Thoughts on Palin’s Speech to the RNC
I’m not the biggest John McCain fan in the world. Looking at the choices in this year’s presidential race, the best I could do was simply look on as an interested outsider. In a race including Obama and McCain, Bob Barr was looking like a good, albeit reluctant, choice. McCain’s choice of Palin as a running-mate, though, has me thinking he might finally be on the right track. Last night’s speech by the new Republican VP nominee has me finally looking at McCain as a possibility.
Read on for more.
Obama never was a choice for me. His political ideas on issues like taxes, medicine, energy policy, abortion, and nearly everything else ruled him out easily. His qualifications for the presidency mirror those of Ruth Bader Ginsburg for Supreme Court Justice, which is to say they are pretty much non-existent. Honestly, the only real reason I’ve seen that Obama has gotten the nomination is race, and that’s exactly the opposite of the message that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr put forth in his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
McCain has supported some horrible ideas in his time in office. The McCain-Feingold anti-free-speech bill that became law is a horrible abuse of governmental power over the right of the people to speak on political matters. His involvement in the “Gang of 14″ prevented a necessary constitutional showdown when Democrats were attempting to redefine the nomination process for Supreme Court Justices. He’s been on the right side of many issues, but he’s been on the wrong side, too.
Bob Barr wasn’t one of my favorite Republicans in Congress, but since he’s left office, he’s switched to the Libertarian Party. It’s hard to argue that he’s made the party switch because it makes him more electable, and since the switch it’s been hard to argue with his stated views. I believe that he’s sincerely moved to the Libertarian position, and that’s a good thing.
Now, though, McCain has made his VP selection, and it’s a good one. When it comes to basic Republican issues, she’s fairly solid. She’s pro-2nd Amendment. She’s anti-abortion. She’s in favor of lower taxes. She’s got a history of fighting corruption, even within her own party, so she has principles. While she’s not perfect, she is a good, solid conservative with a history of doing good things rather than bad.
Watching her speech last night was a joy. She was positive, energized, and on-point. She addressed key points of liberal criticism levied against herself and others of her party. She also raised key points of criticism against the Democrat opponent.
Liberals have, for decades, have pushed the idea that a woman can have a career and a family. She pointed out that she is doing exactly that. Of course, now that a Republican woman is doing what the left says they support, we find criticism from the left that she shouldn’t be doing it.
Answering the question the left likes to ask about the Iraq War, she pointed out that her own son is being deployed. Would she send her own son to fight in that war? She is. By the left’s own definition, she’s no coward.
The left likes to act as if they’re the only ones who care about special-needs children. Her second son is a special-needs child.
On her experience? Palin brings out the best line of the night. “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities.” She then went on to list accomplishments during her first two years as Governor of Alaska. She did away with the personal chef to the Governor. She sold the Governor’s jet on eBay. She vetoed spending bills and contributed to a balanced budget, and a surplus. Those sound like the kinds of things I’d want in President, and the possibility exists that she could be in that office.
She pointed to her experience with the energy sector in her state, which contrasts clearly against Obama’s lack of knowledge in this area. He’s the one who says we should drill for natural gas, but not oil. Earth to Obama. Natural gas and oil come from the same holes. Pockets in the Earth that hold oil aren’t full of oil, but only partially so. Natural gas is what fills the rest of the pocket. Obama may not know this, but Palin does.
On, and on, and on, she contrasted her knowledge, experience, and ideas against those of the Democrat nominee, and in my opinion, she rocked.
It won’t stop the criticism from the left, though. They’ll criticize her for anything they can find, whether it’s real or not. They’ve already started. They tried to create a “Troopergate” story over her ex-brother-in-law’s firing from his law enforcement job after tasering his stepson. They stood against their own ideas in saying she shouldn’t be running for VP because she’s a Mom. They’re attacking her faith, her family, her career, her background, and pretty much anything else they can. In an absolutely appalling event of typicality on Daily Kos (some of the worst of their ilk among the hateful wing of the left) they even tried to say that her own son was her daughter’s, and not her own.
The thing is, I think she can stand up against the hateful attacks that are, and will be levied against her. She’s not some namby-pamby New York liberal, metrosexual Democrat male. She’s an Alaskan Mom who can hit the mark with a military rifle.
I think her worst crime among the left is doing, and being, everything they say a woman should be, except one thing. She’s a Republican.
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