Gov. Sarah Palin during a news conference in Anchorage
The more I watch the news and read political blogs, the more I am convinced that a significant portion of the population suffers from PDS – Palin Derangement Syndrome. It’s a painfully debilitating disease that prevents coherent thought and causes its sufferers to babble like psychopathic monkeys.
The thing that saddens me the most is that suffers don’t come to their position based on a sober analysis of her background or even of her advocacy for John McCain, but from a mindless visceral hatred. PDS is infectious and spreads rapidly among like-minded individuals.
Some of the most bitter examples I’ve seen have been in response to one of my posts from May 2008 (long before John McCain picked her as his running mate). It was entitled Sarah Palin for President, because I suggested that even a then-unknown governor from Alaska was a better conservative choice for president than John McCain. [That said, he's our candidate and you have 'dance with the one who brung ya', so I will hold my nose and vote for him.]
If McCain manages to get elected, it will be because Gov Palin and other conservatives will have dragged him across the finish line against his will. Sarah Palin is definitely the right VP candidate. Now if we only had a presidential candidate who was interested in winning in November…
October 15th, 2008 14:35 pm
Sarah is my Governor, Though not perfect she still is a breath of fresh air. To me she
is one of the few keeping the campaign alive. You could get the Clintons to go to local
barber to get a haircut but you got Sarah stopping by Walmart and buying some diapers.
With the line item veto she tried to cut hundreds of millions of dollars out of the state
budget but the the state representatives came up with enough votes to over rule her veto.