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My thoughts on McCain choosing Gov. Sarah Palin By: Trent 
Sun Aug 31, 2008 - I have gotten so many emails in the past 36 hours...it's almost shocking! They all ask the same question..."What do you think about McCain picking Palin?" I am going to answer that here as well as express my thoughts a little deeper.I am absolutely thrilled with his pick. I recently wrote an editorial saying that McCain must pick a conservative V.P. because talk is cheap. In that article I stated, "There are several candidates the conservative base will be happy with. There are even a few choices we’d be thrilled with." Sarah Palin was one of the choices I had in mind when I said there were a few we'd be thrilled with. Bobby Jindal was another. There have been few harsher conservative critics of Sen. McCain than myself. I have not made it a secret that I was not happy he won the nomination. I have given my reasons over and over again. The choice of Gov. Palin has given me some comfort though. This does not mean all of a sudden that I think McCain is a conservative. It doesn't mean I will not continue to fight him when he is wrong. It doesn't take away all the horrendous bills he has supported and/or wrote. What it does mean is that I can give him the benefit of the doubt now when he says he supports certain conservative issues. It means maybe he has learned something and maybe he has truly changed his views on some issues. It means he has taken his conservative rhetoric and changed it into conservative action. This was the whole premise behind my editorial about McCain picking a conservative running mate. There is no doubt that McCain has sounded more conservative on certain issues in recent months. Up until now, it has only been words though. I used President Ronald Reagan's words, "Trust but verify." With this choice, he has verified to me that at the very minimum, he is now listening to conservatives and has quit trying to poke us in the eye. I give credit where credit is do. Gov. Palin will no doubt be attacked by the left. It's already happening. It's actually happening with such vitriol that I know she makes the liberals nervous. They have already gone after her for agreeing to run for V.P. because she has a child at home with down's syndrome. Gov. Palin was given the so called choice of aborting her baby because the down's syndrome was detected in the womb. She is pro-life and chose not to kill her child. If they want to go that route...which is more family friendly? A woman who chooses to bring a child into the world and love it and care for it despite it's illness. Or aborting the baby as most liberals would support? They are saying she has no experience. This is laughable. Gov. Palin is the only candidate running who has any executive experience. She is the candidate who has ever been a mayor. She is the only candidate who has been a governor. She is the only candidate who has had to deal with budgets as an executive. This strategy is flawed because it only highlights the inexperience of Sen. Obama, who is not the V.P. but the presidential candidate. If they want to go that route...in Obama's words, "That's a debate I'm willing to have." They have said, "Well she was only mayor of a village of 9,000 people." What they fail to realize is that small villages and towns make up the majority of this nation. They are so elitist that they make fun of coming from a small town. They laugh off her service as mayor simply because she was mayor of a small village. If they want to go that route...it will only highlight their elitism. There will be endless attacks on her. They are coming so brace yourself. During Gov. Palin's speech when she was announced as Sen. McCain's running mate, she listed a litany of her successes and positions on issues. There was one quote that stood out to me though. As many of you recall, the Congress approved a pork barrel spending project called "the bridge to nowhere." It was an unnecessary expenditure that was nothing but wasteful spending of $250 million of the citizen's money. Gov. Palin turned down the money. This was her quote from the speech: "I told Congress, 'Thanks but no thanks' on that bridge to nowhere. If our state wanted a bridge, we'd build it ourselves." Gov. Palin gets it. She gets that the tax payer is not an ATM machine for every project the politicians want to waste money on. She gets that states need to stop looking to the federal government for everything. This is conservatism. She is a lifetime member of the N.R.A. She understands and respects the 2nd amendment. This is conservatism. She is pro-life. She understands that killing innocent babies is not only wrong, but barbaric. This is conservatism. She understands that our nation has abundant energy supplies and that it can be harvested responsibly. This is conservatism. She understands that man made global warming is a fraud and that the people will try to use it to weaken this nation economically. This is conservatism. I could go on and on. Gov. Sarah Palin is the real deal. She is bright. She is articulate. She is beautiful....hey what's wrong with that? She is conservative. She is the change we have been waiting for. She has energized the base and brought conservatives on board. So if supporting the McCain/Palin ticket with, at the very minimum, my vote gets this woman anywhere near the White House, I can now do that. As someone stated, maybe this will set up a Palin/Jindal ticket in 2012 or 2016. Trent@ProudConservative.com
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