Sarah Palin Should be Our Next VP

The selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be the running mate of Senator John McCain was a brilliant stroke of genius. Up until last month's Republican Convention, I was not a supporter of McCain. He is a legendary war hero, and can certainly run the nation, especially in a crisis situation like 9-11.

What I was weary of was how conservative McCain is on the domestic economic front. In my opinion he is still not as conservative as former Senator Fred Thompson or Senator Sam Brownback or even former Governor Mitt Romney. I would have preferred to vote for any of the 3 before considering McCain.

However, we do have John McCain. Other than the Democrat Party nominee, Senator Barrack Hussein Obama there is no other practical choice to vote for President of the United States of America. If I have to use my conservative values as a measure, then certainly my vote is going to the McCain-Palin ticket over the very liberal Obama-Joe Biden one.

Over the past 5 weeks, Governor Palin certainly has come under fire by the liberal press. Despite that I continue to support her candidacy mainly because she is a fairly good fiscal and social conservative. She brings validation to the McCain candidacy for anyone who is a conservative and cherishes fiscal conservatism, low taxes, traditional "American Family Values", traditional marriage, pro-life, free markets, a strong national defense and worldwide presence among other things.

In some of Governor Palin's own words from yesterday's Vice Presidential debate emerge some of the reinforcing reasons why I support her and the GOP ticket.

"....we need also to not get ourselves in debt. Let's do what our parents told us before we probably even got that first credit card. Don't live outside of our means. We need to make sure that as individuals we're taking personal responsibility through all of this."

I practice living within my means on a daily basis. No long term debts or debt I cannot get out of for me. People need to practice restraint in their spending habits. Government could do the same too.

"Now you said recently that higher taxes or asking for higher taxes or paying higher taxes is patriotic. In the middle class of America which is where Todd and I have been all of our lives, that's not patriotic. Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you're not always the solution. In fact, too often you're the problem so, government, lessen the tax burden and on our families and get out of the way and let the private sector and our families grow and thrive and prosper."

I have long been a supporter of decreasing the tax burden for individuals, businesses and the American family. Government is the problem and the way to reign that problem in is to cut government spending, especially on pork barrel projects like rail transit. Paying higher taxes is "not patriotic".

"When we talk about energy, we have to consider the need to do all that we can to allow this nation to become energy independent." "It's a nonsensical position that we are in when we have domestic supplies of energy all over this great land. And East Coast politicians who don't allow energy-producing states like Alaska to produce these, to tap into them, and instead we're relying on foreign countries to produce for us."

"Energy independence is the key to this nation's future, to our economic future, and to our national security."

Drill baby drill! Yes, there is oil in Alaska and elsewhere in the United States. It is high time we use our own resources instead relying on those from hostile countries such as Venezuela or places in the Middle East. Drill for American oil and move forward with energy alternatives such as solar, wind and nuclear.

On climate change, Governor Palin says:

"I'm not one to attribute every man -- activity of man to the changes in the climate. There is something to be said also for man's activities, but also for the cyclical temperature changes on our planet."

She is absolutely correct. Man cannot be blamed entirely for climate change.

The source for the biggest blame is the Earth itself. Take a look at Kilauea Volcano. Two current active vents spew as much volcanic crap into the atmosphere in one or two days than all of the vehicles in Hawaii probably do in a year. In Alaska there are at least 3 active volcanoes spewing tons of soot into the atmosphere that would shame polluting, spewing Chinese factories. Variations with the sun itself are responsible for climate change on our planet. These forces of nature we cannot control. The best thing to do is adapt to the changes.

"... I don't support defining marriage as anything but between one man and one woman....."

That I had no doubt. Ms. Palin is certainly a true conservative when it comes to traditional American values relating to marriage and family. I am skeptically surprised the Obama-Biden ticket are on the same page on this.

Funny thing is that the right to life issue did not come up. We all know Palin and McCain support a pro-life stance. I like that.

On to the war and foreign policy questions, I think Governor Palin held her own against Senator Biden.

" (a nuclear) ... Iran is so extremely dangerous to consider. They cannot be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons period."

Yes. None of the U.S. hostile countries should ever be allowed to develop nuclear programs. We need to find a way to stop places like Iran, North Korea and Venezuela from developing nuclear weapons. A stable Pakistan is critical to maintain, because they already have nuclear weapons and the Taliban and Al-Qaeda are in their back yard.

Senator McCain is generally on top of all of the foreign policy issues and has the experience to lead America and the free world through any possible crisis.

Back to domestic practicality, I liked this statement by Governor Palin:

"Just everyday working class Americans saying, you know, government, just get out of my way. If you're going to do any harm and mandate more things on me and take more of my money and income tax and business taxes, you're going to have a choice in just a few weeks here on either supporting a ticket that wants to create jobs and bolster our economy and win the war or you're going to be supporting a ticket that wants to increase taxes, which ultimately kills jobs, and is going to hurt our economy."

Government get out of my way. I think most people can agree with this. This election is all about the economy, national security, reducing taxes and getting government off our backs. I think with Sarah Palin as part of the John McCain presidential ticket will help the nation move along to this worthy goal. Less taxes, less spending and getting government out of our way.

I'll take Sarah Palin any day as our next Vice President along with Senator McCain for President. They will keep the United States of America on a strong and steady course through the challenges of advancing and maintaining a conservative future.