Bill's Comments

I have just finished Sarah Palin’s book, “Going Rogue.” The title comes from the campaign for VP with John McCain for President. Whenever she tried to do what she knew was right from past experience in campaigning in Alaska, and it disagreed with what “Headquarters” thought should be done, she was accused of going rogue.

Before I talk about the rest of the book and Sarah Palin, herself, let’s get rid of the politics. First of all, I don’t see Mrs. Palin as ever running for President. It is not that she is incapable; she would be better than any of the candidates we have had since Ronald Reagan. It is that her values start with God and her family, and somewhere her family would be sacrificed to the personal destruction cult of the left/liberal axis. She experienced this directly when campaigning for Governor of Alaska and especially when she was the VP nominee for the Republican party. Such destructive attempts would be intolerable to her. [Can you imagine what they would try to do with Trig if she ran for President, considering what they did for just the VP nomination?] Second, the Republicans deserved to lose the 2008 Election. This is NOT to say the Democrats deserved to win. They deserved to lose even more. But the Republicans tried to campaign by the same rules and methods of the Democrats, and that does not work for the people that want a conservative approach to government.

From “Going Rogue” it is painfully obvious that the people running the Republican Presidential campaign were all about image, not substance, IMAGE. They obtained a multi-six figure wardrobe for Mrs. Palin and her family to wear, and were dictatorial about what she said, where she said it, and when she said it. John McCain asked her to be his running mate for her distinct character, and the campaign staff refused to let it out. It was OUR elites vs. THEIR elites, not our policies vs. their policies, or our candidates vs. their candidates. When it comes to image, no one will ever out-do the Democrats. They routinely make virtual silk purses out of sow’s ears, mainly because they have no scruples about stretching the truth or in some cases outright lying. Their political ends justify any means. Republicans that play that game deserve to lose. Unfortunately, the real losers are the people of this country, who have no real choices from which to select, or at least have no comprehension of the differences.

Sarah Palin, as a political power, is the greatest to come to this nation since Ronald Reagan. But the real reason for her greatness is the same as Ronald Reagan’s—genuineness. In an age of form over substance, she not only has form, she has substance. She scares both left and right, who want the forms but not the substance. She scares the left because she is capable of presenting a common-sense approach to government that ordinary people understand, like, and support. She scares the right, because underneath that excellent exterior, she has principles that are not subject to the current political wind of the day, and as such make a mockery of Republican [lack of] principles.

To anyone, like myself, who has had to earn their living at hard labor for an hourly wage, Sarah Palin is the real deal. We know it from the minute we set our eyes on her, and when she opens her mouth we are confirmed in our judgments. This is a person who doesn’t take herself so seriously that she can’t appreciate a joke at her expense. This is a politician who genuinely understands my situation and cares about it, not about her next step on the political ladder. To an intellectual elite with an Ivy League degree, who has never worked a hard day in their life or been behind on a bill, she is incomprehensible. The categories they think in do not include adherence to religious values, adherence to the sanctity of life, true compassion for people, the ability to see the good in even the worst, a refusal to demonize opposition, the triumph of hard work over adversity, and most of all, personal integrity. To hold absolute vs. relative moral standards and to succeed by them, is a huge slap in the face to all the elitist and intellectual pundits and the politicians they support.

How dare she carry a Down’s syndrome baby to term, give birth, and keep it to raise and cherish! Not only that, she does it while fulfilling completely the office of Governor of Alaska and then going on the campaign trail as the Republican VP nominee. Feminists of the country unite! She is making us look like whiners. Watch out Peggy Noonan and Kathleen Parker! She writes as well as you do, speaks better, looks better, and actually has experienced what she represents. When you dismissed her, she was busy pulling in crowds as big as any politician has in ages. The Obamacons revealed their true colors—it is not about principles, but about being the chosen intellectual elite, and Obama was one of theirs [and just as fakey and insincere. An empty suit.]. If the Republicans had run her for President and let her handle the campaign like she did in Alaska, none of our current misery would have happened. Ordinary people would have seen her for what she is and Obama for what he is.

I am a great fan of Sarah Palin. Her choice to support any candidate that reflects her values, regardless of party, gives her a great credibility with people like me. If we see the rise of a new center-conservative party that blows away the Republicans and leaves the Democrats as the ineffectual splinter group they deserve to be, it will be because of this one woman’s efforts to create a better life for all of us.

…..don’t have a clue