Folks, let face a few facts. The first overwhelming fact is that millions and millions of us are devastated by the news the Barack Obama will be the next POTUS. Of those tens of millions many still consider Obama a radical socialist or Marxist whose goal is to undermine the US Constitution and set America on a course divergent from the traditional American belief system of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and traditions of rugged individualism, American exceptionalism and free enterprise for authoritarian government control and the nanny state, mediocrity and lowered expectations and socialism and collectivism. The election of Obama does not delegitimize our concerns in the least. The MSM, as we all know, are in the tank for Obama (Fox News has been creeping into that tent recently)and will do anything that Obama desires or feel that Obama desires or will help Obama in the long run solidify his reign and be re-elected in 2012. In our heartache this is the reality that most of us appear to be ignoring or dismissing. Folks, this is the central theme of what has played out regarding the trashing of Sarah Palin during the campaign and now after the election. Now if the MSM and their jackal reporters can pick off any disconsolate McCain aide, staffer, or advisor and ask them enough leading questions in their moment of grief the reporter can get them to tell tales out of school, in this case about Sarah. Now as Rush Limbaugh says about himself: “These people are highly trained professionals.” The reporter’s job is to link the staffer’s statement with the pre-ordained narrative that Sarah lost the election for McCain. And this is exactly what has been done. If given truth serum the greater majority of the staffers without a personal axe to grind would admit to 4 reasons that they lost and not one of them would be attributed to Sarah: 1)only once since 1952 has any party occupied the WH for three consecutive terms (1980-1992)and couple that with a very unpopular Republican President and only a 9% vote that things are going right in America; 2) as one person noted McCain’s numbers started to plummet when Lehman Brothers went belly up-the complete financial meltdown did McCain in-he was left in a position similar to Gerald Ford vs Jimmy Carter in that he was playing catch-up for the last month of the campaign and couldn’t quite make up the gap: it was probably 10 points in the heart of the meltdown-he and Sarah managed to narrow it to 6-even Sarah alluded to the financial meltdown as a significant reason that the McCain campaign lost and 3) Obama forsaking public finance and outspending McCain in the battleground states by as much as 5-1; money talks; the saturation of the air waves mean a constant bombardment of the Obama message; what is surprising that Obama did not win by more in the battleground states; 4)voter fraud which no one wants to talk about now: no one wants to sound petty or maybe imply that Obama stole the election. Thus many people feel it is more appropriate to accuse Sarah of not knowing much about geography, that she is a rogue or diva or she may be a slut by coming from a shower to a hotel door only dressed in a bath towel or bathrobe. From there leads some to conclude that if only Sarah weren’t selected as a VP candidate and some boring white guy was that suddenly McCain would become more eloquent, youthful and more attractive and that the male VP would somehow be a game changer and by magic McCain would been transformed and won all the battleground states and Colorado to squeak out a victory. Get real for every new vote the male VP would have brought in he would have left two or three behind. Much of the base was determined to sit this election out before Sarah was chosen-that McCain got this close in the battleground states is a testament to Joe the Plumber, McCain’s will to never give up, but above all to Sarah who drew record crowds and buzz whereever she travelled and generated hordes of volunteers for the McCain campaign to GOTV and a significant increasse in contributions to the McCain campaign after she was selected. Like the Patriots who lost the Super Bowl, it was not Tom Brady’s fault that the Patriots lost to the Giants and it was not Eli Manning’s capability that was the main reason the Giants won the Super Bowl. For both teams it was a team effort on both sides of the ball. The Giants won because they were a better team that day. Obama won because of his ability to mesmerize huge amounts of younger and first-time voters to vote for him, because he was able to tap into the anger caused by the financial meltdown and the desperation felt by millions of Americans who had their lifelong savings wiped away without notice, again to repeat he had a huge advantage in money becaused he went back on his promise to take public financing for the general campaign, and he perhaps won because he rigged the election. Leave Sarah alone; there will be enough time to pummel her in 2-4 years if she decides to make a comeback. Whatever happened to the old American adage that ‘you don’t kick a dog when he’s down.’

technopeasant on November 6, 2008 at 10:29 AM

In terms of political talent Sarah is eloquent and charismatic and has the ability draw huge crowds; you really couldn’t say that about both Bush I and Bush II, Dole or McCain. She is definitely a top tier candidate and you will be a better candidate if she chooses to run in 2012. Talented people only improve with time and age.

technopeasant on November 6, 2008 at 11:21 AM

Above all as conservatives let us resolve to not attack our own for the next 6 months and focus on issues, policy and the direction the party should take to prepare for 2010 and 2012 and let’s really focus on Obama and his radical socialist agenda. Let’s act like grown-ups rather than spoiled children who thinks they had their bicycle stolen from them by a relative or friend when all along it was the neighbor who lived across the street.

technopeasant on November 6, 2008 at 12:23 PM