Palin Represents Real People and Real Work

It's time to get back to work

by: randall nunn | published: 09 22, 2008

Last week, Dennis Berman, in an article in The Wall Street Journal opined that “the modern Wall Street is dead.” Berman stated that the primary financial role of New York, and in some ways the U.S., is now deeply in question, saying that America “has innovated itself to death.”

Berman is onto something here when he says that the current economic calamity “encourages the country to get back to creating, building and doing, rather than shuffling papers and trading it.” The message is clear, says Berman: “It is time to get back to work. Real work.”

Berman has hit the nail on the head. It is time to get back to work. Not just on Wall Street, but in our government, in our schools, in our businesses and in every facet of American life. For much too long, optics and appearance have driven the actions of our leaders and opinion molders. Glibness has been prized over reason and thought. And too many of us have stood by silently as the empty suits and elitists have monopolized the national dialogue.

Maybe the economic dislocations we are going through will focus the minds of enough people in this country on the real causes of our predicament and usher in real change—not the gibberish that Senator Obama talks about. It is obvious that elitists and bureaucrats have taken over many of our institutions. They must be replaced with real people who are not afraid of “real work”.

The current election will determine whether we as a nation have the will to “get back to work” or whether we will place our fate in the hands of those who will impose even greater government control on all of us in their quest to set up a socialist utopia.

In a socialist utopia, there is little “creating, building or doing.” Instead there are government edicts and programs that are imposed by the elites. There is perhaps no better example of such a socialist utopia than Cuba. And I know of no one risking their lives in small boats crossing the sea trying to get into Cuba.

Senator Obama would clearly move this country quite far to the left. Taxes would be higher, government control over our lives would be greater and individual liberties would suffer whenever they came into conflict with the state or the “collective good.”

Senator Obama told the sportsmen of Pennsylvania recently that they should not fear his policies relating to gun control because “even if I want to take them away, I don’t have the votes in Congress”. This statement should give pause to anyone who thinks that their civil liberties are safe with Senator Obama. Notice that this former editor of the Harvard Law Review said nothing about the Supreme Court decision that held the Second Amendment is an individual right but rather suggested that all he needed was “the votes in Congress.” Governor Palin understands the Bill of Rights better than this Harvard trained elitist. And that’s why millions of Americans feel comfortable with her common sense approach to governing.

When Senator McCain picked Governor Palin as his running mate, he not only energized the Republican base but he also excited much of the rest of the country because they recognized in Governor Palin a real person doing “real work”. The country is hungry for someone like that.

The contrast between Governor Palin and Senator Obama is startling. And that is why the left is in a frenzy, trying to find a way to destroy Governor Palin and ridicule the values she represents. But it appears that the American people are beginning to realize that the Obama-mainstream media cabal is, in attacking her, attacking their values as well. Once the electorate grasps that fact, can there be any doubt what they will do in the election booth?

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