It seems every other day that you see another poll about who will be the GOP nominee for 2012.  Most show Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich as the front runner and Sarah Palin close in 3rd place.   I don’t know about you but I always wondered who these people are that the pollsters talk to.   I have never been asked for my two cents which is a good thing because if someone called me they’d probably get twenty bucks worth.

At any rate I decided to gauge the front runner in another way…  Facebook!

Here are the top three and how many people follow them.

Mitt Romney    445,389

Newt Gingrich    62,559

Sarah Palin    1,900,454

Now who is the front runner?  Even if one generously cut Palin’s number in half for haters and the media,  while giving Romney and Gingrich 100% of their followers assuming they are all “friendly”,  Palin still comes out on top!

It took us long enough but we now have a Facebook page.  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Moms-for-Sarah-Palin/142105152473015?v=wall

I know I’m showing my age but I remember when the boogieman lived in Russia. Growing up I felt we didn’t know much about what went on behind the Iron Curtain. I knew that growing up I heard stories of how people that had to wait in lines for food or even for toilet paper. We learned that these peoples’ jobs, houses, lives were chosen for them. That they didn’t have the choices that we had. It presented us with a clear contrast of what it was to be an American. How if we failed it was up to us to try again. We grew up being told we could be whatever we wanted.

The children, teens and even young adults don’t know about what we knew about. With the fall of the Berlin Wall people gained their freedom and I’m thankful that I got to witness that piece of history. When the wall came down though we lost our constant reminder of what it was not to be free. Ronald Reagan told kids in his farewell address that if your parents aren’t telling you what it means to be an American to call them on it. Now we as parents need to call ourselves on it and teach our kids what a truly wonderful place America is. Because if we don’t teach them someone else will teach them differently.

It’s all about moms and grandmas rising up to take our country back and make it the best place on Earth for our little ones.

According to People.com Levi is singing a whole different tune.  He has said he apologized to the Sarah and Todd in private but said he felt since he talked trash in public he should publicly apologize as well.

You can read all about it here.

A friend of mine posted this on my facebook wall:

I was wondering what you thought of all this tea party business. I really don’t know much about it, I’ll admit. I respect your opinion though, so I’d appreciate your thoughts on it

Then the same friend commented:

After looking at your pictures again, I think I just answered my own question. I should have known you’d be right in the middle of it carrying the banner.

This was my response:

If only I had a horse!

In short it’s about the fools that think because we work and go to our kids soccer games that they can do whatever they want and the fact is they were hired to do the right things for all the people. Instead they are busy spending money like crazy… seriously who would hire anyone in our government to be their personal accountant? We’d be sittin’ there like Nicolas Cage!

And instead of honest debate they want to call the people of the Tea Party names…. distracting from the true issues and they are hoping we’ll back down because nobody wants to be labeled crazy, teabagger, or racist. Last time I looked the U.S. debt didn’t have anything to do with mental illness, sucking balls or the color of a persons skin.

This isn’t a football game where it’s the donkeys vs. the elephants. This is we the people vs. the government. This weekend we’ll stuff our faces and watch fireworks but we should remember that BRAVE men and women put their lives on the line so that we would be free from a king. They had this awesome idea that we are the rulers and our elected officials are the servants and sadly that is becoming less of a reality and more of a chapter in a history book.

When someone like Joe the Plumber asks a question and gets an honest answer and our media attack him… that’s not my country!!! When the media protects the government instead of fairly informing the people… that’s not my country!!! When our sitting president stands up and mocks the citizens because they don’t agree with him… that’s not my country!!! When congress passes bills that the majority is against… that’s not my country!!! When a president would rather defend people here illegally than protect the interests of the country’s citizens… that’s not my country!!!

So let them call me a redneck for the things I believe and I’ll stand up proud and say, “Thank you!”

When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. Thomas Jefferson

Have a safe and Happy 4th July!

Sarah Palin spoke at The Oil Palace in Tyler, TX on Saturday June 26th.   Once again she asks Obama to take some responsibility and quit blaming others.

Kick him in the knee

Rah rah ras

Kick him in the other knee!

I have my pompoms out cheering on Palin with every tweet, every Facebook post, and every commentary. She is just hammering Obama relentlessly!  While I haven’t been posting here I have still been paying attention.  My kids laugh that I get her tweets on my Blackberry.

I know I haven’t been around much but I do have five children and sometimes life calls.  Rest assured though if Palin announces a run for the White House… I’ll be buying paper plates and my children will be eating pizza more than not.  I better get my penny bank fat too because I might just need a maid.

I’ll leave you with this question:

Do you believe if the McCain campaign would have let her speak her mind we would have seen a whole different Sarah back then?  Or do you believe she has gained more experience and confidence over time?  Or both?

I just had to share this video!  The video is funny but is also a serious slap in the face to those who have criticized Arizona’s immigration law but haven’t even read it.   Please pass this on!

http://securetheboarder.org

Via Palin’s Facebook Page:

This has-been ball player/Wasilla Warrior would like to send a shout out of support to the Highland Park High School Giants Girls Basketball Team in Illinois. These girls have been working, having bake sales, and saving money for months in order play in a hoop tournament in Arizona. They’ve won their school’s first conference title in 26 years, but now because a school bureaucrat – an assistant superintendent – wants to play politics, they’re not allowed to play ball.

Keeping girls off the court for political reasons? As I said last night in Illinois: “Them’s fightin’ words.”

The assistant superintendent claims that a trip to Arizona “would not be aligned with our beliefs and values.” But apparently the school has no problem sending kids on trips to China, which has a population control policy that is anti-girl in practice – contributing to female infanticide and abandonment and sex-selective abortions. So, is China – with its many serious human rights violations (too many to list here) – “aligned” with the “values and beliefs” of the school? But our sister-state of Arizona is not? Really? This is ridiculous and totally unfair to the girls who just want to play ball. Going to Arizona to play in a tournament will not endanger them, and the ban sure doesn’t solve the problem of unsecured borders.

These boycotts of Arizona will not help the state or lead to positive change. Economic and political boycotts of our nation’s 48th state will hurt all Arizonans – including all members of the Hispanic community. If people really want to help, they should tell President Obama to do his job: secure the border. If he were to do his job, the good people of Arizona, who have been overwhelmed by violence on their border, would not feel compelled to do it for him.

In the meantime, let’s help the girls “go rogue” and go play ball. Please take a look at this Facebook page set up on their behalf.

Let’s have our own bake sale! Let the girls play ball!

- Sarah Palin