Palin plug
There’s a nice boost for Sarah Palin in Monday’s Wall Street Journal from neocon icon Norman Podhoretz, who likens the scorn Palin has generated to the flak Ronald Reagan received 30 years ago. “Now I knew Ronald Reagan, and Sarah Palin is no Ronald Reagan,” Podhoretz writes, but the “criteria by which she is being judged by her conservative critics — never mind the deranged hatred she inspires on the left — tell us next to nothing about the kind of president she would make.” Podhoretz, the former long-time editor of Commentary magazine, writes regular Americans see Palin as one of them, able to “stand up against the contempt and condescension of the liberal elites,” in whose ranks he includes President Barack Obama.
With a nod to modern conservative patriarch William F. Buckley Jr. (who once said he’d rather be ruled by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than the Harvard and MIT faculties), Podhoretz concludes: “As for me, after more than a year of seeing how those ‘prodigious oratorical and intellectual gifts’ have worked themselves out in action, I remain more convinced than ever of the soundness of Buckley’s quip, in the spirit of which I hereby declare that I would rather be ruled by the Tea Party than by the Democratic Party, and I would rather have Sarah Palin sitting in the Oval Office than Barack Obama.”
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Palin is an opportunist, simply put. She makes appearances at Tea Parties and condemns dependence on the Feds for coverage. I read her book. I noted that until she was pregnant with Trig, she did not seem involved in the needs of special needs children. Now that she has one, she is the goddess and patron saint of those kids and their parents. Will she lead by example and refuse any federal funds or the involvement in any federally funded programs her kid qualifies for? It is, after all, the feds taking charge of her kid. Or will she welcome the assistance including SSI money and special programs that cost more than regular student education. I am sure that there are parents in America who, finally having gotten a job with insurance caverage, have had to pay out of pocket for a child with a pre-existing condition because they do not qualify for any fedral programs as Trig does. Now with the much maligned “Obamacare”, they too can have a little help. I am sure Palin is grateful for her federal help. Why not allow others to be helped as well.
Its a case of “I Got Mine”. I am sure she will change her tune if, after getting yet another job, God Forbid, her youngest child comes down with a pre-existing condition for which she will not want to pay out of pocket, and then I am sure her tune will change.