Going Speechless with Sarah Palin

We got a very special opportunity to see Sarah Palin at her book signing.

Reading the news, one would think that there might be, oh, twelve people waiting for the book signing that would begin at noon.  At 9:00 AM the line was a mile long, easily and three deep!

People, if you read or listen to the general news sources, like NPR or NYTimes, you have been sold a bill of goods.  This woman is loved.

And really, why would the media take so much time vilifying a person if they didn’t think she was a threat?

This article at Pajamas Media explains why a woman who should be loved by all feminists is instead hated vehemently, “Feminists are enraged that her can-do, have a Down’s Syndrome child in her 40s, shoot-moose persona will be used as a paradigm of a liberated women. She is quite attractive, fertile, and married to a Jack-Armstrong 19^th-century man… When a Wasilla, you betcha, no abortion, Christian PTA mom comes on the scene with an Idaho BA, then red flags go up. Poor Sarah—had her mom only been a Colombian aristocrat, she might have at least pulled it off as Sarah Maria Dias-Palin, and compromised some of the furor. Poor Sarah, if she only could speak through nose. Poor Sarah, if she could only show up at her Wellesley reunion.”

If she could only demure as people question which ivy league school she attended, have diplomats for parents, and be pro abort she might go far with the left wing elitists.  But no, she is the real thing, a regular woman as opposed to the likes of Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi,  ”Liberal elites are, well, deemed elites because they predicate their stature on things such as where they went to school, where they live, how much money they have access to, where their children attend university, and whom they know—all done in a sort of understated, coded fashion. The best snobbery is the least stated.”

So… when I got a call from my son-in-law’s brother (how’s that for a connection) we were ready to go meet Sarah Palin and have her sign a book.  Following protocol, we addressed her as Governor Palin, well, I did.  When it came time for Andrew to spit out a little greeting, he was speechless!!  I kid you not, he kinda just stood there in awe.  We invited our friends, John and Wendy, to be part of the honor and they managed to talk briefly about the cattle business, but words just would not come to Andrew and if you are acquainted with Andrew, the one thing about him is that he is rarely speechless so that was really something!