Obama Equals Anger, Palin Joy

Thanks to Col. O. P. Ditch of "Vets for Palin," who sent me this picture of Sarah Palin at the big Republican bash last night in DC.

A friend in Illinois wrote me yesterday about the extreme anger he feels at the way Obama and his wrecking crew are demolishing all that's truly good about America. I replied with the following:

Dear Rich, you are not alone in your anger about the way Obama is chewing up and spitting out everything that is good about America. He lacks respect for life, and I'm not just talking about the unborn.

The Good News is that God wins out in the end, but sometimes it's a long journey to the end. Gov. Palin says that her little boy Trig is "perfect." She doesn't mean perfect in the world's sense, but perfect in that he's where God wants him to be and, more than that, he's WHAT God wants him to be.

When I went to the huge Sarah Palin rally in Oct. about 7 miles from where I live, I was one of the "greeters." I probably shook hands with 1,000 people, and there were so many mothers and children there that it just struck me how wonderful an experience this was for them. Sarah brought two of her own children along with her, Willow and Piper, two girls who were getting to see "the rest of America" for the first time. A great experience for me also.

Before the speech, the football coach at Beaver High got up and introduced Sarah and endorsed her. I thought it could be anymore "Western PA" if they tried. The crowd filled up the football stadium (capacity 6,500) and even took up every available space on the field.

Sarah: "She's ONE of US"

My slogan for Sarah 2012 is "Sarah . . . She's ONE of US." In heavily unionized Beaver County, two-to-one Democratic voter registration edge, Sarah drew a crowd of 10,000-plus. That is the biggest crowd ever to gather for anything in Beaver County and twice what Obama drew. (He was two hours late and then the campaign tried to stiff the police on overtime.)

Sarah's crowd was about half union people and union families, including many children who were very excited to see the irrepressible Piper (and Willow) Palin. In this Democratic, union-intensive county, McCain-Palin won by 4,000 votes. They also won ALL the small counties in western PA!!!! How would Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee have done? Don't make me laugh.


I've been saying, "The Republican Party used to be the fat cats. Now, we're the alley cats." How do we get the Wal-Mart voters? As even Rush admitted, "We've already got them" Sarah, running against the candidate of "hope," gave something to the people they needed ... . hope for a better future, hope that their normal, middle class lives had meaning, hope that they really did have a woman who cared about them.

I was a "greeter" at the event. I got to the 7 p.m. event at 3:30 p.m., accompanied by two terrific young HBO people from San Francisco. who were doing a series on "America." I met them while I was wearing my Sarah tee-shirt ("Guns and God"). I told them people in SF and Beaver County did not "hate" each other.

I said we all needed some place to complain about. They said, "Yes!"

I noted we had a lot more in common than either group wanted to admit, as illustrated by the outpouring of support for the supposedly "hated" New York when 9/11 occurred. We had discovered that we, too, were "New Yorkers," and many EMTs, police, and fire fighters had gone to Manhattan to help out.

They had both decided, "Yeah, Sarah is the real deal." The young woman from HBO (Alexandra) was getting ready to take the red-eye back to SF, where she had waiting for her two little boys, ages two and one. She liked Sarah because she (like Alexandra) wanted to "have it all." I told her husband, Will, also young, how lucky he was to be married to Alex. He said, "Don't I know it. Don't I know it."

I was a greeter at the rally. I must have talked to and shaken hands with 500 people. It was an exhilarating trip into the Real America. These were good people. They loved their country, and they knew in their hearts that Sarah did also. When Sarah hit the stage (right on time), I learned the meaning of the word "pandemonium." She had a dark blue top and black slacks (see above).

One of the best days of my life. Come back again in 2010 and 2012, Sarah.

Going Viral: Electing President Palin

"Running for President? Who? You mean little ole me?" You betcha, Sarah

About winning for Palin in 2012: One thing we've got to do (over time, because everything won't happen today) is to train people -- "our activists" -- how to leverage their political influence. Political campaigns -- aside from Obama's -- generally don't do that. They let their volunteers flounder around. Let me give you an example:

In my western PA county (Beaver), people made many phone calls for McCain-Palin. The suggested script (which was terrible throughout) had at the end, "This call was paid for by the Republican Party of Pennsylvania." I refused to say that -- it was NOT a legal requirement. I was NOT an employee of McCain Victory or the PA GOP.

Also, half the people we were calling were Democrats. None of the callers was paid. All were volunteers. The suggested ending was misleading -- and a downer for anyone receiving the call. But a lot of people used it.

If everyone on TeamSarah contacted 100 people -- e-mail, phone, face-to-face -- that would add up currently to 7 million contacts. Of course, everyone won't do it, but many will, especially if they know why they're doing it.

Voting is a "social" act, meaning that people vote generally the way their families, friends, and neighbors do. What if the seven million (or whatever) contacted are asked to tell THEIR family and friends they're voting for Sarah Palin? Pretty soon we've contacted everyone in the U.S. (and probably twice).

In the world of the Internet, this approach is known as "going viral." It's a way of disseminating information that makes contacts spread like wildfire. It's the modern way of running a winning presidential campaign. Train enough people -- and victory will come.

Sarah: "I'm One of You"

I've strongly recommended that Sarah's slogan in the presidential race of 2012 should be: "I am ONE of YOU."

Sarah Palin has libertarian, conservative, and populist elements -- and particularly the latter. The Alaska Constitution is a populist document, indicating for example that the resources should be developed for the benefit of the people. Her motto in Alaska is: "Serve the People!"

Sarah has been a member of a union (broadcast journalists) and her husband currently is, as will be her son-in-law. I believe the reason she wanted to stay and campaign in Michigan -- and go into auto plants -- was because she identifies much more with autoworkers than she does with the heads of GM and Ford.

I spoke to more than 100 union members in Beaver County, PA, who were bucking the union bosses and voting for Sarah Palin. At the Palin Really in Beaver, PA, dozens of UMW people were there wearing their "Clean Coal" hard hats. She realizes those people are the new face of the Republican Party in our time. The Sarah Coalition is an extremely diverse group, more diverse in fact than Obama's.

More than 100,000 union members in PA apparently backed McCain-Palin. She wants their votes -- and their needs are critically important to her. They know she is one of them.

I've strongly recommended that Sarah's slogan in the presidential race of 2012 should be: "I am One of You." In fact, she is one of us.

She is not anti-gay. In fact, one of the first groups that endorsed her -- I asked them to -- was GayPatriotWest, the most important gay conservative group on the Web.

On abortion, she's said she doesn't believe in criminalizing it, looking at it much more as matter of conscience, education, and adoption than of legal restrictions. Most people in America agree that there should be fewer abortions and more adoptions. That should be the goal, rather than to engage in a Second Civil War.

Sarah Palin knows that a politician who disagrees strongly with public sentiment is known as . . . a loser. The people rule, and the effective politicians are very good listeners, as Sarah is.

She knows that "politics is the art of the possible." Some of my fellow conservatives, alas, seem to see it as the art of the impossible. Sarah understands that to win elections, it's critical to get many more votes than we did in November from younger people, Asians, Native Americans, women, and, especially, Hispanics. We will not get their votes by irritating them.

Older white males -- I happen to be one -- are fine, but they aren't nearly enough to prevail in a national election (or, apparently, in most statewide elections). Thus, Gov. Palin understands that politics deals with "The World as it is, not as we'd like it to be." I'm very comfortable with that view.

2012, Romney No, Palin Yes

Since I favor Sarah Palin for President in 2012, I'm passing on Willard Romney's invitation to join his effort for the presidency in 2012. I believe Mitt Romney has ZERO chance of ever defeating Barack Obama. It will not be clear for a couple of years how good a chance Sarah has of dethroning Obama ("The Emperor of Ice Cream"), but it will certainly be much better than that of the former Gov. of Massachusetts.

I'm irritated by politicians, especially Republicans, who can't face political reality. The time is over when a person could race to the GOP nomination by raising lots of money and being as slick as an MA road during an ice-storm. We need to have candidates who are as much as possible like the individuals who are casting the votes. People vote for candidates whose lives resemble theirs and reflect their hopes and aspirations.

Saxby Chambliss recently marveled at the "huge" effect Sarah had on the GA Senate race. She energizes crowds. She makes skeptics into believers. She especially offers hope to those in states that are "Blue" but show some possibility of turning "Red" for the right candidate.

Romney is not the right candidate. He's a smooth talker in a $4,000 suit. He's too rich and too polished to appeal to the people who actually are willing to vote nowadays for a Republican candidate.

The people of my own area -- western Pennsylvania in general and Beaver County in particular -- are registered Democratic by a margin of roughly two-to-one. We're the ones Obama called "bitter" people clinging to their (our) guns and religion. We're his version of The Great Unwashed.

This year, Beaver County went for McCain-Palin by 4,000 votes, a remarkable showing, and the same was generally true through western Pennsylvania. It was clear that the main magnet attracting voters was Gov. Sarah Palin.

Put Sarah in charge -- at the top of the ticket. Let her work nationally the kind of magic she demonstrated in western Pennsylvania. Let her run as a champion of "working women" (her term) and working men. Let her build on the massive coalition, one that will eventually number in the millions, forming with such organizations as TeamSarah.org and ReadmyLipstickNetwork.

In short, let her -- and us -- show the world how to defeat Barack Obama and the smear-artist I call "The Axelrod of Evil." As time goes on, the election of Barack Obama in 2008 will be seen for what it it -- a calamity for our country. It will be the time for a remarkable woman who not only affirms American values, but practices them.