RUNNING FOR THE LORD
I can ride that sense of humiliation and victimhood at least to the Republican nomination -- and maybe even beyond to the White House. If God wants me to walk into the Oval Office, that's where I will go, in the service of The Lord. God doesn't care whether I know the intricacies of treaties and foreign policy and domestic lawmaking and carbon emissions. God doesn't care if I don't read the New York Times and Washington Post or surf the blogs. All God wants to know is if my heart is pure and my faith strong.
I figure, given the kinds of people who are supporting me -- sweet, innocent lambs, following me to the promised land -- that I can ride God all the way into the Oval Office.
And those who try to stop me will learn who they're really dealing with. With God as my co-pilot, I can smite with the best of them. I won't put up with any kind of maltreatment. This babe -- this Babe for the Lord -- can mix it up.
THE COMING ATTACKS
Getting to the Presidency isn't going to be easy. The media, blogs and Demoncrats will go after me, my husband, my children, our lifestyle, our occasional missteps, and all the inconsequential misspokens I've made. (Todd is going to have to be prepared on his transgressions, and he and I will have to spin our Alaska secession stuff and the whole illegitmate-baby thing.) But that just makes me more attractive to my followers -- and to those who will come over to our cause from the Independents, conservative Republicans, faith-based Democrats and so on.
The more the liberal pundits and bloggers attack and wound me, the more the Jesus story redounds in my favor. Don't get me wrong, diary, I'm not comparing myself to The Lord. I'm just sayin'.
My folks will eat it up.
So my running puts the Demoncrats in a helluva a bind, excuse my French. If they attack me the way they want to -- with me "bleeding," so to speak, as a result of all the abuse -- I become more victimized, more sympathetic, and more people come to my aid. If the liberals decide to ignore me, I get a free shot at the Presidency. Either way, they lose and I gain. Is this a great country or what?
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Bernard Weiner, a poet/playwright and Ph.D. in government &
international relations, has ##peeked inside the diaries (
www.crisispapers.org/weinerpubs.htm#diaries) of everyone from Karl Rove to Osama bin Laden to Dick Cheney to George W. Bush. He has taught at universities in California and Washington, worked as a writer/editor for the San Francisco Chronicle for two decades, and currently serves as co-editor of The Crisis Papers(www.crisispapers.org). To comment:
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Copyright 2009 by Bernard Weiner.
First published 12/22/09 by The Crisis Papers www.crisispapers.org/essays9w/palin.htm
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