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Shallah Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 12:11 AM
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Why Palin really quit - to rally far right & religious base like she did before
Edited on Mon Jul-13-09 12:13 AM by Shallah Kali
Why Palin really quit - to rally far right & religious base like she did before

Palin’s Sense of Duty to a “Higher Calling” - IS the Answer!

This is a rallying cry! She is not kidding when she states that she is not retreating - but advancing. Once the decision was made by herself and other contributors to her decision as to how to best utilize Palin’s extraordinary popularity to advance the power and resurgence of the GOP, resignation was the ONLY option that makes sense for the following reasons - because she is now free to traverse this country unencumbered by official duties AND:

1. Excite and ignite her base - a base broader than that solely of the GOP, bringing together extremists, Libertarians, Constitution Party members as well as GOP loyalists - all under one umbrella in a way that no other republican candidate has been able to achieve to date;

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3. They can capitalize on her ability to generate untold numbers of evangelical extremists to register to vote significantly increasing the likelihood for success in local and national elections;

4. And, while everyone debates over “will she/won’t she” regarding 2012, the GOP strategists are winding her up to let her go on the 2010 campaign trail in an all out effort to dominate local, state and congressional seats – by riling the masses into a pitched fervor through propaganda over Obama = Bad! Using all the scare tactics and fear-mongering popular in GOP campaigns such as Muslim, socialism, debt, non-aggressive defense posture, and the terrorism threat to the safety of our country;

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Understand this…she is a devout believer in her role in the “Great Commission”. Therefore, to stay on as a “lame duck” governor really does NOT make sense in terms of furthering the GOP goal of taking back the majority in Congress, and do what they have done best since 1976 - ramp up campaigns from school boards to city councils/assemblies to state legislatures to U.S. Congress - and ultimately 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.


Palin’s Churches and the Third Wave Series

Series of Documentary Videos and Supporting Articles in Palin's Churches and the Third Wave Series

The following are links to articles and videos that have been posted on Talk2action.org in an ongoing series, documenting the massive and radical shift in global Christianity propelled by the closely related New Apostolic Reformation and Third Wave movements. Some of the articles below focus on the relationship of Sarah Palin's Churches to those movements. Others features a broader treatment of the New Apostolic Reformation and the Third Wave < for an overview, see, especially, the special report below > : New Report Documents Activities of Spiritual Warfare Network Tied to Palin http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/10/29/23723/734/

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The New Apostolic Reformation/Third Wave

The New Apostolic Reformation is a recently institutionalized Protestant sect that emerged from specific Pentecostal and Charismatic movements, sometimes referred to collectively as the Third Wave. These are revivals of a 1940s and 1950s movement named as a heresy by the Assemblies of God at that time. The New Apostolic Reformation can now be defined as a distinct movement with a unique theology. The central figure in the movement, C. Peter Wagner has organized the sect structure and defined its primary theology. He declared 2001 as the beginning of the new Apostolic Age. Wagner’s extensive Apostolic network includes 500 Apostles from the U.S. and 42 other countries, each with their own network of churches and ministries, some with hundreds or even thousands. This network is interconnected with other Apostolic networks around the world who share media, conferences, schools, and training, and revivals.

The major tenets of the adherents of this sect include the belief that we are living in the final years before the return of Christ. However, they differ from other Fundamentalist Protestants in their belief that they must defeat evil on the earth and purify the existing churches before Jesus can return. Furthermore, the building of this “Kingdom of God” is not to be delayed until after the Rapture, or to be built in a heavenly sphere. They believe that they have a mandate to build the Kingdom in the present and in the physical realm. In preparation for this task, this final generation is being “imparted” with special supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit that will allow them to wage spiritual warfare and take control of the earth from the devil and an array of demons. The mandate for building the Kingdom includes their current Seven Mountains strategy for the taking control over government, arts and entertainment, media, education, family, religion, and business.

This effort includes extensive mission work around the globe featuring their well developed spiritual warfare strategies which have been published in books and videos. The goal of these spiritual warfare tactics is to take cities and communities from the territorial demons that control theses geographic areas and that they believe prevent their efforts in planting their own Apostolic churches. Spiritual warfare around the globe includes the goal of taking control of cities through the expulsion of witches and demons, and the conversion of Roman Catholics, Jews, Muslims, and all other religions. They also believe that there must be a civil war in the Protestant church during this “Third Reformation” in order for them to purify that institution before Jesus can return. The movement has an extensive focus on youth, with several leaders specifically prophesying that those born after 1973 are to be the trainers and warriors for God’s army.

Link here to chronological list of the over 50 stories on Sarah Palin published at Talk To Action
http://www.talk2action.org/?op=search&offset=0&old_count=30&type=story&topic=sarah_palin§ion=&string=&search=Search&count=50
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 12:12 AM
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1. Let's wait & see about the book deal & so on first.
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nini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 12:18 AM
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2. I think she's just a narcissist who can get more attention not being gov.
I think money she can make by her 'book' and speeches to the brain dead are more appealing and lucrative.


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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 12:20 AM
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3. I think this gives far too much credit
for rational and logical thinking on the part of Palin than she is really due.

She wants the $11,000,000 advance that HarperCollins is willing to pay her for her autobiography. She gets half of that as soon as she signs the contract - after she leaves her job as Governor, that is - and she gets the second half when she turns in the ms, and it is deemed acceptable.

Take away the cost of the ghost writer and the agent's 20%, and that leaves Palin with a nice hunk of cash. Cash she couldn't touch if she were to stay in office. And she was haunted, I'll wager, by the idea that her story would become less and less valuable, she would become more and more invisible, in the next eighteen months that she was to remain in office.

She'll now appear anywhere, for any group, for any reason, just because she's a spotlight junkie.

But, the more she appears, the more she dooms her chances of ever going anywhere in politics. Her thickness, her general stupidity, her appalling ignorance of government, law, history, economics, anything beyond how to gut a fish, will be as obvious as they were during the campaign, and people will be - as they were during that hideous run with McPOW (who owes the country a great big apology) - turned off.

Every time she opens her mouth, she cheapens herself and diminishes her value, even as a novelty act.

She's Kato Kaelin, and she'll do anything to stay in the spotlight, but she lacks substance, and so she is doomed.

But I'm gonna love watching her................................
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Shallah Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 12:39 AM
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4. She thinks she's chosen for a purpose and knows stadiums full of people went wild for her
do I think she will become President? no. Do I think she is likely to stir up more hatred and radical elements helping raise money for right wing religious canidates? Yes.

It is not that I believe she would win a clean election - it is the damage she will cause in the process of just running that concerns me. Ignoring her probable impact is unwise. For decades experts said religion was over, the fundies can't win. Well they didn't win this last time but they still did damage with W even if he didn't give them free reign and still have influence w/Obama's admin or why do we STILL have any faith-based anything much less officies in just about every branch of the government??? argh.

Sorry. Again she might be a joke to most but not to all those cheering crowds who shouted slurs and lies about Obama during campaign rallies. In a country where more people vote for American Idol than vote stiring the radicals could be enough to win congressional and senate elections.
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 12:44 AM
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5. So All Told, She Still Only Appeals To 20% Of The Electorate...
Probably less. Real telling was at this year's CPAC coven...the convention of the most rabid right wingers and she only drew 20% in the straw poll there...even with Hucklenutz and barely ahead of Gingrich.

This article fails to mention the large number of rushpublican moderates and independents this lady chase away last year...probably costing the GOOP 5-10%.

I hope she hears that third party siren call...it's been the death knell for other far more intelligent and charismatic politicians.
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katanalori Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 12:46 AM
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6. OP is CORRECT
Palin will be front and center in the fight to turn the U.S. into a Theocracy. These people have infiltrated the military and the government. The C Street House is finally being exposed (thanks Rachael Maddow).
I take what the OP writes seriously.
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juno jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 02:03 AM
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7. Thank you, Shallah.
I remember you were one of those who were pointing out the reality of The Family and the third wave dominionists way back last year before it got the attention of the mainstream.

Keep it up! :hi:

K&R!
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Trajan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 02:24 AM
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8. WAY too optimistic ...
The story, that is ....

Palin has a base ? ...

Libertarians ?

HAH ! ....

Palin helped SHRINK the GOP base with her strident pronouncements ....

I say: This is wrong, but I can only hope you and everybody else believes it ....

I am pretty sure the American people are STILL offended by calls of 'Kill Him' ....
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PretzelWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 02:26 AM
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9. unrecommending on principle. Tired of "Celebrity Dipshit" reminders.
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 05:33 AM
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10. only if there's some money to be made.
making money is her top priority.
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