SARAH PALIN - The New Face of Conservatism

I have been following Sarah Palin and hoping that she would find a national spotlight with the Conservative movement for months. Thanks to another blog www.palinforvp.blogspot.com, I got to really know her record and background.

Let me also say, as you can tell from prior posts, I am NOT a big McCain enthusiast at all. But with this nomination, I am 100% behind him. He has shown me, despite sometimes attacking us 'Conservatives', he really is a maverick and knows we are important. Sarah Palin will become the next leader of the Republican Party and we can thank John McCain for that. Sarah is going to bring the party back to life!

She, like Bobby Jindal, is the new fresh face of Conservatism. The Republican Party was and still is dying in many ways. McCain taking a shot with a Sarah Palin is a risk, but one worth taking. No matter what happens, she becomes the new face of the Republican Party going forward.

Let's take a moment to look at her record. She served in local government as council member and mayor. Then ran a primary against a sitting entrenched REPUBLICAN Governor who was corrupt. She lost in a very close race. The Governor decided the best way to handle this 'reformer' was to give her a plum job. She served on Alaska's Gas and Pipeline Commission and sat next to the head of the Republican Party for the State. She was also on a Ethics Commission. She shortly thereafter resigned from the Gas Commission and publicly cited the high corruption of her party and the government leaders. It was her mission to rout out those involved and change the way 'good ole Alaska' politics was working.

She ran again, defeated the sitting Governor. Many of the people she went after went to jail or were convicted of crimes and wrong doing.

She has been to Iraq to visit her national guard troops serving there. She is the Commander in Chief of the State's National Guard. She recently completed a Transcontinental Natural Gas Pipeline Agreement with Canada to provide construction of a new pipeline to bring much needed resources to the lower 48.

She pushed major ethics reforms. She has used her veto pen. And most recently, she supported her LT Governor in his successful primary against a sitting Republican Congressman who has been linked to the Ted Stevens scandal. Sarah Palin KNOWS how to get things done.

The vicious and down right nasty attacks have been constant for over 5 days now. All of them on the personal front. They can't challenger her on what she did as governor. The Main Stream Media (MSM) and the democrats are down right fearful of her being elected. They take women as a one issue constituency, and having someone like Palin elected nationally would destroy their ability to frame issues and bash those who don't fit their mold of what a person should be.

We have not seen this type of attack on a person since Clarence Thomas. Justice Thomas also broke the stereotype that the Left and the MSM wanted to make sure never changed. All Blacks are liberal, think the same, and if you didn't you were an Uncle Tom. He still is abused about his views to this day almost a decade later despite an outstanding career as a jurist. Sarah Palin will meet the same fate unless we the PEOPLE take an active role.

They have brought up her husband's DWI from over TWENTY years ago when he was 22. Yet, Obama, the man would be President, admits in own words he used COCAINE when he was in 20s. You tell me which is more relevant if we are going after a person's character? How many reporters are going over every detail of Sarah Palin and her family at this very moment? How many New York Times reporters in 19 months of this campaign have been researching Obama's past with Randy Ayers- an admitted terrorist who attempted to detonate bombs outside the Pentagon in the 1960s and to this DAY wishes he had done more? How about Obama's judgement to sit in a church for 10 years that spewed racist anti-American vitriol? Disagree with Palin on abortion or the 2nd Amendment? That is fair game. But to destroy a person's 17 year old daughter is over the line of any decency.

As a young person, seeing someone of her character out there, not afraid to take on this challenge in the face of whither attack and more to come over the next 60 days, I am very impressed. She is 44 and in the arena trying to make a real difference. You have to admire her courage and grit.

Sarah Palin is under heavy fire right now. But she is from the West. She built her career on her own - no bounce off a husband's political career, no following in prior family member's election and name. No she has become a success through hard work and determination. She has the pioneer western American spirit, something the MSM and far left can't understand.

I look forward to Sarah Palin's speech tomorrow night. I look forward to making the Left Wing's skin crawl as America gets to know the Governor of Alaska. McCain picked someone as far away from Washington as possible. I say well done...very well done. We have had enough of Washington as usual. McCain/Palin...REAL change.