Blogs For Victory

From Vin Suprynowicz out here in the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

Wishing won’t make John McCain a small-government libertarian. But think back to how the defeatist fellow-travelers in the media ridiculed him when he said The Surge could defeat al-Qaida in Iraq.

Think back to when the genius political analysts told you McCain’s campaign was dead, that this guy was so clueless he had no remaining plan but to spend the entire autumn in New Hampshire, hanging out and gabbing with the locals at Dunkin’ Donuts.

And then last week my former senator, John McCain, threw the entire race into a maelstrom, confounding all expectations and common wisdom by choosing Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate.

If Democrats believed what they say — that Gov. Palin is such a poor choice that John McCain might as well fold his tent and go home — they should be condescendingly patting the little lady on the head right now, saying, “Oh, how cute.”

So how are we to explain the way the Democratic Party is now going after Sarah Palin and her perfectly lovely pregnant daughter, for all the world like the frenzied final holdouts on some Japanese-occupied Pacific atoll, shrieking “Banzai!” as they level their bayonets and charge the machine guns in their loincloths?

…Why the desperation?

Because Vice President Sarah Palin would mean Americans could actually end up electing a woman president without tapping a manipulative, soulless, stay-married-just-to-stay-in-power socialist.

How dare the Republicans threaten to do that? Only the “progressive” party is supposed to be allowed to put the first articulate woman in line for the White House! Why, it’s just like when the Republicans dared to put a conservative black man on the Supreme Court. It’s so wrong!

Sarah Palin is a gun owner and Westerner who seems to still understand the core American notions of Freedom and the Frontier, a woman who vetoed a half billion dollars in proposed state spending and “put the government of our state back on the side of the people.”

…What this is really all about is that she is the first everyday American in a generation, the first person who is not an Ivy League attorney, not a career Washington insider, not vetted by the Brookings Institution and the Council on Foreign Relations and the CIA and Ellen Goodman, a person who works her husband’s fishing boat and drives her own car to work and buys her own groceries, to be given a shot at leading this nation.

And that appears to have a certain element of the political power structure terrified.

Why do you suppose that is?

Gov. Sarah Palin can’t save America all by herself. That’s the underlying absurdity of this near-religious frenzy to pick a new Guy On A White Horse every eight years.

But an America that could elect Sarah Palin might still save itself.

That’s why.

I know what you libertarians out there are thinking – is this Vin character really a libertarian? Well, he calls the public school system a “government-funded indoctrination program”. That good enough for ya?

To bring change to Washington doesn’t mean just being someone who doesn’t live in DC, or hasn’t lived there long – the mentality of the Beltway lives in many places far, far away from the oozing sewer of DC politics. We don’t have to be concerned about whether or not DC will capture Obama – he long ago surrendered to that mindset that Other People’s Money is meant to be spent and that Government Knows Best. There has been in Obama not a single original idea; not a single deviation from leftwing ideology; not a single instance of personal courage in the face of adversity. Someone so committed to the liberal power structure is not someone we can look to for real change.

Now, to whom does McCain/Palin owe its rise? To the merit of McCain/Palin. McCain didn’t quit when everyone (including myself) figured he was a political goner – he kept right at it, never losing his cool but clearly enunciating a message which indicated that in a rough year for the GOP, he was the best person to beat the Democrat’s presumptive nominee, Hillary Clinton. And so McCain rose to the top of the GOP, only to find that Hillary had already been bested, and Obama was on top…but while many looked warily at the old man McCain and contrasted him with the young, hip Obama, McCain kept right at it, noting Obama’s weaknesses, and then selecting a VP who had both excellent qualities and highlighted the deficiencies of Obama/Biden. If McCain/Palin wins the day, then we’ll have an Executive entirely free from any entangling political alliances and free to work for the people – and this may end up being especially true if, as I suspect, McCain would end up serving one term (though if this turns out to be the case, don’t look for an announcement until mid-2011).

This is not to say that McCain/Palin would create Heaven on Earth – we Christians know full well that only God can (and will) do that, and that will be in God’s good time. But if we can get a government which actually wakes up in the morning and asks itself, “is this good for the people?”, we’ll have gone a long way towards fixing the so-far intractable problems of our nation.