Well, it’s been a while since Governor Sarah Palin dropped a tactical nuclear bomb on the country.  I of course am referring to her resignation from the office of Governor of Alaska.  She came swooping into this office and followed it up with some of the highest approval ratings in recent gubernatorial history.  She is also one of the most successful, working with people to get things done as she promised.  

I believe she is far more of a threat to the liberals and Democratic party than they would ever let on, both because of the way she reaches people, and for the values she proudly wears on her sleeve.  She is far more qualified than anyone of them would say, and she is far smarter as well.

In a short amount of time she has rooted out corruption in both major parties. Her state is one of the only ones in this deep recession showing a surplus of cash and energy.  She has cut billions from their spending budget for this fiscal year while still being able to meet all major priorities.  Her state did not need the stimulus bill, and she turned down the money when it was thrust upon her.   Why should she?  If you don’t need it, don’t spend it!  She fought the oil companies and fought to have her states vast resources of oil pumped down to the lower 48.  She knows that ANWR is full of oil and has none of the endangered species to protect we’re told it does by the EPA and other agencies.  It’s frozen tundra on top of buried treasure.  C’mon people!!!  People argue her state has a surplus because of the oil reserves.  I ask them to keep in mind that much of it, they have not been able to tap, pump, drill or sell, so therefore it does not help them with their budget or energy supply.  

Last week there was a USA Today / Gallup Poll that showed that a over two-thirds of republicans want Palin as the nominee in 2012, or at least as ‘a major national political figure.’  I like to go deeper sometimes, beyond the poll numbers…

Today in America if you drop GOP or DEM from the polling questions, more people identify themselves as conservatives, a full 40%.  I know conservatives who are libertarian.  Some of them are members of the Constitution or American Independence parties.  There are more still who have no party at all, but are conservative at heart.

I was at a tea party on July 3^rd, the day the governor announced her resignation.  There were over a thousand people from all races and parties, men and women, old and young who began to chant ‘PALIN! PALIN!’ 

Sarah Palin connects with regular Americans.  Some call them Reagan-Democrats, some call them ‘average joe’s.’  Their detractors call them hicks, farmers, rednecks and a whole slew of other people that they assume cling to their guns and religion.  (Ba dum bum)  She drew thousands upon thousands of people to her campaign rallies, and in fact she drew much more than the head of the ticket, Senator McCain.  No other conservative candidate has had that kind of draw with the American public since Ronald Reagan.  She is also equally polarizing.  It is a fundamental law of Newtonian physics that for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction.  If there was ever proof that physics applied to politics, then that proof is Sarah Palin.

For every person who is a fan, there is another who hates her.  For each person who came out to see her at a rally, one sat at home and called her a whore on Myspace.  People did not know why they hated her, but they did.  They wrote her off as a dunce, a fool, and a ditz.  The medias portrayal of her did not help at all.  For three months they beat the hell out of her, giving her questions about Bush’s policy that Bush and Cheney could not have answered, and offending her at other times with questions that were a waste of time.  When it comes to the mainstream media, our friend Sir Isaac Newton departs.

In the afore mentioned poll, three-fourths of republicans, over half of independents, and a full third of democrats say the media coverage of Palin had, and still has been unfairly negative.  When she was announced as Senator McCains running mate last year, the banner on MSNBC said “How Many Houses Does This Add To The Republican Ticket?”

Chris Matthews lambasted her on his show for a full five minutes for writing a book with the aid of a ghostwriter.  I guess he forgot about Hillary Clintons who had helped her with her book. 

Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric asked her questions that not only would they never have asked President Obama, but questions that were not too relevant to well, anything!  (Governor Palin later said that she paused and smiled during the Katie Couric interview because she could not believe what she was being asked half of the time.)  Add this onto the unbelievable bias that the mainstream media showed to Obama during the campaign, and it is a recipe for swaying public opinion.  If you happen to doubt that there was intense bias from the media favoring President Obama, then just ask his secretary of state.

I won’t even dignify the constant comments of people like David Letterman.  To do so would lead people to believe that I watch him.  He of course is free to say whatever he wants, no matter how tacky, tasteless or unfunny.  That’s the price of a free society, and I pay it gladly.

There were even some fellow republicans who were less than helpful.  Governor Palin had poor handlers on a poorly run campaign.  Personally, I think some of the former staffers, like the ones who contributed to the twenty-four page article in Vanity Fair, not only did not give their names out of cowardice, but out of selfish career aspirations as well.  I believe they would cite themselves as having helped written the article at any interview, or any step to them being hired to work on the campaign circuit again.  After how poorly the McCain campaign was run, I doubt many of them will work again.  They made two tactical blunders that sunk them.  The let Senator McCain off the leash, and they kept Governor Palin on one.

No one wants to hire a rat who deserts the ship even before it sinks, let alone one who runs to the press!  We all know people like this!  As soon as your back is turned they are running off to the media with juicy stories about you, and as soon as you turn around again they are giving you the smile and pat on the shoulder.  They go above your head to your boss and blame you for their mistakes.  If someone is going to accuse someone of such things, I’d rather they at least be brave enough to author their libel writings.

If someone does not like Sarah Palin’s policies or positions, that’s a personal call and I can respect that.  However, when I see someone who would instead say that they do not like her because she is stupid, or a dummy, or ‘too pretty,’ (I actually heard that from someone) or the ‘wrong kind of feminist,’ I get angry.  It is the same as someone who

Makes fun of a gay person, then when they are confronted they say ‘well, I guess I’m just more homophobic than I realize.’  They brush it off with a stupid excuse for their ignorance.  When people reside themselves to that all-too-comfortable kind of resignation, without the compulsion to find out why, or even the willingness to express it, it is as sad as it is inexcusable. 

If Governor Palin is so dim and inconsequential, as the elites, the media and Matt Damon would tell us, then why the constant attacks even after the campaign is long gone?  Do we not still ignore that which truly does not matter?  If she is not a threat, why still attack her?

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