By now, you’ve probably seen the YouTube video of Sarah Palin, in a swimsuit, competing in the Miss Alaska Pageant 1984.
Believe it or not, that video has had over 2.5 million views. Like Reagan, Bush, Cheney and other conservative leaders, Palin is attacked constantly and the comments left at this video were no exception:
- "This woman is as dumb as they come and an embarrassment to the United States presidency."
- "beauty doesn’t count if ur dumb as a rock"
- "Recent MRI images show in fact that sarah palin is the 2nd person in history to succeed in politics with a brain the size of a mouse. The first was of course former president GWB".
You get the idea? Occasionally, I like to weigh in to offer some balance and defend one of my political heroes. Here’s two of my responses:
1 – "So, just so I understand…Obama tells his supporters he’ll pull ‘all Iraq troops out by March, 2009′ and close Gitmo ‘by end of 2009 – you believed him but…Palin’s dumb as a rock?
Obama says ‘you’ll have 5 days to read a bill before I sign it’, ‘My church is like every other Christian church’ and that massive deficit spending will keep unemployment below 8% – you believed him but…Palin’s an idiot?
You may not agree with her, but at least she wasn’t dumb enough to believe Obama."
2 – "I urge my friends on the left to think this through just a little bit.
Palin went through this embarrassment of competing in a swimsuit competition so she could pay her own way through college – rather than suck off the Federal teat like most of us.It’s noble.
She doesn’t just talk about self-reliance, she pays her own way. She doesn’t just make speeches about choosing life, she chose life even when she knew the child had down-syndrome.
She walks the walk. Who else does that?
Long ago, I gave up trying to change the hearts, or minds, of those on the left – most are too far gone. That’s OK because, with over 40% of the country (120 million people) self-identified as “conservative” we’ll be fine just turning out the vote. 120 million people, voting together, can get anyone elected at anytime. But, while I’m hunting for elephants, it’s fun to stop every once in a while and make fun of the lost donkeys.
