As your caucuses approach, many of you are about to make the decision about who you will support in your caucus. You have the ability to change politics forever by caucusing for Sarah Palin. She is not seeking your vote for the nomination but that doesn't mean that she isn't the best suited to serve and the most likely to unseat Barack Obama.
We are currently experiencing the presidency of a man who had no executive experience in government when he was elected. We know from this how important experience is. Beyond experience, what a person accomplishes with that experience, good or bad, defines their record. Let's examine the key qualifications of Gov. Sarah Palin and the other candidates.
Gov. Palin served for about twenty years in government in Alaska, as city councilman, mayor, and two and a half years as governor. With her leadership, her city went from a small town with few amenities to her state's fastest growing community. She improved infrastructure, gave incentives for businesses to locate there and she cut local taxes. As governor, she battled against corruption, tackled the big problems, and fought for the people against the seemingly all-powerful oil companies. She got legislation passed that had languished for over 30 years. She did this by working with both Democrats and Republicans. Her last budget was 9% less than the budget she inherited from the previous governor. This was not a cut in the growth of government spending, it was an actual reduction in spending. At the same time, revenues increased due to the more favorable share of oil revenues that Alaska received. When she was called by John McCain to be his VP running mate, she had an approval rating in Alaska that was over 80%.
The phone call from McCain changed everything in Alaska's government. Gov. Palin was now a prime target of the left. Every effort was made to depict her as trailer trash as had been done to other Republican conservative women who challenged a democrat President. She was now a national political figure and a threat to the Democrat Party's grip on women voters. Bogus ethics law suits piled on and because Alaska law made the governor responsible for her own legal defense, legal bills piled up. Worse, Alaska's government ground to a halt attempting to deal with the suits and the FOIA requests. How many politicians do you know who would give up a 6 figure salary and the power of office knowing that the action might end their political career, in order to allow their state to recover from continuing political attack? Did Gov. Palin quit? No, she merely moved on to the national scene leading the development of the TEA Party and the attack in the 2010 elections.
Several of the candidates have no executive experience in government. These include Herman Cain (never held public office), Rick Santorum (Senate only), Michelle Bachmann (House only), Ron Paul (House only).
The announced candidates that have executive experience in government include Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman, Rick Perry, and although he was never an executive, Newt Gingrich, whose experience as Speaker of the House could be called executive. Jon Huntsman left his governorship to serve in the Obama administration. This disqualifies him with many Republicans. Mitt Romney promoted and signed Romneycare as his primary achievement in Massachusetts. This disqualifies him with many Republicans. The pinnacle of Newt Gingrich's career was his term as Speaker which had some very good achievements, but he was forced to resign and pay a large fine for ethical misconduct. This disqualifies him with many Republicans. Rick Perry has been unable to transfer his Texas experience to the national stage. He may not be disqualified but his attempts to qualify himself have not thus far been successful.
The stage has been set for the 2012 election by the landslide victory in 2010. Are there any candidates who can continue the momentum achieved in 2010? Of the announced candidates only Michelle Bachmann, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum and Herman Cain have been supportive of the TEA Party. The leading candidates do not have TP support. The candidate who consistently draws attendance at TEA Party events is Sarah Palin.
One of the factors noted in the 2010 victories was that for the first time in years, Republicans beat Democrats with women voters 49-48. In traditional elections the spread has been 55-45 in favor of democrats. Is there a candidate who can continue the 2010 trend with women voters? Cain and Gingrich will have a tough time. If there is a candidate who can win with women it is Sarah Palin. A Palin presidency would be a watershed event for women in politics.
Generic polls show an unnamed Republican beating Obama 48-42, so does it matter who we select? Since named Republicans don't seem to fare as well, it is important. Obama has taken us a large distance in the direction of European socialism. There must be sudden, relentless reform, a reversal of course. Are there candidates willing to take such drastic measures and who have any experience doing so? Only Sarah Palin has experience making sudden reform happen.
Conservative voters have, since Reagan, been asked to hold our noses and vote for Republicans that either do not hold conservative values or hold them only when useful to them. Choosing an outsider in a caucus returns power to we, the people. When that outsider is also the most qualified and most consistent conservative it gives us confidence that the person will do as they say.
Going rogue means going outside the confines of the expectations of others. It means thinking outside of the box. We've been in the box since 1988. It's time we made some choices of our own, upset an apple cart or two, and reform politics forever. You have the power to create sudden and relentless reform, and Sarah Palin is the person who will do it.
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