Sarah Palin and her campaign in 57 of 58 states!

Earlier today on the Mark Davis show on WBAP, Mark mentioned a documentary being filmed by a reporter who had lost his job earlier this year when he tried to expose the Chosen One for what he was.

This is not newsworthy in as much as this has happened so many times already. What IS newsworthy is how what he has discovered in his filming.

After admitting to voting for Obama for President, this man asked the voters some very simple questions, and nearly everyone got it wrong. (Admittedly, there were perhaps a few people who got the answers right, but you will see the gist here).

When asked who controlled the Senate and the House, all respondents proclaimed "The Republicans", either directly, after hemming and hawing or after a downright embarrassed laugh to try to lighten the moment for them.

When asked which of the four candidates running had a pregnant teen-age daughter, they all nailed as Sarah Palin. Great job! You're 1 for 2!

When asked who received $150,000 in wardrobe attire, they nailed Sarah Palin.

When asked who stated they had visited 57 states and had one left to go, except Hawaii and Alaska, everyone nailed Sarah Palin again. (if you forgot who actually said this, follow this link: 57 states in the U.S.)

What would the media have said if President Bush had said that? There would have been talk of leaving Iraq since he doesn't even know how many states there are. And what about if Sarah had said that? All kinds of terrible statements of ignorance are being credit to her when she said nothing to deserve any of them!

Isn't that frightening? Is it any wonder we don't have some of America's best and brightest runnign for office? How can these people be allowed to vote? I understand if you are confused by some of the legaleze in some of the propositions, or even if you do not FULLY understand where a candidate stands on certain issues, (they do vacillate at times), but when you are so fundamentally ignorant about some basic information and its relevance to the election, I have to wonder how we can allow people to continue to vote.

One of the paradigms of freedom is people can choose to be as ignorant as they wish, or even as stupid as they wish, simply because they want to.

For example: While I would never do it, but would love to break the jaw of someone burning the U.S. flag, it is their freedom to practice this idiocy, and TRY to denigrate the flag. The flag is never denigrated in my mind, but the individual doing it certainly is diminished in my mind! It is their right, no matter how inflammatory it may be to you, to burn the flag.

But how can this be? How is it we are so out of touch with reality we actually think people not in power ARE in power? How is it we think someone made a gaff when it was actually OUR guy?

I think it is simply put as "Perception is Reality". This is a saying in sales which means basically if the customer sees no value in a product, it doesn't matter how great the presenation was, how much the product would actually answer their needs, or how affordable it is. They see no value, therefore, the product is worthless, or they can do without it.

The Republicans were victims of this notion on the part of the American voter- that and most voting for Obama were simply wanting a change.

Towards the end of the campaign, Senator McCain failed to point out the obvious (at least what is obvious to those of us with a clue) that with the House and Senate virtually in the control of the Democrats, a Democratic President could be a potential problem for our government because of the lack of checks and balances. We all know what happened when Carter was President- the Dems controlled all 3 arms of the Federal government, and our economy crashed in dramatic fashion.

Reagan came to office, reached agreements with Tip Oneill, and successfully led this country from the brink of depression into one of the most profitable periods of the American economy, which even outlasted President Bush #41, and his successor, President Clinton (though he did try hard to run it off the tracks by breaking up Microsoft and telling technologically driven companies their intellectual properties would be public domain rather than the people responsible for developing them).

I feel this perception was perpetuated by the media. Though Fox news ratings are on the rise and the former "Big 3" ratings are falling, I feel media bias finally won one for their guy. Recent studies showed negative campaign news coverage was as much as 3 times for McCain as for Obama. Even Chris Mathews was reported (and recorded) to have said it was his job to make the Presidency of Obama succeed. Youll notice he tries to hide under the auspice of being a journalist, and then says his JOB is to make the Presidency succeed.

Sorry Chris, you can't have it both ways, but as long as he works for the Never Been Conservative station, he will never be called to the carpet. Unfortunately, too many people will drink the Kool-Aid and be duped into another fiasco.

Whatever happens in the near future, one thing is for certain- the media will be slow to criticize their chosen one!

President Sarah Palin in 2012?

Not unless she gets with the program! When she returns to Anchorage, she and her family must have a frank conversation- is she selfless enough to want to serve her country admirably at the highest level, or will she be content to continue serving with distinction as Governor of the largest state in the union.

Whatever her choice, she will be successful at it. She accomplished much in her first term as Governor of Alaska, but apparently it just wasn't enough for the American people to see someone achieve so much in so short a time- all while raising a family and giving birth to a special needs child.

My wife and I have discussed what we would do in her situation, and I must confess, I don't think we could have handled it, let alone run for office, or even more for the Vice Presidency. Sarah is an intelligent, driven woman who brings a lot to the table (though McCain staffers are now dragging her through the mud saying syncophantic things like she doesn't know Africa is a continent and not a country. Please.) with her common sense and Katie bar the doors approach to getting things done. She is loved by her constituents, and I think she wold be equally loved as a V.P. if she has the chance.

And, oh, by the way, she is beautiful.

The media and feminists took an instant dislike to this (Cosmopolitan?) woman because she seems to have it all: Beauty (inner and outward), intelligence, presence, a sense of humor, a successful wife, mother, governor and hunter. I guess I can understand their dislike of her- is there ANYTHING she can't do well?

This rage was so over the top when she was attacked repeated by the press and celebrities like the infantile Matt Damon for her lack of experience, or for her wardrobe.

Matt Damon was on a t.v. interview when he was quoted as saying "I think there's a really good chance Sarah Palin could become president, and I think that's a really scary thing... I think the pick was made for political purposes... Do the actuary tables and there's a one out of three chance, if not more, that McCain doesn't survive his first term and it'll be President Palin... It's like a really bad Disney movie. The hockey mom, you know, 'oh, I'm just a hockey mom'... and she's facing down President Putin... It's totally absurd... it's a really terrifying possibility... I need to know if she really think that dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago. I want to know that, I really do. Because she's gonna have the nuclear codes."

Actuary tables? Does this Einstein KNOW what an actuary table is? This is the same rocket scientist who thought scripts from the likes of Stuck on You, Jersey Girl and Eurotrip looked like good ideas. An actuary table is nothing more than an average probability of someone dying based on their age. This AVERAGE, is based on the population of the people being surveyed. Have you looked at Americans lately? We are obese, hypertensive and stressed out. Does that sound like Senator McCain? I don't think so.

And as far as the wardrobe goes, WHO CARES? If the RNC decides to gift her a wardrobe of $150,000, that is a part of the campaign budget. Where was the outcry when "Slick Willie" landed at LAX, shutting down a major portion of it while he got a haircut on Air Force 1? How much did THAT cost? What about when the "Breck Girl" John Edwards was getting $800 haircuts? What could POSSIBLY cost $800 for ANYONE's haircut, let alone a man's?

The bottom line, unfortunately, Americans are either sexist, or, just want someone with some chutzpah to deliver the goods which comes only after extensive service in the logic free zone of the District of Columbia, a.k.a. the puzzle palace.

I for one, hope Sarah follows the path to the White House, and helps lead this country back from whatever the weenie liberals do in the next 2-4 years. If she chooses to not pursue a career in D.C. as a Congresswoman, I fear we have seen the last of a truly gifted woman. She will fade into obscurity like Geraldine Ferraro, and that would be a real tragedy.