Oct 5 2009

It’s more about Todd Palin

Yea, it really is to me.  Not that I have a man crush on the guy or anything, but he certainly seems like a man my friends and I would hang with.
Anyone who has read any of my columns at any length will soon realize that my wife and I are strong supporters of Sarah Palin.  To us, she represents a hope that somehow a dose of common sense can still be injected into Washington.  But common sense is an attribute that should also be applied liberally to our support of Sarah Palin.

So what has that to do with Todd Palin?  (When I say Todd Palin, I’m also inferring the whole family.)  Todd and Sarah Palin are faced with the Herculean task of not only maintaining their family unit in this present society (which is a monster we all face) but to answer the call of a desperate nation at the same time.  Powerful forces are pulling at this couple demanding hard choices.  We have watched them make some and have been impressed.  Unfortunately for the Palins, the hard choices will not end.  They will continue to come.

So Todd represents a litmus test for us as supporters to gauge Sarah.  Why, you ask, do we need such a test?  Sarah Palin is terrific!  She is also (brace yourself) human.  While her upbringing and faith fill me with a strong hope that she is immune to the temptation of power, I’m reminded that the path she walks is littered with the carcasses of many grounded and faithful heroes.  Like you, I am heartened to see that her speeches are few and far between so she can quickly escape back to Alaska to be with Todd and her gorgeous children…her real reality.

There are many in this arena, where Todd and Sarah do battle, that disdain their “attached at the hip” approach.  The concept of “one flesh” is repulsive to many of the elite, even those supposedly on “their side”.  The combined power of the husband and wife Palins will threaten some.  They will try to wedge them apart.  Thankfully Todd and Sarah Palin seem to be one step ahead of them by always having Todd, beaming Piper, or beautiful Willow or Bristol “attached to her hip” wherever she goes.  It’s hard to wedge people apart that are fused together.

Obviously, Sarah Palin is a beautiful powerful woman.  She now operates in a place where the beautiful and the powerful become so obsessed with those two attributes that they become hollow shells that live only for more beauty and more power.  They succumb to a vicious cycle of flattery, guile, and spousal upgrades all in search of a new rung on the power ladder.  So we are concerned that power may corrupt her, too.

The Bible describes powerful women through the portrayal of two females.  First, Abigail was a beautiful, wise woman who rose above her own negative circumstances.  She used her giftings to stop a powerful man from unjustly destroying an entire village.  Jezebel, equally powerful but treacherous, used her feminine wiles to manipulate men and nearly destroyed her country.
I think Sarah Palin has the personality of Abigail from the Bible.  I think Todd and Sarah long ago made a commitment to fidelity,  to their children, and to avoiding the “appearance of evil”.  I know that sounds Puritan, Biblical, and Victorian, but hey, it works.

With a note of caution, Sara and I continue to support the Palins.  Remember, if she fails, loses sight of Todd, and destroys her family it doesn’t change our cause.  I sound callous I know but conservatism must march on.  It is the only hope for our nation.  For those of faith, if she crumbles beneath the challenge like so many before have done, it doesn’t change God.  He is bigger than failure and can heal and restore.

The Palins are doing all the right things.  Staying close at home, using the computer as a weapon  for truth, and keeping their little ones close is their essential strength.  I’m glad to see they know how to use a computer because there are others out here, namely myself, who are having a hard time catching up.  I don’t know, but there is just something about a roomful of men standing around with cell phones  twittering…. That makes me uncomfortable…I queess I just can’t get past the lingo…ahem.
We are in a battle for this nation.  A battle of ideals…virtue against corruption.  So I fear for Todd and Sarah Palin but I believe in them.  They must not lose sight of each other.  Whatever happens, I will continue to fight for my country.  So in the words of our greatest conservative….“Trust , but verify”
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When the Palins resigned from the Governorship of Alaska rumors swirled through the media concerning the supposed demise of their marriage.  I asked my wife what she thought as we watched the Governor’s resignation speech.  My wife said, “Their fine.  I watched how they looked at each other when they kissed.  Their fine.”  I’m not sure how my wife knows all this from one split second kiss but I will trust my wife’s intuition over media reports any day.

The temptation for the Palins will be great.  The political elite will put constant pressure on them to put power above family.  The danger of becoming “elite snobs” detached from reality staring down their Chuck Schumer/Charlie Gibson noses at Americans is an unfortunate real danger.  So this really where it becomes about Todd.  No one knows Sarah Palin better than him.  So it is his inner strength  and sensitivity to his wife that demands accountability…another word confusing to elites.  Elitists believe that because of their talents and abilities  they are accountable to no one.  They sneer at those who by choice honor marriage vows and develop a system of accountability within a family unit. Those who are so self absorbed refuse to acknowledge the power of a functioning family.  The Palin family is a functioning family that is able to combat the forces coming against them because of accountability, because of their faith, yes, faith, and because above all they love each other…that is true power!

Accountability is the Palins’ strength.  It is every family’s strength.  Todd Palin must utilize the years of capital that he has earned and invested in his wife to confront, strengthen, and protect her and his family.  Family works this way.  When one is weak the other picks them up.  When one is out of line the other knocks them back in line again.

The Palins are guarding their family because they understand these things perhaps better than us all.  So, as much as I respect the individual, let us all focus on the task of combating a socialist President and his lackeys rather than falling into the trap of being enamored with a person.  Let us fight beside her rather follow her.  If we have a Spartan focus upon a goal rather than a person than the potential failure of those around us will not have a devastating effect on our battle.  I have a reasonable faith in the Palins ,but remember, blind faith belongs to God.  So pray for the Palins daily along with your country.  But remember again to always “trust but verify” .

Sep 10 2009

Dance of the Wraiths

The epitome of wisdom is the ability to take ones failure, learn from it, and not repeat it.  Most importantly, wisdom demands that we discover the pattern of actions and decisions that brought us to the place of failure.  It then becomes an imperative for those who seek wisdom to acknowledge that pattern as a path to failure and seek a different path that leads to success.

The crazy thing is this sounds like common sense.  For most of us, we learned this from our parents as little kids.  We did something wrong, ended up with a very warm little bottom, and said to our little selves, “Hmmm…maybe I shouldn’t do that again.”  So, it stands to reason that everyone should understand that…right?

Wrong!  We forgot to figure in trustfund liberals.  These are children who have grown up never hearing the word “no.”  Every whim, every thought and every desire was validated and encouraged by doting parents who never saw the folly of placation parenting.   These children have grown into adults who are addicted to having their own way.  They won’t acknowledge error because they don’t know how.  Once they seize upon an idea they want to have it no matter what the cost.

I watch now as liberals in Washington and the media beat the drum of socialism clamoring for the dawn of a “new” America, “free” of capitalism  They call eloquently for healthcare for everyone.  Yet with all the speeches filled with passion, no one will answer the question of why socialist are coming to America.

Universal Healthcare has failed everywhere else.  It has infected and shriveled every society that has agreed to be it’s host.  Now it needs a new healthy specimen.  The United States, for all its imperfections, has had the best healthcare in the world.  So, Universal Healthcare is coming here to drain the life from it.

Children who have never been told “no” have never been challenged to excellence.  No one has placed demands on them and therefore the child is allowed to wallow in mediocrity.  We now have adults in power who prefer to be like everyone else instead of the hard work of individuality.  When you boil down all the arguments for Universal Healthcare, we end up with socialists simply wanting to be like the other socialists around the world.

I’m reminded of Jada, the villain Ice Queen in the popular children’s series The Chronicles of Narnia.  Jada came to Narnia because she completely destroyed her home world.  She was not looking for a fresh start to make amends.  She was looking for another world to consume.  Socialism and it’s ideas, like Universal Healthcare, have consumed the resources of societies the world over.  Now it needs a new strong society to consume.

Now we watch as Todd and Sarah Palin try almost single handedly stem this tide.  Watch the liberals as they circle their family in a strange, sickening dance, longing to destroy.  So shriveled and soulless, that they would even attack their little children.  Like hollowed sunken wraiths, these Washington and media elites are so addicted and sold to their ideas that they would abandon the will of the people and simple decency.  For what?!?  Just to get their way!!!

The epitome of folly is inability to take ones failure, learn from it and repeat it.

Aug 24 2009

What Exactly is Horse Pucky?

Last week I was humbled to find that my horizons, my perspective was in desperate need of broadening.  There are moments in our lives that effect the course of our personal history.  How we handle these pivotal times can alter the path of our life’s pilgrimage forever.
So again last week, while roofing in 90 degree weather with 100% humidity, my friend, who also wishes to remain anonymous voiced his strident opinion about the relevant issues of the day.  Here I will quote him, though from behind the veil of anonymity.  He said, “I don’t know if I can stand to hear anymore of this horse pucky from Obama!”
I was taken a back.  While I claim to have at least a layman’s grasp of the English language, I confess that I was not aware of this equine term.  What was it’s origin?  Of course the inevitable societal implications must be reconciled.  Driven by my thirst to delve in the existential, I pressed my friend to expound by asking, “What exactly is horse pucky ?!”
At this point my first anonymous friend (the original) rolled his eyes and sighed, “Well we know what Andy’s next column will be about.”  So my friend has been proven to have a prophetic gift.  It should be noted here that the crew I work with have now become the Posse of the Anonymous.  With my original anonymous friend being it’s head. I can’t be in the posse because you know my name and to be anonymous you must be nameless….because that’s what ….anonymous….means….
In other news,  research ahs shown that horse pucky is the exact opposite of horse sense, both metaphorically and anatomically.  Thankfully,  someone has come to give us a living, vibrant example.
Peter “now knee deep in the till” Mills has written an op-ed on his reason for running for Governor.  Mr. Mills wants us all to believe that he has been fighting all these years against fiscal irresponsibility.  Obviously, Mr. Mills thinks we all can’t read.  He forgets that Mainers operate on a concept foreign to liberal politicians like him…common sense.  Peter Mills, you cannot cover up your voting record.  It will show, Mr. Mills, that you encourage the liberal spending spree that has imperiled Maine’s financial viability for generations to come.  That is a pungent representation of horse pucky.  At http://www.meconservativevoice.wordpress.com there is a place for politicians like Peter Mills called Horse Pucky Hall.  If you can think of others that should reside there, please visit the site and nominate them for sentencing. I promise the judgment will be quick, fair and sarcastic.

Aug 10 2009

Enter Those Pesky Americans

They said we were divided. The gleeful consensus worldwide was the United States was no longer united. So as we teetered on the brink of splintered nationalism real or imagined (I lean towards imagined), up stepped one man to bring us back to our American roots. Striding forward into his practiced messianic pose, this man realized that the sea change was not anything he could believe in. It certainly was not what he had hoped for. Those pesky Americans have the audacity to fight for their freedom. Yes, Barack Obama, you have succeeded in unifying America like no one else could.

Unfortunately for the President, the country is unifying against him not for him. As pressure mounts on the White House, its’ true colors begin to immerge. The administration has become more overt and clumsy in the application of Chicago thug politics. Much to the chagrin of all the Presidents henchmen, the rest of the nation is not so cowed by gangster politics as perhaps Illinois is.

Sporting the worst six month approval rating since World War II, President Obama has taken the shroud off his socialist agenda. Americans who could not before can definitely see the Marxism now. Both Democrats and Republicans are voicing their outrage at town hall meetings…. which is what…. Town hall meetings… are for…. I thought that was … what… they… were….?

Well, Nancy Pelosi thinks differently (in many ways). She expected the citizens to listen raptly, smile fawningly, and gaze in abject worship as they were “informed” of their new healthcare regime.

THE PEOPLE DIDN’T CAVE!! THANK GOD!! They acted like Americans. They stood up to their politicians and revolted against the Government. Patrick Henry would be so proud!

The Democratic Party’s’ response to the exercise of civil liberties was to call grandmothers, veterans, and other hard working Americans thugs, mobsters, and disruptive anarchists. The DNC reaction could be because it immediately suspects a replication of its own tactics or the party of liberals does not comprehend and utterly disdains the power of individual Americans coming together to stand against an oppressive Government. I think quite possibly both.

At any rate, the Democrats have banned all town hall meetings. Such a shame too… I was so looking forward to Rep. Michaud, Rep. Pingree, Sen. Snowe, and Sen. Collins coming back to Maine and explaining to all our mobster and gangster senior citizens how ObamaCare was going to cut their benefits. Now that’s entertainment!…. And so bi-partisan, too!

What Barack Obama has come to painfully realize is that, outside of Chicago, Americans disdain oppression. Americans despise hypocrisy. An administration that has occupied itself with the propagation of socialist lies now finds itself face to face with a nation that is shouting “Don’t tread on me!”.