Some of the other 2012 GOP contenders strike me as the sort who will be very surprised by what crawls out of the media’s Hellraiser puzzle box after they win the nomination… especially the ones that want to run as “moderates.” Sorry, fellas, but nobody to the right of this radical President is going to be anointed as a “moderate” once the general election campaign begins. If you don’t fill out your Tea Party application now, rest assured the press will do it for you next year.
The media has no surprises left for Sarah Palin. She handled their combined onslaught when major news outlets were openly calling her an accessory to murder in the Tucson shootings. Not all of her potential 2012 competitors were quick to stand by her side, but they should have been. If you can’t swiftly and forcefully defend your party’s tireless, highly visible former vice-presidential candidate from such disgusting slander, what kind of Republican are you?
I want Palin to run because she’s a candid voice in an age of lies and deceit. Her running mate in 2008, John McCain, buried his own candidacy in a shallow grave by refusing to speak candidly about Barack Obama’s shady background and penchant for falsehood. Palin did that, and was excoriated as a “bomb thrower” in the media. She was right. Everything she said about Obama was right. We’ve lost trillions of dollars and millions of jobs because not enough voters listened to her.
◼ John Hayward, also known as "Doctor Zero!" is a regular contributor to Hot Air (www.hotair.com), one of the top conservative opinion sites on the Web. He is a frequent guest on the Rusty Humphries radio program, syndicated nationwide. His work has been cited on the air by Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, and other commentators, as well as the organizers of Tea Party rallies around the country. He is the author of Doctor Zero: Year One.
