It's not too complicated to understand. Here are two other tidbits that didn't get into our conversation about Alaska. Her governorship, for what it's worth, puts her as the executive over 24,000 employees and a $10 Billion budget. That ain't hay.
But before I go into my other specifics, I need to link all parties concerned with the official Right Blogospheric answer(s), to the incredible amount of hatred and spew against Sarah Palin. I haven't really bothered much to get outraged because I spared myself the trouble of reading much of the degenerate nonsense. You can start and end with this post by The Anchoress. My favorite bit:
Then, Alan Colmes posted (and apparently immediately took down) a piece basically questioning Sarah Palin’s instincts as a mother (does he even have children?) because she, a month before her due date, and far away from her doctor, did not immediately fall apart when she noticed some amniotic fluid leaking.
This not being her first pregnancy, Palin did what a prudent, experienced woman who knows her own body would do; she called her own doctor, kept him apprised and did not panic. She made a scheduled speech, traveled home and went to the doctor.
The left is going to try to run with this? If Palin had a “D” after her name, she’d be praised for her calm, collected manner in the situation and we’d hear how it reflects how steady she would be “a heartbeat away from the presidency”, and we would all know, because everyone would keep saying it, that - of course she would have seen a doctor had she needed to - but every woman wants HER doctor with her when she delivers, if it’s possible.
People seem to forget that women managed to birth their children - and gain some wisdom about the process - long before hospitals and the AMA were around.
The left will try to make hay about Palin’s judgment. Most women will say, however, that Palin trusted what she knew about her body, and in God.
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It occurs to me that there is something extraordinary about Sarah Palin, which is that she's typical. Palin, more than any VP candidate in my life is so close to the average American that it's scary. It is literally too scary for a certain kind of voter.
If you are the sort who thinks that the average American is a hopelessly pathetic moron, then you're not likely to give Palin the benefit of the doubt. I would imagine this antipathy would be even greater if you're the sort who thinks America is so bad off that we need a brilliant, revolutionary plan to bring us off the train of doom that we are currently on. Republicans understand that certain values are what can bring American together in participatory democracy. Democrats expect a charismatic to deliver us.
I can't wait to see what Palin does excellently, as I have to rely on memory of her candor as well as the glowing comparisons she gets to Obama by GOP faithful. It was Palin who cited the exact name of the parcel in ANWR that is actually best for oil exploration and drilling. I had forgotten that there was such a place. She said that it's about the size of LAX. And she has come to work a proposal that would create a land swap. Environmentalists have used Federal excuses to block what would happen on Federal land. So Palin's idea is to de-nationalize it, have the state of Alaska trade 2,000 acres for another 2,000 adjacent to ANWR. I think everybody can understand that if the deal falls through it would be clear that environmentalists are just playing a game of chicken. But the cleverness is that, given that this particular parcel is the one most speced out to produce oil, what exactly is its particular benefit over any other 2,000 acres offered up by the state. I'm sure it would be relatively simple for the state to find a square contiguous with ANWR with more actual wildlife on it.
Palin's proposal is merely smart, not world-historical, demanding the intellect of a Rhodes Scholar. It's merely good politics, not revolutionary theatre.
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