Assassins in our midst

Amazing...

Almost two months have passed since Obama's landslide election, and yet Alaska governor Sarah Palin remains a topic of conversation. She was fourth on Time Magazine's Person of the Year list. WHY? The media long knives are still out for her. They want her politically DEAD.

There is no doubt that fear is part of that equation. Fear by Democrats of the way she connected with people. Fear of the inside-the-Beltway Republicans who don't like the way she cleaned up Alaska's cesspool of Republican corruption.

They see her as the most scary embodiment of "flyover country" - rural values -- coloquial expressions ("you betcha"), large family, pro-life, hunter, fisher, blue-collar background, several state universities as her education. They see her as an anti-elitist -- a close call that almost succeeded had we not been protected by her "exposure" by our "watchdog media." These are the same vigilant watchdogs who have ignored the controversy over the question of a certified birth certificate of the President-elect, his corrupt machine that gave him his birth, the AWOL school transcripts and connections (where are all the fawning reminiscences of Barack Obama and his time at Punahou, Columbia, Harvard, et. al?) The compliant acceptance that his people had no improper conversations with Illinois Governor Payoffavitch...as New York governor Patterson prepares to pay off Teddy Kennedy and his family's early backing of Obama with Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg's senate seat. But then that New York Senate seat has long been a carpetbagger seat since...well, since uncle Bobby got it in the 60's, then Hillary (at least she won an election against sacrificial lamb Rick Lazio), and now Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" will be appointed.

So why the hatred for Palin? She's won more elections than Hillary has, and Caroline Kennedy has never held elective office. Well, Palin was gonna be one step away from the presidency, they said. Even Dan Quayle got more respect than Palin. But then Senator Quayle was already part of the Washington crowd. This is the crowd that CAUSED the mortgage meltdown by passing laws that in essence FORCED banks to loan money to high risk people.(Some people called this MONTHS ago...and Frank and Dodd, the chairmen of the banking committees in each house of Congress, NOW have larger majorities to do this to other areas of US industry "cough" autos "cough".) Now, those same people, will bail out the auto industry...for while. Then California...Ohio...Michigan...but not Alaska.

Governor Palin is suggesting a budget cut of 7%, and even with the decline in oil revenues still expects a SURPLUS at the end of fiscal year 2010. She hit the nail on the head with her statement, that would be well heeded in Washington, and explains her appeal to so many in the Republican Party:

"We of course are going to be prudent," Palin said. "We're going to live within our means. We don't want any Alaskans to assume that government is the answer to all of the challenges and issues and problems that any individual faces."

In a few years, America may be sorry she didn't win.

I encourage readers to read this interview with Governor Palin here. Does this sound like the chopped up interview we saw with Katie Couric? The biting New York Times piece by Dick Cavett? The hateful pieces, even by Republicans, that gave many Americans the idea that this woman was a blithering idiot with no experience that must be kept away from the White House so that the inexperienced Barack Obama, and his corrupt Chicago buddies like Chief of Staff to be Rahm Emmanuel, can keep us safe and restore international faith in the United States? (Translation: the other countries that want us weakened, but also want more of our money.)

No, that wasn't the real Sarah Palin, it was a caricature that the Lapdog Obama Media wanted us to believe.

But they won! Why are they still scared of her?

Because she still connects with people. Georgia voters know...

So, New York Times, Washington Post, etc...be afraid...be very afraid. Sarah's not going away...she will run for governor again in 2010 and win big...and then, watch out. I'm not convinced she will run for president in 2012, but in 2016, she will be in her early 50s...and a lot of successful Republican candidates for state offices will owe her for the incessant campaigning she will be doing for them over the next eight years...

Her time will come...you read it here.

PS-- Thomas Sowell remains required reading. Class dismissed.