Posted on 07/03/2009 10:02:22 AM PDT by tricky_k_1972
Recently, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin traveled to Auburn, New York, and led a parade to celebrate Founders Day and help raise money to build a museum to honor William Seward, the secretary of state who was instrumental in acquiring Alaska for the country. Twenty thousand people attended the event chanting, Run, Sarah, run!
Would Sen. John Kerry attract that many people in Massachusetts for a similar event? Not likely.
Thats the rub with Democrats. They see Gov. Palin as a unifying force within the Republican Party who will bring a credible challenge to its power base. Her rock solid conservative credentials, coupled with charisma, affable personality and abundance of common sense, scare the hell out of Democrats who have already started demonizing her before she gets too much more traction. Unfortunately for the Democrats, she is the most popular Republican since her vice-presidential nomination acceptance speech at the 2008 convention, and there are no signs her popularity is waning. In fact, it seems to increase with every Democratic attack hurled toward her.
Last week an esteemed former Democratic presidential nominee and sitting member of the U.S. Senate, took the latest juvenile potshot at Gov. Palin. After hearing that South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford had gone missing for several days to have a rendezvous with his Argentine mistress, Sen. John Kerry remarked to a group of businessmen, Too bad if a governor had to go missing it couldnt have been the governor of Alaska. You know, Sarah Palin. What a guy! Its too bad he didnt go missing in Vietnam where he could have had long conversations with Sen. John McCain.
To compound his stupidity, at the time of Sen. Kerrys remark, Gov. Palin was overseas visiting members of the Alaska National Guard who were called to active duty, to express her thanks and support for their service. Contrasting this patriotic gesture, Sen. Kerry is on record accusing U.S. soldiers of terrorizing women and children in Iraq.
I heard something about Sen. Kerry being a Vietnam veteran during his presidential campaign. (Who didnt?). While running for president, Democrats wanted you to forget that as an anti-war advocate, he lied in congressional testimony about witnessing alleged atrocities committed by military members. He also lied about being in Cambodia on a secret mission when no such mission took place. But he gets a free pass from liberals and the press (I know thats redundant) because lying is acceptable to achieve their goals of undermining national defense and raising taxes.
David Lettermans writers seized the opportunity to slam Gov. Palin on her recent visit to New York City to accept an award as a strong advocate for children with disabilities. During one of his monologues, Letterman said that Gov. Palin and her daughter were attending a baseball game at Yankee Stadium and during the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez. It turned out that the daughter accompanying the governor was her 14-year-old, and not the vilified 18-year-old Bristol Palin, who became pregnant out of wedlock. Regardless of which daughter was there, would any prominent Democratic woman governor be the butt of such jokes?
Letterman later reluctantly apologized, but the damage had already been done. Americans admired Gov. Palins composure, and Democrats cringed once again.
Gov. Palins popularity among liberals would increase substantially if she had aborted her Down Syndrome baby. Maybe, if she said she smoked but didnt inhale marijuana, advocated open borders, opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, called the CIA a bunch of liars and believed in spreading the wealth around by spending trillions of borrowed dollars on the guise of economic stimulus, the media would fawn over her.
But thats not Sarah Palin. Shes the real deal. Shes the antidote for President Obama, Sen. Kerry and their liberal friends in Congress. As president she would restore national security, fiscal responsibility and U.S. world leadership. And the Democrats know it.
The more Democrats hurl insults at Gov. Palin, the stronger and more resilient she becomes. If she should become the first woman president of the United States, she will always be compared to another non-white male president, President Obama.
I look forward to the comparison. Run, Sarah, run!
Gregory D. Lee is a nationally syndicated columnist who can be reached through www.gregorydlee.com.
To compound his stupidity, at the time of Sen. Kerrys remark, Gov. Palin was overseas visiting members of the Alaska National Guard who were called to active duty, to express her thanks and support for their service. Contrasting this patriotic gesture, Sen. Kerry is on record accusing U.S. soldiers of terrorizing women and children in Iraq.
She scares them becasue they know she is the absolute refutation of all their fraudulent policies and positions.



She scares less-than-conservative Republicans as well.
The Romneyites are out in force today. I'm with Antoninus...there needs to be a major hosue cleaning on FR.
Exactly.
Read post 28 and 29 on this thread and tell me I didn’t hit that nail on the head.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283362/posts
I like Palin.
She doesn’t pull her punches and she tells it like it is. She shoots from the hip but sometimes this can get her in trouble especially when she is interviewed by the libtard media. But it’s not really HER trouble, it’s theirs because what she stands for, everything she stands for, scared the crap out of libtards, liberal zombie sheep, liberal degenrates and homos, environmental wackos and liberal radical nutjobs.
She isn’t my ideal candidate but she’s very likable and I would have no problem voting for her if she were to become our nominee.
Exactly. See Goldberg today.
The Squish wing of the party is attacking her viciously this week. It’s obviously well coordinated.
They can all pound sand.
The only answer is “I’m not voting for Romney”.
McCain on Speed.

Palin PING!
Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.
Yep.
Thank God for that.
The quality of posting on FR still hasn't recovered from the last one.
I would have to agree, Terpfen. I abhor political correctness, whether it is on the left or on the right.

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