Yes, yes, I know when we see Sarah
Palin we see a strong, powerful woman. We see a warrior. A woman who takes no
prisoners and gives no quarter. We see an accomplished leader with an
incredible record of reforming and streamlining government.

Knowing all if this, and much more,
it’s sometimes easy to forget she’s only human. Yes Sarah, like the rest of us,
is capable of making mistakes, especially when speaking off the cuff. Having
done it for years, I can tell ya, it ain’t as easy as it looks.

It seems that when Sarah visited
California State University at Stanislaus last week, she miss-spoke while
talking about her hero, and mine, Ronald Reagan. During her speech, while
talking about Reagan, small town values, and trying to tie that together with
the fact Reagan moved to California, and how that shaped him, she got ahead of
herself. Sarah was talking about Eureka College, which of course is in
Illinois, but it came out “Eureka, California”.

Now obviously, as a student of
Ronald Reagan, Sarah knows he went to Eureka College in ILLINOIS. How do I know
this for a fact? Well it’s easy, not that long ago Sarah was in Illinois,
speaking at Five Points Washington.

Karen McDonald from Peoria’s Journal
Star reported at the time:

Palin commented on the Land of
Lincoln having a “most diverse political scene” and referenced the “Will
it play in Peoria?” cliche.

“Nobody here is ordinary. … Much
of the eyes of America are on this part of our nation because this is a
representation of good, hard-working, grounded, unpretentious, patriotic
Americans,” she said.

One of those people, Palin said, is
former President Ronald Reagan, a Eureka College graduate, who believed in
limited government in order to expand opportunity and prosperity. Reagan was a
Midwestern boy who understood the importance of work ethic, not entitlement,
she said.

“We need a dose of that
Midwestern common sense now more than ever,” Palin said.

John Morris, director of development
for the Ronald W. Reagan Leadership Program and Ronald Reagan Museum at Eureka
College, said remarks about the college by a potential Republican candidate for
president in 2012 are “thrilling.”

“Eureka College is a national
living legacy to this story that in America you can come from anywhere and with
the right values you can go on to help change the world. Eureka College is the
living legacy to the story of Ronald Reagan,” Morris said.

You can read the entire article here.

Now that should be that, end of
story, but of course, it isn’t.

Evidently the left wing in this
country is just as shocked as we are to find out that Sarah Palin is indeed
human, and capable of miss-speaking. Now I get that, considering she has been
kicking their tails from one end of this country to the other for the last year
or more.

The woman has laid bare their Dear
Leader for all to see. She’s exposed Obama for what he is: a corrupt, Chicago
street thug, and nothing more.

So shocked are the
Marxist-progressives to learn Sarah Palin, their bête noire, is but a
mere mortal, they can’t stop talking about her gaffe. It’s understandable.

Of course, it just might be a bit of
misdirection on their part. You see for all of the insanity, brought on by the left before her incredible
speech that night, in the end, Sarah Palin raised more money than any speaker in CSU Stanislaus history!

After the dust settled, and all
bills were paid, the university netted $200,000. That’s big money in anyone’s
book, and again, a record for the university.

Now this is Northern California. The
university, which is located in Turlock, is less than 100 miles from San
Francisco. I mean this is right in the belly of the communist beast! This is
serious business.

How would the Marxists in San
Francisco ever be able to explain how that moose huntin’ hockey mom from
Wasilla, Alaska was such a hit in own their backyard?

Think about it. If Sarah Palin can
raise more money than any speaker in history, in the shadow of the most Marxist-progressive
city in the country, that means come 2012, Barack Obama wouldn’t have a prayer
against her in the state, IF (more like when) she runs for President.

One can only imagine the cold sweats
Marxists all over the country broke out in once they realized this.

Now this is before we even talk
about the speech itself! A lot has been made about the “reporters”
caught on tape after the speech, but again, that’s just mis-direction. The
radicals will do absolutely anything to keep you from actually listening to
Sarah Palin’s words.

This was a great speech. Different
than some of her latest. She wasn’t there to rip Obama apart, she would do that
the next night in Tyler, Texas and over the weekend in Virginia! No, this was a
speech about American values, American exceptionalism, and the need to get back
to the basics in education. Three more things that make the left break out in a
cold sweat.

So …. it’s kinda understandable that
the Marxists and their media partners would make a big deal out of all of
this.They absolutely must take your mind off the fact that Sarah Palin kicks
ass!

Of course, the Dear Leader, Captain Kick Ass, and his lovable side kick, Vice President Smart Ass would never screw up,
ever …. or would they.

Here Obama says he’s been to 57
states, with one, possibly two, that he wasn’t allowed to see.

Here’s the most gifted speaker that
ever breathed not only speaking rather incoherently, because he was working
without his trusty TOTUS (Teleprompter of the United States) by his
side, but also claiming a child, suffering from an asthma attack, needs a
breathalyzer for treatment. In all fairness, after stumbling, he gets it right,
but this still makes for great TV!

And who could forget when this
genius claimed that doctors were taking out children’s tonsils to make more
money.

Even better, here he accuses doctors
of allowing obese people to become diabetics, so at some point, they can make
$30,000 …. $40,000 …. or possibly $50,000 by amputating their feet!

According to Cheryl Clark, at HealthLeaders Media:

“President Obama got his facts
completely wrong,” according to a statement from the ACS, whose 74,000
members make it the largest organization of surgeons in the world.

“In fact, Medicare pays a surgeon
between $740 and $1,140 for a leg amputation,” sais ACS, which is care that
includes evaluation of the patient the day of the operation and follow-up care
that is provided for 90 days after the operation.

Private insurers pay a variation of
the same amount, said the group, adding that it is “deeply disturbed”
over the President’s “uninformed public comments.“

Of course who could forget that
Obama thinks people in Austria speak “Austrian” (about 1:33 in)

For the record, Austrians speak
German!

Here’s another classic from the
Harvard educated President. Obama thinks Europe is a country!

Now right about now, any left
wingers reading this are going to shout: “Oh yeah! Well that crazy moose
lady didn’t know Africa was a continent …. So there!“

On thing wrong with that, as Frank
James noted in the Chicago Tribune, on November 13, 2008, a whole bunch
of people, including Fox New’s “Campaign Carl” Cameron, owe Sarah
Palin a HUGE apology. (Of course, as of this writing, June 29, 2010, she is
still waiting for it)

You see the whole thing was a HOAX
uncovered by, of all places, the New York Times!

It was among the juicier
post-election recriminations: Fox News Channel quoted an unnamed McCain
campaign figure as saying that Sarah Palin did not know that Africa was a
continent.

Who would say such a thing? On
Monday the answer popped up on a blog and popped out of the mouth of David
Shuster, an MSNBC anchor. “Turns out it was Martin Eisenstadt, a
McCain policy adviser, who has come forward today to identify himself as the
source of the leaks,” Mr. Shuster said.

Trouble is, Martin Eisenstadt
doesn’t exist. His blog does, but it’s a put-on. The think tank where he is a
senior fellow — the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy — is
just a Web site. The TV clips of him on YouTube are fakes.

And the claim of credit for the
Africa anecdote is just the latest ruse by Eisenstadt, who turns out to be a
very elaborate hoax that has been going on for months. MSNBC, which
quickly corrected the mistake, has plenty of company in being taken in by an
Eisenstadt hoax, including The New Republic and The Los Angeles
Times.

BTW, “Martin Eisenstadt” was
the source of a few more BS stories about Sarah, including the one about her
greeting people in a bathrobe at her hotel. It’s sad enough the media fell for
the Africa story, but as anyone with any amount of experience, or has ever seen
a movie or TV show, would know, the Secret Service would never allow a
protectee to open their own door, especially not in a hotel.

Read more here.

Now I promised you some Joe Biden,
and God love the man, if we tried to show you all of Joe in his gaffetastic
splendor, I fear our servers would explode, so here’s just a few of the
thousands that will live on as classics forever.

First off, remember the Vice
Presidential debate? The moderator Gwyn Ifel, alluding to the fact that Dick
Cheney had been a strong Vice President, asked Sarah if she would carry on in
that vein, which she said she would. This caused Biden (and the media) to lose
it, as she cited the Constitution. Biden, who actually teaches the
Constitution, got it all wrong. They chastised Sarah for weeks though.

Article I, Section 1 makes it clear
that the Vice President is the President of the Senate, and while only
having a vote in case of tie, has actual powers within the Senate. In fact,
during the last hours, when the Marxists were shoving ObamaCare down America’s
throat, Biden stood ready, in his capacity as President of the Senate,
to overrule the Senate’s parliamentarian, had the Marxists’ plans been thwarted
by him.

Of course, that’s heavy stuff, and
why should a man who had only been in the Senate for 35 years, and taught the
Constitution on weekends, know all of this. Of course, Sarah Palin, the
Governor from way up there in Alaska knew it!

Again, that’s heavy stuff. Sheriff
Joe does a lot better when you just let him talk!

Here’s Vice President Smart Ass
talking about that three letter word J-O-B-S

And who could ever forget Chuck
Graham? Stand up Chuck!

While we could do this for hours!

I want to leave you with one of my
all time favorites. Knowing she would be interviewing Sarah Palin, and taking a
break from her anti-Palin advisers former Senator Sam Nunn and Council on
Foreign Relations president Richard Haas, who coached her for the
Palin interview, the Perky One did a softball interview with Joe Biden. This is
Joe at his absolute gaffetastic best, just makin’ it up as he goes!

As Couric stares lovingly into his
eyes, Good old Joe says:

When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes
of greed,. Look, here’s what happened.

Now I love this one on many levels.
First, you got a two-fer. Both Biden and Couric are as clueless as they come.
Can you imagine if that was Sarah Palin babbling that nonsense? Couric would
have lost her mind right then and there! Instead, she studied up hard on Sarah and
was aided by top Marxist-democrat operatives. It’s was almost
like the Perky One worked for the DNC. Oh, wait ….

Anyhow, back to the fun. Biden got
this so wrong it’s truly phenomenal. I mean a lesser person would have to work
hard to do what just comes natural to Biden.

First off, when the Stock Market
crashed, in 1929, Herbert Hoover was President. FDR was still the Governor of
New York. Roosevelt wouldn’t take office until March of 1933. (presidential
inaugurals used to happen in March)

Second, while television was in the
concept stage, no such thing, in workable form, existed. FDR’s famous “fireside
chats” were all broadcast over the radio. Radio was the way most Americans
got their news and entertainment at home. This was true into the 1950′s.

Roosevelt would indeed go on to be
the first President to appear on television though. On April 30, 1939 NBC
started broadcasting. This was opening day of the New York World’s Fair. This
was a weak signal, and there were around 1000 viewers total.

NBC’s experimental New York City
station was licensed for commercial telecasts beginning on July 1, 1941.

Read more here.

In case you are wondering, the first televised presidential inaugural was Harry
S Truman’s in 1949

As one can see, as shocking as it is
to learn that Sarah Palin is a mere mortal, and stumbled while speaking, in the
grand scheme of things, others have done far worse.

Don’t let the left wing and their
media partners distract you from Sarah Palin’s strong and powerful message, or
the positive contributions she is making to our world.

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About Gary P.

Gary P is editor and publisher of A Time For Choosing as well as a
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