The Best Man for the Job…

is a woman.

After being mayor and governor she certainly doesn’t have the thin executive resumé that is NoBamba & McSame . She actually RAN a city and a state where they haven’t.

Now, I don’t ordinarily sing the praises of politicians, and I won’t start here and now, as people are people. We’re all imperfect and all will disappoint – being human and all. {I am not sure Obama knows that}. There are however, a few things to note and to like about Sarah Palin. I’d like to list a few:

When she was in high school, she helped the team win the Alaska small-school basketball championship in 1982, hitting a critical free throw in the last seconds of the game, despite having an ankle stress fracture. She earned the nickname “Sarah Barracuda” because of her intense play, and was the leader of the team prayer before games. To some of us, that means something.

She finished second in the Miss Alaska beauty pagent, she won a college scholarship, and it’s interesting to note, the “Miss Congeniality” award.

Here is something you don’t see everyday either…after she became mayor of Wasilla, she reduced the mayoral salary.

She seems to call a spade a spade, even if the misdeed is within her own party. Governor Murkowski appointed Palin to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, where she chaired the Commission from 2003 to 2004, and also served as Ethics Supervisor. Palin resigned in January 2004 in protest over what she called the “lack of ethics” of fellow Republican members. Good for her.

In response to high oil and gas prices, and the resulting state government budget surplus, Palin proposed giving Alaskans $100-a-month energy debit cards. She also proposed providing grants to electrical utilities so that they would reduce customers’ rates. She subsequently dropped the debit card proposal, and in its place she proposed to send each Alaskan $1,200 from the windfall surplus resulting from high oil prices.

Shortly after becoming governor of Alaska, Palin canceled a contract for the construction of an 11-mile (18 km) gravel road outside Juneau to a mine. This reversed a decision made in the closing days of the previous administration. She also followed through on a campaign promise to sell the Westwind II jet purchased (on a state government credit account, against the wishes of the Legislature) by the Murkowski administration for $2.7 million in 2005. In August 2007 the jet was listed on eBay. What’s not to like about that one? Hilarious.

In a few short days we’ve learned she is qualified and that she seems “real”. What I figure though is she will really have to hang her toughest in the weeks to folllow. The opposition have some barracudas of their own and they won’t stop at anything to tear her apart.

It has been a historical decision for her as V.P. nominee, newsworthy you’d think. But to start the media bias off, Oprah (now known as Noprah), for not allowing Sarah Palin on her show . Personally, I don’t mind if Oprah, even having a journalist background, [but her show is not a news show], doesn’t ask Palin on. What I mind is, the knowledge if the whole thing was reversed…a media backing a republican and not giving a democrat woman coverage, there would be hell to pay. You just know it.

So much for women supporting women, and this is just the beginning. The democrats and their feminists won’t like her. She is married, she is a mom of five, she has family values. They so hate all that. Never mind that unlike Hillary Clinton, who got into position thanks to the coat tails of her husband Bill, Sarah worked her way up without that benefit. Will they credit her for that or slam her values? I already know the answer.

What excites me is that largely thanks to Palin, people I know are now excited about the McCain ticket. To my surprise, in spite of the DNC running 4 nights, and the RNC only running 3, they still got the most watched Convention -ever.

This week’s ratings, with an average of 34.5 million viewers watching the GOP convention over three days, proved people are becoming more interested in what the Republicans have to say. The Democrats had an average audience of 30.2 million over four days, Nielsen said.

I guess this comes as a surprise to me. After listening to my daughter’s radio stations where they blatanly PUSH the Obama agenda, going to Ocean City and see ONLY Obama tee-shirts, or after visiting the mall and seeing Obama’s image alongside Martin Luthur King, I thought most would be brainwashed by now.

Perhaps the dems are in ‘overkill’ mode and if the people want to know anything at all, they WILL tune in to see what the ‘other side’ has to say.