Sarah Palin, Back In The News

You can actually feel the cringing coming from the liberals: Sarah's back in the news. And, predictably--because liberals are simply incapable of doing anything else--they are quick to jump all over Sarah and her book. You will pretty consistently hear them whine that her book is a whine-fest. The truth is that liberals make an art form of whining...just look at Al Gore and his completely fictitious ranting about global warming (which has since changed to "climate change", now that REAL science is showing that we've been on a 10-year cooling trend, contrary to his cohorts' computer models). He's parlayed this pack of lies into a multi-billion dollar franchise culminating in Cap & Tax. Talk about the consummate con!

I was watching Bernie Goldberg being interviewed about what he calls the "lame-stream media" (and apt moniker, in my opinion) and how they are again going after Sarah Palin. He said something I thought was profound. The reason, he suggests, that liberals so absolutely hate Sarah Palin, why you never hear the feminist groups like NOW come to her defense, is because Sarah is the most talked-about woman in the world, draws tens of thousands wherever she appears....and she's not one of THEM. I think he nailed it.

It's not just the liberals who go after her, either. It's a good many so-called conservatives. She is the face of the schizm that has opened in the Republican Party. What you have is the Old School Republicans, mostly from the northeast and the beltway, who have sat on their fat butts, pontificating about various fiscal issues, all the while hypocritically raping this nation and their own party, figuratively speaking. They lack almost all integrity, but they've owned the party for decades. But after 8 years of George Bush, who essentially sold true conservatives out, but just wasn't liberal enough for the leftist fanatics, the Republican Party quickly lost favor and support from those who had long-been members. I count myself as an example. Toward the end of Bush's first term I ceased membership. There were no real conservatives left in charge.

Then here came John McCain. Democrat-lite. There is no conservative who felt the drive to get behind him. That is, not until Sarah Palin came on the scene. She is the only reason that McCain didn't get trounced as badly as he could have. And now who still gets a lot of air play? Does anyone really care what John McCain has to say? I certainly don't.

So, what we have now are liberals of any flavor clinging to the Democratic Party. They are political strumpets, as far as I'm concerned, and are about as shallow as one can get. We also have people who still hold significant ownership of the Republican Party who are almost as shallow, and are mostly fiscal conservatives but either socially liberal or they simply don't care about social issues. Both of these groups predictably agree on one argument: If the Republican Party wants to make a go of it, it must be more "inclusive" and more "moderate".

And they are WRONG. I need only point to the New York 23rd District race to make my case. The Old School cancer that infects the Republican Party backed the wrong candidate, Scozzafava, who was objectionable as Olympia Snowe or Arlen Specter. Let me give you a question to ask yourself: What is the purpose of having two political parties if we say they should both be "moderate"? Do you know what Jesus said about being lukewarm? I'm convinced that what we are seeing is the lukewarm being spit out...the truly hot and cold are becoming more defined. The best thing that has happened to conservatives is Barrack Obama. He is so blatantly liberal, so clearly socialist (bordering on fascist) that he creates a stark difference from a true conservative. People who actually like what he's doing to this country will NOT settle for lightweight liberalism that so-called "moderate" Republicans might sell themselves off as. And, increasingly, conservatives are not going to settle for the "lesser of two evils" by choosing a RINO. I, for one, would rather keep losing on principle, sticking to my philosophy as a conservative and as a Christian.

We're seeing rumblings that the independents who swallowed the tainted bait of the Obama campaign are experiencing buyers remorse. The TEA parties, which are still going on, and the town hall meetings are proof enough of the backlash. People are asking, "Why are Obama and the Democrats pushing so hard to get junk legislation through on all these social and fiscal issues SO quickly, not giving anyone enough time to read it, much less seriously debate it?" Because that's been the plan all along. Get strong majorities and ram all this in, knowing that once a program has begun in government it's almost impossible to remove. Impossible because once people are dependent on it you don't dare take them off "life support". This is a fact, people. Obama and the Democrats are very aware that we are waking up to the reality of the socialist country and they know their time is running out. They stand a serious chance of losing a number of seats in both the House and Senate, even if not enough to lose majorities, in the 2010 election. And by the time 2012 comes around and people start to feel the deadly effects of all this social and fiscal destruction they'll be ready to repeat 1994 all over again. So, yes, they have to act quickly and with an eye only on short-term impunity.

So, Sarah Palin has a chance to start to build her street creds now that she's riding the book tour. She's got an important interview coming up with Bill O'Reilly, who typically doesn't pull punches. He'll press her on important issues to see if she's learned from her experience with the likes of Couric. She has to nail this one if she's going to keep any aspirations of political office alive. She doesn't have the excuse of the poor handlers she was saddled with during the McCain campaign. It's all on her now.

I'm praying for her. I'm still convinced she's got the core, the gut instinct to be a better President than the Marxist In Chief. But she's got to get serious about her homework. If not, then Sarah Palin will be an interesting footnote in 21st century politics.