About 18 months ago, when Barack Obama was running as a candidate of change and hope because Washington was broken, I was very interested in finding out if he would be the first Democrat I could truly stand behind. He wanted to stand against special interest groups. He was young, fresh, and wasn’t part of the Washington establishment. And he had charisma. I was excited to learn more. But it turned out that the more we knew about him, the more we realized that he’s no different from every left-wing Democrat, with the same Marxist platform and socialist leanings. While he may be talking a lot about change, he’s not much different from the typical Washington politician.
And while John McCain is more of a “maverick” than Obama (something Obama sort of promised that he was), I’ve just never been excited about McCain.
For months I’ve thought, “Sarah Palin would be a great choice, but she’d never be picked,” so the instant I saw her face on the Drudge Report just after she was announced, I was completely ecstatic. John McCain’s decision, in this particular case, made a ton of sense to me almost immediately.
Obama promised us he would be different. Palin is a cut-the-crap kind of woman who took on her own party, even running against an incumbent governor of her own party. Obama promises to protect life, but she has literally protected the life of her youngest son, born with Down Syndrome, and doesn’t waver on the issue. She’s cut wasteful spending and started a savings account for the state of Alaska. She’s a woman, but she’s not a feminist. She’s not the traditional, I’ve-spent-my-life-wanting-to-be-in-power politician. She has a strong energy policy because she lives in a resource-rich state. She’s young, vivacious, and she’s probably the closest thing to what our founding fathers wanted out of democracy—a citizen legislator.
And my favorite part about her is that on her first day in office as governor, she sold the private jet on eBay. Now that’s a hot move!
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