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Sarah Palin's Ramping it Up, Says Alaska Author of New Palin Book
Hearing the news of Sarah Palin's speech announcing her upcoming resignation from the Alaska governorship, I touched base with Leah Burton, author of Theopalinism: The face of Failed Extremism and author of the blog, Theopalinism. But Lisa Derrick, writing for FireDogLake had beaten me to it. As Derrick writes on her blog,
Leah Burton-the author of the book TheoPalinism: The Face of Failed Extremism and creator of the blog theopalinism.com whose testimony about Wayne Anthony Ross led to him being passed over as Alaksa attorney general has a good take on Palin's resignation, based on her perspective as a Palin watchdog. We spoke a right after Palin's speech. Says Burton:She is prepping to start a "full court press" nationally to whip up her base into a frenzy! This is going to get ugly... Anybody who thinks she going away is crazy.
...Burton feels Palin wants to stay in the spotlight and is
mad that Newt and Mitt can run around while's she's stuck in Alaska.
Leah Burton's take syncs with a just-published LA Times op-ed by Lisa Richardson, which reads Palin's surprise resignation announcement as an offensive move:
There's a huge void in the Republican Party and she's moving to fill it. So watch out Rush! Sarah Palin vs. Rush Limbaugh. What can this resignation mean except a frontal assault on talk radio?...She got a ton of money with that book deal, so she doesn't need the job. And now she avoids the charge of shirking her duties every time she flees the state to attend a fancy dinner in the lower 48. I bet Alaska didn't have a chance of keeping her after floods forced her to stay home and be gubernatorial while Todd had a ball at the White House Correspondents' dinner. You know she just hated missing that.
While I simply cannot believe Palin would make a serious run at the presidency, I'm certainly hoping she will.
National Public Radio's Ron Elving seems to concur, writing, Palin: Really Retreating Or Just Reloading?
The move carries a tinge of desperation, and the rolling scandals that seem to dog Palin have only peripherally touched on the (former) Alaska Governor and GOP presidential candidate's association with two publicly professed witch hunters and Sarah Palin's close affiliation with the New Apostolic Reformation, a global movement that is rapidly redefining Christianity. As I explained to journalist Bill Berkowitz in a recent interview, mainstream media has so far missed Palin's association with the aggressively supremacist New Apostolic movement but,
Sarah Palin is, broadly speaking, in the emerging postdenominational movement, which by 2000 encompassed 385 million Christians and is vastly different from the faith as it has been practiced in recent centuries. We identified Palin as in a majority tendency of postdenominationalism known as the neocharismatic movement, or the "Third Wave."Evangelical missionary reference work World Christian Trends calls the Third Wave "a new and disturbingly different" kind of Christianity whose members "can accurately be called radical Christians with some pentecostal /charismatic parallels" and which has, as one of the distinctive characteristics of Third Wave Christian ministry, a heavy emphasis on healing miracles including raising the dead--an emphasis promoted from the pulpit in sermons at Palin's most central church, the Wasilla Assembly of God.
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I keep trying to tell everyone that Palin believes that she is Joan of Arc. She fancies herself the leader of a huge crusade which will topple evil and establish good as and others of her ilk define it. I'm flummoxed as to why the MSM is not investigating this hybrid Christianity further, just as I am perplexed as to why the MSM did not aggressively investigate the Palins' connect to the Alaska Independence Party. I do hope that as Palin seeks to enlarge her influence on the national stage that the MSM seriously investigate her links to these radical organizations. Much energy was spent chasing a spurious link to Obama and Bill Ayers and Obama and Muslim terrorists. But yet Palin's link to AIP and to this New Apostolic movement is hiding in plain site, and before you know it, she and her army are going to be so entrenched that it'll be too late to turn back the multitudes which St. Sarah as amassed. We should not underestimate her influence nor the power of her quest. To underestimate her is fatal. I'd rather deal with her as a worthy adversary than to dismiss her only to be surprised when she surpasses you.
I agree. The whole "higher calling" business definitely had religious overtones to me and I started thinking back to her involvement with that whacked out and very, very disturbing "Third Wave" Christian dominationist religious movement and wondering if her resignation had to do, at least in part, with that.
The information posted by Bruce Wilson elsewhere in this thread on Palin's involvement with that movement are well worth reviewing.
See Bruce Wilson's Profile
I'll write more about Palin & the New Apostolics, but I don't want that to get buried amidst the current mania.
Nonetheless, new evidence ties Palin, beyond a shadow of a doubt,
to the NAR's top leadership.
I think the most frightening thing about this information is that our media has decided that it is not acceptable to raise these questions about our political leaders.
What do we do about this? It's terrifying.
Hardly.
Palin has been under enormous mental stress lately and noticeably lost weight.
The delivery indicated anxiety to the point of being manic. She was close to a breakdown. She's a runner, yet couldn't take in enough breath to finish a sentence.
If this was a calculated decision on her part, contemplated and planned for weeks she would have been calm and collected. She wasn't. Todd had to be called back from subsistence fishing. Alaskans have missed births and funerals for their fishing. Todd didn't know she was going to make the resignation announcement. It was a last minute decision and he was caught by surprise.
This isn't about being more effective as a private citizen. This isn't about putting the people of Alaska first, something Palin has never done.
This is all about Sarah. Something is coming that is going to cause Sarah to lose face and be publicly ridiculed and embarassed. She's trying to discredit the media before that happens. She's also hoping that as a private citizen whatever it is is less likely to be national news when it hits. She's also trying to maintain control by voluntarily resigning before she is either forced to resign or impeached.
This is not Sarah regrouping for a push of some kind. Her political career is over. If what I'm hearing pans out, she'll be lucky if she keeps her personal freedom. She may need every penny of that book advance to stay out of prison.
I took a look at some of the links and it brought back all of the horror I felt during the election. Looking at her speech through this veil is very disturbing, particularly her use of terms like "desecration" to refer to herself and her brief comment about her hope of strengthening defense.
Awesome post!!
Third Wave Evangelists raising the dead in Wasilla sounds apocalyptic.
See Bruce Wilson's Profile
Well, yes. It sure does.
lol
Wow. I think there's a whole new zombie franchise to be exploited up there.
Raising the dead doesn't worry me, if they can pull it off (provided it's not Hitler or someone...).
What worries me is when people start actually boasting about praying blindness and cancer and even death on other people.
And what REALLY worries me is the thought of someone who is probably ready to see herselt as the commander-in-chief of Christ's army at Harmageddon in possession of the nuclear launch codes!
She's going to start her training so she can beat Obama in a marathon.
There she goes again with her pretense of trying to help Alaska when all she's really doing is making calculated moves towards the Presidency. What she doesn't realize is that her ambition far outweighs her intelligence, knowledge of history, political savvy, and every other skill you need to survive in politics.
None of that ever stopped George Bush, now did it?
W was groomed from birth for his role in the Bush Crime Family as a political operative in faithful service to the mega-rich. Granted, nobody had reason to believe he'd grow up to be the next Bush Dynasty president instead of Jeb, but he's had the full support of his family and their patrons (especially in Houston and Riyadh) throughout his miserable career.
Palin, on the other hand, is freelancing in the context of a Republican Party that is spinning out of control. Maybe she'll crash like Icarus, maybe she'll rise like the Phoenix-- but at this point, she doesn't benefit from anything like the sort of organization that put W in the White House.
This has to be about a muddy boot (steel toed & at least size 15) that is about to drop. Too big a rush to be anything else.
See Bruce Wilson's Profile
Probably but Sarah Palin is in a global movement in Christianity that will not be stopped or even much slowed down by the demise of individual leaders.
See:
http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/religiousright/1273
Something's not right here. She could certainly be Governor of AK, and run for higher office.
I just saw a picture of here on Politico, where she's hugging the Lt. Governor-the facial expression is one of universal disgust. I don't think she's going willingly.
Bingo.
BTW this was a surprise to everyone. Parnell was only told Wed. night. Other's didn't find out until Friday.
Todd had to be called back from subsistence fishing; something that is never done. Alaskans have missed births and funerals to get their quota of fish.
And Bristol and Willow were noticeably missing from the photo op. (There was a cousin as stand in.)
Her whole body language was that of being trapped into something she didn't want to do but had not choice in. The speech was about trying to find a credible excuse while keeping the true reasons hidden.
Hmmm... I don't think so. I think that something is coming down the pike that even the Republican spin machine cannot handle.
See Bruce Wilson's Profile
Like proof that Palin has friends and associates who claim to have hunted witches ? Or a samurai sword ceremony in church with Palin in attendance ?
I wrote about the first at considerable length. The media notices what it wants to notice.
Are you the man who was involved with that documentary about her church? It had scenes of the "holy laughter" (creepy doesn't begin to describe that) etc.
Are you that film maker?
Isn't her successor, Sean Parnell, also a member of the same church? Alaska and the rest of the country isn't done with this craziness.
I think it will be HouseGate with a little IRS thrown in.
Unlike Ted Stevens, Eric Holder and the Obama administration will make sure it sticks this time.
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