So, here we are, June of 2011, a full 3 years past the op ed penned by Sarah Palin which appeared in Investors Business Daily. This was the first time I had ever heard of the Alaska Governor. The op ed was a very well written open letter to Congress explaining why America should be drilling in ANWR. I thought it was brilliantly written. Others must have thought so as well, as it eventually lead to Palin being named as a running mate for the Democrat Lite GOP nominee, John McCain. Sarah Palin gave a speech accepting her place on the ticket at the Republican National Convention. Even my most liberal friends were forced to admit that the speech was brilliant, and that Governor Palin knocked it out of the park. Then the baloney started.

Immediately after the convention, I began receiving a spam email from any one left of center which was purported to have been written from a citizen in Wasilla, Alaska. Governor Palin was painted in a less than complimentary light. The letter told of her stupidity, ineptitude, and puppy dog kicking days which led to her stumbling into being Alaska’s Governor. I do not believe that the identity of any actual person penning this letter has ever been verified. It was the coordinated astroturfing efforts of a very organized left attacking Governor Palin, more for being female and conservative, than for being conservative. SNL began lampooning her in vicious fashion. Tina Fey’s, “I can see Russia from my house,” line is still quoted by liberal chimpanzees as though it were an authentic quote. Democrat Party Apparatchiks flocked to Alaska and filed unfounded ethics complaints against the Governor. This was done during the election, and the complaints were filed by people living outside of Alaska, but with a clear agenda. Alaska it seems has a unique law. Politicians it seems, are required to fund their own defenses. So, during a Presidential election, Governor Palin was forced to attend to those complaints while running for VP. We were treated to the most bizarre stories and theories including the idea that her youngest child actually belonged to her daughter. She was vilified for choosing to give birth to a baby with Down’s Syndrome while having the nerve to be a career woman. (So much for feminism as a viable political movement.) Meanwhile, her obvious success at running Alaska was reduced to the belief that she just happened to be lucky enough to land in a State which was blessed with abundant natural resources. (I have to laugh at this. Plenty of states have abundant natural resources, but only Palin’s Alaska has the good sense to utilize those resources and limit the governments ability to screw that up.) The lunacy continued last week when CNN and CBS blamed America’s inability to operate motor vehicles on Governor Palin’s bus trip across country. Yesterday though, it reached a deliciously ironic crescendo.

Apparently, our national press corps only learns history by reading Longfellow’s poetry, and not from actually reading any history books.  Palin was brutalized yesterday for getting this bit of history wrong.  The whoops of laughter amongst the political left were loud and obnoxious.  As it turns out, Sarah Palin was correct.  Revere, in his own account of that night written 23 years later explained how he did in fact warn the British of what they were facing.  It takes a really smart person to actually know this bit of history.  It takes a person who is well read, and took the time to learn something beyond just what they heard in a school room poem.  This is the kind of person who would make a good President.

Crossposted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.