SARAH SAYS FAREWELL - AT 3:40 P.M. ET:  Sarah Palin is holding a series of picnics to say farewell to the people of Alaska as she leaves the governorship.  Yes, I said picnics.  Can you imagine how that goes down in the salons of Georgetown or Beverly Hills, or the real seat of our current government, Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the police are ridiculed for doing their jobs?  "My gawd, is this woman holding picnics, with unhealthy foodstuffs, without a dietician?  Is she inviting a proper number of people from igloos?"

The Politico reports on something Sarah said last night:

She told the hundreds gathered in a military “Honor Garden” that she wanted to “do something… more worthy than speaking politics” before sharing a story about a reporter who had asked her about how she handles difficult days.

“I said, ‘Oh no,’ it is not a down day – my son called this week from Iraq,” Palin recalled, referring to her son, Track, an Army enlistee. “He is safe, he is sound. It is always a good day when my son calls.”

Interrupting the applause, Palin said: “I wish that some in the media would keep things like that in perspective, what is really important in our country. And what is important is our freedoms, America’s security, our liberty.”

Later, citing military families that have lost loved ones, she again drew loud applause by saying: “Let us continue to love our country, be proud of our country, never apologize for our country.”

COMMENT:  You can hear the laughter, sneers and ridicule from the crowd that pines for the 1960s.  But words like that resonate with the great majority of Americans. 

I especially liked "...never apologize for our country."  Clearly, that was directed at President Obama.  Does that line hint at future political plans for Sarah Palin?  I don't know.  We've said here before that needs to improve some aspects of her approach - to get up to speed  on more issues, to develop a sound and appealing program.  But she has that gut appeal that can, if properly developed, move mountains.  She is ever interesting, and we'll be following her.

July 25, 2009