Why is it that our mainstream press seized McCain’s pick of Alaska’s governor, Sarah Palin, as though the only pertinent factor was the fact that she is a she?
Immediately, overwhelmingly, and with rabidity exceptional even for them, our news anchors and pundits and fourth estate elites all began hashing their opinions about whether Palin on the ticket would garner the votes of disaffected Hillary voters, simply because Palin is a woman.
Then, leftist bloggers and pundits from coast to coast started trashing Palin’s personal choices, her motherhood, and her daughter’s pregnancy, as though these are the only possible things with which voters could be concerned. Why? Because Sarah Palin is a woman.
Rarely have Americans seen such ample proof of the left’s sexism.
If Governor Sarah Palin were a man, then McCain’s choice of her as his running mate would be as obvious as current American opinion on the matter of drilling for oil as the emergent top issue in this election. According to Rasmussen’s latest figures, a full 64% of Americans support the drill-here-drill-now option, and a full 42% of those believe that this is the best way to effect lower prices at the pump.
Picking Palin is all about drilling, stupid.
Anyone who followed Imperious Nancy Pelosi’s abrupt adjournment of Congress last month, her haughty refusal to allow an up-or-down vote on lifting the offshore drilling ban, and then her brazen book tour, while feisty Republicans continued to show up and debate the issue in the darkened halls of Congress, knows exactly what the wise old bull, John McCain, sees in Alaska’s governor Sarah-the-barracuda Palin.
When some drill-here-drill-now protesters confronted Imperious Nancy at the Democratic convention last week, she took haughtiness to a new low with her depraved response: “Oh, can we drill your brains?”
All the plastic surgery known to men with scalpels, all the designer gowns and Gucci pumps on the planet, cannot bestow class upon this woman, who serves at the people’s pleasure and on our payroll, but cannot control her Queen Marie impulse to tell the taxpayers to go to hell.
In Sarah Palin, John McCain has found the perfect all-American match for Imperious Nancy and her Democrat enablers, who prefer to make the Capitol posh and green and fried-food-free, rather than deal with the people’s actual need of a government that works in their interest.
October 1 is a red-letter day in America.
On that day the offshore drilling ban, enacted in 1992, under immense pressure from overzealous environmentalists, expires. On October 1, unless that ban is reinstated, the American people will once again be free to develop and secure our own resources for our own needs.
President Bush’s approval rating bumped up immediately when he announced last month that he was in favor of lifting the ban.
Republicans are ready for the fight.
As reported August 4 by the Washington Times, Republicans are hard at work, still attempting to forestall a government shutdown over the issue.
“We don’t want the government shutdown to be an issue, but the fact is the Democrats are so overconfident that they’re willing to talk about a ban and they’re willing to talk about raising taxes on gasoline, so this is just pretty incredible,” said Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican who is circulating a letter encouraging colleagues to demand that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, strike the drilling moratorium from the budget resolution.
“But I think that once Americans realize that this [drilling] ban will expire unless we pass something, I think there is going to be just an outcry to not vote for anything that had a ban in it,” DeMint added confidently.
I believe Senator Jim DeMint is onto something here; so is John McCain. McCain, in response to quickly escalating gasoline prices over the summer, already has stated his willingness to go after American energy resources. His pick of Sarah Palin is the biggest sign he could possibly offer to American voters that he is indeed serious.
Governor Sarah Palin took the reins of Alaska’s government less than two years ago, at precisely the same time Nancy Pelosi took over the House speaker’s gavel on Capitol Hill.
In that same span of time, Nancy Pelosi traveled to the Middle East, in defiance of the president and the Logan Act, and misspoke Israel’s position to Syria’s leader, while attempting to outflank a Republican president on foreign policy.
Instead of meddling in others’ jobs and making a big problem worse, like Imperious Nancy, Sarah Palin put her pert little nose to the grindstone in Alaska and un-jammed a natural gas pipeline proposal that had been languishing for 30 years. Governor Palin negotiated an agreement with a foreign government, Canada, to traverse their soil with the pipeline and deliver four billion cubic feet of natural gas per day to the lower 48 states, beginning in 2018, a mere 10 years from now. Not a bad month’s work for a hockey mom.
Governor Palin, according to energy experts, may know more about our comprehensive energy crisis than any other politician in America today. Her state already produces 20% of the nation’s energy, and that state is unquestionably sitting on far more resources than that.
Mrs. Palin does not shy from speaking frankly about our energy needs either, as reported by the Financial Post last week:
Sarah Palin is a fierce champion of the gas line and its role in the big energy picture. “We’re taking steps towards dealing with an energy crisis that affects Alaska and the entire North American continent,” she says, sitting in her Anchorage office, ordained with a large bearskin rug, the head propped up and claws attached resting on a chesterfield, the animal shot by her father. “Alaska finally can be in a position of producing and contributing to a solution here.”
While our lefty press goes bananas on the Palin family’s personal issues, John McCain and Sarah Palin simply go about the real business of the American people and actually earn their paychecks.
Nancy Pelosi and her presidential standard-bearer, Barack Obama, seem not to have yet even grasped the issues of the current election. On what is shaping up to be the biggest and most important issue of this election — energy — Pelosi and Obama stick to the low road of imperious demands that Americans in most places simply cannot meet. Democrats expect real Americans in rural areas and especially the western states to just keep coughing up more and more at the pump just to get to their jobs, while politicians fiddle and twirl their thumbs and spout self-serving oratory.
Meanwhile, John McCain has hit a grand slam in his pick of Palin — and the Dems are not even smart enough to have seen the ball yet.
Now, what is that saying about people with their heads in sand?
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