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Jewish World Review Nov. 23, 2010 / 16 Kislev, 5771 STEVE PALIN FOR PRESIDENT! By Dave Weinbaum
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Sometimes I start my radio show by saying two words. After saying them, I think
I hear coffee mugs and juice glasses splatter across kitchen floors all over
mid-Missouri. If I could work out a deal with the local Wal-Marts on plates,
glasses and mugs, we could make a fortune.
Those words? SARAH PALIN.
By my reading of America, Governor Palin brings out such a hate/love response
that it deserves some adult comment and analysis, something not attainable from
the MSM and snobby effete on all sides.
Since John McCain recruited Governor Palin as his VP, placing her on the
international stage, Sarah and her family have dominated more than a few
news cycles.
Those who can't shepherd the herd tend to want to
bar-b-q those who can
After Palin was released to speak to America , the wheels have come off the logic of
her very existence. If you want to know who liberals fear most, add up their attacks
and multiply by their maliciousness, piling on points for assaults on her children,
grandchild and spouse. Sarah Palin and family are the winners of the most bashed
family in America for the past two years — and it's growing.
Yet, she doesn't just get nailed by the left.
Who needs enemies when you have friends like George Will, Karl Rove,
Mona Charon, George W. Bush and his mom Barbara?
Babs recently told Larry King that Palin should "stay in Alaska ." If Mrs. Bush and
husband George hadn't ridden the coattails of another dissed conservative, whose
wife Nancy couldn't stand Bab's premature white hair, they may have been exiled
to Texas . After thumping Bush in the primaries, this underated conservative
plucked Bush senior as his VP. Barbara went to DC as wife of the VP, then first
lady of the USA — for one term.
If Republicans had used some of their energy to vet the current Socialist in Chief,
the country wouldn't be in the fix it is now.
Despite the animosity toward Sarah, there seems to be a ground-swelling of
popularity for Palin rising up from independents, women, conservatives,
constitutionalists and Obama's main constituency, youths. As evidence, Bristol
Palin is on the brink of winning Dancing With the Stars, not with her superior
hip-hopping, but with the votes of young TV watchers, a vote I consider as
sympathetic to Mom.
Palin's gig as political analyst on Fox news has honed her interviewing ability
and sharpened her views. Plus the millions that watch her can't hurt as she helps
Fox move further ahead of what little competition there is left.
Sarah Palin's Alaska TV show on the obscure TLC Network drew a record
five million viewers, while if her second book does as much for her image as her
first book, then you may soon see a stark reversal in the polling data.
By-the-way, who else has written two autobiographies with almost no
achievements when he wrote them? For those in Doomore, that would be
President Barack Hussein Obama.
Here's what some can't stand about Governor Palin:
• She's pro life — Instead of aborting a Down syndrome baby, she cherishes
him and her other four kids.
• She's pro guns. She hunts and fishes.
• She's got looks. She's was Miss Wasilla and finished second in the Miss Alaska
contest.
• She was captain on her high school state championship basketball team.
• She has a happy marriage.
• She didn't go to an Ivy League school. She went to several colleges before
graduating, having to work when tuition wasn't available.
• She was a reporter on a local TV station.
• She's not from either left coast.
Ah, but if you pinhole her from the above as her only attributes, you ignore
Palin's 18 year political career, thus far:
• Worked in her family's fishing business.
• A two-term stint as city council woman, 1992-1996
• Two terms as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, 1996-2002.
• As Mayor she was in charge of the Wasilla Police Department.
• As Mayor she cut property taxes by 75%.
• Palin was reelected Mayor by a vote of 909 to 292.
• Eliminated small business inventory taxes.
• Eliminated business renewal fees.
• Cut the real estate property tax mil levy each year in office.
• Elected President of Alaska's Mayoral conference.
• Lost in her run for Lieutenant Governor of Alaska in
• Governor Frank Murkowski appointed Palin to the Alaska Oil and Gas
Conservation Commission in 2003.
• Resigned after finding unethical conduct by two Republicans with a conflict of
interest. She accused them formally and after an investigation, both resigned, one
paying a record fine.
• Palin was elected Alaska 's Governor by defeating then Governor Murkowski in
the Republican primary and former Democratic Governor, Tony Knowles. She
was 42 and Alaska 's first female Governor.
• Sarah sold the governor's jet for $2.1 million.
Jedediah Bila points out the following in her recent column about Sarah's stint as
Governor.:
• Palin enacted the Alaska Gasline Inducement act, the largest infrastructure
project in American history.
• Palin opened up drilling for oil and gas at Point Thomson.
• Governor Palin reduced earmark requests by 80%.
• She established Alaska 's Petroleum Integrity Office.
• Palin placed the state checkbook online.
• She fired the governor's chef.
• Governor Palin served as Vice Chair of the National Governors Association
Natural Resource Commission
• Sarah's 2010 budget was one billion dollars less than previous
Governor's Murkowski's 2007 budget.
• Palin signed ACES, Alaska 's clear and equitable Share bill, encouraging
development. It also has Alaskans sharing in the oil profits.
• Governor Palin experienced the last presidential campaign although one she and
McCain lost.
• At the time Sarah was asked to be McCain's VP, her popularity was 68%.
When she resigned after she was besieged by daily false Dem accusations, she
still maintained a 54% popularity rating with Alaskans.
Don't forget to pack your courage for your
journey to greatness.
There was once a man born in a small Midwest town who was a jock, then a
sports reporter. He graduated from a little known small college then matriculated
to the west coast. He achieved some success as an actor and spent years publicizing
our war effort for the Army. Then he headed his union and decided to take a stab
at politics. Converting from Democrat to Republican, he served two terms as
Governor of California.
When he ran for president he was told he wasn't smart enough. He was called a
"B" actor. He was eight points behind his opponent in the 1980 race. Then they
held the one and only debate after which the polls tightened and the election
became "too close to call."
Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter by almost 10 points, making Carter a
one-termer. After making much progress economically and foreign policy-wise,
Reagan beat Walter Mondale like a drum, winning all but one state in the 1984
presidential race. He's considered by most to be one of America's greatest
presidents.
I find the parallels between the two remarkable, but Palin must fight one monster
Reagan never had to deal with.
Governor Palin is an attractive woman.
Is it too late for Sarah to get a sex change operation?
If she doesn't, do I think Sarah Palin can beat Barack Obama in 2012?
You Betcha!
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