Richard Viguerie: The Race is on to Define Sarah Palin; If Republicans Don't do it,...

Richard Viguerie: The Race is on to Define Sarah Palin; If Republicans Don't
do it, Liberal Democrats Will

MANASSAS, Va., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Within the next week,
Governor Sarah Palin will be defined forever in the eyes of the public,
Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com said.
In a statement, Viguerie said:
"A critical rule in politics is: Define or be defined. Fairly or
unfairly, Dan Quayle's image was set within days of his selection as a
candidate for vice president, and, forever after, the media sought out
evidence that fit in with that pre-conceived image.
"Liberal Democrats are working quickly to Quayle-ize her. They are
downplaying her experience and expertise, and trying to define her as 'just a
little housewife from Alaska.' And, with the help of their friends in the
media, they will get away with it -- if the Republicans let them.
"There is no one who presents all pluses and no minuses. Sure, it would
be better if she had more foreign policy experience, and if she had won the
Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes, while flying the space shuttle and curing cancer.
But she is someone who represents the values and worldview of the American
people.
"And she has the toughness to be president. She has spent her political
career standing up to powerful men ranging from the state Republican chairman
to the previous governor to the presidents of Exxon-Mobil and British
Petroleum. Honestly, who is more likely to be another Ronald Reagan or
Margaret Thatcher -- Sarah Palin or Joe Biden? Sarah Palin or Barack Obama?
"By many measures, she outshines Barack Obama in terms of experience,
especially in fighting political corruption and making us energy independent.
And while he has spent the last couple of years running for president, she has
spent the last couple of years running a state.
"As for Joe Biden, he has foreign policy experience, all right -- the
wrong kind of foreign policy experience. He and those who represent the
Harvard-Princeton-Yale 'best and the brightest' way of thinking have caused
untold suffering for the world's people. They extended the Cold War by
decades, did almost nothing as terrorists waged war on America in the '90s,
and stood by as genocide was committed in Rwanda and Darfur.
"In the effort to beat Sarah Palin, liberal Democrats will play to every
sexist stereotype that has kept women 'in their place' in the past. They
consider conservative women 'uppity,' and won't stand for Sarah Palin being
vice president and someday president.
"They are terrified at the prospect that the first woman vice president
and possibly the first woman president might be a conservative Republican. A
few years ago, they were likewise terrified by Clarence Thomas and the
prospect that that the country's most powerful African-American would be a
conservative Republican. They trashed Clarence Thomas and continue to trash
him in the most racist and hateful ways, and they won't hesitate to do
something similar to Sarah Palin.
"If Republicans think they won't do it, they don't know liberal Democrats
like I do."
NOTE TO EDITORS: Richard A. Viguerie pioneered political direct mail and
has been called "one of the creators of the modern conservative movement" (The
Nation magazine), one of the "conservatives of the century" (The Washington
Times), and one of 2008's "top 25 influencers" among Republicans (NewsMax
magazine). His latest book is Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and
Other Big-Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause.
Contact:
Cynthia Chambliss, (703) 396-6971
After 6 PM Eastern time, contact:
Vi Shields (703) 906-6542 or
Cynthia Chambliss, (703) 930-5148

SOURCE ConservativeHQ.com

Cynthia Chambliss, +1-703-396-6971; After 6 PM Eastern time, contact: Vi
Shields, +1-703-906-6542 or Cynthia Chambliss, +1-703-930-5148, both of
ConservativeHQ.com