This week on The Palin Radio Update with Kevin Scholla: You may not have known him until recently but now his infectious passion is sweeping America! Dan Bongino, U.S. Senate hopeful from Maryland is Kevin's special guest! Bongino got a surprise mention from Governor Sarah Palin during her recent rally for Ted Cruz in Texas. Hear Bongino talk about his off the cuff speech that caught Palin's attention. You will be impressed by Bongino, who has served as a Secret Service agent and an NYPD officer. TUNE IN NOW to SarahNET Radio ON DEMAND!!!

Gov. Palin Causes Bongino's Phone to Ring Off the Hook...

Gov. Palin Tweeted Bongino's speech, for which she had given a shout-out during her rousing stump speech for Ted Cruz on Friday. Bongino is a former Secret Service agent and NYPD officer. He said he was pleasantly surprised to hear from Palinistas that she had referenced his speech. The speech itself was extemporaneous and not professionally planned. Once Gov. Palin had mentioned the Bongino speech, his "phone rang off the hook," he said. The video garnered 9,000 views in the course of two days. Bongino is not sure how Gov. Palin found his speech.

Bongino Warns Against Dangerous Political Ideology

Scholla described the speech as "honest, raw, and inspiring." He said the overall message is that our liberties are under attack, and it is we the people who know best, not big government. Bongino said, "don't get lost in the granular details. This is a bigger battle than most people think it is." He said we are not fighting a Clinton Democrat or a JFK Democrat, but an entire ideology that is putting our personal economic liberty - which is one of same with political liberty - at stake. Bongino said these people "are playing for keeps," but acknowledged that "we have fixed worse problems before - we don't want to start a civil war - we don't handle our problems that way - but we are in a battle with a very dangerous political ideology." He said his speech was meant to "rally the troops."

ObamaCare and Taxes Symptoms, not Root Problem...

Scholla asked Bongino to elaborate on why he said taxes and ObamaCare are not the root problems, but symptoms. He said that today's Democrats want to raise taxes to the Clinton years levels on the premise that the economy boomed under his tenure, but they never mention that capital gains taxes were cut. He said "they know this. They are very bright people. They understand it. They are deceiving you." Bongino continued, "this is not about taxes for them. This is about spending your money, and the only way to spend your money is to tax your money....You'll never get a fair share rate, because your fair share is 'everything trumps everything.'"

He said Clinton did do some good things such as cutting the capital gains tax and reforming welfare. "We as Republicans need to be careful about defending ideas, not defending parties." Bongino has been an outsider to politics as far as both parties are concerned. He said, "lower taxes, patient-driven health care, school choice - these are the ideas we defend."

Scholla observed that McCain and Romney always speak about Obama as being either a "nice guy" or "in over his head....McCain promised straight talk; it was Palin who delivered." Scholla asked if Bongino thought it was time to really call these elected officials out on what they're doing.

The World is Unfair...

"The world is not a fair place. It's not. The world is a meritocracy. Those who work hard, who study the hardest, and develop the hardest callouses on their hands are going to get ahead, and I'm sorry to tell you that. We will always keep a basic social safety net. We will always take care of the most unfortunate among us. We're the most benevolent country on earth and never apologize for that. But, stop with this nonsense. We are not a country of takers. We are a country of makers, and yes we have to call it what it is - and forget the Straight Talk Express; it's time for real straight talk. They know what they're doing. Let's stop pretending that this is just some 'aw shucks moment,' and they fell into ObamaCare," Bongino said.

ObamaCare About Control, Not Health Care

He said that ObamaCare is not about health care, but is about control of the health care system. "It's about control...it's a very dangerous ideology." He said if this system worked, the Greeks would be lending us money not bankrupting us for it now. "We are watching the utter failure of this ideology in live time before our very eyes, and what are we doing? We're replicating it!" Bongino said at the end of his speech that we have the obligation to defend our children's chance at prosperity....if you're not volunteering for a campaign and just sitting on your butt, you're part of the problem, and you are whistling past the graveyard." Bongino said "an entire generation will be left holding the bag if we don't come through in November."

The Time is Now...

"I have spent my entire life studying macro-economics. The writing is on the wall. It is all there, and again I don't want to sound apocalyptic, because God, I love this country...but we are in a lot of trouble, and I don't want to be the prognosticator here. We are printing our way into a debt apocalypse and inflating away the value of our money and all of our assets. We can't build anything here, because our corporate tax rate is the highest in the world. Our real estate market is collapsing. The very core of what this country was built on is collapsing, and the time to turn around, right the ship, make a U-turn is right now. It's not tomorrow....all of you listeners, you have to do. Don't talk. Talk is cheap....Action changes the world."

On Thomas Sowell

Scholla asked, "uou mentioned President Reagan, and you said he knew his limits. That caught my ear. Does that mean you are saying that Obama does not know his limits?"

"He doesn't understand. You know, Thomas Sowell, my favorite author, philosopher, economist? I think he's one of the most brilliant men of our time," Bongino said. "Gov. Palin is a huge fan of him," Scholla said. "I've read his college thesis. I've read all his material. He's really been a lone star for me," Bongino said. Scholla mentioned that Gov. Palin suggested Sowell as a potential Vice Presidential candidate.

Bongino said that Sowell recognizes his own limits. "He can't tell you how much that Ford Escape in your garage is worth to you. Barack Obama has what Sowell calls this 'vision of the anointed.' They've anointed themselves - these geniuses of economics, of medicine, of education, to rule over your lives, put out these edicts and to take the control away from you and make the locus of control them. And, that was the point of my speech. You are forfeiting the power to control your own life through the tax code, through the healthcare legislation, and through the education system. Do you want to make your own choices? Or do you want to pay someone to make your choices for you when they have absolutely no knowledge of the value of those items to you? On its face, it's absurd what we do with the belief that these government bureaucrats know more about your life than you do."

The Absurdity of Victim Economics, and How Economics Really Works...

Scholla asked if the divisiveness resulting from the class, race and religion warfare game the left is playing is part of the reason why we are in trouble if Obama gets re-elected in November.

"Sure....it's a great question. You have to ask yourself again. These are not stupid people. They're not ignorant. 'Why? Why are they doing this?' It's not random. There's a tactical strategic component to this. The only way to sell you on the idea that walking over to your neighbor's and stealing his new Andersen windows and putting them in your house is a good idea is to get you to believe that your neighbor somehow got those Andersen windows at your expense."

Bongino said the liberal ideology is prima facie absurd and a zero sum game. He said the notion that "people got rich at your expense is not how it works; it's a fundamental lie and a misunderstanding of basic economics." He gave an example of having "boy band tickets" which he would have no interest in. Bongino said if he met a teenager in the street and exchanged those tickets for a bagel, because he was hungry, nobody lost. Everybody is better off. "I didn't want those tickets. She loves the band. I was hungry. I get the bagel. Everybody's happier. That's how economics works on a fundamental level."

"It's the only way to make free market economics work. I can't sell you an iPad if you don't want it. You are better off for it, or you wouldn't have bought the product. To make it out that the successful ones - the folks among us who have developed value-added products - have somehow stolen from people and made society worse off is a lie. It's the fundamental lie. It's the Big Lie of liberal economic policy, and they know it. They have to make a victim out of you. If they don't, you will never believe the foolishness I just told you," Bongino said.

Bongino had heard the boy band / bagel example from an economics professor.

Secret Service Persepctive

Scholla asked how Bongino's Secret Service background gives him unique perspective on running for office.

"I was with the Secret Service for 12 years. I always wanted to be a doctor, but my dad pushed me into law enforcement." He left the Secret Service without retiring and abandoning his pension. "Like I said before, life is about doing." He won the primary by six points that many said he could not win, beating out nine other candidates. "They told us we had no chance of raising any money. We just passed nearly half a million dollars in funds raised. We had our best fund-raising week ever and we're down to 1:1 fund-raising status with our opponent."

Bongino is running against a 45-year-incumbent. "It's been a year and a half of hard work, but it's worth it folks. This is too important an election to be sitting on your ends."

Could Palin Mention Lead to a Palin Endorsement?

"So Gov. Palin mentions you. Do you feel an endorsement may be coming your way from Alaska," Scholla asked.

"That would be terrific. I would be shocked. We've had some good luck. They've all been surprises. We had Sen. Mike Lee from Utah. That came out of nowhere and I met him in Israel. We had a great conversation at the dinner table with a number of Israeli officials," Bongino said. He met Fredrich Hayek in Israel. "I came back and he called me on my home phone at 11 O'clock at night and he changed my life about a year ago. He really put it on the map."

"I am really deeply honored that she mentioned my speech. You have to put it in perspective for me. Just a few years back, I was protecting people like Gov. Palin. That was my job, and now that she mentioned in a pretty prominent speech for a fantastic Senate candidate in Texas - Ted Cruz - was a great honor that for a normal guy like me is a very humbling and moving experience. I really hope that at some point in life, everybody gets to have an experience like that. It was fantastic."

Bongino is an AGU 2012 Primary Candidate.

His website is at http://bongino.com.

The Republican establishment has for the past eight months been promoting the meme that "John McCain having picked Gov. Palin to be his Vice Presidential running mate was a mistake." The latest specimen in this barrage of lies comes from the CBS News article: McGovern's VP choice offers Romney a cautionary tale. The story starts out well enough. In 1972, Democratic candidate George McGovern picked Sen. Thomas Eagleton to be his VP running mate. He did not properly vet Sen. Eagleton, who was "flabbergasted" at his own pick. It could accurately be said that he did not vet Sen. Eagleton at all. Eighteen days later, Sen. Eagleton stepped down. The good Senator, it turned out was receiving shock therapy for mental illness. The article's unnamed author made the point that the Romney campaign was doing a thorough job vetting potential running mates to ensure a similar mistake does not recur.

What does Sen. Eagleton have to do with Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin? Absolutely nothing. But, somehow, the writer felt a great need to bring her into the subject, and that is where the eight months of lies about her VP candidacy come into play. The "Game Change" bilge was dredged back up with the disgusting implication that Gov. Palin is somehow in the same class and category of unfitness for Vice President or President as a mental patient receiving shock therapy.

This follows on the heels of former Vice President Richard Cheney saying that picking Gov. Palin "was a mistake" because she was "only governor for two years," - which is two years longer than him, because he never held the office. Gov. Palin held the office in fact for two years and eight months. In that time, she overhauled the state's tax system, ushering in Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share (ACES); she spearheaded the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA), which will build a 1,740-mile pipeline from the North Slope to a terminus in Alberta Canada, so natural gas can be brought to the Lower 48. She brought about ethics reform. Gov. Palin was also at every troop deployment and home-coming; expertly handled crises in her state; created a budget surplus, and improved the state's credit rating.

She accomplished more in her 32 months, than seven New York State governors have in 50 years. She was the state's Commander-in-Chief, including control over missiles intended to intercept ICBMs headed to us from places such as Russia, China and North Korea. Her office was like Grand Central Terminal for foreign consuls and diplomats with whom she met to discuss trade agreements and treaties. Then, there was the day-to-day stuff. If picking someone with this background was a mistake, then what's a successful pick? Kudos to Liz Cheney who went against her own father, stood up and did the right thing on Twitter by defending Gov. Palin.

John McCain, who was at the top of the ticket said - again - that he was satisfied with picking her. He said he was proud of Gov. Palin and her work. He was the one at the top of the ticket. If he was proud of Gov. Palin and her work, that should end the conversation right there....

The Republican Party elites have had a fixation with getting this message out, even though it is patently false. "Game Change" was made specifically to push this lie. What exactly does Gov. Palin's own party fear now? She announced nearly 10 months ago that she is not running for President. Gov. Palin remains a private citizen not running for any elective office. She may or may not even be personally present at the GOP Convention in Tampa next month. All we have right now is that SarahPAC put a $4,500 deposit on a rental space in nearby Channelside Bay Plaza. Her staff will be in the space, but that does not necessarily mean she will be there. So, why target her like this? Since Romney became the presumptive nominee, the Republican establishment has been working double and triple overtime to slime Gov. Palin as the 2008 VP nominee. The central themes are:

• "Romney should not even think of putting Gov. Palin on his ticket." With all the talk about Gov. Palin being such "a horrible VP candidate" for McCain, one would think Romney was openly seriously considering her. He is not, she knows he is not, and anyone who even remotely follows either of the former governors knows he is not, so why make an issue of it? Perhaps, these people are fearful that he could put those differences aside, consider her and that she would accept? If she were such a bad VP candidate in 2008, the record would speak for itself. Critics would not have to spend eight months building a case.
• "If Romney even puts a woman on his ticket, she could be too 'Palin-like' and a 'big no-no.' We saw today how Florida's Pam Bondi is being positioned now as a "blonde Sarah Palin."
• "Romney should not even put a man on his ticket who brings about 'too much excitement' or who could be considered 'Palin-like.' Thus, we endured weeks of why Marco Rubio would supposedly be a lousy choice.

The Republican establishment is sending a clear message: "Gov. Palin and those who share her same qualities are not welcome and will not going to go places in this party." You see, Sarah Palin took on the establishments of both the Democrats and her own Republican Party - not just as Alaska's Governor, but as the Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (AOGCC), as Wasilla's Mayor and as a City Councilwoman. As Chair of the AOGCC, she brought down Randy Reudrich on numerous ethics violations. Reudrich was the Chair of the state Republican Party and a member of the RNC.

Gov. Palin does not just say "sudden and relentless reform" in speeches. She's executed it for the past 20 years. The GOP knows it. This is why they fear and loathe her. This is why they have slimed her for eight months with a bald-faced lie about her "VP candidacy being a mistake" and continue to do it. This is why they have the gall to compare her VP candidacy to that of a mentally ill Senator receiving shock therapy. Gov. Palin may not be running for any elective office, but with her down-tickets, she is purging the existing establishment and building a new one.

The members of the existing establishment are not stupid and see the handwriting on the wall. They want nothing more than for her to disappear and go away. Gov. Palin will go to war for people who stand up and do the right thing. For those who do wrong, she is a force to be feared and respected. Those who "mis-underestimate" her do so at their own peril and those who learn it always find out way too late. She is a very powerful threat to the Republican establishment, perhaps even more so as a private citizen than if she had run. Gov. Palin is not nicknamed "Barracuda" for nothing.