Montage by Karen Allen

Todd Palin was born today September 6 in 1964. He roared into young Sarah Heath's life in a Mustang, as she wrote in Going Rogue, and was the answer to her prayers.

Indeed, their marriage is something special. The couple has been married 22 years, has five children and a grandson, a virtual rarity today when the appliance warranties tend to outlive the marriage. They are able to make their marriage work despite long periods of separation, also a statistical rarity. Todd never grew resentful when Sarah became the main breadwinner working her way to the Governor's office and now as a bestselling author, news consultant, paid speaker, and political king and queen-maker. Quite the contrary, he does whatever needs to be done at home, regardless of what traditional male/female roles are.

Yet, Todd is very much a man's man, and Sarah Palin's rock of strength. Do something untoward to Gov. Palin with Todd around and you'll feel his wrath. Few guys would race around on a snow machine with a broken arm, like he has, or work under dangerous conditions on some of the planet's most inhospitable terrain. Todd also nearly lost his life at sea commercial fishing the day before he married young Sarah Heath. Their house was built by his hands, as was the 14-foot-fence that kept McGinnis' prying eyes away. You could say that Todd is one gnarly dude.

Today, it is right and appropriate that we celebrate his birth and marriage.

Michael Reagan, "Welcome Back Dad" Excerpt:

I’ve been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan to emerge and lead our party and our nation. I insisted that we’d never see his like again because he was one of a kind (Reagan, 2008, ¶1).

I was wrong (Reagan, 2008, ¶2)!

"Wednesday night I watched the Republican National Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my Dad reborn; only this time he's a she (Reagan, 2008, ¶3).

And what a she (Reagan, 2008, ¶4)!

In one blockbuster of a speech, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin resurrected my Dad’s indomitable spirit and sent it soaring above the convention center, shooting shock waves through the cynical media’s assigned spaces and electrifying the huge audience with the kind of inspiring rhetoric we haven’t heard since my Dad left the scene (Reagan, 2008, ¶5).

Two years ago today at the twenty second hour and the thirtieth minute Eastern Daylight Time, our yearning for a great leader to bring the Republican Party back home to its basic principles was answered. Someone at the GOP knew this, for Governor Sarah Palin had a countdown timer running throughout the RNC convention until her speech began. The Presidential candidate did not, but he may have realized win or lose that she was his final gift and final act of sacrifice for our nation.

Since that time, Governor Palin accomplished at the conclusion of her term what 50 years of successive administrations in other states could only dream of. Her brainchild, the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act began the process of morphing a 30-year-old pipe-dream into a real pipeline to be completed by 2019. Governor Palin did not just say nice words about energy independence. Her actions made AGIA arguably the pinnacle of her gubernatorial career and will likely result in an accomplishment beyond the scale and scope achieved even by presidents.

Some fourteen months have passed since Governor Palin was summoned and passed her Time of Choosing. Using nothing more than a laptop and FaceBook, she changed legislation and altered political discourse. She authored a book, had a major book tour, is nearly finished with a second book, does commentary on Fox News, is doing a documentary series on The Learning Channel, traveling on an international speaking circuit, and has endorsed and/or stumped for over 40 candidates with a success record greater than 60%.

That history is simultaneously repeating itself and being made could not be clearer....

References

Reagan, M. (2008, September 4). "Welcome back, dad!" Human Events. Retrieved June 5, 2009 from: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28389&s=rcmp

Every time Gov. Palin scores a significant accomplishment, the leftist media spin machine has their hit piece ready to roll. In case anyone did not notice, Gov. Palin endorsed seven candidates who ran in the August 24 primaries. All seven candidates - 100% of them - won their primaries. In the case of one election, an under-funded underdog unseated a well-financed establishment Republican in an amazing upset victory.

Vanity Fair has a long and proud history of running hit pieces against Gov. Palin, and "Sarah Palin the Sound and the Fury" is the latest in that publication's line-up.

Making Joseph Goebbels Proud

In the piece, Gov. Palin is portrayed as among other things: a megalomaniac, a bad tipper, a demonic woman with a horribly destructive temper, and a penchant for throwing things, all by anonymous sources, as delineated by Conservatives4Palin. Her supporters are depicted as cult-like. Conservatives4Palin and US for Palin are portrayed as “cheer-leading sites.” The meme involving Rebecca Mansour and SarahPAC appears to have been re-printed word for word from New York Magazine's infamous "Palin, Inc." hit piece. Every supporter of Gov. Palin is spoken of negatively. Those who don't like her are portrayed as victims of a sinister Palin-controlled Mafioso type network running roughshod through Wasilla clamping down with an iron fist on those who would say anything negative about her.

The "North Star Conspiracy"

The lies extended to any business involved in any way with Gov. Palin and containing the name "North Star." The North Star Group, an Amazon store owned and operated by US for Palin publisher Ron Devito got "honorable mention" as part of an alleged network of dark and mysterious North Star-branded entities owned and operated by what Vanity Fair implies is a Palin-controlled Mafia-like group. The North Star is part of the constellation that appears on Alaska's State Flag. A number of Gov. Palin's supporters refer to her as "North Star". Why would we not use it in the names of businesses selling Gov. Palin-related merchandise? What exactly are we supposed to call it? Southern Cross?

The North Star Group sells products known to be used or referenced by Gov. Palin, which is appropriate for a blog site that supports her. Not mentioned by Vanity Fair, but along the same lines, North Star Promotions sells branded merchandise promoting Gov. Palin, and US for Palin. Gov. Palin and her staff do not own, operate, or have any other involvement in these businesses.

According to Conservatives4Palin, Even several known leftists - people who are no friends to Gov. Palin - have denounced this Vanity Fair article as a pack of lies.