Lessons from Sarah, If Only We'd Learn Them

Whether you love Sarah Palin or hate her, the one thing you have to admit is that she embodies what America is all about.

She didn't go to Harvard, Yale, Princeton or Columbia - thank heavens.  We have enough of those graduates ruining our country as it is.  She grew up in a two parent home and married her childhood sweetheart.  She's smart - and can give a long speech perfectly without a teleprompter - probably because what she says comes from the heart.

She loves the out of doors.  Isn't rich.  Raises her own children.  Because she lives in Alaska and hunts and fishes for food that she and her family consume, she no doubt understands the environment better than the green talking heads and the Al Gores caught in the traffic of Washington, D.C. and who stand to make billions if cap and trade passes the Senate.

But while Sarah was busy raising her family, she was also aware of what was going on in her community and she didn't like it.  She saw corruption and wanted to put an end to it.

Sure, she could have complained, like we all do.  But Sarah rolled up her sleeves and came out swinging.  She didn't depend on someone else to do the dirty work.  She grabbed the sponge and did it herself.

This was no life long ambition of hers.  She was a daughter; a wife; a mother.  But when things needed to be fixed in her town, she fixed them.   And when things needed to be fixed in her state, she jumped in with both feet and Alaska is better for her having been its governor.

She didn't ask John McCain to be tapped as his running mate.  He came to her.  They saw in her the same vibrance and down-to-earth honesty that the Alaskan people saw.  But like political hacks everywhere, they reined her in and stage-managed her until the sparkle that drew McCain to her in the first place faded.  And now these hacks come out of their holes and write hit pieces on her, or give interviews demeaning her to save their own sorry careers.

John McCain and his bunch of clowns were on life support until Sarah Palin showed up.  McCain would draw a crowd of a few hundred - unless Sarah was with him, and then it was thousands.  Sarah had youth, beauty, charisma and common sense.  McCain stood like a statue, rocking back and forth from his heels to his toes and nervously twisting his wedding band.  Maybe McCain and his minions should place the blame for his loss where it belongs.  An uncharismatic candidate and a campaign that made stupid mistakes over and over again.  But, of course, that would mean taking responsibility.  It's much easier to jump on the blame Sarah bandwagon so maybe, just maybe, someone will hire them in the future.

Sarah isn't a professional politician.  She's one of us.  She saw wrongs and she tried to right them.

The way she was crucified - and continues to be crucified - by political hit pieces mocking her because she happens to be beautiful and is smart in a common sense way these particular columnists and broadcasters who bathe daily in the stink of the corruption and idiocy of Washington, D.C is astonishing.  If they ever had common sense, they've lost all touch with it.  If they ever had a nodding acquaintance with civility, they've used it all up on Obama.  The way they have gone after her husband and children is like watching a grotesque parody, or looking at a Dali painting.  Do these people think before they speak?  Do they read what they write?  Are they, with all of their own abortions, illegitimate children, affairs, alcoholism, drug abuse and broken marriages, completely blind to the irony of what they're saying about this perfectly nice woman?  Or do they think they're immune because no one is investigating them and putting it in print - yet.

David Letterman is frankly creepy.  He's doing the equivalent of televised stalking. His jokes aren't funny.  The audience laughter is growing uneasy and forced.  But for some reason his obsession with Sarah blinds him to his own weirdness. He's apparently unaware that he's been irrelevant for the last decade.

Sarah, I can only imagine what your children, and the youth all across America, must think about public service after what's been done to you and your children.

I hope the beating you've taken doesn't keep other ordinary people from running for office.  The last thing America needs is more professional politicians.  We need good, honest citizens to get involved in government and to put the country's interests above their own.  Particularly if they went to school in Idaho, Iowa, Ohio, Wisconsin, Kansas - you get my drift.  The next time I hear anyone using an Ivy League education as a "stellar" credential, the "no" box is getting checked.

So thank you, Sarah, for being one of us and jumping into the fray, the way Americans are supposed to.  I wish our new president had undergone the same feeding frenzy you did.  Perhaps we'd know something about the mystery man.  But hey, he's just the president, brought to us courtesy of ACORN and a big smile.

I'm sure we're all grateful to a media and bitter old and middle-aged female columnists much more focused on how you wear your hair and how much you spent on your frocks (were those $600.00 sneakers the First Lady was wearing to the soup kitchen?) than on how a nearly fifty-year old man has spent his entire life either trying to get elected and then getting elected.  Or on how he managed such a sweet real estate deal in Chicago with a crook who isn't in the business of doing any one any favors for no reason.  Or looking into MoveOn.org and their relationship with Obama or his dealings with George  Soros.

I think it's much more important to interview Levi Johnson.

And then give Katie Couric another award for a job well done.

Good grief.