2012: President Palin?

We’ve all been thinking about it. With Sarah Palin as the Vice Presidential nominee and (hopefully) the Vice President of the United States in 2008, it would only be a matter of time before Governor Palin herself was on the top of the ticket.

“Palin for President 2012″ is a blog that says it is starting a movement to elect Sarah Palin the President in 2012. There’s not much on the website or blog yet but I will be closely monitoring the site. Any friend of Sarah Palin’s is a friend of ours. Sign me up!

You can find their blog here, and if you know any other websites/groups/blogs that want to elect Palin the President in 2012, leave a comment and I’ll add them to the blogroll at right on the page P4A: Palin 2012.

Real Facts About Governor Palin

Earth to Journalists.

A fellow by the name of Charlie Martin has compiled a big list of the rumors flying around Sarah Palin as well as a brief discussion of which are true, which are false, and the details of those that are ambiguous.

I urge you to send this list to undecided voters, left-wing hate blogs, and the mainstream media. The undecided voters may take umbrage to the way Governor Palin is being mugged by the media, and there’s an off chance that the blogs and the media might have a passing interest in the truth after spending a week slamming her.

Ann Coulter Touts Palin as Only She Can

Ann Coulter, who has been outstripped as reigning diva of the right by our own Governor Palin, launched into a full-throated defense of the Vice Presidential nominee today as only she can.

The link above will take you to Ann Coulter’s webpage, which has the Palin article on the front page currently. But just to whet your appetite, here are a few of Ann Coulter’s nuggets of wisdom:

After drawing “Keith + Obama” hearts on their denim notebooks, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews stayed up all night last Thursday, writing jokes about Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, the presumed vice presidential pick. Now they can’t use any of them.

So the media are taking it out on our brave Sarah and her 17-year-old daughter.

She went on to comment on Troopergate:

They tried to create a “Troopergate” for Palin, indignantly demanding to know why she wanted to get her ex-brother-in-law removed as a state trooper. Again, public corruption is not a good issue for someone like Obama, Chicago pol and noted friend of Syrian National/convicted felon Antonin Rezko.

For the cherry on top, then we found out Palin’s ex-brother-in-law had Tasered his own 10-year-old stepson. Defend that, Democrats.

And last but certainly not least:

When liberals start acting like they’re opposed to pre-marital sex and mothers having careers, you know McCain’s vice presidential choice has knocked them back on their heels.

Truer words have never been written.

Enjoy!

Good Commentary in the Post Intelligencer

The Seattle Post Intelligencer had a good article on the Bristol Palin media craze, which you can read in full here. While I don’t necessarily agree with her characterization of the switch in liberal and conservative roles, the columnist Monica Guzman cuts through the nonsense to the real issue: that Bristol Palin doesn’t matter to this election.

You can find the link to the article above but I found the following excerpts to be valuable:

If there’s a lesson here, it’s that liberals and conservatives are defined not so much by their dogma as by their need to use their differences against each other.

The debate about Bristol Palin isn’t really about Bristol Palin. It isn’t even about teenage pregnancy. The most angry exchanges in this conversation are about political consistency.

Most relevant, I think, is her plea that Republicans and Democrats put aside their partisanship for the greater good–and to finally put to death the inane arguments about flip-flopping. “I don’t often quote dead writers. But Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote something that’s changed the way I look at politics: “A foolish consistency is the hobgobblin of little minds.”"

Amen to that, Monica. Thanks for the perspective.

An Open Letter to Bristol Palin

Dear Bristol,

I would first like to apologize on behalf of ‘The Internet’ for the role that it has played in demonizing and degrading you. Your personal life is, and should be, your own business. From what little I have seen of you, I find your aplomb and grace during this situation to be admirable.

I also admire your courage. As a teenager whose mother is running for Vice President of the United States, it seemed inevitable (however unfair) that your life would be seized upon by unsavory members of the political community and used as ammunition against your mother. But even if your mother was just an average hockey-mom in Alaska, the situation you face is not one that many people envy. But the fact that you have chosen to keep the child only reinforces the positive image I have of you.

Perhaps without knowing it, you have become a role model for conservative girls across America. You have shown that mistakes must not necessarily lead to a dull gray life. But more than that, your decision to keep the baby as opposed to having it ‘taken care of’ shows that your respect for life and your acceptance of your own responsibility is genuine.

I want you to know that whatever the press and the hate-blogs say about you, you will always have the support and gratitude of this blogger for your choices to respect life, accept consequences, and to do both with grace and dignity. While this voice is but one of many, I am confident that those members of the political community that have integrity and decency have and will continue to show you support by defending you and leaving you to your privacy as your parents have asked.

I wish you and Levi the best of luck on this journey. God bless you, your family, and your child.

Signed most sincerely,

Palin4America