Made in America

The leftwing reaction to Sarah Palin is fascinating and enlightening. She is the liberals’ worst nightmare, a political comet hurtling toward the epicenter of the East Coast’s liberal establishment. Their attacks on her are primordial because they fear extinction.

And as with real-estate, it’s all about location, location, location. In America’s heartland Sarah looks like a rising star. The Pedigree Club flies over this geography. The Eastern elite believe the masses huddled in inland communities are a primitive species still clinging to guns and God.

They can’t comprehend people who have more faith in their neighbors’ common sense than the pontifications of a press reared in Ivy League schools. The East Coast conclave believes the liberal agenda should be accepted as Manifest Destiny, an inevitable future.

They view the inhabitants of Middle America as primitives standing in the way of progress. They despise Sarah because she stirs memories. Her career reminds Americans that they don’t have to suffer fools. She reminds Americans that morality, merit, patriotism, self-reliance, motherhood and apple pie are worthy of respect.

And she reminds Americans that they are not pets. They aren’t dependent on a clique of elitists, including Europeans, who have a single goal, to be the sole arbiters of opportunity, respectability and acceptance.

It’s Sarah’s style of independence that liberals want to expunge from the American psyche. She has proven that Americans can still succeed without government nourishment. She is the antithesis of the liberal agenda. She represents the ideals that built the United States of America.

They fear she will spark a revolution. They fear she will instill people with a sense of pride in building their own future. They fear her independent spirit will incite people to take control of their lives and vanquish the hordes of bureaucrats eating away at their freedoms.

The liberal agenda is about creating a society subservient to government. Liberals abhor independent thought. They abhor criticism. And they can’t afford to let anyone lift the rock they slither under before elections.

Want confirmation? Senator Obama has rebuked every position he held prior to his nomination. He knows he can’t win the election if he keeps his real colors unfurled. He needs a teleprompter to remind himself what to espouse. He’s parroting a foreign language.

That’s why his campaign’s attacks on Sarah are personal. His leftwing cohorts can only question her intelligence, her education, her experience and fitness as a mother. They can’t attack her politics without giving away their own positions.

With an 85% favorability rating as Alaska’s Governor, it’s difficult to use scorched earth tactics on her record; a record Obama can’t match.

Her favorability numbers indicate ordinary Americans like her brand of politics. That’s the fuse that Sarah has lit. McCain introduced a real American to America. And she reminds them of who they are and what they can accomplish.

Sarah will carry McCain into office because it’s her message and persona that’s resonating. She’s about putting America back in the hands of Americans. She’s about what Made in America means.

Hillary's Last Hope Wears a Skirt

The contest between Senator Clinton and Senator Obama concentrated the nation’s attention on gender and ethnicity. Voter alignment and sentiment swirled around these issues.

The candidates’ political agendas were nearly identical. The media’s attention on the soaring rhetoric of Senator Obama and its love of his skin color caught the Clintons by surprise. Bill and Hillary thought they owned the airwaves and the press. That’s the assumption that sank her campaign.

Senator Obama won eleven straight primary contests before he was vetted. Then the rules of political correctness hampered the Clintons’ counter attack. After Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers and Michelle and Barack Obama’s politics were unveiled, the Clintons were unmercifully slapped around for mentioning these issues.

That’s the irony of her loss. Political correctness was concocted by the Clintons’ aficionados to shade the truth and change the rules of debate. Gender was the politically correct horse Hillary planned on riding into the White House. So she doesn’t deserve sympathy.

Hillary’s fortunes changed once Barack’s true colors were identified. Political correctness was trumped by the privacy of the voting booth. Although she carried every swing state in the final rounds, her resurrection came too late. The nation will discover on November 4, 2008 how many Americans regret pulling the Obama lever.

Senator Obama remains the Democratic nominee because the Convention Delegates knew that they would lose the black vote if they selected the best candidate. They were trapped, having depended on blacks for fifty years to keep them in office. Without the black vote the Democratic Party would cease to exist as a national contender.

Finally, the election is focusing on issues rather than the fanciful images created by the liberal media. It’s McCain verses Obama. Character, experience, economics, US security, energy, trade, education, healthcare, Social Security, Medicare, immigration and taxes are now percolating into the national discussion.

It’s now about liberal solutions verses conservative solutions. It’s about reality and ideals. The dynamics of this election have been changed by Sarah Palin. Senator McCain correctly portrays himself as neutral. He is neither fish nor fowl. So in the cold light of day, this election now pits the politics of Sarah Palin against the politics of Senator Obama.

There are two debates that Americans would relish: 1) Sarah vs. Barack, and 2) Sarah Palin vs. Speaker Pelosi. These contests would define the underlying choice Americans will make.

Who would win these debates? The jury is still out. But Hillary Clinton would benefit if Sarah walked away with America on her side. A McCain/Palin win in November would leave the door open for a Clinton run in 2012. Who would have guessed that Hillary’s last hope would be wearing a skirt?

A final irony: Sarah wouldn’t be a factor if Obama had selected Hillary as his running mate. That decision, of and by itself, identifies his petulance, immaturity and arrogance.

Her Name is Sarah and She's Packing Heat

It doesn’t take a forensic expert to patch together the evidence of what occurred at the Republican Convention in St. Paul. A little lady with a sense of humor beat the devil out of her boss’ adversary.

More importantly, she didn’t apologize. That’s refreshing. She showed up practically unannounced and introduced the nation to some wisdom that President George W. Bush ignored for eight years. A national leader who hides behind the opponent’s colors doesn’t earn respect.

Sarah Palin was forthright. That appeals to Americans. Her boss’ speech was okay. Had he delivered it prior to her national debut, it would have been a bust. His acceptance speech rode on the reverberation she created. She added the can-do dimension to his thoughts.

Senator McCain was told in no uncertain terms that Sarah Palin is the gravity that pulled the audience toward him. Let’s hope he heard the message. He may define himself as a uniter, but she defines the direction the nation will follow.

Senator McCain will win the presidency if he stays by her side. He may be a military hero, but she represents the millions of American heroes who fight everyday to protect their families. They pick up a lunch pail or a briefcase and head to work, hoping the job will still be there when they arrive.

They aren’t looking for handouts and are willing to bust their humps to pay the rent and keep food on the table. They just want a fair shake. These are the Americans that respect Sarah Palin because she cut through the polite doublespeak and told the truth.

The majority of Americans will pull the lever for Senator McCain if they believe he will follow her example. He is a decent man and an honorable man. But many people fear his willingness to compromise with Speaker Pelosi, Senator Reid and the Kennedy crowd will chip away at the foundation of the American Dream.

This cadre doesn’t represent America’s passion for excellence. They smite success. They represent the takers and not the givers, the complainers and not the doers. Sympathy is good. But handouts are appeasements; they are not solutions.

This country was built on a work ethic. Americans are willing to put their shoulders down and push with a ferocity that uniquely defines the American spirit. They define competitor. This is the nerve that Sarah Palin awakened.

Americans want a system that rewards effort. They want a government that builds opportunity, not one that distributes it based on gender, ethnicity and pandering. They want a government that protects their backs.

And there stands a tiny woman with the heart of a lion and the soul of an American. The nation heard her roar. She promised to help her boss clear the barn of vermin. Only a fool would doubt her capability.

And don’t underestimate Senator McCain’s resolve to end the Congressional featherbedding and return our schools to the business of education.

Sarah Palin

Governor Palin changes the dynamics of the 2008 election, and maybe America’s future. She’s admirable. You can sense the steel in her backbone and the resolve in her mindset. It’s not much of a stretch to imagine her resolutely trekking across America’s 18th century prairies with her eyes on the horizon.

She embodies what Made in America means. There is something special about this lady. She is self-reliant and doesn’t seem to have an ounce of quit in her.

Her path to the vice presidential nomination wasn’t coated with rose pedals. There is no family pedigree or scent of entitlement about her. She cleared her own path. She epitomizes the promise of America.

Her political career was built on improving the quality of life in the communities she represented rather than on a carefully groomed image that money can buy. She has been proven loyal to the simple concept that government is for and by the people.

This doesn’t make her old fashioned. She renews the American spirit that has been degraded by generations of elected, pandering sycophants strutting down the streets of Washington, DC, and in the capitols of too many states. This self-serving crowd has succumbed to buying loyalty.

They have put the nation up for sale rather than grappling with the problems. They have pitted race against race, gender against gender, state against state and American against American to enhance their personal fortunes. Listen to them. Their promises are never tied to national unity and growth. They are only interested in dividing the pot.

And there stands Sarah Palin. She doesn’t represent the political status quo. She is a free spirit. Anyone would be hard pressed to believe she entered the political fray with a career in mind. It’s clear that she backed into public service because she was tired of “The Club” enriching itself by scamming the system.

Many on the left, and a few on the right, claim she is not up to the challenge. There is nothing in her history that supports this conclusion. Others submit that her selection was gender based. It would be difficult to refute this ascertain. But this feeble snub doesn’t diminish her character, her principles, her talent or her aptitude.

She is the real McCoy, an American through and through. And she happens to be a woman. The nation needs honest leadership. If it takes a woman to put this nation back on course, so be it.

Sarah Palin has always lived on the same street as average Americans. She is not a princess. She is us. That’s her greatest asset.

Senator Obama, Senator Biden, Senator Clinton, Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi will never understand why Americans are proud of Sarah Palin. She is a stranger to the Big Government crowd. They are her antithesis, the sum and total of self-serving political avarice, class warfare and the dismissal of moral standards.

They fear Sarah because she represents the heart and soul of this nation. They fear Sarah because she will rise to the occasion.