Sarah Palin is amazing. She’s the spirit this country was built on, men and women who roll up their sleeves and get the job done. (The Great RR must be smiling.) My great-great-great-whatever great grandmother on my dad’s side (a Vermonter), married at 16, and rode in a covered wagon all the way to Ohio. After building a little farm and having four children, the Civil War intervened, and her husband enlisted in the Union Army.
For four years she raised her children and ran that farm alone, enduring hardships and danger. Her husband returned when the war ended and the family resumed life. This is the simple fabric of America, and this is what Alaska’s Sarah Palin is all about. What a woman! And she’s a ‘natural’, as Brit Hume said, (looking stunned). We saw history made last night, and while some reporters sniffed and said she has to campaign effectively, do well in the debates, we know she’ll be terrific. I got two hours sleep last night, watched the speech over and over and wept.
Sarah has been compared to Maggie Thatcher. I see her more as Teddy Roosevelt: a reformer, a hunter, an environmentalist in the traditional sense, and willing to take on her own party. Of course, she hasn't charged up San Juan Hill, but I think her running mate has plenty of that experience.
“She’s the spirit this country was built on, men and women who roll up their sleeves and get the job done ..the simple fabric of America, and this is what Alaska’s Sarah Palin is all about”
Amen to that. And the DemonRats and Drive By’s are simply stunned. Conservatives are energized like I haven’t seen in years.
I can’t help but overhearing some women in my office now who just got into work and are discussing Sarah. These women are nominal liberal types but loved her speech. I believe they will now vote McCain Palin. Amazing. She has reminded the nation of our God given abilities and character in the same way Reagan did. She has reminded the nation that Washington is the problem and not the answer.
Hooray!