Why Sarah Palin Should Not be VP

What’s wrong with Sarah Palin?

Based on the national media there are several things wrong with Sarah Palin that totally disqualify her from being the acceptable candidate for vice-president.

She is from Alaska. We all know this is the land of the Eskimos. There is no culture, no centers of learning. They come to parties with fur parkas, not sleazy dresses. Heaven help us, they actually kill animals for food, clothing and shelter. They actually eat moose. She has probably killed a moose and gutted it herself. How can a person like that be the leader of this great country?

She is a woman and a feminine one, subservient to her husband, not a woman of the world. She hasn’t had an abortion. She holds to her guns and her religion. Her faith is important to her, important enough to make life decisions by its tenets. She may actually as vice-president pray and ask God, whomever he is if he exists, for guidance.

She holds life sacred. How can someone like this be president? Will she be able to uphold the laws of this land? What will happen if she has to take steps to uphold Roe v. Wade? Will she pardon the man who bombed the abortion clinic?

She has no experience.

Allow me to answer these.

Alaska is rich in historic culture. The Eskimos and American Indians are not much different in their cultures except that brought on by the differences in land they lived occupied. The left looks at the American Indian culture as rich. Why do they not see the Eskimo culture in the same way? This is all very simple. The American Left HATES anything American. The only reason they love the American Indian is he is a symbol of what “America did wrong.” The Eskimo on the other hand saw the hand writing on the wall and relatively peacefully joined with the influx. I am sure there were bad times and heartburn on both sides but the Eskimo did not create a victim state, necessary to become a darling of the left.

Sure they come to parties with parkas. So do people in Minnesota and Pennsylvania for that matter during winter if they are smart!

Sure they kill animals for food and some for shelter and clothing. You bet. But they do not kill for sport. They leave that for the elite in the lower 48. The kills are carefully used as did the Indian when he was living as an Indian. What is killed is used. It is food, it is clothing, it is shelter and what is not useable for these became fertilizer. The Indians and Eskimos did not have land fills. The waste of one process was used for something else. I don’t know if she has ever eaten moose, but if her family killed a moose, it was eaten. But then this isn’t a really hard thing for me to understand. Here in southern Pennsylvania, an area Obama said clings to our guns and bibles, we hunt white tail deer. It is done for herd management, most of the hunters do it for sport, but most of the meat is eaten, most of the hides are used for some form of clothing. Very little is wasted except meat from a diseased animal. You see, we understand to some degree the Sarah and her fellow Alaskans probably more than either of us would have even thought a few weeks ago.

What has happened in Alaska is interesting, the Eskimos and the people who came in have to some degree become one and there aren’t two cultures like there is in Indian areas. And the people who have come in have learned from those who were there and vice versa. These new people have learned to live well on a hostile land.

Has Sarah actually gutted a moose? Don’t know, don’t care. But I hope she can gut the wasteful liberal Washington political pig. If she has it may be good experience. And who is to say this is not good experience to be vice-president? The only other VP in the last 200 years who may have gutted a moose turned out to be a great president. Teddy Roosevelt came to the vice-presidency as an expedient of the Tammany Hall people, they wanted to get him out of New York. What better place to burry a person than make him VP? Then the president was shot. One of the bosses was heard to say, “We made him president!” If Teddy is an example of what a “Moose Gutter” can do, bring on Sarah, and let’s find more like her.

She is feminine, not the mold of the liberated woman. She is very pretty. But she is tough. Anyone who charges that she is subservient to her husband should look carefully. This is the family of the liberated woman, the woman who is free to live and fulfill her dreams. She has been a sports caster, a male bastion. She has been a PTA mom and a mom of five kids. She has been on government commissions. She has been a mayor and a governor. The number of women in this country who have been mayor and governor, living and dead probably does not exceed ten. By comparison, U.S. Senators are a dime a dozen. The NFL has more active quarterbacks. The number is about the same as living Supreme Court Justices!

Her faith is important to her. Her basic life decisions are based on it. Has she ever failed in this? I bet she has. And I would also bet she would be the first one to say she has. In one interview the humility of the person came through when she was called the governor of the least sparsely populated state. She responded that she thanked God more than a few times it was so. Why? She saw the responsibility for these people.

She may pray for guidance. Sure. I don’t care so much where a person goes for guidance as long as they seek it from multiple reliable sources. Most of what I get from prayer is not “do this” but be calm and listen, search, listen to those who care about you. It often helps me see more clearly what must be done. With that perspective I see prayer for one in authority as good. The left concentrates not on God but on frauds who have misused the name of God. They call that the norm of Christianity. I am not sure if this is out of ignorance or malice.

Sarah Palin holds life sacred. She holds the rule of law as necessary. Nobody is above that law. As one who was for a time a part of the Protestant denomination she belongs to, I can say that this group holds to both tenets. I am sure she will work to reduce abortion. But the law must be upheld as it is. She will fret, she will see how she can reduce this more than a million dead a year but she will uphold the law. I could see her commuting a death sentence to life without parole for the man who bombed the clinic, but never pardoning unless there was some reason to believe he was not guilty. I say this because the teachings of her church are very clear on this, not nebulous or muddy.

Those who see abortion as valid and oppose the war will claim that those of us who support the war and oppose abortion are duplicitous. Let me say the reverse. It is you who are hypocritical. You can justify 3300 deaths of innocents every day in the U.S. but choke on 6000 to rid the world of a terroristic government. They choke on 100,000 number in five years of combat (deplorable) but can justify 110,000 deaths every month in abortion clinics.

She has no experience. That is spin. She has more experience in many areas than the rest of the ticket combined. She has made decisions. And allow me to address the other criticisms. Let’s take “Troopergate”. First, if that is all they can find she is great. And it is looking like it is. If they want to spin the bridge decision, fine. But that is bull too. A governor makes more decisions in a week than a “community organizer” does in a year. She will make a couple wrong. She apparently reversed her initial decision on the bridge to the right one. She is flexible. How many of the projects “community organizer” failed? Check that out.

And then there are the big things. Her daughter is pregnant, along with about 20 percent of other teenagers. Are the mothers (and in fact fathers) of teens who have gotten pregnant not fit to lead? What about the mothers and fathers of the guys who were involved? Let’s face it. If you have a pregnant girl, you have a guy involved somewhere. He’s fortunate his belly doesn’t swell to show the act. Actually, maybe that is a good idea. When a guy who isn’t married gets a girl pregnant he has to wear a sympathy belly full time for nine months. But I digress. I am sure there was at one point the question asked, “What were you thinking?” But there appears to be a commitment of the family to help as there should be. All too often times of stress for a family is the time a young girl gets pregnant. Her mom was pregnant with a baby that had problems at the time she got pregnant. I am sure that no matter how hard the parents tried, this placed some stress on her. I am with D. L. Moody when the great temperance preacher saw a drunk in the gutter. He said, “But for the grace of God go I.”

And let’s look at the final big thing. Her husband was arrested for DUI when he was twenty two. Imagine that, a twenty two year old guy getting arrested for DUI. I ask, has he been arrested since?

If any of the four people running are qualified, it is Sarah Palin. If you are to say something good about John McCain one of them has to be, “He isn’t afraid of a bright bulb.” I have seen McCain shine brighter since she was selected. I have asked, “Why?” I am reminded of the line from one of the Asteroid movies. “I am the best because I work with the best.” McCain chose the best. Now he can work with the best, not the one who will not make him look bad. He chose one of the best and brightest bulbs in the Republican string. Obama chose one that looks nearly burned out. Joe Biden, you have your work cut out for you. I would remind you when you hit the debates of the military axiom, “When your attack is going too well, you are running into an ambush.” And Palin is almost Paladin, the honored knight.