Sunday, June 30, 2013

Forget Stephen King. Real Terror is to be found in the pages of a book entitled "Christian Nation: A Novel" where Sarah Palin becomes the President of the United States. Be afraid, be VERY afraid!

Here is an except from the book courtesy of Salon, which follows the death of President John McCain and another terrorist attack: 

It is obvious in retrospect that only an external attack like that on 7/22 could have saved the Palin presidency. Without it, would any of what followed have happened? I doubt it. The Democrats would have recaptured both the White House and Senate that fall. The culture wars would have simmered on, but the evangelical movement’s momentum on the path toward political power would have been lost. I would be installed in my corner office downtown, practicing law. I would probably have children with Emilie. I might be having dinner with Sanjay tonight instead of sitting here with people I really don’t know, trying to remember and record all that happened since then. 

But 7/22 did happen. It was truly horrible, and the American people were understandably scared and angry. 7/22 opened a door, and Sarah Palin walked through it. 

On July 24, 2012, President Palin, for only the second time in the history of the republic, declared martial law over the entire country. Instead of appearing alone in a televised address from the formality of the Oval Office, she addressed the nation from the situation room in the basement of the White House flanked by all the Joint Chiefs of staff, with Vice President Sam Brownback and top consultant Steve Jordan the only civilians present. Her speech was direct and forceful. After 9/11, she said, our enemies had counted on our weaknesses. They knew of our preoccupation with rights, laws, and political correctness of every sort. They counted on it. And what did we do? We acted true to form: no profiling of Muslims; continuing to welcome Muslim immigrants; hauling terrorists into federal courts as if they were common criminals; and having some of the brightest legal talent in the country come to their defense. “No more,” she said. Nearly seven thousand of our fellow citizens died because of it, hundreds of thousands more were heartbroken, and six American cities were still smoldering. This was a war. Islamic fundamentalists were our sworn enemies. each of the eighty-one terrorists had been welcomed to our country like the millions before them seeking freedom and a better life. But they had betrayed us and used our freedoms against us. Thousands more were doubtless still in the country plotting the same betrayal. She swore to find and deport or punish every last one of them. Every one. Nothing would stop her. 

The president reported that the Joint Chiefs, her cabinet, and all her advisors were unanimous in their advice that fighting this war here in the homeland required a declaration of martial law. The protections of the Constitution were not intended for our enemies, she said. Moreover, this was a war to be fought by soldiers, not policemen, and when the terrorists were caught, they needed to be tried in military, not civilian, tribunals. Nothing else mattered. She would devote her presidency to this and only this. The emergency and her duties as president required her full attention. She would not conduct a normal political campaign. She would appear at her party’s convention but would neither debate nor travel the country for public appearances in the run-up to November 6. This was not, she said, a time for politics. If the American people chose to reelect her, her promise was simple: she would eradicate all the other Islamists lurking here in the homeland and keep out any new ones. That was it. She hoped everyone understood her priorities.

Yes. well I have ALWAYS understood her priorities. Which is why I have remained focuses on her, and those who are influenced by her, and those politicians who in some way emulate her.

She may be ridiculous today with her crazy wigs, non-nonsensical word salad, and now dimply lit interviews, but if John McCain HAD been elected we would have seen none of that.

She would have been groomed and packaged, and sold to the American people like New Pepsi. We would know that what was inside was an inferior product, but ooh the package was so attractive.

The above may seem too unrealistic to ever reflect a possible reality, but if you think that you have not been paying attention the last thirteen years.

The book introduces a nightmare scenario, but to be honest it is a reoccurring nightmare that I had for many years before I felt that we had undermined Palin too much, by revealing the truth that she tried so hard to keep hidden, for her to ever be a viable candidate in the future.

For a glimpse into that nightmare just read this: 

On November 6, 2012, Sarah Palin was reelected with 56 percent of the popular vote and an even stronger majority in the Electoral College. Riding the wave of 7/22, the election would doubtless have broken the same way had the Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act not been passed early in Palin’s first term and ultimately survived constitutional review in a 5–4 decision by the Supreme Court. But the election was notable for being the first where the evangelical churches, the threat to their tax exemption removed, spent heavily on political advertising. The mega-churches themselves became centers for partisan political action by conducting elaborate get-out-the-vote and phone-bank efforts and other political activities. The full consequences of this legislation would not be generally recognized until four years later. The other thing driving the 2012 results was the remarkable success by Steve Jordan in forging such a close alignment between the Tea Party and the Christian right that the media had started to call it the teavangelical movement. During the campaign, Ralph Reed boasted that he had the cell phone numbers of 13 million teavangelical voters. 

In addition to the reelection of the Palin/Brownback ticket, the House and Senate both returned to Republican control, and the new Congress included a large number of new members who had ridden an ugly wave of post-7/22 anti-immigrant Christian nationalism.

Yeah I think it will take TWO glasses of wine to help me to sleep tonight.

61 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:33 AM

    There are truths about every politician, but you've done a public service by continuing to highlight the ugly truths that are uniquely Sarah Palin.
    In the future, in addition to monitoring the Quitter, I know you'll also keep us abreast of the other Christianist and Fundamentalists threats to our democracy.
    As well as looking at their financial chicanery and lies. Sarah does have a point, in talking about crony capitalism. She only decided to talk about it, of course, after the big boys in the GOP locked her out of any participation in their machinations.
    So, thanks Gryphen, as always, and to the hearty band of IMers who are on the alert to this threat.

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  2. Anonymous6:34 AM

    This is just like all those masturbation fantasies at the fetid pee swamp: the "unconventional" campaign (like the one she ran in 2012 - and won), the "bad" Muslims, Obama's martial law.... and I've only read a few sentences.

    Who besides the pees that can read would want to read it, much less buy it?

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    1. Maple6:55 AM

      Actually, the author wrote it as a horror story - a forewarning of what could happen in the U.S. if a narcissistic fundie CINO ever became president. She would bring in theocratic fascism faster than you can say the word. To read more, go to the Salon website.

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    2. Lucera7:19 AM

      I'd buy it and read it. I would read it as a reminder to myself to never vote for religious right wing nut jobs EVER! It's important to get out the vote for our side; anybody but Ralph Reed's candidates. I can't stand that weasel! He was on Barney Rubble's show this morning. David Gregory looks like Fred Flintstone's best friend, Barney Rubble.

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    3. Anonymous7:53 AM

      Yeah, and both Reed and Jim DeMint got into a talking-over-one-another debate with Rachel Maddow about state-sponsored vaginal ultrasounds, etc. Jim DeMint seemed to be sayng that it wasn't such a big deal because the women involved wouldn't have to pay for this procedure, an invasion of their bodies by the government.

      Then, on my favorite, the Sunday "Chris Matthews Show," he showed some old tapes from years gone by. On October 26, 2008, the panelists all agreed that the Palin bump had lasted about ten days for McCain, and by the end of October, she was seen as a "shallow and cynical" choice by the Senator, who'd made his name on "Country First." Was she ready to be President? None of them said she was. I think "ignorant" was bandied about.

      So the Palin mystique already had disappeared before Election Day five years ago. It's rather breathtaking that this person, who lost or quit virtually everything in her life, is still able to get on a stage and demand attention.

      I think of her as having gone feral -- a politician outside normal
      society, who can't be tamed, and will turn on anything and anyone in a vicious fight to prevail.

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    4. Anonymous8:15 AM

      Good point, Anon 7:53--except Palin was never really a politician, just a mouth-piece, an empty suit. But as she so aptly demonstrates, she make a good feral mouth-piece.

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    5. Anonymous9:17 AM

      to prevail? nope. To survive on a personal, financial (aka grifter) level? You betcha!

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  3. Chenagrrl6:38 AM

    She would have been our very own Ahmadinejad run by Christian mullahs. When are these fools going to see the wisdom of the separation of church and state? Without it you get mullahs.

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  4. Anonymous6:41 AM

    Our Sarah is getting a lot of press today about her toying with the idea of a third party.
    Of course, she's doing this just before the last day of donations to her SarahPAC for this quarter....Baby needs new shoes, you see.
    But we all should hope that she sees a crack in a door or window that she wants to push through to get to the Freedom Party. It will liven things up so much, and also marginalize the malcontents and true believers who are her tiny following Their money and energy will be spent on her egotistical enterprise, and ensure a victory for Democrats everywhere.

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    1. Anonymous7:11 AM

      Bingo, I too figured it was because there were only 48 hours left to empty your bank account into hers.

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    2. Lucera7:25 AM

      But, but, Ralph Reed said today on the GOP Sunday show that because of the SCOTUS ruling on DOMA that the Republicans will be energized and they will all be ready to vote in more teatards in 2014. Dems better be ready to spend some cash to stop the GOPTP.

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    3. Anonymous7:52 AM

      Well, considering the fact that the VAST majority of Americans support gay marriage and the overturn of DOMA, making it a cornerstone issue will be a big, fat failure.

      Also, I'm pretty sure that DOMA's overturn means that Rubio's lame anti-gay amendment to the immigration bill is null. The federal government now HAS TO recognize gay marriages in states where it's legal. As far as I can tell, that would include immigration enforcement. If you're gay and married to an immigrant, your partner is going to be eligible for a green card, no matter what these idiots think. And if they try to challenge it in court, it will get the same result as long as the court is the same.

      THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS TO RECOGNIZE LEGAL GAY MARRIAGES! Just like it recognizes marriages between first cousins where that's legal!

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  5. Anonymous6:47 AM

    Oh, I get it. It's a comedy.

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  6. Anonymous6:47 AM

    By the way, did you hear who they hired to play the president in the next Hunger Games movie?

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    1. Anonymous8:53 AM

      http://www.deadline.com/2013/06/julianne-moore-poised-to-join-the-hunger-games-mockingjay/

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  7. The reason it's fiction is because it's totally unlikely.

    for one thing, she's not interested in working that hard.

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    1. Anonymous7:13 AM

      But in her imagination it's nothing more than pageant walking to sign bills and then more pageant walking in exotic faraway locations. Just like her governorship.

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    2. Anonymous7:56 AM

      Yep, Anon 7:13. Her rabid supporters never seem to notice that Alaskans, who actually have had experience with her style of "governing," really want nothing further to do with her.

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    3. Anonymous8:16 AM

      I've read the book - it is a horror story that starts with Palin being chosen by McCain and goes from there. Obviously fiction, but way too close to the possibility of xtian takeover of the country as planned for decades according to the story line.

      As for President Palin working that hard...not a problem because SP is president in name only. She does not do the work, is in fact, totally marginalized.

      The idea of a xtian taliban taking over in the US is not as far-fetched as you think. The idea that it can't happen here is wrong. People thought the same about Hitler and the Nazi regime; I'm sure the Iranians and other mideast people did not think the Mullahs and/or Taliban could rule their countries either.

      We need to keep the religious right out of our politics if we want to keep our country on the right track. Already our military is infiltrated with Dominionists at the highest levels, our government is also being infiltrated from the local to the national level. It has been going on under the radar for decades and it only now starting to show to those who are aware of this activity. Gryphen has been excellent in bringing this into our consciousness, particularly through his earlier posts exposing the Dominionist movement.

      We must remain vigilant and we must vote out all those who believe that their god should rule our country rather than following the Constitution.

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    4. Anonymous1:19 PM

      The 700+ bills restricting women's reproductive health care that have been proposed on a state and national level since 2008 prove that the threat of theocracy is all too close for comfort.

      Add to that number the bills that limit voter access, deny women equal pay protection, and force schools to teach incorrect information about sexual health and creationism, and you've got a situation where truth is scarier than fiction!

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  8. Anonymous7:09 AM

    Dafuq did I just read? and who the hell would publish a book like that??

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  9. Anonymous7:17 AM

    I don't see that scenario as being unlikely or impossible with the right set of events leading up to it. That's why the Christo-fascists have to be Constitutionally kept in check as far as their ability to practice politics and decent intelligent people need to stay involved politically in every election.

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    1. Anonymous8:10 AM

      They have plans! Third party AFTER they destroy and take over the republican party by voting for the dems until ALL the repubs are gone. lol
      While most of those at cofpee are just benignly insane, the more radical have been banned and comment at other sites, including
      palin4america.

      (Reposted from the last post):

      This person is stirring up the minions with this latest rant. She was banned from cforp and drops scary comments over at palin4america. This is one of many "dire warnings to conservative Americans:


      IsraeliCojones LS as guest • 15 hours ago
      When the Dems will get a 320 majority in the House and the only Pubs remaining will all be Conservatives, believe me, they won't have any lesson left to learn: they will be out for good.

      Then build on the ruins and you will win.

      As long as you vote for them, they'll keep betraying you, and you'll never stop being screwed by them. This is what they did to you since forever.

      You have to understand something: they hate your living guts, they are your enemies, they also hate - and despise to heavens - that snowbilly Palin who couldn't even get to Haaaavahd. The rube.

      Yes, they hate you, and they laugh at you when you keep voting for them, knowing in advance what they will do to you when in charge.

      They are the Ruling Class and you, you're nothing, except a useful idiot.

      You can't fight two enemies at once.

      You have to defeat the most dangerous one first - the one who pretends to be your friend - and then regroup and fight the one remaining.

      Defeat them all. It's the only way. The sooner you get it, the faster you'll get your country back.

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  10. She would be physically removed from office.

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    1. Anonymous7:38 AM

      By whom?

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    2. Anonymous9:36 AM

      Meem that's whom with a lotta help from you'uns @ IM


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  11. Anonymous7:38 AM

    Another book to read is "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood. It's a novel in the future basicly about what the US would be like if the religious right were in power.

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    1. Anonymous8:20 AM

      It's bone-chilling and wonderfully written. Atwood is Canadian; has found the heart of what theocratic world might be.

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  12. Anonymous8:18 AM

    True - another fictional story that is scary as one can see it happening with the right set of circumstances.

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  13. They could have done a 7/22, 7/23, 7/25 and that insufferable bitch wouldn't come close to even seeing the WH.

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  14. “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
    ~ George Carlin ~

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  15. Anonymous8:56 AM

    http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/06/julianne-moore-hunger-games/66655/


    Okay, well, Sarah Palin herself won't be playing the pivotal role of President Alma Coin in the third (and, yes, fourth) Hunger Games films, but the woman who played her to so much acclaim, Julianne Moore, just might—and in full-on Palin fashion.

    Deadline's Mike Fleming Jr. reports that Lionsgate and director Francis Lawrence are honing in on Moore to play Coin, the duplicitous leader of Panem's rebellion and president of the mysterious District 13. It's pretty much perfect casting. Moore, as we learned from her Emmy-winning performance as Palin in HBO's Game Change, is great at brining out the best in the sleazier elements from politicians, and Coin is definitely sleazy, using heroine Katniss for her own ulterior motives. The character—minor spoiler alert—is ultimately responsible for one of the most tragic and surprising deaths in the book.

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    1. Anonymous9:59 AM

      Seriously, Gryphen, I thought you would have been allllll over this story!

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  16. Anonymous9:23 AM

    Too contrived to hold my interest.

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  17. Anonymous9:34 AM

    Of course the novel gives her too much credit for intelligence. She's a marionette. Someone else pulls her strings.

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  18. I reviewed the book at Amazon, giving it five stars. Here's my review. And if you like it, go over to Amazon and vote me a "pos". I think it's the first review.

    "Lawyer Frederic Rich has written a very scary book of what our country would look like under a Christian totalitarian political regime in his new novel, "Christian Nation". It is as much a precautionary tale as Sinclair Lewis's "It Can't Happen Here", or Phillip Roth's "The Plot Against America", but brought up-to-date to include the leading dominionist and fundamentalist leaders in the United States. The book begins in 2029 with a first-person report by freedom fighter, Greg, who writes about how the United States lost its way and turned into a Christian-Taliban Nation.

    The presidential elections of 2008 marked a turning point in American electoral history, in both reality and Rich's counter-factual novel. Everybody reading this review remembers how close we were to the edge of economic ruin this country and whether you agree with the Obama administration's handling of the crisis once they came to office in January, 2009, (and the Bush administration's financial bailouts) I think you can all agree that we really dodged a bullet. Rich begins his novel with the election of President McCain and Vice-President Palin. Our new president dies early in office and Sarah Palin takes over the office. Seen as a buffoon, she's still supported by her Christian advisers, while the nation slides into an economic depression as the new administration takes no steps to turn the economy around. The automakers go under, taking the supporting industries with them. General unemployment rises to 10% and then up to 15%. Our standing in the world goes down with President Palin at the helm. She appoints Christan supporters to top positions and is faced with a difficult reelection campaign in 2016, until another terrorist attack in summer 2016 frightens the nation and allows Palin to declare martial law. Claiming it's been done during the Civil War, the government suspends certain civil rights. She's reelected to office and she and her administration begin in earnest to turn this once-secular country into a "Christian Nation".

    Frederic Rich is not at all reluctant to "name names" in his book. "Christian" names, dominionist names; those "names" we can all identify today as leaders of a Christianist movement to turn this country "around", getting rid of the sins they sometimes indulge in themselves. Little by little, in Rich's book, our country IS turned around and little difference between the United States "Christian" nation and Taliban-ruled Afghanistan can be found. After President Palin leaves office in 2020 and a close adviser succeeds her in office, the US courts begin to change the legal system to accommodate the new Christian rules. But, there are people in the United States who fight against this takeover. One of them is Greg, a young successful lawyer who is a long-time friend and confident of Sanjay Shama, an Indian-American who has been the long-time Cassandra, warning about the Christianist takeover.

    The novel has other heroes besides Greg and Sanjay. Governor Bloomberg tries to rally the anti-Christianist faction, providing money and man-power to the effort of resistance. Many others aid in resistance, but, at the end, the Christianists are simply too strong, empowered as they were by the laws they enacted, and the country descends into totalitarian anarchy. But we're finally a society free of homosexuality and abortion. We're a nation in the perceived image of Christ.

    Frederic Rich has not written a particularly "literary" novel. But it is a well-written, well-thought out look at the very possible scenario that still threatens our great nation. Read it and begin to look to the future."

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    1. Anonymous12:16 PM

      Good summary. Thanks!

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  19. Anonymous9:57 AM

    Would have preferred Sarah in the WH
    Instead of the Kenyan Muslim Socialist

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    1. jcinco11:16 AM

      go wash your wig sarah.

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    2. Anonymous11:50 AM

      @9:57.

      Yeah, well, you're in the MINORITY on that one, as attested to by the TWO previous elections.

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    3. Anonymous11:52 AM

      Good for you. Go back to sleep, troll.

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    4. Anonymous12:09 PM

      9:57 You would have preferred the Secessionist
      Alaskan Independence Party member Pimp's Wife in the White House? You have been drinking that Dominionist Kool-Aid, haven't you? Who would be her Chaplain, Witch Doctor Muthee?

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    5. Anonymous12:12 PM

      9:57

      Of course you would. George Carlin is quoted above referring directly to you, your family and friends, and your type in general.

      Of course, your dear leader doesn't give a damn about your preferences. She's all about how she can get the most money for doing the least. She's afraid to campaign, because her family secrets will be exposed to the general public. Then her personal ATM, Sarah PAC, will dry up because even the biggest teatards will be reluctant to support the grifter. Of course, that won't slow the really ignorant PeeBots like yourself, but Sarah can't even pay her monthly bill for Vodka with the pittiance that you poor low-info dregs pay to her.

      One day, hopefully soon, you'll learn that ignorance is a lot more expensive than a good college education. Otherwise, keep fucking your sister-wife and wondering why all your kids resemble the Palin kids on IQ and social development. Ciao!

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    6. Yes, I'm sure you would, but your opinion is meaningless because 1) you are stupid, and illiterate, and uneducated, and 2) you obviously hate America.

      Shame on you.

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    7. Anonymous1:46 PM

      9:57 When did Sarah Palin run for President? So you wanted Pimp Daddy Toad and his Family of Wasillabillies having Sex all over the White House? You are as STUPID as they are.

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    8. Anonymous9:57 AM

      Y'all can tell this is a Heath/Palin because they always "miss their periods"

      LOL!!!

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    9. Anonymous7:37 PM

      And that's how we know you're a stupid, America-hating piece of shit, just like all Palin's fans.

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  20. Anonymous10:03 AM

    That is one butt-ugly photo of Sarah!

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    1. Anonymous11:28 AM

      She hasn't been attractive in a photo since the GOP sent a team of attorneys to Wasilla to confiscate the campaign wardrobe that she and Todd tried to make away with without being detected. Oh, she has some days better than others, but she's not even in the same league with how she looked when adults were dressing her and doing her make-up and hair. She's just absolutely trashy these days. Too bad for her. She could've had the GOP on a string...

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  21. Anonymous10:05 AM

    A logical person would look back at the last five years since she was thrust into our ever suffering "oh, please, would you just go AWAY" conscious and say, NO WAY IN HELL could this harpy ever be president of our nation.

    Think of EVERYTHING she's done and said from day one. Just pause and think. She is deranged, and her physical appearance is now mirroring what's inside.

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  22. jcinco10:32 AM

    she looks like sally's twin sister in the picture.

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  23. Anonymous10:34 AM

    What a waste of paper and trees!!!

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    1. Anonymous11:23 AM

      E-book or none at all for me.

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    2. Anonymous12:05 PM

      The e-book has been available since 6/24, so go for it.

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  24. Is The Family mentioned.

    Because this is so their plan to turn this country into a theocracy, silently, quietly behind the scenes. I can so see them using Palin as a puppet to do exactly that.

    This is alternative fiction and horror as it could so easily happen. That's what's so horrifying.

    I can see some reading it and saying "What's wrong with this? Sounds great to me. You sure missed an opportunity when you didn't elect Palin". (Okay, so they'd either need the audio book or someone to read it to them.)

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    1. Anonymous12:06 PM

      Yes, the Family is mentioned along with all the usual suspects in it. You will recognize lots of names and people which is what makes it so scary.

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  25. Anonymous11:02 AM

    Won't be buying this book. The thought of Palin/Brownback in charge would give me night sweats.

    RJ in Brownbackistan (Kansas)

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  26. Anonymous11:22 AM

    There is no Santa Clause. Sarah Palin will never be elected to any position in which her medical records must be submitted in full. Sarah cannot be fully without exposing her crimes. Sarah has a negative rating by over 60% of people in the US. It's not that people don't know who she is and the hate that she represents. The fact is that people do know her and do not like her. There is no tooth fairy. Sarah is a horrible mother. Sarah is lazy. Sarah faked a pregnancy for political pandering purposes. I could go on, but my point is made. With that in mind, I think that this will be a good catastrophe/horror "what if scenario" book that will be a good read.

    I can't think of many other things that would be as bad as Sarah being elected president, other than maybe Earth being pelted continuously by asteroids until life as we know it is extinct. Now that would be bad...

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  27. Anonymous11:48 AM

    Imagine Sarah Palin as our president.

    Double wide trailers on the White House lawn.

    President Sarah and Co-President Todd sitting out and tanning next to the water fountain in front of the White House while President Sarah Palin flexes her anorexic arms.

    Bristol, Willow and Piper are 8 months pregnant and President Sarah orders the Secret Service to find out who the daddies are.

    Decorated Combat vet Caint Get Right is in charge of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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    1. Anonymous11:56 AM

      11:48 That about sums up the kind of White House those Wasillabillies would run.

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  28. Ordered the book from Amazon and I'll get it tomorrow! This book is probably ANOTHER reason her dumbass will NEVER run for ANY political office in her lifetime again.

    Thank goodness.

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