In Praise of Palin

To be honest, out of Obama, Biden, McCain, or Palin... I like Palin the best. Admittedly, I don't know as much about her as I do the others. I understand a little bit the attraction of Obama in the beginning- he was an unknown, so was everything to everybody. I don't understand why people support him now though, now that they know more about him.

In all seriousness though, I really like her. She sounds, looks, and acts like a regular person. She is strong and tough and forceful in her manner of speech- she reminds me of Margaret Thatcher in many ways. Her personal background is a model- a small town major, a governor of a state, a mother, a mother to a valiant soldier, a mother to a child with a disability, etc.

And her stance on the issues is dead on. Look what she talked about in her acceptance speech. I haven't found a transcript of it yet, but I did find some stories that talk about her speech here and here, and here is the video. In her speech she talks about how she is against special interests- and not 'special interests' in a generic sense, but the bad kind, the kind that use the power of government to win special contracts and loot the people of their hard-earned money. She has fought against government waste and earmarks. She has the correct stance on drilling and energy concerns. And I remember a lot of other good stuff I liked about her stances on issues- I just can't remember them and can't seem to find any stories about her speech that do anything other than criticize her and repeat Democrat talking points- AP I'm looking at you.

I want to echo Jonah Goldberg's thoughts on the selection of Sarah Palin as Vice President:

I'm more and more keen on Sarah Palin. Palin is tackling the establishment in Alaska, including the oil and gas industry. She's attractive. She could get some real profile out of the latest polar bear lawsuits. She reinforces McCain's outsider-reformer-Western credentials. And, for the moderate soccer mom types who were all jazzed about Hillary being the first woman president, she might win a few suburbanite female swing-voters for the same reason.