actions in their "pursuit of happiness", or (2) our president, the leader of the free world, who openly applauds the likes of Sandra Fluke for exercising their reproductive rights but, with equal audacity, lays the financial responsibility and accountability of their personal, recreational choices on the laps of the taxpayers then demagogue the rich and our job-creators at every turn for "not doing their fair share."

If we as a people have not prayed for common sense in a long while, I think it's high time that we get down on our knees and ask, for the sake of our country's future stewards, for some serious divine awakening ... otherwise, as a nation, we're screwed.

Rest in Peace, Andrew Breitbart

              "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe
               also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it
               were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place
               for you. "     - John 14:1 -2


Big Hollywood has just announced the sad passing of a conservative icon, Andrew Breitbart, who reportedly died of natural causes.

Mr. Breitbart, who remained true to his passion and mission - to speak truth to power - till the very end will be remembered for fearlessly standing up for the voiceless and the defenseless, for exposing the truths that the left-leaning media would never report, for never letting the powers-that-be intimidate those who dared question their words.

Rest your soul in peace, Mr. Breitbart. You carried out with pride God's purpose for you on earth. You fought for the conservative values and principles of this great country. You had been Governor Sarah Palin's feistiest defender. We have lost a great friend and an ally. Your name will be etched among the most courageous of men who had the clarity and sincerity of intention of demanding that ony the truth be told.

With gratitude and longing in our hearts, you will be missed, Andrew Breitbart.

In the Event of a Brokered Convention, All Bets Are Off

                 "Careful planning puts you ahead in the long run;
            Hurry and scurry puts you further behind." - Proverbs 21:5 MSG

If Sarah Palin’s most electrifying speech at the CPAC did not convince that only she can articulate Americans’ concerns and vision for our nation, then Obama has just been handed his second term. The CPAC event proved that only she  can rouse the unexcited base to their feet. Only she can energize and move voters to go out to the polls. Only she can unite us to defeat Barack Obama.

The Republican Party has four good men running for the GOP nomination. Without a doubt, any of them could do a much better job than our current president  is doing right now. However, it is highly uncertain how these men would withstand the avalanche of relentless and coordinated attacks of Team Obama, the Democratic machine, the Journolists  and their LSM cohorts come general election time. Make no mistake that the Obama campaign will make sure that this election would absolutely be about smear after vicious smear because the president cannot run on his dismal and disastrous record. Only one Republican has survived the Alinsky attacks  from the Left for years and came out still standing - stronger, wiser and prouder. We all know that person to be Sarah Palin. Only she has the smarts to throw the media into a convulsive tizzy and still have her message ring out loudly and win the argument.  

This year's Republican primary season has been a very fluid race.The rise-and-fall in the polls of the candidates plus the lackluster enthusiasm of the base make credible all the talks about the realistic possibility of a brokered convention. If a brokered convention is what we end up having, "all bets are off". We need to nominate someone who has the fortitude and fire in the belly to defeat Obama - Sarah Palin. But she would need allies in Tampa. Voters pick their candidates but delegates pick the nominee. PLEASE BE A DELEGATE FOR SARAH PALIN. That is the only way she can clinch the nomination.   

If you have not considered it yet , please explore the possibility of becoming a delegate. Your state’s delegate filing deadline may or may not have passed yet. Even if your state's primary/caucus has wrapped up, the qualifying period to be delegates may still be open. Different states, different rules but the best place to start is to go local.  Even if Governor Palin is not a candidate (yet), let your county GOP official know that you will vote for the best candidate at that time, but in the event of a brokered convention, you will be voting for Sarah Palin.  Please visit GOP Convention 2012 . It has everything one needs to know per state (contact information, filing deadlines and selection process, etc.) to become a delegate . Here is another good resource from RNC for Life with compressed view of delegation selection process and filing dates.

Today, some of us may be in support of one of the declared candidates but we all share ONE goal: get Barack Obama out of the White House. If this primary race goes down to a brokered convention, we need to come together and get behind the strongest Republican to take on the incumbent president. We must nominate someone who has the clear and proven track record of true reforms, of fighting corruption and cronyism from their very roots and symptoms, of actual accomplishments that have had real-life benefits to the people and of unwavering commitment to our Constitution, our freedoms, time-tested values and principles.  Given a brokered convention, we must coalesce around a patriot whose message is ingrained in her conservative character - Sarah Palin.  

Let us stand together to restore America!

Pledge of Support for Governor Sarah Palin

               "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
                 I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff,
                                they comfort me. " - Psalm23:4 NIV
                                                          

(The following text was a cover letter I wrote for "Pledge of Support for Governor Sarah Palin", a project undertaken by Sarah Palin's Earthquake Movement.)  February 11, 2012 Dear Governor Palin, In your interview with Tom Sullivan on Fox Business Network, you stated that “I don’t have the organization I think that could propel me to a position of being a viable candidate.” Sad as it was to hear those words, we, your supporters beg to point out that there was one word missing in your statement: YET. Your grassroots supporters “will not wave a white flag and go along to get along ... and will not recapitulate.” You remain the only rogue maverick who will actually shake things up and do what needs to be done in this country. Your tenure in Alaska as a governor, and indeed your whole political life, is a manifesto of how things are done and how things get done - for the good of the people, pure and simple. Our country right now stands on the precipice of history. Another four years of the Obama presidency will entrench the ugly transformation of this nation that Americans did not want or ask for, nor our Founding Fathers envisioned this country to be. There is only one counter-weapon to President Obama’s billion-dollar war chest: We The People. There is only one counter-weapon to the left’s Alinksy rules of engagement: We The People. There is only one counter-weapon to the GOP establishment’s business-as-usual and backroom workings to anoint a nominee for us: We The People. The only leader out there who has the full trust and confidence of We The People is YOU. We are asking for your leadership to bring sudden and relentless reforms in Washington. We need you to take back the White House for all of us. We need you to be our President in 2012. We promise you, we will be there for you and with you. You will not fight this fight alone. On behalf of the Sarah Palin’s Earthquake Movement, please find attached “Pledge of Support for Governor Palin”, which the group gathered via Facebook and e-mails in just 10 days. We will not abandon you and all that you represent because we will never abandon America. Back in the 2008 elections, the Democrats opened the Pandora’s Box and the only good thing that came out of it was HOPE. But that hope was not Barack Obama. It was YOU when you were picked as a VP running mate. We The People are keeping that hope alive. Your army of Davids awaits, ready, willing and able … full steam ahead in 2012! Will you please lead our battle cry - GAME ON? (Please read the Pledges of Support for Gov. Palin here.)

Happy Birthday, Governor Sarah Palin!

                               " The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord
                                  make his face shine on you and be gracious
                                  to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and
                                  give you peace." - Numbers 6:24 - 26 (NIV)


(The following text was originally posted on Sarah Palin Earthquake Movement).

Dear Governor Palin,

On this special day, please enjoy these heartfelt messages from your supporters, grateful for your continued fight to get this country back on the right track, and thankful to God for giving us a leader who holds up high the torch of freedom, hope, common sense values and principles that make America the most exceptional nation on earth.

Happy Birthday and may today be a most wonderful day for you and your family!

(Please read the rest  here.)