You have to wonder if kids know more than adults.  My two sons have been harping on me for weeks to vote for McCain.  I've been undecided for months.  Not that I love McCain, and certainly not that I'm endeared to Obama.  They both have strengths and weaknesses.  Obama's choice in Biden helped on foreign policy but anyone from Delaware knows, despite Biden's so called strength of foreign policy, he's still a guy that says ridiculous things that he looks just as bad later explaining.

Which leads me to Sarah Palin.  I've watched Good Morning America's Democrat leaning workforce attack Governor Palin since the weekend after McCain announced her as his running mate choice.  I purposely recorded Governor Palin at the Republican Convention on ABC just to hear how Diane Sawyer and crew would react to whatever Governor Palin had to say.
 
It all started with Rudy Giuliani going after Obama on substance.  Impressive points and serious attack words were involved.  It's politics I get it. 

Then Sarah Palin took the stage.  Like everyone unfamiliar with her, I wanted to see if all the hype was founded.  In a word, Wow!  She stood on one hell of a resume, she was no shrinking violet and she was real.

I've never heard a Vice Presidential speech spoken so well.  Not by any man and yes this was a woman.  As a man I had my guard slightly up because I wanted to know that she was of substance and not just a pretty face.  Don't get me wrong, I wanted her to be good and she was. My point is that we men love pretty faces and it clouds our judgment, or should I say, "can" cloud our judgment.  Point after point, Sarah Palin outlined where she came, from what she accomplished and why she can be believed. 

I really wanted to know what she had done in Alaska to prove she could step in as President if McCain suddenly departs this world.  And let's face it, MANY people will now vote McCain at the mere prospect of a woman in office by way of him taking a dirt dive.  Whatever. 

Yet, that thought has never been as forefront in the minds of U.S. voters than it is now.  Why?  You bet ‘cha.. Because if he bails, we have a woman President. 

This speech was stunning.  Again, not because she is a woman, that's just the icing on the cake for staunch Republicans.  For me, it was stunning because she rounded out an impressive resume' proving she had every right to be Vice President.  Maybe not President but certainly President.  Heck... I think Biden is a better choice than Obama if I have to pick between the those two because strange as it may sound, I think Biden is more qualified than Obama and yes he does have foreign policy experience. 

Back to Sarah Palin.  She hit on every nerve for me as a voter.  She is real; has a family with real problems and real accomplishments, real.  Just real.  Truly American and truly like me and the everyday people I live among. 

Energy.  While I'm major big on alternative energy, like her I 'm not against drilling for our own damn oil so Russia and Iran can't leverage my personal life into hell through cutting off our countries primary energy source.  Every day my children grow, is a day closer to when they become entangled in this energy mess.  And that is my point of what Sarah Palin brought out in the open.  Energy is a key to our countries future and survival.  She outlined how she is all for drilling for our own oil but is NOT beholden to big oil.  Maybe that was bull ca ca but I bought it.  I'm sure Diane Sawyer and crew will dig for dirt and unearth what they can to prove Mrs. Palin a liar if they can.  Because just yesterday Diana Sawyer was high and mighty about how Sarah Palin's teen daughter pregnancy was such an important issue.  Look, I saw Juno too.  Kids having baby's turns lives upside down and is NOT a good idea and Juno may be pro-baby but it is once again a big mistake by Hollywood elitist preaching to us how cool it is to have a teen pregnancy.  And guess, what Sarah Palin's family is not from Hollywood.  That problem is real and they will have to deal with it for a lifetime.  It doesn't end in two hours with a nice bow on it at the end. Not every baby born from a teen pregnancy ends up with two loving parents or even one.  Some come out fantastic, but there are NO guarantees.  Diane Sawyer and the rest of the Democrat leaning media players wanted somehow to make Sarah Palin's family the poster children of screw ups, thus discounting her as a viable Vice Presidential pick.  You have to wonder... what mistakes in Diane Sawyer's life could we all pick at? 

So yes, Sarah Palin had to rise above the minutia of ignorant arguments and shown that her life accomplishments and family life make her more than qualified to be an excellent Vice President, and perhaps on day, President.

Sarah Palin's husband is a man's man.  I look at him and see some of myself, a rugged intellectual.  A father, and devoted husband with his OWN interest and own life that works in harmony with his wife. 

On a whole I think I got all the answers I needed to know she is a worthy Vice Presidential candidate and yes, the answer is McCain would get my vote most likely because of Palin.  Go figure.

Am I still undecided?  Sort of.  I'm now finally leaning McCain due to the Palin factor but I will not sell out all that soon.  I got married to a woman I hardly knew because of hope and faith.  I learned a dizzying lesson from that experience.  I've learned that some decisions in life are so important that you can't just walk around in a cloud of belief.  You need to test things over time to know they are real.   My vote for President in the tiny state of Delaware is going to mean squat.  It's even more insignificant because this state votes Democrat and not Republican.  But I have my self respect and I do vote.
 
I've always said, if you don't vote in the general election then you have NO right to bitch about the President for the next four years as you let others speak for you.  So... I'm going to vote and if things are good or bad, I'll feel better about whatever opinion I weigh in on later.

I wonder who will even read this article?  Why should anyone care what Lars Hindsley has to say about politics..

Did I mention my son is running for Class President?