Jack,

Sara Palin has done one thing that has endeared her to a segment of this party, the Pro Life segment. She knowing chosen to have a Downs child, and for that I have the deepest respect for Sara Palin in that not only does she talk the talk she walks the walk. It is something that I am not sure that I would have had the moral fiber to do to be very honest. I get very angry at people who mock her over making that choice, and who mock her child.

Good governance, fiscal restraint, strong military and Libertarianish on social issues, if that’s your bag, it’s mine, Governor Palin has not done so much to impress.

Again, smear hardly, but it’s not about having an honest discussion is it Jack?

for most of them it is the narcissistic voice of their inner self. Then there are those that are “called”. The difference between the two can only be discerned by looking the lives of each as a whole.

On his website, John Kerry speaks of his service in Vietnam thusly:

As he was graduating from Yale, John Kerry volunteered to serve in Vietnam, because, as he later said, “it was the right thing to do.” He believed that “to whom much is given, much is required.”

He returned home from that “calling” to accuse his fellow soldiers
of the gravest atrocities, all in a lie, for the purpose of embarking on a political career dedicated to his aggrandizement and not much else. He also spoke of seeing the greatness of America as he was raised in various places around the world by his State Department Employees father (career diplomat) who raised him to run for office.

There was another famous America we will speak of here. At age 15, he was working in a automobile repair shop when his mother died. His father had deserted the family 4 years earlier. When his mother died, he had to place his three younger siblings in an orphanage. He set about trying to make a home for them so he could reclaim them.

In December of 1941, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Murph was so incensed he tried to enlist. The Army discovered his real age and sent him away. He was “called” by the vicious attack on the United States.

In June of 1942, after his 16th birthday, he attempted to enlist again. The Marines and the Navy turned him down for his small stature (5′5″, 110 lbs.). The Army accepted him, but his drill instructor, fearing him too small to perform the duties of a combat soldier attempted to have him transferred to cook’s school. Murph refused to leave boot camp.

He finished basic training and had to fight for 2 years to get assigned to the African theater where he was a replacement sent in after the action was finished there. Murph’s initiation into combat came during the invasions of Sicily and Italy. He distinguished himself as a skilled combat soldier in Italy.

As U.S forces moved into France several weeks after the Sicily invasion. Murph’s friend was killed by a German machine gunner. Murph became enraged and killed all the Germans in that nest single-handedly and destroyed several additional German positions as well., a feat for which he was awarded the Silver Star.

Murph was subsequently wounded and spent ten week recuperating. Now elevated to Lieutenant by a field commission, Murph returned to battle only to be wounded again by mortar fire that killed 2 men in his unit.. He stayed in the field to lead his men.

The next day, 24 inches of snow on the ground and the temperature below zero, Murph, his unit of 128 men decimate to an effective strength of 19 men sent them to the rerar while he held the Germans at bay with his rifle. When he ran out of ammunition, he jumped on a burning German tank and, commandeering a 50 caliber machine gun, he opened up on the Germans fighting off Squad of Germans despite being shot during this attack.

I could go on, but that would take forever. Audie Murphy did this over and over again until he had been awarded 33 medals from the United States including 4 Silver Stars. He was also decorated by France and Belgium. There was nothing in his background that ever prepared him for such bravery or indicated he was “chosen’. Chosen he was.

Despite a small stature Audie Murphy arose to a “calling” not of his choosing to distinguish himself among the nearly 2.0 million America Service men that served in Combat theaters in WW II. In his biography, written in 1949, Murphy never mentioned any of the decorations he had received in the War.

Sarah Palin, made her first run for Town Council in 1992 after becoming activist over a tax hike. She won the unpaid position with 530 votes cast for her. If she had a grand design for a greater career in politics with this first foray, I am not seeing it. Her career since then then has been characterized by seemingly quixotic battles against entrenched politicians she perceived as corrupt or suffering a tin ear. She has prevailed in all her battles to date.

The point is, you sell her short to your own peril. Despite all the accusations of the left that she is too stupid to find her way to the grocery store, she has shown herself a quick study and a person keenly attuned to her constituents. Her opponents distinguished themselves by not being able to hear their constituents or, ARROGANTLY IGNORING THEM.

The quality that most disturbs the left and the entrenched career politicians is that she has shown a deep, visceral, almost symbiotic connection to the center and right center working class as a result of her roots and her personal story. They are right to be wary. The last two people to be able to make that sort of connection was Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. No Sarah Palin is not Ronald Reagan, possessing the same innate abiltiy to connect with people that They have been fooled by her resignation.

Sarah Palin is as comfortable in the back country hunting Moose as he showed herself to be addressing a crowd of 10,000. Those that think they have run her off had better be watching their flanks lest the wolf drag them down and devour them.

You have to remember, most of the “pundits”, the leftist paranoids on Huffpo and The Daily Kos are so disconnected from the real people of the United States they actually beleive their own press clippings.

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I read into the original comment “…because lots of politicians resign current posts to go for higher office…”. “Go for office” as running for office. That might not have been the intent of the author, but that is how I interpreted it. I was just asking who had quit their current elected position to campaign for another. I am not aware of lots of politicians doing that. I do understand that a lot of people have resigned their current positions because they have either been appointed or elected to another.

Welcome to my world. Are you sedimentary, metamorphic, or igneous?

And, in your time here you have bullied, bloviated and somewhere along the line started to take your crap seriously. At least I haven’t deceived myself into thinking I can keep up with the serious and talented contributors here.

Bad news sparko, you ain’t and won’t be in their league.

My advantage is that it is really hard to insult a poor dumb rock. OTOH, it is really easy to insult an over inflated egotistic windbag.

Now you will have to excuse me, I have some gravel friends coming over for lunch.