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Let Palin Be Palin

10.8.08 @ 12:01AM

LET PALIN BE PALIN
Re: Angelo M. Codevilla's Trust Not Your Handlers:

Amen, Mr. Codevilla, amen! Damn, that was good!
-- Mike Showalter
Austin, Texas

It is a very good article. Thank you.

Is there any chance that the Governor will get your very good advice? I am sure it will help.

I have been in politics myself and I can see you get how it works.

It would be a catastrophe for the Americans and for all of us in Europe -- and for the rest of the world, for that matter -- if Sen. Obama wins the elections.

I am sorry to say, but it seems that some of the American people don't understand how serious this election is. And we can't do a thing about it. But you can. Sen. Obama and his gang will destroy the nation and us all. He is such a novice.

It is a blessing to get Governor Palin on the McCain ticket. She is so good and it feels good to see her and listen to her.

So please send your article to her, because it very important she is herself. Keep swinging.

Regards from Sweden,
-- Marianne Andersson

Angelo M. Codevilla has it exactly right: Sarah Palin just needs to be Sarah Palin, not another calculated phony "processed" by handlers.

A real human being has appeared on the national stage, a woman whose innate honesty and lack of arrogance resonates far more than the manufactured credentials of retro-socialist Barack Obama, clubhouse hack Joe Biden, and pseudo-maverick John McCain. A woman who's been a surrogate punching bag for the odious assortment of "experts" whose livelihoods depend on maintaining the myth that "Joe Six Pack" Americans are inconsequential nitwits. Yet despite every cheap shot, every lie, and every attempt to humiliate Mrs. Palin, they can't put her down.

She is the champion of every American who has borne the brunt of liberal, elitist scorn in powerless silence.
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

Angelo Codevilla suggests that the official Republican brand is an amalgam of "weenie," gutless, obsequious pansies who want to be respected and liked simultaneously but will gladly settle for the latter and "when God, please will it happen?" Unfortunately, he is correct. There are a few in each house of Congress who can truly boast of having a bit of political testosterone in their canteen, but not many; and they are pretty much marginalized by the "official" party. It seems that every election cycle, Conservatives complain [usually to small effect] that the "official" Republicans have perfidiously and pusillanimously abandoned the true religion, wasted time and credibility being nice and bi-partisan. I think the complaint has much merit. It has, as Mr. Codevilla writes, happened again, as evidenced by the bailout debacle and the miniaturization of Gov. Palin. It will continue to happen until....

Which is why I predicted to my last Political Science 104 class that in their lifetime (unhappily, not mine) they will witness the dissolution of a major political party. Hint: It won't be the Democrats! Years ago, when I was a very young subaltern, a grizzled, hard-case1st Sergeant commented on what he perceived as a chronically bungling higher headquarters: "Sir, if they can't run it, just shut it down." Conservatives need, and will eventually demand a reliable place to go. The shutdown and recasting are coming.
-- J.C. Eaton
Chetek, Wisconsin

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