Easter Celebration Of Baptism In The Spirit. Same Every Year As The Gift Is The Same For All For All Time (And Is Free)

Hopefully I can present this exposition on Baptism in the Spirit every Easter-which I plan to do as long as am able to have this site running. The words are not mine, being biblical excerpts, and thus unimpeachable, but the interpretation is mine and advised through others but I hope the presentation is guided. 

I apologize for the block capitals, but this was originally written as  speech notes. More important than my words, or how they are presented, is the timeless message and the free gift of sure and certain knowledge of salvation, which I do hope is inspiring. Happy Easter! He Is Risen!

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BAPTISM IN THE SPIRIT

IT IS CONSIDERED ALL CHRISTIANS HAVE THE INDWELLING HOLY SPIRIT BY THE FACT THEY ARE BAPTISED WITH WATER AND LIVING IN A STATE OF GRACE, ESPECIALLY IF THEY HAVE ACCEPTED JESUS AS THEIR PERSONAL SAVIOUR.

THIS POSITION IS, HOWEVER, ONE THAT MIXES THREE SEPARATE SPIRITUAL STATES; FIRSTLY) THAT OF A BAPTISED CHRISTIAN IN THE STATE OF GRACE (WHO IS SACRAMENTALLY A CHRISTIAN “BAPTISED INTO CHRIST”) (1)Gal.3:27

SECONDLY) THAT OF A CHRISTIAN WHO IS “BORN AGAIN” (REGENERATED). THAT IS, A CHRISTIAN WHO HAS UNDERGONE A KIND OF “CONVERSION” WHICH INVOLVES A KNOWLEDGE OF AND COMMITMENT TO JESUS AS ONE’S LORD AND PERSONAL SAVIOUR (2) Gal.2:20

AND…. THIRDLY) THAT OF A CHARISMATIC CHRISTIAN WHO HAS RECEIVED THE BAPTISM IN THE SPIRIT AS AN EXPERIENCE SEPARATE FROM, USUALLY SUBSEQUENT TO, A “CONVERSION” EXPERIENCE (3)Titus.3:4-5

THE PENTECOST EXPERIENCE OF BECOMING CHARISMATIC BY BEING “BAPTISED IN THE SPIRIT” (4) Acts.1:5 IS SOMETHING CLEARLY DISTINCT FROM, AND BEYOND, THE EXPERIENCE OF BECOMING A CHRISTIAN BY BEING “BAPTISED INTO CHRIST” (5) Rom.6:3 BY WATER.THE TWO BAPTISMS HAVE TOTALLY DIFFERENT PURPOSES.

WATER BAPTISM MAKES ONE A CHILD OF GOD IN A SPECIAL WAY, GRAFTING ONE INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST (6 Gal.3:27/7 Rom.6:3 WHILE SPIRIT BAPTISM GIVES ONE CHARISMATIC POWER TO BE AN EFFECTIVE WITNESS OR EVANGELIZER IN BUILDING THE KINGDOM (8 Acts.1:8-9 9 Luke.24:48-49).

THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN VARIOUS BAPTISMS IS SCRIPTURAL (10 Heb.6:2)

All FOUR GOSPELS QUOTE JOHN THE BAPTIST EMPHASISING THAT DISTINCTION “I BAPTISE YOU WITH WATER, BUT HE WILL BAPTISE YOU WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT” (11 Mat.3:21/12 Mark.1:8/13 Luke 3:16/14 John.1:33)

JESUS ALSO MAKES THE DISTINCTION IN A PRE-PENTECOST DISCOURSE WITH HIS DISCIPLES IN JOHN (15 14:17,) BY USING TWO DIFFERENT PREPOSITIONS; ‘WITH’ AND ‘IN’; ‘THE SPIRIT…LIVES WITH YOU (NOW) AND WILL BE IN YOU (LATER)” JESUS THUS CLEARLY DISTINGUISHED BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT LEVELS OF INTIMACY BY WHICH THE SPIRIT CAN RELATE TO AN INDIVIDUAL.

THE BAPTISMS MENTIONED IN HEBREWS (16 6:2 ) WERE REFERRED TO BY JESUS AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS PUBLIC LIFE; IN JOHN (17 3;5 ) HE TELLS NICODEMUS THAT A PERSON MUST BE ‘BORN OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT.’THEN, AT THE VERY END OF HIS EARTHLY EXISTENCE, JUST BEFORE HIS ASCENSION, HE AGAIN DISTINGUISHES BETWEEN THE TWO BAPTISMS “JOHN BAPTISED WITH WATER, BUT IN A “FEW DAYS” YOU WILL BE BAPTISED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT’ (18 Acts.1:5)

THE DISCIPLES WERE ALREADY CHRISTIANS, OF COURSE, AS SHOWN BY THE FACT THAT THEY HAD ALREADY RECEIVED SPIRITUAL LIFE FOR HAVING ‘HEARD HIS WORD AND BELIEVED IN THE ONE WHO SENT HIM”(19 John.5:24). JESUS HAD ASSURED THEM THEIR ‘NAMES WERE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN“(20 Luke.10:20).

FURTHERMORE, THE RESURRECTED JESUS HAD BREATHED UPON THEM, EVEN IMPARTING THE HOLY SPIRIT TO ACTIVATE A MINISTERIAL GIFT OF FORGIVING SINS (21 John.20:22-23). YET HE TOLD THEM TO PRAY FOR (22 Luke.11:13) AND TO WAIT FOR (23 Luke.24:49/ 24 Acts.1:4) A SUBSEQUENT (AND THEREFORE SEPARATE) GRACE OF THE BAPTISM IN THE SPIRIT A “FEW DAYS “ AFTER HIS ASCENSION (25 Acts.1:5) –CLEARLY AN ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE BEYOND THE CHRISTIANITY THEY HAD BEEN EXPERIENCING.

AN EXAMPLE IS SEEN IN 26 ACTS.19:2 PAUL FOUND TWELVE DISCIPLES AT EPHESUS WHO WERE BELIEVERS AND ASKED THEM “DID YOU RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT WHEN (OR AFTER) YOU BELIEVED?”

WHEN THEY ANSWERED IN THE NEGATIVE, PAUL BAPTISED THEM. THEN , “WHEN PAUL PLACED HIS HANDS ON THEM, THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME UPON THEM AND THEY SPOKE IN TONGUES AND PROPHESISED” (27 Acts.19:6).IF BELIEVING OR BEING CONVERTED CARRIED WITH IT THE BAPTISM IN THE SPIRIT, THEN PAUL’S QUESTION WOULD HAVE BEEN MEANINGLESS.


THE EPHESIANS’ BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS SUBSEQUENT TO (AND THEREFORE DISTINCT FROM) THEIR BELIEF IN CHRIST AND ALSO DISTINCT FROM THEIR WATER BAPTISM.  WHILE BAPTISM IN THE SPIRIT IS ALWAYS DISTINCT FROM THE CONVERSION EXPERIENCE, IT NEED NOT NECESSARILY BE SUBSEQUENT TO IT, AS THE CASE OF CORNELIUS’ HOUSEHOLD, ALL OF WHOM RECEIVED THE BAPTISM IN THE SPIRIT BEFORE THEY WERE BAPTISED IN WATER.(28 Acts 10:44-48 ).

IN RECOUNTING THIS EPISODE AT THE COUNCIL OF JERUSALEM (29 ACTS 15;7-9) PETER REFERRED TO TWO SEPARATE ACTS: PURIFYING THEIR HEARTS BY FAITH (CONVERSION) AND RECEIVING THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. PETER CLEARLY IDENTIFIES THE EXPERIENCE OF CORNELIUS’ HOUSEHOLDWITH THAT OF THE DISCIPLES ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST(30 ACTS.11:15-17;15:8)TO ILLUSTRATE: COMMON TERMS SUCH AS “BAPTISED IN/WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT” “POURED OUT” AND “GIFT” APPEAR IN BOTH ACCOUNTS.

PAUL’S BAPTISM IN THE SPIRIT AT THE HANDS OF ANANIAS CAME THREE DAYS AFTER HIS CONVERSION ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS, AND JUST BEFORE HIS WATER BAPTISM (31 ACTS 9:3-18). HERE AGAIN, SPIRIT-BAPTISM IS SEEN AS DISTINCT FROM A CONVERSION EXPERIENCE AND DISTINCT FROM WATER BAPTISM.

A COMMON MISUNDERSTANDING IS TO REGARD SPIRIT BAPTISM AS A ONE-TIME ISOLATED EVENT, RATHER THAN THE BEGINNING OF A ‘GROWTH IN THE SPIRIT” WITH THE POSSIBILITY FOR FURTHER “REFILLING” PERIODICALLY WHEN PETER AND JOHN JOINED IN A PRAYER MEETING AFTER BEING RELEASED FROM PRISON, THEY WERE REFILLED BY A DEEPENED PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT (32 Acts 4:31) .THE EXACT TRANSLATION OF (33 EPHESIANS ( 5:18 ) IS NOT “BE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT” BUT ”BE BEING FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT” –AN ONGOING, RECEPTIVE EXPERIENCE

THUS, IT IS CLEAR THAT THE BAPTISM IN THE SPIRIT IS AN EXPERIENCE OVER AND ABOVE EXPERIENCES OF WATER BAPTISM AND THE BORN AGAIN EXPERIENCE, AND IN GENERAL, THE CONVERSION EXPERIENCE.

IT ADDS TO THE “INDWELLING” OF THE SPIRIT A NEW KIND OF PRESENCE- AN “INFILLING” THAT CAN PRODUCE EMPOWERMENT AND GROWTH- A GROWTH IN THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT (34 GAL.5:22-23) AS WELL AS THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT (35 1TIM.4:14 ) 36 2 Tim.1:6).

ALTHOUGH PAUL FOUND MUCH TO CRITICISE AMONG THE CORINTHIAN CHRISTIANS, HE STILL CALLED THEM ‘SANCTIFIED’, AND YET “CALLED TO BE HOLY” (37 1 Cor.1:2) THAT IS, HE ATTRIBUTED TO THEM WHAT SOME THEOLOGIANS CALL ‘POSITIONAL SANCTIFICATION”, AND YET HE URGED THEM TO “PROGRESSIVE SANCTIFICATION”. THE GROWTH FACTOR IN THIS “PROGRESSIVE SANCTIFICATION” IS THE HOLY SPIRIT HIMSELF  (38 1 Peter.1:2 ) ( 39 Rom.13:16 ). WHO “HELPS US IN OUR WEAKNESS AND INTERCEDES FOR US (40 Rom.8:26).

HENCE IT FOLLOWS THAT THOSE WITH A RELATIONSHIP WITH THIS “SPIRIT OF HOLINESS” ( 41 Rom.1:4) THROUGH THE BAPTISM IN THE SPIRIT HAVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRACES INDUCING THAT GROWTH. (42 1.Th.3:13 ) (43 John 7:38-39)

IS BAPTISM IN THE SPIRIT (AS AN EXPERIENCE DISTINCT FROM WATER BAPTISM) NECESSARY TO THE CHRISTIAN LIFE? THE ANSWER IS NO.  BAPTISM IN THE SPIRIT IS NOT NECESSARY FOR SALVATION.THE REQUIREMENTS FOR SALVATION ARE REPENTANCE, FAITH AND BAPTISM (44 Acts 2:38 ) ( 45 Mk.16:16 ).

NEITHER IS BAPTISM IN THE SPIRIT NECESSARY TO EXPERIENCE POWER IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. THE TWELVE AND THE SEVENTY TWO WENT OFF ON MISSION WITH THE POWER AND AUTHORITY OF GOD (46 Lk. 9:1,6 ) 47 Lk. 10:17,19 ,EVEN PRIOR TO PENTECOST.THE REQUIREMENT FOR POWER IN MINISTRY IS SIMPLY FAITH (48 Jn.14:12).

BAPTISM IN THE SPIRIT IS NOT NECESSARY TO EXPERIENCE THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT.THERE ARE MANY CHRISTIANS TODAY WHO DO NOT DISPLAY EVANGELISTIC FERVOUR BUT CERTAINLY EXHIBIT LOVE, JOY, PEACE PATIENCE, KINDNESS, FAITHFULNESS, GENTLENESS AND SELF CONTROL (49 Gal.5: 22:23). WE CAN EXPERIENCE FRUIT AS WE GIVE OURSELVES TO CHRIST AND LIVE IN HIS SPIRIT (50 Gal.5: 24:25)

THUS TO LIVE A GOOD AND FRUITFUL CHRISTIAN LIFE, WE CAN DO WITHOUT THE BAPTISM IN THE SPIRIT.BUT WE CAN ALSO EXPERIENCE, THAT BEYOND CONVERSION, GENEROSITY, BEYOND EFFECTIVE SERVICE, BEYOND EXPERIENCING FRUIT, BEYOND SALVATION,THERE IS BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT. THEN WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?


IN THE FIRST CASE i.e. WATER BAPTISM, WE ARE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT.WE BECOME A “WELL OF LIVING WATER’. IN THE SECOND CASE SPIRIT BAPTISM, WE ARE FILLED TO OVERFLOWING, AND BECOME “RIVERS OF LIVING WATER” THESE RIVERS OF LIVING WATER GENERATE POWER AND BOLDNESS WE NEED TO CARRY OUT GOD’S PURPOSE FOR US.

“BUT WHOSOEVER DRINKS OF THE WATER THAT I SHALL GIVE HIM SHALL NEVER THIRST: BUT THE WATER THAT I SHALL GIVE HIM SHALL BE IN HIM A WELL OF LIVING WATER SPRINGING UP TO EVERLASTING LIFE.” (51John.4:14)

IN THE LAST DAY, THAT GREAT DAY OF THE FEAST, JESUS STOOD AND CRIED, SAYING, “IF ANY MAN THIRST, LET HIM COME TO ME, AND DRINK.HE THAT BELIEVES ON ME, AS THE SCRIPTURE HAS SAID, OUT OF HIS INNERMOST BEING SHALL FLOW RIVERS OF LIVING WATER”. [BUT THIS SPOKE HE OF THE SPIRIT, WHICH THEY THAT BELIEVE ON HIM SHALL RECEIVE: FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS NOT YET GIVEN; BECAUSE JESUS WAS NOT WAS NOT YET GLORIFIED [ASCENDED TO HEAVEN] (52 John.7:37:38

LET US NOW TRY TO DEFINE WHAT IS BAPTISM IN THE SPIRIT.

THE BASIC TEXT IS (53 Acts.1:8 ) “YOU WILL RECEIVE POWER WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES UPON YOU, AND YOU WILL BE MY WITNESSES IN JERUSALEM, THROUGHOUT JUDEA AND SAMARIA, AND TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH." ACCORDING TO LUKE, THESE ARE THE VERY LAST WORDS OF JESUS, AND IT IS AFTER SAYING THIS THAT JESUS ASCENDS INTO HEAVEN ( 54 Acts.1;9)  THE VERY IMPORTANT LAST WORDS.THE VERY FINAL INSTRUCTIONS.THE VERY KEY TO BRINGING ABOUT WHAT JESUS HAD COME INTO THE WORLD FOR-THE SALVATION OF THE WORLD.

WHAT IS BAPTISM IN THE SPIRIT? IT IS AN INFILLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT BY WHICH A PERSON IS EMPOWERED TO BE A LIVING WITNESS TO JESUS FOR THE PURPOSE OF GLOBAL EVANGELIZING !!

WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS THAT THERE IS A RENEWED OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT IN ONE’S LIFE.

THIS POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ENABLES US TO BECOME EFFECTIVE.THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS IMPARTED NOT JUST TO ENABLE US TO LIVE THE CHRISTIAN LIFE, BUT TO ENABLE US TO DO A VIBRANT AND EFFECTIVE MINISTRY .IT IS THE POWER FOR MISSION.

THE BAPTISM IN THE SPIRIT EXPANDS OUR VISION, STIRS OUR HEARTS TO ACTION, SUSTAINS US WITH PERSEVERANCE, EMPOWERS US WITH SPIRITUAL GIFTS, AND FILLS OUR HEARTS WITH GREAT JOY AS WE DO OUR MISSION.GOD WANTS THE BAPTISM IN THE SPIRIT FOR EVERYONE.

”FOR THE PROMISE IS MADE TO YOU AND TO YOUR CHILDREN AND TO ALL THOSE FAR OFF, WHOMEVER THE LORD OUR GOD WILL CALL” (55 Acts.2:39). ALL FOLLOWERS OF JESUS CHRIST ARE CALLED TO HOLINESS AND ALL ARE CALLED TO MISSION.

THIS INFILLING CAN BE AN ACTUAL PHYSICAL EXPERIENCE.I HAVE SEEN IT DESCRIBED MANY TIMES AS “A GENTLE BREEZE, OR LIKE A CURTAIN OF HONEY, FLOWING THROUGH THE BODY FROM OUTSIDE THE BODY FROM HEAD TO TOE”. IT MIGHT BE WHAT THE DISCIPLES EXPERIENCED WHEN JESUS “BREATHED UPON THEM IMPARTING THE HOLY SPIRIT” (56 John.20:22

THE IMPORTANT THING IS THAT IT IS A GENUINE PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION AND IMPARTS AN INCREDIBLE BLESSING.IT DOESN”T MAKE THE RECIPIENT IN ANY WAY BETTER OR DIFFERENT FROM CHRISTIANS WHO LIVE BY FAITH ALONE, IN FACT IT MAKES THEM EQUAL AS IT CAN BE SEEN AS AN AID TO THOSE WHO ARE WEAK IN THE FAITH.

RATHER, IT SIMPLY MEANS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN BAPTISED IN THE SPIRIT FOR SOMETHING THAT GOD WANTS THEM TO DO WHICH THEY WOULD BE UNABLE TO DO WITHOUT HIS GRACE AND HIS FREELY GIVEN POWER TO DO IT.

HOW CAN ONE BE BAPTISED IN THE SPIRIT? AS WITH ALL THINGS EMANATING FROM GOD’S LOVE IT IS COMPLETELY SIMPLE AND COMPLETELY FREE- JUST ASK FOR IT! YOU ONLY HAVE TO DO TWO THINGS.

FIRST, ONCE YOU HAVE ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR PERSONAL LORD AND SAVIOUR YOU JUST HAVE TO ASK GOD TO BAPTISE YOU IN THE HOLY SPIRIT.THE BIBLE SAYS “ASK AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN TO YOU” (57 Luke.11:9).

SECOND, BELIEVE YOU HAVE IN FACT RECEIVED THIS GIFT FROM GOD.THE APOSTLE PAUL, WRITING TO THE GALATIANS, SAID “DID YOU RECEIVE THE SPIRIT BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW, OR BY HEARING WITH FAITH”?  58 Gal 3:2). THE OBVIOUS ANSWER IS, BY FAITH.  YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT IF YOU ASK, YOU WILL RECEIVE.

I PERSONALLY BELIEVE THAT, AS IN THE GOSPELS, THIS ASKING SHOULD BE ACCOMPANIED BY THE LAYING ON OF HANDS- BUT I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT, AS GOD CAN DO ANYTHING, IT CAN BE RECEIVED SIMPLY BY ASKING.

HERE IS A PRAYER TO ASK BY IF YOU SINCERELY WISH TO RECEIVE THE BAPTISM IN GOD’S HOLY SPIRIT:

“HEAVENLY FATHER, AT THIS MOMENT I COME TO YOU. I THANK YOU THAT JESUS SAVED ME. I PRAY THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT MIGHT COME UPON ME. LORD JESUS BAPTISE ME NOW IN THE HOLY SPIRIT.

I RECEIVE BAPTISM IN THE SPIRIT RIGHT NOW BY FAITH IN YOUR WORD. MAY THE ANOINTING, THE GLORY, AND THE POWER OF GOD COME UPON ME AND INTO MY LIFE RIGHT NOW.MAY I BE EMPOWERED FOR YOUR SERVICE FROM THIS DAY FORWARD.COME INTO MY LIFE LORD JESUS.


THANK YOU, LORD JESUS FOR BAPTISING ME IN THE HOLY SPIRIT.AMEN.

Priebus Buffoons Himself;"Huckabee A Model For Discussing Abortion"

Beyond parody; At NRO The Corner March 22nd

"Priebus cited former governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas as an example of someone who could be “a model for a lot of people in our party” in terms of discussing issues like marriage and abortion. “I always tell people: Listen to Governor Mike Huckabee,” he said. “I don’t know anyone that talks about them any better.” 

http://tiny.cc/a3mduw 

Lets take a step back in time;

Think Progress Aug 23, 2012

Huckabee Breaks With GOP, Throws Support Behind Akin ;

http://tiny.cc/m2mduw

"As Republicans continue to pile on Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) for saying victims of “legitimate rape” can’t get pregnant, Mike Huckabee has strengthened his support for the embattled Senate candidate. Huckabee first gave Akin the opportunity to defend the remark on his radio show, which he did by explaining that women often lie about being raped. 

Huckabee also approvingly read a defense of Akin by junk scientist Dr. John Wilke, though he conceded that some “extraordinary” people were born out of rape.

To make his support for Akin crystal clear, Huckabee sent a letter to his supporters Thursday accusing the GOP establishment of trying to bully Akin out of the race for an honest mistake"

Washington Post Chris Cillizza Deaf To Ted Cruz "I Owe My Senate Seat To Sarah Palin" As He Describes Her As Mere "Entertainer"

Here is The Washington Post's "The Fix" political journalist Chris Cillizza on Sarah Palin's address to CPAC 2013;

Cillizza gets his snide chops in (this the WashPost remember) with comments about Palin's speech "having elements of a late night comedy routine". Presumably he was happy with candidate Obama's "lipstick on a pig" shtick but that's by the by.

The point of his article was that, at long last, and after years of "grappling" the media, (i.e the leftist media) has finally been able to determine how they will describe Palin. Apparently she is now "an entertainer". 

Her previous  descriptions ranged from "has been" to "forgotten" to  "Sarah who?" to "celebritician" (sic) "talking head" "pundit" "failed half-term governor" "failed pundit" last week she was "an activist". They have, in concert (someone must have sent out the Journolist memo) determined she is now an "entertainer".

Now that the left has constructed the latest box to fit Palin in, they as per Cillizza's concluding pomposity, have found  in their and their audiences minds, a way to dismiss Palin in the future. She can be safely ignored as a simple entertainer, a dispenser of red meat at functions with no real relevance or impact in politics. Case dismissed!

"For those still wondering whether Palin’s future lies in elected office or on the entertainment side of politics (and the culture at large), her CPAC speech made that answer crystal clear."


Where this whole construct falls apart is with the massive impact Palin has had on the election scene. She is, candidate by candidate, election by election, to offices national and local endorsing candidates who will carry out her vision for America. 

Where was Cillizza when Ted Cruz-most unusually for a keynote speaker, humbly and honestly made an unannounced special introduction of Palin at CPAC with these words;

As you know, I am not the first or the only candidate to benefit from Governor Palin and SarahPAC's courageous support for conservatism. Senators Deb Fischer, Jeff Flake, Tim Scott, Marco Rubio, Kelly Ayotte, Rand Paul, and other common-sense conservatives are proof that Americans are ready to return to our nation's founding principles.


Palin has made it clear that her next major focus will be on repeating her success in the 2010 mid-terms by working hard to endorse and support candidates who share her vision. As Ted Cruz and the many others not detailed her can attest a Palin endorsement can take a candidate from obscurity (Cruz was at 5% support at one time to landslide victory. 

What "entertainer" has that sort of support from the people Cillizza, and the rest of the leftist media obviously don't associate with but who help to win elections?

I would believe that Cillizza is not a fool and can see the power of Palin which is obvious with the Cruz example. Thus the only explanation for his, and the Journolists taking this latest iteration of describing palin is that they are doing everything they can to try and marginalise her so her influence in getting candidates from the right elected is blunted. 

Well good luck with that-it hasn't worked for five years and won't work now no matter what term the Beltway media uses to describe Palin.

This quote from"American Thinker" shows the real picture unimpeded by leftist media shcemes and dreams

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/03/palin_rouses_the_faithful_at_cpac.html#ixzz2NmalUl

We shall see in November 2014 whether Palin is an "entertainer"or a major force in shaping the political landscape. I think the answer will be "crystal clear."

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Photo:People Start Doing The "Palin Statue of Liberty Big Drink Pose" In The Street-Viral Next

UPDATE; Governor Palin adds to the fun with her own link;

Sarah Palin ‏@SarahPalinUSA

Here's to liberty! MT @TwitchyTeam Out: Tebowing and Eastwooding: In: #PalinLibertyPose http://bit.ly/XRwKf2  

and here's yet another person getting  into the pose

After Sarah Palin's "big gulp for freedom" at CPAC witty Photoshop and creative types started putting together their interpretations of the scene. Next up folks started posing for liberty in the streets.This may be the next viral movement as people pose for getting government out of their lives.

Here are some pictures of the scene so far;

Thank you Buzzfeed.

The New Pope Provides Historic Solution To GOP's "Hispanic Problem"

The historic election of Argentinian Cardinal Bergoglio   as Pope Francis provides a new beginning in a multitude of ways including a most unexpected one for American politics. 

The GOP has, in the example of Pope Francis, a magnificent example to outreach to the Hispanic community which outreach will have the ancillary effect of of overcoming the so called "Hispanic deficit' vis a vis the Democratic party.

Although the fact that Hispanic voters chose President Obama over Mitt Romney in a significant proportion that may not necessarily have cost Romney the election, as even if Romney had won Florida he still would have lost in the Electoral College, there is no question that given the increasing Hispanic demographic an outreach is required. 

More than that it is the right thing to do to make the tent bigger by the method of inclusiveness and basic human love.

With senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and Governor Susana Martinez amongst others the GOP can rightly and proudly point to Hispanics holding positions of great significance in the party-to the point of the aforementioned trio being possible presidential candidates in 2016. 

It would also be expected that whoever the 2016 nominee is he or she would not run a campaign of perceived elitism that attached itself to Romney (who now admits his "47% remarks did him significant damage).


With senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and Governor Susana Martinez amongst others the GOP can rightly and proudly point to Hispanics holding positions of great significance in the party-to the point of the aforementioned trio being possible presidential candidates in 2016. 

In addition to this visibility of prominent Hispanics and a changed message through a perceived "person of the people' candidate the GOP's traditional message of traditional, conservative social values have a shining example to point to in the historic election of the first Hispanic Pope from Latin America.

Pope Francis' values are in many aspects, especially right to life of course, conservative Republican values.
If the GOP candidate reinforces this message in 2016 it would give an unprecedented opportunity to reach out to the Hispanic communities values and, importantly their justifiable pride in having one of their own as Pope. 

Any combination of a  Palin/Rubio or Palin/Cruz or, even more dramatically a Palin/Martinez ticket would reinforce this pride to the button bursting level.

Further, the left's, from the likes of Taylor Marsh to Gawker and etc etc denigration of the new Pope shows an anti-Catholic, social bias which makes it not worthy of the Hispanic, or in fact, any Catholic's vote.

The message to the Hispanic community is, in essence, "your social, economic and moral values as personified by your Pope are our values, if you wish to see them reproduced in the policy area then support the Republican party, which is the party of Hispanic candidates, in the presidential election". 

Impossible Not to Get Up And Move To This Good Times Electronic Rock/Pop Tune

When you've listened to the download above,
here is the link to the Bright Child FaceBook site where they have an extended live Youtube version;

https://www.facebook.com/brightchildmusic

Is this not the best get up and groove single of all time? The jury says yes, yes it is.

Jeb Bush On Undocumented Immigrants Citizenship.Can Someone Translate These Quotes into English Please?

 

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I wonder if anyone can translate this into English? I have read it a few times and struggle with it.

"WASHINGTON -- Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) made the rounds on nearly all of this week's Sunday morning talk shows as he defended his apparent flip-flop on his position on a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

Bush, who is pitching his new book, "Immigration Wars," was a guest on five shows: NBC's "Meet the Press," ABC's "This Week," CBS' "Face the Nation," "Fox News Sunday" and CNN's "State of the Union." On at least two of those shows, he was pressed on the fact that he states in his book that undocumented immigrants should not be eligible for a path to citizenship and that the issue should not be part of comprehensive immigration reform. Bush stunned many observers with that position, particularly since he has previously backed a pathway to citizenship.

"Well first of all, I haven't changed," Bush said on "Face the Nation." "The book was written to try to create a blueprint for conservatives that were reluctant to embrace comprehensive reform, to give them perhaps a set of views that they could embrace. I support a path to legalization or citizenship so long as the path for people that have been waiting patiently is easier and costs less -- the legal entrance to our country -- than illegal entrance."

Bush emphasized that his book was written last year, at a time when the immigration debate "was dramatically different" and when many people may have believed in comprehensive immigration reform but were not publicly supportive of it."

(Photo)Rand Paul And John McCain Post Filibuster Elevator Meeting Symbolizes Generational/Philosophical Split.CPAC The Decider

I wrote that the GOP split was unbridgeable after Rand Paul's Tea party 'State of the Union" rebuttal to President Obama. The Brennan filibuster is hardly the first  indication of the split and CPAC will give an indication of where the genuine conservatives will be heading as regards taking over the GOP after the 2014 mid-terms or starting a new, Palin-ite party.

The body language on display here says it all but the technical analysis post-SOTU speech follows below.

Where is everybody? The media seems to have gone to sleep in the face of what might possibly be the most momentous occasion in American political history. Not since the schoolhouse meeting in  Ripon Wisconsin in 1854  which led to the creation of the Republican Party, and the demise of the Whigs, has such a clear signal of another such momentous party rending asunder been so visibly signalled.

It is not so much what Rand Paul said in his rebuttal to President Obama's State of the union address but rather that  that such a speech was undertaken at all. Clearly Paul's address was also, and in reality more significantly, a rebuttal to Marco Rubio's rebuttal to Obama on behalf of what is now the Establishment wing of the GOP, and will most likely be, if events unfold, the Whiggish remnant.

Again, it is not what the differences between Rubio and Paul's rebuttals were that matter, it is the fact that they took place which is absolutely unprecedented, and brings into the starkest focus the irreconcilable split in the Republican ranks. The irony if course is that Rubio owes his position to the Tea Party (and to Sarah Palin in part) and that he may well end up as the candidate of the rump GOP Establishment in 2016.

It may have been thought in the silly, heady, days of the Romney euphoria that even if Romney lost a rejuvenated GOP would cruise to victory led by the charismatic Hispanic Rubio next time. As it turned out Romney was a bridge too far for the conservative rank and file who held their collective noses and trudged out to vote for the "electable" Establishment candidate. 

Any indication that another such candidate in the Dole/McCain/Romney mould would be foisted on the rank and file, would lead to a massive stay at home result in 2016. Such is the rancour and distaste for the Beltway Establishment amongst the conservatives. 

That Rubio is being crowned by representatives of the Establishment like Time magazine, and appears to the rank and file as endorsing some form of amnesty, has not done him any good, and Rubio might be forced to make a decision as to which camp he is going to fight from. UPDATE; Rubio was the only Palin endorsed senator to vote Yes on Brennan.

If the split does come, and the 2014 mid-terms may be the final straw if the Karl Rove/Barbour establishment tries to force 'electable" candidates on the Tea Party, is a new third party (e.g. The American Party as suggested by Sarah Palin's brother) electorally viable in 2016? 

Possibly, but not probably. The new Republican Party lost their first election in 1856 but put in place a structure and a solid electoral College base for the next election.

A new third party would, by the very nature of its conservative support, have such a solid base in its first run with every chance of winning the South and parts of the Mid-West. After a third Democratic Party presidency there is every chance it will be "time for a change" as historically has been the norm. 

Then, the new party, with no internal schisms, and a solidly, uncompromisingly conservative ticket, with Paulite libertarian elements, (perhaps some combination of Paul and Palin), could begin a new chapter in American history.

February 12th 2013,and Rand Paul's address, may well be looked on by historians as the first page in that new chapter.

Sarah Palin, as prescient as usual. discussed this possibility last year:

Later in the segment,  Ms. Pemmaraju introduced a few questions chosen from those that viewers had sent in via Facebook and Twitter.  The first question, from Jan Nicholson on Facebook, was whether Gov. Palin  still considered a third party a possibility  if  ”the GOP continued to resist the new crop of commonsense conservatives.”

Oh well, Jan hit the nail on the head there in suggesting that it’s a possibility that the GOP would kind of  disenfranchise or invalidate this new crop of fiscal conservatives and Independents who just want to get the economy back on the right track.  Heaven forbid we see that in the next few months.  Oh, yeah, there is that possibility of a third party rising, but that’s only if  the GOP power players would choose to kind of co-opt this new crop of fiscal conservatives.  Let’s hope that doesn’t happen

Updated ;Campaign Imagery Of Alton B. Parker Art Nouveau At It's Height.Worst Candidate Had Best Imagery

Alton B Parker is perhaps the most obscure of the 20th century candidates. To be fair to him he ran in a hopeless campaign, gaining only 37.6% of the  vote, against the wildly popular Republican candidate Teddy Roosevelt, whom nobody could have beaten given the tenor of the times.

Also, to be fair he did better than such luminaries as George McGovern and Walter Mondale in the Electoral College, but still his result was pretty poor as the electoral vote map shows;

There is one saving grace for Judge Parker in that his campaign produced, I believe, some of the most attractive campaign buttons of all time. That was quite an achievement as they only seem to have used the one photograph of the candidate and his elderly VP running mate. nevertheless the background images are excellent examples of early art nouveau and early Edwardian styling. 

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Extremely rare Henry Davis for VP button