SarahPOd

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Every time we think about Sarah Palin, we smile, because there’s just so much to like about the woman.  

On this site, we advocated for her to be John McCain’s running mate starting in early June of 2008, around the time Hillary Clinton suspended (but, note, never ended) her presidential campaign.  We’d love to say we were the firsts to back Palin (we weren’t), but we were still called crazy for, that early, saying she’d end up on the ticket.  

What we liked about her back in June 2008 is what we still like about her now:  the woman gets it.  She’s a hockey mom, and for any of you who’ve ever picked up a stick and hit the ice, you know there’s just about nothing better in the whole world.  We’ve got three words for you hosers:

Hockey. Moms. RULE.

One of the most exciting moments of our lives here was being woken up at 4am or so on the early morning of August 29th, 2009 by repeated calls to our cells from someone we knew at the top of the McCain campaign here in Chicago. We had been running DeMcCrats for McCain efforts with gusto since Hillary’s suspension in June, and had been advocating for Palin the majority of that time, too.  When we finally woke up and took the call, we were told that a flight originating in Alaska had stopped in Phoenix and had a flight plan to some small airport near Dayton, Ohio.  We were right.  The VP pick was going to be Sarah Palin, and she’d be announced later that morning.  

We had all of our talking points on Palin ready, and knew a good amount about her campaign for Governor in Alaska, where she ran as what she actually is, a hockey mom.  Tough as nails with a servant’s heart and coupon-clipper’s attention to detail and budget.  Her campaigns had malice toward no one, with frankness and honesty so lacking in just about any other politician we’d ever seen.  We admired her for standing up to the entrenched bullies and con artists in the Alaska GOP, and respected her for extending her hand in friendship to all those she defeated once she was sworn in — because Sarah Palin’s smart enough to know that no good comes for constituents from politicians who wage endless political war to settle old grievances (are you listening, current administration in Washington?). 

That Friday morning, we did a few local TV spots here in Chicago, where the reporters, all drunk on Kool-Aid, kept trying to hammer us for being Democrats excited about the Palin nomination.  ”What do you know about her?,” they’d ask, soon regretting it, as we listed her experience on the Oil & Gas Commission and what she did to stop the insane Ted Stevens Memorial Bridge to Nowhere and Monument to Himself (which you can look up for yourself on the Internets, that series of pipes and tubes and dump trucks, in Stevens-speak). Living in Chicago, where we have massive boondoggle projects like Block 37 and the 2016 Olympics bid as well as an imperial mayor who makes egomaniacs like Stevens and our current president look like modest school girls, there has always been something about Palin’s budget cutting, fiscal responsibility, and hockey mom accountability that makes us stand up and CHEER. 

We. Love. This. Woman. 

And we told all of Chicago that, in our bright blue Democrats for Palin tees that we had ready for the occasion (as we thought, leading up to the announcement, there was at least an 80% chance we were right about Palin being Mac’s VP). The reporters here insisted the McCain camp astroturfed us, but to be perfectly honest, the McCain camp never led with much of anything in that campaign.  We had to do all  heavy lifting on our own…we had to go out and pull stunts and get attention for McCain here in Chicago on our own…we had to buy tees and buttons and placards and palm cards to distribute up and down the street and to every friendly-seeming house on our own.  We organized canvassing trips and busloads to rallies in battleground states on our own.  All because we knew very much who Dr. Utopia, the Democrats’ chosen candidate, was and what he would do to this country.  

And we knew the only two people standing in the way of Dr. Utopia and the White House from which he could enact the most lunatic and socialist policies imaginable for four years were John McCain and Sarah Palin. 

In one of those morning spots the day Palin was announced, one reporter kept trying to ask us how gay Hillary Democrats could support Palin because she was anti-abortion.  We’d employ a trick we learned by watching Hillary Clinton herself for a year of campaigning:  we’d just not answer that question and instead talk about something else.  Because abortion is one of two culture war traps the media uses to derail discussion and rile emotions senselessly.  ”How do you think Democrats that are women feel about anti-abortion Palin being the VP pick?,” we were asked.  ”We’ll tell you what Democrats who are women are feeling right now…they’re feeling exhilerated that John McCain has picked as his Vice President a qualified and capable chief executive who has never once let any personal feelings of her own stand in the way of what’s best for her constituents.  Sarah Palin is an effective governor of our largest state, commander of national guard units forever on 24 hour alert due to Alaska’s proximity to Russia, and negotiator of an oil pipeline deal decades in the making that could be a giant step towards this nation’s energy independence.  She’s also a loving mother, a devoted wife, a daughter, a sister, and a friend to a great many.  She’s who we wanted McCain to pick as VP and are thrilled today that he’s done so”. 

After the few spots we did, we all walked down Michigan Avenue in our Palin tee shirts, to a lot of stares from the Kool-Aid Gang of delusional Obots in Chicago.  In case you aren’t aware, anyone not wearing those creepy, Orwellian “O” buttons all over them, anyone who didn’t have either “Hope” or “Change” or “Unicorns” tattooed to their foreheads (in the mark of the Beast, 2008-edition), opened himself to being called a RAAACIST! on the street for “not supporting a black man running for president”.  Now, wearing ANYTHING in any way, shape, or form actively backing either Hillary Clinton in the primaries or McCain/Palin in the general election just CONFIRMED what a “damn dirty RAAACIST” a guy must be.  ”Oh, I don’t even know who that Palin is, but Palin’s not Obama and therefore you must be a RAAACIST because you don’t want a black man with no experience and who’s never actually accomplished anything or done anything to be president.  RAAACIST!”. 

We walked down Michigan Avenue revving up all sorts of lunatics, hurrying to get to the big video screens at the NBC studios near the Tribune Building so we could watch John McCain introduce Sarah Palin live in Dayton, Ohio (home state to one of us here). 

Great Merciful Zeus, we’ve never been so proud of someone, at that point, that we’d never even met.  

When Palin took that podium, we heard her speak for the first time…and we have not ever stopped being blown away.  

When she took a moment of her speech to sincerely thank Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton for their monumental efforts towards shattering the glass ceiling, we teared up, pumped our fists in the air, and cheered louder than we ever thought we could cheer…drawing stares from all the scurrying Liberal elites aghast McCain had picked a woman as his running mate (and, thus, by their instant estimation, seriously changed the course of the presidential race…much to McCain’s advantage). 

Huddled near us, watching Palin’s speech, were a group of Jewish women straight out of central casting.  One had her requisite “O” button on.  They were oddly quiet for most of the speech, but towards the end, after watching how well the crowd reacted to Palin and how great she was in her delivery, one of them said, “Oh s***.  We’re in trouble now.  Whoever she is, she’s damn good.  We’re going to have to work hard to destroy her.”

Nearly every single day someone asks us “How can you support both Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin when they are so far apart on the issues?”.  It is the most loathsome, tiresome, intellectually solipcistic question posed to us on a perpetual basis.  So much so that we had to create a special answer to it in our FAQs section on this site. 

The Cliff’s Notes for you, since we brought this up here, boils down to the following:

(1) Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin both love this country with their full hearts and would gladly lay down their lives to protect our liberty, freedoms, and soveriegnty. 

(2) Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin are both tough as nails, and have proved their mettle in grueling battles with lunatics entrenched against them for many years. 

(3) Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin both work hard, wake up every day to do their best for this country, and have never offered an excuse or asked for a free pass for anything. 

(4) Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin have both had every vile, sexist, misogynistic, disgusting attack lobbed at them imaginable.  Both are mercilessly excoriated on a regular basis by the MSM in what passes for entertainment to these people.  Both are relentlessly hounded by so-called feminists like Camille Paglia, and other jealous frauds who hate seeing women succeed without kowtowing to these self-proclaimed poobahs.

(5) Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin are both painted as “polarizing” figures and extremists, when neither of them is extreme in any way, and neither has ever done anything to warrant that polarizing label. 

That last one above is interesting to us because it’s that coded language the Race Industry, and delusional whackjobs like Maureen Dowd, loves to read into anything to make it RAAACIST! when talking in any way about a black person.  People can see when Al Sharpton, Henry Gates, or the current president bend over backwards to twist whatever’s said into an example of RAACISM.  The MSM will allow Sharpton, in particular, to create firestorms over cartoons and all manner of imagined pejoratives and insults.  ”The Al Sharpton Race-Baiting Variety Hour” has been a long-running programming mainstay of every major network for decades now…and whenever a new episode of this tripe airs, most people can see through it, even if they aren’t brave enough to call it out for what it is. 

But, the word “polarizing” when used against a woman — and it is ALWAYS employed exclusively against women — is never identified as a code-word.  Essentially, calling a woman “polarizing” is really just saying “she’s a f***ing bitch we hate”. And hate for really no good reason.  The media just hates her, and takes every opportunity it has to convince other people to hate her too. 

We tell you repeatedly that we live in Boystown here in Chicago and are active in the LGBTQ community, which has probably the most low information voters of any in the Democrat fold (behind only black voters in terms of unthinkingly pulling the D-lever every election, no questions asked). If Anderson Cooper says Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin are polarizing, then every low-information fop in Boystown will parrot that for the rest of his life over Cosmos at MiniBar or Sidetracks for sure. 

“Oh, she’s so polarizing.”

“I know, right.”

“Yah.”

“Anderson Cooper said that, and he’s smart.”

“Hot, too.”

“I’d do him.”

“Yah.”

“What’s polarizing mean?”

“Dunno.  Don’t care.  But if the Silver Fox says it’s bad, it’s bad girl.”

“I know, right.”

“Do you think Blake’s stripping at Lucky Horseshoe tonight?”

“It’s hot jock Friday over there.”

“Now, that’s what I call pole-a-rising.”

“Heh, heh, heh.”

For the record, the above is an actual conversation, jotted down word-for-word, overheard one night at Sidetracks in Boystown, where the VJs are fond of playing Tina Fey bits to mock Palin and Amy Poehler’s sendups to attack Hillary. 

They have never once, not even ONCE, shown a single clip that mocks Dr. Utopia.  

The montage of Bush hitting his head on things, dropping something, ducking the shoe thrown at him, and trying to open a locked door in Asia is in heavy rotation, however. 

But not a single criticism of Dr. Utopia is allowed in the LGBTQ community, despite all of his many broken promises on HIV-AIDS funding, DADT, DOMA, and the most glaring slap of all, his refusal, for the duration of his political career, to ever march in a Gay Pride Parade. 

Hillary Clinton’s marched in Pride…and promised to be the first sitting US President to do so.  She would have kept that promise, too, in 2009.  

Do we expect Sarah Palin to ever march in Pride?

No. 

Why should she, when the low information fops would only boo her, and turn what’s already a circus into an absolute disaster for everyone.  The LGBTQ community certainly can’t have it both ways on this one.  They cannot try their determined, level best to paint Sarah Palin as the new Anita Bryant and go to great lengths to spew as much hatred and venom at her as possible and then ever complain about her not marching in a parade, when she clearly has never been treated fairly or shown the slightest bit of respect.  You wear a Palin tee shirt in Boystown and you get a punch to the face.  We know.  We got one last November.  

The LGBTQ community needs to ask itself why Dr. Utopia didn’t come to Boystown on June 29th, 2008 to march in the Pride Parade here…instead of getting his hair cut on the city’s Southside and playing basketball at the East Bank Club afterwards.  If he is the person they hold up as “The One”, “The Lightbringer”, “The Savior”, then where are all the miracles he’s supposed to be working for the LGBTQ cause?  The man’s got a Democrat controlled Congress and essentially a Democrat controlled SCOTUS as well.  Where is the Hope, Change, and Rainbow Snarfing Unicorns?

In the Vice Presidential debate last October, Joe Biden had to admit that Obama/Biden had the same stance on LGBTQ rights that McCain/Palin did.  Biden sure didn’t want to make the admission, but Palin forced him to.  Either Obama/Biden was the absolute worst ticket Democrats ever ran for LGBTQ rights, or McCain/Palin was the absolute best Republicans have ever run.  Dick Cheney — and we will shout this from the mountain tops for the rest of our lives — was the single greatest champion of LGBTQ rights to EVER BE ANYWHERE NEAR THE PRESIDENCY. If this is even possible, he was a better supporter and ally for the LGBTQ community than President Bill Clinton or Hillary Clinton have been.  And that right there, is like saying someone’s a better player than Gretzky or can eat more in one sitting than Oprah. 

Dick. Cheney. 

Champion of LGBTQ rights.  Don’t believe us?  Look at his record.  Prepare to be stunned. 

What’s Joe Biden done of use for anyone?  Half the time he’s off stealing somebody’s ice cream, as if he was a cartoon rabbit after cereal.  The rest of the time he’s got his foot in his mouth.  Dick Cheney might have shot a friend of his in the face, but even that guy didn’t seem to mind all that much because, apparently, Cheney’s such a good man to have around that shooting you in the face doesn’t even make you want to badmouth him.  

But, the LGBTQ community always will, because “smart people on TV” like Anderson Cooper say Cheney is evil or Bush is a chimp. Don’t you dare use that last word within five paragraphs of mentioning Dr. Utopia, “The Lightbringer”, lest you be branded a damn dirty RAAACIST and invoke the ire and opportunistic indignation of the Sharpton/Gates/Jackson/Holder/Utopia rapid response brigade. 

The “smart people on TV” are all agenda driven Liberal propaganda tools.  The American media is a defacto arm of the DNC.  2008 proved, more specifically, it’s a mouthpiece of the Liberal wing of the Democrat Party…and that it will blast its own moderate, centrist members, like the Clintons, if the choice ever comes between sane and rational moderates and crazed, Kool-Aid soaked Liberal socialists like Dr. Utopia. 

Much of the “smart people on TV” chatter about Sarah Palin is that she could never run for, win the nomination, or be elected President because too many people are making fun of her, too many people are attacking her, too many people actively want her to fail.  ”I can see Alaska from my house” is something the unfunny, bitter actress (and media darling) Tina Fey said, not Sarah Palin.  But walk into any bar in Boystown and, of course, “someone smart” told them Palin said that and so that’s what they believe. 

For 20 years now, the Right has been making up all sorts of nonsense about Hillary Clinton too.  There are entire sections in libraries dedicated to the crazy things people have written about this woman.  

As Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue, hits shelves next week, we see clearly the publishing industry’s zeal to start filling a section up on her, too.  95% of it will be the same sort of shrill, crazy, demented ravings that have been printed about Clinton.  This will become a new cottage industry…and “smart people on TV” like Anderson Cooper will parcel out catchy little sounbytes about how polarizing Palin is, or twist something she says so they can ridicule her for it. 

But does that mean she shouldn’t run for President?

Because if that’s so, then no woman can ever run for President because the MSM intends to use this same Hillary and Sarah playbook on anyone simultaneously possessing a vagina and the audacity to want to occupy the Oval Office. 

We hope Palin hits it out of the park in her book.  

We hope she rips Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson, Anderson Cooper, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and the rest of the MSM to shreds. 

We hope she continues to be a force on the political scene the next few years and makes these people positively apoplectic when she officially kicks of her (what we believe is actually running now) presidential campaign.

And when she wins, we hope everyone mentioned two sentences above has a Tim Russert moment of their own, right in their own studios, and they all collapse on the floor from shock and never take to the air again.  

We have no idea what Palin says in her book, but on Tuesday when we buy it we’ve already cleared the whole evening with hopes of live-blogging as we read it, hopefully devouring it in one night. 

And we look forward to telling Palin in person someday what we thought of it…hopefully while wearing another Palin tee shirt…this time hopefully with some kind of a moose logo on it and a big PALIN 2012 on the back.