So Let’s Drill in the Oversized Igloo: Sarah Palin and Joe Biden Analysis

2008 Presidential Campaign, Cory Truax

Liberals are scared to death of Sarah Palin. The hysteria I’m seeing from the media is more dire than the panic we saw during Clarence Thomas’s confirmation or when Mel Martinez’s name was floated as a High Court nominee.

Celebrities and the media alike have no idea where to start or how to vanquish this strong, conservative, woman. The first reaction was marginalization. Rag columnist (Rag is my nickname for the New York Times) Maureen Dowd, having nothing else to say, but opposing anyone not left of Hugo Chavez, pulled out the big guns, saying Palin was governor of only “an oversized igloo.”

Now this is the same Maureen Dowd that is part of the same crowd that defends Alaska with passionate fervor anytime we think about using its natural resources. When we talk about drilling there, Dowd and her ilk stand stridently on guard, telling Americans the Alaskan tundra is a precious, invaluable resource that must never be disturbed by the evil influence of we debased human beings.

I just wish Dowd had the same, “it’s just an oversized igloo” attitude about drilling in ANWR. In any event, I say if it’s just an oversized igloo, put a hole in it and start drawing out that precious nectar of capitalism: crude oil.

Moreover, absolute cultural defiler and intellectual dolt P. Diddy/Puff Daddy/Sean Combs/Diddy had near the same reaction that Dowd did. On his video blog he inexplicably yells the word “Alaska” into his camera with a question in his voice over and over and over again. He then impugns Palin’s credentials by saying Alaska doesn’t even have, “crack heads”, “black people,” or “crime.”

Wow, what a prescient, thoughtful man that is! An anachronism in his own intellectual league! For those of you that don’t understand sarcasm, here’s what I’m saying: Sean Combs is a blithering, meaningless, valueless, talentless, moronic dunce with no credence on any topic. Apparently, a state doesn’t exist until it has a crack cocaine problem, rampant crime, and black people.

So, the Obama-supporters started with simply trying to criticize the State from which she hails. I think they know that wasn’t going to stick, so they moved on to accusing her of inexperience.

After one day of that accusation, the media backed off due to the unflattering comparison people were making between Palin’s experience and Obama’s experience. Indeed, Palin is the THIRD most experienced person of the four names on the presidential ballot. McCain and Biden have roughly equal experience. Then, Palin comes in as the only one of the four with executive experience. Finally, Barack Obama brings to the table his less than ONE year in the Senate before leaving to campaign for president. Yeah, not flattering at all.

And now, after disparaging her State and trying to paint her as inexperienced, they moved off of her and on to her family. Apparently, they—being the Democrat Party and their media cohorts—could find nothing substantive to attack her with. Thus, they are now peddling to the American people that she shouldn’t be vice-president because her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. Wow, that’s relevant to her ability to aid the country solve problems in health care, the tax code, foreign threats, and education!

Let’s reason together here for a moment about the vice-presidential choices. Thus far, I’ve just been chronicling the panic the Left feels over this talented, charismatic, incredible woman. Now, I want to address some of the specific charges I’ve heard against her, compare the two VP picks, and provide some analysis about what those picks tell us about our candidates, their parties, and the November election.

First, I’m going to revisit the disastrous charge the Left made about Palin’s “inexperience.” While Palin indeed has less experience than other vice-presidential candidates have, she has some unique and valuable experience.

America hasn’t had a legislator in the White House since Lyndon B. Johnson. We haven’t elected someone straight from Congress since John F. Kennedy. Who have we been electing? Governors and Vice-Presidents (Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr.) Of course, this election will change that because both candidates are senators.

HOWEVER, only ONE ticket has a governor on it, and I believe the history of our elections portrays that Americans care about relevant experience. Sarah Palin has more EXECUTIVE experience than McCain, Obama, and Biden COMBINED. These guys have never run a city, a state, or a business. McCain had an executive leadership position in the Navy, but that’s as close as the other three get to being the #1 guy in charge.

Palin doesn’t have to wonder, like the other three, what being the executive is like. She’s been a mayor, and now a governor. Her unique role in this election as an executive is valuable to the McCain campaign and easily dismisses the complaints about inexperience.

Also on experience, once again, the reason we’re not hearing this complaint as often is the unbecoming and obvious comparison people were making between Palin’s experience and Obama’s. Even given that she has little experience, when compared, she has more than the Leftist messiah come to save us from carbon emissions, Barack Obama. That’s plain and simple.

The inexperience card was also unattractive for Obama supporters because it makes the American people focus on the tickets. What would be disastrous for the Obama-worshippers is for the populace to realize that REPUBLICANS have their ticket in the correct order, while the DEMOCRATS have it BACKWARD.

We have the real and political battle-hardened leader with tangible, measurable experience and accomplishments in every field ON TOP of our ticket. As VP, we have a younger up-and-coming star of the party with the executive experience to lead if necessary.

The Democrats on the other hand have the up-and-coming party star (although with precious little experience) on top, and the battle-hardened leader on bottom.

The contrast is stark, and the American people are smart enough to see it.

One final word on the experience issue: I wonder how many of you caught how unique the Democrat National Convention was—especially in comparison to the first night of the Republican Convention.

The speeches that Senators Fred Thompson and Joe Liberman gave are typical of a convention. Thompson shared McCain’s life story and then provided first-hand testimony of working with and watching McCain fight intense battles on the floor of the Senate. Biden’s speech did much of the same. The Republican convention also included soldiers that had served with McCain and even a few that were captured and held in the same POW camp.

As typical in these conventions, independent folks stepped up and gave personal testimony of the candidate’s honor, integrity, veracity, leadership, judgment, and love of country.

That didn’t happen for Barack Obama.

I watched EVERY NIGHT of the DNC, and only ONE person gave a speech defining Barack Obama’s life and giving testimony of his work. That one person: Michelle Obama.

This distinction speaks deafening volumes regarding McCain’s experience in life and government, dwarfing Obama like the lightweight he is. Not one of the Democrat Senators who spoke at the Democrat Natinal Convention told a story of that great accomplishment of Obama’s. They didn’t tell the country tales of working and fighting on his side or against him for that matter. They spoke about hope and change and unity, but no one could say anything concerning his history as a leader.

Why? Barack Obama has no history as a leader.

After the media stopped with the inexperience accusation, they attempted to turn the issue on McCain himself after the pregnancy became public. They averred that McCain’s judgment should be questioned because the vetting process for Palin must have obviously been lacking.

So let’s talk about vetting for a moment. Let’s talk about judgment in choosing people.

Here’s my claim: the Democrat Party didn’t properly vet their PRESIDENTIAL candidate, and the sympathizers in the media failed to do so as well. Another claim: Barack Obama couldn’t even make it on a Presidential ticket as VP due to the vetting process.

Consider that vetting process for Barack Obama. How would he survive it? Imagine the conversation with an interviewer.

“So, you want to be Vice-President.”
“Uh. Uh. Uh. Yeah. Uh. I want to bring change… and hope… to America.”
“Right. So we did some checking, and I have some questions.”
“Go ahead.”
“So you launched your first campaign—your whole political career—with a speech in William Ayers’s living room. Is that correct?”
“Yeah.”
“And that’s the William Ayers who led the Weather Underground in the 70s, right? The one who bombed police headquarters in New York City, bombed the Pentagon, bombed federal buildings? That William Ayers?
“Yeah.”
“Great. And you went to church at Trinity in Chicago, right? Where Jeremiah Wright is the pastor?”
“Yeah.”
“And that’s the same Jeremiah Wright that said “G*d D**n America” from the pulpit? The one that said white people created AIDS to kill black people? The one that said 9/11 was an inside job? The one who honored black supremacist Louis Farrakhan?”
“Yeah.”
“Wonderful. Just a few more questions. You took large donations and had most of your house financed by a guy named Tony Rezko. Correct?
“Yeah.”
“The same Tony Rezko now in federal prison on a litany of corruption and bribery charges?
“Yeah.”

“Great. And in your book, you admit to experimenting with hard drugs in college, is that that right?”

“Yeah.”
“Finally, what is it that you’ve done that you feel you’re ready to be president if the unthinkable happens to the president?”
“Well, uh… I was a community organizer…”
“What’s that?”
“Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. It’s complicated… and I was in the Illinois State Senate for four years where I voted “present” over 300 times. I also served in the U.S. Senate where I never sponsored a bill, held a hearing, and was there for less than a year before starting my campaign for president… and I want to bring hope… and change… to America. Yes you can!”

You see what I’m saying? NO ONE could get on a ticket with his record. Unfortunately for America, however, the media gave Obama a free pass and the Democrats have something worse than an under-vetted VICE-presidential candidate. The Democrats have an under-vetted PRESIDENTIAL candidate.

Finally, I want to address succinctly what the VP picks tell us about each candidate’s penchant and potential for change.

Barack Hussein Obama, candidate built on nothing more than hope, change, and unity had to pick a running mate. OF ALL the folks he could have chosen, of all the reformers, of all the changers, of all the outsiders—all these things Obama claims to be—Barack Obama chose… Joe Biden.

Barack Hussein Obama, when given the chance to show the country he means it when he says he wants to change Washington because Washington is broken WENT TO WASHINGTON and got the EPITOME of INSIDER to be his running mate.

Joe Biden has been in the Senate for over THIRTY years. He is fourth longest serving member in the Senate of 100 members. It doesn’t get more anti-change and typical of the establishment than Joe Biden. That choice should tell us something about Obama’s ability to be an agent of change.

But you know, John McCain ran the same type of campaign Barack Obama did—with just more meaningful words and this little thing we call a record. He ran as a maverick who bucked his party and did whatever turned Washington upside down. He ran promising that he would change the culture of Washington and its wasteful ways.

But when it came time for John McCain to choose a running mate, he stayed with his original message. He said Washington is broken and it needs an outsider to come in and shake it up. It doesn’t get much more Washington-outsider than the Governor of Alaska!

John Sidney McCain had a choice, and he chose someone who has a record and history of attacking corruption in her own party. While Biden embodies Washington D.C. business-as-usual, Govenor Sarah Palin portrays its antithesis.

So ask yourself, who is the real change agent?

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Cory Truax @ September 3, 2008