A liberal friend of mine asked me to write a blog about this subject so I thought I would swing for the fences and see if I couldn't make his head explode. I am not blind follower of the Governors but I do admire her and can also see some area's where she needs work. Tell me what you think.



Sarah Steps Down

The major news of the forth of July weekend was the announcement that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin would resign as Governor of Alaska before July is over. Well immediately all of the talking heads in the media claimed that Sarah Palin was done politically, they all began to call her a quiter they claim she was and is a flash in the pan and will now be nothing more then a foot note in history. I could not disagree with this assessment more, although my opinion of the Governor has always been divergent from that of the main stream media. I don't think she is stupid because she is from Alaska, because she didn't go to an ivy league school, or because she hasn't spent countless hours mingling with the "right people" at cocktail parties in New York, Chicago, and Washington D.C. I think she has a real world common sense that is lost on most of the establishment in this country in both parties.

The powers that be in Washington, Republican and Democrat alike have a vested interested in keeping the status quo operating, in making sure that someone like Governor Palin is either marginalized or brought into the "insider" fold, you see because insiders have a very narrow range of vision, weather its to the left or the right they only see insider solutions to Americas problems. They are the ones who have gotten America into the mess we are in now, people like John McCain ( Who I voted for and respect as a leader and an veteran) Harry Reid, Newt Gingrinch, and Nancy Pelosi, they have on what I like to refer to as Washington blinders, they can't make header or tail of people like Governor Palin or those who support her because her and people who supporter her don't think likey they do. While I believe Governor Palin still has some work to do before she earns my vote should she run in 2012 I respect and like her because she is an outsider, she is relatively new to the process, she thinks like a person who has been living in the real world not the washington/new york bubble.

Was resigning as Governor a good idea? If she had been the governor of any other state save Hawaii, and had not been the '08 Veep nominee I would have said it was political suicide, however if you are Sarah Palin and you want to one day possibly be President, this idea of having to fly sixteen plus hours everytime you want to give a speech or raise money or campaign for a candidate for office to bank some good will is not tenible, and this is a big one the vile rage and hatred that the left has shown towards this women and her family since she was announced boarders on insane, from the moment she was announced in Ohio the left and their allies in the media set out not to defeat her but to destroy her. Why would they want to destroy this women you might ask? Here are just a few of the reasons for the vile illogical rage towards this women.

1) First she broke the identity politics mold, which to elite liberals is the worst thing a person can do. She by the way for doing this is in the same class as people like Clarence Thomas, and Joseph Liberman. How might you ask did she break the mold? She was at the time of her selection an elected women who was actually a conservative. That breaks the mold that women, especially middle class women are all a bunch of left leaning kooky liberals.
2)Class Warfare; She is from middle/working class roots and dares to be a conservative, she is a genuine christian, she seems by all accounts to be in a happy marriage ( that pisses off liberals to no end for some silly reason).
3) She is unapologetically Pro-life, proving it so by actually giving birth to a special needs child.
4) She was not educated on the east coast, as a matter of fact most if not nearly all of her life has been spent away from the east coast which by its self makes liberals think people are stupid simply because you wheren't educated on the east coast, or at a few santified colleges on the west coast. Her values are not theirs and she can fire up millions of her fellow citizens. Over fifty eight million Americans voted for Sarah Palin.

These are just a few of the reasons why liberals hate the Governor, and let me just say their are a lot of us who like the Governor, who like her even more because of how much and by whom the Governor is hated by.

Now let me tell you why the governor resigned. It was not because she is not smart, it is not because she didn't want to do the job. It was because she felt that she was mafinalized by those who where out to destroy her, the fact that she and her family had to spent over half a million dollars fighting frivilous ethics complaints all of which where dismissed, and the state had to spend millions to defend against these people who have taken a page out of the Saul Alinsky playbook by trying to bury this women and her family for political reasons.

Also she resigned I think to give her family a slight break, because as along as she was in the Governors office the media will continue to try and destroy this family, they will continue to say horrible things about her children and her family as a way to try to destroy her. It is disgusting, that anyone could attack children like this for political reasons.

I believe Sarah Palin has a vision for where she wants to lead this nation. She is genuine, and that can't be faked. She has a lot of raw talent and gifts that where being waisted in Alaska. Oh and her resignation speech was genuine, and while it was not the most polished speech ever it was genuine. She knows what its like to be an independent women, she knows what its like to live west of the mississippi, she knows what its like to not go to an ivy league school. That is the magic of the Governor.

While I don't know what the future holds for Sarah Palin, I think the liberals are doing it again and that is underestimating her, and its gonna cost them. I think if she can prove she has the chops, if she can keep from being destroyed by the liberal media, if she can stand on the stage with serious men and women on the issues I think she could be a force to be dealt with.