2008 Soap Box Archives

Citizen Palin

Have you wondered why the Democrats are sending dozens of lawyers and others to Alaska to try and dig up some dirt on Sarah Palin and her family?

Have you wondered why the usually glib and coldly efficient Obama propaganda machine has been thrown completely out of kilter by this diminutive young governor, who admittedly believes in God, is anti-abortion and knows one end of a high caliber rifle from the other?

The slime machine is used to dealing with other politicians with long and sordid records of public service, or maybe public disservice, with so many cracks in their armor they resemble a spider web.

Power hungry career politicians have made deals, done things for their personal gain and hung out in so many smoky rooms that there's always a way to at least cast aspersions on them, something shady in their past that can be blown up by an obliging media to make a candidate look at least questionable.

The problem with Sarah Palin is that the machine simply does not understand her. They are judging her with the wrong measuring stick. They simply can't grasp the fact that here's someone who is truly by the people, of the people and for the people.

She had the audacity to stand up against the political power in her state, negotiated oil revenues from the oil companies which went into the pockets of her fellow Alaskans, got the people behind her and accomplished some things that would benefit many of the other 49 states if there was just someone in power with guts enough to implement it.

Sarah Palin is a political anomaly, a citizen politician, untainted by decades of beltway blindness, focus group politics and downright greed that is so prevalent among the elected officials who stay in Washington for decades, join the old boy club and become just another political hack caring for the folks back home only at election time.

Sarah is a fresh face, an unknown quantity, an American who has lived close to the people of her state, married to a real man who has made a living with his hands and knows his way around the great outdoors.

She's raised five children and much to the consternation of Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion groups, knowingly gave birth to a Down's Syndrome child.

She is so totally different from the Hillary Clintons, and Nancy Pelosis that she is completely off Washington's radar.

In truth, Mrs. Palin is exactly what politics in America is supposed to be about. People fresh off the streets, or in Palin's case tundra, of America who have not spent the last two decades of their lives as part of some partisan political machine.

She is someone who knows the price of milk, the high cost of fuel and the trial of trying to raise moral children in an amoral society. The fact that she can skin a moose is a bonus, and a dang good one as far as I'm concerned.

Sarah Palin may or may not be the next Vice President of the United States, but win or lose she has introduced something decent into the dirty game of politics, something most politicians will never be, and can't even begin to understand.

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

 

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