WHY WOULD SOME ON THE RIGHT HAVE IT IN FOR SARAH?

Good question. From John Hawkins:

They said Sarah Palin wasn’t experienced enough — but, despite the fact that Obama has been in the White House for six months, he still has less executive experience than Palin. They said Palin spent too much time talking in platitudes — after America elected a man whose campaign primarily consisted of repeating the words “change” and “hope” over and over again. They got upset because Palin was parodied on Saturday Night Live — but what candidate isn’t going to be ripped to pieces on that show?

To many conservatives, those complaints didn’t seem to make sense when the people making them often seemed to give Obama a free pass for the very flaws they seemed to hate so much in Palin. Where did these strange complaints come from? Why were these “conservatives” so spiteful towards Sarah Palin? What was the real reason that John McCain’s own staff was seemingly working 24/7 behind the scenes immediately after the election to sabotage the best thing to happen to the GOP in 2008?

An unspoken assumption was made by many conservatives: Palin is like me and the real problem that Palin’s enemies on the right have with her is that they’re snobs and they don’t accept common people like me in their leadership.

Given the way that conservatives are regularly betrayed and the contempt for them that some Republicans have shown over the last few years, that assessment is probably correct more often than not.

No kidding. Its snobbish bigotry, plain and simple. She's not a real politician like they are. She is just a regular citizen doing her duty. Just like the founders of this country were. Oh the horror! We can't have that!

I am becoming increasingly disgusted with the elitist part of the Republican party. What I care about is the Consititution more than anything, I care about that much more than any politcal party. While I certainly identify with what much of what the Libertarian party has to say, I can't identify with them, especially given Ron Pauls silence on the hate groups and crazies that were part of his support.

Where to go? I don't know, but it was encouraging to me to hear Sarah say that she was going to support whomever agreed with the values that she stands for, regardless of party. That, to me is what matters.

I plan on doing the same.