Dearest Sarah;
I've been following your career with great interest and I think you have followed mine. When I listen to your speeches I hear familiar themes and long to be back on the campaign trail again.
It's all about making government smaller and more local where people make a real difference. You haven't spent much time in Washington yet, but you understand that Washington can't solve local problems, can't educate our children, can't develop our natural resources, and can't help our families. Why can't the candidates who are running for President understand that? They seem to think that they will be elected and when they get to Washington, they will wave a magic wand and solve all the problems and they'll do it without making any enemies. Let me tell you, it doesn't work that way.
In order to resolve issues, you have to fight great battles. I won some of those battles and lost others. Even in my own family, I lost some battles. If a person doesn't have the fight in him, he can't be successful in Washington. I sense in you the fortitude to put up a great fight. You believe that a war is won or lost before the first battle is waged by virtue of the planning and strategy developed. Others develop their strategy by holding up a finger or asking someone who thinks he's smarter than they are. You know those folks, they are called intellectuals. Beware of them.
The intellectuals told me that a divorced man would never be elected President and that my previous career would not help me get elected. They were wrong, as usual. They said that I was too conservative and would scare voters. Because I was conservative, they said I was stupid. I didn't accept a whole lot of the left's conventional wisdom. Then they used their polls to try to convince voters that I was going to lose by a landslide and not win a single state. The establishment Republicans were so afraid I would upset their apple cart that they ran a liberal Republican as a third party candidate believing that his candidacy would assure that the Democrat incumbent would be reelected. Of course, I won but the overall result was unclear as long as I lived. I thought I had made a difference, but it took many years to see the result.
Yes, Sarah, many of the issues that you are concerned with now are the same ones that plagued us thirty years ago. You could say that those same issues will be there to tackle in four or eight more years. The problem is that the population has been educated that socialism is the solution for our ills. Four more years of continued indoctrination in our schools and our media may swing the country away from our free market into a socialist hell. Look at what your current President has accomplished in three short years, government run health care, government ownership of banks and large corporations, and a continued recession bordering on a second great depression. Your problems are more severe than what I faced and they are immediate. Yes, we did have that business about an evil empire, but you are also facing the reestablishment of the Caliphate. You don't have four years to waste on a liberal Republican or an inexperienced one.
Sarah, you've read my books, you've ridden on my beautiful Rancho del Cielo which I loved as much as you love your great state of Alaska. What I would have given to have spent those eight years with my Nancy on the ranch. But I couldn't do that. The people had decided that I should serve them as their President. I didn't decide to seek the Presidency, the base of the Republican Party needed to be represented, the core principles of conservatism needed to be asserted, the President needed to be unseated. Looking back now, had I stayed on the Ranch, some fences would have been built and some good times would have been had but you would still have a Soviet Union to deal with and Ghaddafy would have long ago used his nuclear weapons to achieve regional domination.
Sarah, it's time we saddle up and go for a long ride, across the hills and the tundra, and the amber waves of grain. I'll be by your side for I'm always with you as God shed his grace on thee. I'll enjoy every moment as He crowned thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.
With my best wishes,
Ronaldus Magnus
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