"Sarah Palin, Über-Babe," or "Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington"

About a week ago, Jacob Weisberg from Slate wrote an online essay arguing that if Barack Obama loses the general election, America is a racist country.

Let me see him and raise him.

If John McCain loses this election, it is strong evidence that America has lost her character.  This is because Sarah Palin has character, and John McCain has shown character in choosing her as his running mate. 

Make no mistake: I am a conservative Republican of the type who has had reservations about Senator McCain. The Arizona Senator whom many of the press have dubbed a “maverick” has been given that appellation, in the estimation of many people like me, because he has strayed from the reservation of Reagan Conservatism.

Why, for example, did he champion campaign finance reform, which appeared to me to be an infringement of free speech? If rich bastards have a disproportionate impact on the public debate, the cure, it always seemed to me, was to publicize lists of wealthy donors to campaigns, so that the public could readily identify those who were trying to wield the “joystics of power.” (“Joysticks of power” is my trademarked phrase of mine; I can picture nefarious Superman-comic bad guys, wide-eyedly and orgiastically controlling the world with video-game controllers).

Why, for another example, did John McCain have a good relationship with the press? If anyone in the modern age has made a Faustian bargain with Lucifer, it is the MSM, the “drive-bys” (as the Great One puts it); those who buy “ink by the barrel” as Mark Twain put it. It could only be that John McCain had likewise Sold His Soul to the Devil, buying a few accolades at the expense of his Eternal Soul.

Ah, but wait: this is the man who spent five and one-half years in a North Vietnamese prison camp. Who had greater bona fides as a lover of his country that that?

This was the conflict in the minds of people like me: Did the GOP find its soul in nominating this man like this, who suffered so much for his country? Or did the “stupid party” once again nominate “the old guy” whose “turn it was”?

Just what, however, did John McCain actually do with his nomination? He went ahead and chose "Mrs. Smith" to be his running mate. “Mrs. Smith?” you say. Yes; Mrs. Smith. As in “Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington.”

Sarah Palin is the real deal. Oh, I know; “Put not your faith in men,” as the scriptures say, and you could read “men” as “women.” Sarah Palin could let us down, as could anyone.

But this woman came up to the mike and without a trace of nervousness introduced herself to America, and we were collectively mesmerized.

I was donating platelets at the time at the announcement, a process that takes up to two hours. While I had two needles in my arms drawing blood from my body, so that a centrifuge could extract the life-giving platelets, I found myself prostrate. But I did have a remote-control clicker in my right hand (I couldn’t bend my elbow for two hours, even to scratch my nose). I was, therefore, able to click between Fox News and CNN to follow the coverage.

What a beautiful lady Sarah Palin is. She found out her unborn son had Down’s Syndrome; and instead of aborting, she carried her son to term and made public statements about how beautiful he is: “perfect” was her word. WOW. Wow, wow, wow. These’s a holocaust going on, right now, at the expense of the mentally retarded. Thanks to people like the sophisticated and urbane Mr. Obama.

Mr. McCain is known for upholding “honor” and “duty” above all other ideological considerations. He sure showed it in the Hanoi Hilton, when he refused to go home when he had the opportunity, and instead stayed with his men.

He showed it again when he chose a genuine reformer as his running mate. Sarah Palin was on the Wasilla, AK, city council when she railed against waste in the budget. The sitting mayor tried to institute a recall campaign against her. It failed. She got elected herself as mayor. Taxes and waste were drastically reduced. Then she ran for governor of Alaska and won again. She took a jet owned by the state and sold it on eBay for a profit. She said she wasn’t a “mansion kind of person.”

She got herself elected without having to be beholden to the money interests of Alaska’s oil business; in fact, the people of Alaska elected her precisely because she did stand up to the corrupt moneyed interests of Alaska. This, of course, is bad news for the Alaska congressional delegation. Senator Ted Stevens won his primary, but he’s the kind of guy she ran against. As for Don Young, the state’s sole member of congress, ditto. The other US Senator, Lisa Murkowski, is the daughter of the guy she defeated for governor.

So talk about Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” She’s at odds with the ENTIRE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION OF HER STATE. And yet, John McCain chose her to be his running mate, even though THAT CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION IS OF THE SAME PARTY JOHN McCAIN BELONGS TO. To me, this shows that John McCain, in keeping with his fidelity to Honor and Duty, has decided to Clean Up the Republican Party. God Bless Him.

As you can tell, I’m pretty “gone” on this chick, Sarah Palin. And I’m pretty impressed with John McCain at this point. Even though money is tight, I just made my first campaign contribution in years for this ticket.

God Bless John McCain. God Bless a Real Woman, Sarah Palin. God Bless Todd Palin, who must be a hell of a man to “close the deal” on a woman of character like this. And, as they always say, “God Bless America.”