By M Joseph Sheppard, AMERICAN THINKER
It would be the height of churlishness for even the most inveterate leftist to deny the import of someone who made Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” list, and then the Smithsonian Institution’s “100 Most Significant Americans Of All Time” list. Both affirmations were earned by former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
To then accept Governor Palin as “American Achiever of the Year 2014” would be for most, if not all on the left (and to be fair, many in the GOP) no doubt a bridge too far. However, such partisanship should not stand in the way of a general acknowledgement of what was a remarkable year for Palin.
Palin achieved what such luminaries as President Obama did not: a place in the Smithsonian’s prestigious “Most Significant” list. After being written off by many in the media, and especially the left, as “irrelevant” and predicted by MSNBC’s Krystal Ball as “not going to have an effect on the [2014] midterms,” Palin’s record of success of her endorsed candidates was nothing short of phenomenal.
Governor Palin endorsed 22 candidates for various offices during the midterm finals, including senators, governors, lieutenant governors, congressmen, and attorneys general. Of those so endorsed, an incredible 20 were elected – contrasted with, for example, Hillary Clinton’s record of 8 wins out 24 endorsed candidates.
Beyond the success of her endorsed candidates lies a much deeper reason for Palin being seen as “Achiever of the Year”: those Palin endorsed in their respective primaries who then went on to win the general election battles. As in the past with, among others, senators Ted Cruz, Kelly Ayotte, and Deb Fischer, and Governor Nikki Haley, who owe their elections in their primary campaigns to Palin’s endorsement at a critical juncture, so too could new senators Ben Sasse and Joni Ernst, and new Alaska governor Bill Walker (and, remarkably, his Democrat lieutenant governor Byron Mallott) be considered to owe all or a substantial part of their nominations to Palin’s endorsement.
For all her detractors’ cries of “irrelevance” and “she’s just a reality show entertainer” (those two being among the nicer epithets), Palin goes on, election cycle after election cycle, populating Congress with her endorsed candidates in a cost-effective manner, and in such numbers that the likes of Karl Rove with his 1% success rate can surely view only with hidden admiration, if not downright envy.
In what is perhaps the most interesting aspect of Palin’s year of achievement, in instance after instance where Palin was ridiculed for a straightforward statement (e.g., “death panels” or the true history of Paul Revere), her most strident critics have agreed, in whole or in part, with her views. But 2014 saw the most impressive of this historical revisionism.
After Russian president Putin invaded the Ukraine and annexed the Crimea, video surfaced of Governor Palin’s 2008 speech where she predicted exactly that occurrence should then presidential candidate Barack Obama be elected. Palin sounded a deserved note of triumphalism in March:
“Yes, I could see this one from Alaska,” Palin posted on Facebook, saying she said “told-ya-so” in the case of her “accurate prediction being derided as ‘an extremely far-fetched scenario’ by the ‘high-brow’ Foreign Policy magazine.”
“Here’s what this ‘stupid’ ‘insipid woman’ predicted back in 2008,” Palin said. “After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama’s reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia’s Putin to invade Ukraine next.”
Palin’s post has been shared by more than 16,000 Facebook users and “liked” by more than 70,000.
In 2014, Governor Palin is deservedly the “Achiever of The Year.”
SHmuel HaLevi 2 Said:
The Bears, wolves etc. drag the dead salmon in to the trees to eat and what remains fertilizes the forest. Creator’s creation is something wonderful to meditate upon.
@ yamit82:
The truth is that I also can’t drink. Only a Lechaim here and there.
@ mar55:
That goes for me also Phoenix. I forgot to mail you my email. Sorry. My age did not come alone…
@ honeybee:
I got pictures of the stuffed salmon but I do not know how to attach them here.
Salmon lives in the open oceans but comes home to lay eggs, fertilize them and serve as bear food… 🙂
honeybee Said:
Try it and see!!!
yamit82 Said:
Doubt it !!!!!!!!!!
@ honeybee:
@ mar55:
Long journey…
Still ongoing…
@ honeybee:
Now I know I just looked it up. Push me and I will learn. 😉
@ yamit82:
they are both.
@ honeybee:
Thanks, I didn’t know that. I thought they were fresh water fish only.
@ yamit82:
Salmon live in salt water, so Silly, they are salty.
@ honeybee:
Salt water?????
@ the phoenix:
I’ll email you tonight
@ the phoenix:
Welcome back. Where have you been? Have been asking about you. Miss your comments. I was thinking about you last night. We have an old new visitor. CA. came back with his great and only ideas. You came back just in time.
honeybee has been waiting for you also. We all miss you.
the phoenix Said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug75diEyiA0
phoenix Babe !!!!!!!!! I ‘m the sizzle in your dish !!!!!!!!!!!!
@ yamit82:
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
Sounds like a lot of sizzle…
Is there also meat in the dish?
…
yamit82 Said:
You have a problem with that, Boy !!!!!!!!! I hate fish, for me it’s beef, beef or beef.
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
My favorite used to be home made salted fish Vodka or Bourbon’ with cabanas olives or beef jerky My watching football food. My favorite wine used to be Adom Atik simple table wine better in my opinion than most of the name brand expensive labels on the shelves. Meds now have made me a teetotaler. 🙁
@ yamit82:
My FIL lives with us. He is 88+. His Dr. told him to take a shot or two of alcoholic drink before bed. He has very low BP. Buys single malt or the best whiskey around. Great idea that doctor… I also want to adopt that medical routine…
@ yamit82:
Tiny fish… tiny mercury amounts…. Nothing to worry about.
I do not know if you know about tiny fried fish. Those are fingerling, maximum size. Fried in mass. Many decades ago while I was a soldier elsewhere where Gauchos roam, during leave we would visit Atlantic Ocean cities and go to shoreline restaurants, in fact family eateries.
They served a huge pile of mass fried tiny fish, lemons, great wine and garlic home made bread. They are still served in several countries but I cannot find them here. The tiny fish, that is. They are from several species, marine of course. Do you know of a lead?
We also bought at home a lot of salted and dried “bacalao” fish, mostly processed in the North Sea countries. They still make it and sell them but I have not found it here.
@ yamit82:
The reason was that Dad, who was in the livestock wholesale business, received from farmers huge but though birds for sale. For festivities when the whole tribe would come to join us, we needed to cook a massive amount of top grade food. At that time in our vast kitchen we had only charcoal fires and one Primus pump kerosene cooker. We preferred not to use the stinky kerosene fire.
The turkeys taking a bow after having a serious amount of good brandy turned quite tender for their age… 🙂
They transitioned while totally relaxed.
Their parting song was…Guruguru guru rurgururururu 🙂
@ honeybee:
chickens and turkeys???
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
That’s the way I want to check out of this world 4 sheets to the wind. Feelin no pain.
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
When I was stationed in Gaza we caught a small fish larger than sardines I forget what they are called and grilled them ourselves. Really a delicacy.
I buy a lot of Tuna steaks I have them cut thick like a Beef steak and grill or broil them.
I wonder how much mercury I have ingested over the years? 🙂
yamit82 Said:
They swim in salt water, don’t they. silly.
@ honeybee:
Great idea! Dad used to have the turkeys enjoy a long shot of brandy before going to visit the butcher shochet.
If have never seen a drunken turkey, (the feathered ones), you have not seen hilarious.
@ honeybee:
So they don’t need seasoning?
@ yamit82:
We could buy whole salmons at about 10 dollars per kilo but I prefer to have them filleted. I mentioned to HB how does wife stuff that. It is great eating!
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
Mexicans feed their chickens and turkey garlic and chilies and then eat them
@ honeybee:
Funny 🙂
We buy fillet and roll it including the spinach and garlic plus mix. Freeze it and before cooking when still under light freeze slice it about an inch thick and oven cook it for about 20 minutes. Served with a nice green salad and garlic toasted French bread.
Enjoy!
yamit82 Said:
Feed it bread etc., then hit it on the head and throw it on the fire. Silly
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
How do you stuff Salmon? Unless you have a whole fish? Do you?
SHmuel HaLevi 2 Said:
My inner Groucho !!!!!!!!!!
@ honeybee:
LOL How did you know? The MATAMBRE was served with sofrito beans and baked potatoes.
Followed by the heavy soup.
A TWO Alka Seltzers supper.
LOL
The wife is making spinach and garlic stuffed salmon for Saturday lunch. For tonight, POLENTA con chicken mince so it is not heavy
SHmuel HaLevi 2 Said:
And an Alka Selzer.
@ honeybee:
Feliz Anio Nuevo!
Looks great for all Winter long not just New Year.
For the changeover to 2015 I prepared a MATAMBRE ARROLADO. Including all the fillings used in Argentina.
I cooked it in water and the resulting “caldo” we turned into a great soup. Including potatoes, peas, choclo, zapallitos, celery, batatas, little onions, garlic, garbanzos…
To one and all in the fantastic Blog and elsewhere, LECHAIM!
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
Para El Ano Nuevo, una sopa Mexicano.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/ess/Mexican_Chicken_Soup.php3
mar55 Said:
Very true.
@ AlisonH:
Allison, the problem is not her qualifications. The GOP establishment would never allow her to run.
She has all the qualities and qualifications you and others have mention but, she is not part of the political establishment. Reason why the Republican Party keeps nominating losers.
Governor Palin Makes Gallup’s ‘Most Admired’ List for Seventh Consecutive Year
@ yamit82:
We are in sync on it. Yet, knowing the items I doubt the said libruls will join a true challenge. I am ready to have some fun with them.
SHmuel HaLevi 2 Said:
Patriotism for American Libruls consists of hating Jews more than loving America.
Every country has its malcontents and ne’er-do-wells. The best thing to do is challenge them with facts and revel in their humiliation when they are overwhelmed by those facts. Conservative Israelis should publicly critique and ridicule Libruls and Leftists here in Israel and America. No hand wringing. Be vigilant and hit them with the truth. Expose them as supporters of Muslim terrorists who kill Jews. That’s what they are, and it will become apparent when they are confronted.
@ yamit82: May I join this thread? Please…
lubrals will not join us because they are too busy promoting the murder of policemen, helping looters get away with it. besides helping of course Islam keep on slaughtering one and all.
They do have priorities ya know.
I don’t think we are going to have USA elections again for a loooong time.
But, if we did, and NObama got beaten by a woman, I think he would stroke out!
@ Laura:
Thanks for that Laura. I want some Librul to come on Israpundit and argue that Obama is smarter than Palin!!!
That would be fun and entertaining.
I agree with all the comments. I’d vote for Sarah Palin and if I were Israeli I would vote for Mrs. Glick. After Mrs. Palin is President and got to work, she would definitely be one of the 100 most significant Americans of all time. I think Mrs. Glick would make a similar list.
Sarah Palin should run for President alongside either Ted Cruz or Scott Walker in 2016! Mrs Palin can galvanize the American public like no other and she has more spine and courage in her little finger than anyone in the GOP!!
I like Sara Palin, but to list her on the 100 most significant Americans of all time list is going overboard.
There is over 300 comments on American Thinker. Here’s one.
America cannot be better represented than with Sarah Palin for President.
Equally, we must promote Mrs. Glick to be our PM.