Sarah Palin, President?

If the ability to provoke a reaction is any measure of a politician’s potency then Governor Sarah Palin is a powerhouse. The reactions both pro and con to this woman are unprecedented in American politics certainly of the 20th and the first decade of the 21st centuries. These reactions cross gender lines. The coagulating remains of feminist politics are powerfully and strangely hostile to this woman from our 49th state. Why don’t these feminists come to her defense? A possible explanation might be in this woman’s comfortable ability to do it all. Beauty Queen, star athlete, political success local and statewide, happily married to a hunk husband, mother and mother who chose to have the full term birth of a Down’s Syndrome child and carries him about on her hip or in her arms. She’s equally comfortable in the home, on stage or behind a microphone. In the eyes of the frustrated feminist she has it all, and she handles all with ease. Then the final wound: she’s a conservative Republican. Curses!

There are men who dislike Sarah Palin with the same intensity as the snarling feminists. These are leftist men of the Nation Magazine persuasion and possibly a few others, frustrated John Kerry supporters and so forth. The growing Palin support of both men and women is a phenomenon in an off election time period. For the first time this support crosses party lines. The Republicans will have to feel the pressure. If the Republicans drop this ball and nominate someone other than Sarah Palin for President in 2012, there might still be enough Sarah Palin energy to make a third party viable. A third party with Sarah Palin at the helm and any one of several strong men at the Vice Presidentail slot. Not a Joe Biden, but a viable Presidential step-up such as Mitt Romney, and there are others in the Republican field. The obvious short side of this would be to guarantee the boy President a second term, but he may have learned how to be a President by that time.

With a Sarah Palin led loyal opposition, 2016 could bring the salvation of our Republic and position us to once again lead as we maneuver into the 21 century, this time with a strong and beautiful woman on the bridge.

There’s a lighter side of Sarah Palin bashing. Sarah arrived at a scheduled stop for a book signing carrying her newest child, Trig. An unusually vigilant woman noted that when Sarah stepped down from her campaign bus she was carrying Trig, and what the child was not wearing. This observer asked “What kind of a woman would take her baby child outdoors without a winter parka”? The answer to that question is this: She’s a kind of woman who comes to us from our nation’s northern most state and she comes brimming with energy and hope and ready to be our next President and our first woman President and ready to be a great President.