Conservative/Republican Elites Just Do Not Get It

To be a conservative Republican is to sometimes put up with the kind of elitism offered by the likes of David Frum of National Review.
Mr. Frum's take on Sen. "F--- You" McCain's choice of Alaska governor Sarah Palin reads pretty much right out of the original Team Messiah Barack's handbook. It is the denigrating of the fact that Gov. Palin was mayor of a "small town", Wasilla, Alaska, before she eventually became the first woman governor of Alaska.
Let me ask Mr. Frum what was more qualified about former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani? He ran for the Republican nomination for president. Based quite a large part on his record as mayor of New York City. And, if memory serves correctly, you sir were all in on his very failed run for the Republican presidential nod.? I do believe so.
But, alas, Mr. Frum's point of view is not a lonely one among conservative Republican elites.
Another National Reviewer, Richard Brookhiser is not very high on the Maverick's choice of Gov. Palin.
They are but two examples.
The problem is that these are people who do not live in the real world. They are inoculated from the real issues that many Americans like Gov. Palin face every day.
Gov. Palin is the example of an American who took her duties as an American very seriously. She started as a PTA mom and ended up as the governor of Alaska. And, for being a "small-town" mayor, she won that post twice. And, cut taxes and improved vital government services. Not bad for a growing "small town".
Gov. Palin, to quote the Democrat candidate for vice-president, Sen. Blowhard Biden, is a storybook life, man!
The question should not be experience. It should be where the candidates stand on issues. And do they have enough knowledge on issues to actually explain and implement. And, the record shows that Gov. Palin has that kind of knowledge, explains well and implements. Sen. Messiah
Barack does not. I am still waiting for the major piece of legislation that he has authored and shepherded through the senate, house, conference committee and to the president for signature. Events are what make or break many a presidency. Ask President Lyndon Johnson. He won a landslide in 1964 and could not even run again in 1968 because the events of Vietnam paralyzed his presidency. It is also how a president reacts to events. Take President Carter. His reaction to the Iranian hostage fiasco, high inflation, interest rates, gas shortages is what eventually did him in. President Reagan felt so strongly about aiding the Nicaragua Contra rebels that he was willing to circumvent a law banning such direct and or indirect aid to the Contras fighting communist Sandinista rule in the 1980s. It really did almost cost his presidency because he gave underlings, intentionally or unintentionally, the OK to sell arms illegally to Iran then they sold to the Contra rebels.
You see, it is the fact that every candidate for president can only promise so much and events, not policies, sometime end up dictating the course of a four-year term.
But, for Sen. "F--- You" McCain, he felt that a young Turk in Gov. Palin is the one that can be that potential leader. And that is what the American dream is all about.
It is a shame when some of our own do not get that reality.