I still believe in her, and I hope, she isn’t done with us yet.

We’ll need a decent unifying figure, which she can be, once we kill the idiot propaganda campaign the left has waged against her. We’ll need to rebuild this country when Obama’s done trashing it in 12, she can be the one we need, a new figure not tied to the second tier, the wanna be’s,..

I,.. we believe in her still, my wife too, a democrat, and my daughter who won’t vote till 2018. If she can make it an issue of a capable woman being attacked by women bashing liberal men,. she may not get the hags of NOW, but she already got my wife’s vote for that reason.

Keeping my fingers crossed, and hoping that Ron is having a quiet word with the man upstairs, please,. let it be her.

fingers crossed.

I lived for twenty years in Alaska, and the main reason I went there was to live and raise a family in the clean clarity of a vast near-wilderness where the politics were vigorous but manageable and only God and Nature prevailed. There was no possibility of a Messiah, the One, rising to power, for he would have been seen for what he was early on and laughed right out of the state. No such lame BS there.

With George Bush gone, Sarah Palin was the next target for the derangement-syndromers, and I can imagine just how peculiar and repugnant that may seem to the Palins. Alaska is a place with its share of oddballs, but mad drooling fiends are rare and kept pushed somewhere in the background where they belong — with the messiahs, I guess. You can keep them away from your kids, anyway.

If you saw Sarah Palin’s video, then you saw the lake and mountains in the background. She said that lake and all that lies beyond always lends perspective to her and her family and their decisions. I understand that. Every day on my way to work in Juneau I drove past a large wetland full of Canada geese, eagles, salmon, and myriad other wildlife. It informed my day, charged my imagination, and reminded me of our place on this earth.

The Alaska governors I knew –yes, you often actually meet your governor if you live there — held their office as a sacred trust. Unless you are a dysfunctional idiot, and there has never been one of those for governor of Alaska, you cannot occupy the office without feeling the responsibility and privilege of leading such an awesome state. Your constituents are your neighbors, for good or ill, and you do everything to help take care of them and their resources.

You can take Sarah at her word. Response to the unrelenting and degenerate vitriol following her VP candidacy was simply costing too much time and money — time and money that rightfully belonged to Alaskans, who never signed up for all that when they elected her as Governor. It was getting in the way of serving, so the responsible choice for Palin was simply to keep her head up and pass the ball. If you lived beside that lake of hers, or gazed at those mountains every morning, it would not seem a startling choice at all.

It’s been said that people get the government they deserve. It does not presage well for our country if we don’t deserve candidates as good as Sarah Palin.

National office will dwindle down to the unhealthily singleminded (Clinton, Obama), the timeserving emirs of Incumbistan (Biden, McCain) and dynastic heirs (Bush). Our loss.