Bringing Out the Big Sticks

By lex, on November 17th, 2009

It’s pretty much undeniable that the left and the media – or do I repeat myself again? – are unenthusiastic about Sarah Palin. There’s just something about her that drives them over the edge. The carefully cultured mask of smooth superiority slips.

I don’t know enough about the former governor of Alaska to know whether she has the makings of a presidential candidate. I think she’s got the sand for the job, and I believe her heart is in the right place. She bucked a state GOP that needed a good bucking, and twisted the arms of powerful oil interests on behalf of her citizens, in both cases coming out on top: There‘s the kind of change I believe in. What I don’t know – and what I will not be allowed to learn, if the media gets its way – is whether she has the intellectual heft for the job.

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

"Μολὼν λαβέ"

— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex