Having followed politics for many years I can honestly say that I have never witnessed an individual with absolutely no political power that strikes the level of abject terror into the hearts of liberals like Sarah Palin.

Ronald Reagan made liberals jittery so they tried to portray him as a tottering old war monger. But Jimmy Carter had succeeded in running the country’s economy into the ground, had his brother drinking beer and peeing on the flowers in the White House rose garden and made America a laughing stock around the world with his handling of the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the Iran hostage debacle, so much so that by the end of his first term even Attila the Hun would have been seen as an acceptable alternative.

George W Bush certainly raised panic in the liberal community with his successful tax cuts and his firm handling of one of America’s greatest tragedies on 9-11. Every effort was made to detract from his accomplishments through deception and fabrication, all of which was gleefully disseminated by a liberal press anxious to oust him. Try as they might Americans still preferred him to the cardboard John Kerry, which allowed the liberals another four years of Bush is Hitler comparisons.

But these were conservative men wielding great power. Sarah Palin holds no political office. She has no power outside of her own personal comments. She can pass no laws nor can she create any bills. Her only claim to fame is as the ex-Governor of Alaska and as a failed candidate for Vice President. Why then does this political has-been still evoke such a strong sense of terror and trepidation with the mere mention of her name?

As Palin’s book “Going Rogue” makes its way onto store shelves it already holds a place on the New York Times Bestsellers List. Sarah has something to say and Americans are eager to hear it. But it is more than that. You can fact check what Sarah Palin says by the way she lives. Palin is a liberal’s worst nightmare, an honest conservative woman that not only talks the talk but walks the walk. If you want to fact check her dedication to getting rid of corrupt politics, just look at her record and the long list of enemies she made cleaning up politics in Alaska. If you want to fact check her views on conservative financial reform, just look at her record of reform in Alaska and more importantly look at her lifestyle. If you want to fact check her sincerity on her beliefs in the Right to Life you need look no farther than the Downs Syndrome baby in her arms.

Liberals are so desperate to find something, anything, to throw at Sarah Palin that Newsweek’s latest issue cover photo uses an old picture taken for an issue of Runner’s World magazine as an attempt to create a demeaning sexist cheesecake pinup. The Huffington Post is so desperate to slam Palin’s new book that they published a critical review by someone that admits they haven’t even read the book.

If Sarah ever had any hope of garnering even a smattering of support from the liberal feminist sisterhood she has long since abandoned those hopes. Sarah Palin is successful because she is everything the feminists are not and more importantly she is not what they propose women to be. Sarah Palin is not a victim.

That in a nutshell is why Sarah Palin strikes such terror into the beating liberal heart. She does not claim to be a victim and she fights victimization. Her book is part political memoir and part personal autobiography. She does not claim to be a victim of deprived birth by being raised in the wilds of Alaska; in fact she makes it clear she views that as making her stronger. She does not claim to be a victim of genetic defect with the birth of her handicapped son, but rather uses it to show the true meaning of love. Even in the chapters that deal with her frustrations in the handling of the McCain Palin campaign she does not claim to be a victim but rather a fighter that stood up for what she believed, win or lose.

Never in the history of presidential politics has the vice-presidential candidate had so much blame heaped on them for the failure of the ticket. Even ex-vice-presidents that later ran and lost a presidential bid did not receive such glaring culpability. But Palin came through it wiser and stronger. Will she run for office in 2012? Who knows?

But what has liberals worried is not what she does in 2012. It’s what she does between now and then.

I have found in most areas being cynical is almost a necessity, but none more so than when it comes to politics and the political players. Our public servants have discovered that in most cases rhetoric garners more positive press than actions. Talk is cheap but actions can cost you an election.

That is why I am so disappointed by the resignation of Sarah Palin from her position as Governor of Alaska.

Just a year ago this conservative bombshell was feared only by crooked Alaskan lawmakers and antler bearing wildlife. She burst onto the national stage as John McCain’s running mate and immediately struck the same level of fear into the hearts of liberal politicians and their equally narrow-minded base. Led by the constant drum beat of a liberal media that cast aside any hope of fairness and equality, Palin was hammered from day one for one reason and one reason only, she was a woman. And perish the thought an attractive conservative woman at that.

I am certain that there were times during the campaign that Sarah Palin wished she was back in wilds of her home state holding a jammed rifle and facing a pack of ravenous wolves rather than another so called interview with a member of the national media. The questions posed to her were insultingly stupid and no matter how she replied her answers were dissected and ridiculed to prove her unfit to hold the number two position.

We are now in the process of approving a Supreme Court Justice who claims that she is eminently more qualified than a white man to rule in our highest court simply because she has lived the life of a minority woman. Yet when it came to Sarah Palin, she was deemed completely unqualified, even though she had held the top executive position of our largest state, simply because she had lived the life of a conservative woman. I wonder what the reaction would have been had Palin said she was more qualified than Joe Footinmouth because she was a woman.

Even after the election heavy breathing reprobate news pros rummaged through expense reports and receipts to try to damn Palin for wearing Victoria Secret underpants and Foot Locker crew socks. Months after the election David Letterman saw fit to insinuate her teen-aged daughter would be having sex with a baseball player and said Palin looked like a slutty flight attendant. Yet the national news media for the most part remained silent. To be sure they covered the story with a certain feigned disapproval, but can you imagine what the reaction would have been if a conservative comic like Dennis Miller would have made similar remarks about Hillary Clinton or Biden’s wife Jill?

Palin has announced she is leaving to follow a higher political calling. Many have assumed that she means a 2012 presidential run. But I’m not so sure. Maybe Sarah Palin is just who she claims to be and decided she had put up with enough of the political meat-grinder and was now choosing to remove her family from the fray? If her intent was to run for President, than quitting was exactly the wrong thing to do. By the next election the country will be woefully aware of just how dangerous an inexperienced person can be as President. Having had less than one full term as Governor, Palin’s resume will not hold the necessary bullet points to dissuade those fears.

But maybe there is more to the story. Maybe Palin sees the weakness at the top of the Republican National Committee and is interested in filling that post. Or maybe she sees that a strong conservative woman can do much more to help the conservative movement by hooking up with a media outlet like Fox News than she can up in Alaska. Or maybe there is a radio talk show in her future.

Whatever she decides the most important thing Sarah Palin can do is remain Sarah Palin. I admire her for being one of the very few who is not afraid to take a tough position and more importantly
live up to the ideals she speaks so passionately about. She is the greatest threat there is to liberal rhetoric and faux equality; a strong woman with convictions and a lifestyle to back it up.

As for President Palin, I’m not so sure the country is ready for a strong and honest woman with that level of veracity. It makes too many folks uncomfortable when you start to talk about personal responsibility.

A comment meant to be funny that turned into a national news story. It was made by the very uncontroversial Golf Channel commentator Ms. Kelly Tilghman in what she had hoped would be a light hearted means to describe the only way most PGA tour professionals could win against the almighty Tiger Woods prior to his knee blowing a fuse.

There was no malice in her comment. As a matter of fact she and Woods have a pretty friendly relationship. Even El Tigre himself said he understood the attempted levity and took no offense. But in an effort to avoid offending those desperately looking for something to be offended by in the more liberal, politically correct and humorless minded demographic faction of the Golf Central viewership, Ms. Tilghman was publicly flogged and given a two week unpaid suspension to reflect on her insensitive comment. If Golf Central had a blackboard she probably would have been forced to publically write “Lynching isn’t funny” several hundred times on it.

The national media had a field day with her relatively innocuous comment. In an effort to capitalize on the public fray and make some quick cash the editor of Golf Week magazine decided to print a noose on the cover of their magazine. It may have increased that month’s sales but it also cost the editor his job. “There is no place for this type of thing anymore in this country”, “This dredges up all those old feelings of segregation and hate”, “Grossly irresponsible”, “This is why we are known as the ugly Americans” were just a few of the self-righteous liberal media comments made about this farce.

This past Halloween the national news reported the story of a garbage truck driver who was fired by the city he worked for because he adorned the outside mirrors of his truck with little hangman nooses as part of his spooky Halloween decorations and another of a city employee that was suspended for putting a noose up in the public works garage as part of a Halloween joke.

The noose has been given a place in infamy now equal to the Nazi swastika. Blacks are repulsed by it because of its historic impact and whites are repulsed by it because they feel they need to show sensitivity to anything that upsets anybody.

That is why it came as such a shock to see it on E Bay. Not only a noose, but a noose hanging an effigy of an historic political figure. This display was being sold on E Bay after having adorned the house of the owner this past Halloween. The noosed effigy was not displayed in front of some run down doublewide trailer located in the backwoods hills of Dixie. No, it was prominently displayed amongst the upper-class homes in the gilded hills of West Hollywood, California.

There were no cries of outrage, no pickets, no NAACP rally held outside the yard. No Jesse, no Al, no Rainbow Coalition. Nope. Actually it probably would have gone completely unnoticed nationally had not the owner tried to sell the thing on E Bay.

Why no indignation at this display? Why would E Bay allow it to be displayed and sold on their site? Well it’s simple. The historic political figure being hung in effigy was not that of the first black president. It was of the first female vice president candidate for the Republican Party, Sarah Palin. And apparently that’s OK.

The news story that came out was not that this display had been in the owner’s yard or even that it was being sold on E Bay. The story hit the wires because the person who bought the effigy thought it was a tribute to Palin, and when he discovered it was in fact the lynching of Palin he backed out of the deal.

I wonder what would happen is someone put an effigy of Barack Hussein Obama in front of their house. Or even one that was supposed to look like Joe Biden. Any guesses? This lynching of Sarah Palin didn’t raise enough eyebrows to even cause a wrinkle in the well Botoxed foreheads of the residents in this West Hollywood neighborhood. The hypocrisy is almost a stunning as the self-righteousness.

The owner named Chad Michael Morrisette is a professional window dresser and is looking to garner around $2,200.00 for the Sarah Palin mannequin dressed in a red coat, wig and glasses.

I personally hope Mr. Morrisette gets a hundred times that amount.

And spends it all on medicine.

That’s all. I just wanted you to know that I’ve been thinking. I guess my question is would you like to join me? Oh, I know you think you’ve already been thinking. But if you have indeed been thinking then what in the hell were you thinking? It’s pretty obvious that what I’ve been thinking and what you’ve been thinking is some pretty different kind of thinking, I think. Let me give you some examples.

Hey “Larry Flint Jr.” in Fayetteville, Arkansas, you thought it would be a good idea to take naked pictures of your wife and put them on your cell phone. The problem was you forgot your cell phone at the local McDonalds. Now those pictures of the little Missis are floating all over the internet. So in order to make up for your stupidity and ease your shame you thought it would be a good idea to sue the McDonalds for $3,000,0000. That’s what you’ve been thinking.

I’m thinking you’re an idiot and McDonalds should sue you and the Fayetteville police should arrest you for leaving pornography in their restaurant where little kids could see it. I have not seen the pictures of Mrs. Dummy, but I have seen pictures of some pretty good looking naked women, taken by professional photographers, in a studio with high quality camera gear and lighting. I know they don’t make but a few grand for the whole photo spread. Now that little sweetie you’re married to may be the apple of your eye, but I seriously doubt she is top quality naked model material. And even if she is drop dead gorgeous, what makes you think the poorly lit, out of focus snap shot you took on your Verizon 650 cell phone is worth 3 million bucks? For the embarrassment? I’m thinking if she is letting you take the pictures and carry them around on your phone and you’re doing it, most of the folks you know already are aware that you’re an idiot so there should be no embarrassment. Relax Sparky, the internet is loaded with pictures of naked women so the internet cruising husbands of the other soccer moms in Fayetteville will be looking at someone else’s pictures in a few days. I’m thinking you need to learn your lesson and keep your phone in your pocket from now on. And Mrs. Dummy, I’m thinking you might want to just say “Naw, that don’t sound like a real good idea” the next time old Ansel Adams gets his cell phone out in the bedroom.

Hey Anchorage Daily News you were thinking you would bag yourself a real coup just like the big boy news outlets when you had your cameras set up to show turkeys being slaughtered in the background of a Sarah Palin interview after she performed the annual pardoning ceremony of one turkey.

I’m thinking that it was never your intent to cover a story but that this was part of your ongoing campaign to sully Governor Palin. I think your recent editorials, including one blaming her for falling oil prices, make it obvious your cameras were set up for that express purpose. Your camera crew probably popped a little stiffy because they thought they were so cleaver in directing and focusing their cameras so as to intentionally shoot the turkey slaughter going on in the background as the Governor spoke. I’m thinking they probably got back in their 1978 Ford Econovan and couldn’t wait to call the office, once they were able to get a cell signal, to tell the boss that they had just duped the former VP candidate. The only problem is that Governor Palin is no longer the VP candidate and probably couldn’t care less what folks outside of Alaska think. She was there as the Governor to promote a local business and perform an annual ritual that most governors in meat eating states perform. Governor Palin is a woman who can field dress a moose at 6:00 AM in her pajamas while making breakfast and still not overcook the eggs. I doubt a few gobblers getting their heads chopped off is something that would make her recoil. Your efforts to embarrass her only made her more attractive to a host of red blooded, turkey eating, macho pigs like me. I’m thinking the next time you cowards are thinking about chocking your chicken you should let that turkey guy in the video take care if it for you. He’s got all the equipment right there, and after all this negative publicity and attention you’ve created with your little stunt I’m thinking he would love to see you tooling the old Econovan back up his driveway.

And hey, to all you folks who were so shocked and incensed that you had to leave your comments on all the internet sites showing the video. You were thinking you would be so clever and join in on the gang tackle of Governor Palin by making comments about how stupid she was or how cruel she was to just stand there while those birds were being sent to that big turkey trot in the sky.

I’m thinking it was the week before Thanksgiving which just might make it a busy time at the old turkey round up. I’m also thinking that you must be so dim-witted that you think the Butterball on your Thanksgiving table was born without a head and grew up with his neck and giblets in a little paper bag. Or I’m thinking you can sit down and enjoy that delicious taste treat of a tofu turkey. Mmm Boy, there’s nothing like a good piece of soy bean curd to bring out all the Norman Rockwell-like goodness of a Thanksgiving feast. With your level of in depth thinking power I’m not really very interested in your opinion of the video or Sarah Palin. I’m thinking the governor knows what happens at a farm that raises any kind of livestock and is not shocked to find out that turkeys don’t come from the Turkey Fairy. Let the governor go back to running the largest state in the union. I’m thinking you can just go back to your chat room.

And Finally…….

Hey Jim Robinson, Director of the United Steel Workers Union District 7, when ArcelorMittal notified your union that they were planning on laying off 2444 of your hourly dues payers this coming January you were thinking that you could dictate the number of layoffs you would accept and the terms. You were thinking you could show off your really big stick by letting your members and the news media know that any talk about numbers was “premature”. You also thought it would make you sound wise to expound on government bail outs to “investment bankers and CEO’s” and said that the government had better “start acting on behalf of average middle-class American workers”.

I’m thinking this hard line, no mentality approach is what got most of the unionized American businesses in trouble in the first place as they tried to compete in a world market. I’m thinking that you need to read a paper or watch the news and see that this is a global recession and is affecting steel mills all over the world. I’m thinking you should be grateful that ArcelorMittal is looking at how they can best weather this storm and remain in business so they can hire back your dues payers when conditions improve as opposed to just closing the mills and moving the work out of the country. As ArcelorMittal is the world’s largest steel company with steel mills all over the globe and is leveraged to the max it could easily say to hell with the Harbor Region of Indiana and shutter those mills forever. I’m also thinking that your comment about money going to investment banks may sound good echoing through the old union hall, but the reality is if the investment banks fail ArcelorMittal will have no way to finance their operations or pay their billions of dollars worth of debt, and once again, will have to sell off assets or simply close. I’m thinking the time for unions to dictate what they will and won’t accept is long since passed. Maybe it’s your job with the union that you’re worried about because in order for anybody to work at ArcelorMittal that company has got to stay in business, I think.

Like I said, if the world has been thinking, it sure ain’t thinking what I’m thinking. Except one.

Hey Nissan, you were thinking that times are tough and you had better take a close look at all your expenses. You were thinking that in order to save dough you would pull out of the Chicago and Detroit Auto Show. You did some thinking and said it would be nice to be at those shows and show off your products, but on an advertising dollar for dollar basis how many people would come to the show to look at the pretty cars, which makes you no money, and how many are coming to actually make a buying decision. You were thinking if you would control costs like the few million these shows cost you might have more money to keep hourly folks working. Those hourly folks are thinking that they really appreciate that. They’re also thinking their glad they don’t have to pay dues to the UAW or work for the Detroit disasters that would never have the mental acuity to think about saving money on expenses.

Hey Nissan. Now you’re thinking!!!!!