GraniteGrok

We were fortunate to have Warner Todd Huston on MTNP this past weekend.  Unfortunately, his time with us was shortened as previous "appointments" were missed and we had to scramble HARD to get him in - if he is willing, we will have a return engagement!

In the mean time, he was just published over at Human Events where he defends the selection of Sarah Palin as the Republican  Veep candidate?  No, not from the Dems - anyone partaking of the MSM know how hard they and the Dems have been trying to knock down her popularity.  No, it is from her own part - the blue-blooded, country club, intelligentia that looks down from on high at the run of the mill Republican schlubs (sorta like Doug and I!):

...When Ronald Reagan came into the national limelight, the old guard of the Republican Party turned up its collective nose. The Rockefeller Republicans, the bluebloods, and country club GOPers who were quite comfortable playing permanent second fiddle to the Democrat Party had always scoffed at the rise of the social and religious conservatives and the Reagan Democrats that saw the light of Reagan's lamp. To this wing of the party, position and resume were what was important, not ideology or even votes, for that matter. 

The instant Ronald Reagan began drawing into that big GOP tent more voters than ever before, the rift was created. Reagan welded together a coalition from the disparate parts of traditionally conservative leaning America. He awakened the religious conservatives that saw a culture war raging without being confronted, the economic conservatives that longed for capitalism in a sea of socialist re-engineering, and, of course, the old blueblood country clubbers that finally began to think they just might actually win something for a change (among a few other factions). This was the new Republican Party that was more than its parts, only strong together. 

But there was one major problem. Much of the party was led by the effete bluebloods. They were the ones with the money and the ones with the previous experience in government when Reagan came to Washington. And they had disdain for all the other factions and fought to keep intact their power, despite the desires of the rest of their new party members. For the most part they have won that battle, sadly. Since day one the country clubbers haven't been much interested in sharing. 

...And now comes Sarah Palin, who represents that part of America with whom the country clubbers were always uncomfortable: often fiscally conservative, certainly socially conservative, not credentialed or of noted family background, not educated in Ivy League schools, but of the America that has had to fight its way to success, pulling itself up by the bootstraps every step of the way.

Gee, a woman of the people!  Solidly grounded in small-town-politik, rife with the real world of folks doing what keeps America moving forward who basically don't care for either soaring rhetoric or soaring hand-outs.  No, these are the people who want to do "the right thing", morally conscience, and basically want to be left alone to take care of their families, prosper, and are tired of being reamed (by the Dems and the blue-bloods) for being who they are and for being the problem.

Instead of who they are - the solution.

As Doug has said "my wife is Sarah Palin.....we are Sarah Palin".

Go. Read. The. Whole. Thing.