Palin for President

The only reason I was fired up and ready to vote for anyone in the 2008 US Presidential race was because Sarah Palin was the Vice-Presidential nominee.  It gave me a little hope that maybe Senator John McCain knew what he was doing and could make some good decisions as our President.  She was an outstanding speaker, beautiful and witty, and was clearly a patriotic, pioneering, all-American girl.  However, she was also divisive and controversial the moment she stepped onto the national stage. 

If you were a woman, you either loved her or hated her immediately.  I'll never understand how women can be so judgemental and hateful to another woman.  It is especially shocking when "women's rights" activists and feminists are so eager to attack successful, attractive, intelligent women. The media eagerly attacked Governor Palin for having a pregnant teenage daughter, not having an Ivy League education, and having no national political experience.  She was portrayed as stupid, hypocritcal and judgmental. 

Because of the media scrutiny, her life has been forever altered.  After she and John McCain lost to the Obama campaign, she tried to go back to her life in Alaska as Governor, but the media scrutiny and daily lawsuits filed by obsessive liberals caused her to resign.  When the TEA Party movement started, she became a superstar to fiscal conservatives.  Not only does she say all the right things, she has lived them in her personal life, business life, and political life. 

So, now the GOP is in chaos, because their chosen "moderate" candidate did not win against possibly the worst US President in our history.  Mitt Romney was "moderate" in all the wrong ways - moderate on economic policy, moderate on healthcare, and a big-government progressive.  He was for all of the bailouts, for government-run healthcare (at least at a state level), and for government being a solution to the problem.  Yes, he was a staunch conservative on social policy, but due to our politically correct education system and liberal entertainment industry, the majority of America is not conservative socially. 

Republicans continued to play the old game of nominating the moderate country club guy, and using the conservative vice-presidential nominee to motivate the base (and this time the TEA Party).  Grassroots conservatives were not as motivate to GOTV for Romney, although they were motivated to GOTV against Obama.  But, I always say that in order to win an election, you have to be FOR something.  That is why McCain/Palin got three million more votes than Romney/Ryan.  The base was not excited about voting for Romney. 

I don't know what will happen in the next few years with the Republican Party.  I think they need to rethink their party platform at a national level, but I think they might be challenged by a third party (namely the TEA Party) soon, especially if GOP refuses to see the writing on the wall.  We need to embrace the fiscal conservatives who have shown proven leadership like Governor Sarah Palin.  Conservative leaders that aren't afraid of putting values before party.