My kids often laugh at me when they see me watching some old non-HD western movie, but I must admit that I enjoy them. One of the ones I enjoy is an old Burt Lancaster movie called “Valdes is Coming”, in it he plays a simple peasant who is owed some measly amount of money, which he is determine to collect, more on principle than on its worth. Those of you, who are also fans of the old westerns, can imagine what the rest of the story must be like.

I don’t know why Sarah Palin’s resignation lead me to remember the above mentioned story line, perhaps it was the quick dismissal from the experts, plus the wide range of theories and assertions from all spectrums of the political arena; which when contrasted with what she herself had to say and the way in which she said it, caused the associative thinking in my mind.

Only time will tell, but the end result of Sarah Palin’s decision to pass the baton to her Lieutenant Governor in Alaska, will not be determine by the pundits who make a living giving opinions, however objective or prejudicial they may be, like the political weathermen that they are, more often than not they are not very accurate with their projected forecast.

Are we somehow forgetting the “inevitability” of Hillary’s presidency?

Since everyone is doing it, I too would like to try my luck at weatherman. I see Palin’s success or failure, plus the ultimate shrewdness of her decision, being judged not by those writing her off today, but by “we the people”; it will ultimately be “we the people” who are going to elevate Palin above all the would-be experts, if indeed this is what she wants.

I don’t know what her ultimate goal is, but I do know that she is the clearest and loudest voice articulating the sentiments of millions of Americans who long for the Republic that is being stolen from them. Today she is being labeled as a quitter, since she has decided to walk away before the end of her term, but her stated reason makes sense to me, she is well aware of Lenin’s assertion that “A lie told often enough becomes truth”, and her enemies are his disciples.

I suspect that if she stayed on until the end of her term, the conversation will never be about her numerous accomplishments (however great they may have been), nor about her innocence of all the ethics accusations levied against her, that will not get any play. The “objective pundits” of the media will instead express with dismay, that she had been investigated fifteen, thirty or fifty times for ethics violations; but what about her innocence? You may ask, it too will be impugned with a timely raised eyebrow and a simple “well… after all, we are talking about Alaska”, no one will ever offer an explanation of what they mean by that, and no one will ever ask.

This is not new, this is what the left has always done and does to destroy their opposition, the tactics being used against her are straight out of Saul Alinsky’s book, "Keep the pressure on. Never let up." (Attack, attack, attack), “Overburden government agencies, to rendered them ineffective”, this is exactly what was done by ACORN during the election, when thousands and thousands of false voter’s registrations were sent to the precincts at all the battle states making their verification an impossible task. Essentially the same tactic in the form of numerous frivolous suits was being employed against the Governor here, thus occupying 80% of her time and that of her staff to ward off the attacks, attacks, attacks.

It is better to retreat a foot than to advance only an inch – Sun Tzu