Sarah Palin Resigns--
And So It Begins ...

by Robert Jay March

Ever since she was selected to be the running mate of then-Presidential candidate John McCain, Sarah Palin has been "dumped on" by nearly everybody who is anybody in politics: both Democrat and Republican. Like the proverbial bully kicking sand into the face of the perceived 98 pound weakling, none of these political hacks realized they were dealing with Clark Kent in drag, glasses and all.

On Friday, July 3rd, Sarah Palin announced that she would resign as Governor of Alaska, effective July 26. In doing so, she discards the guise of the mild mannered Governor of a geographically large but not terribly populous state and revealed the blue and red garb of ... Super Candidate! Now that she has leaped out of the window, the only question that remains is: can she fly? Let's analyze that.

First, why have the Lex Luthors of the mainstream media and political Braniac-wanabes continued their assaults after the McCain-Palin ticket was defeated? After all, aren't most defeated Vice-Presidential candidates consigned to irrelevancy? Why continue to try to defeat the defeated?

Simple. Sarah Palin scares the bejesus out of them! Your typical politician (of both parties) is a Diamonair phony: highly polished, but fake. Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is a real diamond in the rough. Yes, she lacks foreign policy experience, as opposed to the alleged genius demonstrated by Barack Obama (if you choose to swallow the bilge that MSNBC, CNN, et al. have been serving up). And she can actually wing it when the teleprompter breaks down, heaven forfend! It seems that she actually speaks her own thoughts, and can still deliver them when the notes go poof, instead of blindly reading what someone else wrote for them; how unprofessional of her!

Years ago, I took a vow that I would never lie to anyone about anything, ever, regardless of the cost; and, I have paid a high price over and over again for honoring that vow. That's why I'll never run for office -- the political pros know that you can't tell the American public the truth. We're just not able to handle it, or so they believe. That's why the campaign consultants for the Republican Party forced Mrs. Palin into interviews she was not yet ready to deal with, to feign foreign policy experience she did not yet have, thus creating the false impression of Mrs. Palin: the air head. After all, due to Senator McCain's age and prior health problems, they had to try to convince the American public that Mrs. Palin was ready to assume the Top Job on Day One, didn't they?

Was she ready from Day One? No, and she knew that. After all, she had the least experience of any candidate running -- except for Barack Obama, who had to be ready to take the Top Job from Day One, because that was the job he was running for. Would she have been ready by the end of Year One? Uh-huh, you betcha. Sarah Palin is a bright woman who, rising from Mayor of Wasilla to Governor her state, turned Alaska around. Had the McCain-Palin ticket won, and had she been left to her own devices, Vice President Palin would have steeped herself in a course of Foreign Policy "Dynamic-Tension," building herself from a foreign policy 98 pound weakling into the Charlene Atlas of international relations. I have no inside information on that; one need only look at her career from it's inception to infer that.

After the brilliant move of selecting Governor Palin as his running mate, Senator McCain allowed his own consultants to destroy the advantage that her selection gave him by means of the machinations cited above. It is now those very consultants that are trashing Sarah Palin from the Republican side. Why? Because they know that, should she become the Republican Presidential nominee, she'd never hire them. Therefor, they must move heaven and earth to see to it that she never gets that nomination. They'd be out of work for that election cycle; worse yet, she might actually win without them!

As for the Democrats: why, this woman actually believes in rugged individualism and self-reliance, characteristics that the badly-misnamed-party has spent the last half-century trying to stamp out. The Democrats assume that all Americans -- or at least, the sane ones -- want a Federal Daddy to tuck them in at night and provide for their every whim. There's an old expression: when you assume, you make an ass of u and me. No wonder their mascot is a donkey. Ward Cleaver for President! No, strike that; he set limits for, and occasionally disciplined Wally and the Beav. For them, Sarah Palin is the Wicked Witch of the far-off-North, and must be melted at all costs. What a world, what a world!

Relieved of the office of Governor, she can now focus on building political support and building her knowledge, just as Ronald Reagan did.

Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In had a segment called "News of the Future," wherein Dan Rowan, as the faux-news anchor, did several bits about Ronald Reagan being president in "1988, 20 years from now." Gales of derisive laughter ensued, yet, in 1980, Reagan in fact became President and served until 1988, ushering in a prosperity that was undiminished until Bill Clinton's policies finally succeeded in chipping away at it.

Now, the jokesters make fun of Sarah Palin, and the political pundits are all over the tube suggesting that her resignation was a bone-headed move: Dang! Why'd she move when we had her in our cross-hairs! How ignorant!

Sarah Palin will be President of the United States. Maybe in 2012 or 2016. Maybe not until 2020, when she could be our Maggie Thatcher. But she will be President.

If you've got a problem with that, get over it.

I hope to live long enough to write a history of her Presidency. The Title: "Sarah, Palin and Tall."