8/31/2008
Andrew Sullivan published an excerpt in The Atlantic Monthly today which, in trying to make a case against Palin, actually spells out exactly why conservatives like myself love her. Here is the relevant portion of Sullivan’s excerpt:
He is a man who has spent his adult life thinking serious thoughts about serious issues and having serious conversations about them with other serious, well-informed people; while Palin quite as clearly has done none of those things. He was the president of the Harvard Law Review; she was the point guard on her high school basketball team. [Emphasis Mine]
You see, Obama has “thought” and “talked,” but what in the world has the guy ever DONE?! Nothing that I can discern.
Palin has acted, fought, achieved victories, formed coalitions, won difficult elections, reformed government at the local and state level, and so many other things. Talk is cheap, as they say.
As nicely spelled out by Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard, a few of Governor Palin’s accomplishments include having “brought down Alaska’s governor, attorney general, and state Republican chairman. She killed the ‘bridge to nowhere.’ She used increased tax revenues from high oil prices to give Alaskans a rebate. She slashed government spending. She took on the biggest industry in Alaska, the oil companies, to work out an equitable deal on building a new gas pipeline.”
Barnes reminds readers that “Obama can’t match even one of these accomplishments.”
Governor Palin saw problems and she didn’t talk or think about them, she stood up and solved them. That’s what I and so many others admire about her.
I would take Palin any day over a “thinker” and a “talker.” I think the only thing some Republicans are disappointed by is the fact that Palin is not on the top of the ticket. Well, in 8 years she will be.
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