McCain Picks Palin and The Left Goes Into “Destroy” Mode

Wow.  For the first time in this never-ending campaign season, I’m suddenly hopeful that the Conservative Christian presence has not been run out of America.

McCain’s choice in picking Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his VP running mate has given me someone to vote FOR, instead of AGAINST or instead of writing in my dog this November as I was going to do.

Palin seems as everyday average, do-it-yourself and American Pie as they come.  She is pro-America.  She is unabashedly Christian and pro-life.  She is no Washington Elite Insider, and she is a reformer as her tenure as Alaska’s governor has proven.  She has a son about to deploy to Iraq in September and a fine, attractive family with five children to a high school sweetheart husband of 20 years.

What a contrast to most of Washington, and especially to the Messiahship of Barrack The Hussein Obama.

McCain could not have chosen a better pick in my opinion.  Palin reminds me of my wife – a no-nonsense multi-tasking America-loving Mom with smarts, good looks and Administrative skills and a love of the Great Outdoors.  She can shoot, fish and hunt, and is as down to earth as any politician I’ve witnessed.

Of course it was expected that the Liberal/Marxist Left would go into attack mode, and in scanning the forums and blogs this afternoon, the predictable Left has not disappointed.

Barbara Boxer (D-CA) lashed out to destroy Palin:

“The vice president is a heartbeat away from becoming president, so to choose someone with not one hour’s worth of experience on national issues is a dangerous choice.

If John McCain thought that choosing Sarah Palin would attract Hillary Clinton voters, he is badly mistaken.

The only similarity between her and Hillary Clinton is that they are both women. On the issues, they could not be further apart.

Sen. McCain had so many other options if he wanted to put a woman on his ticket, such as Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison or Sen. Olympia Snowe -– they would have been an appropriate choice compared to this dangerous choice.

In addition, Sarah Palin is under investigation by the Alaska state legislature, which makes this more incomprehensible

Obama’s campaign itself blasted the choice of Palin:

Obama campaign highlights Palin’s ‘zero’ experience

Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton blasted the choice and highlighted Palin’s lack of foreign policy experience.

“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency,” Burton said in a statement.

Again, the messiah, Barrack The Hussein Obama, and his surrogates trash small town America.  They call us the “Bitter” people, who “cling to their religion and their guns”.  Obviously since Palin did not grow up on the East Coast and attend some snobby Ivy League institution, the amount of vitriol for Palin’s small town American Mom credentials has them scared.

But the height of hilarity is their trashing of Palin’s “experience”.

That’s funny coming from the Obama Campaign.

Palin has been an Administrator, running both a small town and an ENTIRE STATE.

The only experience Obama has besides community antagonism and running for office, is speaking at a Nuremburg-style rally in Berlin as a “citizen of the world”.

The American Thinker has some comments on the attempt to destroy Palin by the Obamacons:

First – “Palin has no experience”. That’s an easy one to dismiss. Sarah Palin has had more executive experience, meaning experience in running either a business or a government, than either Barack Obama or his running mate, Joe Biden. She has more executive experience than even her running mate, John McCain. Governor Palin served as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska from 1999 to 2002. She was elected as President of the Alaska Conference of Mayors. She was elected as Governor of Alaska in 2006. And she has quite a few concrete achievements, considering the amount of time she’s been in office.

Second – “Palin’s part of the corrupt GOP establishment in Alaska (Stevens, Young, etc.)”. That’s an even easier one to dismiss. Governor Palin has always run as the anti-corruption candidate. She served as Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from 2003 to 2004, when she resigned in protest over the actions of her fellow Alaskan GOP leaders, including then-Alaskan Governor Frank Murkowski. She was furious over the fact that they ignored her reports of rampant GOP corruption. When she chose to run for Governor, the GOP establishment ignored her and supported the incumbent Murkowski. Palin beat him, and went on to beat former Democratic Governor Tony Knowles with no support from Alaskan GOP leadership. She has actively supported and helped the GOP primary opponents of current indicted Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens and Representative Don Young, and denounced both of them often in public.

Oh, and the forthcoming claim that Palin’s in the pocket of big-oil? Her ethics complaints were filed against people who really were in the pocket of big oil – she was on the outside, investigating.

Third – “Palin used her position as Governor to get back at the man whom her sister was divorcing, and fired the man who refused to fire her sister’s ex-husband”. This is the slimiest attack that the Democrats and the media will launch. It concerns a current investigationinto allegations that Governor Palin fired former Alaskan Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan because he would not bend to her will.

When Palin fired Monegan, her office gave no reason for her decision. As the Commissioner serves at the discretion of the Governor, no reason is needed. In an effort to save his job and get back at the person who fired him, Monegan claimed that he was fired because he would not fire an Alaskan State Trooper, Michael Wooten, who was going through a messy divorce with Palin’s sister. Recently, the Associated Press ran an article about some tapes that surfaced regarding phone calls made by some of Palin’s staff worried about Wooten – and worried about the safety of the Palin family:

JUNEAU, Alaska – Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday said at least two dozens calls were made from her staff members to Department of Public Safety officials questioning the employment of a trooper who went through a messy divorce with Palin’s sister.

But Palin maintained none was done at her direction, a claim backed up by one administration member caught on tape.

…The Palins have accused Wooten of drunken driving, illegal hunting and firing a Taser at his 11-year-old stepson, Palin’s nephew. These allegations led to an internal investigation, which occurred before she ran for governor.

Todd Palin has said the family was concerned about the governor’s safety, claiming Wooten threatened to kill Sarah Palin’s father and made vague threats to her. Todd Palin has said he took concerns about Wooten directly to Monegan.

So, the tapes seem to prove that Governor Palin was unaware that anyone from her office was aware of this, which should take care of questions about Palin’s possible complicity. But we should go past that, and look at the facts of the entire situation. Even if this investigation shows that someone in Palin’s office did pressure the Public Safety Commissioner to fire Wooten, this is a fight that we should relish having with the white male hierarchy of the Democratic Party and the drive-by media. Let’s get all of the dirt about Wooten out in the open. Show that the police union and the Commissioner were protecting him, and then ask why? What would any American do, if faced with the same situation – an overt threat to their family?

Over the years, many of the allegations against Wooten – including the fact that he Tasered Palin’s sister’s 10 year old son and threatened the life of Palin’s father – have turned out to be true:

Grimes suspended Wooten for 10 days. He also was punished for illegally shooting a moose and using a Taser on his 10-year-old stepson. The trooper admitted to using the Taser on his stepson in a “training capacity” and said he shot a moose on his wife’s tag, but didn’t think the act was illegal.

…Wall’s investigation did find that Wooten threatened Palin’s sister, Molly McCann, with shooting her father if he hired a lawyer to represent her. Wooten denied making the statement, but Palin, McCann and Palin’s son all confirmed that he did.

Wall said the act wasn’t a crime because Palin’s father was not present when Wooten made the statement.

Who the heck uses a Taser on a 10 year old kid!? It appears as if Wooten’s gotten off scott-free so far, and it’s those that are protecting him that should be ashamed. And once the facts of theentire situation come out, the voters will largely agree. I can’t wait until Keith Olbermann attempts to use this!

Read as much as you can about Sarah Palin. Her story is remarkable and inspiring. She’s about as solid a conservative as you can find right now. There will be many attacks on her launched in the media over the next 60 plus days, primarily because she is such an excellent pick for McCain. A suggestion – don’t rely on the ads or the pundits, go to the Internet and read the original source material. Then launch a counter-attack, armed with the facts.

When this year’s Presidential campaign started, shortly after the 2006 elections, I felt that this would be the last of the old-guard GOP elections. Regardless of who wins this election, I felt that 2012 and beyond would belong to the likes of Bobby Jindal and Sarah Palin. As a matter of fact, I was kind of rooting for a one-term McCain Presidency followed by a Jindal-Palin or a Palin-Jindal ticket.

I’ve already read and heard the rantings that Palin is an unfit mother because she is not at home, barefoot and in the kitchen taking care of her family.

So much for women’s lib if they aren’t liberal Leftists.  The Democrats obviously think careers for women are only for themselves, and not “little people” like Sarah Palin.

What I’m expecting to come next, is that because Palin is Pro-Life, that the Left will excoriate her ‘irresponsiblity’ for not aborting her Down Syndrome son.