You have to love the Looney-Left. While the Obama campaign is still reeling from the knockout punch delivered by the addition of Sarah Palin to the GOP ticket, they have become increasingly desperate as evidenced by their underhanded and loathsome personal attacks against Palin and her family. And, while Obama and his official campaign surrogates may smugly deny the smears, you know they are grasping at straws and giving each other the ol’ fist pump as each new attack is made.

After wild and baseless accusations alleging Sarah Palin was really Trigg’s grandmother, after screaming about alleged abuse of power with the so-called Troopergate scandal, after insulting her and her hometown of Wasilla, after all of these smears failed to bring Palin down, the Left has done the only thing they could – they’ve turned to God for help. 

You see, the Democrat Party actually discovered God just prior to the commencement of their 2008 convention in Denver, and since then religion has caught on like wildfire – or a burning bush, as the case may be. And, surprisingly, nowhere in the party is this newfound faith in God more apparent than, miracle of miracles, the Looney-Left!

In fact for only having known God for just a few weeks, they’ve had quite the revelation in so short a period of time. As Michael Moore and Don Fowler put it so aptly, Hurricane Gustav bearing down on New Orleans the very day the GOP convention was set to begin was clearly a sign from God that He is firmly in the race for Obama and the Democrats. Of course – how could it be otherwise? And this has been confirmed by the latest revelation to the Democrat Faithful.

After losing the “experience” wars over the last week The Almighty has once again shone the light of His divine favor upon the Democrat Party be revealing that Jesus was not merely the Son of God Most High, but also was a Marxist community organizer who apparently championed redistribution of wealth on a massive scale, kowtowing to radical Islam, turning the other cheek, willingly going the extra mile and loving one’s neighbor, except of course when that neighbor happens to be a conservative woman named Sarah Palin.

Why just yesterday Susan Sarandon was on one of those really informative “celebrity news” shows and said, “You know, Jesus was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor. That’s all I have to say about that.” Wow! Such profundity! I had no idea she was such a fluent Biblical scholar.

In fact, in just the past week, Madame Speaker Nancy Pelosi – herself a most gifted and charismatic leader as evidenced by her monumental accomplishments in overseeing the 110^th Congress – acknowledged that Obama is “a gift from God.” Not to be outdone by their boss Pelosi or the esteemed Hollywood elite, Democrat Representatives Steve Cohen and Donna Brazile also made the point of affirming and validating Obama’s service to his nation as a community organizer, and not just at some fly-over political rally. No, Cohen had this to say on the floor of the US House of Representatives: “I submit to you, Mr. Speaker, that the parties have differences, but if you want change, you want the Democratic Party. Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus, who our minister prayed about. Pontius Pilate was a governor.” Brazile said the same thing on Wolfe Blitzer’s show.

Now I don’t know about you, but I am awfully glad that the Democrats have finally discovered God and seem to quickly be getting over their hang-up on that Church-and-State thing they used to complain so often and bitterly about. 

I guess the forgot that their heroes like FDR, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were also governors – just like Pontius Pilate. I guess now that they’ve discovered Jesus, they’ll eventually re-write the Gospels too, just like they’ve done to history. I wonder when they’ll start blaming Jesus for Judas’ death and condemnation to hell. I mean after all, Jesus knew what Judas was going to do, didn’t he? Couldn’t he have stopped him? Why, He didn’t even try! Can you see the outrage coming?

Oh, and what about the war? Jesus/Obama is certainly against war – any war. Remember that thing about loving thy neighbor? And what about “thou shalt not kill?” All very true indeed. However, I have a couple of slight problems with this newfound Democrat Theology, especially since their messiah doesn’t seem to believe that the 6^th Commandment applies to newborn infants that so inconveniently survive their own attempted murder. Call me a skeptic, a villain, or whatever you will, but I’m not buying it.

You’ve got to love the Looney-Left. You’d think that after 2000 and 2004 someone over their on the Left would have enough sense to tell these people to shut up until after the election and ruthlessly silence them as they are so fond of doing to any opposition.

On the other hand maybe, just maybe, Pelosi, Sarendon, Donna Brazile and Steve Cohen are a gift from God to the GOP. Gee, ya think?

In testimony to how amazing this woman truly is, the Obama campaign has acknowledged that in just one week Governor Sarah Palin has achieved what was once considered impossible. According to Obama mouthpiece David Axelrod, Palin is now a veteran, seasoned politician. "We respect her. She's a skilled politician, as she proved last night she's deft at going on the attack," he said. Axelrod continued, "For someone who makes the point that she's not from Washington, she looked very much like she'd fit in very well there when you see how she brings these attacks, they all felt very familiar to Americans who are used to this kind of thing from Washington."

This is a very significant breakthrough in Progressive thought, for you see, just one week ago the Obama camp was singing a very different tune.  In fact, one often wonders is Senator Obama has forgotten that he is running against Senatr McCain, and not Governor Palin.  I guess comapring his vast "experience" in government and foreign affairs with hers isn't quite as much of a strect as the comparison that he cannot make with Senator McCain - because there is no comparison.  Obama has nothing to offer except Progresive rhetoric.  But, I digress... 

On August 29 Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said, "Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency,"

The same day, CNN’s John Roberts, arguably in the bag for Obama, offered his “objective” assessment of the Palin pick: “ She's only been in office for a couple of years now, which really raises the experience issue here. Now, she is a manager. She is the governor of a state. She does have limited experience, though. She's also been the mayor for a city in Alaska. And for a time she was the ethics chairman of the Alaska oil and gas conservation commission. But that does not add up to broad experience, particularly the type of broad experience you think should launch you to the national level.”

ON August 30, Politico cited four presidential historians who all agreed that Palin is far too inexperienced to assume the presidency. Unfortunately for the authors – and the Obama campaign- all four scholars are big-time Obama supporters as evidence by this update to the original article: “After reading this article, the McCain campaign issued the following statement: ‘The authors quote four scholars attacking Gov. Palin's fitness for the office of vice president. Among them, David Kennedy is a maxed-out Obama donor, Joel Goldstein is also an Obama donor, and Doris Kearns Goodwin has donated exclusively to Democrats this cycle. Finally, Matthew Dallek is a former speech-writer for Dick Gephardt. This is not a story about scholars questioning Gov. Palin's credentials so much as partisan Democrats who would find a reason to disqualify or discount any nominee put forward by Sen. McCain.’”

So Sarah Palin, who burst onto the national political scene last Friday, was unknown by the inside the beltway crown and the press, much less by the Obama elite, and is thus “inexperienced” and “unqualified” to be Vice-President because she has only been the mayor of a “small town” of 9,000 people and Governor of Alaska for two years. 

This, I suppose, stands in stark contrast to Senator Obama, a “Community Organizer” who was a back-bencher and partisan hack for the infamously corrupt Chicago Democrat Party machine in the Illinois Senate and has accomplished nothing in his three years as a U.S. Senator, with the exception of proposing a bill that would require U.S. taxpayers to send $845 billion to the U.N. in “world taxes.” By the way, this bill, two trips to Iraq, and a speech in Berlin as a “global citizen” is the full extent of Obama’s foreign policy experience.

Now that she has delivered a rousing speech intended to galvanize the Republican conservative base – and succeeded- she is suddenly, according to the Obama campaign and its surrogates, “deft” and apparently so seasoned a politician as to appear to have spent a career attacking “from Washington?” Do they mean a career in Washington like Joe Biden who is, of course, all about “change?”

The Obama camp flip-flopping in their vain attempts to neutralize the Palin factor just proves her point: she pointed out that her experience, though not as voluminous as McCain or even Biden who have spent their careers in politics, vastly outpaces Obama’s claims of experience. Mayor vs. “community organizer?” Governor vs. U.S. Senator who has spent the majority of his FIRST term running for President? At least Governor Palin has physically served more days in the Governor’s office than Obama has in his Senate seat. 

The Democrats cannot make the “inexperience” argument because Sarah Palin is more qualified than Obama to be President, let alone Vice-President. So, instead they try to paint her as a veteran Washington “insider?” This defies logic – even for the Democrat Party.

Wow. I guess things really do happen fast in politics. Just a word to the wise for the Obama campaign: you can’t have it both ways. Either she is inexperienced or she is a veteran insider. It’s one or the other. We conservatives know that she is something very special; but, even gifted as she is, she cannot achieve the impossible. So, then, what is she? Simply put, she is the right person for the right time, and she demonstrated this Wednesday night and will continue to do so throughout the remainder of the campaign. She is someone who inspires confidence in us not because she is a career politician or a savvy speaker, but because she is genuine – no lofty rhetoric, just plain facts and common sense truths. But, this is something that the Progressives cannot now nor will ever understand because it is outside their box of thinking, and they are too fixated on electing their Messiah at any cost. 

It is too bad for them, and possibly for our country.

In the piece entitled “6 things Palin pick says about McCain” the first point the authors make is “1. He’s desperate. Let’s stop pretending this race is as close as national polling suggests. The truth is McCain is essentially tied or trailing in every swing state that matters — and too close for comfort in several states, such as Indiana and Montana, that the GOP usually wins pretty easily in presidential races. On top of that, voters seem very inclined to elect Democrats in general this election — and very sick of the Bush years.” Wow! I mean, that actually sounds like… a… Obama For President commercial! Shocking, isn’t it? The authors later add, “McCain could easily lose in an electoral landslide. That is the private view of Democrats and Republicans alike.” I’ll give them that view for the Dems, and perhaps for many republicans or conservatives – that is, until the Palin choice was announced.

Another article, Scholars question Palin credentials, began with these words: “John McCain was aiming to make history with his pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and historians say he succeeded. Presidential scholars say she appears to be the least experienced, least credentialed person to join a major-party ticket in the modern era.” Gee, you don’t think these guys are already in the bag for Obama, now do you?

Still, yet another example of an outright biased hit-piece, Why the GOP fell so far, so fast begins, “The Grand Old Party just ain’t what it used to be. It is more unpopular, more insecure and more uncertain than at any point since the euphoric triumph of 1994, when the GOP captured both houses of Congress and made political history.”

True, the GOP has had its problems- serious problems – over the last few years. It has lost its way and, having strayed from its conservative roots and base, has found itself wallowing about in the same mediocrity and pandering for a middle ground solution on issues where there is none: abortion, Second Amendment issues, immigration, health care. To hear a majority of our so-called conservative Republicans speak about these issues you think you’re hearing Ronald Reagan. But, to see them in action, you think you’re seeing Joe Biden, or Ted Kennedy, or Russ Feingold. Conservative is conservative and liberal is wrong. Period. You can’t sustain a house this divided and win elections, and once again it will be the conservative base of the party that will come to the rescue and save it from self-destruction. And this is largely due to Sarah Palin being chosen as VP running mate on the ticket.

And that very point is what the MSM seems to not understand, or to want to understand about this choice. Conservatives may well have held their noses and voted for McCain just to vote against the lesser of two evils. I was certainly in that camp. Now that McCain has picked Palin, I see one of us, who understands clearly the high stakes involved, and who can drive home the point to anyone who may be remaining on the fence. For all their meaningless polls over the last couple of days since the announcement about men having higher approval rates for Palin than women, etc., they are ignoring the biggest factor currently at play in this race: us. Conservative Americans who believe in and love the Constitution, our republic, and our God. And our guns, and our babies. And our money. And who only need the right leader to come onto the scene at the right time to galvanize us and excite us into action. Sarah Palin is that person. 

John McCain has demonstrated by this choice that he will govern as a reformer, to move the Party, the Congress and the nation back to the Right. It is now up to us to place him in that position and to hold him accountable, which we can do because we will have an ally who shares our concerns and expectations standing right next to him. 

The Obama attack machine will learn in November that is cannot just poll and pretend we do not exist because there is far too much at stake, and we conservatives are not going away without one hell of a fight for the future of our republic.

Lets face it: if everything that Obama and the Democrats were saying were true, Obama would be killing McCain and headed toward a landslide. A Gallup poll reported August 30 that Obama leads McCain 49% to 41%. Obama has some post-convention momentum, this is true, but momentum does not equal substance; and without substance there is only empty hype, and that is exactly what the Obama-Biden ticket is behind its claims of hope and change. If you want real hope and change, look to McCain-Palin, because this bold choice of choosing Sarah Palin for the number two slot on the Republican ticket matters a great deal and will have positive consequences that will reverberate through the halls of Washington D.C. for many years to come.

If you think about it, you can well imagine the party bosses joining in with McCain’s advisors in pulling their hair out while collectively shrieking a blood-curdling “NOOOOOO!” upon learning of McCain’s intention to name Sarah Palin as his Vice-Presidential running mate. I am quite sure you could hear that same shriek coming out of the Obama camp, because Palin embodies everything Obama claims, but isn’t. And after all, we all know that the first electable woman VP or President just HAS to be a Democrat because they’re so diversely unified, right?

Obama claims to be the agent of “change” yet chose a running mate who has been in the U.S. Senate since Sarah Palin was nine years old. That’s change? To be fair, Obama really does believe in change. He wants to change how much money hard working Americans are allowed to bring home. He wants to change the tax system so that even more of your wealth is redistributed. He wants to change to a government run health-care system that will take care of all Americans – one need only look to how poorly the VA medical system cares for our veterans (of which I am one) to see how disastrous this plan for change will turn out. Most disturbingly, and this is a crucial issue for traditional God-Country-and-Constitution loving conservatives, Obama would change our collective understanding of God to be One who has no place in the public arena (except when running for elective office) and Who would sanction racism, and socialism, and would condone the senseless slaughter of newborn infants in hospitals named “Christ.” THAT is how Obama would change America, and conservatives know it.

In marked contrast Sarah Palin is a breath of fresh air to a Republican Party that has all but lost its way. Indeed, it also says quite a lot about McCain. If nothing else, it shows the conservative base that he is still ready to listen – and he heard us loud and clear!   And he did what is best for the country in choosing Sarah Palin. Why? We all know what the Constitution says and what it means. So does Sarah Palin. We all know that big government doesn’t work, and so does Sarah Palin. In fact, she has actually done something about it – unlike Obama - by saving the state of Alaska millions of dollars by selling state owned executive aircraft, disbanding a security detail she didn’t need, vetoing pork-filled bills from the state legislature, and actively leading the charge as a champion of real ethics reform – to the extent that she all but obliterated the old-and-corrupted Alaskan Republican machine and defeated an incumbent Republican in the gubernatorial primary. That’s change.

She has spent the last two years making the tough executive decisions that Obama cannot know or understand, because he has never made them. A former state senator has nothing at all on a governor. She turned down hundreds of millions in Federal pork projects for the waste that it is – the same type of earmarks that Senator Obama brought to Illinois, to the tune of over $1 billion. She has not endeared herself to oil companies because she holds them accountable environmentally and financially. She is ardently Pro-Life, Pro-Second Amendment, Pro-Constitution. She is a working mother of five who did not attend a privileged Ivy League school or receive special favors to achieve what she has. She did it all the old fashioned way – she earned it. Every bit. That’s change.

Sarah Palin gets it. She is a traditional conservative who understands us because she is one of us. She also understands very well what is at stake, and that is presumably why she accepted McCain’s invitation to join him on the Republican ticket. She is one of us, and knows better than most just how far the Republican Party has strayed from its core principles in recent years: just ask her about her dealings with the Bush Administration and “Fedzilla” interfering with her states’ rights, and the battles she has fought with them over the issue of drilling in ANWR, among other things. 

She knows that she is in a position to galvanize the conservative base and to ultimately reform a party that has drifted so far to the left that it doesn’t even know what it stands for anymore. She knew she had to accept. She knows that she has to take a major role in shaping the future of a great nation at a crucial moment in its history. For this greater good, she is willing to make many sacrifices and bear a heavy burden. For America. She is a leader, unafraid, unapologetic, and undeterred. 

Why does Sarah Palin matter? Why is she so important? Because not only could she be the factor that keeps Obama and his socialist agenda out of the White House, but she could be the only one who can bring true conservatism back to a Republican Party run amok with misguided ideals and compromises and that is at times indistinguishable from the Democrats. 

As far as the experience question goes, I’ll take someone who has served two years as governor after working her way there. Every now and again throughout history comes an unknown individual who becomes a great leader because they answered their country’s call and rose to the occasion. Lest we forget, practically no one outside of Missouri knew who Harry S. Truman was until FDR died.

Having served two terms on the Wasilla City Council, i 1996 she challenged theWasilla Mayor for the position, campaigning on the issues of wasteful spending, taxes, and the need for reform.   Palin won, reduced her own salary and well as reduced property taxes 60%.  In 2002 she lost her bid for Lt. Governor.  Also in 2002, when Sen. Frank Murkowski resigned from his seat to assume the Governorship, Palin interviewed to be appointed to the vacant seat which was ultimately given to Murkowski's daughter.

In 2006 Palin won a major upset voctory in the Republican primary, defeating the incumbent Republucan Governor Murkowski, and went on to win the Governor’s office.  When elected, she was at 42 years old, the youngest and first woman governor in the state.

She is widely viewed by those who know her to be a person of strong character and integrity.  She is Pro-Life, pro Second Amendment, and opposes same sex marriage. 

It is expected by the McCain campaign that having Palin on the Republican ticket will serve to attract disenfranchised Hillary Clinton supporters to the McCain camp.  Palin is an "out-of-the-box" pick for a Presidential ticket and is already being praised as a crafty move for the McCain camp. McCain and Palin will be appearing later today in Dayton, Ohio, to make the official announcement.