Twenty-Five Reasons to Love Sarah Palin for VP

There are at least 25 reasons to love Sarah Palin for VP.  Here are mine:

1. She's got chief executive experience in government, unlike Obama, Biden and even McCain.
2. She gives renewed hope to women of America that they will live to see the first woman president.  This is especially touching when it comes to seniors who long to see the glass ceiling broken in their lifetimes.
3. Sarah Palin doesn't just talk respect for unborn human life. She's lived it.  She chose not to abort her son after learning that he had Down's syndrome.
4. She will help with energy policy.  She loves Alaska -- and still thinks it's time to drill.  At a time when gas prices are sky high, she's a sensible voice who understands supply and demand.
5. She doesn't just talk supporting the troops. Her son is a soldier.  He leaves September 11th for Iraq.
6. She's not afraid of guns.  She hunts and fishes.
7. Many Hillary Clinton voters will kiss the Democratic Party goodbye and never go back.  Some have already made that choice.
8. She has a proven track record as a whistle blower and reformer who's not afraid to take on members of her own party when they cross the line.
9. So much for the "McCain is just an old white-haired guy" theme.  He's still old and white-haired, but by his pick he's demonstrated that his thinking is anything but ossified.  Now he'll literally have youth and energy on his side.
10. If Sarah Palin becomes president in due course, her husband the "First Gentleman" really will be a gentleman (in contrast to the philandering spouse another female contender for the presidency proposed to drag along to the White House).
11. Somehow, against all odds, a Republican in Name Only has picked a conservative VP, energizing the conservative base. 
12. Leading conservatives, from Mark Levin to Fred Thompson to Mark Steyn (and about a thousand others), are enthusiastically fired up!
13. She's a Christian.
14. Palin can only help McCain with fund raising.  Many checkbooks that had been closed tight are opening wide for McCain.
15. Sarah Palin's husband is a real man with many achievements in his own right.
16. For voters who support Obama because the idea of electing the first black president is exciting, Palin adds counterpoint excitement to the race.
17. Some of the usual smear tactics of the left will look especially dirty and petty as they try them out on Palin.
18. Her selection knocked Obama's convention speech -- the "biggest speech of his life" -- off the front page, the latest in a series of strategic victories for the McCain campaign (another such victory was Rick Warren's forum with the two candidates, in which McCain did well).
19. She's a young, attractive conservative -- just as Obama is a young, attractive liberal.  The left thinks it has a monopoly on young and attractive.  Too bad!
20. She's a working woman who's also loving wife and mother.
21. She's an athlete.  She runs marathons.
22. She knows how to put partisanship on hold when it's appropriate.  It's no accident that she mentioned Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton in her speech after being named McCain's running mate.
23. She's from outside the beltway.  Way, way outside the beltway.
24. She's from Alaska, a state with a strong libertarian and independent streak.
25. By her very existence she puts the lie to numerous liberal mantras, such as the notion that women cannot advance without affirmative action; Republicans are sexist; John McCain is out of touch; anyone who loves Alaska's beauty can't support drilling in ANWR; mothers of troops in harms' way want to cut and run from Iraq; and women need government programs to manage marriage, children and work simultaneously.

Of course, the venom and vitriol from the far left have already begun.  No surprise.  It's their specialty.  The momentum has shifted against them, and they will do anything to get it back.

Cross-posted at Right Wing News

Comments

[Richard Johnson]

Great article, very interesting points.

(Humble comment regarding your thoughts, Sarah Palin, and todays democrats....)

As a rightward conservative, I'm very very happy to see this choice by McCain. I would rather see genuine conservative, Sarah Palin, running the Country, God forbid, than ANYONE of the well known democrats. Todays democrats are nothing but a fraud. They can't be honest about what they are. Socialism and liberalism are disease in the body of freedom, and they are EXACTLY the ideals of todays democratic party and candidates.

I continue to have faith in Americans to recognize that conservatism is self-empowering and liberalism is self-defeating.

Humble prediction - John MCcain in November, and it won't even be close... (in the media's warped "world of disinformation", it may be, but not in the reality of November 4th.)

America1st. (aka RJ)

p.s. Remember this? "Let me be the first to say, congratulations Mr. President" John Kerry's campaign manager, after the media predictions and exit polls and BEFORE the actual votes were counted. LMAO.

[John Adams]

Sarah Palin rocks. She's the symbol of the new Republican party. The party that stands for principles and limited government. She's going up against the biggest of the big spenders--Barack Hussein Obama and Joe "Lout" Biden. She'll prove her moxey over the next few weeks. Joe Biden is so arrogant and so lacks any real world experience that he'll crash and burn in the first debate. We love Sarah Palin. I'm putting my money behind the McCain/Palin ticket.

[Brian Fitzpatrick]

That was funny. Thanks for the laugh.