The Historical Record on Sarah Palin

This is a very insightful piece that should go into the historical record book whenever someone asks about Sarah Palin and the election of 2008. This part is especially good.

Either way, the Palin moment shed a powerful light on the power, the potential, and the ultimate inadequacy of a conservatism grounded solely in cultural populism. It also exposed the vulnerability of the Left to a challenge to its most cherished claims—as the sole representative of the interests of the working class and the only legitimate path to political power for an ambitious woman.

And, perhaps even more telling, it revealed the unfortunate and unattractive propensity of the American cultural elite to treat those who are not deemed part of the elect with condescension and contumely.

I think Palin is the model for a conservative woman that wants to hold the reigns of power to follow. This woman, however, needs to keep in mind that they *must* fill their own vessels. They cannot rely on the MSM for anything and she needs to show that she is a strong, and capable leader and must not fall into the trap of the cultural elite.

I think the next Sarah Palin will come out of the women now serving in Iraq. War heroes usually make decent Presidents and a woman that can lead men into battle can easily lead this country. I think the Republican party needs to scour the ranks of the military as they start to leave the service. I think the Iraq War will spawn another "greatest generation" of American leaders and the GOP needs to be there the harness them.