The Perfect Storm

When Obama first hit the national scene, he was dismissed as a newcomer; too green, too unaccomplished, and too unknown to be a major player this election. At the time, it was assumed that Hillary Clinton would glide to automatic coronation as the Democrat nominee.

Then Obie caught fire. He became a combination of Savior and Rock Star. His campaign became a series of massive and hysterical rallies where men tingled and women swooned.

He appeared to be an unstoppable force of nature, sweeping all before him.

What was most disturbing about it for us Conservatives, is that we understood what was fueling this dynamo...the ultra-Left, Marxist wing of the Democrat Party. And they were inflamed with the possibility of, for the first time in history, becoming the power in Washington D.C.

Daily Kos, Huffington Post, Democratic Underground, MoveOn.org...and all the other extreme Left groups saw an unobstructed, smooth, flat, swift current into the White House...and all the power, influence, money and status that they had ever dreamed of.

They had lain waste the moderate and conservative factions of their own party, and had claimed the Democrat Party as their own. They pushed the ideology, the platform, the talking points and the policies to the extreme Left End. And they were very much anticipating doing the same to the country.

It was THEIR time! Finally! They rejoiced. Indeed, they prematurely celebrated victory, so sure were they that the juggernaut of Obama could not be stopped.

Which is what they said about the Titanic.

But soon, a little bit of ice was breaking the surface of the smooth waters. Obama's followers dismissed it as we had earlier dismissed their leader. The Republican Party was in chaos. There was no emerging leader, the President's popularity was low. Conservatives were sorely disappointed in Fred Thompson, the one potential bright spot in a sea of uninspiring choices.

We Conservatives have, for years, insisted that the reason for the slipping popularity and multiple defeats of the Republican Party is its abandonment of Conservative values. And yet, the choice this election cycle included not a single bonafide conservative. And then adding insult to injury, John McCain, the very sort of Democrat-Lite "Maverick" who more often than not enjoyed the sport of poking Conservative Republicans in the eye, was chosen to be our standard bearer. We were enervated, deflated, disillusioned.

And then...

He selected Sarah Palin as his running mate.

And that little point of ice exploded into a monumental iceberg...and the world as we all knew it...ended.

The new climate includes things that we could not ever have predicted:

1) The Conservative base was inflamed with energy and excitement because of his inspired choice. She is smart, accomplished, genuine...REAL...a serious reformer, a true-blue patriot, a committed Conservative. We see the future of the Republican Party and the Conservative Movement in her. When we look at her, we can't help but see the First Woman President of the United States. She is clear on her values...and they agree with ours. She doesn't fold under pressure, she doesn't give up. Big Dog politicians don't scare her. She is who she says she is. And we love her.

2) Conservatives, almost against their will, were forced to re-assess the man John McCain...the one who showed such perspicacity in choosing Palin. Who took such a risk. Who thought so far out of the box. Who made such a strategically brilliant choice. And who, in the final analysis...chose a staunch Conservative. And as a result, though he's done some things that drive us crazy, we can see hidden depths, and can, with some measure of confidence support this "Maverick".

3) Obama, in his arrogance and blind ambition to win the nomination, has, it appears, done things that have fostered the lasting enmity of some of the supporters of his major rival, Hillary Clinton. They refuse to support Obama. Many of the women, particularly, are angry about what they consider crude and overt sexism displayed by Obama and his campaign and Left Wing supporters, as well as the press with, they are convinced, Obama's tacit approval.

4) Sarah Palin, selected by McCain, an accomplished and intelligent women, is a very attractive candidate to that constituency—on her own merit.

5) Others of those Hillary supporters see a vote for McCain/Palin as the best strategy to give Hillary one more chance at the presidency. If Obama wins, Hillary cannot run again. If he loses, she can run in 2012. They envision a Clinton/Palin race. With the result that no matter which wins, the last glass ceiling in America will be shattered forever!

6) McCain, originally the "least favorite choice" for Conservatives, precisely because he is perceived as NOT an ideological Conservative, but rather more of a Moderate, is exactly the sort, and the only sort of Republican candidate that appeals to those disillusioned Democrats, those moderate Democrat, even to the few remaining Conservative Democrats that find themselves uable to support Obama and his Left-Wing machine.

7) The Obama campaign, whose very timbers were shivered by the unexpected nomination of Sarah Palin, has gone completely off compass, and its sails are slack. Obama, the Presidential candidate is spending his time attacking the Vice-Presidential opponent. This either reduces his status or inflates hers. Either way, it makes him look bad.

8) Leaders of the Democrat Party are so forgetting themselves that they are making wild ad hominem attacks against a woman they barely know. Members of Congress are comparing Obama to Christ and Palin to Pontius Pilot! "Feminist" organizations are spitting malice at Palin like vipers! Democratic "spokesmen" are suggesting that her only qualification for VP is that she "didn't have an abortion", Hollywood dunderheads ask if she believes dinosaurs were on earth 7 thousand years ago.

And the New Media is broadcasting all this psychosis for everyone to see.

9) The "Mainstream" Media, already seen as the handmaiden of the Obama campaign has completely lost all sense of discretion and sanity. It has launched the most unseemly campaign of the "politics of personal destruction" ever witnessed in America. And The People are noticing. And they are being repulsed by it. People who could not have cared less about McCain are actively angry with the press for their unprecedented malice and vitriol

These Nine Winds did not exist before the nomination of Sarah Palin. Their confluence has created the Perfect Storm wherein the unstoppable B.D.S. Obama is sinking...and the most unlikely pair of happy American optimists is beating him to the Golden Shore.

If you'd asked me write a fictionalized version of a Republican winning this election, and I wrote this scenario, no editor worth his salt would have published it. Too unrealistic.

The Gunslinger