Personal opinion aside, one comment on this site has me irked about the chances that Barak Obama has in the 2012 elections. Why? Glenn Beck had a demonstration Tuesday on his TV program using a pair of caskets. The demonstration was that two men wearing a red shirt(Republicans) and a blue shirt(Democrats) were shutting the lid on the casket(the US). The Republican was using hammer and nails while the other had a power drill to screw the casket shut. The point of the demonstration is that the government programs that both the republicans and democrats have created are spending us out of house and shirt.
If you TiVo the show, you will see that the democrats have won the race.
Why did I bring up Glenn Beck when this column is supposed to be about Sarah Palin and her chances in 2012?
The conservative/moderate divide that runs through the Republican party has been a great one. Compare it to the policies of Ronald Regan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Both are Republicans, and both are governors of California. However, one difference runs rampant between them. While both have tax and spent during their tenure as governor, Regan realized that a balanced budget and conservative principles is what led this country to greatness and he used the lessons that he learned as governor of California and lead this country as President to its most prosperous years. He also ended the cold war by threatening to use force and tore down the Berlin Wall. Arnold, on the other hand, has tax and spent his way into issuing I. O. U.s to state employees and cut funding to critical state projects and programs.
Where was I, oh yes, Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin's decision or indecision to run in 2012 is giving the liberal media fits because they are salivating at the throat for another bite at the apple to destroy her. They don't understand her popularity among Americans. Is it the fact that Sarah Palin says what she means and means what she says, or is it the fact that she knows the sentament of the American people and talk to them about it unlike Nancy Pelosi and “Dingy” Harry Reid(in the immortal words of Rush Limbagh) and talk down to them like they are nannies. It doesn't matter to liberals at the New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC or CNN to name a few, they see someone who stands out in American pop culture and seeks to destroy them by hook or crook.
The point of this column isn't to encourage Sarah Palin to run in 2012, but if she does, then great. The point of this column is to show that, thankfully, if you hold to your principles you can withstand the liberal attacks and come out stronger than you come in.
The mystery of Sarah Palin can be explained through her political career. She doesn't speak nonsense, and has led by example. Her poll numbers have supported the fact that she knew what Alaskans and, by extension, Americans wanted like drilling for our own oil, having a strong national defense, and actually supporting capitalism. And Obama? He has the lowest approval rating in his presidency, the stimulus failed, “Cash for Clunkers” failed, and his “Universal” healthcare is in congressional hell and will not pass as quickly as he would like. He wonders why he is being compared to Jimmy Carter instead of Abraham Lincoln.
Let's chase a rabbit here and actually compare the two. Abraham Lincoln, when he spoke the emancipation proclamation during the Civil War, meant what he said and said what he meant. He fired his commanders on the ground just because they wouldn't fight to win the war. Abraham Lincoln treated all Americans as Americans and was willing to fight a war to keep it that way.
Obama? He drags his feet while men and women fight and die for our country while General McCrystal, a man that he appointed to be the man in Afganistan, is begging for 40,000 more troops by the end of the year or our efforts have failed. While Obama has indicated that he will have a troop increase, but only 35,000 according to one source. He also rammed through the stimulus package to reward his SCIU friends saying that we have to get it passed now or the economy will crash like the stock market did in 1929, much like he is trying to do with healthcare. Our reward for passing the stimulus? The highest unemployment in nearly 8 years at over 10%. That is one in ten working class Americans that do not have a job today, and that number is expected to climb.
In closing, America needs to return to our principles of limited government and stop the brand of socialism that Obama is trying to ram down our throats. America's debt doesn't need to grow nine to eleven times over the next ten years just to “fundamentally transform America” in Obama's image.