I was so ready. I mean, if Senator "Immigration Reform" didn't pick Mitt Romney I was ready to throw a fit from here to Massachusetts. So what does he do? He picks Sarah Palin. Sarah who??
Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska. That's who. She's a self-described hockey mom who served in the PTA and helped out with coaching basketball. It was on her old high school basketball team where she earned the nickname, "Barricuda." She was elected for town council and served three terms as mayor from 1996-2002.
She likes to hunt and fish and helps with her husband's commercial fishing operation. She even field dresses her own moose! I can't even get some women to bait their own hook, much less field dress a big game animal. She sounds like my kind of girl. She sounds like one of the guys.
When she found out she was pregnant with a child that would most certainly be born with Down's syndrome, she stopped all subsequent testing and made the decision to have her baby. That makes her more than just "one of the guys." That makes her a role model.
She has stood up to lobbyists and big oil companies. (Apparently that gets traction on both sides of the aisle.)
As governor, she enjoys an 80% approval rating in a
July 28th polland when oil revenues soared she sent the excess revenues back to Alaskans (Alaskan residents get a check based on oil revenues each year.) She is currently building a natural gas pipeline that will help wean the US toward energy independence. She is an expert on drilling in ANWR and the Alaskan Coastal Plain as well, and can provide leadership that John McCain sorely needs. She said during an interview with Larry Kudlow recently, "It's 'nonsense' that our President had to ask the Saudis to ramp up production when you know that we have the supplies here. Alaskans want it to happen - Congress is holding us back."
She's a proven reformer who hates corruption. She was appointed Ethics Commissioner and Chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. You see, she was appointed by a corrupt governor of a then-corrupt state Republican Party. When she saw all that was happening, she resigned in public protest over what she saw in her own party. Then in 2006, she challenged Murkowski
in the Republican primary and beat him. She then beat former governor Tony Knowles in the general.
Notice the words I used: "she has done...", "she is..." not "she can..." or "she will..." She can actually say she
has done it, unlike a certain other senator I know.
If the left wants to play the experience game, I say "bring it on." Her two years of experience as governor easily trumps Obama's four years as senator. As governor you have to make decisions every day on every issue. Senators can pick and choose their issues. In other words, you can't vote "present" as governor.
Look for the far left to begin smearing Palin, her family members and any other person involved in this "awful pick." You see, the reason the left is beside themselves is because they've painted the Republicans as bigots and racists. Republicans have always said they'd be happy to vote for a woman or a black person, as long as it was the right woman, or the right black person. They can't stand it that Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska is the right woman.
A dear friend of mine said of the Clinton-Gore ticket back in 1992, "Too bad it isn't the other way around." If he were alive today I'm sure we could be talking about how this ticket might serve the American people better if it were the other way around.
Mitt who?