Sarah Palin understands that she cannot live her life worrying about what her enemies will say or do in reaction to her. At this late date, the left and their media water-carriers are 100% against her to the point of derangement. Some on the right are unenthusiastic about Palin and are hoping for some nice RINO to come along and be anointed by the MSM and the GOP hierarchy as 'their' candidate. Meanwhile, conservatives are excited and even inspired by Sarah Palin, a true conservative that walks the walk and isn't trying to appease her political enemies by planning her trips - or anything else - on the basis of whether they can use it to attack her.
Her trip to Haiti (not Israel and England, as first reported) is clearly a humanitarian venture but her political enemies will sneer at it and try to portray it as something shoddy and fake. This is the leftist template. They can't win a political argument on the merits of statism so they attack the character of whomever represents the biggest threat to their power. Today, that is Sarah Palin, an authentic American patriot. Palin isn't perfect but she's not the illiterate demon the left tries so hard to portray whenever her name is mentioned. We all know that, even those on the right that might prefer someone else as the Republican presidential candidate in 2012. Sarah Palin is way smarter than her political enemies and she isn't about to circumscribe her life to please the left.
Great post, Jim. Imagine how any of us in her shoes would fare under the constant attacks by the media and left? Her composure is a sign of her confidence in her world view and the left's constant attacks confirm it.
If anyone can represent the individual nationally and globally, Sarah can. And autocrats the world over had better heed her message. Freedom is on the march with Sarah Palin. If she can fix it here, she can fix it anywhere. The threat she poses to the Statist Quo knows no border.
Her timing couldn't be better, nor could our luck for having her. (not certain 'luck' has anything to do with it, could be a 'higher up' intervention on behalf of a country whose pedigree owes substantially to it's 'creator'.) The dark evil that is now evident in Obama will not stand the light goodness that is becoming evident in Sarah. They recognize her as the mortal danger to them that she is.
Yes, the two sides are being drawn clearly and will face off in 2012. If we can get there without events that would likely benefit an evil administration who seems hell-bent on creating class warfare, race warfare, and any other type of conflict between the people, we should consider ourselves lucky. (again, luck is the furthest from my mind- destiny comes closer)