Sarah Has a New Book

The other day, as I was perusing the news items on the Google toolbar link, I saw that Sarah Palin was about to release a new book. I clicked on the first article, read it, and then followed on down to about sixty comments below. There were about two favorable comments and the rest were the same hateful negative crap that we had to put up with during the 2008 campaign. I thought that the source of the article was probably just a typical left-wing rag, so I clicked on the next news source. This turned out to be a repeat of the first, with the comments being about the same ratio of hate/support. The "haters" never tire of calling her naive, stupid, inexperienced, hypocritical, and even worse. Ironically, these are the same people who backed Barak Obama for President, and it turns out that these same descriptions fit him remarkably well (with the exception of "stupid" - after all, he did win the election). All you have to do is look at Obama's record so far. He has rejected any and all of the methods that have worked in past recessions. We continue to lose huge numbers of jobs. Other than a slight upturn in the stock market, the general economy has shown no sign of improvement. Iran and North Korea are openly thumbing their noses at us. Britain, France and Germany, our staunchest allies, are losing patience with us and are starting to openly question our "appeasement" policy toward the dictators of the world. They look to us for leadership and they aren't getting any. Our outlandish spending has eroded the confidence in our dollar so much that we have to send delegations to China to beg them to buy our debt. I personally don't like the way he blatantly plays up to the unions, lawyers and organizers like ACORN. And then, there are the lies. Remember what he said about taxes? About bi-partisanship? About transparency? I have said it before - the means justify the ends; you say and promise whatever is necessary to get elected.

But, I have digressed. I wanted to say something positive about Sarah Palin. Just how stupid and inconsequential is someone who receives $7,000,000 advance on a book that has become #1 on both Amazon and Barnes and Noble just two days after it was announced? Since she left the governorship, she has over a thousand offers pending for speaking engagements that she must sort out. These go for about $100,000 or so apiece, so she shouldn't have to worry too much about paying for all those frivolous lawsuits that were brought against her. Yes, I think she is a force to be reckoned with, and the Democrats know it. That is why they keep going after her. I attended one of her rallies, so I know first hand how electrifying she is. She has won the hearts of Mainstream America, and this is no small matter. However, I don't think she will ever capture the admiration of the likes of Keith Olberman, Rachel Maddow, David Letterman (who has problems of his own), or James Carville. Tough! They will still be drooling over Obama, the President who could have been relevant.